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October 03, 2023Light Between the Cracks: Small World Music's GLOBAL TORONTO 2023
by Andrew Timar
It’s no secret: right now, among our various cultural sectors troubling signs can readily be found. Stresses, fissures and cracks, intergenerational change and systemic failures – some chronicled elsewhere in this issue – feel as though they are starting to…
October 03, 2023Gypsy and more: And the seasons they go round and round
by Jennifer Parr
When you have an actor with the musical and acting chops to play Mama Rose, it is a good idea to program the musical Gypsy as part of your season.
September 05, 2023True To The Human Being
by Paul Ennis
Here on the island, there’s artistic blood in everybody. I mean, everybody somehow sings and dances and carves and – or plays an instrument. And there’s nothing more natural and more true to the human being than art and music.…
September 04, 2023Michael Palumbo’s Exit Points Makes Its Mark
by Wendalyn Bartley
It was participating in the Toronto Improvisor’s Orchestra that offered a lifeline for electroacoustic music improviser, teacher, researcher and producer Michael Palumbo. During 2019, Palumbo was experiencing multiple crises in his life which eventually led him into performing improvised music…
September 04, 2023Hugh’s New Room
by Colin Story
In March of 2020 – while COVID anxiety was swirling through Toronto, but just before lockdown protocols were announced and enacted – news broke that Hugh’s Room Live would be leaving their Dundas West location, having failed to come to…
September 04, 2023Art Uplifted When Dance & Music Intersect
by David Perlman
Let’s start by looking back — to a Toronto Symphony concert in January this year. Second half of the concert was the Mozart Requiem, with the full Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) doing the vocal honours. But what made the evening special…
September 04, 2023A True Reunion: Tafelmusik Welcomes Back Bruno Weil
by MJ Buell
When I heard that Tafelmusik was opening its 2023/24 season with Beethoven symphonies conducted by Bruno Weil and in celebration of its 45th anniversary season, it sounded like a reunion that I could not miss,” writes Christina Mahler, Tafelmusik principal…
September 04, 2023Sharon Azrieli on The AMPs at Ten
by Sharna Searle
Canada’s largest non-corporate funding body, the Azrieli Foundation was established in 1989 by Sharon Azrieli’s late father, philanthropist and developer, David Azrieli, with a mission, according to the Foundation’s website, “to improve the lives of present and future generations through…
September 04, 2023"Beautiful Gumbo” - Long Live The Rex
by Andrew Scott
Although not yet as canonically sacrosanct to the history of jazz as NYC’s Minton’s Playhouse was, Toronto’s Rex Hotel is equally important to this city’s jazz community as both a performance venue and a musical testing ground where creative ideas…
June 12, 2023A Summer Musical Mix
by Wendalyn Bartley
Summer and Music Festivals make great partners. Now that concert life appears to be fully alive after the past few years of the enforced doldrums, the summer festivals are alive with several offerings of new music and Canadian compositions. I’ve…
June 09, 2023As The Music Heads Outdoors
by Colin Story
On June 3, 2023, the clarinetist, composer, bandleader and educator Phil Nimmons celebrated his 100th birthday. Born in 1923 in Kamloops, Nimmons has been a major force on the Canadian jazz scene since the 1950s, when – following his formal…
June 08, 2023Some Enchanted Summer
by Jennifer Parr
The beginning of the summer season is exploding with the openings of new musicals – shows previously delayed by COVID shut downs, new projects and classics revisited – with a little flood in late May, inconveniently early for our May…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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