November 19, 2024

Still pushing boundaries: West End Micro Music Festival

by Lydia Perovic

A lot has happened since 2018, the year I described the Happenstancers in these pages as part of the future of chamber music and song recital. A year later, two of the ensemble’s three founding musicians (mezzo-soprano Adanya Dunn and…
October 19, 2024

Diffuse by name and textured by nature | X Avant XIX at the Music Gallery

by Wendalyn Bartley

Diffuse was the name of a concert I attended on October 16, the second night of the Music Gallery’s X Avant Festival, this year titled TeXtures, now in its 19th season. The event was the realization of a long-held dream…
October 16, 2024

DEATH, DEVILS AND … ELECTIONS?

by Colin Story

I was going to start this column with a joke about October being the scariest month of the year. “A time to contemplate death, devils, and diminished chords,” I wrote in an earlier draft, perhaps trusting that it would have…
October 15, 2024

Music As Medicine: The healing powers of a song-filled life

by Angus MacCaull

Renowned neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin paused as he sang the word “strings” and looked over the neck of his guitar to the audience in the University of Toronto’s Desautels Hall. The air felt charged. Instinctively, we knew what he wanted.…
October 15, 2024

ARCS: A CONCERT CURATORS’ Q & A | Chris Friesen - Trinity Bach Project

by The WholeNote

Q1: The opening work? The opening work of TBP’s first program of the season, Henry Purcell’s 1685 anthem, I Was Glad, is constructed as a lovely little musical triptych. It’s a vocal painting of Psalm 122 existing in three hinged…
October 15, 2024

ART OF THE ARC: A CURATORS’ Q & A | Jean-Sébastien Vallée - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

by The WholeNote

Q1: The opening work? Our upcoming concert, The Love Affair, illustrates how an entire program can be a carefully constructed arc, guiding the audience through different aspects of love, all tied together by the theme of dance. We begin with…
October 15, 2024

ART OF THE ARC: A CURATORS’ Q & A | Wonny Song - Mooredale Series

by The WholeNote

Q1: The opening work? In our upcoming Mooredale Series program, pianist Benedetto Lupo will take us on a captivating journey through Nino Rota’s 15 Preludi. Each piece is imbued with its own distinct character and mood, together crafting an evolving…
October 15, 2024

A joy-filled and music-fuelled season at London’s Grand Theatre and beyond

by Jennifer Parr

There is a particular joy to watching music theatre, arising from the story being told in both words and music: a natural exuberance, another level of emotion, music as an international language that can carry us further than words alone…
October 15, 2024

ART OF THE ARC: A CURATORS’ Q & A | Sanjeet Takhar – The Music Gallery

by The WholeNote

The sweep of this year’s X-Avant festival October 15-19, titled TeXtures, suggests a "hive mind" at work, rather than a single curator. Who else was involved and what was their role? And what was the process over time? The majority…
October 15, 2024

Immersive Journeys in Stories and Sound

by Wendalyn Bartley

Alice Ping Yee Ho’s Dark Tales: On November 9, right after you thought all the pumpkins, goblins and spider webs had been put away for another season, Toronto composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and New Music Concerts will present an innovative…
October 14, 2024

ART OF THE ARC: A CURATORS’ Q & A | Alexander Cappellazzo - Apocryphonia

by The WholeNote

Q1: One particular work? Our upcoming Amor Con Fortuna: Songs of 16th Century Spain concert on October 15th has this piece by Mateo Flecha the Elder called El Fuego. It’s this ten-plus minute song from a genre during the 16th…
October 10, 2024

ARCS: A CONCERT CURATORS’ Q & A

by David Perlman

Barely a week before going to press, we wrote to a handful of individuals responsible for planning concert seasons in our neck of the woods. We explained that we were thinking of launching this feature, ARCS, and were hoping to…
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