If one takes nothing else from Michael Healey’s political satire 1979, now at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, it will be gratitude that brown corduroy has vanished from the Canadian male’s wardrobe. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark, whose deeply held principles and Red Toryism are at
On Good Friday, Thirteen Strings and Seventeen Voyces joined forces to present Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion at Dominion-Chalmers. The performance was distinguished by magnificent orchestral playing and choral singing, wildly incompatible soloists, and some quasi-heretical liberties in presentation. Music director Kevin Mallon has serious early
By Jennifer Campbell The capital will soon receive a sculpture of another Ottawa icon — this time, Yousef Karsh. A bronze and granite likeness of the beloved Armenian-Canadian photographer, who has been called one of the great portrait artists of the 20th century, will be unveiled in
The National Arts Centre has commissioned three new dance works from three of the country's best choreographers and companies. In addition, each work will be accompanied by a new piece of music by an important Canadian composer, chosen by the choreographers. The music and dance
Nicole Lizée is the queen of trashed tech. Got an ancient reel-to-reel tape deck? She'll love it. Turntables? Bring 'em on. Old radios? Just the ticket. Lizée makes music out of the snaps, crackles and pops; out of what most people would consider noise, comes the sound of
If you listen carefully on Good Friday, when Thomas Tallis's Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater is performed at St John’s Smith Square in London, England, you may hear the sound of Micheline White in Ottawa clapping. White is a professor of English at Carleton University and she has
On May 22, what is believed to be the largest gathering of Indigenous Canadian artists ever, will assemble in Winnipeg to celebrate the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Awards. The project was started by the Hnatyshyn Foundation about 18 months ago. The foundation was founded by the 24th governor
As one of the most acclaimed Handel and Mozart opera specialists of the day, soprano Karina Gauvin is accustomed to performing for full houses in London, Paris, Madrid, Vienna and Amsterdam. If she was disappointed at the rather thin audience that turned out to hear
Southam Hall has seen a lot of Chopin lately. Montreal's Louis Lortie tackled all the Etudes and Preludes, now Calgary's Jan Lisiecki will tackle the Polish composer's first piano concerto in performances on April 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. In advance, Lisiecki answered some emailed
When Andrew Staniland was first contacted about writing a new score for a new dance work with the Alberta Ballet, the choreographer Jean Grand-Maître told him to expect something in the mail. In a few days an envelope arrived containing a file full of ideas, all of
