EDITORIAL | Why Do We Need Mental Pictures to Help Us Appreciate Music?

By John Terauds on September 27, 2015

John Terauds shares his thoughts on the search for meaning and appreciation in music. What about simply letting the music be what it is?

JOHN TERAUDS | Baroque opera champion Alan Curtis (1934-2015)

By John Terauds on July 16, 2015

Italian-based, American-born keyboardist and conductor Alan Curtis died suddenly on July 15 in Florence at the age of 81. His contribution to the revival of Italian Baroque opera was huge, he left a rich legacy of period-performance resources for organ and harpsichord, and helped boost the careers of Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin and mezzo Marie-Nicole Lemieux through recordings made with his period-instrument ensemble, Il complesso barocco.

JOHN TERAUDS | Bitter Lemons Puts the Squeeze on Traditional Relationship Between Presenter and Critic

By John Terauds on June 18, 2015

In the era of online arts blogs and in-house publications, is the idea of paying for arts coverage unethical?

JOHN TERAUDS | Valentina Lisitsa, Social Media, and the Public Etiquette of Art

By John Terauds on April 9, 2015

Every once in a while, someone comes along to spill hot tea over the veneer of civil society, and we get a chance to watch it crack and curl before our eyes...

JOHN TERAUDS | A Veteran Virtuoso Continues to Climb High

By John Terauds on November 18, 2014

JOHN TERAUDS | Tafelmusik managing director Tricia Baldwin’s remarkable 14-year tenure comes to a close

By John Terauds on September 24, 2014

JOHN TERAUDS | Choral Singing is the Best Medicine

By John Terauds on September 9, 2014

CD review: Is this the Schubert we should expect?

By John Terauds on June 19, 2014

CD review: Bernarda Fink sings Mahler Lieder

By John Terauds on June 18, 2014

JOHN TERAUDS | An opera singer's treasure trove

By John Terauds on June 17, 2014