Tag: Music

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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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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Beverly (Couper) Fyfe was born in Neepawa, near Winnipeg on October 13, 1909. Fyfe attended the Hambourg Conservatory in Toronto and studied in Washington State and California. After touring in the USA as a conductor of musical comedy Fyfe joined TUTS as a leading tenor in 1941 and became music director in 1945. He was…
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Lovena B. Fox is a very gifted actress, singer and songwriter. On stage, she was recently seen in Jacques Brel and starred as Evita at the Arts Club Theatre. She also played the role of “Sarah” in the Chicago and U.S. National Tour productions of “Ragtime,” for which she received critical acclaim and was nominated…
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Judith Forst was born in New Westminster, November 71943. She studied piano as a child and voice later with at the University of British Columbia, and was coached by Harold Brown. A participant 1966-8 in the Vancouver Opera Association training program, Forst won the 1967 western finals of the San Francisco Opera auditions and the 1968…
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