September 22, 2020 / by Philip Hansen / From Our Musicians, Updates
Warm greetings from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. There has been a gradual re-opening of restaurants, bars, and most other businesses, some allowed to open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, others Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The orchestra for which I am the principal cello (Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais) has already been webcasting live chamber music for six […]
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Sharing Music In These Extraordinary Times
January 18, 2021 / by Marc Destrubé / From Our Musicians, Updates
My niece Nathalie, currently sailing with her family in French Polynesia, told me about a saying among sailors, who are subject to the whims of ocean and weather: “Plans are written in the sand at low tide.” This has become true in the past months for musicians as well as many others. Just as we […]
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Dan Scholz Reports On An Active Autumn
December 29, 2020 / by Daniel Scholtz / From Our Musicians, Updates
I have been quite busy in Winnipeg not only as a performing artist, but as a teacher, coach, and Conductor of the Winnipeg Youth Symphony. I also recently joined the executive board of the Canadian Viola Society as Secretary and am Vice Chair of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Musicians Committee. The fall started strong with […]
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Notes from Barcelona, Autumn 2020
September 23, 2020 / by Kai Gleusteen / From Our Musicians, Updates
Life in Barcelona is getting back to the way it was in the spring, kind of… The main difference is that we are doing most of the same things we did before but with very few tourists. As we live smack in the center of Barcelona, we see a huge difference. The Ramblas are quiet. […]
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Things Gradually Reopen in Belo Horizonte
September 22, 2020 / by Philip Hansen / From Our Musicians, Updates
Warm greetings from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. There has been a gradual re-opening of restaurants, bars, and most other businesses, some allowed to open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, others Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The orchestra for which I am the principal cello (Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais) has already been webcasting live chamber music for six […]
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Kai Gleusteen and Catherine Ordronneau, Musicians in Barcelona
June 25, 2020 / by Kai Gleusteen / From Our Musicians, Updates
Catherine and I had the great fortune of being able to “skip” town, just before the Covid-19 lock-down was enforced in Spain. We traveled to the beautiful Spanish countryside and checked into a hotel we love and whose owners we know well. When they were forced to close the hotel two days later, we convinced […]
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