SCRUTINY | Music Prevails In National Youth Concert
By Arthur Kaptainis on July 26, 2017
A kaleidoscopic concert commemorating Canada's 150 years, as offered by two national youth ensembles at Toronto Summer Music.
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By Arthur Kaptainis on July 26, 2017
A kaleidoscopic concert commemorating Canada's 150 years, as offered by two national youth ensembles at Toronto Summer Music.
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Cutting-edge tech in opera? Steve Jobs would have been proud, as Apple lends its star power to the Santa Fe contemporary opera scene.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 11, 2017
“Every time you play, you feel that you could have done better,” Yekwon Sunwoo said in a thoughtful tone. “There is no one way, no perfection. But this is the beauty of making music."
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 10, 2017
We had a fight on Friday night at the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Between nations, selections and, inevitably, styles.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 9, 2017
The Cliburn piano competition inches towards choosing a winner, but it is still anyone's guess as to who that will be.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 6, 2017
"My personal ambitions never went beyond maintaining my work at the highest level. That was always my goal." MT catches up with TSO Principal Flute Nora Shulman to chat about her upcoming retirement and the road ahead.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 4, 2017
"Brass were hearty, strings full of fire." Sir Andrew Davis makes a superior performance out of William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 5, 2017
Toronto audience marvels at Charles Richard-Hamelin's classy playing from beginning to end.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 24, 2017
While some observers have looked warily on this 50-year-old collaboration of two white guys, the perspective is favourable to the cause of human rights and critical of the establishment.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 3, 2017
“Contemporary pops” is not a concept with much currency, but this is not a bad description of the program the conductor Alex Pauk put together to end the 2016-17 Esprit Orchestra season in Koerner Hall on Sunday night.
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