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Times Online Obituary: “She was known to be Stalin’s favourite dancer… On retiring from the stage Lepeshinskaya became a teacher, notably for the Komische Oper in East Berlin. She also taught for a time in Munich, and in America at the Banff Centre summer school.”
Rocky Mountain Outlook :“‘It’s an opportunity for helping the province think through its future policies on arts and culture, and my experience and resources at The Banff Centre would be an asset,’ said Jeff Kovitz. ‘The Banff Centre is both a local, Bow Valley, provincial, national, and international leader in many areas.’”
Calgary Herald: Jeff Kovitz named to council that will “basically act as a liaison between the cultural community and government.”
Free Times [Columbia, South Carolina]: “The roots of Bush’s career can be traced directly to the time he spent after Peabody at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada, “which was kind of a post-graduate artist colony,” Bush recalls. “That was a super-pivotal time for me,” he says. “Great faculty would come in and play chamber music with the students. They also brought in a lot of composers, and we would do their music.”
