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26/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 25, 2025 🌄

Our final broadcast from the ! We’ve had such a great time sharing conversations from this storied Canadian arts space! 🇨🇦

☀️ “I Hope You Know” is the brainchild of teenager Adia Branconnier - a coming-of-age story that sees two people from different generations try and engage around issues of q***r identity and a world moving quicker every day. Adia stars in the play alongside their father Mike, and their conversations are the basis for the play. They both joined us to tell@us more about this dynamic.

☀️ The operatic rendering of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is set to be performed this weekend at the ! Arranger told us more about the essence of the music that he has distilled in this new arrangement of the work, while directors and .brenna shared about the different light this opera casts on Margaret Atwood’s seminal work.

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25/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 24, 2025 🌄

☀️ .oboe is one of the world’s leading oboists, balancing playing in the principal chair with the and performing chamber works in settings like the . She talked about balance with Nolan Kehler, including balance in repertoire and in life.

☀️ Shakespeare and classical music collide in “The Tempestuous” at the . Creator and performer Penny Ashton () told us more about the adaptations made to the Bard’s work and the process of pairing classical music with the words.

☀️ The ’s beloved Ballet in the Park performances are on now at the Lyric Theatre in Assiniboine Park. New professional dancer Olivia Koppanyi ( panyi) and veteran told us about the excerpts being shared from .fm’s “T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods’.

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24/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 23, 2025 🌄

☀️ Canadian-American composer has been casting a wide net with his music in the last 30 years, drawing influence from visual and literary sources as well as the mix of Arabic, jazz and classical@music he grew up with in Ottawa. Karim is workshopping new works at the , and he told us more about them!

☀️ The also has new music to share with the world from composers from across the region. Director .sailor stopped by to preview them with us!

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23/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 22, 2025 🌄

☀️ When one thinks of improv, the word “thoughtful” might not be the first adjective that comes to mind. However, this is a quality that the cast of “Instant Modern Classic” are striving for at the this week. Cast members and Stephen Sim joined us to tell us more about this unusual approach to improv performance.

☀️ Growing up in the Red River Valley, Gahlord Dewald () quickly picked up a bug for improvised musical expression. Now, the double bassist is sharing the tools to this unique skill set with participants in the Interplay program at the . Gahlord spoke with Nolan Kehler as part of our ongoing coverage from Banff about the importance of bringing your full self when you are working within a community of fellow performers adding their own talents to a musical conversation.

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22/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 21, 2025 🌄

☀️ Award-winning composer Leilehua Lanzilotti () has spent her career exploring different relationships between music and time outside of the traditional classic music context. She joined Nolan Kehler for a wide-ranging interview at the to discuss how her music is influenced by her community in Hawaii, and how she observes the ongoing efforts toward reconciliation in Canada’s classical music industry.

☀️ The seemingly mundane conversations people have with an MPI claims representative gets ratcheted up with “Third Party”, ’s production in this year’s . Director and playwright and star .mcleod told us more about the show and the real-life encounters that inspired it.

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18/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 18, 2025 🌄

☀️ Karen Slack () won her first Grammy Award back in February alongside for “Beyond the Years: The Unpublished Songs of Florence Price”. She joined Nolan Kehler at the where she is on voice faculty to talk about Price’s music and the natural beauty of the poetry that she chose while in the Rocky Mountains.

☀️ may be the busiest human at this year’s . The improv artist and comedian stars in two shows and guest stars in two more! She joined us to talk about her solo show “Oversharer” about her ADHD diagnosis as she was about to turn 30, and about “An Improvised John Hughes Movie” with Tectonic Improv.

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17/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 17, 2025 🌄

☀️ In addition to training the next generation of classical music performers, the is also providing opportunities for emerging theatre professionals to add to their artistic tool belt. Winnipeg’s and Red Deer’s spoke to Nolan Kehler about their training as stage managers.

☀️ “Unveiling the Q***r Italian-Canadian Experience”, on display right now at , is an examination of claiming q***r identity in a community that doesn’t always openly acknowledge it. Poet Liana Cusmano () and photographer told us more about their collaboration and what the reactions have been from the Italian-Canadian Community.

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16/07/2025

🌄 MORNING SHOW - JULY 16, 2025 🌄

☀️ “bingenTV” is a q***r gardening talk show from the 1980’s that has never been aired - until now. The piece is inspired by the 12th century mystic composer and botanist Hildegard von Bingen and created by London-based artist and former WSO assistant conductor . They both joined Nolan Kehler to discuss the project and how Bingen’s work resonates across the centuries at .

☀️ The is just over a week away from presenting an operatic rendering of “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Stars .montefusco and talked about their takes on the main character, Offred, and how they handle the difficult subject matter of the show that can bear an uncomfortable resemblance to real life.

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15/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 15, 2025 🌄

☀️ The opens this week! 🎉 We’ll be having conversations with some of the performers, including and their marionette makeover on a Gilbert & Sullivan classic. Director and performer joined us to talk about “The Puppets of Penzance.”

☀️ As part of our ongoing coverage from the , Nolan Kehler sat down with .sage, the celebrated French pianist, about how he is transmitting and receiving knowledge of the great composer’s masterworks, and about his love for Robert Schumann.

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15/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 14, 2025 🌄

☀️ Celebrated clarinettist and conductor has made a career of championing contemporary classic music, premiering works by the likes of Penderecki and Berio. He sat down with Nolan Kehler to talk about his time sharing tools and skills for interpreting new music and musical languages with the next generation of musicians at the .

☀️ “Halcyon/Kawasemi” blends ancient Greek and Japanese folklore together in a representation of suspension above the world and its problems at the . Creators .iwasaki.art and told us more about the process of creating the piece and its enduring power to speak to the social condition.

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12/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 11, 2025 🌄

☀️ and Alex Weimann of are working on something special at the - a staged version of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” sung by eight singers in English, French and German. They joined Nolan Kehler to tell us more about the project and about the new nuances in the piece that reveal themselves in new languages.

☀️ is celebrating g 25 years of midwife care in Manitoba with an exhibition at the . She told us more about the mediums used in “Mother Care” (including rug-hooked pieces that represent the placenta!), and about the inspiration to become a midwife herself.

Have a great weekend! Stay safe from the smoke, Manitoba!

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10/07/2025

🌄 MORNING LIGHT - JULY 10, 2025 🌄

☀️ takes the stage tonight at as part of their summer programming lineup! Ensemble member joined us to talk about the unique performing environment and how it adds to the ensemble’s performance.

☀️ Lauren Peters () is developing her wardrobe skills at the this month in the hopes that she will be able to bring those skills back to the theatre community in her home city of Steinbach. She spoke with us about the skills when’s acquiring and the new experiences she’s hoping will influence her craft.

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