“Nationalism” has a rather bad connotation today, thanks to the rise of the far-right. In music, though – especially in classical music in the 18th and...
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 our time...
The nature of exile [παρεπιδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
All music – indeed all art itself – is a conceit in which the artist perpetrates one or another act of beautiful or decorous vanity upon...
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 to be...
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 music in...
The unvarnished beauty that ensues when art and science meet and then go hand in hand is sometimes expressed via the magisterium of the intellect –...
Michael Colgrass – Side by Side: 1: Letter from Mozart; 2:Side by Side; 3: Schubert Birds Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Gil Rose: cond; Andrew Lamb:...
The Canadian calendar – just like those in the US and Europe and like the Holy Roman Empire – is full of holidays celebrating some patron...
With this epic double disc, Trikala Simon Thacker has elevated his musicianship into a rarefied realm. He is alone among guitarists who have been able to...
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 it was...
“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...
The tumultuous and traumatic history of both the Jewish Diaspora and the history of the Czech Republic have always come together in the profoundly tragic and...
Through the millennia prophets, mystics, poets, painters and musicians have heard a voice in the silence of the heart, which is, of course the soul. In...
Daniel Santiago has the rare distinction of being popular with audiences and critics and he comes from a long and deep tradition of Brasilian guitarists. Over...
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 and first...
“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...
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 and he’s...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured of...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For me...
