The numbers don’t lie
The day before Barry Shiffman was to fly from Toronto to Russia to begin serving on the Violin Jury of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the 44-year-old learned he had prostate cancer. “I was floored by the diagnosis. I sat for in the lobby of Sunnybrook for two-and-a-half hours thinking, ‘What is happening?’” recalls Barry, who is the associate dean of the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and father of two. “But once you get over the insanity, the realization, that you have cancer, then you think, ‘I am so lucky. It could have easily been missed’,” … Read more…