For Halloween week, NACO put together a program with ample treats and a sly trick for the audience. The “trick” came in the form of the rarely heard original version of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain. Those expecting to hear Rimsky-Korsakov’s familiar, standard orchestration would have
For those who competed in the "Angela Years" of the Ottawa Music Festival this might offer some comfort. "I remember the times when I didn't win, times when I messed something up," she recalled in an interview before her Nov. 4 Chamberfest concert at the Carleton
The National Gallery's new chief curator is the first woman to ever hold the post. The gallery announced on Wednesday morning the appointment of Kitty Scott as its new deputy director and chief curator. She will join the gallery on Jan. 6. The appointment fills one of
It’s a wonder that city-dwelling guardians of the natural universe haven’t yet condemned the hunting of belugas, those white whales that are seen in meme videos being curious, playful and cute — so far as something as big as a whale can be cute. The
The novel Five Wives by Joan Thomas has won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for English fiction. She joined a list for 14 writers each receiving $25,000, along with their publishers the total prize money handed out is $450,000. In addition to Thomas, this year’s
Newly revealed research by the National Gallery of Canada strengthens the claim that its painting, The Tribute Money, is a genuine Rembrandt. This confronts a contrary view reached in 1982 by a panel of experts in The Netherlands collectively known as the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP). The latest research, however,
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto has become one of the mainstays in the repertoire. But it wasn't greeted with adoration when it was first performed in Vienna in 1881 by Adolph Brodsky. A critic of the day, called it "long and pretentious" adding that it "brought us face
Karen McBride is just enjoying the ride. The young writer is on her first book tour with her first novel Crow Winter. She's been to places such as Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Kingston and Toronto and on Oct.29 she'll be at the Ottawa Writers Festival on
This is an anxious age. We worry about our climate. We worry about our jobs, our health, our finances and even our pets. But most of all we worry about our children. And that one never seems to stop. Jessica Westhead knows all about that. She's
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven’t seen Kat Sandler’s quick-witted Bang Bang, now at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in a solid homegrown production. Consider this: Sandler, a white playwright with a taste for nuance, has written
