A fresh approach
- Post By: Michelle Keong
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A passion for popular music and making videos have helped UBC harp student Samantha Ballard tap into unconventional—and large—audiences. Samantha Ballard’s arrangements of tunes from Game of Thrones and How to Train Your Dragon have attracted attention from popular and classical audiences. Using social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, Ballard has developed tools […]
Read MoreWhere memories (and legends) are made
- Post By: Michelle Keong
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- Category: arts + culture
When the Old Auditorium was slated to be demolished nearly a decade ago, a voice and opera student was compelled to take action. He called CBC to cover the story. “I was adamant that this building shouldn’t be torn down,” says Hussein Janmohamed (BMus ‘96, MMus ‘98), a Vancouver-based community music educator, composer, and co-founder […]
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