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Atwood memoir now available in paperback
First off, I’m glad to be able to declare that the reports of the meanness of this book are inaccurate. Does Shirley [Graeme’s first wife] Gibson not deserve compassion, wrote Francis Wilson, persuasively, in the Spectator last year, quotin...
Yet another little museum managed better than Toronto-owned Spadina House
Visiting Glanmore House in Belleville, Ont.
But first, an important bread update:
Baritone wobbles, Margaret of Anjou gets tenure, Quebec sends another pair of great musicians
In two days!
In two days!
Catholic and Anglican clergy should take interest in the survival of their own musical heritage
In one of those mad paradoxes that history of music abounds in, Thomas Tallis’ Tudor-era 40-part choral work “Spem in alium” became widely known in our time thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey. (The bonkbuster novel and the film feature this pie...
From Stoney Creek, Ontario, to Jennifer Saunders and Helen Mirren
It’s thanks to British television that I learned of this thing called the Women’s Institute (Calendar Girls and “We are going to need considerably bigger buns”, when the whole world learned of them, came a bit later). I had no idea, though,...
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Culture writer and freelance journalist In Toronto. Books: Lost in Canada: An Immigrant's Second Thoughts (Sutherland House, 2022); All That Sang (Véhicule Press, 2016); Incidental Music (Inanna, 2012).
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