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By Michael Vincent on March 13, 2016
When our city's winter ice finally melts, there is something deep inside of the Canadian psyche that begins to crawl out and stretch out its arms. The spring in the step of those who attended the closing TSO New Creations Festival on Saturday night was noticeably cheery, and the music helped us along.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on March 11, 2016
Brett Dean, James Ledger, and Paul Frehner participate in the second instalment of TSO's New Creations Festival.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 6, 2016
DJ Skratch Bastid Spins with the TSO for opening night of New Creations Festival
(Continue reading)By Nicholas Godsoe on February 9, 2016
"As the string quartet, (in full tuxedo) followed by Gonzales, (in a suave, velveteen, burgundy robe) assumed the stage, the audience went wild..."
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 7, 2016
The audience was buzzing when I overheard a proclamation: "Tanya!" That Tanya, of course, was Tanya Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, located on Victoria Island.
(Continue reading)By Tyler Versluis on January 27, 2016
Enter Esprit Orchestra on January 24th in Koerner Hall, where a varied programme of music in by Samuel Andreyev, Daníel Bjarnason, Alexina Louie and R. Murray Schafer demonstrated how wide and multi-faceted these creative executions have become in 2016.
(Continue reading)By Adam Scime on January 16, 2016
The JACK Quartet has rightly become a towering vehicle for the performance and championing of contemporary music. With an impressive seventeen commercial recordings, numerous awards of international recognition, and commissions from the world’s leading composers, the JACK Quartet has successfully won over contemporary music lovers with a commanding performance bravura and dazzling musicianship.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on December 11, 2015
A DJ, a dancer named Lybido, a laptop ensemble, an electric guitarist and four singers walk into a bar... It sounds like the setup to a punchline, but Soundstreams' Electic Messiah just might be the most innovative production of the year in Toronto.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on November 20, 2015
Punk and Opera collide in Tapestry’s latest exploration of opera evolution.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on October 18, 2015
Three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep takes the stage with the Takács Quartet for RCM's sold-out Season Gala event.
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