Coming soon in this space is an interview with Toronto composer Kevin Lau, co-founder of the Sneak Peek Orchestra, which has a show coming up on Feb. 4.
Tomorrow evening, cellist Rachel Mercer is playing Starsail, a Lau piece from 2008, at Walter Hall, with pianist Angela Park (details of the free recital here).
As a lively interlude for a particularly grey and wet Toronto day, here is Lau with Sneak Peek Orchestra co-founder Victor Cheng, performing Lau’s own excellent arrangement of themes from the Harry Potter movies (Lau is on Piano II):
http://youtu.be/61RS7tPgXks
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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