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January 12, 2023
Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Mozart’s Birthday with A Superb Requiem
2022-23 Season
Joseph So La Scena Musicale January 12, 2023 January is Mozart Month at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. To mark the 267th anniversary of the birthday of the great Wolfgang Amadeus…
December 19, 2022
SCRUTINY | The 2022 TSO Messiah Warms The Heart And Lifts The Spirit
2022-23 Season
Joseph So Ludwig Van Toronto December 19, 2022 Is there a more popular classical vocal work for the Christmas Season in the English-speaking world than Handel’s Messiah (1742)? It’s a rhetorical…
December 7, 2022
SCRUTINY | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Festival of Carols Offers Unbridled Joy In Fabulous Acoustics
2022-23 Season
Joseph So Ludwig Van December 7, 2022 It’s a well-established scientific fact: music makes us feel good. Our brain reacts to a favourite song by releasing the hormone dopamine, which…
November 6, 2022
Singing For More Than Just Their Supper!
2022-23 Season
Lydia Pervić The Whole Note November 6, 2022 Here’s some good news for a change: there’s a new professional chamber choir in Toronto, the city that barely has any,…
November 3, 2022
SCRUTINY | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Does Justice To Namesake’s Final Oratorio
2022-23 Season
Paula Cirton Ludwig Van November 3, 2022 Is there anything grander in a concert hall than a big chorus, a big orchestra, and big piece of music? The huge…
November 3, 2022
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Opens New Season in Grand Style with Mendelssohn’s Elijah
2022-23 Season
Joseph So La Scena Musicale November 3, 2022 Following the intimate, a cappella opening show given by the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers in Trinity St. Paul’s Centre a month ago, the full…
October 3, 2022
Review of The Pilgrim’s Way
2022-23 Season
Ken Stephen Large Stage Live! October 3, 2022 The versatility of the renowned Toronto Mendelssohn Choir was on display in a new format at the season-opening concert on Saturday night….
June 1, 2022
Review of Endangered
2021-22 Season
Ken Stephen Large Stage Live! June 1, 2022 As in other concerts for the last couple of seasons, Saturday afternoon’s performance by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir — titled Endangered — centred around…
April 21, 2022
Review of Sacred Music for a Sacred Space 2022
2021-22 Season
Ken Stephen Large Stage Live! April 21, 2022 The Good Friday concert, Sacred Music For a Sacred Space, given by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, presented an…