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Tributes pour in for maestro Boris Brott after the renowned conductor was fatally struck by car | CBC News

Tributes are pouring in following news of the death of maestro Boris Brott, artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre classique de Montréal, who died Tuesday after a hit and run in Hamilton, Ont. He was 78.

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Azrieli Music Prizes Volume II: Jewish Music from Canada

Azrieli Music Prizes Volume II: Jewish Music from Canada

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So you read “New Jewish Music” and you think, well, Israel.  At least I did at first.  But the richness of the Canadian musical landscape embraces a wide range of excellent music both pop and classical and this disc (I haven’t heard volume I) serves to illustrate my point. These three works, two for instrumental soloist and orchestra and one for soprano and orchestra are indeed…

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Trust the Process: The Inside Story of a Mohawk Saint

Trust the Process: The Inside Story of a Mohawk Saint

When it’s a solo activity, the deepening of a self-created crater of couch comfort is sweet enough. But when the sinking-in takes place in the presence of close friends, one on each side, when three talking beasts can forget themselves as they weigh in on things big and small, then one of the great unforbidden pleasures of adult life is at hand. We all leave the womb and, to some extent, the…

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Candide Rocks

Candide is my favourite musical. Based on Voltaire’s wonderful send up of religion, philosophy, and love, and driven by the ebullience and sheer genius of Leonard Bernstein’s music, Candide is delight. Though I am not a music specialist, I know that almost every tune in this musical has been stolen or covered. This production reminds me how much excitement and theatricality can be experienced in…

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