by Paul E. Robinson

SUMMER FESTIVALS
 SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, 2010

Kurt Weill has always been an enigma for classical music lovers – his career started so propitiously: he studied composition first with Humperdinck, and later with Busoni; he turned out dozens of remarkably mature early works; his Symphony No. 2 was given its premiere by Bruno Walter; [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

SUMMER FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL ORFORD 2010

The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is an orchestra without a home – at least in the summertime. For some years now, it has been trying to cobble together a summer work schedule that would satisfy its commitments to players, its financial responsibilities, [...]

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