The Live Music Report
August 2005 |
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| IRIE Music Festival |
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Now in its fourth year, the IRIE Music Festival moved its stage under the Special Events Tent at Ontario Place...
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| by Roger Humbert |
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| Adonis Puentes |
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...Adonis Puentes from Victoria, B.C. was in Toronto last week making a video for his new single “Comerciante”, promoting his new CD, Vida...
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| by Joyce Corbett |
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Ottawa Chamber Music Festival
reports and photos by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Casals String Quartet |
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...out of the predominating darkness of shadow come flashes of light illuminating the indomitable human form...
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| Hindemith and Humour |
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...reflecting the advent of the roaring twenties, a mood that is emphasized by references to cabaret music of the period....
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| The Borodin String Quartet (part 1 of 2) |
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...The Borodin is one of the world’s premiere quartets, and their association with Shostakovich’s string quartets is special...
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| The Borodin String Quartet (part 2 of 2) |
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The three quartets, numbers 7–9, performed in this concert are each dedicated to one of Shostakovich’s wives...
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| The Emerson String Quartet |
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...Mendelssohn’s exquisite, plaintive melodies aspire, through repetition and variation, to let the story of a personal journey be heard...
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| The St. Lawrence String Quartet |
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...The first and second violins then initiate the ethereal sinister dialogue while the cello and viola erupt...
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| Photo Gallery |
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| Toronto 6th Annual BuskerFest |
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Busker: To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money...
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| by Roger Humbert |
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| Theatre |
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| Annie Get Your Gun |
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... This production has poise, its style is emotional yet restrained, and the entire cast pays close attention to the meaning of the lyrics...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Eleanor of Aquitaine: Mother of the Pride |
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...Chapelle Jaffe’s 80 minute soliloquy conjures out of ‘airy nothing’ the life-force of this imperious woman...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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