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Review: Menno Singers and Nota Bene Period Orchestra
in today’s Kitchener Waterloo Record
The Menno Singers along with the Nota Bene Period Orchestra presented an all-Buxtehude concert on Saturday evening. A day shy of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the program was appropriately titled “A Lenten Journey.”
The venue, St John the Evangelist on Water Street, Kitchener, is really a rather lovely [...]
For Instance, The Choir Need Neither Receive Or Deserve A Flogging
Sir Donald on performance practice
The conditions under which poor Bach worked were neither metropolitan nor otherwise oputlent. He furnished his church cantatas week by week, as the parson furnished his Sunday sermon; and a trustworthy tradition tells us that the performances were generally atrocious and that a subsequent flogging for the ringleaders of the [...]
Review: KW Symphony Goes Back To Baroque
The second concert in the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s Back To Baroque Series in today’s Record:
Performing Baroque music can be a nightmare for those in charge of stylistic decisions. Pre or post Tourte bows? Small or standard sized ensemble? Conductor or leader? Gut or steel strings? And that perennial favourite: how much vibrato, if any and if [...]
