PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Wednesday): Last weekend, on Valentine’s Day, Robert Everett-Green wrote an article in the Globe and Mail entitled “Love at first downbeat” about one Yannick Nézet-Séguin of Montreal, the now celebrity conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Nézet-Séguin recently made headlines for his debut at the Met conducting Carmen. Here’s your chance to see him, his new orchestra, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet at home in Canada on the stage of Roy Thomson Hall. The Toronto Star says it “is likely to be one of the most exciting symphony concerts of the season,” and with good reason. CONTINUE READING >
I wish I could sit each of you down, individually, right here in my kitchen, and tell you about C.R. Avery… over coffee. If we could relax here at my kitchen table for five minutes, I’d tell you just enough. Just enough that when you got up to go on with your day, there’d be no chance of you missing his show at Glenn Gould Studio on Thursday, February 25.
I travel for a living, and I see a lot of acts in my travels. Last year I played 140 shows in three countries and nine provinces. And it’s only roughly every two or three years that I discover an artist who transforms my whole landscape and changes every rule. Who makes everything possible again. I first saw C.R. Avery in Ottawa at the end of 2008– with the very band he’s bringing to Glenn Gould Studio on February 25. And I haven’t been the same since. CONTINUE READING >
Michael Kaeshammer performs at Glenn Gould Studio last year.
Just for fun, we’re trying something a little different with the Buzz this week: you’ll still get a weekly dose of all the good stuff, just packaged in a shiny new format. We’ve got show highlights and announcements, and we’ll also let you know about awards, news items, and other inside scoop details about the artists and presentations at the Halls. Let us know what you think!
**JUST ANNOUNCED**
C. R. Avery is coming to Glenn Gould Studio on Thursday, February 25. This guy is something else: his bio calls him a “one man hip hop beatbox blues harmonica americana iconoclast,” and when Tom Waits gave C.R. a listen he said “blowin’ my mind.” Avery impressed this year at the Hillside Festival in Guelph and a new album, The Great Canadian Novel, is due out in 2010.CONTINUE READING >
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