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Youth Involvement in Classical MusicVIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.

Slava Ukraini!VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.

Barb Rumson

Canadian writer and teacher Barb Rumson was born Barbet Siket to Hungarian emigrant parents in Montreal. She has taught in British Columbia, Quebec and Alberta, and has also worked as a librarian and as a research assistant on TV documentaries. As a writer she specialises in books for teachers and children's books. Developing Optimism, co-written with Wanda Boyer, was published in 2000, and her novel Silent Shriek was published in 2002.

Further information: barbrumson.ca

 

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