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Ron Samworth, Lan Tung and Nealamjit Dhillon make up the cultural fusion trio of Birds of Paradox . Lan Tung is a fantastic virtuoso erhu player who has recently toured across Europe and was just in Halifax with Symphony Nova Scotia for a January 7t...

topics: concert, symphony

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Vancouver Olympic committee apologizes to symphony. It's a Christmas miracle! VANOC is human after all. Cue the strings. Newsmaker of the year. No its not celebrity deaths, its the Olympics. Not sure which one I care about less. A violent vision of t...

topics: olympics, symphony, vanoc

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Vancouver Olympic committee apologizes to symphony. It's a Christmas miracle! VANOC is human after all. Cue the strings. Newsmaker of the year. No its not celebrity deaths, its the Olympics. Not sure which one I care about less. A violent vision of t...

topics: olympics, symphony, vanoc

aggregated from: Chow Times

This came in the mail and oh yeah, its a sample for us courtesy of Red Espresso. Please note we are not paid for this blog post if that matters to any of you.Actually there is a specific way to write the name of this unique product. It is not Red Esp...

topics: coffee, symphony

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In the 50s I used to watch cowboy tenors Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante play tough cookies in Mexican westerns. They were as tough as John Wayne ever was but in order to prove their manhood they rarely resorted to fists or guns. They grabbed their g...

topics: concert, symphony, theatre

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Around 1972 my friend Jorge Urrechega sold me (cheap) a new transistor (one of the first in those days) Acoustic Research amplifier with an accompanying and lovely Acoustic Research turntable. The turntable was a beauty of design and the amplifier ha...

topics: artist, design, opera, park, shaughnessy

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In 1972 I took my Mexico City high school class to Bellas Artes the birthday cake edifice that houses many cultural evens of the city like opera and the symphony. I took them to see a special concert that featured, The Unanswered Question (1906) a no...

topics: chan-centre, concert, design, opera, symphony

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell sits in a bobsled at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, B.C. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. Campbell was in Whistler to take part in the one year countdown celebration to the Olympics in Whistler and Vancouve...

topics: city-of-vancouver, design, downtown, economy, employment

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

In this Jan. 20. 2009 file photo, violinist Itzhak Perlman, left, pianist Gabriella Montero, center and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform during the swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The musicians, which also included clarinetist Anthony...

topics: olympics, symphony

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

What Scottish clan is CBC TV News anchor Gloria Macarenko from?Celebrity Media co-hosts are confirmed!Gloria Macarenko, CBC TV News anchor Vancouver at Six Catherine Barr, Metro News / Radio 650 AM Gloria Macarenko from CBC TV's Vancouver ...

topics: clan, opera, poet, symphony, theatre