La La La Human Steps – WNMF Feb 2, 2012
It’s the last day of the New Music Festival and I’m not looking forward to having to leave tomorrow. Not just because …
Bedroom Community – WNMF Jan 31, 2012 Part 2
My greatest admiration for Bedroom Community’s aesthetic is their willingness to adapt their music to whatever performance situation they find themselves in. …
Winnipeg New Music Festival – Jan 31, 2012 Part 1
Well, my budget for this trip was officially blown yesterday. Sometimes I wonder if we aren’t all hardwired with a dormant gene …
Winnipeg New Music – Jan 30, 2012
Sometimes going solo to a show can be fun, because you get to be a fly on the wall, listening in on …
Winnipeg New Music Festival 2 – Jan 29, 2012
Winnipeg’s Westminster United Church could hardly have been as full at Sunday service as it was yesterday evening for the second concert …
Winnipeg New Music Festival – Jan 28, 2012
I’m currently in Winnipeg attending the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s 21st annual New Music Festival. Not only is being here a welcome break …
Music that changed me – Childhood Edition
Happy New Year everyone! My resolution to write more often in this blog will probably quickly be broken, but for now, in …
Nuit Blanche 2011
The sun predictably rose again this morning over Toronto, illuminating the vestiges of last night’s Nuit Blanche like a ghost city. Scaffolding …
Intimate Orchestras
My time at the Atlantic Music Festival came to a close yesterday, leaving me with a jumble of intense memories, fresh musical …
Review: Paolo Giordano’s “Solitude of Prime Numbers”
After all the awards and accolades, not to mention advertising hype on the subway that this book received, I must say that …