Category: Culture – music

My Canada, 122/150: My Stratford adventures

When you grow up in southern Ontario, you take the festival for granted: that’s where you go for the annual English bus trip to see a play.

My Canada, 110/150: Our national treasures

No trip to Canada’s capital is complete without visiting one of the dozen national museums based in Ottawa.

My Canada, 108/150: Library love

Libraries are fundmanetally founded on a sharing economy, long before business monetized sharing via Uber and Airbnb.

My Canada, 88/150: A poet laureate’s path

Poet George Elliott Clarke, then as now, may be one of the world’s true joyful beings.

My Canada, 86/150: Operatic endeavours

In any account of Canadian opera, Harry Somer’s Louis Riel is singled out as an important work.

My Canada, 85/150: The world we want, and the world we have

I think of these authors, in my private filing system, as “my Canadian thinkers.”

My Canada, 61/150: Waterloo bands play on

There’s a high concentration of Germanic music roots in Waterloo’s soil that feeds music-making of all kinds.

My Canada, 34/150: New world takes on old world classics

Classical music is now an international art form that reshape as it melds with new worlds and new performers.