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VIDEO – Pianist Valerie Tryon – Conversations With Keith series
Conversations with Keith series from the 2011 Festival of the Sound “I really don’t want to go into the coffin playing the piano,” says Canadian pianist Valerie Tryon in this frank conversation with Keith Horner. “Life is full of … Continue reading
Wretched violins fight back
Now’s the time for violinists to speak out. Right here at the Festival of the Sound. The earliest performers of Beethoven’s Razumovsky string quartets broke out in laughter when they confronted his music for the first time. Beethoven held … Continue reading
VIDEO – Afiara + Cecilia Quartets – reunited at the Festival of the Sound
Violinist Min-Jeong Koh and cellist Adrian Fung spend their lives playing string quartets. They met in their early teens while playing with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. The two musicians married in July 2010, one month before entering the prestigious … Continue reading
Did Monet paint festival artist’s cello?
There’s a rumour swirling around the festival this week that celebrated French impressionist painter Claude Monet once painted festival artist Michel Strauss’s cello. The French cellist, who is making a return visit to Parry Sound this week, is currently artistic … Continue reading
VIDEO – Conversations With Keith – Andre Laplante
This is the first of a series of Conversations With Keith taped live during the 2011 Festival of the Sound. Here, pianist Andre Laplante discusses Franz Liszt and his legacy. CLICK – Conversations With Keith – Part One CLICK – … Continue reading
VIDEO – Celebrating Margaret Boyd – 7,300 days as Executive Director!
Tuesday’s concert with the title “Music for a Summer Evening” is an entirely appropriate way to celebrate the 20 years Margaret Boyd has been Executive Director of the Festival of the Sound. Margi has been bringing us delightful summer evenings … Continue reading
Italian Spectacular!
Week One of the Festival ended with an Italian “mini festival”, and the climax of that sequence of performances came on Friday night. The concert had just two performances, but both were of substantial and beautiful works. And both were … Continue reading
We’re doing a phone survey
“We’re doing a phone survey, asking average people like yourself, attractive, cynical, smart, etc. people who cook with garlic, who, if married, it’s not the first time. . . .” Nova Scotia poet Carole Langille finds phone surveys annoying. Don’t … Continue reading
Paganini, The Unknown Giant and Berick, The Giant Killer
You have to feel sorry for Paganini. He was such a renowned violin virtuoso in his day. Who would have dared to predict that to most of posterity he would be a famous name, with his music quite unknown except … Continue reading
Who’s Carl Nielsen?
Carl Nielsen? Who’s he? No Dane who admires concert music ever has to ask that question. As Denmark’s foremost composer he’s widely admired. His music is also well-known in Britain, but for some reason has not often travelled across the … Continue reading
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