Latest Episodes
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Vivian Fung
Feb 05, 2019 - Duration: 28:53
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, chats with JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung on the occasion of NACO’s performance of her composition, Earworms. Discover when Sean and Vivian first met, what Vivian has been up to in her…
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Yosuke Kawasaki and Jessica Linnebach
Jan 07, 2019 - Duration: 28:13
The NAC Orchestra’s Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki and Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach speak with second clarinetist Sean Rice about their lives together, and their collaboration in the NACO’s February 2019 performance of Jocelyn Morlock’s
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Charles Hamann speaks with the students of the 2018 Young Artists Program
Dec 05, 2018 - Duration: 58:34
December marks the start of the application process for the NAC’s annual Young Artist Program (Y.A.P). To highlight this wonderful training program, Charles ‘Chip’ Hamann, Principal Oboe, NAC Orchestra and YAP faculty member guest hosts this…
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Shostakovich’s Violin Concert No1 and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No3
Nov 16, 2018 - Duration: 49:16
Kelly Rice, Director of Development and Lars Lih, Musicologist from McGill’s Schulich School of Music visited the NAC in January 2018 to hear John Storgårds conduct the NAC Orchestra and violinist Guy Braunstein perform…
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Jessica Holmes
Oct 31, 2018 - Duration: 33:38
Sean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Jessica Holmes, Postdoctoral Scholar of Musicology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) met in September 2018, in the middle of the 2018 Festival Focus…
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Doo Wop Project and Jack Everly
Oct 15, 2018 - Duration: 24:50
Sean Rice talks with NACO Principal Pops conductor Jack Everly about his perspectives on music and upcoming NAC Orchestra Pops concerts. Find out some interesting details about Maestro Everly’s career path (“one thing leads to the next”) and…
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Beethoven’s Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies
Oct 02, 2018 - Duration: 1:06:51
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, and NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley complete their three-episode series on Beethoven’s nine symphonies for the 2018 Beethoven Focus Festival. The seventh symphony’s funeral march starts off the conversation. The 1813 premiere of the…
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Beethoven’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies
Sep 19, 2018 - Duration: 50:32
Sean Rice and Alexander Shelley continue their three-episode series about the Beethoven Symphonies on the occasion of the NAC Orchestra’s Festival Focus 2018.
Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 were running in Beethoven’s head concurrently. He was a master… -
Beethoven’s First Three Symphonies
Sep 11, 2018 - Duration: 54:42
Sean Rice, 2nd clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Alexander Shelley, NAC Music Director, discuss Ludwig van Beethoven’s first three symphonies, putting them in context with Mozart’s and Haydn’s large volume of works. Why are Beethoven’s symphonies so significant and…
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Summer Special Episode 9 - The 2009 NAC Award Winners: Up Close and Personal
Aug 31, 2018 - Duration: 1:04:26
Meet the second group of three Canadian composers given the prestigious NAC Awards: Peter Paul Kaprowski, Anna Sokolovic and John Estacio. Two are immigrants to Canada from Eastern Europe and the third a first generation Portuguese Canadian. They have just…