The Twenty-First Century Music Festival, to use its full name, specializes in the new and the recent. 1 to many lovers of contemporary music, opens the festival with a new work by Los Angeles-based Jherek Bischoff. And so it has gone from season to season, without much public fanfare but with a remarkable commitment to making Toronto a more musically interesting city. Collaboration with resident musical organizations, such as the Esprit Orchestra, New Music Concerts and Soundstreams, has always been a feature of programming. They also come because of the dependably high standard of music-making onstage, whether classical, pop, jazz or world music.

Source: thestar May 12, 2018 11:15 UTC