Soprano Tone Braaten is a member of the vocal ensemble Nordic Voices, who will make their Ottawa debut in a Chamberfest concert on Feb. 1. In the show they will sing a new composition called Scar Tissue. Before the event, Braaten answered some questions from
How would you set the word phosphatidylinositol to music? Well, if you are the Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan, you fashion a lullaby and have it sung in the round. And so he did with this word that is contained in a poem about scar tissue. It is
Once again classical music performers from Ottawa are racking up JUNO nominations. The queen of the keyboard Angela Hewitt has been nominated again but not for Bach. She's earned a nomination for a CD of Scarlatti Sonatas, another of her deep explorations of composers for piano.
The film The Ancient Woods is considered an example of 'slow' cinema. It is being screened on the first weekend of the 10th Wakefield Doc Fest. Before the event, the Lithuanian director Mindaugas Survila told ARTSFILE why it took him 12 years to make this
Once a month at Saint-Vincent Hospital a group of people get together to make music. All the musicians use wheelchairs to get around and they have a diverse range of physical and cognitive impairments. But the smiles on their faces are worth the price of admission. For Tracy
The National Ballet of Canada gave the very first performance in the National Arts Centre in 1969. The dance was called Kraanerg. It was choreographed by Roland Petit, with music by Iannis Xenakis, and it featured dancers such as Veronica Tennant and Mary Jago and guest
Chris Abraham has given some thought as to why wedding receptions sometimes go off the rails, careening from loving harmony into discord and chaos. “Alcohol,” says Abraham, who’s directing Kristen Thomson’s farcical The Wedding Party, opening at the National Arts Centre Jan. 30. The play, with
One of the first things we learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s play about King’s final night before his assassination on April 4, 1968, is that he has a hole in one of his socks. He’s just entered his
The Chamberfest concert on Feb. 1 will feature a performance of Scar Tissue a piece of music that marries the talents of the composer Jeffrey Ryan, the Gryphon Trio, the writer Michael Redhill, who won the 2017 Giller Prize for his novel Bellevue Square, and
Walking With Our Sisters was as moving a work of art and collaboration as you’re ever likely to see. It was more than 1,800 moccasin vamps (or uppers) that had been decorated by hundreds of people from around the world, some artists and some not,
