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#TuesdayThoughts In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don’t get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. Luciano Berio #ontariophilharmonic

Dear friends, with this cute cellist, we wish you a nice #Caturday #OntarioPhilharmonic Image by fridaycat

#TBT Performing with the Latvian Soprano Maija Kovalevska, Tatiana’s aria from Eugene Onegin, exactly 4 years ago on January 28th, 2018. Did you join us at that great concert? #EugeneOnegin #Tchaikovsky... https://youtu.be/KKIOYXiqhXs

Happy birthday Wolfie! Today we celebrate one of the world’s most cherished and prolific composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born on this day in 1756. #OntarioPhilharmonic #Mozart

#MondayQuiz If you can match 6 classical composers to their first names, you’re basically a music historian. https://www.classicfm.com//match-composers-to-first-name/... #OntarioPhilharmonic #ClassicFM

Beethoven’s 7th Symphony premiered a day like today but back in 1813 with Beethoven himself conducting. The work was well-received immediately and the audience demanded to encore the -still famous- Allegretto. Here is a clip of Leonard Bernstein conducting this symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1976. https://www.youtube.com/watch... In the image: Beethoven 7th Symphony - Allegretto manuscript. #OtarioPhilharmonic #Beethoven

#MondayQuiz Pick your favourite classical music and our friends from @ClassicFM will reveal your relationship status. #OntarioPhilharmonic... https://www.classicfm.com//quizz/relationship-status-quiz/

#MondayQuiz Only a classical music expert can guess the piece just from the ending. #OntarioPhilharmonic https://www.classicfm.com//classical-music-expert-guess-p/

#TBT Ontario Philharmonic Performing Dvorak Cello Concerto with the outstanding Santiago Cañón Valencia - Cellist under Maestro Marco Parisotto's conducting. Do you remember this concert of our 2017 season? #ontariophilharmonic

Happy birthday to La Divina #MariaCallas

What better way to celebrate St. Cecilia's day than with one of Mahler's most joyful works! "Cecilia and all her relations make excellent court musicians. The angelic voices... gladden our senses, so that all awaken for joy" Enjoy Mahler’s celestial 4th Symphony with Ontario Philharmonic conducted by Marco Parisotto. https://youtu.be/sjamuJp4xr0 #Mahler #OntarioPhilharmonic

Today in #ComposerCats the mind-blowing Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. In this #Caturday here his song titled "Gato" (cat) with the tenor Lawrence Brownlee: https://youtu.be/VlpBt4RuU6I #OntarioPhilharmonic

Can you #Handel it? #OntarioPhilharmonic

#WednesdayWisdom Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky #ontariophilharmonic

#TuesdayThoughts Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. Robert Schumann #ontariophilharmonic

#TBT Performing Paganini’s Violin concerto no. 1 with the outstanding violinist Tatsuki Narita January 2019. Do you remember that concert? #ontariophilharmonic

#MondayQuiz This is a hard one! If you can identify 7/10 classical pieces just from the intro, we’ll be impressed #OntarioPhilharmonic... https://www.classicfm.com//identify-classical-pieces-from/

#MondayQuiz Reinette du Canada, Melba, Armida... Are those are names of operas or apples? #OntarioPhilharmonic... https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/opera-or-apple/ See more

#TBT Maestro Marco Parisotto conducting Ontario Philharmonic in Eugene Onegin's Letter Scene excerpts with the great Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska. #Tchaikovsky #ThrowbackThursday https://youtu.be/KKIOYXiqhXs

Postcard from a 2018 concert. How much we miss the stage! #OntarioPhilharmonic ... Photo: Marco Ayala

It is #Caturday lets have a joy moment with Rossini's hilarious Cat Duet. https://youtu.be/QNyR6rsGDyg #OntarioPhilharmonicIt is #Caturday lets have a joy moment with Rossini's hilarious Cat Duet. ... https://youtu.be/QNyR6rsGDyg #OntarioPhilharmonic

#WednesdayWisdom A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. Dmitri Shostakovich #OntarioPhilharmonic

#TBT Our Music Director Marco Parisotto, conducting Ontario Philharmonic in Brahms' Symphony No. 1 https://youtu.be/JE5JVNim2u0 . #Brahms #OntarioPhilharmonic

#TuesdayThoughts Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin: #ontariophilharmonic Photo: Marco Ayala

#WednesdayWisdom "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better Giuseppe Verdi #Verdi #OntarioPhilharmonic... In the image: Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 See more

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" - Frédéric François Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Chopin) Today we remember this essential composer in the evolution of the piano, who passed away exactly 171 years ago. In the image, a funerary monument on a pillar in Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, enclosing Chopin's heart.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity. Zoltan Kodaly #TuesdayThoughts #OntarioPhilharmonic

This year, the musical world celebrates Beethoven's 250th birthday anniversary, therefore this quiz was a must!. #MondayQuiz #OntarioPhilharmonic #Beethoven250 https://www.classicfm.com//what-per-cent-beethoven-are-you/

#WednesdayWisdom Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz #Berlioz #OntarioPhilharmonic

#TuesdayThoughts When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. Franz Schubert: #ontariophilharmonic

#MondayQuiz Reinette du Canada, Melba, Armida... Are those are names of operas or apples? #OntarioPhilharmonic... https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/opera-or-apple/ See more

A year ago, the music world lost one of its greatest voices, soprano Jessye Norman. Here is a clip to honour her memory: https://youtu.be/jOIAi2XwuWo... #JessyeNorman #OntarioPhilharmonic

Postcard from a 2018 concert. How much we miss the stage! #OntarioPhilharmonic ... Photo: Marco Ayala

Did you know, this year we embark on our 24th year under the baton of our Maestro Marco Parisotto? #OntarioPhilharmonic

It is #Caturday lets have a joy moment with Rossini's hilarious Cat Duet. https://youtu.be/QNyR6rsGDyg #OntarioPhilharmonicIt is #Caturday lets have a joy moment with Rossini's hilarious Cat Duet. ... https://youtu.be/QNyR6rsGDyg #OntarioPhilharmonic

Such a #WednesdayWisdom #RichardStrauss #OntarioPhilharmonic

"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky #TuesdayThoughts #Stravinsky #OntarioPhilharmonic In the photo: Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman

#TBT Rehearsing at Regent Theatre, January 2018. #OntarioPhilharmonic #ThrowbackThursday #RegentTheatre Photo: Marco Ayala

"I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it... Igor Stravinsky #WednesdayWisdom #Stravinsky #OntarioPhilharmonic In the photo: Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman