Visualizing the Symphony, with Hannah Chan-Hartley
The TSO’s Hannah Chan-Hartley’s concert programmes expertly combine colour, graphics, and text to enrich the live music experience for concertgoers.
How to Clap in Time
Clapping in time? Easy right? Well, if it’s not easy for you – you’re not alone! The good news is that clapping in time is learnable, valuable, and fun!
Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 2
Modernist composers went beyond writing new music, to reinventing music itself. Listen to their astonishing expressions of psychosis, memory, and faith.
Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 1
Spanning two world wars, the advent of the automobile, airplane, and radio – the Modernist Era’s revolutionary music reflects a massive cultural upheaval.
Open Your Ears to Jazz
Born the streets of New Orleans, jazz grew through dance, entertainment and pop to become high art, touching nearly every popular music style on the planet.
Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 2
Driven by new audiences hungry for sensation, the heroic Romantic Era celebrity composers drove performers to unsurpassed levels of instrumental virtuosity.
Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 1
Way beyond candlelit dinners, Romantic-era composers fascinated new audiences with extreme musical tales of love, death, nature, and the supernatural.
4 Strange Cover Songs You Have to Hear for Yourself
One of the best ways to make a name for yourself is to cover songs by other artists. An even better (and possibly, even more fun!) way to get noticed is to be creative in your arrangement.
Check out how these artists put their own strange twists on some popular hits.
Exploring Classical Music: The Classical Era, Part 2
Classical Era composers mastered musical form to frame their myriad thoughts and emotions. Learn how to listen for form in the music of Beethoven and Haydn.
Open Your Ears to the Blues
While not currently a chart-topping genre in it’s own right, blues saturate the roots of rock, pop, hip-hop, R & B and nearly every popular music worldwide.
Open Your Ears to Pop
What makes pop pop? While drawing from several other genres, like rock, hip-hop, country, and R & B, pop music has its own musical and cultural qualities.
Open Your Ears to Rock Music
Spanning a half-century of musical mayhem, rock genres range from Surf to Heavy Metal to Punk, Grunge and beyond. Find out what makes rock, well, rock.
