Silver Bells

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Playing one of my weekly retirement home gigs earlier this same day, there was a request for Silver Bells, the one carol that wasn’t in my Readers Digest compendium of Christmas Carols. So this is for that resident at Donway Place!

The Royal Conservatory is just moved back to their splendid digs on Bloor Street, next to the already infamous ROM Crystal, and what better way to usher in the holiday season than with a good old-fashioned carol sing, with students and faculty gathered around the piano.

I would have, uh, joined in if I wasn’t meeting up with a student who had recently returned from her honeymoon in India and wanted to get her lessons going again…priorities, what can I say? This was the first time that my student had seen the newly renovated building, and with unsolicited feedback from someone who had just visited the Taj Mahal, we both agreed that it was indeed impressive! The spacious atrium designed by KPMB that ingeniously marries old architecture with the new also, and perhaps inadvertently, offers these wonderful, open acoustics!