Concert Review | Toronto Welcomes 2024 With A Scintillating Salute to Vienna
Having attended Salute to Vienna concerts most years since the mid 2000’s, I must say I can’t think of a better way to musically usher in the new year.
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Concert Review | TSO’s 2023 Messiah: A Spiritually Uplifting Experience
Sitting in the audience at the TSO Messiah this past Sunday, I kept thinking how lucky I was to witness another performance of Messiah in the familiar Roy Thomson Hall.
Concert Review | Stunning Finale to Staatskapelle Berlin’s Koerner Hall Series
From the beginning of the Allegro in Brahms’ Third Symphony, with its powerful opening chords, I was completely drawn into Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra’s playing.
Concert Review | David Robertson Makes Toronto Symphony Debut in Berg and Mahler
Replacing Michael Tilson Thomas this week was American conductor David Robertson, who made his Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut.
Concert Review | Two Outstanding Ukrainian Artists Make Memorable TSO Debuts
Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s audience was treated to not one, but two sensational TSO debuts of Ukrainian artists, conductor Oksana Lyniv and pianist Illia Ovcharenko.
Review | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s B Minor Mass a Fine Performance of a Great Work
Soloists: Jacob Abrahamse, Neil Aronoff, Julia Barber, Lesley Emma Bouza, Rebecca Claborn, Simon Honeyman, Kieran Kane, Rebecca McKay, Nicholas Nicolaidis, and Sinéad White; Toronto Mendelssohn…
Review | Fiery Mussorgsky Marks Chicago Symphony’s First Toronto Visit in a Century
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62; Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op.93; Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel).…
Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Mozart’s Birthday with A Superb Requiem
Jane Archibald, sop., Susan Platts, mezz., Isaiah Bell, ten., Kevin Deas, bbar., Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis, cond., Roy Thomson Hall, Jan.…
Book Review | Overture of Hope by Isabel Vincent (Regnery History)
Overture of Hope, Isabel VincentISBN: 978-1-68451-349-9 (Hardcover 288 pp., $27.99, 2022) Regnery History For opera fans interested in 20th Century history, here’s an absorbing and…
Ann Summers: Dossena and IRCPA: A Fond Farewell
On Oct. 19, Eleanor Friedland, president of the venerable International Resource Centre for Performing Artists (IRCPA), announced in a press release that it will bid…
