Cue the National Broadcast Orchestra
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
StandonGuardforCBC Coalition—Statement
Thursday, November 6th, 2008On November 16, 2008, Canadians say “good-bye” to their CBC Radio Orchestra. In its 70 years, the Orchestra gave thousands of broadcasts, commissioned over 100 Canadian composers, offered first-rate performances of the best music in the world, and introduced dozens of winners from the CBC Young Performers and Young Composers Competitions. StandonGuardforCBC, a national Coalition [...]
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 [...]