All Entries Tagged With: "Chamber Music"
Review: Penderecki String Quartet & Stéphan Sylvestre
In today’s Record
Usually most of the seats are occupied, but Wednesday night, The Music Room was packed nearly to the rafters. The Penderecki String Quartet, was giving a concert with young Canadian pianist Stéphan Sylvestre, a piano professor at the University of Western Ontario. Intimacy is one of the Music Room’s best features and the [...]
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival 2008 Highlights
Roughly five hours drive from the Southern Ontario conglomeration that is Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, Toronto etc, Ottawa is a bit of a hike. Miss Mussel did consider using ad revenue to fund her trip but then discovered that the $10.42 she has earned since July 2007 would only get her as far as Milton….or [...]
Review: Zapp Quartet
In today’s Waterloo Record
The Zapp Quartet from the Netherlands was in town Monday to give a concert at the Music Room with Canadian clarinetist James Campbell. The Quartet specializes in jazz repertoire, so the usual suspects for this combination (Brahms, Mozart and Weber) were given the night off in favour of John Scofield, Mike [...]
Neglected But Not Forgotten
Joshua Kosman at the San Fransisco Chronicle has an piece on ten works that have been, in his opinion, unduly neglected/underperformed/ignored.
Kosman writes, “The canon of classical music is a hard club to break into. The membership rolls were printed up long ago, and the very predictability of contemporary concert life can be a [...]
Off The Cuff
Kenneth Sillito at Friday night’s concert:
We’ve heard tonight the work of teenagers. Shostakovich wrote his octet at 19, Mendelssohn his at age 16. There is another fantastic piece for this combination also written by a teenager, Georges Enescu, the great Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, singer etc. It is incredibly beautiful and takes about [...]
Tears and Cheers: The Flatiron Trio at the KWCMS
An edited version of this review appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Attending a concert at the Music Room is always an experience to remember. It is a sort of inner-sanctum for chamber music lovers with its haphazard decoration forming a major part of its considerable charm. The chairs are a quaint mishmash of styles and [...]
Music Toronto: Fall 2007
Ok, this is the last of the concert listings. A body can only be in so many places at once. All of these concerts take place in the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts. They have a very imaginative pricing policy for those aged 18-35…you simply pay [...]
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