Luc Marcel created a spectacular theatre piece Wind for saxophone quartet and modern dance ensemble that includes a gigantic inflatable plastic rectangular performance bubble.

The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra began in 1930 as the Junior Symphony. Today there are four orchestra divisions comprised of students from the beginning string musician to those in advanced university studies.

Once upon a time the Goddess Saraswati seized a demon and used his body to make the world's first Veena. On this CD, Lakshmi Ranganathan takes up her great grandfather's Veena and gives us access to that other world.

Few albums in today's thickly packed CD catalogues can match Musics Ancient and Modern for a variety of style of tonal brilliance.