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To be honest, I was initially scratching my head with this title, because to me (as a pianist), it’s immediately obvious why we “should”...
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cynthiay85
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Boo!
Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique is the classical music equivalent of a modern day horror movie. It has it all: bucolic pastoral...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
When listening becomes sacred.... Between Friends, 2022
While compiling the program notes for QSCM's Between Friends III concert, June 11 I came across this statement by Leonidas Kavakos upon...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
FEELINGFUL * PRESENT * LIVE! Between Friends III - June 11, 2022
Saturday June 11, QSCM's "Between Friends III" event, live at St Paul's United Church, Stirling ON (7 pm) celebrates connection and...
Cynthia Young
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
Fingering: A trigger of imagination?
For the uninitiated, "fingering" refers to the numbers written above or below notes corresponding to the fingers of the hand with thumbs...
Cynthia Young
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
My Pandemic Repertoire
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) was a contemporary of the notorious "Russian Five", composers Shostakovitch, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov,...
Cynthia Young
- Sep 9, 2021
- 2 min
Alexander Glazunov: the most influential composer you may never have heard of
Alexander Glazunov was born in Russia in 1865. He grew up steeped in the late romantic tradition of Russian music. The music of...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
"A Story, A Song, A Dance and A Party!"
The four movements of Haydn's "Lark Quartet" are aptly described by composer and musicologist, Paul Epstein, in these words: "a story,...
Tamara Best
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Music (and History!) at the Mill
This coming Saturday I will be welcoming visitors to one of my favourite places: the historic O’Hara’s Mill & Homestead just north of...
Cynthia Young
- Jun 18, 2021
- 4 min
Page Turners:A necessary evil or unsung heroes of chamber music?
The piano is a prominent instrument in the genre of chamber music, either as a collaborative instrument accompanying a soloist or as a...
Cynthia Young
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
Piano Lessons in a Pandemic
For the past few years I have been taking weekly piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Music in downtown Toronto. March 12, 2020 was...
Cynthia Young
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
The Three B's
Music historians often refer to the three B's of classical music: Bach, Beethoven and, Brahms. Their compositional lives cover 250 years...
Tamara Best
- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min