Monday night’s Chamberfest concert at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre featured Poland’s Apollon Musagète quartet. This young, all-male ensemble — violinists Pawel Zalejski and Bartosz Zachlod; violist Piotr Szumiel and cellist Piotr Skweres — favours an on-stage uniform of bespoke plaid suits, patent leather shoes,
The cowboy is an iconic figure of the great plains of North America. In South America, on the pampas that runs north to south from Brazil to the tip of Argentina, the gaucho is equally iconic. They are part of legend, folklore and literature and
Mexico has become a killing field where drug cartels and other criminals take lives without regard for the impact of their violence and with little effective intervention by representatives of the state. We hear the bloody statistics but we don't hear much about the gender
What does it mean to be a hero? Where do stories go when no one reads them? Why would a father pack a kale flax-seed bar in his kid’s school lunch? Those are some of the many questions posed in The Neverending Story, the wondrously
The Wakefield Doc Fest is about to open its 11th event on Feb. 7 with a packed month of films from Canada and from around the world. The opening documentary is Pipe Dreams by Montreal's Stacey Tenenbaum, whose film Shiners was at the festival a few years
The names Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore don’t ring a bell? Fifteen years ago, they didn’t for Ottawa’s Sarah Waisvisz, either. Then Waisvisz, a budding playwright, performer and academic, happened to watch a film about the two at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She felt
Flush with another JUNO nomination, this time for the two CD package The Bounds of Our Dreams (Analekta), the NAC Orchestra's music director is continuing to push the record button on his ensemble. Alexander Shelley and NACO are building a box set of Romantic music featuring
Eric Friesen was raised in a Mennonite home and at supper, the family would sing grace. It was an introduction to music for Friesen; something that has been a guiding part of his life. He's a broadcaster and has worked for the CBC and National Public
Charles Richard-Hamelin has built an international reputation as a solo pianist but he's not a one-dimensional musician. The young Quebecer splashed onto the world scene when he won the silver medal and the Krystian Zimerman prize at the 17th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.
Dan Tepfer has a BA in physics, and training in classical music. But that doesn't explain his musical project Natural Machines. Perhaps this will help. Tepfer is also an experienced self-taught computer coder who is capable of writing algorithms for games, graphics and much, much more. And
