Totally Mozart at the HPO – Review by David Fawcett
By David Fawcett [Originally published on Fawcett’s Composer’s Notebook website] Recently, I had a phone call from the Hamilton Philharmonic…
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Michael Morabito Jazz Quartet at Brantford Jazzfest 2015
Photo: Glen Brown The weather was fine on the last weekend of summer at Brantford’s International Jazz Festival. Shown here…
Greenbelt Harvest Picnic 2015 – Best Ever
With photos by Ivan Sorensen. Review by Glen Brown [Ed note: Re-posted in tribute to photographer Ivan Sorensen, who passed…
Brilliance: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the HPO – November 29, 2014 Review
Pouliot is but 20 years old, as young or younger than the McMaster footballers whom we watched play in the Vanier Cup.
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A Conversation With HPO Conductor Candidate Stilian Kirov
"It’s almost like when you start [examining] a blueprint. First you look at the whole picture and then, progressively, you begin to fill in the details."
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Conversation With Vox Metropolis
By David Fawcett
...They’ll each wear headphones and have a separate audio feed from the one the audience hears.
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HPO Conductor Candidate Interview: Gregory Vajda from Budapest
By David S Fawcett
I had a very interesting talk with Gregory Vajda, the second aspiring Hamilton Philharmonic conductor with whom I have spoken.
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The Hamilton Children’s Choir at the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Soeul, South Korea. The HCC was in…
Local Clarinetist and Pianist Spearhead Chamber Music Revival in the Greater Hamilton Area
BY SHIONA MACKENZIE Written for small groups of instruments, chamber music is often referred to as the “music of friends”…
Buchanan Park School Opera Club Celebrates Its 20th Year
By David S Fawcett
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Buchanan Park Opera Club. I interviewed the school’s music teacher and opera club founder, Dawn Martens, in her classroom
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Outside The Mainstream: An Interview With HMA Best Classical Album Winner Bud Roach
By David S Fawcett
Tenor Bud Roach’s CD Sospiro: Alessandro Grandi Complete Arias, 1626 won the Hamilton Music Awards Best Classical Album of 2013.
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Matapa Presents: Nagata Shachu – Japanese Traditional Drumming’s Ferocious Talent
The sweat appeared, glistening between his shoulder blades, five minutes into the piece.
It was only half over.
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