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Stanley Fefferman reviews The Royal Conservatory Orchestra Goes Big with Handel and Mahler in Koerner Hall

It was an evening of go big or go home. Koerner Hall is a world-class ‘acousticorium’. It has been praised for razor-sharp rendering of the sounds of soloists like guitarist John Williams, diva’s like Anne-Sofie von Otter and Dee Dee … Continue reading

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TSO’s Mozart@257 Festival Opening Concert reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

To put COC conductor Johannes Debus’ TSO conducting debut with an all Mozart program in context, I reflected on the qualities of a few conductors of Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 (Haffner). Karl Bohm leading the Berlin Philharmonic makes vivid the … Continue reading

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