Alain Trudel, Classical Transience
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Alain Trudel, Classical Transience | Music In this lengthy and excellent article about the trombonist and conductor, a later section reveals Trudel’s thoughts around the time of the dissolution of the CBC Radio Orchestra and the reasoning behind the creation of the Nation Broadcast Orchestra of Canada. Here is the relevant excerpt: Considering the unceasing [...]
Libby Davies starts a new petition to increase CBC funding – please sign
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Libby on increased funding for the CBC September 24, 2009 Blog entry Dear Friends, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is an intrinsic part of Canadian culture. From Vancouver East to Whitehorse to St John’s, the CBC provides coverage that resonates with Canadians. Last year the CBC announced a $171 million budget shortfall due to lost advertising [...]
Wit – a new poem by Sandra Bruneau
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Wit Sandra Bruneau There was a young girl who had a quick wit. Her grandma and momma had taught her to knit. They gave her some wool, some needles, a kit. Yet the craft failed to interest her, not the least bit! She said she would rather play tunes on a flute Her grandma and [...]
Protect our national treasure
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009[Prime Minister Stephen Harper] also ignored a unanimous House of Commons committee recommendation that “in the interests of fuller accountability and arm’s length from government, nominations to the CBC board should be made by a number of sources, and the CBC president should be hired by and be responsible to the board (Lincoln Report page 567).”
On possible cuts to CBC
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008In response to blog comments following Bruce Cheadle’s thought provoking piece, now that Americans have voted in an intelligent and eloquent President, maybe Canadians can put an end to the “elitist” bashing that has been nothing more than a political appeal to those with little or no attention span. It reminds me of the school [...]
Minister tells CBC to rein in spending
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, [...]
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 [...]
NATIONAL BROADCAST ORCHESTRA FINDS HOME AT UBC’S CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Media 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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