Internship program brings Chinese students to Canadian art institutions

By Kate Taylor. In the music library at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Yu Qun is carefully marking up the overture to a Mozart opera with her pencil, making a series of chicken scratches above the staff. She is copying instructions from the orchestra’s concertmaster that indicate the correct bowing for the piece on to each violinist’s part. It’s slow, painstaking work and Yu takes great satisfaction in placing her initials on the cover sheet of each part before she moves on to the next one. Read more...