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Tag Archives: Karel Ancerl
Yuja Wang plays Tchaikovsky with the Toronto Symphony
I have never seen Roy Thomson Hall as full as it was tonight, Wednesday April 16th. They had a cop directing the cars out of the underground parking garage: because so many people came to see Yuja Wang play the … Continue reading
Posted in Music and musicology, Reviews
Tagged Arturo Márquez, classical-music, Gyorgy Ligeti, Jeremy EIchler, Jocelyn Morlock, Karel Ancerl, Leos Janacek, Lorne Michaels, Nutcracker, Philip Glass, piano, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovky, Roy Thomson Hall, Sinfonietta, Time's Echo, Toronto Symphony, Yuja Wang
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Karel Ančerl of the Toronto Symphony
While reading Hermione Lee’s account of Tom Stoppard’s childhood in Czechoslovakia I was reminded of Karel Ančerl, the Toronto Symphony’s conductor and music-director roughly fifty years ago. Before Kenneth Stoppard appears on the scene in Darjeeling India, marries Magda Sträussler, … Continue reading
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