The abbey is known for its singing and preservation of a musical tradition that goes back to 10th century.
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.
