SCRUTINY | TSO: Forty is the Magic Number For Sir Andrew Davis/Yo-Yo Ma
By Arthur Kaptainis on May 30, 2015
Forty years: It could have been a birthday, as Yo-Yo Ma suggested Friday on the stage of Roy Thomson Hall.
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By Arthur Kaptainis on May 30, 2015
Forty years: It could have been a birthday, as Yo-Yo Ma suggested Friday on the stage of Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 27, 2015
If we divide all the operas in the world into those that hold the stage and those that do not, there is no question that M'dea Undone, which received its premiere Tuesday night at the Evergreen Brick Works, merits a place in the sainted former kingdom. Heck, it held a sprawling indoor-outdoor industrial space within earshot of the Don Valley Parkway for more than an hour.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 24, 2015
Illusions: a patchwork presented by the Gryphon Trio and the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal Friday night in Koerner Hall as part of the 21C Music Festival.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 22, 2015
No question, Kajia Saariaho is a name to contend with. A music lover might fairly congratulate the Royal Conservatory for securing the presence on Thursday night of this 62-year-old Paris-based Finnish composer as part of the 21st Century Music Festival in Koerner Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 14, 2015
MSO brings Sibelius, Mozart, and Samy Moussa to Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on May 2, 2015
Arthur Kaptainis reviews pianist Evgeny Kissin Toronto performance at Roy Thomson Hall, Friday May 1, 2015.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 23, 2015
Toronto Symphony Orchestra explore the music of Armenia with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, violinist Sergey Khachatryan and composer Mychael Danna.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 15, 2015
Arthur Kaptainis reviews Opera Atelier's Orpheus and Eurydice: "Dance fans with classical tastes will not be disappointed."
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 10, 2015
Amid the great boiling cauldron of bad karma that is the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, there was a forgotten man: Jukka-Pekka Saraste...
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on February 19, 2015
New Works from East and West was the well-travelled theme of the New Music Concert Saturday at the Betty Oliphant Theatre. You could certainly tell them apart without a program, even if there were some instances of what sounded like cross-hemispheric dialogue...
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