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September 05, 2020Music and the Movies: Q&A with The Cuban’s Hilario Durán
by Colin Story
In the opening credits of The Cuban – a new film released in Canada in July, written by Alessandra Piccione and directed by Sergio Navarretta – the viewer is treated to a watercolour montage of Cuban imagery, accompanied by evocative,…
September 02, 2020Opera Squared: Anna Theodosakis on Brott Opera’s Don Giovanni
by David Perlman
It was a phone call from Hamilton, from Boris Brott, that put me on the trail of this story. Brott is indefatigable: between May 2 and August 13 the Brott Music Festival offered up 18 online productions, none more intriguing…
September 02, 20209th Annual TIFF Tips
by Paul Ennis
In this year like no other, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has adapted to the pandemic’s parameters by making most red carpet events virtual and scaling back on how films will be presented. TIFF’s 45th edition – running from…
September 01, 2020Loose Tea: Unleashed by Lockdown
by Jennifer Parr
Loose Tea Music Theatre, an indie opera and music theatre company based in Toronto, was already a vibrant, though small, presence on the Toronto scene before the pandemic hit, producing innovative socially conscious productions that pushed the boundaries of interdisciplinary…
September 01, 2020Back to the Future: The Struggle for Equity in Jazz Studies programs
by Colin Story
As a first-year undergraduate at Capilano University’s Jazz Studies program in 2005, I, like the rest of my cohort, was automatically enrolled in a mandatory jazz history course. It was a survey course, designed to teach us how to listen…
September 01, 2020Lessons Learned from the CEE’s – COVID-Era Experiences
by David Jaeger
A significant event in the history of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) took place during the last week of February, 2020: the nearly 50-year-old ensemble was engaged by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Music for a four-day residency at their…
September 01, 2020Leon Fleisher (July 23, 1928 - August 2, 2020) – The Music is the Star
by Paul Ennis
Leon Fleisher devoted his life to the piano, first as the foremost American pianist of his generation. The much-lauded collection of LPs he recorded in the 1950s and 60s was capped by a matchless collaboration with George Szell and the…
September 01, 2020COVID’s Metamorphoses
by Robert Harris
I think it’s becoming clear that, at least here in North America, the unimaginable is going to be a reality. There just aren’t going to be any major live performing arts events for us to go to for a year.…
August 21, 2020An Array for Challenging Times
by Andrew Timar
When I wrote about Arraymusic five years ago in a WholeNote series on Toronto concert spaces, I described it as a “seminal venue”—one that maintained a strong place as both a presenting organization and as a rental space for experimental…
August 07, 2020Concert report: TSM 2020 – reimagined
by Paul Ennis
Toronto Summer Music’s first-ever online festival came to a rousing conclusion on August 1, with TSM artistic director and TSO concertmaster Jonathan Crow leading an elite group of instrumentalists in Beethoven’s ever-popular Septet in E-flat Major Op.20. Crow stood at…
July 24, 2020Concert report: TSM’s opening weekend – expertly programmed and expertly played
by Paul Ennis
After Toronto Summer Music cancelled its Beethoven Unleashed festival on April 9, TSM’s friends and supporters worked with artistic director Jonathan Crow and his team to mount a stripped-down version of its 15th anniversary season online, between July 16 and…
July 03, 2020“Exquisite Corpse” and Other Coping Strategies
by David Perlman
“Basically how it works is that each participant records material while only partially knowing what other participants have made. The full musical piece is revealed without knowing how all the parts will intersect.” – Ben Finley Exquisite Corpse, Wikipedia says,…01 Sep 2020 - Brian ChangChoral Scene01 Sep 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes01 Sep 2020 - Matthew WhitfieldEarly Period01 Sep 2020 - Wendalyn BartleyNew Music01 Sep 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand01 Sep 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz10 Jul 2020 - Leah Borts-KupermanEmerging Arts Critics03 Jul 2020 - Andrew TimarWorld Music03 Jul 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes03 Jul 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand03 Jul 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz20 Jun 2020 - Sara ConstantEmerging Arts Critics07 May 2020 - Jennifer NicholsMusic Theatre07 May 2020 - Paul EnnisClassical and Beyond07 May 2020 - Andrew TimarWorld Music06 May 2020 - David JaegerNew Music05 May 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz05 May 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes05 May 2020 - Brian ChangChoral Scene04 May 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand04 May 2020 - Lydia PerovicArt of Song27 Mar 2020 - Paul EnnisClassical and Beyond27 Mar 2020 - Wendalyn BartleyNew Music27 Mar 2020 - Jennifer ParrMusic Theatre27 Mar 2020 - Matthew WhitfieldEarly PeriodCurrent Issue
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