In its dance of the renovation veils, the National Arts Centre has revealed more new parts of its $110 million addition including a revitalized Fourth Stage performance space and two new glassed-in second floor rooms with spectacular views of Parliament and downtown Ottawa. The opening
The NAC's Ideas of North festival is about much more than music. It also features dance works including a piece by the Tero Saarinen Company called Morphed. Choreographer Tero Saarinen answered questions about his work, his company and dance in Finland in this interview with
Seventy books across a range of categories have been announced as finalists for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards. The announcement was made Wednesday by the Canada Council in a media release. The winners will be made public Nov. 1. And they will be presented with
A late-Romantic symphony orchestra is one of the prettiest sights in the world. The gleaming back wall of brass, the orderly thicket of woodwinds, the strings like a glossy herd of arch-necked thoroughbreds — bay, brown, chestnut — pack the stage in a pleasing picture
As the National Arts Centre unveils the second phase to the media Wednesday of its $110 million renovation, the NAC Presents concert series has announced another 30 performers who will play on the four stages of the centre in 2018. On the list are performers
Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin has just released her second novel featuring the former foreign aid worker Amanda Doucette and is busy on a third. Doucette is an unusual protagonist for a mystery/thriller series set in Canada. She is recovering from a traumatic incident in the field
Toronto's Slaight Family Foundation has put $500,000 into helping the National Arts Centre develop the careers of young Canadian performers through its NAC Presents concert series. NAC Presents has featured many up and coming performers over its years including Lisa Leblanc, The Once, Lindi Ortega and
The French horn is a notoriously finicky, treacherous instrument. Sure, orchestras all over the world are proud of their horn players — the Berlin Philharmonic’s personable fourth horn Sarah Willis even has a popular Youtube channel. But true solo virtuosos are so rare they can
Thirty years or so ago, Ann Cleeves sat down at a desk and wrote her very first mystery. She was living on Hilbre Island off the west coast of Wales. The only other person living on the island, which is a nature preserve, was her
Hannu Lintu doesn't mind travelling, not at all. The chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra was in Dallas when he spoke about the relief he feels to be away from Helsinki, Finland, his hometown. Don't get him wring. He likes Helsinki and he loves
