Composer's Notebook

Here's a link to my recent interview with Reid Spencer with whom I worked during my time in the chorus of the Canadian Opera Company. H...

I went to see Verdi's comic masterpiece, Falstaff , on Tuesday night. The buzz from the Spec columnist and online blogs was that it was...

We attended Tuesday night's performance of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, performed by the Canadian Opera Company at the Fo...

I went to hear the Fine Arts Quartet last Sunday afternoon in the Tannenbaum Pavillion at the Art Gallery of Hamilton with some trepidation...

Everyone knows what a "cover" is. Some singer or band has a hit and sometime later another artist records the same song in a diffe...

We attended the Crazy for Gershwin concert last night at the McIntyre Theatre at Mohawk College and came away happy and musically satisfied...

Last night I attended the Aida concert performance presented by the Brott Music Festival at the McIntyre Centre for the Performing Arts a...