Kathleen Kajioka

  Loie Fallis, the TSO’s outgoing VP of Artistic Planning, has worked under five different Music Directors since she joined the administration in 1980. In this web exclusive interview, hear her memories of Sir Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Peter Oundjian and Gustavo Gimeno! Listen below:   You can hear Loie Fallis in […]

  This week: Gabriel Pierné. His music could be seen as a thumbnail survey of his time.  Busy most of the year as a conductor, Pierné lived during that rich era in France that saw the music of Massenet, Franck, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky – all of whose influence flowed freely though Pierné’s pen during […]

  This week: Johann Nepomuk Hummel. This virtuoso pianist was the last of his generation, before the clean discipline and balance of the Classical era gave way to the tempestuous likes of Romantic Franz Liszt. A child prodigy, he was taken under Mozart’s wing and given free lessons for 2 years. When he flew the coop, […]

  This week: Reynaldo Hahn. This Venezuelan’s musical destiny was sealed when his family moved to France. Immersed in the bustling scene of opera and poetry in late-19th century Paris, the young Reynaldo would turn his fascination with France’s great wordsmiths into a career as a master of French art song. Tune in to A […]

  This week on ‘A Little Night Music’ Kathleen Kajioka takes a closer looks at Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. He’s one of the first names you bump into when you explore the world of music before Bach. A trailblazer in the early days of the violin, Biber left behind a treasure trove of music rich […]

  This week: Carl Maria von Weber. Coming of age at the turn of the 19th century, Weber would grow up to become a leader in Europe’s budding Romantic movement. He was a pianist, guitarist, conductor and critic. As a composer, he wrote ground-breaking operas and brilliant piano music – and clarinetists love him for the […]

  This week: Sergey Prokofiev. Born in the last decade of the 1800s, this composer’s early education was steeped in Romanticism – a mantle he quickly threw off, diving headlong into the new century’s modernist possibilities. The only Russian composer to leave after the Revolution and return, he would have a tightrope to walk under […]