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A perfect school day - throat singing and Halloween!
November 2, 2012 -
Excerpts from the NAC Orchestra Concert in Yellowknife
November 2, 2012 -
A Young Composer Receives a High Level Critique
November 1, 2012 -
From Moncton to Yellowknife….
November 1, 2012Yesterday morning, I was with the string trio at a school where a woman named Danielle Mallet-Hachey greeted us at the school. We learned that she was the music teacher and was on maternity leave. She was walking gingerly up the stairs and I asked her was she alright. She told me she had…
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The Nunavut Edition of the NACOcast
November 1, 2012In this edition of the NACOcast, founding host Chris Millard reprises his role with the NACOcast while on tour with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Cananda’s North. Chris is joined by Inuit throat singers Evie Mark and Akinisie Sivuarapik. They discuss throat singing history and…
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Mime Workshop with John Doucet
October 31, 2012 -
Anticipation and the Creative Waiting Room
October 31, 2012Carmen Braden is a Yellowknife composer. She has been anticipating the NAC Orchestra's Northern Canada Tour for many reasons - to meet Norwegian guest conductor Arild Remmereit, to meet violin virtuoso James Ehnes, and... to have Canadian composer Alexina Louie (composer of Take the Dog…
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Alexina Louie Learns some Throat Singing Tips
October 30, 2012 -
Community Feast at the Pirurvik Centre, Iqaluit
October 30, 2012The Sunday night Community Feast – with "country food", which means food hunted from the land and sea: narwhal, raw caribou, stewed caribou, candied Arctic char, raw cubed Arctic char, vegetarian dishes like Ellen Hamilton's delicious cauliflower curry Musicians passed around Simeonie's…
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Connexxions North - Broadband videoconference event
October 30, 2012 -
Drawings inspired by the music of Vivaldi
October 30, 2012Vivaldi wrote what is today his most famous piece, The Four Seasons, some time between 1720 and 1725. It is a set of four violin concertos each of which describes a different season of the year. The music is programmatic (that is, descriptive) in a very life-like way; it abounds in vivid…
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A Delightful Northern Medley
October 28, 2012 -
James Ehnes takes his Stradivarius to Fiddle Club
October 27, 2012 -
NAC Orchestra Hits the Ground Running
October 26, 2012The plane had barely touched ground in Iqaluit before NAC Orchestra musicians and staff darted off to their respective outreach activities. Among today's activities were a fiddle and choir workshop with James Ehnes and Arild Remmereit, a theatre workshop with John Doucet and a string…
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Vivaldi Plays the Steam Iron
October 25, 2012
