Christmas means different things for everyone. For my childhood best friend, it means sleeping on the cold wood floor of her cousins’ attic listening for reindeer. For my half-Jewish-half-Catholic roommate, it means devouring fresh-baked chocolatines at her Grandmaman’s house minutes before midnight strikes on Christmas Eve. For my cousins in New York, it means [...]
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Hear ye! Those of you out there who are interested in experimental contemporary music should check out the show I’m in tonight. I’m in a chamber ensemble called Concerto Della Donna, and we have our seasonal concert this evening. We’re an 18-voice ensemble conducted by Maestro Iwan Edwards, who recently retired as [...]
Alas, I did not score points on the hipster-o-meter this weekend. While the rest of the Montreal world was at Osheaga catching tunes and having some fun in the sun, I was on a choir retreat in Orford, Quebec, deciphering obscure time signatures and phonetically translating German.
I sing with an 18-voice women’s ensemble [...]