Exactly two years ago today the Prime Minister of Canada announced a national lockdown, requiring everyone to close offices, studios, performance spaces, and workplaces and shelter in place at home in response to an international pandemic. It was a time of fear and massive uncertainty. Organizations were reeling, uncertain how to function. People were panic-buying, [...]
by Solomiya Moroz I am writing this on the 14th day of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war Putin has pronounced on the Ukrainian people which started at 4 am on February 24, 2022. Before this unjustified assault on the peaceful Ukrainian skies, culture and people, in a rumbling 2-hour speech, the [...]
Written By Canadian-Ukrainian composer Anna Pidgorna: At the moment much of the world is focused on the atrocities being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The destruction is catastrophic, the attacks on the civilian population absolutely horrific. I was born in Ukraine and have family and friends there. Life as I knew it ended on [...]
The Canadian Music Centre in BC (CMC BC) is joining with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vetta Chamber Music to celebrate Stephen Chatman’s long-delayed 70th Birthday — a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the music of one of our nation’s most celebrated composers, The co-presentation by CMC BC, Vancouver Chamber Choir, UBC School of Music, [...]
The Year In Review Background We are living through an unprecedented time, a true inflection point in world history, with multiple crises intersecting and in many ways overwhelming our ability to process, let alone respond. If 2020 was a devastating year for the performing arts here in BC (as it was across the country and [...]
By Karen Suzanne (Weisgarber) Smithson. As the old, serrated-edged computer paper pumped through the printer the day my father died, I watched with amazement as his life reappeared in front of me, his memoirs and correspondence now filling stacks of pages on his desk. As it turned out, they were just the beginning of a [...]