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Posted July 22nd, 2010 by webmaster

The New Classical 96.3 FM encourages you to make a financial contribution in support of Team Zoomer for The Weekend To End Womens Cancer for The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, September 11 and 12.

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The New Classical 96.3 FM presents The National Youth Orchestra of Canada, celebrating its 50th year. They'll be performing in Toronto at Koerner Hall on Tuesday, August 3, 8:00 PM. Tickets are available by calling (416)408-0208 or email tickets@rcmusic.ca. For more information visit: www.rcmusic.ca
- The New Classical 96.3FM

The New Classical 96.3 FM is proud to be the “Official Radio Sponsor” of Tastes of Thailand 2010 at Nathan Phillips Square July 17th and 18th. Admission is free and the event showcases the exotic culture and traditional foods for Thailand. There’ll be dancers, Thai kick-boxing demonstrations, music, handicrafts, cooking demonstrations, a fashion show and restaurants featuring specialty Thai dishes. For more information visit: www.thaiontario.com
- The New Classical 96.3FM

wine.pngIn June I spent a week at the University of Calgary along with a group of top tasters from across the country tasting through over 1100 wines. The purpose? To find Canada’s top wines under $25 dollars. Tune in as John Szabo joins Alexa's Oasis Thursday at 5:30. Click to READ MORE...
- John Szabo MS, Wine Align

Wondering what to do in June? Head to the Arts and Events calendar to find upcoming shows, performances, and family-fun events happening in your area! Current listed: Soulpepper 2010 and KSO's 2010/2011 season, and the 23rd season of the Brott Music Festival.
- The New Classical 96.3FM

The New Classical 96.3 FM wants your support of "The Hammer Band - From Violence to Violins" program - over 150 students are enrolled in weekly free violin lessons in 7 schools in the Jane/Finch neighbourhood. More time with the violin means less time on the street and helps build self-confidence and a spirit of co-operation through music. There's no cost for the students who participate in The Hammer Band and each student receives a free violin and lessons. Help support this very worthwhile community project by attending their fundraising concert on May 19 at Integral House from 6 to 8 pm at 194 Roxborough Drive. Special guests include John McDermott, our own Jean Stilwell, The Paul Hoffert Jazz Trio, and Moshe Hammer and The Hammer Band. To order tickets call (416) 440-0066 or go to thehammerband.com.
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What does it mean to be an artist, and what exactly is 'art'? Zoomer News catches up with acclaimed actress, author, photographer, and painter Marilyn Lightstone as she enlightens us on the subject of 'Arts and Hearts'
- Zoomer News

winealign.jpgJohn Szabo and David Lawrason, reviewers for WineAlign.com, have created a series of fun, unique and highly informative wine events and seminars for the upcoming Toronto Wine & Cheese Show, held March 19th-21st at the International Centre (http://www.winealign.com/events/60). There are many innovative changes at the show this year including 2D barcode technology to help show attendees remember (and ultimately purchase) the great the wines they will discover at the show. As a special offer to 96.3FM listeners anyone who registers with WineAlign with the promo code "Szabo" will receive three months free of our premium service. As bonus, the first 20 people to register after John's visit to Alexa's Oasis on Thursday March 11th at 5:30pm, will receive a free pair of tickets to the Toronto Wine & Cheese Show. Each ticket is valued at $18. Sign up at: http://www.winealign.com.
- John Szabo, Wine Align

If you are a restaurant or business that plays The New Classical 96.3FM OR if you are a patron with a favourite place that plays classical, we want to hear from you! Join the movement today by sending us your recommendations and you can win a pair of tickets to one of Toronto's upcoming shows, plus a dinner for two at one of our Civilized Dining & Drinking establishments.
- The New Classical 96.3FM

The New Classical 96.3 FM has your chance to win a Lifespan 'fold and store' treadmill provided by Physical Assets: The Exercise Equipment Store. Power your day with local fuel and ENTER NOW! Contest continues until January 10th, 2010.
- The New Classical 96.3FM

Vienna is art, culture…and MUSIC! Enter now and you could win a trip for two to Vienna, including 3 nights in a four star hotel, courtesy of the Austrian Tourist Office and the Austrian Consulate General, Commercial Section. You could be waltzing in Vienna in the new year'. We'll be contacting the winner on December 21st, 2009, so start planning your Austrian getaway at ExperienceAustria.com and ENTER on our contests page!
- The New Classical 96.3FM

M.G. Vassanji, already celebrated for his fiction, is now a Governor General's Literary Award-winner for his evocative memoir "A Place Within: Rediscovering India." The Toronto-based author is a two-time winner of the Giller Prize for fiction and picked up a G.G. for English non-fiction in Montreal today. Novelist Kate Pullinger, originally from B.C., but now living in the U.K., is the English-language fiction winner for "The Mistress of Nothing." Each winner receives $25,000, while the other finalists receive $1,000 each. Governor General Michaëlle Jean will present the 14 winners with their awards at an evening gala at Rideau Hall on Nov. 26.
- CBC

Toronto funnyman Sean Cullen will be back at Stratford next year. Cullen will play Captain Hook's sidekick, Smee in "Peter Pan". He'll also play Vinnie, the MC, in George F. Walker's "King of Thieves." Cullen is a three-time Gemini Award winner and was recently at Stratford as Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Meanwhile, the festival has announced that Sophia Walker will replace Nikki M. James as Julia in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" next year. James has had to withdraw from next season due to "personal reasons." The American actress was also slated to play Ariel in "The Tempest" alongside Christopher Plummer - a follow-up to their successful pairing in Ceasar and Cleopatra and Stratford says the part of ariel has yet to be re-cast.
- CBC

Renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner won't be part of the Canadian Opera Company's upcoming 60th anniversary concert though he was among the major highlights of the upcoming event on November 7th. Heppner has a nagging illness that he caught during a recent engagement at the Royal Opera House, where he was singing Tristan in a Covent Garden production of Tristan und Isolde. Organizers have secured a pair of Heppner's high-profile, fellow Metropolitan Opera colleagues to fill in: Canadian baritone, Russell Braun and Mexican tenor, Ramon Vargas.
- CBC

Robert Lepage does it again! The Canadian Opera Company says it has added another performance of Lepage's "The Nightingale and Other Short Fables" due to unprecedented demand. The production features puppets performing in an orchestra pit filled with 68,000 litres of water. The Stravinsky opera has received critical raves after its world premiere last weekend. After the show, the opera company says it received a record number of calls and subsequently added another performance on November 2nd and the other six previously scheduled performances are sold out. Lepage made headlines when he announced his vision to fill the orchestra pit with water for the show, which features the work of Igor Stravinsky.
- CBC

A renowned Canadian musician has won the Canada Council's Walter Carsen prize worth $50,000. He's composer, conductor and celebrated flutist, Robert Aitken. The honour celebrates the artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by a Canadian performing artist in the realm of theatre, dance or music. Aitken is 70 now and has previously been awarded the Order of Canada and a Chevalier of the order of arts and letters in France. The award was established through a $1.1 million donation by Toronto businessman and arts philanthropist Walter Carsen and is awarded annuiallly on a four-year cycle recognizing dance, theatre, and music.
- CBC

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