Governor General’s Performing Arts Gala: a thunderous success
The 20th Governor General’s Performing Arts Gala was a thunderous success complete with a surprise grand finale featuring one of rock music’s legends. The Who guitar god Pete Townsend joined his friend and GG laureate Des McAnuff on stage for a raucous medley performance of hits from The Who’s Tommy Broadway musical.
Other memorable moments from the Gala… Continue Reading
Living in the moment with Schubert
Our quintet has just returned from performing Schubert's great C major string quintet, usually referred to as "the cello quintet". Our two cellists were Margaret Tobolowska and Leah Wyber, the other violinist my husband Mark, and the violist Paul Casey ( who was the 2011 NACO Bursary winner). Schubert died when he was only 31, and he wrote this… Continue Reading
From medieval plainchant to J.S. Bach’s ‘Crab Canon’
Today (Wednesday) showed a dramatically different side to NAC Orchestra Week. There have been a number of concerts this week – as well as three student matinees in the last two days – but this afternoon’s event was quite different. Sean Rice and Vincent Parizeau appeared at Centre Communautaire Richelieu-Vanier for a very enthusiastic group called ‘Retraite en action’.… Continue Reading