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A History of Music in Canada 1534–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Keillor, Elaine (2006). Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Proctor, George A. (1980). Canadian Music of the Twentieth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Renihan, Colleen L (2011).
This inclusive list of North American opera companies contains American and Canadian professional opera companies and opera related organizations with entries in the Wikipedia. For opera companies in Latin America (including Mexico) see List of Latin American and South American opera companies .
Chinese music was brought to Canada over 100 years ago, with touring Canadian opera troupes entertaining the lumber camp, mine, or railway workers. Within the communities, many amateur music clubs performed Cantonese instrumental music and Cantonese opera. Since the 1980s, big waves of Chinese immigrants brought many professional musicians to ...
Among the most notable is Neil Young who has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Canada's Walk of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. [98] Leonard Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada. [99]
Canadian country music used a more distinctly pronounced vocal style than American music, and stuck with more traditional ballads and narratives while American country began to use more songs about bars and lovers' quarrels. In the 1970s, chansonniers grew steadily less popular with the encroachment of popular rock bands and other artists.
In classical music, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra [3] and the Ottawa-based National Arts Centre Orchestra [4] are two of the most renowned orchestras in the world. Many smaller Ontario cities have orchestras of their own as well. The Canadian Opera Company [5] based in Toronto is the country's largest and most influential producer of opera ...
Concert performances are commonly presented in concert halls without a theater stage, but occasionally also in opera houses when a scenic production is deemed too difficult or expensive. During a concert performance in an opera house, the orchestra does not play in the orchestra pit. Frequently, they play on the stage, with the choir (chorus ...
The Canadian Opera Association was the former legal name of the Canadian Opera Company used between 1960–1977. [3] With the third publisher change, the magazine became a non-profit organization in Canada. [17] Individual donors and corporations are entitled to an official receipt per Revenue Canada [18] issued by Opera Canada (registration ...