The National Film Board started film research for Canada At War in December l958, and for three years, the NFB's Donald Brittain and his associates went through 10,000,000 feet of film taken during the Second World War in an effort to present Canada's role in the war. It took the NFB crew 2,000 hours to look at all the film in order to extract the six hours of prime material they wanted.
Harold C. Schonberg wrote in the New York Times upon his demise: "Musicians can and will argue about Stokowski's artistry, but no one will dispute the fact that he was one of the greatest conductors of all time. He got things from an orchestra that nobody else could equal, and when he got that amazing mixture of colours, that virtuoso projection, even those who objected to what he was doing were bowled over by how he did it."

Les Menestrels, Wiener Ensemble für Alte Musik. Great medieval music. Rare polyphony and choral. Perfect!
It is quite relevant to notice how many new Russian Progressive rock bands that share similarities with Emerson, Lake & Palmer are arising. In fact, in cases such as Little Tragedies, Edward Artemiev or Horizont, it would be more accurate to evoke XIXth and XXth century classical music, for Slavic culture reasons. Aviva perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. It is in fact Russian virtuoso pianist and multi-instrumentalist Dmitri A. Loukianenko's project. With the help of a guitarist and a few guests, our man presents "Rokus Tonalis" on the Musea label…
Richard Bone is an American composer and musician who has been regularly releasing albums since 1993, mostly on his own Quickworks Laboratory Discs label. The music on Indium consists of unreleased music as well as music written to be performed at Artemiy Artemiev's First International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic, Experimental and Avant-garde Music in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. A combination of dark and light tones, contrasting hard/soft metallic textures, and diverse rhythms, it’s a striking work that plays like a power surge running through your mind.