For Vancouver composer Tim Corlis, preparing the music for the Festival of the Sound production of Sounding Thunder: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow has been probably the most complex project he has ever worked on. At two years, it certainly has been the longest. Much
There are some 210 cantatas written by Johan Sebastien Bach. How long would it take to sing all of them? Well, for the Swiss early music ensemble Gli Angeli Geneve, it's 12 years so far and counting. And they’ve got about 120 done in concert.
Francis Pegahmagabow was a decorated war hero. He was a sniper and scout in the Canadian Army on the western front during the First World War, credited with killing 378 Germans and capturing 300 more. And yet when he returned home to the Dominion of
"My best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider. She could also defend herself, and me, by refusing to answer ‘stupid,’ inquisitive, embarrassing, personal questions." — Louise Bourgeois on her sculpture
Chamberfringe — Chamberfest’s late-night “off-venue” series — has evolved into one of the festival’s most popular offerings. It represents the kind of innovative, alternative classical programming and presentation Ottawa sorely needs, and if you still think our staid citizens don’t want to be out past
The middle school years aren't known for producing string quartets, but that's just when
Canada’s Marc-André Hamelin is one of the true rock stars of piano, regularly selling out halls all over the world. So it was surprising to see several empty pews at his Chamberfest appearance Friday night with the Quatuor Danel at Dominion-Chalmers. Is this instance, there
Think the Ottawa weather has been punishing this summer? It’s been a cakewalk compared to the situation in Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia, David S. Craig’s trenchant eco-comedy currently making its world premiere at Odyssey Theatre in Strathcona Park. With nods to the likes of
If you ever want to open up a music festival with a bang, you should consider hiring Roby Lakatos and his talented band. The Hungarian master of the gypsy violin was in fine and flashy form on Thursday night as he presented a concert of music
Ottawa's Chamberfest embraces all kinds of music played on stringed instruments and that includes the kind of traditional Celtic tunes that are delivered by the four members of The Fretless. That fact that he's playing his fiddle (and viola) in the world's largest chamber music festival
