In the year 1502 Leonardo da Vinci sent a letter to the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II. The Italian artist and designer was pitching a project on spec. He had heard that Bayezid wanted to build a bridge across the Bosphorus strait connecting the two sides of
In October, 1962, Canada’s prime minister, John Diefenbaker, found himself swept into a crisis that threatened to end life as we knew it. The U.S., under President John F. Kennedy, had discovered that Russia was installing nuclear missiles in Cuba that were capable of striking targets
In 1998, a seven year old girl named Xiana Fairchild was taken by a predator and serial killer named Curtis Dean Anderson. and murdered. The little girl was known to the performer and writer Jamie DeWolf, who told her story in a powerful podcast that
It was all aboard the Prokofiev Express Sunday afternoon at Tabaret Hall, as pianist David Jalbert presented the last instalment in his Prokofiev sonata cycle. The University of Ottawa piano professor has established himself in recent years as a Prokofiev specialist, and certainly Jalbert’s balanced portfolio
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin For the legendary Canadian dance artist Peggy Baker, the idea of creating a work called who we are in the dark was full of meaning, both metaphysical and deeply personal. The idea sprang out of
It's been about dozen years since Ben Caplan has seen his face. That's the last time the hirsute singer-songwriter shaved off what is now a legendary beard. "I didn't have any problem with it when I shaved. And I certainly have no problem with my face.
As a city with no professional dance ensemble of its own, it isn’t often that Ottawa nabs the world premiere of a new ballet. So NAC Dance’s Cathy Levy scored a coup when she secured the very first performances of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens’ new
The painting High Hopes of a Liberal was created by Alex Janvier in 1974 as a comment on the failure of federal policies on indigenous issues, but given the state of scandal in 2019’s Parliament, it’s seems dryly appropriate that the painting is on display
In the middle of the 18th century a young boy was invited to sing in the Imperial chapel in Vienna. The young boy would go on to a rather famous career in music. His name was Franz Joseph Haydn. About six decades later, another lad with
When it was announced last year that the Ottawa Symphony would be using Dominion-Chalmers as its home venue, a lot of people didn’t believe the hall could handle an orchestra of that size. A Bruckner symphony in January proved that the expanded DC stage could,
