{"id":47062,"date":"2017-09-07T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=47062"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:27:57","slug":"instagram-musicians-and-their-exotic-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/09\/07\/instagram-musicians-and-their-exotic-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"INSTAGRAM |\u00a0Musicians And Their Exotic Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musicians are well-travelled, and a lot of them are animal lovers too\u00a0– just have a look through these photo ops with exotic animals!<\/p>\n

Our first stop is Australia’s Lone Pine Zoo, a sanctuary for kangaroos and pianist Beatrice Rana alike…\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via beatricerana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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…as well as for violinist Joshua Bell and his new koala friend!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via joshuabellmusic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Toronto tenor Charles Sy takes us back to prehistoric times…\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Offstage during the Canadian Opera Company’s La traviata (Photo via tenorecharchar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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…and pianist Tony Yang\u00a0visits our crocodilian animal ancestors\u00a0in Texas!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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At the Fort Worth Zoo (Photo via tonyyikeyang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Keeping to the U.S., here we have Seiji Ozawa at\u00a0the Florida Zoo in 1967, on tour with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via torontosymphony)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We’ll hop\u00a0over to Israel with soprano Pretty Yende.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via pretty_yende_official)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I think baritone Johannes Kammler\u00a0is warning us of the next photo…\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via johanneskammler)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oh no! Not everyone’s\u00a0a fan of bear hugs in Verbier…\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via pretty_yende_official)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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But violinist Renaud Capu\u00e7on made himself a new friend, also in Verbier!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via rcapucon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Canadian Brass put on a sort of instrumental petting zoo in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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(Photo via canadianbrass)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A homecoming to Toronto, where Sir Andrew Davis once frolicked with an elephant in the Roy Thomson Hall parking lot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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An even better view. Onwards and upwards!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Sir Andrew Davis in 1981 outside Roy Thomson Hall (Photo: Reg Innell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feeling nostalgic? Flip through our other INSTAGRAM<\/span> <\/a>series.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and reviews before anyone else finds out? Follow us on\u00a0<\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/u><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/i>Twitter<\/i><\/u><\/a>\u00a0for all the latest.<\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got the travel bug? Hop on our photo tour around the world with some animal-loving musicians. We’ll bring you back home after, promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":47076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,9784],"tags":[9761,9834],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/RegInnell-promote-the-Dream-Auction-sponsored-by-Toronto-Symphony-Womens-Committee.-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-cf4","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47081,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions\/47081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}