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La Scena Online is the digital magazine of La Scene Musicale.Contents: News, Concert reviews, CD reviews, Interviews, Obituaries, etcEditor: Wah Keung ChanAssistant Editor: Andreanne VenneISSN: 1206-9973

Claire Booth. Christopher Glynn
Photography By: Sven Arnstein and Gerard Collett. Courtesy of claire-booth.com.

Lebrecht Weekly | Arnold Schoenberg’s “Expressionist Music” (Orchid)

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By on Lebrecht Weekly

I have no problems with impressionism. It’s what French artists do off the cuff when they can’t be bothered with sketches, what French composers do in a wishy-washy mood. So Debussy, so easily recognised. Expressionism is another matter. A parallel 1900s movement of poets and painters who liked to let it all hang out, it was associated in music chiefly with Schoenberg and his disciples, three of the most buttoned-up composers you could ever wish to avoid. It is supposed to convey ‘powerful feelings’, as if Bach and Handel hadn’t done it better. Schoenberg’s paintings were also deemed ‘expressionist’. The…

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COC Aportia White
SATE (Portia Soul) in Canadian Opera Company’s Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | COC Presents World Premiere of Aportia Chryptich: A Black Opera for Portia White

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By on Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Toronto

It is not everyday that Toronto experiences the world premiere of a new opera. What makes Aportia Chryptich even more special is its quintessential Canadian connection.

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Lukas Foss onstage at Second Festival of the Arts in Buffalo in March, 1968. Photo credit: Jim Tuttle
Lukas Foss onstage at Second Festival of the Arts in Buffalo in March, 1968. Photo credit: Jim Tuttle\UB Music Library.

Lebrecht Weekly | The Buffalo Philharmonic Releases a Fine Tribute Album to Lukas Foss

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By on Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

Lukas Foss was a classmate of Leonard Bernstein’s at the Curtis Institute and a lifelong friend, though never an equal. While Bernstein blazed to national glory in his annus mirabilis of 1944, Foss was quietly composing his first symphony in the bucolic tranquility of the MacDowell Colony. His Curtis teacher Fritz Reiner premiered the symphony in Pittsburgh a year later but without wider acclaim. Foss’s Americana style sounded both dated and derivative. Aaron Copland did this stuff so much better, and a decade sooner. Foss also composed three ballets that year, but he lacked Bernstein’s On the Town recklessness and…

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Goosby Gimeo TSO Bartók
Randall Goosby and Gustavo Gimeno. Photo: Allan Cabral/TSO

Concert Review | Invigorating Bartók in a disconnected TSO program

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By on City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Orchestral, Toronto

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s (TSO) eclectic June 6 program pulled together a disparate selection of works by Canadian, German, Hungarian and Austrian composers ranging over four centuries. If it was difficult to ascertain a dramaturgical connection between them, individually, they each had something to offer. TSO CAMH Art of Healing To start, TSO CEO Mark Williams took the stage alongside President & CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Sarah Downey to speak about their Art of Healing program, in collaboration with Shkaabe Makwa—the Centre for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Wellness. Art of Healing brings together…

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Ph.: S. Brinkman

Summer 2024: A Jazzlover’s and Festivalgoer’s Guide

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By on La Scena Online, Scena Jazz
June / July 2024

For jazz fans, the summer festival season is often a unique occasion to see musicians and bands perform live that are otherwise only approachable through recordings. However, with a plethora of festivals and as many schedules, one can easily get a bit lost. As is the custom this time of year at LSM, we once again offer our readers a few suggestions to help navigate this summer’s festival extravaganza. Understandably, many of the headliners for today’s jazz festivals are names that bring big crowds: the presence of André 3000, George Clinton, Hiatus Kaiyote or Killer Mike almost guarantees full houses,…

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