Tag: piano

Mixed diary: free live music! Hooray!

Toronto's Canadian Opera Company offers several free concerts a week, September-June. Is that enough to make me move to Toronto?

I miss the piano. I miss being that good at something.

Inspiration comes from odd places. In this case, a few weeks' obsession with perfume generated a short collection of creative-autobiographical …

I've shared some quieter classical favorites with you; now here are five of my faster, crazier picks!

I watch a lovely documentary on amateur pianists, and riff irritably on my frustrations at the challenges facing women.

Am I destined to cat-sit at the beginning of each new school year? I did last year, and here I …

Edwin, Daniel, Patrick and his friend Natalie and I went to hear Christopher O'Riley tonight. It was a very enjoyable …