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2004-10-23
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Media watch: The
Globe and Mail launches its special weekend edition on ‘the rising China’. National
Post and Toronto Star correspondingly have their own ‘China special’.
2004-10-17
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Sam Fuller: The Big Red One (1980) ---
Cinematheque Ontario’s new season started. This is the first of series short
reviews.
2004-06-22
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My short essay New Renaissance has won 2004 Hart
House Lecture Essay Contest. This essay answers the questions raised by the
2004-06-14
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A message from a friend concerning the upcoming
election – Rock the Vote
2004-06-07
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Essay on an auteur - Thematic Development of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s
Films
2004-06-06
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Essay on Canadian history - The Impact of the British Conquest on New France
2004-06-04
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Tafelmusik Summer Institute chamber concert – Music Interlude
2004-06-03
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Capsule film review - Angel Face (1952), RKO, director:
Otto Preminger, with Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
2004-05-27
Ø Lara St. John - In February,
Ms. St. John gave an exciting recital in Jane Mallet Theatre, playing Bach and
Bartok. For me it’s one of the seasonal highlights of Music Toronto.
The next day, in the pages of Toronto Star, John Terauds gave a fair and
positive review, but unfortunately made an uncomplimentary comment on the dress
Ms. St. John wearing. What he said was quite true, though unnecessary and
improper. The violinist was offended and fought back in the same pages a few
days later. The story is re-visited today by the New York Times critic Anne
Midgette in her article The Curse of Beauty for Serious Musicians (external
link, registration required).
2004-05-25
Ø Tafelmusik in George Weston Recital Hall – the
final concert of the season – A second listening to Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor
2004-05-23
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Concert review – Mozart: Mass in C Minor, Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Chorus
2004-05-19
Ø Concert musing - Two Countertenors: Daniel Taylor, James
Bowman with Theatre of Early Music, May 18, 2004, Walter Hall, University of
Toronto
2004-05-18
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A poem - Standing in the Depth of the Forest
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Brief musing – On Philosopher
2004-05-12
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A Career in creative writing? Some insiders’ points of view
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To express the idealism in
history, in my opinion, it's necessary to avoid over-heated rhetoric as well as
sentimentalism.
Ø Arthur Schopenhauer – Encyclopaedia Britannica notes
2004-04-15
Ø A poem – I Saw a Lone Bird in the Sky
