CeliaBoggs After my first full year as Lee Playwright in Residence, I left Edmonton in early May 2015 and hitched a ride back to Toronto with Michael Kennard – who teaches Clown. Mike Kennard I knew that travelling with a clown would not be a million laughs because…well, you know, ‘…the tears of a clown’ and … Read moreColleen Murphy: Travelling with a Clown – curious arts
Usual program notes offer the audience insight into the lives of composer and composition. For the U of A Music’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Julia Byl took an ethnomusicologist’s approach, heading into the heart of our field of study to interview the people of the University of Alberta music department—students, faculty, alumni, supporters— to highlight them … Read more50th Anniversary Music Celebrations: preview part two – curious arts
Usual program notes offer the audience insight into the lives of composer and composition. For the U of A Music’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Julia Byl took an ethnomusicologist’s approach, heading into the heart of our field of study to interview the people of the University of Alberta music department—students, faculty, alumni, supporters— to highlight them … Read more50th Anniversary Music Celebrations: Preview part one – curious arts
UAlberta chorus master talks about choir conducting, the Madrigal Singers and U of A Music’s 50th anniversary For the first in a series of video interviews celebrating the University of Alberta Department of Music’s 50th Anniversary, we caught up with Professor Len Ratzlaff. Video Credits: Grant Wang. Multimedia Technician, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta … Read moreVideo: Len Ratzlaff teaching to the choir
Arts Resource Centre’s Music Digitization Project A project to digitize around 1000 archival department of music recordings is underway right now in the Arts Resource Centre. Most of the recordings are from performances in Convocation Hall and span from around 1967 to the late 1980s. The majority of the recordings are reel-to-reel or cassette tape. … Read moreMassive Musical Undertaking