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...
Michael Colgrass: Side by Side
Michael Colgrass - Side by Side: 1: Letter from Mozart; 2:Side by Side; 3: Schubert Birds
Boston Modern Orchestra...
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...
Marcelo Woloski: Mundo Por Conocer
In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations,...
Eve A Ma: Afro-Peruvian Rhythms Beckon
If you are an ethnomusicologist on a quest to study a particular style of music you deep-dive. But every deep-dive demands that you must...
Bengt Berger: The Wide World of Beches Indian Brew
Don Cherry was, arguably, the first musician to use the term “world-music” to describe the music he was playing in the 1960’s. By that...
Tcha Limberger: From Bruges and Foix to the World
It is important to acknowledge the genius of Tcha Limberger in the context of his being a musical – perhaps, an all-around – polymath...
