by Paul E. Robinson

Classical Travels
Knowlton Festival Diary
The Knowlton Festival, which started life as Festival Bel Canto in the summer of 2008, opened its 2009 summer season with an all Brahms program. Maestro Kent Nagano did his best, in a well-attended pre-concert talk, to make the case that one could legitimately see the music of Brahms [...]

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Canada doesn’t see much of Zubin Mehta these days but he still has a soft spot for Montreal and tries to return as often as he can to the city that helped him so much in his early days as a conductor. He was back again to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Orchestre symphonique [...]

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