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Maritimes hit by 'weather bomb'
The Globe and Mail-CBC orchestra celebrates birthday in style  < 12:53:45 AM>.These days we often hear the modern symphony orchestra referred to as an endangered species. We can triple that for the radio orchestra, once a staple of the North American classical-music establishment, and now whittled down on this continent to a lone survivor: the CBC Radio Orchestra in Vancouver. On Monday, the CBC Radio Orchestra celebrated its 65th anniversary (and conductor Mario Bernardi his 20th year as its director) with a live broadcast to 19 countries in Europe, performing four pieces commissioned by the CBC over the course of those 65 years. Arcand to be honoured by France... < 12:47:30 AM>.Quebec filmmaker to be named a commander of the
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