Dispatches from Conductors
CBCRO and Vancouver Chamber Choir: 33 years of Collaboration
Thursday, July 17th, 2008CBC RADIO ORCHESTRA COLLABORATIONS
with the Vancouver Chamber choir
1975-2008: 98 performances of 83 programmes over 33 years
Jonathan Darlington, Vancouver Opera Music Director
Friday, May 30th, 2008Hubert T Lacroix, President an C.E.O., C.B.C.
Dear Mr. Lacroix,
It is with great sadness and not a little anger and frustration that I’ve heard of the decision to disband the C.B.C. orchestra. It is a stroke of cultural barbarism to wipe away many years of artistic endeavor in the twinkling of an eye. Congratulations: the present […]
Zimfira Poloz, conductor of Hamilton Children’s Choir (CBC prize winners)
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I feel it important and high responsibility to speak to you! I am an Artistic Director of High Park Choirs, Hamilton Children’s Choir and I teach at University of Toronto. I came from Kazakhstan ( Soviet Union) where I had special Choirs School and my best choir Koktem was a prize […]
Alain Trudel’s Rally Speech
Monday, May 26th, 2008May 24, 2008
Good afternoon to all of you,
My name is Alain Trudel, I am the conductor of the CBC Radio Orchestra, and I have been asked to say a few words to you about the work we do.
Over the years the CRO has been one of the main physical entities that connect the CBC and […]
Ivars Taurins’ Rally Speech
Sunday, May 25th, 2008CBC Rally Speech, May 24, 2008
I’m here today because I have a passion for the things I believe in.
That passion runs deeper than logic can rationalize or explain.
Time and time again the old debate of the relevance of western European art and music in our modern North American society rears its head. What relevance does […]
Bramwell Tovey’s Rally Speech
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Saturday 24th May, 2008
To Whom It May Concern:
For the last twenty years I have served as music director of two Canadian orchestras: the Winnipeg Symphony (from 1989 to 2001) and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestras (from 2000 onwards.) I was co-founder (with composer Glenn Buhr) of the Winnipeg Symphony’s New Music Festival which has taken […]
Letter to CBC’s Mr. Lacroix - From Boris Brott, conductor
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Dear M. Lacroix:
I am not one to join campaigns of letters or to sign petitions. For this reason I am writing to you personally regarding the cancellation of the CBC Vancouver orchestra and the sweeping changes to CBC Radio 2 which will effectively remove or drastically reduce most Canadian Classical music […]
Yannick Nézet-Séguin: “not acceptable”
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008To anyone concerned by the CBC orchestra, and by Culture in Canada…
When I was a very young conductor from Montreal, at the beginning of my carrer, one institution outside of Quebec was the very first to put some trust in my talent and invite me to conduct a radio programme: the CBC orchestra. […]