As the end of term approaches, we follow in the footsteps of many classrooms by having a movie day. I this case it is That Higher Level, John Bolton’s feature documentary about the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYOC).
The first half of the film focuses on the NYOC’s training facility at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
The second half features concert segments shot at Ottawa’s Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre, Montreal’s Maison Symphonique, Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts, Whitehorse’s Yukon Arts Centre and Vancouver’s Chan Centre.
The form of the film is inspired by the structure of Richard Strauss’ tone poem Death and Transfiguration.
Acclaimed for his eclectic, emotionally rich and intellectually rigorous body of work, John Bolton is an award-winning filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada, with a keen interest in collaborating with and adapting the works of authors, musicians and other artists.
Sounds interesting. I will have to make some time to watch it!
That was a cool film.
I watched it while working, I’ll have to try and see it again when I have time to pay attention.
I sent the link to my orchestra conductor as well, she played with them in 1988.
Very cool Scott.
HI I’m going to put a plug in here for Cardinal Street. They had their first release in 2017 called Ride On.
Their bassist PJ Gowan played at our church dinner with his dad Pat. (Pat’s brother is Larry Gowan). Their whole family is very musical.
Here is an article From Music Life Magazine:
http://www.musiclifemagazine.net/cardinal-street-releases-debut-album-ride-on/
Here is Cardinal Street’s website:
https://www.cardinalstreetmusic.com/the-band
I will check those out. Thanks for the links Scott!
Good day all.
I see we are branching out into documentaries. It looks quite interesting.
My kid is coming home today so perhaps some couch cuddling and documentary watching is in our future.
I am so glad you kid is coming back home! Have a lovely reunion. 🙂
Hi everybody
Hi Garf,
Haven’t seen you about for awhile, how’s it going?
Hi Scott, I started working on Friday, I am part of the team fielding calls for a washing machine recall that isn’t going well.
The web site didn’t work on the first day so all we could do was apologize and ask people to call back and then we couldn’t hear people on the phone this morning. But when the system did start working I found myself enjoying most of the calls, especially the ones where I could tell them their device was safe.
The worst part is waking up at 5am to catch a 6am bus, especially when I remember it is still TV prime time from the night before in Vancouver
That sounds cool Garf.
You’ll have to stop watching Vancouver TV.
You may get used to waking up at 5am. I’ve been getting up early for enough years that I don’t use an alarm anymore.
I have been awake before the alarm most days but I think that has been down to the fact that I have been falling asleep watching the news so I keep getting time checks all night.
Well if that works for your then that’s good.
See you later, it’s time to brave the weather and go home apparently it’s been snowing significant amounts this afternoon.
I too have to brave the great outdoors and snow.
My kid is on her way home so I need to go buy a ton of groceries; quite different food than I have had in the house since she left since months ago.
I am no good in the mornings.
Good on you @garf!
That is a very early morning! Yikes!! I hope it all goes smoothly at work from now on.
Garf, thumbs up on the activity!
Everybody else, hello!