This podcast is sponsored by Finley & Associates: www.finleyandassociates.com Its mission is to inspire leaders, co-create solutions, & deliver impact. Based in Calgary, Canada, Finley, and Associates serve clients across Canada’s major cities. We are so grateful for your continued support. Joining Westben’s Artistic & Managing Director Brian Finley today is violinist, Amy Hillis. Hillis completed her Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and her Bachelors of Music at McGill. Amy now collaborates with performers and composers around the world to explore new approaches to classical and contemporary music. We are delighted to be premiering Amy’s Digital Concert from The Barn on November 20th. If you have found this podcast later, not to worry! This concert will be available for the rest of the year at our digital venue. Visit www.westbendigitalvenue.ca today to see all of our digital concerts and content!
Thank you to our episode sponsors Finley & Associates, (https://finleyandassociates.com/) and metaphorhome, (https://metaphorhome.ca/). Kerri Ough https://www.kerriough.com/Kerri is a musician, writer, speaker & artist currently located in Port Hope Ontario. Kerri has lived in Newfoundland, London, Toronto and toured the world with The Good Lovelies for over 15 years. February 2019, Kerri released her first solo album One Day Soon. Good Lovelies With nine critically acclaimed releases, a #1 single, a JUNO Award, and a devoted fanbase blanketing the globe, roots-pop combo the Good Lovelies are among Canada’s brightest musical lights. The hardworking trio of Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough, and Susan Passmore, are guitar-wielding songwriters all, and queens of the goosebump–raising three-part harmony. Download their NEW album ‘B Sides’ on Bandcamp: https://goodlovelies.bandcamp.com/ Digital Concert at The Barn - Saturday, June 5th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm As refreshing as a summer breeze and as colourful as a brilliant autumn day! Recorded at The Barn in September 2020, this digital concert features the ever-colourful Good Lovelies amidst the beauty of one of the most colourful Northumberland autumns in memory. Three guitar-wielding songwriters and goose-bump-raising three-part harmony at The Barn – Colour it with a smile! Concert Details: https://www.westben.ca/dcatb-good-lovelies Watch the Premiere here on YouTube on June 5th! #westbenpodcast #digitalconcerts #goodlovelies
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Internationally acclaimed Toronto-based singer-songwriter Barbra Lica visited Campbellford this past summer to record a Digital Concert at The Barn safely onstage at The Barn. After filming, Westben's Artistic & Managing Director Brian Finley sat down with Barbra to talk about her experience as a musician during this pandemic year & recording a digital concert in such a uniquely Westben way.
Barbra Lica's Digital Concert at The Barn will premiere on February 13th at 8:00 pm on YouTube & at The Westben Digital Venue.
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On this episode, Brian Finley is joined by the author of Tree of Light which is the inspiration for our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn. This guest is a veteran writer and editor. He spent much of his life as a professional opera singer, his memoir Dr. Barolo’s Umbrella was published in 2017 and combines all of his many disciplines. Long time friend of Westben we have with us today, author/opera singer and all-around fascinating human being - Christopher Cameron. Chris also brings his passion for the arts and his respect for the beauty and power of the written word to his new editing portfolio at Watershed Magazine.
Cozy up with your household bubble on December 12th for the free digital premiere of Tree of Light. In this Digital Concert, Frank Moore narrates the original story by Chris Cameron, with music by Donna Bennett, Brian Finley, Dave Mowat, Dan Foster and the Westben Choruses, along with Christmas Wishes and Memories supplied by the Westben community!
This episode is made possible through the support of our episode sponsors Canadian Tire Campbellford, Warkworth Community Service Club, Rotary Club of Campbellford & our galaxy sponsor Finley & Associates. Be sure to visit westben.ca/sponsors to learn all about our other community partners. And now please enjoy a conversation between Christoper Cameron & Westben’s Artistic Director & Director of the Tree of Light, Brain Finley.
You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. This podcast began in March of this year at the beginning of the pandemic with in-depth and fresh looks at music history and has evolved into a vehicle through which the artists performing in Westben’s Digital Concerts at The Barn series can respond to the pandemic’s effect on their life as artists. Would you like to support the podcast? A quick and free way to show your support is to leave a review on iTunes or to share this podcast with fellow music enthusiasts! Follow or Subscribe wherever you are listening to join our Westben community. On this episode, Brian Finley is joined onstage at The Barn (from a safe distance of course) by our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn artist singer-songwriter and Ojibwe drummer Jordan Mowat! Tune in to YouTube or our Digital Venue https://westbendigitalvenue.ca/ on November 21st at 7:00 pm to enjoy the premiere of Jordan’s Digital Concert! Click HERE for more details: https://www.westben.ca/dcatb-jordan-mowat Enjoy music from Jordan, his father Dave Mowat & the Smoke Trail Singers throughout this wonderful chat all about Jordan’s relationship to music. This episode is made possible through the support of Episode sponsors Bennetts Furniture & Mattresses: https://www.bennetts.ca/ & Galaxy Sponsor Finley & Associates: https://finleyandassociates.com/ Be sure to visit https://www.westben.ca/2020-sponsors to learn all about our other community partners. MORE PODCAST: https://www.westben.ca/podcastMORE CONCERTS: https://westbendigitalvenue.ca/MORE WESTBEN: https://www.westben.ca/ #podcast
You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. Today we have a very special episode with our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn - Brian Manker! Brian Manker is the principal cellist from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a member of The New Orford Quartet & a professor at McGill University. Donate to Westben: https://bit.ly/DonateToWestbenThe Digital Concert at The Barn series is FREE due to support from our sponsors and from generous donations from viewers. Your donations help to allow Westben to continue creating meaningful performances in new innovative ways. All of the previous concerts and all of the other Digital Programming Westben has created this year is still available on our Digital Venue & on our YouTube page. We invite you to have a visit to either place today to enjoy more Westben! THANK YOU SPONSORS Clark Consulting Services - www.clarkcs.com CCS is a family run business with offices in Port Hope & Kingston, Ontario. The CCS team of urban planners, policy and development planners and agricultural specialists is committed to finding innovative and practical land use solutions while maintaining sound design principles. Finley & Associates - https://finleyandassociates.com/At Finley & Associates, a Management Consulting firm in Calgary, Alberta, we spark collaborative results, transforming organizations and their leaders for growth and sustainability. Their services include strategic renewal, governance, best practices and training, leadership team development, mentoring, and data-driven decision making. Visit www.westben.ca/2020-sponsors for more information on all of our generous sponsors! If you are listening to today’s episode on YouTube please Like, Comment & Subscribe to let us know you are here. If you have found us on iTunes, Spotify, or any other platform please follow the podcast to be notified when future episodes are released. As always we invite you to reach out to Westben by e-mail at westben@westben.ca with any thoughts or comments you might have or to contact us directly through social media. #podcast
You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of performance. Today’s episode is a very special one. Brian Finley sits down, virtually, with the actors from our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn, For The Birds! Live from their homes, we are so grateful to have Chick Reid & Tom McCammus, of the Stratford & Shaw festival theatre and so much more, Deb McGrath of Little Mosque on the Prairie, & Colin Mochrie of whose line is it anyway.
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You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. This is the TENTH episode of the podcast! Music has started to fill The Barn once more, all be it without a true audience, in the form of recording sessions for our Digital Concert at The Barn series. The next Digital Concert at The Barn is performed by the incredible Canadian harpist, Valérie Milot! This concert will Premiere on August 15th at our NEW Westben Digital Venue which you will be able to enter from our website www.westben.ca! In this episode of the podcast, Valerie has a lovely and very open discussion with Brian Finley about the impact that the pandemic has had on her personal & professional life as well as a look at how she felt recording this concert at Westben. This podcast is sponsored by Windswept: www.windswept.ca Finley & Associates: www.finleyandassociates.com While you’re listening we invite you to engage with the podcast by subscribing or following wherever you may be listening from. Leaving a quick review on iTunes is also very helpful & helps the podcast family grow!
You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. Let's take a look behind the scenes to learn about great creators and performers who continue to bring the art form to life! Barb Hobart & Brian Finely chat about Fanny Mendelssohn & Clara Schumann. This podcast is produced by Samantha Clark. Sponsors: Finley & Associates: www.finleyandassociates.com Caravaggio Orthotic Clinic: www.caravaggioorthotics.com Visit our website for more information about Westben & all of our supporters.
Welcome to Episode 8 of Westben’s Podcast Music for a While! This week we are giving Brian & Barb a bit of a break. You may recognize my voice from the start and end of previous episodes of our podcast. My name is Samantha Clark & this week I am very grateful to be moving into the hot seat today to talk with a very interesting guest, Ben Finley.
Ben is the creative director of the International Performer Composer Residency. He is an incredible bassist & composer who has studied at U of T, CalArts, the Banff Centre and is now working on post-graduate studies at the University of Guelph. Ben grew up in Campbellford and part of his childhood farm grew into what we now know of as the Westben Barn.
This episode we dive in to Ben's history as a Bass player & then take a closer look at the origins and evolution of the International Performer-Composer Residency that goes into showcase on July 6th at www.westben.ca/pcr
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You’re listening to Westben’s podcast Music for a While with Barb Hobart & Brian Finley. Thank you to this episode's sponsors Finley & Associates:https://finleyandassociates.com/ Cameco: https://www.cameco.com/ A simple way to support this as a listener is to share it with friends, family, neighbours and other music lovers & to subscribe today to Westben's YouTube channel or to the podcast on iTunes! There is so much more to see at Westben online right now Westben Kids: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Musical Moments: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Digital Concerts at The Barn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25l7... Please visit www.westben.ca to enjoy all of the creative ways we continue to experience music at Westben. I am Samantha Clark, the producer of this podcast and I hope you are remaining healthy & hopeful! #discoverwestben
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Barb Hobart & Brian Finley discuss and explore through music the life and work of Rachmaninoff. Follow Music for a While wherever you like to listen to podcasts. The sponsors for this episode are Cameco & Finley & Associates. f you enjoyed this episode be sure to submit us your thoughts at westben@westben.ca. For more Westben: www.westben.ca Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter for more updates!
Welcome to Westben's Podcast - Music for a While with Barb Hobart & Brian Finley.
This episode will be a little bit different because it is the first installment of Mail Bag! This segment is dedicated to you, our listeners! Barb Hobart & Brian Finley were thrilled to receive so many thoughtful messages last week responding to Episode 4, Glenn Gould for a While. Listen to Episode 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH9fh...
Submissions were made by E-mail, and through direct messages on Instagram & Facebook. Here are Barb & Brian after they quickly got in touch with each other to read your feedback. Enjoy!
The next full episode of the podcast will be live THIS Friday and will be all about conductor and virtuoso, Rachmaninoff, so stay tuned for that. To receive a notification when it is published, subscribe to our YouTube channel, or to the podcast via Spotify or Anchor.
While you wait for this next episode, why not take a few moments to listen to Musical Moment #11, Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in D Major performed by Westben’s Artistic Director Brian Finley at Wigmore Hall. https://youtu.be/uEExTBvGpQQ
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Barb Hobart & Brian Finley discuss and explore through music the life and work of Glenn Gould.
I remember being fascinated by his persona. To me, he looked like Schroeder in peanuts hunched over the piano. Of course, you know he always used to sing along which can be very disconcerting but there was just something about him that was mesmerizing. - Barb Hobart
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Join Brian Finley & Barb Hobart in a joy-filled conversation about the intriguing details of Wolfgang Mozart's life. Mozart's family, possible enemies, unrequited loves and of course the brilliance of his music.
"For nearly two centuries the story has been told and retold - Mozart, the divine mystery, the incomparable freak of nature imbodied in an impish and vulgar child who wrote masterpieces before he was ten but was perpetually misunderstood. He was hounded by neglect to a pauper's grave. It is one of the most tragic series in the history of music, but almost none of it is true." - Jan Swafford
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"In his lifetime he was forced to play a surreal game with mortal stakes. He survived three cataclysmic events: the Russian revolution, world war two and Stalin's purges. His sadly uneven output gains much of its power from our understanding of what he lived through and tried to embody in his work and to fully understand his work, we must read between the lines, and behind the notes to find the real voice." - Jan Swafford
In this episode of Music for a While, join in Brian Finley & Barbara Hobart as they discuss the life, music and trials of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Artists: Michael Burgess & Brian Finley
Album: Westben’s Original Cast Recording of Rapunzel by Brian Finley (2005)
Song: If You Could Hear – words & music by Brian Finley
Music for a While is a new podcast series devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. What makes it tick, what's behind the scenes and who are these incredible creators, and who are the performers who continue to bring it all to life?
Let's get started with who are the experts. Today we are joined by Barb Hobart one of our very favourite musical commentators to discuss the music and life of Joseph Haydn.
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