This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.
Tells the story of a tragic 19th-century shipwreck when a ship full of immigrants to the United States foundered off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The story is passed down through the generations of a family of German immigrants, as the descendents of the survivors travel to Newfoundland to track down the descendents of those who rescued their forebears.
In 2017 Canadians celebrate the centenary of Confederation. But in Newfoundland, "Confederation" refers not to 1857, but to 1949 - the date when the independent country of Newfoundland joined Canada. This documentary tracks down three Newfoundlanders born in the last hours before Confederation, whose parents were so anxious to make sure that their babies would be born in the still-sovereign nation that some of their mothers took castor oil to bring on labour before midnight.
The island of Newfoundland is home to much music of Celtic tradition, but this whimsical program celebrates the unexpected—a local flamenco company attracting enthusiastic crowds to its music and dance performances. In the historic city of St John's, we meet the members of El Viento Flamenco, including a striking singer taking Spanish lessons to try to fulfil his potential, and a dancer who draws on the power of flamenco tradition to help overcome personal challenges.
It seems like every species has an instinctual TimeClock because it went to do things in the fall every Canada Goose knows what time it is time to fly south in the spring every Canadian maple tree knows what time it is time to grow leaves right now all across the country every Canadian man woman and child knows exactly what time it is time to feel old.
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But when the Newfoundland parliament prerogued its last session in December 1933, the country became the only nation in history to voluntarily abandon elective democracy. Hear 1930's St John's come alive with the sounds, voices, and dramatic recreations of the time.
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But when the Newfoundland parliament prerogued its last session in December 1933, the country became the only nation in history to voluntarily abandon elective democracy. Hear 1930's St John's come alive with the sounds, voices, and dramatic recreations of the time.
How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for enacting horrendous acts of violence.
