February 06, 2024

Freesound Collective tackles Feldman

by Wendalyn Bartley

As we endure the coldest stretch of the year, anticipating the first signs of thaw around six weeks from the release of this issue, it seems that new music activity in the city is also undergoing a bit of a…
February 05, 2024

Night Owls, Legions and Libraries: Finding Homes for Music

by Sophia Perlman

When I was a child in pre-amalgamation Toronto, any trip past Bloor Street on the Yonge line was “north” to me, with the magic moment being when the subway emerged from the tunnel and went above ground; for a magic…
February 05, 2024

When Small is Beautiful

by Colin Story

There is a conventional narrative about a musician’s career trajectory, perpetuated in television and film: in the US version, the talented young musical artist plays progressively bigger stages, from high school talent shows to local clubs to Madison Square Garden,…
February 04, 2024

Vocal Music and Community Building

by David Perlman

For those of you who haven’t tried it yet, the “Just Ask” feature under the Listings tab on our website is a handy way of filtering our daily event listings to show only the types of music that you are…
February 02, 2024

Recently In Town: Jane Glover

by Lydia Perović

“It’s one show stopper after another, isn’t it? There’s not a bad number in it,” is what conductor Jane Glover, DBE, says when I ask how she explains the enduring appeal of Handel’s Messiah. We met and talked in December…
February 02, 2024

Opera: The Definite Article

by MJ Buell

Somehow “We’re going to the opera!” doesn’t even just mean the building or the performance. It’s about both, and the alchemy of the immersive and transformative experience we anticipate. We go to the opera for the music and for the…
February 01, 2024

Hidden Histories Revealed and Revisited

by Jennifer Parr

It’s a new year, so cue the cold winds and snow as the lighthearted fare of the holiday season gives way to tougher, darker, fascinatingly rich new works drawn from older sources.
January 31, 2024

Conversations with Musicians: Violinist Leah Roseman’s “other-level” podcasting pivot

by Sharna Searle

Life the way most working musicians across the spectrum knew it came to a standstill in March 2020. For Leah Roseman, a violinist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) since 1997, the effect was immediate, manifesting itself from day…
January 31, 2024

Musico-metaphorical journeys in Alison Mackay’s "Staircases"

by Stephanie Conn

Whether they are physical or metaphorical, staircases take us from one place to another through a liminal space. But far from being “non-places”’ that we should take for granted, stairways are also entities unto themselves: they can effect a change…
December 04, 2023

Precarious Independence and Big Hall Highlights

by Colin Story

Given the precariousness involved in the retail and service industries, it is something of a miracle when new grassroots venues emerge. It is not as though larger ventures – such as the nascent Allied Music Centre at Massey Hall –…
December 03, 2023

The 6.47% Solution - Handel’s Messiah still holds its own

by David Perlman

For a classical work that features in only 19 of the 123 concerts in this issue’s listings that involve a choir (or choirs), Handel’s Messiah still commands a lot of Christmas concert attention. (I think the rule is I am…
November 30, 2023

Brampton, Braun, Broadsway & Beyond

by Sophia Perlman

For those reliant on public transit, Brampton may seem impossibly north. From this writer’s current location, it’s 1,063 km south. With that in mind, it seems fair to say that Brampton On Stage’s wonderfully diverse programming (music and otherwise) across…
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