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February 17, 2023The Soft-Seat Beat: A Tale of Three Halls
by Colin Story
Of the many things that music audiences have regained in the 2022/2023 concert season, the most valuable may be the very concept of a “season” in and of itself. No longer must we sit, nails bitten to the quick, waiting…
February 14, 2023Mezzo Emily Fons - Globetrotting, Managing Your Money, and those Sweet, Sweet Trouser Roles
by Lydia Perović
Probably the most melancholy production of The Marriage of Figaro around, the Claus Guth-conceived Salzburg production first seen in Toronto in 2016, is back at the Canadian Opera Company for another run from January 27 - February 18, with a…
February 14, 2023Remembering Michael Snow (1928-2023) - Music as Shared Experience
by Andrew Timar
Michael Snow, artist-at-large Sorry, but I’m going to have to skip over much of Toronto-born artist Michael Snow’s vast and diverse body of work, including milestone experimental films, sculptures, paintings, prints, photographs, holographs, slide projections, videos, books and recordings (78,…
February 14, 2023Canadian Identity Celebrated and Explored
by Jennifer Parr
New Canadian plays, musicals and music theatre works are popping up everywhere across the country this season. Three shows coming up this spring caught my eye in particular for how they are using music to explore and highlight various facets …
February 14, 2023Instant Kinships: Trio Arkel in Conversation
by Paul Ennis
Trio Arkel – Marie Bérard (concertmaster of the COC Orchestra), Rémi Pelletier (associate principal violist of the TSO) and Winona Zelenka (assistant cello of the TSO) – are celebrating the tenth season of their concert series and we at The…
February 14, 2023To Everything there is a Season... or Four
by Stephanie Conn
Like the “O Fortuna’’ chorus from Orff’s Carmina Burana and the first bars of Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) has a ubiquitous presence in the soundtrack of our lives via films, television commercials, malls…
February 14, 2023Continuum’s Show Room and Soundstreams’ Reich
by Wendalyn Bartley
A fascinating yet seemingly ordinary scenario forms the basis for a tension-filled new opera by composer Rodney Sharman and librettist Atom Egoyan. The last time these two creators collaborated was for their opera Elsewhereless in 1998, which received over 35…
December 09, 2022A Toast to Amnesia as the Music Goes Live (Again)!
by Colin Story
In case you’ve forgotten, at the beginning of December of last year, as a tumultuous 2021 came to a close, the season was looking tentatively merry and bright: indoor gatherings were once again possible, venues seemed to have definitively reopened,…
December 09, 2022"Fall On Your Knees" Finds Theatrical Form
by Jennifer Parr
Ten years ago, I was inspired to adapt Fall on Your Knees as a piece of music-driven theatre,” says director Alisa Palmer. On January 20, at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, that initial seed of inspiration will have its…
December 06, 2022Orchestral Explosion - Take December 10, for example...
by Paul Ennis
As the calendar crawls through November en route to the December holidays and the sun has not even begun its long trek back to seasonal dominance, it’s a ray of hope to peruse the listings and discover how, throughout the…
December 06, 2022“Salute to Vienna” - The New Year’s Tradition That Grew
by Gary Corrin
January 1, 2023 will mark the return of what has become a favourite New Year’s tradition in Toronto and cities across North America – Attila Glatz Productions’ “Salute to Vienna” modelled on the wildly popular “Neujahrstagkonzert” (New Year’s Day Concert)…
December 06, 2022Collaborative Serendipity
by Wendalyn Bartley
On a cold snowy night last November 19, I was happy to be in the warmth of the Music Gallery at 918 Bathurst Street, listening to the bright pulsating music of an inspiring collaboration between Toronto’s Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan…17 Feb 2023 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz06 Nov 2022 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz05 Nov 2022 - Paul EnnisRemembering04 Oct 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed27 May 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed25 Apr 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed15 Mar 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed24 Sep 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed06 Jul 2021 - David PerlmanRemembering20 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 NotesCurrent Issue
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