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Atom Egoyan’s intoxicating Salome at the Canadian Opera Company reviewed by Stanley Fefferman.

Atom Egoyan’s production of Richard Strauss’ Salome is styled for extreme contrasts. You could think of it as Springtime for Herod in Judea. While patrons spilling out of limos, taxis and Wheel-Trans were gathering on this magnolia blossom-filled May Day … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews FAURE PIANO QUARTETT at Music Toronto

February 28, 2013. Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto. The piano quartet is a rare configuration. The literature for it is lovely but limitied to a few composers, mostly concentrated in the 19th Century.  A-list composers Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms each wrote … Continue reading

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Evgeny Kissin and Sir Andrew Davis at the TSO reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

May 17, 2012. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Edvard Grieg was 25 and newly married the summer he composed his one and only Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16. I remember listening to Eugene Ormandy’s recording with Arthur Rubenstein on … Continue reading

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