Episodes

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  • The Man with the Violin

     English May 04, 2018 20:04

    “Every time a child passed through the station, the child wanted to stop, and every time, the adult with them pulled them along on their way.” Sean Rice interviews author...

  • Amelia Curran

     English Apr 23, 2018 15:55

    Amelia Curran is a Juno-Award winning songwriter, activist and mental health advocate from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Curran’s music is distinguished by her intricate and elliptical lyrics, geologic in their resilience...

  • Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony with the TSO

     English Apr 13, 2018 40:06

    Bruckner scholars seem to focus on psychoanalysis rather than closing their eyes and listening to the music. To listen to Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony is to listen to the summit...

  • Natasha Gauthier with Alice Sara Ott and Eivind Gullberg Jensen

     English Apr 10, 2018 49:17

    Natasha Gauthier of Artsfile.ca interviews pianist Alice Sara Ott and conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen who performed the Grieg Piano Concerto together with the NAC Orchestra, at the NAC, in January...

  • Alejandra Ribera

     English Apr 09, 2018 14:21

    Alejandra Ribera has been writing about the unexpected places we find light since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album La boca. She cites some unlikely influences as inspiring...

  • Jenn Grant

     English Mar 26, 2018 16:53

    Jenn Grant is a three-time JUNO nominee, Polaris long listed artist and ECMA winner, now living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Most recently, Grant took home the ‘Solo Recording of the...

  • Kaija Saariaho, Violin Concerto Graal théâtre

     English Mar 22, 2018 56:52

    Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about Saariaho’s violin concerto which was featured as part of the 2017 Ideas of North festival produced by the NAC Orchestra. Saariaho is...

  • The Once

     English Mar 15, 2018 15:15

    A modern indie folk trio from Newfoundland, The Once has collected a trio of Canadian Folk Music Awards, numerous ECMA awards, was named Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland...

  • Institute for Orchestral Studies

     English Mar 06, 2018 32:17

    Sean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, interviews the five apprentices who participated in the NAC's annual Institute for Orchestral Studies in the fall of 2017. They were: Alexander Volkov,...

  • Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade

     English Feb 16, 2018 51:22

    This work opens many doors to wonderful and exciting musical study. It is a fine example of Orientalism and our perception of “the other”. Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier...