The winners are ... all of us
January 31st, 2009
There are at least two ways to win a Mecca Award: from the Montreal English Critics Circle, for excellence in English-language theatre, or from the Manitoba Customer Contact Association, for, well, your guess is as good as mine. Opus Awards you can get from the University of Windsor Organization of Part-time University Students or the Conseil québécois de la musique.

MSO version of Don Juan a joint conquest
January 24th, 2009
"I'm on good terms with the musicians," conductor Jean-François Rivest said recently about his soon-to-be former colleagues in the MSO. "Of course, not 100 per cent. This is an orchestra."

A digital wake-up call
January 17th, 2009
Every so often I swear off two-

Sweet rather than savage Stravinsky? Rite on
January 15th, 2009
One mega-masterpiece per program, please. That is the usual MSO philosophy in Place des Arts. This week, Kent Nagano defiantly coupled Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, the former representing the birth of a new era and the latter a farewell to the old.

Baroque or not, he'll fix it
January 10th, 2009
This week at the MSO: Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Mahler and Bach. Except the Bach.

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