{ Monthly Archives }
Calgary Herald: “The first performance of the Calgary Opera-Banff Centre co-production of John Estacio and John Murrell’s Frobisher — an event of national cultural significance in the wake of the duo’s hugely successful first collaboration, Filumena, four years earlier— took place at the Jubilee Auditorium in late January and early February.”
Calgary Herald: “Created by Sandra Laronde, artistic director of Toronto-based Red Sky Performance and recently appointed director of Aboriginal Arts at the Banff Centre, the work is the only Canadian performance on the roster of ancillary cultural events and performances scheduled for next year’s Beijing Olympics.”
Calgary Herald: “In almost two decades as director of production at the Banff Centre, John Avery says he’s never seen anything quite like it. ‘It was extraordinary,’ Avery recalls. ‘There was hardly room to move, there were so many people. I’ve never seen so many crew onstage.’”
Eye Weekly: Snow Queen, by Canadian composer Patrick Cardy (1953-2005), is a work for string quartet (the Tokai String Quartet, fourth-place finishers in the 2007 BISQC) and narrator based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 fairy tale of the same name. “This is an example of multimedia storytelling at its most sensitive and thoughtful.”
Fast Company: “[I]t was refreshing to spend a weekend of personal and professional development at the Banff Centre in the province of Alberta. The Banff Centre has pioneered a unique approach to leadership development. Taking advantage of its spectacular location in the Canadian Rockies, leadership development at Banff begins with a sense of place. Adding to that sense of place is the infusion of arts and culture.” — John Baldoni
