Nikolett Pankovits: The Beautiful Haunting
“Nationalism” has a rather bad connotation today, thanks to the rise of the far-right. In music, though – especially in classical music in the...
Simon Thacker presents Pashyanti on Guitar
A preview of Simon Thacker’s World Premiere of Pashyanti on Guitar features special guest dancer Aishwarya Raut. I cannot think of a guitarist of...
Walter Kaufmann: The Transcendent Exile
The nature of exile is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
Eliane Rodrigues: Audacity and Utter Beauty Forever in ÆTERNUM
All music – indeed all art itself – is a conceit in which the artist perpetrates one or another act of beautiful or decorous...
Hee-Young Lim: Playing her way into a magical place
For someone who plays the cello with such maturity and profound beauty, it’s odd to think that Hee-Young Lim might have once chosen not...
Aditya Prakash Ensemble: Diaspora Kid
If you are new not just to the kind of Carnatic (South Indian) music on the Aditya Prakash Ensemble’s Diaspora Kid, but to Indian...
The Spirit and Vocalastics of Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
The unvarnished beauty that ensues when art and science meet and then go hand in hand is sometimes expressed via the magisterium of the...
Michael Colgrass: Side by Side
Michael Colgrass - Side by Side: 1: Letter from Mozart; 2:Side by Side; 3: Schubert Birds
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Gil Rose: cond; Andrew...
The Loneliness of the Indigenous Musician
The Canadian calendar – just like those in the US and Europe and like the Holy Roman Empire – is full of holidays celebrating...
Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti: Trikala
With this epic double disc, Trikala Simon Thacker has elevated his musicianship into a rarefied realm. He is alone among guitarists who have been...
The Exhilaration of Terry Riley
The nine hundred and fourth at Toronto’s Koerner Hall happened on the eve of one of the coldest (and snowiest) days in Canada. But...
Damien Sneed and the Toronto Mass Choir: “We Shall Overcome” A Celebration of Dr....
"We have come a long, long way but we still have a long, long way to go."
(Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
For two hours...
Lenka Lichtenberg: Masaryk
The tumultuous and traumatic history of both the Jewish Diaspora and the history of the Czech Republic have always come together in the profoundly...
Dagar Dynasty: The Mysticism of Dagar “Vani” Dhrupad
Through the millennia prophets, mystics, poets, painters and musicians have heard a voice in the silence of the heart, which is, of course the...
Daniel Santiago: Two Adventure Music Releases
Daniel Santiago has the rare distinction of being popular with audiences and critics and he comes from a long and deep tradition of Brasilian...
The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Masterpiece Revisited
The second edition of André Pirro’s 1907 classic, L’Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach – The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach – translated by Joe Armstrong...
Benjamin Zander: Light of The Ninth
"Don't only practice your art,
But force your way into its secrets
For it and knowledge can
raise men to The Divine."
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Journey of the...
Tangi Ropars: Moskitto’s Here to Stay
Tangi Ropars is one of three Moskittos who you won’t be able to make go away, much less swat. He comes from hardy stock...
The Toronto Sound: David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana
April 7, 2018 - Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory - Toronto
When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured...
The Toronto Sound: KUNÉ – Canada’s Global Orchestra
April 7, 2018 - Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory - Toronto
What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For...
