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Celebrate the season with a blend of history and heart. Experience the electrifying musical chemistry of The Ezra Duo in Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Piano. Under the baton of Nurhan Arman, Sinfonia Toronto delivers a bouquet of classics. #SinfoniaToronto #NurhanArman
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Happy birthday to Russian composer Alexander Borodin, born otd in 1833. The 'Notturno' movement of his 2nd string quartet remains as one of his most memorable melodies!
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 orchestra version
III: Notturno
Sinfonia Toronto; Nurhan Arman, Conductor
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Borodin String Quartet No. 2 orchestral version Mov 3: Notturno
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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What I think is so wonderful about this news item is how much the Italian public cares about their cultural institutions!

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Musicians march through Venice after La Fenice names music director with ties to Meloni
La Fenice, a renowned Venetian opera house, is embroiled in a dispute over the appointment of Beatrice Venezi as music director.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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"We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise, streamline, and compare ourselves globally..."
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#musiceducation #nurhanarman #classimusic #orchestra #arts
Breaking the sounds of sameness: why music education must resist global uniformity
Hector Scott argues for the embrace of the creative exchange of ideas in music education, rather than a repetitive replicated approach that avoids innovation
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November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Frédéric François Chopin died otd in 1849 at age 39. His rarely performed early cycle of songs are delightful. Here's an excerpt from a performance with soprano Dominika Zamara.
Fryderyk Chopin, Życzenie, Opus 74
Dominika Zamara soprano
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor
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F. Chopin, Życzenie - Dominika Zamara, Sinfonia Toronto, Maestro Nurhan Arman
YouTube video by Dominika Zamara Official
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October 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 was premiered otd 72 years ago in Moscow.
Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano Trumpet and Orchestra
IV. Allegro con brio
Maria Meerovitch, Pianist
Sergei Nakariakov, Trumpeter
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conducor
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Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra mov 4
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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October 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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#classicalmusic #radio #publicradio #npr
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October 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Throwback to the premiere of Mozart's rediscovered Ganz kleine Serenade in my #orchestra version.
#Mozart: Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik Serenade in C K 648
V. Adagio
#SinfoniaToronto; #NurhanArman, Conductor
Premiered on Dec 6, 2024
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#toronto #ontario #canada #classicalmusic #music
W. A. Mozart: Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik Serenade in C
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Had to get a new one! My handmade baton, bought some 35 years ago suffered a fatal accident in Shostakovich's opus 134. Ars longa vita brevis...
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This gas terminal would be built in Korea and owned by American billionaires. Tell PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...
PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!
Donald Trump’s billionaire donors are pushing a new gas terminal on the coast of British Columbia. It would be 100% American owned – and built in Korea. BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Opus 73
String Quartet No. 3, Opus 73
II. Allegro non troppo
Sinfonia Toronto; Nurhan Arman, Conductor
Chamber orchestra version by Nurhan Arman
May 3, 2025 - Toronto, Canada
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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony op 73
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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October 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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This was lots of fun!
Antonin Dvorak: Valse opus 54, No 2
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor
Recorded live at CBC Glenn Gould Studio on January 27, 2017
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Dvorak: Valse opus 54, No 2
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Edvard Mirzoyan died otd in 2012. One of the great musical talents of the 20th century, his conributions to the Armanian music have been enormous.
Mirzoyan: Theme and Variations
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor
Recorded live on Oct 21, 2017
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Edvard Mirzoyan: Theme and Variations
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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October 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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FLUTE MAGIC Two great flutists join SInfoniaToronto and NurhanArman for a program of music from 5 centuries. Italian flutist LuisaSello will team up with Canada's SusanHoeppner for the premiere of CelestialConcerto by Alice PingYee Ho. The rest of the program features music by VivaldiGlazunovJanacek
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Dear friends, please sign this Amnesty International petition. Peaceful protest is a human right supported by the constitutions of many democratic nations. It should not be threatened by lethal force or taken away!​ takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/121218/...
Take the Torture out of Protest!
Across the world, police and military forces are using tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and batons to crush peaceful protests. Thousands of protesters have suffered severe, life-changing injuri...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals
Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’
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October 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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"The violins may be rare, excellently made, and, to some, worth the money. But none of that is actually worth a fig if their price outshines their purpose: to provide a little ear tickling and make it pleasurable to be inside your own head."
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With Strings Attached | A review of “A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London” by Tom Wilder | Literary Review of Canada
J. R. Patterson reviews Tom Wilder’s “A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London,” about the violin’s cultural transition.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The death of music criticism, long foretold, came a whole lot closer this summer. One day in mid-July, the New York Times sacked both of its chief music critics, pop and classical, along with chief theatre critic Jesse Green and Margaret Lyons, who covered TV.

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Wanted: classical music influencers | Norman Lebrecht | The Critic Magazine
The death of music criticism came a whole lot closer this summer. One day in mid-July, the New York Times sacked both of its chief music critics.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Shostakovich: Violinist Igor Pikayzen; Nurhan Arman conducts Sinfonia Toronto - Tomorrow at 7:30 pm at George Weston Recital Hall.
September 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Shostakovich played 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz No. 2 from the Suite for Variety Orchestra
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor
String #orchestra transcription by Nurhan Arman
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#classicalmusic #symphony #toronto #ontario #canada
Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite, Waltz No. 2
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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September 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Toronto on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=262...
Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.
Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
The Hut on Fowl's Legs "Baba-Yaga"
Sinfonia Toronto; Nurhan Arman, Conductor
Recorded live on November 10, 2023 at the Trinity St-Paul's Centre, Toronto
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Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Baba Yaga
YouTube video by Nurhan Arman
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September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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By founding the Sundance Film Festival at a time when Indy was not yet popular Robert Redford contributed immensely to the art of filmmaking. RIP Robert Redford.

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Robert Redford tried to safeguard film music - Slippedisc
From an LA Times report in January 1988:...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Draw the Line Toronto - Join me this Saturday, September 20 at 2:00 PM at Yonge & Dundas, 1 Dundas Street East, Toronto, Canada drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&...
Canada | Draw the Line - For people, for peace, for the planet
We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a geno...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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In just two weeks, we'll be immersed in the incredible music of Soaring Strings-Dvořák’s Love Letter concert. Join us for the opening of our 27th season on Sep 27. Enjoy an evening featuring the music of Mendelssohn Dvořák and Shostakovich Nurhan Arman conducts Sinfonia Toronto. sinfoniatoronto.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM