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Centennial Performance

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Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
1

Location(s)
  
Toronto Montreal

First episode date
  
19 April 1967

Number of seasons
  
1

Genre
  
Music

Original language(s)
  
English French

No. of episodes
  
3

Running time
  
60 minutes

Final episode date
  
15 November 1967

Number of episodes
  
3

Languages
  
English, French

Networks
  
CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé

Centennial Performance was a Canadian television miniseries which aired on CBC Television's English and French networks in 1967.

Contents

Premise

This series featured performances by winners of a performing arts scholarship sponsored by INCO for the Canadian Centennial. They were joined by an orchestra and prominent classical artists.

Scheduling

The three-hour-long Centennial Performance episodes were broadcast in colour, each at 9:30 p.m. Eastern:

  • 19 April 1967 Scholarship recipients Jacques Simard (Quebec City, oboe) and Irene Weiss (Calgary, piano) were featured with singer George London. Pierre Hétu conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
  • 4 October 1967 Richard Gresko (Montreal, piano) and Martine van Hamel (Toronto, ballet) were the featured scholarship winners, joined by singer Maureen Forrester and ballet dancer Hazaros Surmejan. George Crum and Brian Priestman conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
  • 15 November 1967 Scholarship winners Claude Corbeil (Montreal, bass) and Audrey Glass (Vancouver, soprano) were joined by Glenn Gould in Toronto and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Golschmann.

    • References

    Centennial Performance Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA