Highlights | Koerner Hall Concert Review Blitz, Carnegie Hall Announces Streaming Service
We’ve been keeping up with Koerner Hall and TSO performances through a series of concert reviews written by our talented reporters.
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Al Qahwa: How Maryem Tollar uses music to explore the world
All Maryem Tollar wanted to do after high school was make a living through music. When she told her father, he forbade her. Now, with her ensemble Al Qahwa, she hopes to unite the world through song.
Highlights | Opinions Mixed on Final Beatles Song
The release of the “final” Beatles song, Now and Then, has been bittersweet for fans of the 1960s boy band.
CD Review | Tzimtzum (Leaf Music, 2023)
Tzimtzum: an album composed by Jaap Nico Hamburger that contracts an impressive list of featured artists into eight tracks to transport listeners into a magical musical realm.
Hermitage Piano Trio: Rachmaninoff and More at Montreal Debut
The Hermitage Piano Trio is known for its devotion to Rachmaninoff, but now the ensemble is looking to expand its horizons.
Azrieli Foundation Opens Fourth Category for Biennial Awards
The Azrieli Foundation has opened an additional award category for its biennial Azrieli Music Prizes, raising this year’s number of laureates to four.
CD Review | An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene (Leaf Music, 2023)
The age of humans—the “Holocene era”—is at its end, suggests award-winning composer Frank Horvat on his latest masterpiece, An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene.
CD Review | En Route (Leaf Music, 2023)
For better or worse, En Route is a unique example of how track lengths, titles, and human voices (or the lack thereof) affect a listener’s experience of an album.
‘A Single Will’: Leonard Bernstein, the Conductor
Leonard Bernstein steps off his podium and walks away from an orchestra in the throes of Brahms’s First Symphony. The musicians are now missing a conductor, but they don’t miss a single beat.
Highlights | Canadians Question Identity of Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
The country is wondering about the identity of singer-songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie after a new CBC investigation that contradicts her decades-old claims to Indigenous heritage.
