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Toronto News and InformationToronto's Festive Frenzy: Holidays, Art, and the Thrill of Winter in the CityWelcome to Things to Do in Toronto! It’s Friday, November 21, 2025, and this is your host, Oly Bennet, reporting in with the wildest energy from the world’s quirkiest metropolis. Toronto’s in classic late-November form today—brisk air that makes you question your life choices before the first cup of coffee, an overcast sky, but spirits are up and the city seems wrapped in that excited, bundle-up vibe as everyone gears up for holiday cheer and downtown dazzle.Let’s start with a quick snapshot of what’s happening today. There’s a flurry of events popping all over town...
2025-11-2104 min
Neon Jazz InterviewsToronto-based Jazz Pianist Anthony D'AlessandroWelcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Toronto-based Jazz Pianist Anthony D'Alessandro .. We caught up with this young pianist about his new 2024 CD Searchin’, a life in jazz and the future ahead. Hailed by The WholeNote Magazine as a pianist with a “natural feeling for swing and groove” and “scintillating technique.” Since graduating from college in 2019, he has been steadily carving out a name for himself across the country. Having already toured Canada from coast to coast with two-time JUNO award winning vocalist Caity Gyorgy, and after spending a year performing and studying in New York City...
2024-05-1517 min
Relevant TonesFrank HorvatFrank Horvat is "one of the most inventive songwriters to come out of the contemporary scene in Canada." (WholeNote Magazine) This award-winning composer’s music is emotional and intense and explores a wide array of themes from love to the environment, mental health and social justice issues. Hosted by Matthew Dosland.
2024-03-041h 17
Finding Your BlissRona Maynard and Whitney Ross-BarrisThis week on Finding Your Bliss, Life Coach and Bliss Expert Judy Librach is joined by former Chatelaine editor and author, Rona Maynard!
Rona found happiness at 65—a story she tells in her new memoir "Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World". She first broke into print at 14 with a short story about bullying and still receives fan mail from teens who are reading it in class. Rona capped a stellar career in magazines with a decade at the helm of Chatelaine, where her column garnered a loyal following. Her disclosure of a struggle with depression he...
2023-04-2251 min
M.I.L.F (Music I Love to Follow) Recordings PodcastsM.I.L.F The Naughty Fourty Volume 54 June #Tuning #WholeNoteMusic I Love to Follow Presents - The Naughty Fourty Volume 54 - #June #Tuning #WholeNote #Deep - Mixed by Shendi Bowers
Welcome back to another episode of the original edition of the M.I.L.F podcast brand and yes we are still keeping it strictly Deep House for these editions for the foreseeable future. For the Tech House, Deep Tech & Techno lovers please remember to check out ‘Techstiles’ for your listening pleasure.
Full track listing for future reference available below.
M.I.L.F. (Music I Love to...
2022-06-1940 min
Non-Essential Workers20. Ryan Davis: Loop Pedals and ViolaHailed as a “lovely violist” (The WholeNote magazine), Ryan Davis is swiftly emerging as a sought-after artist in orchestral, chamber music and solo performances. He holds degrees from McGill University, Yale University and Colburn, and is currently based in Toronto where he was selected as a Rebanks Fellow in the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program. Ryan is also an innovative performer under the moniker Radia, fusing elements of classical, folk, electronic, and hip-hop music with a loop pedal. He is also a founder of The Upnote podcast which won the 2019 New Venture Competition, becoming the inaugural Entr...
2021-05-1134 min
Non-Essential Workers14. Frank Horvat: Music for ChangeFrank Horvat has been described as "one of the most inventive songwriters to come out of the contemporary scene in Canada" (The WholeNote Magazine), and explores a wide array of themes in his music from love to the environment, mental health and social justice issues. Frank gives his audiences time and space to reflect in this fast-paced world. His compositions tell deeply personal stories while permitting audiences to ponder their own. With a continuously growing discography and premieres on four continents, his compositions have been featured in plays, films and on TV and radio networks internationally. You can find...
2021-03-2241 min
Singers Tension PodcastNavigating The Change: Student to Professional with Lyndsay PromaneInevitably, every artist must face the transition from student to professional. Students of classical voice often hear that their career will be a long journey, perhaps not taking off until closer to their thirties. Singers will place suffocating expectations on themselves to hit specific landmarks in order to “stay on track” for their dream career, adopting ideas that to deviate in any way from the financially independent singer, would be a mark of failure. What does a singers’ life look like in reality, in these years post post-secondary education, and realistically, how do we forge a life for ourselves that i...
2021-01-1344 min
Master Of Your CraftsS1. Ep. 12. Experience Through Music TheatreAlaina Viau, Director and Creator
Alaina is a daring director, creator and producer based in Toronto. She is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of indie opera company Loose Tea Music Theatre where she creates “genre defying” productions that center on critical social issues and cross-cultural relationships. Not afraid to break all the rules, she collaborates with DJ's, projection artists, choreographers and filmmakers: “The stunning originality of Viau’s vision…grip the imagination.” – Opera Going Toronto. Alaina is a queer disabled artist seeking a new framework for safe and compassionate creation processes that decolonize and dismantle hierarchical practices. The...
2020-07-2239 min
Conversations at The WholeNoteJonathan Crow - April 18, 2017Is Toronto Summer Music (TSM) going to be an excuse for you to hang out with friends? It was a question that came up early in this late April 2017 conversation with TSO concertmaster, New Orford String Quartet violinist and U of T associate professor Jonathan Crow, who was in our studio to speak with us mostly about his new role as the third artistic director of TSM. (WholeNote publisher David Perlman and managing editor Paul are asking the questions.)
2017-06-0100 minConversations at The WholeNoteRuth Howard - April 18, 2017In the well-known Edward Lear nonsense poem from which Ruth Howard’s unorthodox Toronto community arts organization derives its name, the Jumblies set off to sea in a Sieve, less than than adequately provisioned, and thirsty for adventure. On their return some twenty years later, everyone remarks on how they’ve grown. In this conversation Howard traces Jumblies’ journey from its early roots in the Community Play movement, to their May-June 2017 Touching Ground Festival which, while true to the company’s twenty year tradition of professional caliber neighbourhood-based art-making, breaks new ground both for Jumblies and offers new perspectives, and hope, fo...
2017-04-2600 minConversations at The WholeNoteDaniel Taylor - March 22, 2017Countertenor Daniel Taylor on the Junos, Bach in Bethlehem and beyond, Handel's Imeneo, juggling three musical hats and more.
2017-03-2900 minConversations at The WholeNoteRussell BraunBaritone Russell Braun visits The WholeNote office to talk about where his upcoming Canadian Opera Company role as Louis Riel fits into a busy musical life.
2017-03-2300 minConversations at The WholeNoteJenny ParrJenny Parr in conversation with David Perlman about her work as fight director in Opera Atelier's April 2017 production of Charpentier's Medea, and how it connects with other aspects of her theatrical and musical life.
2017-03-1500 minConversations at The WholeNoteStewart GoodyearStewart Goodyear returns to discuss upcoming programs, performing and more.
2016-11-1400 minConversations at The WholeNoteFire and Grace - Edwin HuizingaEdwin Huizinga, violinist in conversation at The WholeNote.
2016-10-1900 minConversations at The WholeNoteTafelmusik Chamber Choir at 35 - Ivars TaurinsIvars Taurins in conversation with David Perlman.
2016-10-1100 minConversations at The WholeNoteIn conversation with Stephanie Martin and Noel EdisonChoral conductors discuss duelling Nov 5 Elijahs
2016-09-2000 minConversations at The WholeNoteDouglas McNabneyDouglas McNabney returns to discuss his final summer as artistic director of Toronto Summer Music.
2016-05-1800 minConversations at The WholeNoteSterling BeckwithDavid Perlman talks Shostakovich with Sterling Beckwith.
2016-03-1000 minConversations at The WholeNoteMarshall PynkoskiDavid Perlman chats with Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Opera Atelier.
2016-02-2900 minConversations at The WholeNoteSondra RadvanovskyDavid Perlman goes on the road to talk with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky.
2015-10-1700 min2015-08-1900 minConversations at The WholeNoteDouglas McNabneyDavid Perlman talks with Douglas McNabney, artistic director of Toronto Summer Music.
2015-06-1800 minConversations at The WholeNoteJamie ParkerDavid Perlman talks with Jamie Parker about his work with Music Toronto, the Gryphon Trio and what it's like being a pianist, a professor and a Parker.
2015-02-2100 minConversations at The WholeNoteAngela HewittDavid Perlman talks with Angela Hewitt about her upcoming performances, programming her annual festival and her vision of years to come.
2014-12-1600 minConversations at The WholeNoteSuzie LeBlancDavid Perlman talks with Suzie LeBlanc (Soprano) about her Acadian Christmas album and her other projects.
2014-12-1600 minConversations at The WholeNoteAlex PaukDavid Perlman talks with Alex Pauk, founder and artistic director of Esprit Orchestra.
2014-11-0500 minConversations at The WholeNoteNoel EdisonDavid Perlman talks with Noel Edison, artistic director and conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Elora Festival Singers.
2014-09-0800 minConversations at The WholeNoteDavid FallisIn the new Conversations <at> studio, David Perlman talks with David Fallis, artistic director of The Toronto Consort.
2014-08-0800 minConversations at The WholeNotePeter OundjianOn the road again, David Perlman talks with the TSO Artistic Director Peter Oundjian.
2014-05-0600 minConversations at The WholeNoteStephanie MartinDavid Perlman talks again with composer, conductor and artistic director Stephanie Martin.
2014-03-1100 min
Republic Of Avalon RadioROAR-2006-10-31 - Episode 45 - Wholenote Interview Part2ROAR-2006-10-31 - Episode 45 - Wholenote Interview Part2
This week on the ROAR:
Greetings from: Lonnie Angel, Glynn Murray, Kelly-Ann and Indra; all from Barbados.
Opening remarks and Part 2 of the interview with the Wholenote podcast.
Music this week:
Our theme, Genesis, Soca, Midnight Rover, Song For Newfoundland and Flow On Waterford River by Jim Fidler.
Best listened to on headphones. - Great to half it up with the Wholenote!
2014-01-281h 17Republic Of Avalon RadioROAR-2006-10-23 - Episode 44 - Wholenote Interview Part1ROAR-2006-10-23 - Episode 44 - Wholenote Interview Part1
This week on the ROAR:
Part 1 of an interview with the Wholenote podcast.
Music this week:
Our theme, Genesis, Rhythm Of The Goat, The Merman and Lillian (A Portrait In Sound) by Jim Fidler.
Best listened to on headphones. - Part 2 coming soon.
2014-01-281h 12Conversations at The WholeNoteSuzie LeBlancConversations <at> goes on the road as David Perlman talks with early music specialist and soprano Suzie LeBlanc.
2013-10-2200 min2013-08-1100 min2013-02-1700 minConversations at The WholeNoteRoman BorysDavid Perlman talks with Roman Borys of the Gryphon Trio and Artistic Director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.
2012-06-2000 minConversations at The WholeNoteJosh GrossmanDavid Perlman talks with Josh Grossman, artistic director of the TD Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival.
2012-06-2000 min2012-05-1000 minConversations at The WholeNoteGordon MansellDavid Perlman talks with Gordon Mansell of the Organix concert series.
2012-05-0500 minConversations at The WholeNoteStephanie MartinDavid Perlman talks with Stephanie Martin of the Pax Christi Chorale about the upcoming concert at Koerner Hall.
2012-04-1900 minConversations at The WholeNoteDouglas McNabneyDavid Perlman talks with Douglas McNabney, artistic director of the Toronto Summer Music Festival.
2012-04-1900 min2012-03-2000 minConversations at The WholeNoteSvetlana DvoretskaiaDavid Perlman talks with Svetlana Dvoretskaia of Show One Productions.
2012-03-1500 minConversations at The WholeNoteCatherine WilsonDavid Perlman talks with Catherine Wilson of Ensemble Vivant.
2012-03-1500 minConversations at The WholeNoteWallis GiuntaDavid Perlman talks with Wallis Giunta for the first time in December of 2011 about her upcoming performances and her history with Roy Thomson Hall.
2011-12-2800 minConversations at The WholeNoteSerouj KradjianDavid Perlman talks with Serouj Kradjian, composer and pianist.
2011-10-1500 minConversations at The WholeNoteMark S. DossDavid Perlman talks with bass-baritone Mark S. Doss about his performance in the Canadian Opera Company production of Iphigenie en Tauride (2011).
2011-10-1500 minConversations at The WholeNoteChristina Petrowska QuilicoDavid Perlman in conversation with pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, discussing her new recording 'Tapestries' and performing with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra.
2011-10-1500 minConversations at The WholeNotePeter Takacs - Interviewed by Bruce SurteesBruce Surtees interviews Peter Takacs about the release of his complete set of Beethoven Sonatas.
2011-08-2200 minConversations at The WholeNoteNadina Mackie JacksonDavid Perlman converses with Nadina Mackie Jackson, solo bassoonist.
2011-08-2200 minConversations at The WholeNoteBruce Ubukata and Stephen RallsDavid Perlman talks with Bruce Ubukata and Stephen Ralls.
2011-01-2000 min