All Entries Tagged With: "review"
Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
In today’s Record
Although it’s difficult to imagine, given its now exalted position, there was once a time that the violin was regarded as an uncultured instrument suitable only for playing dance music at parties. It wasn’t until the mid-17th century that the violin really overtook the viol family as the solo instrument of choice [...]
Review: Guy Few, Nadina Mackie Jackson @ The Elora Festival
Duo Affinité
19th July, 2008
St John’s Anglican Church, Elora
If a bassoon and trumpet recital didn’t qualify as my daily dose of bizzarerie, getting stuck behind a 1985 Lincoln limousine weaving down a country road at 65kph certainly did. The dodgy driving meant I had to leg it to the church but thankfully I only missed [...]
Review: DaCapo Chamber Choir
In today’s Record
You can count on two things with the DaCapo Chamber Choir: an expertly controlled English cathedral choir sound and thoughtful programming that embraces abstraction while steering well clear of pretension. Saturday’s concert at St John The Evangelist, Kitchener was yet another example of how this choir is getting it right.
Entitled Reaching [...]
Review: Reaching For Nothing — The Water’s Thirst
In Saturday’s Record
The trouble with modern music is that it’s often a lot of work for the listener. Sometimes the extra effort required is well worth it. Other times the net gain isn’t quite so clear. Reaching For Nothing: Water’s Thirst, a collaboration between composer Peter Hatch, architect Derek Revington and choreographer David [...]
-
Follow Miss Mussel on 
-
-
-
