Is There A Violin In The House?
Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang and pianist Michail Lifits delivered an impassioned, stunningly beautiful recital of Mendelssohn, Fauré, Mozart and Prokofiev at the Vancouver Playhouse on Sunday...
View ArticleOur First Annual Chrismakkuh Celebration Dinner!
A few weeks ago, staff and friends of the Vancouver Recital Society got together for our very first Annual Chrismakkuh Celebration Dinner! We are a typically Canadian mix of Christians, Jews,...
View ArticleIt Takes A (Global) Village!
Visiting New York is like a shot of adrenalin! I spent half my adult life in that city. Half of that was spent working at Columbia Artists when it was at its peak, learning the business of managing...
View ArticleA Great Year for the VRS!
The Vancouver Recital Society held its Annual General Meeting recently to celebrate some of the successes of the past year, and by any measure, 2013-14 was an extremely successful year for the VRS....
View ArticleCuts To Vancouver School Board’s Excellent Music Program?
CBC News reports that the Vancouver School Board is cutting elementary school music programs this fall, axing the band program for Grade Five students and eliminating the string program for Grade Four...
View ArticleNew Director of BC for Canadian Music Centre
October 27, 2015, Toronto, ON – Canadian Music Centre / Centre de musique canadienne (CMC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Bickerton as Director – B.C. Region. Sean Bickerton has spent...
View ArticleHello Friends …
A Letter of Introduction to my new Canadian Music Centre family: I grew up in what was a very rural area at the time. We had a lot of fun running wild in the woods, but culturally it was a … Continue...
View ArticleA Golden Age of New Music in BC?
The richness of new music offerings in Vancouver is staggering and the quality of performance outstanding! In nine concerts over the past two weeks, I’ve been amazed at the variety of organizations and...
View ArticleI love The Post at 750!
As it’s important to kick off the New Year right, I thought I’d post about, well, The Post. The Post at 750 that is, nestled in with the beautifully revamped CBC Vancouver studios. It’s a new...
View ArticleMy Trip To Casse-Tête!
Woody Allen said that 80% of success in life is just showing up. I put that theorem to the test two weeks ago, setting off on an epic, six-day, 2000-kilometre Voyage of Discovery up into the interior...
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