What's On
INside Opera is underway!
Last week students from the Regent Park School of Music came to Tapestry and wrote a fantastic opera about a nerdy dog with Librettist Sandy Pool and composer Glenn James. To see a slideshow of the rehearals and performance of Underdogs, just click on the photo below. Next week, Tapestry, David Ogborn and Glenn James will go to St Jamestown to start another INside Opera session with the KNX Youth Program.
Get Stuffed is in workshop
Get Stuffed, (by Alexis Diamond & Richard Payne) is currently in workshop in the Ernest Balmer Studio. Click here to learn more.
Free Workshop Presentation of SHELTER
Saturday June 21 at 1pm in the Ernest Balmer Studio
PART OF THE CELEBRATE CANADA! PROGRAM
CAST & ORCHESTRA, DISCUSSION & REFRESHMENTS
Join us for a free workshop presentation of Shelter by librettist Julie Salverson and composer Juliet Palmer. Following the presentation will be a discussion on "the Atomic Highway" as it inspired this developing opera and its context in Canadian history. The 'highway' refers to the route along which uranium ore travelled from a Northwest Territories mining site to a Port Hope, Ontario refinery. Upon discovering in the 1990's that this same ore was used to build the bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surviving Dene, First Nation of Deline - (many of whom were employed along the highway from 1942 to 1960) - undertook an extraordinary expedition. Having realized that Japan was the true end of the 'highway', they travelled there to formally apologize to the hibakusa, the survivors.
With support from the "Celebrate Canada Program" at the Department of Canadian Heritage , Tapestry will explore this little known chapter of Canadian history on National Aboriginal Day.
Saturday June 21, 2008 from 1pm to 3pm
in The Ernest Balmer Studio at Tapestry
SHELTER
Julie Salverson, librettist / Juliet Palmer, composer
Wayne Strongman, music director/ Keith Turnbull, director
Stephanie Chua, répetiteur/ Charlotte Gowdy, clown consultant
CAST
Carla Huhtanen, soprano, as Hope
Deborah Overes, mezzo soprano, as Lise Menier
Christine Duncan, vocalist, as Claire
James McLennan, tenor, as the Pilot
Alexander Dobson, baritone, as Thomas
ORCHESTRA
Parmella Attariwalla, violin
Stephanie Chua, piano
Rob MacDonald, guitar
Colleen Cook, clarinet / bass clarinet
Peter Pavlovsky, double bass / electric bass
Ryan Scott, percussion
SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
DOORS WILL OPEN AT at 12:45pm
Click here to learn more about Shelter
Check out the Press for Sanctuary Song!
Click on the links below to learn more about Sanctuary Song, see video, read interviews, and hear what people are saying about this production!
Toronto Star Multimedia Feature on Sanctuary Song
Parent Club interviews Xin Wang (who plays Sydney the elephant)
NOW Toronto interviews Abigail Richardson, composer
For more information on press and media for Sanctuary Song, visit our homepage .
Learn more about Sanctuary Song
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