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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Reconstituted CBC ensemble to perform live, while branching out to high-def video, Internet
By David Gordon Duke, Special to The SunSeptember 16, 2009
Conductor Alain Trudel conducts the National Broadcast Orchestra at the official launch Tuesday of the newly established ensemble at the Chan Centre.
Photograph by: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun, Special to The Sun
It was the big […]
CBC Radio Orchestra to live on with new name and mandate
Thursday, October 30th, 2008ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
October 30, 2008, Globe and Mail [source]
The CBC Radio Orchestra’s final concert is less than a month away, and music director Alain Trudel is planning lots of encores - several years’ worth, in fact.
Trudel and Montreal businessman Philippe Labelle say the CBC’s 70-year-old Vancouver orchestra will carry on after its official farewell concert on […]
Ben Heppner takes a ‘northern swing’ on latest Canadian tour - CBC.CA
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Tuesday, 16 September, 2008
Taking a break from prestigious engagements in opera capitals like New York, Paris and Milan, tenor Ben Heppner is back touring smaller Canadian cities, this time performing across the North.
The acclaimed singer is in the midst of his third such solo recital tour, bringing a program of folk and opera works — […]
Cam Trowsdale’s CBCR2 National Response Bibliography
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008If you prefer to download a single document that contains much of the information found on our web site, why not download the CBCR2 National Response Bibliography!
Cam Trowsdale, (of CBC Vancouver Orchestra and Vancouver Opera Orchestra fame) has been collecting public commentary on changes at CBC Radio 2 since the announcement of the elimination of […]
CBC Radio Orchestra & Ben Heppner - UBC Centenary Gala announced
Friday, August 29th, 2008Co-Produced by the Chan Centre and the CBC Radio Orchestra
Ben Heppner, tenor – UBC Centenary Gala
Sunday September 28, 2008 at 3pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
6265 Crescent Road, UBC
Vancouver, B.C. – In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the University of British Columbia, highly acclaimed Canadian tenor and UBC alumnus Ben […]
Why the show may, in fact, go on - Globe and Mail
Saturday, August 9th, 2008CANON FIRE: RADIO WARS
Why the show may, in fact, go on
In the last of a three-part series, critic Robert-Everett Green talks to the Montreal venture capitalist determined to save the CBC Radio Orchestra - and explains why it may not be the only CBC venture to survive a death foretold
By Robert Everett-Green
*All three articles can […]
‘Diversity’ is behind Radio 2 changes? What a bunch of twaddle - Globe and Mail
Thursday, June 26th, 2008BROADCASTING: CLASSICAL MUSIC
Russell Smith
June 26, 2008
Because of the groundswell of protest against the proposed changes to CBC Radio 2 and the elimination of the CBC Radio Orchestra, the House of Commons recently held hearings into the CBC’s plans. The standing committee on Canadian heritage heard, over the past month, from representatives of all interested parties: […]
Killing the Canadian in the Canadian - Canada Free Press
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Full article is here.
Our CBC, which also sees itself as a social engineer, has no reservations about denouncing Canada’s past. The CBC should be a forum for national discussion of Ms. Abella’s work as well as of other far-reaching immigration issues. But it has been turned into a virtual propaganda arm for the immigration […]
Heritage committee asks CBC to reconsider orchestra’s demise - The Georgia Straight
Monday, June 23rd, 2008By Jessica Werb
The House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage has concluded in a June 18 report that the CBC’s management and board of directors “should review the decision to disband the CBC Radio Orchestra”.
“Even though it’s in kind of gentle language, it’s quite a slap on the wrist to the board and […]
CBC Radio Orchestra Producer Denise Ball to receive Mayor’s Award
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008On June 23, 2008, 7 pm at the Vancouver Playhouse, CBC Radio Orchestra Producer Denise Ball will be among those Artists honoured at the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award. The event is FREE with a reservation. Click here for more information.
A CBC music producer, Ms. Ball has spent more than two decades working with […]