There was a conductor who spent his life learning how to shape sound. He knew more than one language. Italian when rehearsing Verdi, German for Brahms, French for Debussy. One […]

There was a woman named Sally who sang in a cover band. She wasn’t really into most of the songs but it was a living. She carried debts in her […]

Halid Frochill wore scarves indoors and referred to himself as “a curator of genius.” His voice was syrupy, his handshake just short of sincere. He carried a leather-bound datebook, always […]

Young violinist, Claire Bergen, lived on the edge of Boissevain. The wind came across the fields like a tired old hymn and nothing rushed, well maybe the clouds. One day, […]

There was a musician named David Klein. He could play melodies that felt older than his hands. When he played alone, it was a little supernatural. Candles trembled. The cat […]

Neil, who played a Djembe (with brushes). Lenny, sang in English but dreamed in French. And Mira, played an accordion drone like a kettle whistling musically. There were three of […]

In a cedar-scented cabin tucked into the misty forests of British Columbia, Bill Kozinski, wanted to do some good in the world. Kozinski was a drop-out from Simon Fraser’s Beedie […]

The concert was scheduled at the Bram Taylor Green, a granite box with velvet seats and good acoustics but bad parking. Julian Wong, the pianist, was known only to a […]

One afternoon, while the orchestra violins tuned, Chad the oboist turned to Berta, who was polishing her flute with a cloth that had once been a scarf. “It’s all over,” […]

Three musicians, Alex, Georgia, and Ty, traveled from Guelph to Montreal, hoping to record the album they’d been imagining for years. They had songs. They had time. They almost had […]