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Music

Windbag jazz

Christina Pato Quartet melds Galician bagpipes, world music & improv @ Chan Centre
Lincoln KayeApr 13th, 2019

Heteronymous harmonies

Elias Quartet treats FOCM to Schumann, Schubert, Beamish and Scotticisms
Lincoln KayeApr 4th, 2019

Going steady, 1340's-style

Blue Heron medievalists regale EMV with Machaut's courtly love notes
Lincoln KayeMar 24th, 2019

Ariel: 'brave spirit[s]'

Youthful - but polished - quartet pinch-hits for Chamber Music Friends
Lincoln KayeMar 20th, 2019

Worry. (But still Be Happy)

Circlesinging cares away with Bobby McFerrin, Gimme5 and Musica Intima at Chan Centre
Lincoln KayeFeb 17th, 2019

Scroungers at the Movable Feast

VanOpera showcases up-and-comers in Barbe-Doucet's Jazz Age staging of "La Bohème"
Lincoln KayeFeb 14th, 2019

Singin' in the reign

From King's College Chapel, Cambridge, a capella sextet regales EMV @ Chan Centre
Lincoln KayeFeb 10th, 2019

Means of production, socialized

Tafelmusik situates Bach in 18th century Leipzig material culture for EMV crowd
Lincoln KayeJan 28th, 2019

EMV brings Missa Darwin to Christ Church

New York Polyphony celebrates sacrament of evolution
Lincoln KayeJan 12th, 2019

Dessert-as-appetizer @ Van Opera

2018-19 season leads with bubbly production of Lehàr’s "Merry Widow"
Lincoln KayeOct 20th, 2018