A word from our publisher to you, our readers, as we look ahead to the future, the here and the now of music coverage online.

Details emerge about a well-known Toronto-based violinist and convicted sex offender who has been working alongside children as young as 6-years-old at the Canadian Opera Company and The National Ballet of Canada.

If you’re not one of the 16 million to have seen this video over the past 22 days, you need to see how OK Go, a pop band that has gone multiply viral on You Tube over the past couple of years, makes music with a car and a junkyard’s worth of accessories:

Choreographer James Kudelka has, with the help of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, composer Rodney Sharman, librettist Alex Poch-Goldin and some very capable singers and musicians, captured the heart-wrenching desolation found at the heart of Edith Wharton’s 1905 social drama, The House of Mirth.

Last year, artistic producer John Miller decided to start the annual featival — now six weeks long — with a choral symposium.

Swed writes that there are 1,207 instrumentalists and singers, making this possibly the largest gathering ever to perform the work. Counting among them are the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (which we had the pleasure of experiencing in Toronto a couple of seasons ago) and youthful choristers from across the country.

I decided to try and see if I could confirm this by doing my own search, and wasn’t disappointed.

Mr. Sellars has published a very touching tribute in the Spanish language El País newspaper, to the ground breaking director, Gerard Mortier, who died on 8 March in Brussels.  Below is an excerpt of the English text:

While many festivals struggle for years establish themselves against dwindling attendance and funding, Stratford Summer Music seems somehow, to make it all look so easy.

I’m having one of those less charitable moments as I read that Glenn Gould is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys next month.