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British Columbia Tour 2005

Tour Photos

Saturday, November 19, 2005
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra joins the NAC Orchestra on stage to rehearse the joint performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
National Arts Centre Orchestra and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra together in rehearsal

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Double the pleasure - twice as many clarinets and bassoons as usual when the NAC Orchestra and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra get together to rehearse Tchaikovsky

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting the joint rehearsal of the NAC Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
A view of the viola section during the rehearsal of the NAC Orchestra and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Winspear Centre

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
119 musicians together on stage when the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra joins the NAC Orchestra in rehearsal for the Gala concert at the Winspear Centre

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting the massive 119 musicians of the ESO and NACO combined during the rehearsal for the gala performance at the Winspear Centre

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Saturday, November 19, 2005
The card-playing musicians of the NAC Orchestra pose for a group shot in their tshirts along with honorary member Peter Herrndorf: Left to right back row: Edvard Skerjanc, Peter Herrndorf, Peter Webster, David Goldblatt; front row: Karoly Sziladi Jr., David Thies-Thompson, Brian Boychuk

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Friday, November 18, 2005
The Honourable Norman Kwong, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (and former CFL champion) welcomes the National Arts Centre Orchestra to Government House in Edmonton

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Mayor Stephen Mandel of the City of Edmonton welcomes the NAC Orchestra at a reception at Government House

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman and Peter Herrndorf present an Ottawa Senators jersey to the Honourable Norman Kwong, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Laura Weber, NAC Special Events Coordinator, and Meiko Lydall, assistant to the Music Director, at Government House in Edmonton

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Friday, November 18, 2005
NAC Tour photographer Fred Cattroll and Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel

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Friday, November 18, 2005
The NAC Orchestra's Ambassador Brass Trio - trombonist Donald Renshaw, horn player Julie Fauteux and trumpet player Manon Lafrance - perform for children at l'École Notre-Dame in Edmonton

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Young audience members thoroughly enjoying a visit by the Ambassador Brass to their school, the École Notre-Dame

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Friday, November 18, 2005
French horn player Julie Fauteux during the concert-demonstration by the NAC Orchestra's Ambassador Brass Trio at the École Notre-Dame.

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Friday, November 18, 2005
One of the young audience members at l'École Notre-Dame where the Ambassador Brass Trio is performing for them.

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Children at l'École Notre-Dame sing Vivaldi along with the Ambassador Brass Trio during an in-school performance demonstation at l'École Notre-Dame

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Friday, November 18, 2005
A viola student during the rehearsal session at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Cellist Margaret Munro Tobolowska teaching music students at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Students play during the rehearsal session at Victoria School with Margaret Munro Tobolowska and Elaine Klimasko

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Friday, November 18, 2005
A cello student during the rehearsal session at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Music student at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Violinist Elaine Klimasko (foreground) and cellist Margaret Munro Tobolowska teaching at Victoria School.

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Violinist Elaine Klimasko under the watchful eyes of her students at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Margaret Munro Tobolowska teaching at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Elaine Klimasko has a violin student walking, talking and playing scales while the media looks on during the lesson at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Music student watches her teachers during the rehearsal session at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
A young violinist laughs during a pizzicato lesson during the rehearsal session at Victoria School

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Elaine Klimasko laughing as she talks via Broadband videoconferencing with students in Burnaby BC during her lesson at Victoria School in Edmonton

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Video screens show both the students at Victoria School in Edmonton and the Michael J. Fox School in Burnaby BC linked by Broadband videoconferencing for the lesson by Elaine Klimasko and Margaret Munro Tobolowska

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Friday, November 18, 2005
At Victoria School in Edmonton music students from approximately 30 schools in the area gather for the lesson by Elaine Klimasko and Margaret Munro Tobolowska

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Friday, November 18, 2005
Left to right: Judy Sills, Department Head of Music at Victoria School for Performing Arts, and the Programme Coordinator for the Edmonton Public Schools Music Enrichment Programme; Miriam Lewis, leader of "Orchestra A"; Olivia Walsh, leader of the Edmonton "Singing Strings", both orchestras of which are part of the Music Enrichment Programme

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Friday, November 18, 2005
NAC Orchestra violinist Elaine Klimasko and cellist Margaret Munro Tobolowska (foreground) give a lesson to students from 30 schools in the Edmonton area who are part of the Edmonton Public Schools Music Enrichment Programme. The rehearsal session takes place at Victoria School and is linked by Broadband videoconferencing to Burnaby, BC.

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Suzuki cello student at Edmonton City Hall

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
The audience members rise for O Canada at the start of the Suzuki music project in Edmonton's City Hall,

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
The Suzuki Charter School prepares to perform for NAC Award Composer Andrew Staniland in the world premiere of the Canadian Folk Song Suite.

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Suzuki student watches as his fellow instrumentalists play

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Suzuki flute student at Edmonton City Hall

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Suzuki guitar students perform at Edmonton City Hall

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Cello student during the Suzuki music concert at Edmonton City Hall

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Trombonist Colin Traquair does a live radio interview from the bus en route from Calgary to Edmonton

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Grazyna Sobieraz, Music Director of the Suzuki Charter Music School, at the Suzuki performance at Edmonton City Hall

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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Suzuki cello students perform at Edmonton City Hall

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The musicians of the NAC Orchestra head to the post-concert reception for the NAC's Friends of Alberta at the EPCOR Centre.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
NAC Music Director Pinchas Zukerman and NAC President and CEO Peter Herrndorf give an NAC pin to Gail O'Brien, Vice-Chair of the NAC Friends of Alberta at the post-concert reception at the EPCOR Centre in Calgary

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Darrell Gregersen, Chair of the NAC Foundation, and Barb Skalicky of Conoco-Phillips, the Education Sponsor for Alberta.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting from the violin during a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto at Jack Singer Hall in Calgary

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the NAC Orchestra in Jack Singer Hall, Calgary

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The Calgary Girls Choir gives a pre-concert performance in the Foyer of Jack Singer Hall in Calgary as part of the NAC Orchestra's programme to showcase local talent.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The National Arts Centre Orchestra rehearses on the stage of Jack Singer Hall in Calgary for that evening's concert.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The National Arts Centre Orchestra rehearses on the stage of Jack Singer Hall in Calgary

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
One of the Belfast School children at the launch of the Music Ambassador Programme

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Claire Speed, NAC Director of Music Education, shows off the Vivaldi Teacher Resource Kit that will be the basis of the in-school visit by the musician-teachers

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The children of Belfast School watch as trumpet player Samantha Whelan presents an example of how she will work with schoolchildren through the NAC Music Ambassador Programme.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The Music Ambassador Programme team for the province of Alberta: Erin, Claire Speed, Vanessa Goymour, Samantha Whelan, Jan Amsel, Rosemarie Siever, and Monica Dear

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
NAC Director of Music Education Claire Speed introduces the three teacher-musicians at the launch of the Ambassador Programme in Alberta: (left to right) violinist Jan Amsel, trumpet player Samantha Whelan, Claire Speed, and saxophonist RFosemarie Siever.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The children of Belfast School give their creative response to the music of Vivaldi during a demonstration at the launch of the NAC's Music Ambassador Programme. The Programme will see 3 teacher-musicians in Alberta and 3 in Saskatchewan visit 300 schools and give 30 teacher clinics in the two provinces over the next three years.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The children of Belfast School with Samantha Whelan, one of the three music teachers for Alberta, at the launch of the NAC's Music Ambassador Programme

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Trumpet player Samantha Whelan, one of the three Alberta teacher-musicians, at the launch of the Music Ambassador Programme.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
On the way back to Calgary from Banff at midnight, photographer Fred Cattroll stops to take a picture of the mountains in the light of a full moon

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
NACO principal cello Amanda Forsyth and her longtime friend and fellow cellist Shauna Rolston at the post-concert reception hosted by Mary Hofstetter, Director of the Banff Centre

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Left to right: a member of the string quintet in residence at Banff, NAC Orchestra Communications Officer Jane Morris, and Peggy Leighton, wife of NAC Board Chair and former Director of the Banff Centre, at the post-concert reception hosted by Mary Hofstetter, the current Director.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
One of photographer Fred Cattroll's artsie shots - this one is of piano strings at the Banff Centre.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
NAC Orchestra principal cello Amanda Forsyth performing "Bringing the Tiger Down From the Mountain" composed by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Violinist David Thies-Thompson performing NAC Award Composer Gary Kulesha's "Variations on a Theme by Britten"

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
NAC Orchestra Managing Director Christopher Deacon at Banff

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Marnie Richardson, NAC New Media Manager and tour videographer, in Banff

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Curtain call for Gary Kulesha's "Variations on a Theme by Benjamin Britten" at the Banff new music concert: (left to right) Renée-Paule Gauthier, David Thies-Thompson, Leah Wyber, Jean Desmarais, Jethro Marks.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Orchestra Manager Chris Dearlove - the organizer of all the logistics of the orchestra tour - in Banff

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Cellist Leah Wyber performng Gary Kulesha's "Variations on a Theme by Benjamin Britten" during the new music concert in Banff

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The exterior of the Banff Centre where the NAC new music chamber concert will take place on Nov. 15

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Violinist Renée-Paule Gauthier performing Gary Kulesha's "Variations on a Theme by Benjamin Britten" at the Banff new music concert

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Principal flute Joanna G'froerer with Gary Kulesha in the foreground conducting Hindemith's "Septet for Winds"

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman playing the Shostakovich Sonata for Violin and Piano with pianist Jean Desmarais at the Banff new music concert

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Harpsichordist Thomas Annand and violinist Guylaine Lemaire (foreground) and NACO musicians line up at the Grande Prairie airport en route to Calgary

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Principal violist Jane Logan during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Guest narrator Joseph Naytowhow, a Woodland Cree storyteller and song-writer from Sturgeon Lakes, Saskatchewan, performs during the student matinee webcast in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Cameras webcast the Grande Prairie student matinee live to elementary schools across the province of Alberta on Alberta SuperNet sponsored by Bell Canada

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Violist Peter Webster during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Violinist Martine Dubé during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Back in the control room, the NAC New Media Producer Maurizio Ortolani (right) monitors the webcast that is making the student matinee available to school children across Alberta.

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Maria van der Sloot and Meghan Nenninger, two graduates of the Junior Strings Programme of the NAC Summer Music Institute, perform as soloists with the NAC Orchestra led by Boris Brott during the NAC student matinee webcast

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Percussionist Reynaliz Herrera performs with a rainstick during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Children perform the Winter largo from Vivaldi's Four Seasons that they have prepared for the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
NAC Orchestra violinist Jessica Linnebach performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons as part of the student matinee webcast in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
The Douglas Cardinal Theatre at the Grande Prairie Regional College where the webcast of the NAC Orchestra's student matinee will take place.

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Cellist Timothy McCoy during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Violinist Karoly Sziladi during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Horn player Julie Fauteux during the student matinee in Grande Prairie

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Monday, November 14, 2005
Young percussionist Reynaliz Herrera, a graduate of the NAC Young Artists Programme after the NAC discovered her on the 2003 Mexican Tour, performs with Joseph Naytowhow during the student matinee webcast

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Monday, November 14, 2005
In between the two student matinees in Grande Prairie the card players pick up where they left off in the bus.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Flutist Emily Smethurst warms up backstage at the Douglas Cardinal Theatre in Grande Prairie before the concert with composer Gary Kulesha in the background

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting the NAC Orchestra in the Mozart Symphony No. 39

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
The bus waiting to take the musicians back to the hotel after the concert in Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Orchestra Manager Chris Dearlove and Technical Director Pasquale Cornacchia head for the bus through the snows of Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Violist Nancy Sturdevant selects her wardrobe from the travelling wardrobe boxes backstage in Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Clarinet player Peter Smith selects his reeds for the Grand Prairie concert in the Douglas Cardinal Theatre at the Grand Prairie Regional College

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Composer Gary Kulesha just before his intermission talk in Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
A teacher meet-and-greet with Boris Brott before the following day's student matinee. (left to right) Reynaliz Herrera (percussion soloist on the student matinees), Daniel Desjardins (NAC Education Coordinator), Joseph Naytowhow (narrator) and Boris Brott (Principal Youth and Family Conductor, NAC orchestra, and the conductor of the Tour student matinees.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Thomas Annand (far right) with his choristers from the Grande Prairie Regional College Choir.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
The choristers perform for Thomas Annand at his choral clinic in Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Something very interesting in the luggage hold of the bus catches the attention of associate concertmaster Olivier Thouin and principal horn Lawrence Vine after the bus arrives at the hotel in Grandei Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Musicians deplaning at the airport in Grande Prairie in Northern Alberta

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Assistant principal double bass Marjolaine Laroche tries to get comfortable while reading on the plane fom Medicine Hat to Grande Prairie.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Double bass player Vincent Gendron and son Sascha on the plane

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
NAC Orchestra Manager Chris Dearlove in front of the plane that will carry the musicians from Medicine Hat to Grande Prairie

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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Bus driver Don in front of the bus that drove the musicians all over the province of Saskatchewan

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
NAC President and CEO Peter Herrndorf (right) congratulates violist David Goldblatt after the concert at the Esplanade in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Two longtime members of the NAC touring team - violinist Lynne Hammond and truck driver Tim McGahey backstage in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Double bass players Hilda Cowie, Marjolaine Laroche and Vincent Gendron pack their instruments into the travel cases after the concert in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducts Karen Donnelly in Gary Kulesha's "The Boughs of Music" onstage at the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman playing the Bach Violin Concerto at the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting Mozart's Symphony No. 39 at the Esplanade in Medicine Hat.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting onstage at the newly opened Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly finds a place to warm up backstage at the Esplanade in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Principal horn Lawrence Vine and composer Gary Kulesha watch NAC New Media Manager Marnie Richardson working on this website backstage at the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory Academy Orchestra give a pre-concert performance in the Foyer of the new Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Cellist Leah Wyber (Medicine Hat native) leads a cello masterclass in her alma mater, the Medicine Hat College Conservatory

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Margaret Munro Tobolowska finds herself a chair while she waits to check in at the hotel in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Violist Peter Websters with Karoly Sziladi Jr. in the background prepare to leave the bus after arriving in Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
From the bus en route from Regina to Medicine Hat - a train across the horizon

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Baby Sascha - son of double bassist Vincent Gendron and Natasha

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
A prairie skyscape between Regina and Medicine Hat

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Thomas Annand shares a laugh with his students at the Grande Prairie Regional College choral clinic

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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Double bassist Vincent Gendron loading up for the 460 kilometre trip from Regina to Medicine Hat

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Friday, November 11, 2005
The Corner Gas team: Colin Traquair (trombone), Sally Benson (violin), Marjolaine Laroche (assistant principal double bass), Greg Hodgson (assistant librarian) and Lev Berenshteyn (violin).

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Trombone player Colin Traquair outside one of the familiar sites for fans of the TV series of Corner Gas.

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Trombonist Colin Traquair, mega-fan of the Canadian series Corner Gas, organizes an excursion to the set outside Regina on the Orchestra's first day off

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Violinist Lev Berenshteyn gets ready to photograph the photographer at the set of Corner Gas outside Regina.

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly's Mum and Dad invite the whole orchestra over to the house for brunch. With 10 children and 22 grandchildren (so far) Bernice Donnelly is used to cooking for a crowd. Some of the family greet the orchestra on the front steps.

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly takes a moment to enjoy some of her mother's cooking at the brunch for the Orchestra

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Violist David Goldblatt samples some of the array of food prepared by the Donnellys for the Orchestra visit

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Some of the delicious food that Bernice Donnelly has spent a month preparing for the visit by her daughter Karen's orchestra colleagues

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Karen Donnelly's sister

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Horn player Elizabeth Simpson, violinist Keiko Hutchenreuther, assistant principal cello David Hutchenreuther, horn player Jill Kirwan, tuba player Nicholas Atkinson, and violinist Karoly Sziladi find a quiet corner in the rec room to brunch.

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Karen Donnelly's father with trombone player Colin Traquair and assistant principal double bass Marjolaine Laroche

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Remembrance Day service in Victoria Park, Regina

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Remembrance Day service in Victoria Park, Regina

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Remembrance Day service in Victoria Park, Regina

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Remembrance Day service in Victoria Park, Regina

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Friday, November 11, 2005
Remembrance Day service in Victoria Park, Regina

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman performs the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the NAC Orchestra at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in Regina

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The double bass section of the NAC Orchestra during the Dvorak Symphony No. 8 at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in Regina

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly surrounded by the Donnelly clan and friends onstage after the NAC Orchestra concert at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in her hometown of Regina. (Her brother estimates the Donnellys were responsible for around 200 ticket sales in the hall that night!)

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly and her proud parents onstage after the concert at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in her hometown of Regina

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly performs composer Gary Kulesha's "The Boughs of Music" to an adoring audience including many friends and family in Regina.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The Campbell Collegiate Chamber Choir gives a pre-concert performance at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in Regina

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The finale of the pre-concert performance by the Saskatoon Children's Choir and apprentice choir at Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Back at the hotel in Regina, we find four of the ladies of NACO: (left to right) double bassist Murielle Bruneau, horn player Julie Fauteux (seated), violinist Martine Dubé and violinist Renée-Paule Gauthier

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
At a reception for the NAC Orchestra at Government House, Pinchas Zukerman surprises the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Lynda Haverstock with an Ottawa Senators jersey which she declares to be the most original gift she's received

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Her Honour Lynda Haverstock, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan with Pinchas Zukerman, NAC Orchestra Music Director, and David Leighton, Chair of the NAC Board of Trustees with the NAC's gift to Her Honour. (The number 19 signifies that she is the 19th Lieutenant Governor of the Province

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman and the young First Nations participants in Music Connexions from St. Augustine Community School in Regina watch students in Ottawa and Calgary perform for them via Broadband videoconferencing

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman watches closely as one of the violin students from the "Strings Across the Sky" program performs for him during Music Connexions

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
One of three groups of children from St. Augustine Community School an interpretive dance - their creative response to Vivaldi's Four Seasons - during Music Connexions

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The children of St. Augustine Community School help carry off their music stands after the successful completion of Music Connexions.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The exterior of the Douglas Cardinal-designed First Nations University where Music Connexions will take place

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Two young students from St. Augustine Community School play the Vivaldi piece that they have learned on the recorder for Music Connexions

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
NAC Director of Music Education Claire Speed and Pinchas Zukerman surrounded by the St. Augustine Community School children talk to the participants in Ottawa and Calgary via Broadband videoconferencing during Music Connexions

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
The atrium of First Nations University in Regina where Music Connexions is taking place

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Claire Speed, Director of Music Education, at First Nations University - the site of Music Connexions

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Thursday, November 10, 2005
No rest for the new media team. Fully wired even on the road, they make use of the drive from Saskatoon to Regina to make their final preparations for Music Connexions

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the NAC Orchestra at the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting the Dvorak Symphony No. 8 at the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman and the musicians enjoying one of three standing ovations during the tour's opening concert in Saskatoon

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman conducting the Dvorak Symphony No. 8 at the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Principal Trumpet Karen Donnelly and the NAC Orchestra perform The Boughs of Music composed for her by Gary Kulesha.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
The Saskatoon Children's Choir and apprentice choir gives a pre-concert performance in the Saskatoon Centennial Centre Lobby as part of the NAC's program to showcase local talent.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman leads the NAC Orchestra in its first tour rehearsal

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Pinchas Zukerman rehearsing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly gets permission to allow a 10-year old trumpet student to sit with her during the Orchestra rehearsal at Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Double bass player Vincent Gendron at the Orchestra's first tour rehearsal

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Gary Kulesha teaching composition students at the University of Saskatchewan

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Composer Gary Kulesha at the piano demonstrating during a composition masterclass

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
NAC Award Composer Gary Kulesha

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
NAC Award Composer Gary Kulesha gives an intermission talk at the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Emily Smethurst and a flute student at the wind clinic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Young students are mesmerized by the concert given to them by the wind trio who were their teachers at the morning clinics

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
The music students of St. Dominic School watch the NAC wind trio perform

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
The magic flute of Emily Smethurst and her NAC colleagues enchants the young music students of St. Dominic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
A toast to the town of Humboldt at a lunch for the musicians by clarinettis Peter Smith, the Mayor of Humboldt Dennis Korte, and NAC staff member Meiko Lydall

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
The mayor of Humboldt joins the NAC Orchestra brass and wind trio for lunch. Left to right: Larry Vine, Mayor Dennis Korte, Emily Smethurst, and Peter Smith

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Vivaldi Student Matinee

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Vivaldi Student Matinee: John Jacques

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Vivaldi Student Matinee - Boris Brott and John Jacques

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Vivaldi Student Matinee

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
The type of artsie shot that makes it all worth while for our tour photographer.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
A young trumpet student in the Humboldt brass clinic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
A young clarinet student

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Emily Smethurst teaching one of the finer points of embouchure during a wind clinic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Emily Smethurst teaching some of the finer points of fingering during a wind clinic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
A young flute student at the Humboldt wind clinc

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Larry Vine gives French horn pointers to a young student

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Clarinet player Peter Smith leading a wind clinic

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Vivaldi Student Matinee

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Monday, November 7, 2005
The traditional entry of the students from the Prince Albert Grand Council ends in a traditional hoop dance

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Peter Herrndorf, President and CEO (left) wishes staff and musicians well on the tour before they board the bus at the National Arts Centre en route to the Ottawa airport. Tobi Hunt, Stage Manager (Center), and Tim McCoy (NACO section cello).

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Monday, November 7, 2005
The students from the Prince Albert Grand Council make a traditional grand entry in traditional native regalia to begin the Recorder Programme

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Buses depart the National Arts Centre to catch their flight to Saskatoon from the Ottawa airport.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Musicians and staff mingle and say farewell to family and friends outside the National Arts Centre where they board two buses en route to the Ottawa airport.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Margaret Tobolowska, cellist for the National Arts Centre orchestra, says farewell to well-wishers before boarding the bus en route to the Ottawa airport.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Musicians boarding the bus at the National Arts Centre.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Child with traditional drum at the Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Program (PAGC)

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Girl with recorder

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Don Renshaw and children

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Principal trumpet Karen Donnelly plays together with the recorder students

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Elizabeth Simpson and drummers

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Young students concentrate as they rehearse for the P.A. Grand Council Recorder Project.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Buses waiting outside the National Arts Centre to take musicians and staff to the Ottawa airport en route to Saskatoon.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Trombone player Colin Traquair rehearses the recorder players and the brass section of the NAC Orchestra for the Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder project.

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Monday, November 7, 2005
An overhead shot of the rehearsal for the Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Project

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Programme

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Programme

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Programme

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Doug Burden and teacher Ruby Thornton

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Monday, November 7, 2005
Elizabeth Simpson gives the rhythm to one of the young drummers

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Sunday, November 6, 2005
NAC driver Tim encountered a serious snow storm in northern Ontario. Tim was put 10 hours behind schedule by these severe driving conditions but still managed to make it to Prince Albert in time.

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Friday, October 7, 2005
Sturgeon Lake School

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