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- 1. What’s In a Word?
- (Editorial and Op-Ed)
- ... into the nuances of the Tapestry/TSO relationship in this issue of the magazine: Dame Jane Glover, recently in town to conduct Messiah at the TSO, sat with Lydia Perović for a wide-ranging conversation, ...
- Created on 06 February 2024
- 2. Recently In Town: Jane Glover
- (Features)
- ... It’s a joy.” Dame Jane Glover will conduct in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati and Houston this year. Full details on her website. Lydia Perović is a culture writer in Toronto. You can read a longer, ...
- Created on 02 February 2024
- 3. Show Room showcase offers a promising start
- (On Opera)
- ... Show Room ran for two performances this past March 18 and 19, and Lydia Perović was there. There’s a dangerous point halfway into the new chamber opera Show Room where you are very close to deciding ...
- Created on 01 April 2023
- 4. Mezzo Emily Fons - Globetrotting, Managing Your Money, and those Sweet, Sweet Trouser Roles
- (On Opera)
- ... You can catch Fons’ Cherubino, seven years older and demonstrably wiser, at the Four Season’s Centre for the Arts until February 18, 2023. Lydia Perović is a freelance writer in Toronto. This story ...
- Created on 14 February 2023
- 5. Singing For More Than Just Their Supper!
- (Choral Scene)
- ... PICKS ELMER ISELER SINGERS The Elmer Iseler Singers (EIS), conducted by artistic director Lydia Adams, enters its 44th Anniversary Season in 2022/23 as a 20-voice fully-professional choral ensemble. ...
- Created on 06 November 2022
- 6. Ballycroy and Beyond
- (On Opera)
- Stratford: On April 29, 1875, a fire in Ballycroy, Ontario took three young lives. Several buildings went down in this probable arson, but the only human casualties were the three women trapped in their ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 7. In Conversation | “It’s a necessity, creation.” Composer Ana Sokolović
- (Features)
- It’s only when you leave a country – a culture, a language, a family – that you can really see it. And it’s only then that you can consciously, rather than by inertia, belong to it. This wisdom comes ...
- Created on 07 December 2021
- 8. Back in Focus - December 2021
- (Back in Focus)
- ... Paul Bentley is near completion, Lydia Perović informs us at the end of a conversation with Montreal-based Sokolović about her opera Svadba. “Sokolović collaborated on the shaping of the opera, across ...
- Created on 07 December 2021
- 9. Zorana Sadiq at Crow'
- (Art of Song)
- One-woman show. A listening room. A melding of narration and sound-making. Personal and universal. A monologue but also very much a dialogue with the musical tradition. I’m seated at a picnic table in ...
- Created on 05 November 2021
- 10. Beautiful Exceptions: In conversation with Judith Yan
- (Features)
- One of Canada’s busiest conductors is just back from Hong Kong, where she conducted Don Quixote from a COVID-proof orchestra pit. She spoke with Lydia Perović via Zoom from her home in Guelph. LP: Hi ...
- Created on 06 December 2020
- 11. Stuck on Safety: Go Small or Stay Home? The Orchestral Dilemma | A conversation with Katherine Carleton
- (Features)
- ... and people are put in danger because they were welcomed back too soon, I think it would be harder to come back from that. Lydia Perović is a writer in Toronto, including writing on art song and other ...
- Created on 03 July 2020
- 12. Sojourn in the Deep Shade: The Only Way Is Through
- (Art of Song)
- ... away of the dross. And the only way, as the darkness deepens, the blackening begins, is through. Not over, not around it. Right through. Lydia Perović is a writer in Toronto. Send her your art-of-song ...
- Created on 04 May 2020
- 13. Bitten by the Book Bug: Baritone Brett Polegato
- (Features)
- ... in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell with Irish National Opera. But meantime, at home, the comfort of books – the more books, the better. Lydia Perović is an arts journalist in Toronto. Send her your art-of-song ...
- Created on 27 March 2020
- 14. Beste Kalender: Mezzo Rising
- (Art of Song)
- The year 2020 is coming up roses for mezzo-soprano Beste Kalender, who grew up in Turkey and moved to Canada at the age of 22 to pursue two great interests – post-graduate research in the psychology of ...
- Created on 26 February 2020
- 15. Always Asking Why: Speranza Scappucci, conductor
- (Features)
- ... Mater come from? This is still part of general education in Italy – and it comes in handy in the conducting profession.” Lydia Perović is an arts journalist in Toronto. Send her your art-of-song news ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 16. In Conversation: Ted Gioia’s "Music - A Subversive History
- (General Music Discussion)
- What if true innovation always comes from the outsider, the marginal and the underdog? Prominent American arts journalist and music historian Ted Gioia took this idea for a walk across the centuries in ...
- Created on 15 January 2020
- 17. 2019 in review: WholeNote staff picks
- (General Music Discussion)
- ... LYDIA PEROVIĆ, columnist: Art of Song Most memorable concert of 2019: “Highlight of the year in any discipline was Revisor, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's latest collaboration brought to Toronto ...
- Created on 18 December 2019
- 18. Winterreisse Unmasked - Le Chimera at Koerner
- (Art of Song)
- Messing with Winterreise is a growing and delightful industry within classical music performance. Schubert’s best-known song cycle has been fully staged and orchestrated for a chamber ensemble (Netia Jones/Hans ...
- Created on 28 November 2019
- 19. Just the Spot
- (Editorial and Op-Ed)
- ... Lydia Perović’s regular Art of Song column; Hedgehog Concerts’ Pamelia Stickney recital of theremin sonatas by Alexander Rapoport (Nov 16) is the subject of a somewhat-off-the-usual-beaten-track feature ...
- Created on 01 November 2019
- 20. Crossing Borders Builds Bridges
- (Art of Song)
- ... is now more likely to be found in Leipzig and Northern England than in Toronto, so mark your calendars. Lydia Perović is an arts journalist in Toronto. Send her your art-of-song news to artofsong@thewholenote.com. ...
- Created on 01 November 2019