From the daily archives: "Thursday, May 24, 2012"
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This evening: A 'short little sundowner' of new works by composer Andrew Ager
Album review: Young Czech violinist Josef Spacek's easy grace, awesome control in music of Janácek, Smetana and Prokofiev
Canadian Opera Company attendance continued sustained slide during 2012-13 season
The real lessons of music? Life is not a video game but a lot of cumulative work
Video: Comedian Bill Bailey on Cockney influences in classical music
Three Toronto live music suggestions for the last Sunday of spring
Online: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem with Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic
Tonight: Pianist Frank Horvat combines music and images at Gallery 345
Luminato review: Fine card tricks the essence of Piano and Pasteboards
New Adventures in Sound Art presents a sonic hologram of the waters under our concrete and glass
Big creativity in small things: How about an opera synopsis rendered as graphic novel?
Keyboard Thursday album review: Nicolas Horvath's brave journey through Franz Liszt's Christus
Concert review: Yuja Wang a pianistic hummingbird in company of Toronto Symphony
The long, agonizing process of bringing Massey Hall into the 21st century may be ready to start
A visit with the Dumbells, Canadian sketch comedy pioneers from the trenches of World War I
Album review: Attacca Quartet members prove themselves as John Adams' fellow travelers
Album review: Molinari Quartet brings out intimate power of R. Murray Schafer works
Concert review: Euphonia finds right echoes of past and present at Lula Lounge
The ultimate Rite of Spring comparison: 46 recording clips in 3-1/2 minutes
One last week of Toronto concert critic's picks for the 2012-13 season -- for June 10 to 16
Video: Toronto Symphony composer Kevin Lau pulls back curtain on pre-premiere prep
Video: Toronto pianist Catherine Wilson on truth, art and Astor Piazzolla
Today's 'In Concert' on CBC Radio 2 devoted to late conductor Mario Bernardi
Weekend watch and listen: The 'beating heart and a soul underneath the wig' of J.S. Bach
Execrable Giacomo Variations highlights richness and vitality of Toronto opera ecosystem
'One can never fully experience the real glory of the music unless it is heard live'
Canadian army presents latest manifestation of a country's cultural inferiority complex
Keyboard Thursday album review: The baroque organ riches of Louis Marchand
Keyboard Thursday album review: Fine work from Anagnoson and Kinton piano duo
Concert review: Joshua Bell re-earns his star's stripes in Toronto Symphony visit
Met Opera tenor and new music fest part of Royal Conservatory of Music 2013-14 season
Krystian Zimmerman, YouTube, audience phones and the end of concertgoing as we know it
Album review: Impeccably wrought Mahler from Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony and Christian Gerhaher- Video: Konzerthaus Dortmund sells 'The Yannick Experience'
Toronto Masque Theatre and Volcano Theatre a welcome presence in 2013 Dora nominations
Conductor Mario Bernardi, a huge force in Canadian music, dead at age 82
Critic's picks: Toronto concerts and opera for June 3 to 9
Sunday listening: Incendiary Haydn opera for marionettes an engrossing rarity
Concert appreciation: New Recitals at Rosedale series aims to fill yawning vocal gap in Toronto
Call for submissions: Share your Toronto musical story and get Roy Thomson Hall's story in return- A brave new world of entertainment and learning in Touch Press app of Beethoven's Ninth
Contact festival finale: Patent Pending leaves us in satisfying shadows of doubt
Children celebrate community and cooperation while learning to sing in Toronto's choirs
China goes from new frontier to land of potential partnerships for classical musicians
Concert review: Transformative Chopin with Janina Fialkowska and Tafelmusik at Koerner Hall
Niagara-on-the-Lake the setting for Elizabeth II coronation re-enactment on Sunday
Opera updates fail because they don't go far enough, not because they're too radical
Opera review: Raise a glass and toss some confetti for amazing Figaro's Wedding
New book by Robert Craft reminds us of Igor Stravinsky's Toronto connections, including Glenn Gould
Album review: A fine sampler of music by hot young American composer Mohammed Fairouz
Album review: Beethoven symphonies even more present and insistent with period instruments
Ontario Philharmonic unveils Koerner Hall concerts for 2013-14 season
Critic's picks: Toronto concerts and opera for May 27 to June 2
Concert review: Aldeburgh Connection says a golden goodbye with Benjamin Britten
There is a lot more to composer Charles Gounod than the opera Faust
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
