July 08, 2025

Thoughts on a STAY-HOME Musical Summer

by David Perlman

When we talk about a “stay-home” musical summer, we’re not recommending you hunker down in your domestic cocoon (home or cottage, air-conditioned or otherwise) and wait for music to come to you already digitized. Quite the opposite is what we’re…
July 07, 2025

When Music Meets Mindfulness - David Fallis and Krisztina Szabó

by Vania Chan

Exemplary Art Because Art makes a profound impact, artists have an equivalent responsibility in all the various roles they play during their careers: as performers, producers, creators, leaders, educators, and public figures. A strong work ethic, a commitment to the…
July 07, 2025

MISSING COMES TO TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC

by David Perlman

There’s an intersection in Prince George, British Columbia from which, no matter what direction you head, you will be on one of the roads the chamber opera, Missing, has travelled in its seven-year journey en route to Koerner Hall this…
July 06, 2025

POSTSCRIPT AND PRELUDE: Reflections on “the Hamilton Plan”

by Sophia Perlman

During my third, or maybe fourth, phone call to his home in Hamilton, as I was piecing this story together, Larry Paikin said he was starting to get a bit worried that he’s going to be the subject of the…
June 10, 2025

Birth of a Hit - After the Rain

by Jennifer Parr

Reviewed Thursday June 4, 2025 Tarragon Theatre It is not often that I walk out of a new show opening knowing I have witnessed the birth of a hit. Thursday night I did.   After the Rain, a new musical…
April 16, 2025

Fertile Soil - VIVA Singers Toronto at Trinity-St. Paul’s

by David Perlman

The time: Jun 1 at 2:30pm: VIVA Singers Toronto. Metamorphosis. Featuring all seven VIVA Singers Toronto choirs, plus a special alumni choir, and guest artists Amiel Ang, percussion, and Tatsuki Shimoda, recorder.  The place: Trinity St. Paul’s United Church. Jeanne…
April 16, 2025

When Music Meets Mindfulness: Christina Petrowska Quilico and Alice Ping Yee Ho

by Vania Lizbeth Chan

International Women’s Day, which was celebrated globally this year on March 8, is still fresh on my mind as I write this article casting the spotlight on two inspirational, in-demand and industrious musicians, celebrated for their contributions to Canadian music:…
April 16, 2025

VERSAILLES TO TORONTO - A sea-change for Opera Atelier

by David Perlman

Single tickets of Opera Atelier’s 40th anniversary season production of Charpentier’s David and Jonathan went on sale January 13, 2025 and within minutes of the announcement, OA’s Marshall Pynkoski was there in our editorial inbox as well – his enthusiasm…
April 16, 2025

Musical Gardens For Spring

by Wendalyn Bartley

Back in the dark days of the pandemic, when concerts were little more than memories, I spoke with composer Cecilia Livingston for the December 2020-January 2021 issue of The WholeNote about Garden of Vanished Pleasures, a project she was involved…
April 16, 2025

What to Look For If You're Choir Curious

by Angus MacCaull

The other day, there was a detailed message on The WholeNote's voicemail. It was from a long-time Toronto resident who explained that she was wanting to join a choir for the first time in many years, wanting to reconnect with the sense…
April 15, 2025

A CELEBRATION OF SAKURA - Ron Korb, flutist and multi-instrumentalist

by Allan Pulker

I first met Ron almost 45 years ago when we were both studying with Robert Bick at York University. Bick had recently returned to Toronto from Brattleboro, Vermont where he had been studying with the great French flautist and teacher,…
April 15, 2025

Reconstitution will take you far at the Toronto Bach Festival

by David Perlman

While researching this piece, I stumbled across this comment by John Terauds (founder and first editor of the blog Musical Toronto, now Ludwig van Toronto). “Earlier this year, we needed to pity Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov as he was attacked…
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