CRITIC'S PICKS | Seventeen Shows Worth Seeing This Week
By Joseph So on April 4, 2016
Musical Toronto | Critic’s Picks for the Week of April 4 to 10.
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By Joseph So on April 4, 2016
Musical Toronto | Critic’s Picks for the Week of April 4 to 10.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 2, 2016
If you see Koerner Hall looking a little bit disheveled this morning, that's because Cameron Carpenter's debut digital touring organ gave the hall, and the patrons inside, a reverberant shake.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 2, 2016
Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 has a unique power to move us in passage after passage. In the end, all we can say is that the composer has created something uncommonly beautiful. So too have conductor Daniel Barenboim and his musicians in this recording.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 1, 2016
Roy Thomson Hall has confirmed the commissioning of a new 20-foot applause sign to be installed for the 2016/17 season.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 31, 2016
Toronto Summer Music’s Artistic Director Douglas McNabney announced today that the 2016 Festival will be his final at the helm of the organization.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 31, 2016
Jeff Melanson has resigned as President and CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. What now, including an interview with TSO Board Chair Richard Phillips.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 30, 2016
In mid-March each year, thousands of kids — American and Canadian — head for the beaches of Sarasota, on Florida’s West Coast, for “spring break”. Increasingly, opera-lovers too have made Sarasota a mid-March destination — not for the beaches, but for the acoustically first-rate and pleasingly small (only 1,100 seats) Sarasota Opera House.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 30, 2016
The TSO has confirmed that Jeff Melanson has resigned from his position as President & CEO of the TSO, effective March 29, 2016. According to the TSO, The Board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Melanson mutually decided that it was in the best interests of both parties to part ways.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on March 30, 2016
Everybody loves a tenor. And when it’s not one but four of them lending their collective voices to a program of operatic chestnuts and Neapolitan Songs, the several members of the audience, primarily female, could be forgiven for being a touch delirious…
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 29, 2016
Who wouldn't like to a free ticket to see an opera? The Canadian Opera Company has confirmed it will be included as part of in Institute for Canadian Citizenship’s (ICC) Cultural Access Pass program.
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