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Fall Highlights: Visual arts

By La Scena Musicale Team on 1 September 2023 Arts Industry, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Visual Arts

Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 25, 2023-March 10, 2024 If you want to dance with the devil, then this nonconformist, nontraditional, and absolutely shocking exhibit will surely stir your spirits. Russian feminist artists known for their conceptual eye tinged with nonconsensual flavours continue to be discovered and defy the authoritarian regime of their homeland. The project, which stems from a meeting in Moscow between co-founder Maria (aka Masha) Alyokhina and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and was launched by Reykjavik’s Kling & Bang gallery, brings its own taste for justice to the MAC. This culturally-sensitive…

The actors for Bluma Appel Theatre's The Lehman Trilogy

Fall Highlights: English Theatre

By Jim Burke on 1 September 2023 Montreal, Theatre, Toronto

Montreal September Montreal’s Anglo theatre scene is still struggling to return to its pre-pandemic bustle, but hopefully quality will triumph over quantity. First up is Kate Lavut’s big-hearted Fringe hit A Little Bit Pregnant, a comedy-drama about a group of young people “trying to adult.” Mainline Theatre, Sept. 8, 10. www.mainlinetheatre.ca A favourite out-of-town venue for Montrealers is the delightful Hudson Village Theatre, which promises The Greatest Play in the History of the World. Written by Brit playwright Ian Kershaw, it’s a space/time bending love story narrated by a woman in the wee small hours. Hudson Village Theatre, Sept. 13-24.…

Something for Everyone: Choral Music in Toronto

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Choral, Classical Music, Toronto

Author : (Eva Stone-Barney)

Canada boasts a vast, vibrant choral community—with countless professional and amateur choral organizations of all sizes scattered across the country. Among the most exciting places to be a choral singer, conductor, or lover of the choral arts is Toronto, Ont. It comes as no surprise that the country’s largest city would be ripe with choral activity. Jamie Hillman, U of T head of choral studies, describes it as “an international hub for artistic and cultural work.” Toronto is home to some of the country’s oldest choral organizations, such as the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Founded in 1894 by Augustus Vogt, the…

Andrea Núñez

Fall Highlights: Opera & Vocal

By Justin Bernard on 1 September 2023 Montreal, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Opéra de Montréal presents Mozart’s La nozze de Figaro Opera de Montréal begins its new season at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on Sept. 23 with an eight-day run of Mozart’s masterpiece La nozze de Figaro. Drawing on the writings of Pierre Beaumarchais and composed a decade before the French Revolution, the opera was censored at first due to the scandalous depictions of the aristocracy. A cornerstone of the Mozartian canon, it exhibits both dramatic intensity and comical relief in certain scenes. Figaro, incidentally, marked the first collaboration between the composer and the talented librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte who, soon after this joint…

Jocelyn Gould

Fall 2023 Previews: Toronto Calling

By Marc Chénard on 1 September 2023 Scena Jazz, Toronto

With its July Downtown Jazz Fest and its August Markham counterpart now in the rearview mirror, the Toronto jazz scene motors along throughout the year thanks to a number of venues with regular programming. Toronto Live: Where to Go Two of the best know hang outs are the Jazz Bistro (251 Victoria St.) and the Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.), the latter presenting a wide-array of musics from the more mainstream to the more experimental. Several hotels also have jazz on. a regular basis, starting with The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar at 194 Queen Street W., the One King West Hotel (1 King St. W.)…

Leland Ko on stage during the cello auditions. (Photo by Donna Santos)

Newswire | 2023 Musical Instrument Bank Cohort Revealed

By Newswire on 16 August 2023 Music Competition, Toronto

Toronto, August 16, 2023 – Auditions for the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank took place in Toronto from July 30 to August 5. The auditions give classical music performers from Canada the opportunity to borrow one of the Musical Instrument Bank’s precious instruments for three years. At this year’s competition, 23 violins and cellos made between the late 17th century and the early 20th century by famous luthiers like Stradivari, Gagliano and Pressenda were available. Before obtaining an instrument, the musicians took part in a rigorous assessment process. The musicians who wished to borrow an instrument first submitted an…

Newswire | World Premiere of CANOE: All-New Two-Act Opera

By Newswire on 25 July 2023 Toronto

Toronto, July 25, 2023 – Unsettled Scores production, in collaboration with Native Earth Performing Arts, The Toronto Consort and Theatre Passe Muraille, will present Canoe, an all-new two-act opera that defies conventions and embraces invention from September 12-16, 2023 at Trinity St Paul’s Centre in Toronto. This intercultural production showcases the rich talents of four Indigenous singers and an ensemble of five historical instruments including the violin, cello, recorder, lute, and harpsichord. Composed by Unsettled Scores co-founders Spy Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan, and set to a story/libretto by Spy Dénommé-Welch, Canoe is a captivating tale of two sisters from Northern…

Photo: Allan Cabral

Review | Yuja Wang Dazzles in Rachmaninov with TSO

By Paul E. Robinson on 23 June 2023 Concert Reviews, Toronto

Among classical artists today pianist Yuja Wang is unquestionably one of the select few who can fill a hall and drive an audience into a frenzy. She was in Toronto last week for three concerts – her second set of concerts in the city this season – and by all accounts nearly every seat was filled and she brought the house down. Wang is only 36-years old but she is already a superstar, partly for her often skimpy outfits but also for her electrifying musicianship. It was clearly Yuja Wang who filled the seats at the concert I heard on…

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Newswire | National Charity MusiCounts Announces 73 Schools In Canada Will Receive $825,000 In Musical Instruments and Equipment

By Newswire on 15 June 2023 Newswire, Toronto

TORONTO, June 15, 2023 /CNW/ – Canada’s leading music education charity, MusiCounts is thrilled to announce that 73 schools across Canada will receive $825,000 worth of instruments, equipment, and resources via the 2023 MusiCounts Band Aid Program. The MusiCounts Band Aid Program allocates grants of up to $15,000 to schools to start or refurbish their music program. It supports any approach to music education and the purchase of any kind of musical instruments and equipment. “We are so excited for the 2023 MusiCounts Band Aid Program Recipients! With these much-needed funds, educators will be able to help the kids who need it most…

Newswire | Sinfonia Toronto Has Announced Its 2023-2024 Silver Anniversary Season

By Newswire on 12 June 2023 Chamber Music, Orchestral, Toronto

Toronto, ON – Sinfonia Toronto has announced its 2023-2024 Silver Anniversary season. The orchestra will celebrate its 25th season with premieres by Canadian and international composers and with the return of many audience favourites – both beloved works and popular guest artists. Commenting on the new season, the orchestra’s music director Nurhan Arman said, “All of us at Sinfonia Toronto are grateful for all the years of support by our loyal audiences in the GTA and throughout Ontario. From our early days onward we have performed for Ontario audiences all over, from Sarnia to Sault Ste-Marie, Barrie to Brockville and many…

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