Review : Montero & Shostakovich with NACO
If you want an example of how all art is political, you needn’t look any further than the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Southam Hall concerts…
Browsing: Concert Reviews
OCM offers Ravel great and small
The second concert of the Orchestre classique de Montréal season, Tuesday in Salle Pierre-Mercure, came adorned with thematic and honorary elements. In musical essence it…
[Concert review] Opéra de Montréal’s Mixtape: A remix of a classic formula
Last Sunday (Nov 21, 2022), Opéra de Montréal kickstarted their season to a Jam-packed Wilfrid-Pelletier crowd of hungry Operaphiles. The “mixtape” concert featured the artists-in-residence…
Road trip to Detroit yields symphonic pleasure – speed bumps notwithstanding
Last week I had the pleasure of hearing the Cleveland Orchestra in top form at its home in Severance Hall. A real treat after the…
Concert Reviews
By Justin Bernard, Natasha Gauthier, Arthur Kaptainis, Denise Lai, Dino Spaziani La Nef / Myriam Leblanc / Sylvain Bergeron Oct. 2 What you missed…
Review: Cross-border trek to Cleveland proves picture perfect
CLEVELAND – On Nov. 8, the American authorities decided it was safe to let Canadians enter their country by car. The next day I drove…
Good vibrations at TSO reopening
TORONTO – Standing ovations before and after: The response by a live audience to the reappearance of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra following a long separation…
Review: OM, Yannick make strong case for Farrenc
Programing is not what it used to be, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin commented Friday evening to a masked and distanced crowd in the Maison symphonique. We…
Follies in Concert: Live music makes a welcome comeback
TORONTO – For the first time since the pandemic began, a concert hall in Ontario saw a nearly full house of fully-vaccinated patrons sitting side…
Concert reviews (October 2021)
Opéra de Montréal Riders to the Sea/Le Flambeau de la nuit What you missed A dark double bill (Sept. 25) linking one-act operas by Vaughan…
