All Entries Tagged With: "Edwin Outwater"

Feature: Nico Muhly - Wish You Were Here

In The Waterloo Region Record 30/09/2008
If the press murmurings are to be believed, he is a messiah: here to give classical music new life as an accessible art form that is relevant to a 21st century audience. Of course, it’s an impossible (some would argue unnecessary) task for one person but it seems that if [...]

All About Spine Tinglers

Spine Tinglers is a section devoted to stories about those moments in music that are out of this world; the ones that make you stop and reconsider life as you had previously known it.
Some people get the shivers, others find that hair the back of their neck stands up and still others getting a [...]

KW Symphony 2008/09 Season Highlights

Kitchener-Waterloo is about an hour west of Toronto, an hour east of London, and an hour and half from Niagara Falls. If you live somewhere between here and there, take a drive over some night and take in a concert with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony.

12th & 13th September John Corigliano Promenade Overture, [...]

Spine Tinglers: Edwin Outwater

“I was in high school in Los Angeles, driving around in an old beat-up Volvo with my friends, catching to as many concerts as possible. On one sunny SoCal day, I heard the Emerson String Quartet playing Beethoven’s quartet Op. 132 at a large church right in the middle of Beverly Hills. I had no idea what I was about to hear.

Review: Gilles Apap/KW Symphony/Outwater

This review appears in today’s Mercury. [Actually, as it turns out, it's in tomorrow's paper]

The battle between high and low is one of The Arts’ oldest and most discussed tropes. In the field of music, a subculture that seems to thrive creating dichotomies by the bucketload, there is hardly an issue that ignites the [...]

To Answer Friday’s Question

Is Gilles Apap the real deal or a gimmick?
Miss Mussel is going to have to take the middle road and say a bit of both. She very much liked the idea of him and his ecumenical approach to high and low art but the reality was, admittedly, a tad irritating.
Remember the kid [...]

Wishing For A Hot Poker With Which To Gouge Out My Eyes

Review: KW Symphony 3rd November, 2007.
Stephen Sitarski, violin; Edwin Outwater, baton.
It was meant to be an evening of bubbly, joyful and happy music. On paper, it looked promising: Mozart Violin Concerto No.5, Gary Kulesha Sypmhony No.3, a lesser-known Rossini overture and Mozart Symphony 41. Why then, at the end of it, was Miss Mussel [...]