One piece alone is worth a ticket to the Talisker Players’ latest programme at Trinity-St. Paul’s Church: the alternately dark and luminous Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, written by English composer Benjamin Britten during World War II. Continue reading
Daily Archives: January 31, 2012
Toronto visual artist Tabitha Fischer gets sketchy with Royal Conservatory Orchestra
Toronto visual artist Tabitha Fischer has posted her sketchbook responses to last week’s concert by the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, under conductor Julian Kuerti, on her blog, Tabitha Draws. I would’nt mind having this one on my office wall at home.
CD Review: Toronto pianist Boris Zarankin surprises and delights with recording of two Schubert Sonatas
It’s appropriate that Toronto pianist Boris Zarankin should launch a new recording of two landmark sonatas by Franz Schubert on the composer’s birthday.
I wish I could provide audio samples here, because the interpretations are startlingly different from anything we’re used to. Continue reading
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Philip Glass celebrates 75th birthday with release of classically structured 9th Symphony
American composer Philip Glass turns 75 today, marking the milestone with the release of his Symphony No. 9.
His Year of Fabulous Celebrations has already started in New York City, and it will grow to include Toronto with the Canadian premiere of his five-hour-something-that’s-almost-an-opera, Einstein on the Beach, at the Luminato festival in June. Continue reading
