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Adam Klein reflects on the beginning of his operatic career

January 1, 2024, 6:22 pm

How do we begin? It’s a good question to ask on January 1st. I am a big fan of tenor Adam Klein. I saw him play Loge in the Robert Lepage production of Das Rheingold, just about the only singer who...

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Philip Chiu’s Fables

May 12, 2024, 8:05 am

Pianist Philip Chiu I have been listening to FABLES, the excellent ATMA CD of piano music by Philip Chiu pairing two piano transcriptions of music by Ravel with Mnidoonskaa (A Multitude of Insects), a...

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2024 Met Gala – JG Ballard’s Garden of Time tone deaf to the rabble

May 15, 2024, 7:13 pm

The 2024 Met Gala fund-raiser used a JG Ballard story for its theme, The Garden of Time. Ballard is one of my favourite writers, especially his short stories and science fiction. Several have made...

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Gestures of Love – Hunters and Collectors: Evan Jones & Patrick DeCoste at...

July 6, 2024, 2:14 pm

I just visited The Drey Gallery on Woodbine in East York, just north of Danforth. I was drawn by seeing Patrick DeCoste’s mention of the show on Facebook, plus the convenience of the location. I have...

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Poet and Peasant: a picture and an overture

August 25, 2024, 12:58 pm

In 1967 Joseph Budai was working on a renovation of a Chinese restaurant in Peterborough. An old lithograph picture was left inside the walls that he was renovating. At the time it was still inside an...

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Robert Lepage’s Macbeth at Stratford

September 6, 2025, 12:06 pm

Bruce asked me whether the Scottish play is worth seeing. I had seen it from the front row, able to see every detail of the complex presentation in the Avon Theatre, less Shakespeare’s immortal play...

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Mendelssohn Choir — Brahms German Requiem

November 8, 2025, 5:03 pm

Friday night Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Musicians of Kitchener – Waterloo Symphony presented Brahms German Requiem in a sold out Koerner Hall to rapturous applause. I had been initially concerned...

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Accompanying Lepage to The Far Side of the Moon

December 23, 2025, 4:29 pm

Sometimes my need to explain myself leads to huge introductions that may confuse or perplex, pre-ambulations that happen both on foot and in the words of the blog. As 2025 closes I escaped into...

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One of Joyce Wieland’s paintings

December 30, 2025, 5:23 pm

Zoe and I walked through the many wonderful pieces displayed in Joyce Wieland’s show Heart On, running at the AGO until Sunday January 4th. The conversations I have been having with Zoe about...

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Nathan Sawaya’s ART OF THE BRICK

March 13, 2026, 6:24 am

The Art of the Brick show has now come to Toronto as of today March 12th. Nathan Sawaya is the artist. Yes I want to call his creations “art” and yes he is an artist, working with LEGO blocks and...

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