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
The National Arts Centre has commissioned three brand 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
Viewed from today’s perspective, the non-confidence motion that took down the federal Progressive Conservative government in late 1979 and precipitated the end of Joe Clark’s brief tenure as prime minister seems a mere footnote in Canadian history. But Michael Healey – a playwright with a
What would the Easter season be without a bit of Bach to provide some spiritual passion. This year in Ottawa it's the St. Matthew Passion as presented by Ottawa's chamber orchestra Thirteen Strings on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Dominion Chalmers United Church. A central
It's not often that new Canadian music gets a second hearing, but the NAC Orchestra is determined that its quartet of compositions called Life Reflected won't moulder in a file somewhere. The works, which premiered at the NAC in the 2015-16 season, will travel with NACO to
