Valentina Lisitsa cancels Toronto appearance in wake of discrepancies involving charities run by event organizer Les Holdway.

The 2018 JUNO Award Nominations have been announced today, but the fight for the prestigious title in the four classical categories will be fierce this year.

The banjo licks that kickstart the new Nutcracker Nouveau album by Toronto’s Ensemble Polaris tell us loud and clear — and with the broadest possible wink — that this is not grandma’s Peter Ilytch Tchaikovsky.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Audio-Video Licensing Agency announced today that they have reached a deal that will allow the CBC to offer a wide range of streaming online music options to go with a host of new Internet-only channels to be launched soon.

Toronto’s Talisker Players have announced that they will cease operations effective at the end of their 2016/17 season.

A Canadian concert violinist is using her own negative experience to warn other air travellers against heightened security inspections.

George Onslow’s father had left England because of a scandal, settling the family in Clermont-Ferrand.

Thanks to NPR’s blog, Deceptive Cadence, for pointing to the many soundtracks Dmitri Shostakovich composed during his penance period, after Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Soviet leaders and the composers’ union in 1934.

 

People in several other cities have confronted an old piano sitting in a public space and sporting a sign, “Play me, I’m yours.”