TORONTO – Anton Kuerti has been an adopted musical treasure in Canada since moving here from Cleveland in 1965 to protest the Vietnam War. He had studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczylaw Horszowski at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, and before that with Arthur ...
by Stephen Cera I recently returned from a 12-day musical journey to three European cities: Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin. It began with a visit to Frankfurt, Germany, to hear my young friend, tenor Theo Lebow, sing the title role in Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress w...
SOME ARTISTS PRESENTED AT THE FORD CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS in Toronto during the tenure of STEPHEN CERA as Artistic Director –Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields –Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano –Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano –Kathleen Battle, soprano –Beaux Arts...
Remembering The Late, Great Glenn Gould Stephen Cera Independent Music Professional Posted: 02/24/2016 3:17 pm EST Updated: 02/24/2016 3:59 pm EST The late Glenn Gould was a Canadian national treasure. One of the great pianists of the 20th century, his rare intellect, as...
Charles Rosen: Legacy of a Master Pianist Stephen Cera Independent Music Professional Posted: 01/25/2015 10:18 pm EST Updated: 03/28/2015 5:59 am EDT Weighed down with huge back catalogues and diminishing demand, classical record companies have been issuing a steady ...
Glenn Gould's CBC-TV Programs Issued By Stephen Cera By Stephen Cera, December 16, 2011, MusicalAmerica.com TORONTO -- Since Glenn Gould’s death in 1982, a few days after his 50th birthday, his fame has grown steadily, largely through the issue and reissue of his many...
The Mahler Discography review appeared in International Record Review (U.K.) in November 2010. Mahler Discography Second edition. Péter Fülöp Mikrokosmos Co. Ltd, Toronto, with Mikzol KFT, Budapest (hardback, 568 pages, illustrated, includes CD of rare 1949 recording of Mahle...
Is “Amadeus” a True Picture of Mozart? by Stephen Cera, Published in the Globe and Mail on October 9, 2003. Mediocrity defiles genius in “Amadeus,” Peter Shaffer’s dramatic depiction of the struggle between a powerful establishment figure and a miraculous child of ...
BRILLIANT CONCERTIZING FROM A RECLUSIVE VIRTUOSO by Stephen Cera Originally published in The Wall Street Journal on September 12, 1986. “The concert is dead,” Glenn Gould said 20 years ago. The brilliant Canadian pianist, who died in 1982, predicted the complete demise of...
