By Michael Vincent on January 22, 2016
We had a chance to chat with Toronto-based flautist Terry Lim, about the Toronto's brand new Flute Quintet, Charm Of Finches.
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By Arthur Kaptainis on January 8, 2016
The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Bride of Frankenstein. The Thing From Another World. All memorable films for many reasons, including the use of the theremin, the electromagnetic-field-generating apparatus invented in 1920 by Léon Theremin and unfairly associated with science fiction (or, in the case of The Lost Weekend, total drunkenness) since approximately the middle of the 20th century.
But this distinctive instrument – the only one that entails no physical contact with the performer – has its concert-hall champions, among whom we may count Alexander Rapoport, whose Sonata for Theremin and Piano will receive its Canadian premiere Monday evening at that west-end clearing house of musical innovation, Gallery 345.
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By Michael Vincent on November 25, 2015
Peter Oundjian and members of the TSO come forward to tell inspiring and personal stories of how SickKids has helped them through some of life's darkest moments.
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By Michael Vincent on September 14, 2015
It's a song still finding its chorus, but the Silk Road Project seem destined to find it. An interview with the Silk Road Ensemble.
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By Joseph So on May 11, 2015
Toronto Summer Music Festival Artistic Director Douglas McNabney talks about the art of programming this year’s Festival.
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By Tyler Versluis on April 12, 2015
"Professor Bad Trip" – Difficult to perform, difficult to love and impossible to ignore.
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By Michael Vincent on March 25, 2015
It wasn’t so long ago that the contemporary thing in music is the thing which didn't make enough of a difference to accept or reject. New music was something weird and strange – a musical anomaly merely tolerated by most of the worlds leading soloist, orchestras and arts presenters. But I think people have realized now that all music is contemporary, if it's alive. If it were not alive, then what would be the point?...
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