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Obituary – Feliks Wegierski,
Feliks Wegierski, credit Toronto Star Obituary – Feliks Wegierski by Apolonja (Pola) Maria Kojder Feliks Wegierski was born in Dzialdowo, in north-western, pre-war Poland, in 1923. He showed an early...
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ENDNOTES, August 2019
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963), credit IMDb ENDNOTES, August 2019 In this edition: Pergolesi, A Neapolitan Stabat Mater; the film music of Gerard Schurmann, reviewed by Stuart Millson From the...
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Something Missing in Propertius
John Flaxman, The Dancing Hours Something Missing in Propertius by Darrell Sutton Readers can be perplexed by the arguments that textual critics employ when they emend the wording of ancient writers....
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Kubrick’s Final Film
A mask, from Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick’s Final Film Ilana Mercer grabs more shut-eye Stanley Kubrick’s farewell film, Eyes Wide Shut, has turned 20. I reviewed it for a Canadian newspaper on August 9,...
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Blake, Envisioned
William Blake, The Angels Hovering over the Body of Christ in the Sepulchre c.1805. Credit Pinterest.com Blake, Envisioned William Blake, an exhibition, Tate Britain, 11th Sept 2019 to 2nd Feb 2020...
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Scents and Sensibility
Leon Kosavic as Masetto and Erwin Schrott as Don Giovanni. Photographed by Mark Douet Scents and Sensibility Don Giovanni; Ossia Il Dissoluto Punito, opera buffa in two acts, music by Wolfgang Amadeus...
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ENDNOTES, September 2019
Lord Berners ENDNOTES, September 2019 Stuart Millson on the film music of Lord Berners In 1944, the directors at Ealing Studios (Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti and Michael Balcon) were working on a...
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Review of Werther
Isabel Leonard as Charlotte, in Werther. Photographed by Catherine Ashmore Review of Werther by Leslie Jones Werther, drame lyrique in four acts, music by Jules Massenet, libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul...
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Review of Agrippina
Joyce DiDonato as Agrippina and Andrea Mastroni as Pallante, in Agrippina C-ROH 2019. Photographed by Bill Cooper Review of Agrippina Dramma per musica in three acts, music by George Frideric Handel,...
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ENDNOTES, October 2019
Henri Fantin-Latour, Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Un Bal ENDNOTES, October 2019 Stuart Millson reviews Bach in Kent and a new Berlioz recording from Toronto Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV...
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Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale Don Pasquale, dramma buffo in three acts, music by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti, conducted by Evelino Pidò, directed by Damiano Michieletto, Royal...
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ENDNOTES, November 2019
St James the Great Church, East Malling, Kent Endnotes, November 2019: in this edition, Mozart at a mediaeval church in Kent – and Six Flute Sonatas by Bach, on the OUR label, reviewed by Stuart...
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Night Moves
Tuuli Takala as Queen of the Night, photo by Tristram Kenton Night Moves Die Zauberflöte, singspiel in two acts; music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, Orchestra of the...
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Silence is Golden
Leo Dixon as Tadzio, photo by Catherine Ashmore Silence is Golden Death in Venice, reviewed by Leslie Jones Death in Venice; opera in two acts (17 scenes), music by Benjamin Britten, libretto by...
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Moor is Less
Gregory Kunde as Otello and Ermonela Jaho as Desdemona, photo by Catherine Ashmore Moor is Less Otello, dramma lirico in four acts, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, revival of the...
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ENDNOTES, December 2019
Michala Petri ENDNOTES, December 2019 Danish and Faroese recorder concertos; piano music from Leipzig, performed by Eleanor Meynell, reviewed by Stuart Millson Recorded in the Musikkens Hus, Aalborg,...
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Fathers & Sons, review of La Traviata
Simon Keenlyside as Giorgio Germont and Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo Germont, photo by Catherine Ashmore Fathers & Sons, review of La Traviata La Traviata, opera in three acts, music by Giuseppe...
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The Passing of Traditional Canada
Canadian Stamp, 1859 The Passing of Traditional Canada by Mark Wegierski On November 2, 2019, I attended the Annual Alumni Dinner of the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), which I had attended for...
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ENDNOTES, January 2020
An oversized bust of Beethoven on the rear of the former piano shop and warehouse Endnotes, January 2020 In this edition; Biss plays Beethoven and the BBC Philharmonic performs British tone poems,...
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Boy’s Zone
A scene from La Bohème by Puccini, Royal Opera ©Tristram Kenton, 01/20 Boy’s Zone La Bohème, opera in four acts, music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, Orchestra of...
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