Toronto - We live in an age of hyper-specialization. At the same time, this is an era in which talent is allowed to express itself across many professions and mediums. After all, baseball celebrates its “five tool” players (hitting for average, hitting for power, speed, fielding, and throwing arm). Hello, Willie Mays and Mike Trout. Modern journalism routinely expects reporters to write and report across media, photograph and videograph, produce and engineer, and appear real time on television, podcasts, and social media platforms. Hello, PBS, CBS, and New York Times science and technology correspondent David Pogue. He does it all including incorporating his own musical scores into certain pieces. And speaking of music, enter the rather remarkable Barbara Hannigan. Raised in Nova Scotia, she cut her teeth artistically in this town. Hannigan is a world-class soprano who later in her career entered the fiercely competitive and still all-too-paternalistic world of symphonic co...
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