In the News
May 4, 2020: 18-year-old cellist will be youngest person to perform with Symphony Nova Scotia (CBC News)
An 18-year-old cellist in Bedford, N.S., is now the youngest musician to win an apprenticeship with Symphony Nova Scotia. Priscilla
Lee, a third-year bachelor of music student majoring in cello
performance at Dalhousie's Fountain School of Performance Art, was
offered the apprenticeship in early April.
April 9, 2020: "Sew what can we do to help?": Costume Studies stitches facemasks for students on campus
Costume Studies instructor Anneke Henderson models one of the homemade facemasks that Costume Studies students, faculty and staff have been making. (Provided photos)
Anneke Henderson likely didn’t ever imagine that as a senior instructor in Dalhousie’s Costume Studies program she would find herself stitching together face masks to protect against a spreading virus.
From Dal News: Theatre
- "Sew what can we do to help?": Costume Studies stitches facemasks for students on campus
- From a friendship to a legacy
- Social betterment and sentimentality: Fountain School’s "Ephemera" takes to the stage
- Pulling back the curtain on the Dalhousie Arts Centre expansion
- Love in a time of too much information: Fountain School season kicks off
From Dal News: Music
- "Heave Away!": Fountain School alumni unite for a musical tribute to the Class of 2020
- "Scotial Distancing 2020": Grads help livestream the Scotia Festival of Music
- Sitting in with the Symphony: Digital audition earns Music student coveted honour
- From a friendship to a legacy
- How two women pulled off a medieval manuscript heist in post‑war Germany