By Joseph So on February 23, 2016
The Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio takes a crack at The Marriage of Figaro on the main stage of the Four Seasons Centre.
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By Stephan Bonfield on February 23, 2016
To know dabke, a joyous, celebratory dance of richly traditional Levantine Middle Eastern origins is to know a wonderfully vibrant living culture but to know the show Badke, is to truly get to know its heart and soul.
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By Joseph So on February 22, 2016
Allow me to borrow a famous term from the 1960’s Hippie Counterculture – last evening’s recital by Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovky at Koerner Hall was the veritable Love-In.
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By Michael Vincent on February 21, 2016
It was a banquet of blurry fingers at Roy Thomson Hall Saturday night, as pianist Pavel Kolesnikov stopped by to lend his musical finesse to Rachmaninoff's “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”.
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By Paul E. Robinson on February 20, 2016
A review of the inaugural concert of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at Maison symphonique de Montréal, which features the great organists Oliver Latry and Jean-Willy Kunz alongside the MSO and Kent Nagano.
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By John Terauds on February 15, 2016
This music has been compelling fresh ears for nearly a century-and-a-half and, fortunately for anyone fond of Brahms’ compositions, the New Orford Quartet has put together an equally compelling case for their own interpretations.
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By Paul E. Robinson on February 13, 2016
With his colleagues in the MSO, under the direction of Kent Nagano, Merkelo delivers near-definitive performances of three classics of the Twentieth Century trumpet repertoire, with rich and detailed sound quality provided by Analekta.
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By Robin Roger on February 12, 2016
Over 245 pages, Seymour and Andrew explore debate, and banter about the a diverse and rich range of shared matters of urgent importance to them, including their personal histories, spiritual quests, notions of the divine, being learners and teachers and their feeling about creativity, solitude, relatedness to animals and more.
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By Joseph So on February 10, 2016
Christopher Purves: The Art of Song. The British bass-baritone dazzles audiences in Handel and Mussorgsky.
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