February 17, 2023

The Soft-Seat Beat: A Tale of Three Halls

by Colin Story

Of the many things that music audiences have regained in the 2022/2023 concert season, the most valuable may be the very concept of a “season” in and of itself. No longer must we sit, nails bitten to the quick, waiting…
February 14, 2023

Mezzo Emily Fons - Globetrotting, Managing Your Money, and those Sweet, Sweet Trouser Roles

by Lydia Perović

Probably the most melancholy production of The Marriage of Figaro around, the Claus Guth-conceived Salzburg production first seen in Toronto in 2016, is back at the Canadian Opera Company for another run from January 27 - February 18, with a…
February 14, 2023

Remembering Michael Snow (1928-2023) - Music as Shared Experience

by Andrew Timar

Michael Snow, artist-at-large Sorry, but I’m going to have to skip over much of Toronto-born artist Michael Snow’s vast and diverse body of work, including milestone experimental films, sculptures, paintings, prints, photographs, holographs, slide projections, videos, books and recordings (78,…
February 14, 2023

Canadian Identity Celebrated and Explored

by Jennifer Parr

New Canadian plays, musicals and music theatre works are popping up everywhere across the country this season. Three shows coming up this spring caught my eye in particular for how they are using music to explore and highlight various facets …
February 14, 2023

Instant Kinships: Trio Arkel in Conversation

by Paul Ennis

Trio Arkel – Marie Bérard (concertmaster of the COC Orchestra), Rémi Pelletier (associate principal violist of the TSO) and Winona Zelenka (assistant cello of the TSO) – are celebrating the tenth season of their concert series and we at The…
February 14, 2023

To Everything there is a Season... or Four

by Stephanie Conn

Like the “O Fortuna’’ chorus from Orff’s Carmina Burana and the first bars of Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) has a ubiquitous presence in the soundtrack of our lives via films, television commercials, malls…
February 14, 2023

Continuum’s Show Room and Soundstreams’ Reich

by Wendalyn Bartley

A fascinating yet seemingly ordinary scenario forms the basis for a tension-filled new opera by composer Rodney Sharman and librettist Atom Egoyan. The last time these two creators collaborated was for their opera Elsewhereless in 1998, which received over 35…
December 09, 2022

A Toast to Amnesia as the Music Goes Live (Again)!

by Colin Story

In case you’ve forgotten, at the beginning of December of last year, as a tumultuous 2021 came to a close, the season was looking tentatively merry and bright: indoor gatherings were once again possible, venues seemed to have definitively reopened,…
December 09, 2022

"Fall On Your Knees" Finds Theatrical Form

by Jennifer Parr

Ten years ago, I was inspired to adapt Fall on Your Knees as a piece of music-driven theatre,” says director Alisa Palmer. On January 20, at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, that initial seed of inspiration will have its…
December 06, 2022

Orchestral Explosion - Take December 10, for example...

by Paul Ennis

As the calendar crawls through November en route to the December holidays and the sun has not even begun its long trek back to seasonal dominance, it’s a ray of hope to peruse the listings and discover how, throughout the…
December 06, 2022

“Salute to Vienna” - The New Year’s Tradition That Grew

by Gary Corrin

January 1, 2023 will mark the return of what has become a favourite New Year’s tradition in Toronto and cities across North America – Attila Glatz Productions’ “Salute to Vienna” modelled on the wildly popular “Neujahrstagkonzert” (New Year’s Day Concert)…
December 06, 2022

Collaborative Serendipity

by Wendalyn Bartley

On a cold snowy night last November 19, I was happy to be in the warmth of the Music Gallery at 918 Bathurst Street, listening to the bright pulsating music of an inspiring collaboration between Toronto’s Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan…
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