If hearing some of the most nuanced choral singing in the city isn’t enough to get you out to one of musica intima’s 20th-anniversary concerts this weekend, consider that the...
In this age of super-compressed radio hits and speedy dance-floor bangers, Hobson’s Choice offers a different kind of pleasure: the quiet sensuality of three acoustic instruments...
By Simon Garfield. Gotham, 464 pp, hardcover
Among the many pleasures of historian Simon Garfield’s cartographic study On the Map are its endpapers, which depict the subway...
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Vancouver Opera production. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday, March 9. Continues on March 12, 14, 16, and 17
At The Gathering, the cutting-...
A Kitt Johnson X-act production. A Vancouver International Dance Festival presentation. At the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Friday, March 8. No remaining...
Walk Along John (Corvus)
How great a mandolinist is John Reischman? Let’s put it this way: the instrument’s reigning superstar, Punch Brothers bandleader Chris Thile, learned to...
Destroy Vancouver VAt VIVO Media Arts Centre on Saturday, March 2
It’s only fun if someone loses an eye.
Actually, I’m not quite sure how much fun witnessing on-stage mutilation...
In Israel, you can be many different things. Arab or Jew, of course, but beyond that basic distinction the categories are endless: Fatah or Hamas; West Bank Palestinian or...
According to Mantra Percussion’s Mike McCurdy, composer Michael Gordon had one simple, straightforward idea in mind when he began work on what would eventually become Timber. “He...
No particular trend dominates this spring’s classical- and new-music programming, unless it’s our city’s wholehearted embrace of diversity and excellence. Oh, and the omnipresence...
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