This Day in Music – 1943: First RIAA Gold Album Award goes to Oklahoma!
The RIAA Gold Record certification now means 500,000 album units sold. However, in the early stages of RIAA certifications, it meant $1 million in sales.…
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Daily News Roundup: 7 July 2016
+ The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble is coming to Cinéma du Parc on July 29. The movie will be…
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…
This Week in Montreal (June 20–26)
Montréal Baroque, June 23–26 On June 24, the first of four grand concerts, Prospero’s Tempest, combines theatrical music by Purcell and Blow with great lines from…
Daily News Roundup: 17 June 2016
+ From The Guardian’s archive: A collaboration between Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli. + The 2018 World Choir Games will be held in Gauteng Province…
This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Gounod & Stravinsky
Today marks the anniversary of Gounod’s (1818) and Stravinsky’s (1882) births. Winner of the 1839 Prix de Rome, Gounod studied at the Paris Conservatory. His…
Daily News Roundup: 16 June 2016
Hello and welcome to your first Daily News Roundup! This is a daily column where we select the articles and news posts from around the…
This Week in Montreal (June 13 – 19)
Montreal Chamber Music Festival, June 3-19 The pre-festival activities of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival began on February 23, but the festival proper will continue…
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: Cinema Festivals and Films
King Dave at Fantasia The highly anticipated King Dave, by Podz – whose real name is Daniel Grou, director of the 19-2 series and of…
