Volume 29 Issue 4 | February & March 2024

to 65-plus (according to stats she gets from Spotify) who are tuning in
from over 85 countries!
“I try consciously to show there’s many different paths in music,”
Roseman says, emphasizing at the same time that her series encompasses
universal themes and is not simply for musicians. “It’s a
‘society and culture’ podcast in my mind,” she says. Her social media
followers agree.
With pandemic lockdowns a thing of the past (for now), and live
music performance back on track, what does the future hold for
this singular society-and-culture podcast? “I worry a little bit about
burnout,” Roseman concedes. “But I think I’m managing. I mean, I
get so much energy from every conversation I have, and I enjoy all the
aspects. So as long as my health is fine, I think I can manage it. So, I
see this as being very long term … I picture myself as an extremely old
woman doing this. This is my plan.”
My own plan is to grab a glass of wine and tuck into the brand new
episodes of Season 4, which Roseman just launched on January 6,
2024. I already know I’m in for a treat!
Links to the podcasts
leahroseman.com/ (complete catalogue; video/podcast links; episode
transcripts)
youtube.com/@LeahRoseman (YouTube channel for links to all
videos and podcasts)
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leah-roseman (one of several
podcast platforms carrying CwM)
Sharna Searle trained as a musician and lawyer,
practised a lot more piano than law and currently
works as a freelance writer, editor and proofreader.
CONCERT NOTES
Here's a partial list of CwM guests performing live in
February/March 2024, in Toronto unless otherwise indicated.
Michael Bridge, accordion (S3 E40): Feb 1 – Isabel Bader
Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston; Feb 3 – Walter Hall;
Feb 4 - Bethel Community Church, Barrie
Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello (S2 E22): Feb 2 – Drom
Taberna; Mar 21 – Burdock Music Hall
Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor (S2 E8): Feb 11 and 14
– Roy Thomson Hall (TSO Young People’s Concert)
J. Walter Hawkes, trombone (S4 E2): Feb 14 – Koerner Hall
(The Hot Sardines)
Colleen Allen, saxophone (S3 E6): Feb 15 – Canadian Music
Centre (Jazz at the Centre); Feb 24 – Jazz Bistro (Kalabash)
Peter Hum, piano (S3 E43): Feb 18 and 19 – The Rex (Peter
Hum’s Comet Quartet)
National Arts Centre Orchestra (incl. Leah Roseman and
NACO colleagues who were CwM guests): Mar 2 – Roy
Thomson Hall
Patty Chan, erhu (S1 E4): – Mar 8 – Hart House (Toronto
Chinese Orchestra)
Marilyn Lerner, piano (S2 E25): Mar 24 – Revue Cinema (live
improvised accompaniment to silent film)
Aaron Schwebel, violin (S1 E10): Mar 28 – Koerner Hall
(Esprit Orchestra)
Rachel Mercer, cello (S2 E9): Mar 29 – Keffer Memorial
Chapel, WLU, Waterloo (Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society)
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