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May 14, 2021“Creative Collisions”: Kendra Fry becomes general manager at Stratford Summer Music
by Ayah Victoria McKhail
There’s a palpable sense of enthusiasm in Kendra Fry’s voice and there’s a good reason why. On April 1, she made her debut as general manager of Stratford Summer Music (SSM). For seven years, she had been in the same…
May 08, 2021Quoth the canaries, … evermore!
by David Perlman
BACK IN THE DAY (almost 20 years ago), flushed with the success of our annual fall BLUE PAGES directory of presenters (aimed at readers looking for music to listen to), we decided to start an annual spring choral directory (aimed…
May 08, 2021Handel’s La Resurrezione: A Premiere 300 Years in the Making
by Matthew Whitfield
If one were to compile an orchestra and soloists to perform a religious work by Georg Frideric Handel, audience members could be forgiven for thinking that Messiah was on the program, so synonymous has this oratorio become with both the…
May 08, 2021Summer Music in the Garden Bids Farewell to Founding Artistic Director Tamara Bernstein
by Cathy Riches
Anyone who witnessed the first concert in June 2001 – a miserable rainy evening with only a handful of people in the audience – might have been forgiven for thinking the Summer Music in the Garden series was doomed to…
May 08, 2021Surfing the Third Wave
by Paul Ennis
As I write this while an early spring blooms beyond my locked-down window, music presenters are trying their best to surf COVID-19’s Third Wave. The venerable Women’s Musical Club of Toronto – founded in 1898 – calmly announces on its…
May 08, 2021Synchronicity and Innovation in a Watershed Spring
by Jennifer Parr
Ever since I began writing this column four years ago, I have searched out and championed companies and artists exploring and breaking down the barriers between musical theatre, opera and dance. Imagine my delight when I discovered a new festival…
May 08, 2021A Concerto is a Conversation counters a limiting trope
by Gloria Blizzard
A Concerto is a Conversation is this complex tale of two men – their vision, resilience and successes – told in exactly 13 minutes. In this story of family, transcendence, love and the pursuit of excellence, we follow a young…
May 08, 2021“Click Unmute!” How the Zoom Boom is Shifting the Choral World
by Menaka Swaminathan
Lockdowns! Vaccines! Homemade focaccia! Yes, we are still talking about the pandemic. The media cacophony rises like the tides: job losses, school closures, suspension of hobbies, failing businesses, whole sectors with the rug swept out from under them, including live…
May 08, 2021Michael Sankey and Linda Manzer: Master Builders
by Colin Story
While the focus in this magazine is typically on the musicians, venues, and institutions that comprise our shared musical community, it seemed like the time was ripe to focus on something a bit different: master builders who create exceptional instruments,…
May 08, 2021How did I not see that coming? A (Lost) Year in Retrospect
by Steve Wallace
With the COVID-19 pandemic having passed the one-year mark – and with recent ominous developments indicating we’re likely looking at another year of it – and with the university teaching year just finishing, this article will be a kind of…
May 08, 2021Music that penetrates to the heart
by Robert Harris
So here we are a year later, and we’re still waiting for our lives back. But for me, all of a sudden, the pandemic hasn’t all been bad – because I’ve fallen in love again. In musical love, that is.…
May 01, 2021Artistic “Innings” - Attending Cultural Events with Faraway Friends
by Catherine Muir
The other week, I went to a lovely symphony performance with friends in Montreal. We all enjoyed the lively rendition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and when it concluded we stood and energetically applauded. We chatted about the concert for a…20 Mar 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed09 Feb 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed08 Feb 2021 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes06 Dec 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed06 Dec 2020 - Andrew TimarWorld Music06 Dec 2020 - Jennifer ParrMusic Theatre06 Dec 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand06 Dec 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz06 Dec 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes03 Nov 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed03 Nov 2020 - Matthew WhitfieldEarly Period03 Nov 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes03 Nov 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand03 Nov 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz04 Oct 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed04 Oct 2020 - Matthew WhitfieldEarly Period04 Oct 2020 - Brian ChangChoral Scene04 Oct 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes04 Oct 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz02 Sep 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed01 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 JazzMore Stories- Concert report: Latest Kitchener-Waterloo Broadcast - "We're Not Done Drumming" contextualizes a cla...
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