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		<title>Metropolitan Opera about face on reviews a victory for social media and fairness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the age of social media. Thanks to swift, global reaction following yesterday&#8217;s shocking announcement that Metropolitan Opera Guild magazine Opera News would no longer carry reviews of Met productions, the New York City company announced an about-face this &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/22/metropolitan-opera-about-face-on-reviews-a-victory-for-social-media-and-fairness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3937&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 22: Toronto classical concert highlights for the next six days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY There is one, last opportunity to catch the excellent double bill of A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, on Friday, at 7:30 p.m. (Production and ticket details here; my review here.) As &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/22/may-22-toronto-classical-concert-highlights-for-the-next-six-days/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3912&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera News caves in, suspends reviews and comment on Met productions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most widely read classical music magazine on the continent has been muzzled: Opera News, published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, announced yesterday that it would no longer publish reviews or comment on Met productions. Although the magazine is associated &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/22/opera-news-caves-in-suspends-reviews-and-comment-on-met-productions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3914&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison: Not all pianistic fireworks are created equal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honour of Victoria Day and the many different types of fireworks thousands will enjoy tonight, here are three different ways of playing Claude Debussy&#8217;s Feux d&#8217;artifice, the 12th from Vol. II of his Préludes. The first is Canadian-born Marc &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/21/comparison-not-all-pianistic-fireworks-are-created-qual/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3905&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Against the Grain&#8217;s &#8216;indie opera&#8217; take on Benjamin Britten&#8217;s Turn of the Screw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opera director Joel Ivany and his gang of bright young things at Against the Grain Theatre walk the knife edge between the conventional and unconventional in their upcoming production of Benjamin Britten&#8217;s 1954 opera, The Turn of the Screw. It &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/21/preview-against-the-grains-indie-opera-take-on-benjamin-brittens-turn-of-the-screw/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3893&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: A splash of impressionistic water for a hot, sunny day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 12:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the fate of composer Charles Griffes, born right across the lake from Toronto in 1884, and nearly forgotten within a generation after succumbing to a flu in 1920. So here, in the memory of an American Impressionist is a &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/20/video-a-splash-of-impressionistic-water-for-a-hot-sunny-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3890&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: Young people may like what their groovy parents find too stuffy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 12:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The pendulum is always swinging,&#8221; American organist Christian Lane reminded me last week. Another instance comes in the recent discovery that, out of the full demographic spectrum, young Americans are least interested in hearing popular music in church. It&#8217;s the &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/20/news-young-people-may-like-what-their-groovy-parents-find-too-stuffy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3880&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CD Review: Saint-Saëns piano album an excuse to contrast brilliance with enduring appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 13:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American pianist Geoffrey Burleson has just released the second in a planned series of four albums of the piano music of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) for the Grand Piano label. The second volume includes references to much earlier forms, &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/19/cd-review-saint-saens-piano-album-an-excuse-to-contrast-brilliance-with-enduring-appeal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3869&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend listening: Liszt piano transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies seeded by need to pay an artist</title>
		<link>http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/19/weekend-listening-liszt-piano-transcriptions-of-beethoven-symphonies-seeded-by-need-to-pay-an-artist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 12:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what, exactly, prompted Franz Liszt to transcribe Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s symphonies for the piano? Alan Walker, Canadian Liszt expert and emeritus professor at McMaster Univerisity, suggested to the Miami International Piano Festival a few days ago that the seed &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/19/weekend-listening-liszt-piano-transcriptions-of-beethoven-symphonies-seeded-by-need-to-pay-an-artist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3856&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary: The great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dead at 86</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Terauds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, considered to be one of the finest interpreters of German art song of the 20th century, has died in Bavaria, 10 days shy of his 87th birthday. Although he had retired from singing in 1992, for &#8230; <a href="http://musicaltoronto.org/2012/05/18/obituary-the-great-baritone-dietrich-fischer-dieskau-dead-at-86/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicaltoronto.org&#038;blog=29525470&#038;post=3830&#038;subd=musicaltorontodotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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