No performing artist – any artist, for that matter – can deny that thee past three years have been excruciating…...
The story of Music in the Barns is like a story worthy of the pen of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll. “Why,” you ask? Well… because the story...
The world bemoans the plight of Ukraine, weeps at the innocent Ukrainian civilians who lie dying by the thousands from the indiscriminate murder; atrocities that shock...
Every known civilisation partakes in music, though definitions of what that music is might vary wildly. Even more contentious is whether music arose simultaneously with language...
We join the music community around the world in grieving the loss of the formidable Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Emerita of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by the United States Constitution [the “Three-fifths...
The nature of exile [παρεπίδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
The obsession with trying to define or assign a meaning to the word “jazz” is almost as old as the first soli played by the legendary...
Somehow, after two nights at Koerner Hall, on January 24th and 25th it seems appropriate to borrow from Abraham Lincoln who delivered his first inaugural address...
Festival season is upon us and I am onboard to take part, live and in person. During the weekend of...
All she has to do is sing a few bars of the first song on What a Difference a Day...
Before you wring your hands in despair and exclaim: “Oh no! Not another ‘Beatles in Latin’ recording…” think hard because...
The story of Music in the Barns is like a story worthy of the pen of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll. “Why,”...
The world bemoans the plight of Ukraine, weeps at the innocent Ukrainian civilians who lie dying by the thousands from...
Every known civilisation partakes in music, though definitions of what that music is might vary wildly. Even more contentious is...
A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the...
Robi Botos has been hailed as one of the most diverse multi-instrumentalists of this generation. From the hard-bop style of...
Juno-award winning Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Allison Au refuses to be defined. Born to a Chinese father and Jewish...