Margaret Atwood still has the first copy of George Orwell's 1984 that she bought as a young teenager. The paperback had a slightly salacious cover with "lots of cleavage." No matter. She read it and remembered it and has that original copy still. In 1984, Atwood started a
Classical chestnuts don’t get much more familiar than Peter and the Wolf. Prokofiev’s musical tale of a boy and his, er, duck has introduced generations of children to the symphony and its instruments, yet its inventive freshness never gets old. Prokofiev’s genius for orchestration and
The story of Canada is so often told with the voice of the dominant culture, it was a rare opportunity Thursday night to hear other takes of the tale of this land and all its peoples. The Restorying Canada conference, currently on-going at uOttawa until Saturday, has
Paula Murray is one of at least three Ottawa-area artists picked to participate in a unique Canada 150 voyage this summer from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage on the former Coast Guard icebreaker, The Polar Prince. “This opportunity to see Canada’s North is phenomenal,”
A display of 24 famous photographs outside the Canadian Museum of History will tell Canada's story warts and all. Starting with the iconic image of the Last Spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway being hammered home by Donald Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, the pictures show
Mozart wrote his Requiem as a mass for the dead, but the music contains the very stuff of life: pathos and fear, love, judgement, salvation. Musicologist Franz Beyer’s 20th-century edition brings these facets into vivid relief, and on Wednesday John Storgårds and NACO performed it
When Mozart put pen to paper and started writing his Requiem mass, his future lay ahead of him. But he did not finish, dying at the age of 35. What killed him remains a matter of some speculation, with a strep infection one of the
Everything from budgets to artist availability mean music festival lineups can be as much a matter of serendipity as of intention. But CityFolk executive director Mark Monahan does spot a theme running through this year’s event, which runs Sept. 13-17 at Lansdowne Park. [caption id="attachment_5464" align="aligncenter" width="460"]
Five young musicians from the National CapitalRegion took home awards in the 2017 National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition. The students aged 16-24 competed on May 14 for the prizes totalling more than $20,000. This year’s winners are: • 2017 NAC Orchestra Bursary ($7,000): Nicolas Richard, bassoon • Crabtree Foundation Award
This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence Terry O'Reilly (Knopf Canada) In Town: The author will be at Southminster Church on May 18 at 7 p.m. Information and tickets at writersfestival.org. • For 36 years, Terry O'Reilly has been an ad guy, a brand builder. His CBC
