On Sunday Angela Hewitt revealed on her facebook page the unfortunate demise of her beloved $250,000 Fazioli piano, dropped and destroyed by movers. The piano is the one used on many of her recordings and it was a close friend, really an extension of her
In Bavaria, in the town of Augsburg, winter has not descended on Janina Fialkowska. Climate change has changed weather patterns there too. But she knows that snow and ice awaits when she lands in Ottawa on Feb. 18 for a concert with the Thirteen Strings chamber
As a girl, Elizabeth Bowman dreamed of being a singer, performing recitals and finding roles in operas. "As a young person you think that would be the life
To start, a short, sweet story: “Russell Yuristy was the first contemporary artist I knew,” recalls Alexandra Badzak, who grew up playing on Duck Boat, built by Yuristy beside the South Saskatchewan River in 1972. “Here was a piece of contemporary public art that I was
A few days before this interview Desmond Cole went to a huge LCBO in downtown Toronto in the middle of the day to purchase something. As soon as he entered the store and starting looking around, a security guard started to follow him. Cole is a young
The pianist Stewart Goodyear and the NAC Orchestra's principal cello Rachel Mercer have known each other for a long time. They first met at the Royal Conservatory of Music when they were part of a piano trio with violinist Susanne Hou. Both were 13. Mercer recalled in
Julie Stewart and her husband James Stanley were at a point in their lives together where they needed a challenge. So, living on the south shore of Nova Scotia, the idea of sailing surfaced. Julie Stewart is a well-known Canadian actor with TV credits such
Recently the leaders of three major national arts institutions were talking about the importance of cultural diplomacy for Canada. They might have been thinking about Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The 44 year old Montrealer is certainly an ambassador for Canadian classical music. He holds two of the most important
One of the greatest jazz guitarists ever born; barely able to write a cheque, let alone manage his life; strangled and dumped by an unknown killer into a Los Angeles rooftop swimming pool in 1984: How could any playwright resist the story of Lenny Breau? Ottawa writer/actor
Sarah Hatton grew up in Barbados and considered herself to be “somewhat of an expert” on the coral reefs that surround the Caribbean island. Then, years later, she read her daughter’s Grade 6 science fair project titled Why is the Coral Dying? “The current scientific facts
