OPERA LEADS THE WAY BACK
May. 13, 2021 at 11:00 am
I WAS RIGHT LAST WEEK!
About live music coming back. That light at the end of the tunnel is a spotlight, and the band, the dancers and the actors are getting ready to hit the stage.
Not tonight, not quite yet, but sooner than I thought possible.
And who is leading the way to the return of live performances? Opera! Yes, opera.
I love opera. What’s not to love, if you are a music lover? It’s music by some of the best composers of the classical world, played by outstanding orchestras, accompanied by an on-stage spectacle of fantastic sets and costumes, sung by excellent actors possessed of the greatest human instruments of voice, to timeless stories of…
Author of the article: Peter Hum
Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 10 minute read • Ottawa saxophonist Bernard Stepien, centre, jamming in Strasbourg in 2019 with Ottawa-area guitarist Pierre Monfils
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In mid-March, Ottawa lost an accomplished and prodigiously published University of Ottawa software engineer, a globe-trotting tenor saxophonist who enlivened jam sessions since the 1970s, an esoteric accordionist and a veteran CKCU-FM radio-show host with the most highly developed tastes in world music and avant-garde jazz.
In other words, Bernard Stepien has passed away. He was 74, and was fighting prostate cancer. Stepien is survived by his wife Claudine, son Thomas and granddaughter Isabelle, and mourned by stalwarts of Ottawa’s jazz community, in which h
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Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
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