Friday was International Piano Day, so it felt especially appropriate to review Carson Becke in the final concert of this season’s Master Piano Recital Series. The Ottawa-area native is in the final stretch of a PhD at Oxford, but has returned home for the past
Monday's Ottawa Symphony Orchestra concert will not only mark a performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony in Dominion-Chalmers United Church and a return engagement with the violin virtuoso Kerson Leong playing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor. It will also kick off a deepening relationship between
Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline, these names resonate in the great country music songbook. Their music and their strong personalities made them fan favourites and role models for dozens of young female performers. One of those young performers was a seven year
It's a long way from Burwash Landing, Kluane First Nation, Yukon to 1 Elgin St. and the NAC's Fourth Stage on March 30. But Diyet and the Love Soldiers are making the journey. It starts on the shores of Kluane Lake, then heads to Whitehorse, the
Susan Edgerley’s Shimmer is the first thing you see when you walk into this year’s exhibition for the Governor General’s Awards for Visual Arts at the National Gallery. Shimmer doesn’t command attention with bigness or brightness, instead, its display is subdued, lightly illuminated from above,
The year 1939 was a big one for Hollywood. Some of the most important movies ever produced by Tinsel Town were released that year: Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach, Of Mice and Men and Wuthering Heights. But the musical gem was a wonderful story about a
Lee-Ann Martin was living in Maine in 1986 with her now ex-husband and two children and working in a museum when she heard about The Spirit Sings. The exhibition, which would open in controversy at the Glenbow Museum in 1988, was sponsored by Shell Oil and
At 79, Dennis Lee carries his history with him. It is a pleasant burden. He doesn't mind looking back at past triumphs, of which there are many, but he doesn't want to dwell on them. "I certainly observe it," said the poet, editor, teacher and critic. "But
Kellylee Evans knows all about the kind of connections and community that music and dance can build. Sometimes it takes her to surprising places, for example, the annual Viennese Winter Ball. She sang at the annual event last year and was impressed by the pomp, circumstance and
For the past 13 years, Carson Becke has been living in the United Kingdom performing professionally and studying for a PhD. But now the pianist is planning to pack up and come home to the Ottawa area sometime this fall. One reason is Brexit. "My situation is
