From the monthly archives: "May 2012"
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Wedding season warning: Just because they say they're an organist and God is supposed to be in the room...
Observation: Familiarity breeds content and finer performances in new music and old
Concert review: Toronto Consort's tribute to women's voices greater than sum of interesting parts
Saturday: Organized Crime plays serious organ music for laughs at Metropolitan United
Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev bring orchestras to Roy Thomson Hall for 2013-14 season
Preview: Alison Mackay and Toronto Consort reach back in time with women's voices in music
Concert review: Toronto Symphony Orchestra fails to transcend minutiae in Brahms German Requiem
Lessons of historical performance: The future of old music should not look or sound like the past
Richard Wagner at 200: British Library puts manuscripts online and Operaplot issues Twitter challenge
Album review: Violinist James Ehnes aces moody Britten and Shostakovich concertos
How come classical audiences don't get to take home a piece of what they experienced?
Critic's picks: Toronto concerts for May 21 to 26
Fine Eurocentric watching and listening for a holiday-weekend Sunday
Interview: Organist Karen Christianson makes pre-high school grad recital visit to Toronto
Get them while they're young works for music as well as addictions and gangs
Keyboard Thursday album review: Conrad Tao treats Getty miniatures with large-scale care
Keyboard Thursday album review: Nothing exceeds like Christopher O'Riley's Liszt excess
Belgian Marc Bouchkov takes first prize at Montreal International Violin Competition
Concert review: A night of fine Russian chemistry from Toronto Symphony and Kirill Gerstein
Tomorrow: A sneak peek at opera Figaro daringly reimagined for 21st century Toronto
Concert review: A satisfying meeting of East and West in Soundstreams' Music for China
Opera review: Composer Andrew Ager's quicksilver take on mercenary Henry James characters
Preview: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir wrestles with the beast that is Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Album review: Bach Cello Suites change character but lose no magic with Hopkinson Smith's theorbo
Interview: For Soundstreams conductor Leslie Dala, discovery is what engages him with music
Tonight: Toronto's newest classical orchestra part of Lulaworld 2013 festival
Critic’s picks: Toronto concerts and opera May 13 to 19
We worry too much about liking classical music
No Canadian among six Montreal International Violin Competition finalists
Careers in classical music: The crazy tightrope between encouragement and reality
National Youth Orchestra of Canada musicians India-bound for two-weeks of learning and collaboration
Opera review: Lesson of Da Ji well taught by Toronto Masque Theatre
Photos: Hip 21st century Toronto coffee house meets J.S. Bach
Markham Theatre's classical programming for 2013-14 season includes Royal Moscow Ballet and Measha Brueggergosman
Tonight: A real slice of 18th century salon life with the Eybler Quartet and R.H. Thomson
Today: Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi makes semi-finals at Montreal International Musical Competition
Keyboard Thursday album review: Garrick Ohlsson convincingly presents merits of composer Charles Griffes
Keyboard Thursday album review: 150 minutes of strong, seductive Chopin from Vassily Primakov
Informal Toronto memorial for ex-Tafelmusik oboist Washington McClain set for May 31
Opera review: The deep, dark seductions of Canadian Opera Company's Dialogues des carmélites- Video: Wrecking pianos to sell luxury cars. Really?
Preview: Toronto Masque Theatre Lessons of Love are Chinese and Roman, new and old
In his own words: Pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough on crafting concert vs flight of beer
Album review: Angela Hewitt prefers her Mozart like your skin -- clear and flawless
Judith Forst leads a female cast of can-do Canadians in COC production of Dialogues des carmélites
Critic's picks: Toronto concerts and opera May 6 to 12
Amici Chamber Ensemble four-concert 2013-14 season includes visit from Lara St. John
The Star's Greg Quill was an example of how practical insight is essential in a good critic
From parsnip oboes to a room-turned-walk-through lute, Musicworks lives on the edge
Concert appreciation: Childlike magic from Peter and the Dinosaurs
Beware the subversive power of the church organist, says new British survey
Opera on DVD: Benjamin Britten's art and preoccuppations distilled to their essence in Owen Wingrave
Francis Poulenc and Les Six were just friends, not a creative collaboration
Album review: Fine Common Ground under pianist Christ Donnelly and clarinettist Kornel Wolak
Violinist Scott St. John says goodbye to St Lawrence String Quartet
The Canadian Children's Opera Company opera Laura's Cow 'a victory of youth and bovine wisdom'
Concert review: Lack of consistency detracted from Tafelmusik Handel Celebration
Concert review: James Ehnes and Russell Braun made fine 115th birthday present for Women's Musical Club of Toronto
Keyboard Thursday album review: Christophe Rousset's flexibly expressive harpsichord makes magic of Jacques Duphly
Keyboard Thursday album review: The spectacular sound of Regensburg's Pope Benedict organ
