With the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, it isn’t surprising to see an uptick in performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. The Toronto Symphony presented it earlier this week, and Friday it was NACO’s turn in front of a sold-out
The World Remembers project is much more that an impressive database of three million names of the dead from the First World World. There is music too. This Sunday, a concert featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and three choirs full of young people
When Jacob Sampson set out to write a play about a champion athlete, Sam Langford didn’t spring to mind. In fact, he’d never heard of the early 20th-century boxer who ESPN once called the "greatest fighter almost nobody knows." But as Sampson nosed around for a
Charles Frazier burst onto the international literary scene with a book about the journey of a civil war soldier of the South back home to his true love on Cold Mountain. Frazier had not wanted to return to the American civil war for another novel, but
For 15 years, Rick Mercer travelled from coast to coast to coast in Canada delivering a grassroots sense of humour and humanity that led to that rarest of things — a hit Canadian TV show. The Mercer Report it was and when he called it quits
Ottawa writer Elizabeth Hay has won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust prize for non-fiction for her memoir of acting as a guardian and caregiver for her aging parents called All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir (McClelland & Stewart). "Hay's prose elevates this ordinary rite of passage —
Q. Can you tell me a bit about your career as a composer? A. My professional career really started when I decided I wanted to be a full-time composer, quit my teaching position, and moved to Toronto. I gave myself until I was 40 to see
The National Youth Orchestra of Germany is made up of some of the best 100 young musicians aged 14 to 19 that country produces. The tradition of classical music is strong in Germany and these young people often get to work with the best including
How do you make the names of the dead live? If you are R.H. Thomson, you create, with many colleagues, something called The World Remembers which is an endeavour undertaken some six years ago to publicly remember the names of those who died during the First
The biggest prize in Canadian theatre has gone to a video and set designer from Montreal who has fashioned an international career for herself. Stéphanie Jasmin has won the 2018 Siminovitch Prize. Jasmin will receive $75,000 for her win and another $25,000 will go to support
