Angela Hewitt presented the third installment in her multi-concert Bach Odyssey series at Southam Hall Thursday night. The program included three of the six Partitas along with the D minor keyboard sonata. Hewitt’s 1997 recording of the complete Partitas for Hyperion was almost universally praised. I
Fifty-seven years ago a new sound started to percolate on radio stations across North America. It became known as the Motown sound and ever since the music produced by this label has been imprinted on the conscious of the popular music world. Stars like Diana Ross, Martha
Even in the age of ubiquitous video, a still image can be explosive, as seen in the World Press photo of the year. The photograph, now in the World Press photos of the year exhibition at the Canadian War Museum, will be familiar to anyone who’s
When the call from Chris Hadfield came, it was one of those moments of serendipity for Danny Michel. The singer-songwriter had never thought he would get a chance to go up North, way up north near the North Pole, but that was what Hadfield was offering.
Singing and cycling: two disciplines that may not, on the face of it, seem to fit together. But if you are the Bicycle Opera Project, it's a match made in heaven. The project was founded six years ago by sopranos Larissa Koniuk and Nadia Channa. "We started because
Accustomed as we are to reading faces for cues to character and intention, you’d think the fixed expression of masked actors would put them at a disadvantage in portraying the people they are depicting. Not so, at least not if there’s a good actor working behind
The last time Stephen Hough, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of his generation (or any generation for that matter) was in Ottawa it was in mid-winter. "It was so cold I didn't even want to look around. I just went from the hotel to
The story of Kiviuq Returns begins in Iqaluit in the office of the Qaggiavuut! Society. As Ellen Hamilton, the co-founder and executive director of Qaggiavuut!, says, we "wanted to invigorate the Inuit theatre community in Nunavut." They work without a performing arts space in the territory, that's something
“From the very first pages of our art history books,” writes National Gallery director Marc Mayer on the very first page of his own new book, “we sense trouble ahead.” The trouble comes, Mayer explains during an interview, “because of the way we priorize painting and
National Youth Orchestra of Canada: An NYO concert is always exciting because it’s a chance to hear the next generation of top Canadian orchestral musicians and soloists. Famous alumni include clarinet virtuoso James Campbell, Montreal Symphony principal viola Neal Gripp, and NACO’s own principal bass Joel
