Chocolate

Andrei Feher’s salam de biscuiţi

Andrei Feher’s salam de biscuiţi (Romanian chocolate salami)

Conductor’s grandmother knows best when it comes to food Andrei Feher stands at the conductor’s podium, his back to the audience, his music stand set low. His body moves from large lush sweeps to small staccato shudders. He swoops forward and pulls back.  What the audience doesn’t see are the 28-year-old’s raised eyebrows, widened eyes, […] Read more…

30 June-06 July 1916: An awful muddle

Dominion Day, 1916 Canada celebrated its 49th birthday on 1 July 1916. Today it’s sometimes difficult to think of what it was like when Canada was a fledgling nation.  In 1916, many people were alive (and remembered) the Charlottetown Conference so thinking back to those early days shouldn’t have been a great stretch. A bit of […] Read more…