Index to Eatock Daily blog
Here’s an alphabetical subject index of the entries in my blog, Eatock Daily. For blogs originally written for another publication, the original source is given in brackets. Click on any title to be taken directly to the selected blog.
21C at the Royal Conservatory, review of 25, 27, 28 May 2016 (Classical Review North America)
A Composer's Life: Claude Vivier (book review)
A Late Quartet (film review)
A Lawsuit Grows in Brooklyn (composer Nathan Currier vs. the Brooklyn Philharmonic)
Accounting for taste
Adieu Houston
Aisslinn Nosky leads Tafelmusik, review of 23 Apr 2015 performance (Musical Toronto)
Alan Fletcher gives a speech about classical music
Alisa Weilerstein wins MacArthur Award
Amadéus Leopold plays in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Amici’s Fashionista, review of 29 Jan 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Anna Clyne (New Music I Like No. 10)
Angela Hewitt recital, review of 6 Nov 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Ann Southam
Anne-Marie McDermott with the Toronto Symphony, review of 27 Nov 2014 performance
Anthony Hopkins (and other composers who aren't known as such)
Anton Kuerti and the Ontario Philharmonic, review of 4 Dec 2012 performance
Arvo Pärt (New Music I Like No. 5)
Australian Opera stages Korngold's Die Tote Stadt
Automatic Programme Note Generator
The Bad, the Ugly and (Yes!) the Good (3 Quarks Daily)
Banff, and the evil of music competititons (National Post)
Berlin Phil comes to Toronto, review of 15 Nov 2016 performance
Benjamin Schmid interview (Houston Chronicle)
Bernard Labadie (Kansas City Star)
Big List of Classical Music Blogs
Big List of Classical Music Blogs (BLCMB) hits 600
Black Creek Festival presents London Symphony, review of 27 Aug 2011 performance
Borromeos Play Bartók, review of 6 Aug 2015 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Bruno Monsaingeon interview about Glenn Gould
Camera Lucida on Asian musicians
Cameron Carpenter brings his organ to Toronto, review of 1 April 2016 performance
Canadian Art Song Project
Canadian composers: Coulthard, Hétu, McPhee, Southam, Vivier and Willan (Queen’s Quarterly)
Canadian Opera Orchestra (Globe and Mail)
Canadian Opera plans HD simulcasts
Canadian Opera's 2012-13 season announcement
Canadian Opera's Ariodante, review of 25 Oct 2016 performance
Canadian Opera's Barber of Seville, review of 21 Apr 2015 performance
Canadian Opera's Bluebeard's Castle/Erwartung, review of 6 May 2015 (Classical Voice North America)
Canadian Opera's Carmen, review of 20 Apr 2016
Canadian Opera's Così fan tutte, review of 24 Jan 2014
Canadian Opera's Dialogues of the Carmelites, review of 11 May 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's Die Fledermaus, review of 9 Oct 2012 performance
Canadian Opera's Die Walküre, review of 19 Feb 2015 performance
Canadian Opera's Don Giovanni, review of 12 Feb 2015 performance
Canadian Opera's Don Quichotte, review of 11 May 2014 performance
Canadian Opera's Falstaff, review of 9 Oct 2014 performance
Canadian Opera's Gianni Schicchi/Florentine Tragedy, review of 26 Apr 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Canadian Opera's Hercules, review of 15 Apr 2014 performance
Canadian Opera's Il Trovatore, review of 5 Oct 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's La Bohème, review of 16 Oct 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's La Clemenza di Tito, review of 9 Feb 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's La Traviata, review of 21 Oct 2015 performance
Canadian Opera's Madama Butterfly, review of 11 Oct 2014 performance
Canadian Opera's Magic Flute, review of 28 Jan 2017 performance
Canadian Opera's Maometto II, review of 3 May 2016 performance
Canadian Opera's Marriage of Figaro, review of 7 Feb 2016 performance
Canadian Opera's Norma, review of 18 Oct 2016 performance
Canadian Opera's Peter Grimes, review of 5 Oct 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's Pyramus and Thisbe, review of 20 Oct 2015 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Canadian Opera's Pyramus and Thisbe, further thoughts
Canadian Opera's Salome, review of 27 Apr 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's Semele (and contemporary opera stagings), review of 6 May 2012 performance
Canadian Opera's Tristan und Isolde, review of 8 Feb 2013 performance
Canadian Opera's Un Ballo in maschera, review of 8 Feb 2014 performance
Career options for orchestral musicians
CBC Music internet streaming service
CBC Radio 2 declines in ratings
CBC Radio 2 to sell advertising
Cellos on planes (Globe and Mail)
Cellphones at concerts
Christian Gerhaher at Koerner Hall, review of 19 Feb 2015 performance
Christopher Plummer with the Toronto Symphony, review of 21 Oct 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Christos Hatzis at 60
Classical composer meme
Classical music critics meme
Classical Music is Boring (the blog)
Classical Revolution in Canada (Globe and Mail)
Classical Revolution Toronto, comment on 20 Sep 2011 performance
Claude Vivier
Colin Eatock: Chamber Music (my CD)
Composers who are also critics
Contemporary Classical CDs for Christmas (Houston Chronicle)
Daniel Hope at Koerner Hall, review of 28 Jan 2016 performance
Daniil Trifonov interview (Houston Chronicle)
David Gockley remembers "Nixon" in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Dirty secrets of music critics
David Jalbert plays the Goldbergs, review of 15 Aug 2012 performance
Dmitri Berlinsky and the International Chamber Soloists, review of 15 Jan 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Dover SQ at Toronto Summer Music, review of 29 Jul 2016
Dover String Quartet wins at Banff
Downloading and copyright law
Duty to play new music
Ear testing from Harvard Medical School
East Meets West at New Music Concerts
Edward Gardner conducts the TSO, review of 27 Nov 2013
Ellen Taaffe Zwillich (New Music I Like No. 13)
Elliot Madore in recital, review of 2 Apr 2015 performance
Elmer Iseler Singers sing Togni's Warrior Songs, review of 4 Mar 2015 performance (Musical Toronto)
Elisa Citterio leads Tafelmusik (again), review of 22 Sep 2016 performance
Elitism
Emanuel Ax interview (Houston Chronicle)
Emerson Quartet opens Toronto Summer Music, review of 22 Jul 2014 performance
Emoticon review
Esprit Orchestra, review of 31 Jan 2013 performance
Esprit Orchestra, review of 25 Oct 2013 performance
Esprit Orchestra, review of 16 Oct 2014 performance
Euphonia at the Lula Lounge (Simon Capet's new orchestra)
Fanfare magazine's advertising policy
Florence Foster Jenkins, review of film (National Post)
Four Seasons Centre design
Fun with Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Garrick Ohlsson on Chopin (Houston Chronicle)
Gidon Kremer interview (Globe and Mail)
Gil Shaham interview (Kansas City Star)
Gil Shaham and the Knights, review of 17 Feb 2016 concert
Glenn Gould on Canadian composers
Glenn Gould on CBC television
Glenn Gould on KUHA
Glenn Gould’s Chair
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (composers react to bad performances of their music)
Grimaud vs. Abbado
Gustav Alink
Highbrow and Lowbrow music
Hilary Hahn interview (Houston Chronicle)
Hilary Hahn interviews a fish
Houston Symphony presents multimedia concert Orbit (Houston Chronicle)
How composers get their music played
How It Storms, review of 18 Jun 2015 performance
Hyung-ki Joo plays Rachmaninoff
Illusions at 21C, review of 22 May 2015 performance (Wolfgang's Tonic)
In Praise of Bad Music (classical musicians playing together for fun)
Inon Barnaton at Toronto Summer Music, review of 21 Jul 2016
Interview with Hannu Lintu (Houston Chronicle)
Interview with Marshall Pynkoski of Opera Atelier
Is There a Doctor in the House? (PhD etiquette in North America today)
Is There a Great Canadian Symphony?
James Ehnes interview (Houston Chronicle)
James Ehnes and the Toronto Symphony, review of 8 Dec 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
James Ehnes with the Toronto Symphony, review of 10 Jun 2016 performance
James Galway in recital at Koerner Hall, review of 25 Oct 2014 performance
Jamie Barton at Toronto Summer Music, review of 25 Jul 2016
Jan Lisiecki review of 15 Jul 2011
Jan Lisiecki records Chopin
Janina Fialkowska interview (Houston Chronicle)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet interview (Houston Chronicle)
Jennifer Koh interview (Houston Chronicle)
Jonathan Crow with the TSO, review of 20 Feb 2014
John Relyea interview (Globe and Mail)
Joan Tower (New Music I Like No. 8)
Jon Kimura Parker interview (Houston Chronicle)
John Pickard (New Music I Like No. 11)
John Weinzweig, Stompin' Tom Connors and Canadian music
Jonathan Crow and Toronto Symphony, comment on 29 Oct 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Joshua Bell interview (Houston Chronicle)
Joshua Bell opens Toronto Symphony season, review of 18 Sep 2014 performance
Juilliard Quartet in Toronto, review of 8 Jan 2015 performance (Musical Toronto)
Kathleen Battle at Roy Thomson Hall, review of 29 May 2016
Kevin Lau appointed Toronto Symphony affiliate composer
Kevin Mallon vs. the Heckeler
King's Singers at Koerner Hall, review of 14 Dec 2015 performance (Musical Toronto)
The Knights chamber orchestra (HoustoThe n Chronicle)
Krystian Zymerman, Valentina Lisitsa and YouTube
Juilliard Quartet, review of 28 Mar 2012 performance
LA Philharmonic in Toronto, review of 19 Mar 2014 performance
Lafayette String Quartet (The Strad)
Lawrence Brownlee interview (Houston Chronicle)
Lawrence Dillon (New Music I Like No. 12)
Leopold Stokowski on Everest (Houston Chronicle)
Let Us Speak of Love (new music and the process of canonization)
Louis Lortie recital, review of 16 Oct 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Luminato presents Song of Extinction, review of 22 Jun 2016 performance
The Maestro and the Master (documentary about Jack Diamond's opera house in St. Petersburg)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra plays Philip Glass, review of 17 Sep 2011 performance
Marc-André Hamelin recital, review of 22 Jan 2013 performance
Marjan Mozetich (New Music I Like No. 1)
Mark Oppenheimer on classical music
Mariinsky Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall, review of 6 Oct 2013
Mark Morris Dance Group with Tafelmusik at Luminato, review of 21 Jun 2013
Martin Beaver and Tokyo Quartet interview (Houston Chronicle)
Met Opera Auditions in Buffalo (Globe and Mail)
Michael Torke (New Music I Like No. 4)
Michael van der Aa (New Music I Like No. 7)
Midori at Koerner Hall, review of 8 Nov 2013 performance
Minnesota Orchestra strike
Miró Quartet, review of 21 Nov 2013 performance
Montreal Symphony in Toronto, review of 13 May 2015 performance
Moscow Virtuosi in Toronto, review of 9 May 2014 performance
Music competitions
Music, Multiculturalism and Mr. Desu
Musical terminology (Classical Voice America)
My Top Ten List from the 20th Century
NAFTA and Canadian musicians
Naming Canadian concert halls
National Youth Orchestra of Canada, review of 27 Jul 2011 performance
Naxos launches Canadian Classics
New Music for Christmas Time, review of Music Gallery concert of 20 Dec 2013
New Orford Quartet, review of 11 Sep 2012 performance
New Orford Quartet, review of 4 Nov 2015 performance (Classical Voice North America)
New Year’s resolutions (for other people)
New Zealand Quartet plays standing
Nico Muhly (New Music I Like No. 14)
Occupy Wall Street at the Metropolitan Opera
Opera Atelier, review of Abduction from the Seraglio, 26 Oct 2013 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Opera Atelier, review of Alcina, 23 Oct 2014 performance
Opera Atelier, review of Armide, 17 Apr 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Opera Atelier, review of Armide, 27 Oct 2015 performance
Opera Atelier, review of Der Freischütz, 30 Oct 2012
Opera Atelier, review of Don Giovanni, 29 Oct 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Opera Atelier, review of Lucia Silla, review of 12 Apr 2016 performance
Opera Atelier, review of Orpheus and Eurydice, 18 Apr 2015 performance
Opera Atelier, review of The Magic Flute, 6 Apr 2013 performance
Opera broadcasts
Opera is dangerous (injuries in opera)
Orchestras should promote their players
Pacifica Quartet in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Pawel Szymanski (New Music I Like No. 3)
Peter Eotvos interview (Globe and Mail)
Peter Gelb attempts to censor Opera News
Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman and the Toronto Symphony, review of 28 Apr 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Philip Glass (discussion of style)
Philip Kennicott on the state of classical music
Pianos of Toronto (Globe and Mail)
Piemontesi and Søndergård with the TSO, review of 8 April 2016 concert
Plight of the Composer-Performer
Power, Politics and Valentina Lisitsa
The (PR) Triumph of Modernism
Protests at Proms concerts
R. Murray Schafer (New Music I Like No. 9)
Remembering Glenn Gould (my book)
Remembering Harold C. Schoenberg
Renee Fleming at Roy Thomson Hall, review of 30 Oct 2015 performance
Renee Fleming with the Toronto Symphony, review of 21 Sep performance
Rob Ford the Opera, review of U of T opera 22 Jan 2012 (Globe and Mail)
Roberto Minczuk
Rufus Wainwright commissioned by the COC
Saariaho at 21C, review of 21 May 2015 performance
St. Lawrence Quartet gives Haydn a boost (Houston Chronicle)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Houston Chronicle)
Samurai String Squad, review of 27 Jul 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Second City with the Toronto Symphony, performance of 29 Nov 2014 (Musical Toronto)
Shakespeare as a music critic
Silk Road Ensemble, review of 15 Sep 2015 performance
Snobbery in classical music
Snowball the dancing cockatoo
Some Parting Thoughs on Toronto Summer Music
Sometimes a concert is a perfect sphere (the conflicting priorities of music and journalism)
Soundstreams, review of 2 Feb 2012 (Globe and Mail)
Soundstreams, review of 3 Mar 2013
Soundstreams, review of 30 Sep 2014
Soundstreams, review of 29 Sep 2015
Soundstreams and Esprit Orchestra, review of 11 and 14 Oct 2012 concerts
Soundstreams' Airline Icarus, review of 3 Jun 2014 performance
Soundstreams builds a Super-Choir, review of 2 Feb 2014 concert
Soundstreams celebrates Steve Reich at 80, review of 14 Apr 2016 concert
Soundstreams presents James MacMillan, review of 8 Mar 2016 concert
Soundstreams' Whisper Opera, review of 27 Feb 2015 performance
Soundstreams' Vespers, review of 25 Nov 2015 performance
Spanking the Culture
St. Lawrence Quartet embraces Haydn, review of 26 Jan 2017
Stefan Jackiw and Toronto Symphony, review of 2 Nov 2011 performance (Globe and Mail)
Stephen Hough interview (Houston Chronicle)
Stokowski`s Houston Symphony on Everest (Houston Chronicle)
String instruments, old vs. new
Still dancing about architecture (musical terminology)
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, 100 years later (Literary Review of Canada)
Stuart Hamilton, Opening Windows
Susan Graham interview (Houston Chronicle)
Tafelmusik Media launched
Tafelmusik plays Beethoven's Ninth, review of 4 Feb 2016 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Tafelmusik's Galileo Project in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Tafelmusik's House of Dreams, review of 8 Feb 2012 (Globe and Mail)
Tafelmusik’s Messiah, review of 14 Dec 2011 (Globe and Mail)
Tafelmusik's tribute to Jeanne Lamon, review of 10 May 2014 performance
Tapestry Opera's Booster Shots, review of 16 Nov 2014 performance
Teaching musical values
Teatro Regio Torino brings William Tell to Toronto, review of 5 Dec 2014 performance
Tiger Mother’s Day
Tim's Vermeer (Houston Chronicle)
Tokyo Quartet loses Japanese members
Tokyo Quartet to disband
Toronto Consort Under Lucas Harris, review of 6 Feb 2015 performance (Musical Toronto)
Toronto Summer Music in 2016, review of 16, 17 Jul 2016 performances (Classical Voice North America)
Toronto Summer Music, Ten Years On
Toronto Symphony, review of 16 Nov 2012 concert
Toronto Symphony, review of 2014 New Creations Festival (Classical Voice North America)
Toronto Symphony, review of 24 Oct 2015 concert
Toronto Symphony, review of 23 Jan 2016 semi-staged Mozart Requiem concert
Toronto Symphony, review of 20 Feb 2016 concert
Toronto Symphony announces 2012-13 season
Toronto Symphony at the Hearn, review of 21 Jun 2016 performance (National Post)
Toronto Symphony at Toronto Summer Music, review of 12 Aug 2014 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Toronto Symphony attracts a younger audience
Toronto Symphony Audience Choice concert
Toronto Symphony celebrates "Canadian Legacy", review of 21 Jan 2017 (Classical Voice North America)
Toronto Symphony New Creations presents Hellgate and more, review of 12 Mar 2016 performance
Toronto Symphony plays Beethoven and Mahler (1), review of 13 Nov 2014 performance (Classical Voice North America)
Toronto Symphony plays Beethoven and Mahler (2), review of 22 Nov 2014 performance
Toronto Symphony plays Mahler's Fifth Symphony, review of 9 Apr 2015 performance
Toronto Symphony plays Mahler's Eighth Symphony, review of 13 Jun 2012 performance
Toronto Symphony plays the Rite of Spring, review of 28 Mar 2015 performance
Toronto Symphony presents Benjamin's Written on Skin, review of 7 Mar 2015 performance
Toronto Symphony presents Hitchcock's Psycho, review of 31 Oct 2015 performance
Toronto Symphony tailgate party (more on younger audiences)
Toronto Symphony's 2012 New Creations Festival
Toronto Symphony with Barbara Hannigan, review of 8 Oct 2015 performance
Toronto Symphony with Simone Osborne, review of 12 Nov 2015 performance
Tosca in Houston at the Miller Outdoor Theatre, review of 20 May 2016
Trevor Pinnock (Houston Chronicle)
Two Pianos Four Hands
Valentin Silvestrov (New Music I Like No. 2)
Valentina Lisitsa interviewed (Wolfgang's Tonic)
Valerian Ruminski fired from Opera Lyra Ottawa
Victoria Symphony plays War Requiem, review of 8 Nov 2014 performance
Vienna Piano Trio, review of 25 July 2012 (Globe and Mail)
Vancouver Symphony plays Symphonie fantastique, review of 3 Nov 2014 performance
Wagner and Me (film review)
Wagner's Dream (film review)
Wallis Giunta, review of 1 Mar 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Wang, Urbański and the TSO, review of 13 Oct 2016
Wanted, Dead or Alive (Chiara Bottici on the death of opera)
Weight as an issue in opera
What to Wear to the Mariinsky Orchestra
What Do Orchestras Want?
When should a conductor speak up? (Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra)
Who Owns (the Word) Music?
WMTC presents James Ehnes, Russell Braun and Carolyn Maule, review of 2 May 2013
Yannick Nézet Séguin on being Canadian
Yannick Nézet-Séguin goes to Philadelphia (Queen's Quarterly)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Goes to the Met (National Post)
Year 2011 in review
Young Conductors (Houston Chronicle)
YouTube's power and influence
Yo-Yo Ma and the Toronto Symphony, review of 30 May 2012 performance (Globe and Mail)
Yo-Yo Ma in recital at Roy Thomson Hall, review of 22 Nov 2013 performance
Yuja Wang's little dress (Houston Chronicle)
Yuja Wang with the TSO, review of 12 Jun 2013 performance
Zenph releases CD with Isabel Bayrakdarian accompanied by Manuel de Falla
updated as of 28 Jan 2017