Trevor Tolley was an English professor and, for a time, the Dean of Arts at Carleton University. But he was more than that. He was a music lover and collector. In fact he accumulated more than 7,000 records over about 75 years. Most of the
The former Canada and the World pavilion was always a building with a breathtaking view and no occupant. It is on Sussex Drive right beside Rideau Falls, overlooking the Ottawa River and the Gatineau River and Hills. It is, as John Geiger says, sitting on
The Ottawa School of Art turns 140 in 2019 and for 30 of those years, it has been led, through thick and thin, by a bagpipe-playing, printmaker named Jeff Stellick. Stellick is from Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Regina where he studied printmaking under
In this recent interview ARTSFILE asked the Carlet0n PhD student Jenna Herdman about her project to 'text-mine' Jane Austen novels. The ability of computers to sort large amounts of information turns out to be a useful tool when it comes to seeing patterns in literature.
How did the greatest hip hop album to rise out of Ottawa become a tragic story? It is, admittedly, subjective to state that Bad Information, the second record from Flight Distance, is the city’s greatest, but few would deny the tragedy of the past six
For the third year in a row the mavens at Toronto-based Dine Alone Records and the folks at the Mill Street Brew Pub in Ottawa are putting on a festival in a parking lot. Called Hopped and Confused, this year's event on Friday Aug. 17 and
Chamberfest 2018 wrapped up Thursday night with a masterclass in string ensemble playing from I Musici de Montréal. The 35-year-old chamber orchestra founded by cellist Yuli Turovsky has been under the direction of Jean-Marie Zeitouni since 2011 (Turovsky passed away in 2013). Zeitouni has been able
There are few things the classical music world loves more than a pair of talented, attractive young singers who are partners at home as well as on stage. Soprano Simone Osborne and bass-baritone Gordon Bintner are currently Canada’s leading operatic power couple, and they performed
Cameron Crozman has been practicing Robert Schumann’s cello concerto for years. But he’ll get to play it finally in a concert with I Musici de Montreal on Thursday night at Chamberfest. “I have worked on it a lot and prepared it for competitions but I have
Tuesday’s mainstage Chamberfest program at Dominion-Chalmers was all about the grand Eastern European quartet tradition, with the Pražák Quartet performing works by Dvorak, Smetana and Zemlinsky. The audience got what they were expecting, more or less, from one of the Czech Republic’s most pedigreed chamber ensembles
