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Review: Trio Laurier Shares Spotlight With Sea Asparagus

Reviewing French Wine - Swiss Chocolate @ The Perimeter Institute in today’s Record
Research efforts at the Perimeter Institute on Friday evening were devoted to investigating the properties of French wine and Swiss chocolate, an endeavour that should frankly be afforded limitless resources.
The occasion was a dinner concert with Trio Laurier providing the aural foil to [...]

Review: Battle Of The Organs

In today’s Waterloo Region Record

It was billed as a battle of epic proportions.
In the red corner, an enormously powerful Kney confident that 37 years experience would be enough to secure a win.
In the blue corner: the young Makin anxious to make his mark and show the old guy how it’s done.
Giant screens were set up [...]

Review: Festival of Carols, Elora

In today’s Record
Modelled on the Church of England carol service tradition, the Festival of Carols presented Saturday evening by the Elora Festival Singers was a perfect microcosm of the ideal Christmas season: full of wit and good cheer and free from holiday anxieties about presents, neverending baking and Uncle Harold’s inevitably inappropriate dinner table comments.
St. [...]

Review: Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic Choir

An edited version appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Practically every choral society, no matter how meagre their resources, mounts an annual production of Messiah, by leaps and bounds Handel’s most famous work. There is something quite satisfying about participating in an event, knowing the same performance is being given in communities all across the world. [...]

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 [...]