If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!
SCRUTINY | More Of The Same Is A Good Thing With New Tafelmusik Leader Elisa Citterio
By John Terauds on September 22, 2017
Violinist Elisa Citterio’s first concert as music director of the Tafelmusik Orchestra at Koerner Hall on Tuesday night indicated that Toronto’s fans of music performed on period instruments would go home pleased that they are getting more of the same.
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SCRUTINY | Stars Align For Toronto Symphony Season Launch
By John Terauds on September 20, 2017
Peter Oundjian launched his 14th and final season as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall on Tuesday night with verve and panache. Fourteen years may be a long time, but he and the orchestra are wearing them very well.
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SCRUTINY | Jonathan Crow Showcases Artistry And Collaboration In Solo Turn
By John Terauds on August 1, 2017
Jonathan Crow wears multiple hats at Toronto Summer Music this year, and John Terauds finds that they all fit him well.
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SCRUTINY | All-Star Musicians No Guarantee Of A Five-Star Concert At Toronto Summer Music Festival
By John Terauds on July 29, 2017
Musical symbiosis is not always easy to achieve. Nikki Chooi and company tried their hand at it last night at Toronto Summer Music.
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SCRUTINY | Rolston String Quartet Delivers Exquisite Justification Of Banff Win
By John Terauds on July 25, 2017
The Rolston String Quartet bring cohesion and luminosity to a programme of evergreen and modern works at Toronto Summer Music.
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SCRUTINY | Toronto Summer Music Bravely And Boldly Puts Canadian Works Alongside Classical Canon
By John Terauds on July 22, 2017
Get your hockey game on! Toronto Summer Music pitted the Classicists against the Canadians last night in a friendly match.
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SCRUTINY | Violinist James Ehnes Wows In Solo Recital
By John Terauds on July 18, 2017
James Ehnes mounts a one-man show, rendered in "high-definition" for the Toronto Summer Music Festival audience.
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SCRUTINY | Martin Beaver And Friends Form Brilliant Alliance At Toronto Summer Music
By John Terauds on July 15, 2017
The Toronto Summer Music Festival showcased a quartet of audience favourites and veterans in a lesson on musical teamwork.
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SCRUTINY | Sir Andrew Davis And Toronto Symphony Have An Arresting Way With Beethoven
By John Terauds on May 27, 2017
The concert program at Roy Thomson Hall on Friday may have been a bit of a mishmash, but conductor laureate Sir Andrew Davis showed he can use any score as his guide to gracefully sculpt the sound of the TSO.
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SCRUTINY | Belly Laughs And Drama Charm Together In Toronto Consort’s Helen Of Troy
By John Terauds on May 13, 2017
The Toronto Consort and an excellent cast of guests introduced us to a peculiar operatic take on Helen on Friday night, in the first of three concert performances of Helen of Troy.
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