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As founder and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Recital Society, Leila Getz has presented the Canadian and/or Vancouver debut performances of some of the world’s most brilliant and respected young musicians, and has steadily built a diverse and loyal audience for the recital concert form that doomsayers had proclaimed out-of-vogue. Since 1980, the first season of…
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Bruno Gerussi was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1928, He received a scholarship for the Banff Centre for The Arts in 1947 which launched a career on stage, radio and especially CBC TV invited to join the Stratford Festival, and stayed until 1965, playing many of the major roles of the Shakespearean canon including Feste…
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Chief Dan (Teswahno) George was an actor born on Burrard Indian Reserve No. 3, British Columbia, in 1899. To most Canadians he is the first well-known Indigenous artist. Until he was 60 he had done a series of jobs and was the chief of the Squamish Band of Burrard Inlet, BC. In 1959 he began…
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Christopher Gaze was born in England and he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before coming to Canada in 1975 where he spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival Best known as Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Christopher Gaze has performed in England, the USA and across Canada. He…
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Chris (Christian Giesinger) Gage was born in Regina on December 12,1927. He began his career at seven as the pianist in a dance band, travelling in mid western Canada for some 15 years. He was heard on CKCK radio from Regina, and on the CBC from Winnipeg. Settling in Vancouver in 1949 Gage quickly became the…
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