From Audrey Hepburn to Pedro Pascal, cellists have become a movie shorthand for sensitivity, intensity and emotional depth. But why has Hollywood turned one orchestral instrument into a character in ...

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Aasgaard's restrained Walton divides opinion, but Wilson and the Sinfonia's Roman trilogy more than compensates in a glorious ...

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There’s something magical about theatre under the summer sky, and Shakespeare Kelowna’s production of The Taming of the Shrew is a great reason to do just that. Directed by Tanya ...

Isn’t it great when crazy ideas turn out to be the best ideas? Juliana Hatfield wasn’t the first artist to think, “Hey, I’m going to make an album of covers of just one artist!” Most of those plans ...

For violinist <a href=" Wilson, writing descants to all six of the Preludes to Bach's Cello Suites was a labor of love - ...

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor is the very definition of iconic. A four-note sequence that's repeated throughout the first movement makes for one of the most famous openings in classical music.

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In the media yoke this week is “Rule of Three,” the new album from fiddle player Maura Shawn Scanlin. Joined by John Doyle ...

In scoring Sanditon, the adaptation of Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel, composer Ruth Barrett found inspiration in the wild decadence of Regency England, folk music, and…The Clash! In her Q&A ...