Volume 25 Issue 6 - March 2020
FEATURED: Music & Health writer Vivien Fellegi explores music, blindness & the plasticity of perception; David Jaeger digs into Gustavo Gimeno's plans for new music in his upcoming first season as music director at TSO; pianist James Rhodes, here for an early March recital, speaks his mind in a Q&A with Paul Ennis; and Lydia Perovic talks music and more with rising Turkish-Canadian mezzo Beste Kalender. Also, among our columns, Peggy Baker Dance Projects headlines Wende Bartley's In with the New; Steve Wallace's Jazz Notes rushes in definitionally where many fear to tread; ... and more.
FEATURED: Music & Health writer Vivien Fellegi explores music, blindness & the plasticity of perception; David Jaeger digs into Gustavo Gimeno's plans for new music in his upcoming first season as music director at TSO; pianist James Rhodes, here for an early March recital, speaks his mind in a Q&A with Paul Ennis; and Lydia Perovic talks music and more with rising Turkish-Canadian mezzo Beste Kalender. Also, among our columns, Peggy Baker Dance Projects headlines Wende Bartley's In with the New; Steve Wallace's Jazz Notes rushes in definitionally where many fear to tread; ... and more.
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22 In with the New |<br />
WENDALYN BARTLEY<br />
<strong>25</strong> Classical & Beyond |<br />
PAUL ENNIS<br />
28 Early Music |<br />
MATTHEW WHITFIELD<br />
32 Choral Scene | BRIAN CHANG<br />
35 Music Theatre | JENNIFER PARR<br />
38 Jazz Notes | STEVE WALLACE<br />
40 Bandstand | JACK MACQUARRIE<br />
65 Mainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz |<br />
COLIN STORY<br />
LISTINGS<br />
50 A | Concerts in the GTA<br />
61 B | Concerts Beyond the GTA<br />
64 C | Music Theatre<br />
65 D | In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)<br />
68 E | The ETCeteras<br />
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RECORDINGS REVIEWED<br />
72 Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS<br />
74 Strings Attached |<br />
TERRY ROBBINS<br />
76 Keyed In<br />
80 Vocal<br />
81 Classical and Beyond<br />
82 Modern and Contemporary<br />
85 Jazz and Improvised Music<br />
88 Pot Pourri<br />
89 Something in the Air |<br />
KEN WAXMAN<br />
91 Old Wine, New Bottles |<br />
BRUCE SURTEES<br />
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