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Below we feature the “Best of the Blog” from both the blog on this site and the original blog that started it all.
PUBLIC SPEECHES
Bob Anderson’s “An Athenian CBC” speech warns that we have a choice between the path of the Athenians or the path of the Visigoths. Essential reading.
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To be an Athenian or a Visigoth is to organize your life around a set of values. To be an Athenian is to hold knowledge and, especially the quest for knowledge in high esteem. To contemplate, to reason, to experiment, to question - these are, to an Athenian, the most exalted activities a person can perform. To a Visigoth, the quest for knowledge is useless unless it can help you to earn money or to gain power over other people.
OPEN LETTERS
Alain Trudel, Principal Conductor of the CBC Radio Orchestra.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Music director designate, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest
Directeur artistique, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Principal guest conductor designate, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Ohannesian, artist and architect
George Zukerman, musician, O.C., O.B.C.
Richard Kurth, Dean, School of Music, University of British Columbia
- speech to the April 20 rally, Chan Centre, Vancouver
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Janet Danielson, composer
- guest article, Vancouver Sun, April 14, 2008
Howard Knopf, lawyer
- The Hill Times, Ottawa, April 21, 2008
Christopher Butterfield, composer
- guest article, Victoria Times-Colonist, April 7, 2008
James Rolfe, composer, President of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC)
- Toronto Star, April 21, 2008
TOP READS (information)
El Sistema in Venezuela pulls kids out of violence and poverty through the learning of classical music. Note that the conductor Maestro Abreu, who began El sistema in Venezuela 30 years ago, is the latest winner of the Glenn Gould Prize. So while we give prizes to visionaries who understand the lasting power of participating in live orchestral music, our national broadcaster shuts down our National Radio Orchestra.