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Tafelmusik Salutes Bach’s Leipzig In ‘Circle of Creation’

Colin Eatock - May 15, 2015

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - The admired Canadian baroque orchestra has come around to thinking that modernity isn’t all bad. J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation is its third multimedia blend of a well-honed HIP ethos with cutting-edge technology.

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Paired Dark Tales: Vintage Lepage At Canadian Opera

Colin Eatock - May 8, 2015

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - It was in the early 1990s that director Robert Lepage and designer Michael Levine twinned Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung with a boldness that has aged well – or perhaps it’s better to say that it hasn't aged at all.

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Toronto Symphony Salutes Armenian Music And Artists

Colin Eatock - April 24, 2015

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - A packed house heard the orchestra give a concert featuring such musicians of Armenian descent as violinist Sergey Khachatryan, soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, and music director Peter Oundjian.

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East Greets West In A Now That Sounds Like Then

Colin Eatock - February 17, 2015

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - Although five works by Canadian and Chinese composers including Fuhong Shi were premieres, a New Music Concerts event Feb. 14 seemed a throwback to high modernism and post-war avant-garde tricks of the trade.

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Toronto Symphony Shines Spotlight On Nielsen At 150

Colin Eatock - November 20, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO – Danish composer Carl Nielsen is still on the fringes of the canon, but his music has a chance to find a wider audience this concert season, with a mini Nielsen-fest in Toronto, and more to come in the U.S. and Europe.

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New Music Band Esprit Shows Its Singular Palette

Colin Eatock - October 19, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - There aren’t many orchestras with an exclusive commitment to new music like Esprit, led by Alex Pauk. Ives' 1906 Central Park in the Dark, on a recent bill, may be the oldest work the group has ever performed.

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Keyed For Europe, Toronto Symphony Crowns A Festival

Colin Eatock - August 14, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO – Kicking off a European tour for the city back home, maestro Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed a festival concert for Toronto Summer Music, now in its ninth season. Next stop, Vienna.

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Tafelmusik Honors Director Lamon As Long Tenure Ends

Colin Eatock - May 13, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO – A festive tribute to Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra's artistic director and concertmaster Jeanne Lamon included a postmodern melange of new variations on Purcell themes and a medley of Lamon's favorites.

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Toronto ‘Devereux’ Strong But Short On Stylishness

Colin Eatock - May 1, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO – The Canadian Opera Company is delving into lesser-known repertoire, including Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, which is onstage in a production that replaces bel canto subtlety with verismo-like intensity.

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New Concertos Headline Toronto ‘Creations’ Fest

Colin Eatock - March 17, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - For sheer size and scope of ambition, the second piano concerto of Magnus Lindberg was among several works at the New Creations Festival that invited comparison with the greatest works in the genre.

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Choruses Outshine Pale Repertoire In Toronto Showcase

Colin Eatock - February 5, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - Three of Canada's best choral ensembles combined into a 60-voice "super choir" of supple flexibility to perform music of Latvian composer Uģis Prauliņš and counterparts from Finland, Poland, Norway and Canada.

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Canadian Opera’s ‘Così’ Doesn’t Equal Sum Of The Hearts

Colin Eatock - January 29, 2014

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO - Operatic arithmetic doesn’t always work in quite the same ways that normal math does. The sum of an ambitious production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Canadian Opera Company is a hodge-podge, engaging in some respects, tedious in others.

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Ax’s Brahms Spices Bland Night With Toronto Symphony

Colin Eatock - November 8, 2013

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO -- Peter Oundjian, in his tenth season as music director of the TSO, led the local premiere of Gary Kulesha's Third Symphony and teamed with Emanuel Ax in Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2.

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Pianist Hamelin Takes the Road Less Traveled

Colin Eatock - November 4, 2013

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO -- "If you look at my discography, I don't think you'll find anything like it anywhere else," says Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin in a wide-ranging interview. "I've always had a taste for the unfamiliar."

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Stylish ‘Abduction’ Kicks Off Season For Opera Atelier

Colin Eatock - October 26, 2013

By Colin Eatock

TORONTO -- Beyond Canada's borders, Opera Atelier isn't nearly as well-known as it ought to be. Its period-based production of Mozart's Abduction From the Seraglio, now playing, reflects the mom-and-pop operation's distinctive house style.

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Griffey Secures Toronto’s Elusive Staging of ‘Grimes’

Colin Eatock - October 8, 2013

By Colin Eatock

Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey flew in on short notice to sub for ailing Ben Heppner and save the Canadian Opera Company season opener "Peter Grimes." But Benjamin Britten's 1945 masterpiece was not well served by the single-set community hall staging.

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Tafelmusik Shows Virtues, Limits in Beethoven Concert

Colin Eatock - September 24, 2013

By Colin Eatock

The leading period ensemble in Toronto is the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, best known for its historically informed performances of Baroque repertoire. But the orchestra has been gradually pressing forward, embracing the Classical and even the early Romantic eras.

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Summer Festivals: Small Treasures Await Discovery in Eastern Canada

Colin Eatock - May 30, 2013

By Colin Eatock

There's certainly no lack of summer music festivals in Eastern Canada. They're big and small, urban and rural, wide-ranging or strictly classical in their programming. Here are half a dozen festivals you may not know about.

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Canadian Opera’s ‘Carmelites’ Solid In Theater Values

Colin Eatock - May 11, 2013

By Colin Eatock

At first glance, it looks simply threadbare. But with poised and ritualized staging, director Robert Carsen has created a poetic theatrical experience. As well, the grand starkness of Michael Levine's design focuses attention on significant details

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The New Orford Quartet in Toronto

Colin Eatock - September 12, 2012

I first heard the New Orford Quartet last winter, under less-than-ideal conditions: in a pre-concert performance at a Toronto Symphony concert, in the lobby of Roy Thomson Hall. With the inevitable background noise, it was hard to hear every nuance of their performance – but I heard enough to want to hear them again. So when I learned that the New Orfords would be playing a concert at Gallery 345, a warehouse space in Toronto’s West End, I made plans to attend. Unfortunately, very few other people made similar plans.

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