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Volume 28 Issue 4 | February - March 2023

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Volume 28 no.4, covering Feb, March and into early April '23! David Olds remembers composer John Beckwith; Andrew Timar reflects on the life and times of artistic polymath Michael Snow; Mezzo Emily Fons, in town for Figaro, on trouser roles, the life of a mezzo-soprano on the road and more; Colin Story on the Soft-Seat beat; tracks from 22 new recordings added to our Listening Room. All this and more.

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The WholeNote VOLUME 28 NO 4 FEBRUARY & MARCH, 2023 EDITORIAL Publisher/Editor in Chief | David Perlman publisher@thewholenote.com Managing Editor | Paul Ennis editorial@thewholenote.com Recordings Editor | David Olds discoveries@thewholenote.com DIGITAL MEDIA digital@thewholenote.com Listings Editor | John Sharpe listings@thewholenote.com SOCIAL MEDIA Danial Jazaeri, Colin Story social@thewholenote.com SALES, MARKETING & MEMBERSHIP Concert & Event Advertising / Membership | Karen Ages members@thewholenote.com Production & Operations | Jack Buell jack@thewholenote.com Advertising Art adart@thewholenote.com Online classified ads classd@thewholenote.com WEBSITE / SYSTEMS Kevin King systems@thewholenote.com CIRCULATION Sheila McCoy & Chris Malcolm circulation@thewholenote.com SUBSCRIPTIONS subscriptions@thewholenote.com + HST (8 issues) single copies and back issues *international - additional postage applies WholeNote Media Inc. Centre for Social Innovation 503–720 Bathurst Street Toronto ON M5S 2R4 Phone 416-323-2232 | Fax 416-603-4791 Instagram @the_wholenote Facebook & Twitter @theWholenote thewholenote.com STORIES & INTERVIEWS 26 ON OPERA | Mezzo Emily Fons on globetrotting and more | LYDIA PEROVIĆ 28 REMEMBERING | Michael Snow | ANDREW TIMAR 30 MOSTLY JAZZ | February 14 It’s Clubs and Hearts | COLIN STORY LISTINGS 32 EVENTS BY DATE Live and/or Live Streamed 43 MAINLY CLUBS 45 WHO’S WHO? Presenters, venues, choirs & more DISCOVERIES: RECORDINGS REVIEWED 46 Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS 48 Strings Attached | TERRY ROBBINS 51 Vocal 54 Classical and Beyond 58 Modern and Contemporary 62 Jazz and Improvised Music 67 Pot Pourri 68 Something in the Air | KEN WAXMAN 69 Old Wine, New Bottles | BRUCE SURTEES 70 New to the Listening Room, INDEX 46 an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario ANDRE LEDUC 6 | February & March, 2023 thewholenote.com

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