Former education professor Claire Crooks, a groundbreaking psychologist and researcher, has been named (posthumously) to London, Ont. Mayor Josh Morgan’s 2025 New Year’s honour list. Western graduates Clark Bryan and Maureen Spencer Golovchenko are …
Home to Canada’s only piano technology program, Western plays host to an all-star cast this weekend for a master class in tickling, tuning and teaching the ivories.
Young singers from around the world are ready to share their talents by staging 25 scenes from operas at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26 in the Paul Davenport Theatre, Talbot College.
The term ‘bel canto’ gets bandied about by singers and historians, but often with no real meaning.
Western’s Colleen Richardson was guest conductor of the 2012 National Youth Band of Canada, an ensemble of 53 musicians, aged 16-21, which gathered in Manitoba last week for a time of learning, performing and lifelong memories.
String quartets are a dime a dozen, or a quarter a quartet perhaps. The opportunity to hear violin and viola duets is a rarer experience. London audiences will have the chance 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26 in von Kuster Hall at Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Kerri Ough, BMus’03, and her Good Lovelies mates are up this weekend for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group category.
Gary Slaight, BA’73, president and CEO of Slaight Communications and founder of Slaight Music is the 2012 recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
March 22, 2012
Had Jesse Grandmont not been watching TVO as a toddler, who knows what he would have grown up to be.
Conniving, murderous empress one week. Naive flower child the next. It’s all in a day’s work for Jennifer Kee.
Western University alumna Kerri Ough has one more reason to celebrate. Nominations for this year’s Juno Awards were just announced and Ough and her Good Lovelies mates are up for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group.
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) will fly thanks, in part, to 34 instrumentalists and a whole lot of preparation.