Welcome to today’s Daily News Roundup, where we celebrate great musicians from home and abroad. Plus, check out a rather large portrait of Beethoven.
+ Joshua Errett asks what type of music should make up a jazz festival in “If Sarah McLachlan plays a jazz festival, is it still a jazz festival?” for CBC News.
+ This portrait of Beethoven takes up a million square feet.
+ Tenor Juan Diego Flórez signed to Sony Classical in an exclusive recording contract.
+ Dutch bass and Baroque specialist Peter Kooij has received the Bach medal from the city of Leipzig (French).
+ Montreal pianist Louise Bessette received an honorary doctorate from Western University Canada in London, Ontario.
+ Read Camilo Lanfranco’s review of Paquito D’Rivera at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival.
+ Jacques Offenbach was born this day in 1819.
+ Happy birthday to the OSM’s first music director, Wilfrid Pelletier!
