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One of the things that the O’Borns have chosen to support is the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary tour of Europe. They are the tour sponsors.

How does that meet her criteria?

“I feel that the level of harmony, of competence, of comfort, within the orchestra has grown on tour and that will give residual benefit when they go back to Ottawa.”

Each NACO tour is dominated by educational outreach events.

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It’s the kind of drive that has carried Klimasko through 50 years in the violin section of the NAC Orchestra. And there’s no indication she’s stopping anytime soon, having recently signed a contract for her 51st season.

Not only is she playing all the concerts this season, she is on NACO’s current tour of Europe including London, Paris, Utrecht, Copenhagen Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Five members of the NAC Orchestra — Don Renshaw, trombone; Steven Van Gulik, trumpet; Julie Fauteux, French horn; Jonathan Wade, percussion and Kenneth Simpson, percussion — got their introduction to the Peaceful School Tuesday afternoon in the gymnasium shared by two of the 11 schools in Overvecht. They performed for and with members of the Music Route extra-curricular ensemble, ages eight to 12.

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To this day the people of Holland give Ottawa thousands of tulips that bloom every spring and brighten the city.

The NAC Orchestra’s performance in the Tivoli Vredenburg performing arts complex on Monday night was dedicated to that long and happy relationship. Those who were in attendance got a real treat from a bevy of talented Canadians including soprano Erin Wall and the great virtuoso violinist James Ehnes.

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In the Overvecht neighbourhood, where some 80 different nationalities reside, many of them asylum seekers, music is bringing people together in hope and pleasure instead of pushing them apart.

The music is being made by the Catching Cultures Orchestra which started in 2015 as a temporary collaboration between a Dutch wind ensemble called De Tegenwind and a group called the Band without a residence permit.

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“Someone asked me the other day, ‘What’s your favourite thing about Life Reflected?’

“Looking back,” she said, “it was putting together artists who should never have been together ever.

“Putting them into the room and, as challenging as that was and believe me it was challenging, watching them thrive and develop a kind of mutual respect. It was a fantastic thing.”

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Since when do new Canadian compositions get a premiere in Paris? The answer: pretty much never. So the performance of the NAC Orchestra’s Life Reflected quartet of Canadian music in Paris on Friday night was something to pay attention to.

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She is now on another kind of marathon. She is currently travelling with the NAC Orchestra on its 50th anniversary tour of Europe. She’ll be singing in Dear Life, part of the Life Reflected quartet of new music about Canadian women. And she will sing The Lonely Child by Claude Vivier.

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What is the purpose of a national orchestra? Well, there are many, but surely one is for Canadians perform the music of Canadians on foreign stages.

That is certainly the case with the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s 50th anniversary tour of Europe.

Source: artsfile