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Tag Archives: Ivars Taurins
Time to Lift Up Your Heads
Come along with me as I muse about one of my favorite pieces of music, on a day when it seems especially apt. There are good years when we’re rolling along enjoying springtime pleasures. And there are years when it’s … Continue reading →
Tribal Messiah
I’m trying to find the right word, so please bear with me. For someone who goes to see concerts & theatre more often than most people, you might never guess that I’m sometimes frustrated. My mantra is “I’m a lucky … Continue reading →
Posted in Music and musicology, Opera, Personal ruminations & essays, Reviews, Spirituality & Religion
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Tagged Alexander Shelley, George Frideric Handel, Ivars Taurins, Lucile Richardot, Margaret Rood, Mozart, Peter Harvey, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Thomas Hobbs, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
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How to Singalong
I don’t presume to know how one does the Singalong Messiah thing. I am no expert. [morning after emendation… There are different sorts of experts. Singers? organists, conductors, musicians? or the textual scholars, people who really know Handel? I avoid … Continue reading →
Posted in Music and musicology, Personal ruminations & essays, Press Releases and Announcements
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Tagged English Baroque Soloists, George Frideric Handel, Ivars Taurins, John Eliot Gardiner, Messiah, Monteverdi Choir, Novello, Roy Thomson Hall, Singalong, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
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St Matthew Passion: Bach at 334
Tonight was the first of four performances of the St Matthew Passion from Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, with members of the Toronto Children’s Chorus, all led by Masaaki Suzuki. By coincidence it was JS Bach’s 334th birthday. While … Continue reading →
Sing-Along Messiah 2018
You can change the location but the song remains the same. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir led by Herr Handel himself gave us their annual sing-along Messiah. The previous 37 have been at Massey Hall, but this time renovation … Continue reading →
Posted in Music and musicology, Opera, Personal ruminations & essays, Reviews, Spirituality & Religion
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Tagged Charles Daniels, Drew Santini, George Frideric Handel, Ivars Taurins, Kristina Szabó, Messiah, Roy Rogers, Roy Thomson Hall, Sherezade Panthaki, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tom Thomson
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Steffani: more devotion than drama
I am grateful for the gift of a new voice, a new composer introduced to me by Tafelmusik, Ivars Taurins, and Krisztina Szabo. It’s truly a magical thing. I was pondering the experience of classical music, how so much of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Agostino Steffani, Ivars Taurins, Kristina Szabó, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
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Tafelmusik record Beethoven’s Ninth
Tonight’s Koerner Hall concert was recorded, one of a series. But it seemed like a pair of concerts. Before intermission we watched the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, led by their founding director Ivars Taurins. This is a choir he built, piece by … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ivars Taurins, Johannnes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
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Tafelmusik: Season Launch 16/17
Tis the season. At a time of year when it can be so cold that one prefers to dream of next year (even if it’s been unseasonably warm to begin 2016), the major classical music organizations make their big announcements. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alison Mackay, Beethoven, Ivars Taurins, Mozart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
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10 Questions for Joanne Lunn
Joanne Lunn is one of Britain’s leading Baroque sopranos, in great demand around the world. Fortunately Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is among the important ensembles with whom she collaborates. Lunn rejoins Tafelmusik this week for Handel’s Messiah Dec 16-19 … Continue reading →
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Tagged Georg Frederick Händel, Ivars Taurins, Joanne Lunn, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
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10 questions for James Gilchrist
Here is the “informal biography” from James Gilchrist’s website, and offers a much better portrait than anything I could attempt. At the age of eight I came home from school one day and informed my parents that I was now in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ivars Taurins, James Gilchrist, JS Bach
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