A priest “who was like a grandfather to generations of Quebec’s classical music performers,” Lindsay created what became the province’s flagship summer outdoor music festival in 1978.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Cannes Film Fest To Open With (Mon Dieu!) Animation
“The Cannes film festival will enter an uncharted new dimension in May when it pulls back the curtain on Up, an animated 3-D feature from the Disney Pixar studios. Produced by John Lasseter, the film will be the first animation to open the event in its 62-year history.”
Le Bruit Et La Furie: The French Love Faulkner
“He beat Flaubert, Stendhal, Baudelaire, de Beauvoir, Camus and Celine, and lost only to Proust. William Faulkner was the second most-cited author in a French magazine’s poll asking French writers to name their favourite books… Guardian columnist Agnes Poirier says ‘we love Faulkner because we consider him a revolutionary novelist – he experiments with narration like no other’.”
Launch Of Canada’s New National Broadcast Orchestra Delayed
When the CBC Radio Orchestra disbanded last November, conductor Alain Trudel announced a project to revive the group as an independent ensemble called the National Broadcast Orchestra. An executive director has been engaged, but, thanks to the sour economy, the NBO’s debut benefit concert this spring and the announcement of a season for next fall have been postponed.
Stearns, Lobsanova Take Erik Bruhns Prize
“Elena Lobsanova, a member of the National Ballet of Canada’s corps de ballet, and Cory Stearns, a soloist with the American Ballet Theater, won the Erik Bruhn Prize at the Erik Bruhn Competition in Toronto on Wednesday evening. […] Toronto-based independent choreographer Matjash Mrozewski won the competition’s new choreographic prize.”
Charles Darwin Honored With A Very Long, Thin Sculpture
To honor the 200th birthday of the great naturalist and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, London’s Natural History Museum has inlaid on a ceiling the cross-section of an entire 200-year-old oak – 17 feet long and 5 mm thick. Artist Tania Kovats says she was inspired by Darwin’s tree-of-life diagram.
Another New Hall For Paris: The Philharmonie de Radio France
The renovation of the famous “maison ronde” of Radio France will include a new €32 million, 1,400-seat concert hall (overseen by Nagata Acoustics, known for Disney Hall in L.A.) and a renovated Studio 104 with capacity reduced from 900 to fewer than 500 seats. The Auditorium is scheduled to open in fall 2013 – at the same time as the new 2,400-seat Philharmonie de Paris.
In Yeats’s Home County, No One Seems To Care
“The threat of demolition hangs over one former family home, there is a proposal to divert the flow of a river in the grounds of another, his great-grandfather’s rectory at Drumcliffe is long gone and the Yeats Society has repeatedly complained about the lack of signposts and plaques to pinpoint other locations immortalised by the man who penned the slogan ‘land of heart’s desire’ about the Co Sligo landscape.”
Six New Entries In The Shakespeare Canon (Maybe)
“Dr John Casson claims to have unearthed Shakespeare’s first published poem, the Phaeton sonnet, his first comedy, Mucedorus, and his first tragedies, Locrine and Arden of Faversham. He also explores the plays Thomas of Woodstock and A Yorkshire Tragedy, and claims to prove that a ‘lost play’ called Cardenio is a genuine work by Shakespeare and fellow playwright John Fletcher.”
Graphic Design Tackles The Financial Crisis
“If there’s anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it’s the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what’s going on. Some [of these 27] visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected.”