All Entries Tagged With: "James Mason"

Elora Festival 2008 Highlights

The Elora Festival is now in its 29th year and presents a widely varying program including classical choral and chamber music, jazz and folk over four weeks in July and August. Elora is about roughly an hour and a half northwest of Toronto, half an hour from Kitchener and an hour and a [...]

June 10, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0

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 [...]

January 11, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0