Orchestras Canada

The Orchestras Canada office will close for the holidays at 12 noon on Thursday, December 24, and we’ll be checking our mailbox and emails in between then and our grand re-opening at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, January 4. We’ll be posting updates to the Job Board and our Facebook page during the holidays; however, this [...]

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Inspired by his voyage to Canada’s arctic on a scientific research vessel last year, Winnipeg Symphony Resident Composer Vincent Ho has written a 30-minute symphony that will get its world premiere performance at the gala opening of the WSO’s New Music Festival.  The concert, scheduled for February 6, will also include works by Steven Stucky [...]

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The Conseil Quebecois de la Musique has announced the nominations for the 13th annual Prix Opus for 2008-2009.  These awards are designed to celebrate the excellence and the diversity of the province’s musical scene – and, once again this year, we are delighted to highlight the nominations of many of Orchestras Canada’s members! The Grand [...]

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The Niagara Symphony has announced the donation of a classic Jenco vibraphone from St. Catharines resident Linda Sigfrid. Mrs. Sigfrid made the gift in memory of her father, Ludo Muntz, who played the instrument during a long career as a musician, Niagara Symphony supporter and owner of the Pen Music store. The vibraphone is now part [...]

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The OSL and its Foundation are celebrating the success of their 11th annual benefit concert, which took place on November 25.  More than 400 attendees heard the orchestra, under the leadership of music director Marc David, with guest soloist Claire Pelletier in a performance of Christmas favourites.  The event, under the chairmanship of Mme. Louise [...]

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One of our projects in the New Year is to revamp our membership directory to make it more useful to our members.  Before we undertake this task, we’re polling our members to see how they use the directory and what they’d like to see from it.  You can find this brief survey here.

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This week’s recommendation is not, in fact, for something you might opt to read.  Instead, we’re suggesting that you check out the free podcasts on a wonderfully resource-rich website, that of the Center for Social Innovation of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The Podcasts are organized by topic, and there’s a whopping 72 in [...]

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The Canada Revenue Agency is continuing to offer webinars on topics of interest to registered charities, including • T3010B: Line by Line Review; • Fundraising, Gifting and Receipting (level I); • Gifting and Receipting (level II); • Payroll; • Registered Charity Information Return Summary, Disbursement Quota and Capital Gain; • Financial Statements, Books and Records [...]

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In Symphony Nova Scotia’s recent media release about its upcoming performances of  Handel’s 1742 “Dublin” Messiah (scheduled for December 18 and 19, under the leadership of Kevin Mallon), we were delighted to read the following: Expecting a full house at the 1742 premiere, the Dublin Journal requested that ladies who would “honour the performance with [...]

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Orchestra News had a pair of jolly seasonal updates from the Winnipeg Symphony this week. Thanks to generous donors and sponsors, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra reports that they were able to distribute over 300 no-cost tickets to last weekend’s performances of The Snowman to families that would otherwise not be able to attend the concerts. [...]

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