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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
November 19, 2008 at 2:17 AM EST
The CBC stopped paying the bills for its last in-house orchestra on Sunday, but it says it is willing to help a free-standing successor ensemble with broadcasts, commissions and rehearsal space.
Mark Steinmetz, the CBC Radio executive who announced the end of 70-year-old CBC Radio […]
NATIONAL BROADCAST ORCHESTRA FINDS HOME AT UBC’S CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Media Release | Nov. 18, 2008
The University of British Columbia announced today it will play a key role as a founding partner for the National Broadcast Orchestra, the privately funded successor to the former CBC Radio Orchestra.
UBC will provide ongoing use of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC as the Orchestra’s performing […]
CBC Radio Orchestra bows out
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008By Jessica Werb, The Georgia Straight newspaper (Vancouver)
Publish Date: November 16, 2008
The CBC Radio Orchestra played its last concert Sunday (November 16) afternoon, to a sold-out crowd at the Chan Centre.
Protests over the ensemble’s dissolution were kept to a minimum: a few people from the Stand on Guard for CBC group handed out flyers, but […]
About-to-be-axed CBC Radio Orchestra is busy reinventing itself for the 21st century
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008ARTHUR KAPTAINIS. The Gazette. Montreal, Que.:Nov 15, 2008. p. E.10
Alain Trudel, calling from Vancouver, had just finished a rehearsal for the final concert by the CBC Radio Orchestra - an ensemble that has, along with many other good things, been slated for demolition by the new managers of CBC Radio 2.
Paradoxically, the Montreal-born trombonist, composer […]
Axed ensemble goes out - but not quietly
Monday, November 17th, 2008CBC RADIO ORCHESTRA: GRAND FINALE
Fans distressed at demise of iconic orchestra are likely to protest at final concert, Fiona Morrow writes
FIONA MORROWm Globe and Mail [source]
November 15, 2008
VANCOUVER — When Alain Trudel raises his baton tomorrow afternoon, it will be the last time as music director of the CBC Radio Orchestra. The Vancouver-based ensemble learned […]
CBC brass split $1M pot by Peter Zimonjic
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Crown corporation gave bonuses to execs last year, records show
Source : Winnipeg Sun [through Friends of Canadian Broadcasting].
November 8, 2008
The taxpayer-funded CBC has paid out almost $1 million in performance and incentive bonuses to members of its senior executive team this year.
Documents obtained through Access to Information reveal that up to 12 members of the […]
The arts minister of the iPod generation
Sunday, November 9th, 2008STEVEN CHASE
Globe and Mail Update [source]
November 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM EST
— Should you have trouble concentrating, newly minted federal Heritage Minister and iPod junkie James Moore has just the prescription for you: baroque music.
The 32-year-old British Columbia MP - who’s just made history in becoming Canada’s youngest-ever federal cabinet minister - describes this […]
CBC seems bent on its self-destruction
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Ottawa Citizen
Monday, October 27, 2008
Re: CBC has gone too far by letting reporters go, Oct. 23.
I very much agree with Bernard Sigouin’s letter that the CBC may end up in trouble so that the government decide to cease public funding of the CBC.
I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear that the CBC had […]
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 […]
How ‘ordinary working people’ are central to our art
Sunday, October 12th, 2008“You will discover that artists and writers are your friends and your champions and that what they do is not a “niche issue.” And if you do not already, then you will see that they are workers just like you and that what they do is tell your story.”
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