CMC BC News
Stephen Chatman’s (Long-Delayed) 70th Birthday Celebration
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, [...]
Fluctuat Nec Mergatur
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 [...]
CMC BC and City Opera Vancouver Pleased To Announce New Jack Trip / Virtual Studio Available For Loan
by Sean Bickerton | Nov 4, 2021 | 0 comments NEW DISTANCE REHEARSAL TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO PERFORMING ARTS GROUPS IN VANCOUVER The Canadian Music Centre in BC and City Opera Vancouver today announced a new Jack Trip Virtual Studio headset rehearsal system now available for loan to performing arts groups in Greater Vancouver from the Canadian [...]
The Weisgarber Legacy 20 Years On
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 [...]
First Ever National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
Today is our first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, created, in the words of the website set up to commemorate the occasion, to "honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of [...]
Announcing The R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop
The Canadian Music Centre in BC and Redshift Music Society are pleased to announce the first-ever R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop, a free online seminar offered to composers across the country with the goal of exploring spatial (or ‘socially-distanced’) acoustic music. Building on the success of CMC BC’s Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings and [...]