Arts Features Composer Jennifer Butler messes with Messiaen at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival When is it right for a new-music festival to focus on the past? “Now” might be the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s response.
Music Favourite albums of 2019: Alexander Varty celebrates Rae Spoon, Kris Davis, Nate Wooley, and Richard Dawson You can’t always live in the past, and the artists listed mostly signal a brighter future than the politics of the moment might suggest.
Arts Features Baritone Paul Larocque brings passions together for Christmas With Chor Leoni Larocque, who's also president and CEO of the Arts Umbrella, is enthusiastic about what the student performers will take away from appearing on Vancouver’s most glamorous stage.
Arts Features In its concerts for the season, musica intima sings the sacred—and the silly If you’re itching to show off your garish new holiday sweater, you can be assured that there’s no dress code at Ding Dong!.
Arts Features Gabriel Kahane searches for the solstice sounds of Music on Main's annual winter celebration Kahane admits to a fondness for long nights, noting that he does a lot of his best work in the hours before dawn.
Arts Features Young cello star Sheku Kanneh-Mason gets ready to show his range with the Vancouver Recital Society Music, he reasons, is “maybe one thing that can unite lots of people. It’s a language that can be understood and can be spoken by anyone."
Music Features Organist Chris Hazelton takes his funky jazz to church “That guy’s basically the hardest-working dude in jazz!”
Arts Features Vancouver Bach Choir's Leslie Dala gears up for seasonal extravaganzas The need to clamour for an audience’s attention is especially vital during the Christmas season.
Arts Features Ivars Taurins clothes Handel in period dress for Early Music Vancouver's Messiah The Tafelmusik choir director is undeniably one of the gods of early music in Canada.
Arts Features Cello star Gary Hoffman makes a Vancouver homecoming with Elgar concerto “Vancouver has something—soul, I guess is the best word—and that’s something I’m happy to come back to.”