Five Fun Facts about Bond Music
The official ‘James Bond Theme’ has been featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since Dr. No in 1962. Some of pop music’s greatest artists have recorded songs for the Bond films, such [...]
Five Fun Facts about Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters hit movie theatres 35 years ago. It became the highest grossing comedy of all time (until Home Alone in 1990) and earned two Oscar nominations, including Best Original Song. The score was [...]
Five Fun Facts about Mary Poppins
Walt Disney considered Mary Poppins (1964) one of the crowning achievements of his career. The first feature-length film to combine live action and animation, it earned 13 Oscar nominations and won five, including [...]
Heather Edwards brings Itzhak Perlman to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
When Heather Edwards was a youth, her mother gave her a surprise that has had a long-lasting impact: tickets to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) to see world-renowned Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman. “I [...]
Game-Changing Moments
RUNE BERGMANN MUSIC DIRECTOR "As we put together this Season, the Orchestra musicians and I reflected on our game-changing musical moments. In my early childhood I spent time listening to my father play [...]
Measha sings what she wants
Don’t try and hem Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman into any one musical category — she bridges the worlds of classical, operatic, and popular music on a regular basis, and that’s just how she [...]