Toronto's music scene got major kudos this week from
New York Times arts and culture critic James R. Oestreich. After a recent trip to Toronto, Oestrich praises
TSO's New Creations Festival, the annual month-long event that showcases the work of contemporary composers. And, in a
second article published the same day, Oestreich also raves about
Tafelmusik, the Toronto-based period instrument ensemble that performs regularly at the Trinity-St. Paul's Center.
"Sometimes you get lucky. I came here to see how the Toronto Symphony
was faring a decade after its troubled times, and that, it turns out,
would have been satisfying enough."
"But the timing also allowed me to catch up with the acclaimed
early-music ensemble Tafelmusik at the Trinity-St. Paul's Center, a
converted church near Toronto University, on Thursday. And it was a
superb evening: a revival of the group's magnum opus, "The Galileo
Project," created in 2009 to celebrate the International Year of
Astronomy, tied to the 400th anniversary of Galileo's development of
the astronomical telescope."
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