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Friday, November 21st, 2008Executive’s ‘excesses’ don’t sit well, Moore warns
David Akin, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Heritage Minister James Moore has warned CBC executives that excessive spending on hotels, theatre tickets and charity dinners “does not sit well” with Canadians, and has asked the Crown corporation’s board of directors to rein in the spending.
Moore, the Conservative MP for […]
CBC helps to recast defunct orchestra
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 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 […]
Listeners share sense of betrayal
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 People of all ages wrote in. Many were young people protesting the
stereotype that CBC aficionados are a bunch of grey-haired retirees. They
considered Radio 2 part of their education. As one well-respected member of
Winnipeg’s musical community put it: “The CBC has set the standard over the
years for artistic excellence in classical music and can take much of the
credit for ‘building a fire in the bellies of gifted musicians’ to study and
practise hard … Someday, maybe they would perform on the CBC! …
Extraordinary work doesn’t just happen; a good musician needs something to
aspire to!”
Liberals, NDP spar at Vancouver forum
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Conservative defends cuts to arts as audience cheers other candidates
Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - [original]
Packed to its historic rafters, the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage hosted a high-energy candidates forum on Monday that saw Conservative candidate John Cummins attempt to defend controversial arts cuts by the Harper government.
While the other three candidates who […]
New Democrats Support the CBC
Thursday, September 25th, 2008From: “New Democrats”
To: “New Democrats”
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:27 AM
Subject: New Democrats support the CBC
Thank you for contacting Jack Layton and Canada’s New Democrats concerning
the recent changes to CBC Radio Two.
We heard from many Canadians like you who care about quality CBC
programming. We share the desire of the Canadian public to strengthen […]