Amid tough economic times for many arts organisations, Toronto's Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra and chamber choir ended its 30th anniversary year with its ninth consecutive operating surplus. Read more
Toronto's baroque Tafelmusik ensemble has hit a celestial high note. The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the group as thanks for its involvement in the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
There's a new asteroid in the solar system, and its name is Tafelmusik. Well, not actually new - it's been circulating around our sun somewhere between Mars and Jupiter for just over four billion years - but it was assigned a name just last Friday. The International Astronomical Union, the organisation that recognises celestial bodies, made the official designation to acknowledge the Galileo Project by the Toronto-based Baroque orchestra.