Daily News Roundup: 8 July 2016
+ Canadian violinist and winner of the OSM’s Manulife Competition in 2004, Nikki Chooi has been named the new concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera. +…
Browsing: Theatre
This Day in Music – 1943: First RIAA Gold Album Award goes to Oklahoma!
The RIAA Gold Record certification now means 500,000 album units sold. However, in the early stages of RIAA certifications, it meant $1 million in sales.…
This Week in Montreal (June 20–26)
Montréal Baroque, June 23–26 On June 24, the first of four grand concerts, Prospero’s Tempest, combines theatrical music by Purcell and Blow with great lines from…
Daily News Roundup: 17 June 2016
+ From The Guardian’s archive: A collaboration between Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli. + The 2018 World Choir Games will be held in Gauteng Province…
Daily News Roundup: 16 June 2016
Hello and welcome to your first Daily News Roundup! This is a daily column where we select the articles and news posts from around the…
This Week in Montreal (June 13 – 19)
Montreal Chamber Music Festival, June 3-19 The pre-festival activities of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival began on February 23, but the festival proper will continue…
Into the Woods: A Tale of Tales
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s classic Into the Woods is certainly not for the faint of heart. I had the pleasure of conducting it last year for…
This Week in Montreal (March 28–April 3)
Emerging Musicians with Pro Musica Young violinist Kerson Leong has taken the music world by storm. He won first junior prize at Oslo’s Menhuin Competition…
Anne Frank lives in New York
The Secret Annex, a play by New York-Winnipeg writer and performer Alix Sobler, asks: “What if Anne Frank had survived and lived in Brooklyn?” As Hitler…
Théâtre de Quat’Sous: 60 Years Young
Wajdi Mouawad nicknamed it the “great little theatre”. As far as “great” is concerned, Quat’Sous has the fame — and now also the age,…
