When one is the music director of an orchestra, Bramwell Tovey says, parents and colleagues are always presenting the prodigy you simply must hear. As the new music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra some three decades ago, he was approached about some kid from
Andreas Souvaliotis’s memoir, Misfit, could be called Revenge of the Weird Guy. It is the story of a Greek boy, with undiagnosed autism, who was a math genius, a musical prodigy and a socially awkward misfit. Young Andreas was not one of the cool kids.
Count on Kevin Reeves and his Seventeen Voyces ensemble to come up with something ambitious. Their latest adventure is a marriage of new music and art works that can be found in the National Gallery of Canada, played by some of the city's rising young
Three or four times a season the National Arts Centre's English Theatre department presents performances in another language. It's not French or Spanish or even Russian. The language is American Sign Language and the audience it is aimed at is deaf. Slowly the idea of
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while." — Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Kathy Dobson knows what Frank McCourt is talking about. She, too, was raised
The Brussels Philharmonic kicked off a North American tour Saturday night with its Ottawa debut at the NAC. On the surface, the two capitals have plenty in common. Like Ottawa, Brussels has a reputation as a pleasant but somewhat dull government town. Both cities promote
When playwright Darrah Teitel’s Behaviour debuts at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on March 12, it may give pause to some of those millennials eager to snag an exhilarating job on Parliament Hill. The story’s centrepiece is Mara. With a new baby, an attractive partner and
The Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical, The King and I, premiered on March 29, 1951. The musical is based on a novel called Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon that was published in 1944. The novel in turn was based on
At 88, Omara Portuondo, the doyenne of the Buena Vista Social Club and Cuban music, has embarked on what she is calling her 'Last Kiss' tour. It is a journey that will bring her to Ottawa as a headliner in the June's TD Ottawa Jazz Festival.
As the country debates the SNC-Lavalin affair and the treatment of women in politics, an exhibition at the Museum of Nature reveals much about the history of Canadian female scientists. And it's not a particularly pretty picture. Courage and Passion: Canadian Women in Natural Sciences was assembled
