http://theartoftheconductor.com/news classical music news and views Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:32:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Paul E. Robinson Anton Kuerti arrived in Canada in 1965, and Toronto has been his home base ever since. In that span of 45 years, this extraordinary artist has demonstrated time and again that he has no peer in the performance of the piano music of Beethoven, Schubert and ... http://theartoftheconductor.com/news/2010/02/28/1478/ by Paul E. Robinson Emmanuel Chabrier’s operetta or opéra-bouffe, "L’Étoile" (The Star), was a consummate success at its premiere in Paris in 1877; then, it all but disappeared from the repertoire. John Eliot Gardiner, a celebrated interpreter of Monteverdi and Bach, brought "L’Étoile" back to life when he ... http://theartoftheconductor.com/news/2010/02/06/1460/ by Paul E. Robinson Last week the Berlin Philharmonic, under guest conductor Ton Koopman, was presenting its regular subscription concerts on its home turf. Meantime, several thousand miles away, in the McCullough Theatre at the University of Texas in Austin, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BPWQ) ... http://theartoftheconductor.com/news/2010/02/04/chabr/