Shakespeare Reimagined
Founded in 1917 and re-launched in 2012, Hogarth Press is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death with a literary series, Hogarth Shakespeare. Inaugurated…
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Review – Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music (The Secret Mountain)
An ode to water, the source of all life, Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music is an excellent educational tool for ages 8 to…
Daily News Roundup: 2 August 2016
+ The Heckeler’s Andrew Burn takes on Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate with respect to the context around its creation and performance. “I’m not…
The Party at the End of the World
A shrewd November dusk de-illuminates an opaque door on rue de la Montagne near the corner of boulevard De Maisonneuve at the very heart of Montreal’s…
Daily News Roundup: 21 June 2016
+ R.E.M’s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with the TSO was quite the hit with younger audiences. + A miniseries…
Summer Reading: Boussole
Boussole Mathias Énard Actes Sud, 378 p. Boussole’s first sentence is a 300-word long delirium. The winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt thus sets the…
Summer Arts 2016: Literary events and upcoming book releases
La Promenade des écrivains In Québec city, from June 4 to September 25, La Promenade des écrivains invites you to discover the city in a…
Summer Reading: La carte des Mendelssohn
La carte des Mendelssohn Diane Meur Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 461 p. Diane Meur decided to investigate the ancestors of Felix Mendelssohn: his father Abraham Mendelssohn…
Summer Reading: Les tribulations d’un Stradivarius en Amérique
Les tribulations d’un Stradivarius en Amérique Frédéric Chaudière Actes Sud, 292 p. The Stradivarius Gibson ex-Huberman, now played by American violinist Joshua Bell, has lived…
Yann Martel: The Story Builder
Yann Martel isn’t the sort of writer who publishes a new novel every year. Six years passed between the publication of Beatrice and Virgil and his latest…
