Arts & Culture

Two longtime Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra principals, Yuri Hooker and Meredith Johnson, are part of the backbone of the orchestra.  

Cello and double bass are foundational elements in the symphony’s sound though it isn’t often that we hear just the two without their colleagues, and certainly rarer still to hear them without any of their smaller string siblings.  

If you say the name Carl Czerny (1791-1857) to any student of music nowadays, the first thing that will get mentioned are the hundreds of keyboard exercises that he composed and are still being imposed on piano students to this day. It is for this reason largely, that Czerny has been put into the pigeon hole of pianist who wrote etudes for students, and nothing more.

Roots and Branches pairs established professional mentors with upcoming student artists in a brand-new, side-by-side mentorship and performance initiative.  

Welcome the Year of the Rabbit with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor Naomi Woo.  

This Friday, January 13 at 7:00pm the Winnipeg School Division will be holding their Divisional Honor Band Concert at École Secondaire Sisler High School. The Winnipeg School Division is the largest school division in the Province and there are hundreds of students who take part in band at the nine High Schools that make up just the Senior High part of the Division.

The Little Opera Company invites audiences to take “Refuge” in well-known, well-loved songs to begin the new year.    

It’s the start of a new year – a time when many of us set goals for ourselves, betterments, and resolutions.  

Perhaps your aim is to spend more time reading. 

With no shortage of literary options at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Chris Hall makes the task of choosing your next title a little easier with his picks in "What to Read!"

Renowned composer Joseph Koo, whose music helped form the soundtrack for what his family called the "Golden Era" of Hong Kong culture in the 1970s and '80s, has died in a Metro Vancouver hospital.

Koo's family said in a statement that he died of natural causes on Tuesday, six days short of his 92nd birthday.

The composer is closely associated with the heyday of Cantopop, writing songs for some of the biggest names of the Cantonese music genre as well as scoring movies including Bruce Lee's "Way of the Dragon" and "Fist of Fury."

NEW YORK (AP) — Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most acclaimed choreographers in the world, is stepping down from his perch at American Ballet Theatre, the company announced on Thursday.

              Ratmansky, who has held the title of artist in residence at ABT for 13 years, will leave at the end of his contract in June 2023. The company hailed his many contributions but said it did not have word on what Ratmansky might do next.