New music of the week - Dec 5
New Coeur De Pirate, Frank Martin hopes for peace, and 4-hand Schubert
New music of the week - Nov 28
Baroque trios with Chinese mouth organ, a new Medea, and Aya Nakamura
New music of the week - Nov 21
Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin
New music of the week - Nov 14
Charli XCX gets weird. So does Marc-André Hamelin.
Charli XCX, John Cale, and the American Minimalists
The Velvet Underground legend links Charli XCX’s club rat vibe to the world of John Cage and Terry Riley
The US’s anti-DEI crusade comes to Canada
Canada’s politicians should look at how anti-DEI attacks have been used to undermine research funding and academic freedom in the US
Rosalía and the classical avant-garde
Is it pop? Is it classical? Does it matter?