I had heard of the Toronto Opera Repertoire for some time. I had always wanted to go but I never managed to find the time. Finally I made it this year to the very last free (pay what you can, donation) concert of the season.
The Repretoire is made up of local talent with many performers [...]
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I’m setting out to create a CD (or CD’s) which will feature classical music one can’t find on a top 1000 hits boxed set such as:
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Classical-Top-1000/e/842977033205
Here is the track list thus far:
1) Viatore – Peteris Vasks
2) Miroirs, No. 3 Une barque sur l_’ocean – Ravel
3) Pavane – Gabriel Faure
4) Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faun – [...]
It was my mother who introduced me to the opera “Nelligan” around 1990. We were flipping channels one night when we chanced upon a TFO (the French language public television station in Ontario) airing of the Andre Gagnon – Michel Tremblay operatic rendering of the life of Emile Nelligan. My mother tracked down the CD [...]
I was driving in to work recently, mentally preparing for the day as I normally do, when I was distracted by a program on our local jazz station. I was listening to ‘Benmergui in the Morning ‘ and he had on a pianist Gene DiNovi. I was completely mesmerized by his playing and [...]
Bob Dylan and his entourage strolled casually, with nary an introduction, on to stage at Copps Coliseum and began to play. Missing was the standard introduction to most Bob Dylan’s recent concerts:
“Ladies and gentlemen please welcome the poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll. The voice of the promise of the 60′s counterculture. The guy who forced [...]
