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THE SCOOP | St. Lawrence String Quartet To Disband After 34 Seasons

[ad_1] The St. Lawrence String Quartet (Photograph courtesy of the artists) The St. Lawrence String Quartet has introduced that the 2023/24 season, their thirty fourth, will probably be their final. The information comes after a yr the quartet spent on hiatus following the dying of founding violinist Geoff Nuttall. Remaining members Lesley Robertson, Christopher Costanza […]

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THE SCOOP | Tapestry Opera/Nightwood Theatre: Building Updates At 877 Yonge Road

[ad_1] Digital rendering of the efficiency house at 877 Yonge; (Visualization by Hilditch Architect Inc./courtesy of Tapestry Opera) Tapestry Opera and Nightwood Theatre just lately offered an replace on the development undertaking at 877 Yonge Road. An internet City Corridor was the medium for the message about constructing an area to nurture the performing arts

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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir At its Estimable Finest In Verdi Requiem

[ad_1] Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Teiya Kasahara, sop., Rose Naggar-Tremblay, mezz., Andrew Haji, ten., Geoffrey Sirett, bar. / Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor / George Weston Recital Corridor, April 27, 2024. Repeats April 30 at Koerner Corridor; tickets right here. The common 2023-24 season of the Toronto

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Ottawa Bach Choir Ends Season With Leipzig 1723: Telemann, Graupner & Bach

[ad_1] The Ottawa Bach Choir (Photograph courtesy of OBC) In 1723, three composers vied for the function as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, and every submitted a cantata written for the event as an audition. The outcomes have been pleasant: three German baroque cantatas by Telemann, Graupner and Bach, they usually make up this system for the

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The Actual Story of the Composer Antonio Salieri

[ad_1] By Barry Lenson Few composers have gotten such a foul fame as Antonio Salieri – you recognize, the composer who, in keeping with widespread scuttlebutt, poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This rumor began, or at the very least it unfold, because of Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus and the following movie adaptation. It was an exceptionally

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It is All In The Particulars: The Dover Quartet & Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes Ship Magnificent Chamber Recital At Koerner Corridor

[ad_1] Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Dover Quartet carry out at Toronto’s Koerner Corridor (Picture/nonetheless courtesy of the RCM) Turina: La oración del torero; Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-flat Minor, Op. 26; Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 / Dover Quartet (Joel Hyperlink, Bryan Lee, violins; Julianne Lee, viola; Camden

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The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Presents Outdated & New In a hundred and thirtieth Anniversary Season

[ad_1] L: The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir in 1911 (courtesy of the TMChoir Archives); R: Jean-Sébastien Vallée conducts TMChoir (Photograph: Taylor Lengthy) The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has revealed the programming for its 2024/2025 season, one that can mark the group’s a hundred and thirtieth season. TMChoir is Canada’s longest working beginner choir for blended voices, a

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IN MEMORIAM | Beloved Conductor Sir Andrew Davis Has Died At Age 80

[ad_1] Sir Andrew Davis (Photograph: Lucas Dawson) Sir Andrew Davis, beloved Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, has died at age 80. His agent confirmed his loss of life by leukemia to information sources. As a conductor, he labored with main symphonies and opera firms all through Europe, the UK and North America, and

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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Music Occasions You Completely Want To See This Week: April 22 – April 28

[ad_1] L-R (clockwise): Cian Bryson (Photograph courtesy of the TSYO); The Dover Quartet (Photograph: Roy Cox); Scottish Opera’s manufacturing of Don Pasquale, 2014 (Photograph: KK Dundas) It is a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between April 22 to twenty-eight, 2024. For extra particulars on what’s occurring round

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