Latest Episodes
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Doo Wop Project and Jack Everly
October 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
October 2, 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
September 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
September 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
August 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…
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Summer Special Episode 8 - The Post War Years: Canadian Composers Come of Age
August 24, 2018 - Duration: 1:08:42
This is the story of the composers from the last two decades of the 20th century. These are men and women who are confident of their place in Canadian culture and yet looked out to the world and embraced minimalism,…
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Summer Special Episode 7 - The Post War Years: Canadian Composers Come of Age
August 17, 2018 - Duration: 1:11:44
As World War 2 ended, there was a great flowering in contemporary music making in Canada. For the first time, men and women declared themselves professional composers. Listen to the stories, the voices and the music of these magnificent pioneers:…
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Summer Special Episode 6 - Beyond Ottawa: NACO and the World!
August 10, 2018 - Duration: 1:06:47
The NAC Orchestra has from its very early years been known outside the boundaries of Canada. In its third year of life, it made a triumphant debut in New York City. From there touring to Asia, Europe, the rest of…
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Summer Special Episode 5 - Beyond Ottawa: The National Mandate of NACO
August 3, 2018 - Duration: 1:05:22
The National Arts Centre Orchestra has, from its conception, had a mandate beyond Ottawa, a mandate to serve all Canadians from coast to coast to coast. The key national stages for the NAC Orchestra have been broadcasting, recording and touring,…
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Summer Special Episode 4 - The Golden Years with Pinchas Zukerman
July 27, 2018 - Duration: 56:45
The return of the NAC Orchestra to stability and health coincides with the arrival of a superstar violinist/conductor, and a man with a huge vision for expansion and education. Pinchas Zukerman pushes the organization to a larger greatness and a…