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Weekly dance music show broadcast from West Queen West in Toronto. Hosted by Benjay. It's the anniversary show of The Pregame! 1 year of vibes, beats, and basslines. Thank you for all the support !This week with Loxxe dropping some heat then Benjay b2b Wasfi for hour 2. Thank you again and enjoy!
In today's episode, James Clutton (whilst possibly breaking into a house in Mayfair) has an extended conversation with Wasfi Kani, the founder of Grange Park Opera. James delves into Wasfi's life and career, from her first interactions with classical music to her leadership style, and both discuss their role in the world of opera and opera's role in the current world.
[@ 6 min] George goes ‘Inside the Huddle' for a double header with two of the team behind “Gods of the Game”, the football opera that opened at Grange Park Opera in England. The discussion kicks off with company's founder and chief executive Wasfi Kani and concludes with cast member Milly Forrest… [@ 33 min] Friend of the Show Larry Brownlee takes a ‘Free Throw' on the comic-tragic role of Rameau's Platée, the star bel canto tenor's first French Baroque role… [@ 40 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill'… With government funding for British opera houses in turmoil, English National Opera may put the company's home court advantage at risk…. Next week, we go ‘Inside the Huddle' with soprano Megan Gillis... Join us! SHOW NOTES Lawrence Brownlee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUfgrHrEs1g Good Call: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/06/1127221864/when-she-left-ukraine-an-opera-singer-made-room-for-a-most-precious-possession operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore
Searching for Elephants - Entrepreneurship and leading from the front
Wasfi Kani is the CEO of Grange Park Opera. Born in the East London she started teaching herself the piano at 9 and was playing Violin in The National Youth Orchestra by 16. She read music at Oxford but was good at Maths so became a computer programmer but soon gave that up to become a conductor. With a story like that how could she be anything but interesting?
Learn Data Convergence Micro Podcast : Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, IIoT & Emerging Tech
Episode #76 MicroPodcast Interview with Wasfi Safadi on Data Convergence - Digital Transformation, Industry 40 and Emerging Tech --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learndataconvergence/message
Avec Eve-Marie Vaes et Benoît Debuyst
Avec Eve-Marie Vaes et Benoît Debuyst
As Ohio starts to reopen, we here at the Gem City Podcast, wanted to check in with restaurant and venue owner Wasfi Samaan, who co-owns J.D. Legends in Franklin. Wasfi also owns and operates GTG Promotions, which hosts a variety of mid-size concerts around the state of Ohio. Both of his businesses were greatly impacted […]
PRODUCTIONS FOR PRISONERS. Wasfi Kani OBE is the founder and CEO of Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera, through which she enriches the lives of British prisoners and primary school children by exposure to music.
Wasfi Kani of Grange Park Opera talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known. Ostia Antica https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/ostia-antica-near-rome History of Countryside by Oliver Rackham https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188837.The_History_of_the_Countryside Statistics around imprisonment https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf The Leopard https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/26/the-leopard-film-review Chamber music - Beethoven op 131 or Brahms sextet https://www.talkclassical.com/50161-chamber-music-thread.html Pericles quote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pericles
In this special summer episode, Stance features Deborah Colker, the legendary Brazilian choreographer and creative mind behind the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics. We speak to writer Kerry Hudson about her memoir, Low Born, that charts life growing up poor in 80’s & 90’s Britain. And Stance heads to Grange Park Opera to speak to Wasfi Kani, the woman bringing South Carolina’s Porgy and Bess, to the English countryside. Visit stancepodcast.com
Listen as John, Wasfi, & Brian talk about building a brand by being authentic...
Check out some of these real world marketing case studies with John & Wasfi.
Every Wednesday starting April 24 at 8pm 4 bands will play 30 minutes each One band will get a gig to play at Jd legends every week and advance to the finals The audience decides who get the gig at Jd legends The winner of the finals will get an openingfor a national act at Jd legends or $1000 .Jd legends will provide backline Bands that are already scheduled to play at Jd legends can not participate Jd Legends will decide who gets to participate in the competition based on there submission
Hear the story's of your podcast host John & Wasfi.
In this insider episode of "Backstage Hall Pass" your host Scott Hall takes you to the "sound check" for the Prince Experience at JD Legends in Franklin, Ohio. We open the show with interviews "Backstage" featuring Velvet Crush Unplugged (David Garwood, lead singer of Velvet Crush, a popular party band in Dayton, Ohio, joins with talented guitarist/vocalist, Dave Hurley and vocalist, Dana Honerlaw to offer acoustic music (two acoustic guitars) with three part harmonies) and J Frost 5 (It all started in 2014 through a mutual friend, "Straight Outta Dayton, OH", this dynamic duo came to be known as J Frost 5! Jamie Cress and Shawn Frost on Drums set out to Rock the world through the love of music.) both were opening acts for the Prince Tribute Show at JD Legends on Saturday, September 16th 2017. We then brig you some quick comments from Gabriel Sanchez who fronts the country’s most dynamic Prince Tribute Band, THE PRINCE EXPERIENCE. Playing all of the greatest hits from the Purple One himself, THE PRINCE EXPERIENCE has been packing dance floors and setting stages on fire for over fifteen years. Since 2002 Gabriel Sanchez has been portraying Prince in his critically acclaimed show The Prince Experience. What started off as a small local theatre production of Purple Rain, has expanded into what has become a night of unbelievable entertainment, that keeps anyone who has seen it, talking long after the last encore is played. In this episode, Scott walks you behind the curtain of this incredible (takes you back to 1984) theatrical show and also brings you Wasfi and Skip from JD Legends to share some info about their fall concert line up and much more! Concert tickets for all their shows are available at the JD Legends box office by calling (937) 746-4950! Listen to this exciting episode that takes you back to the 80s and the time where Prince ruled the radios and dance clubs! You can subscribe to our podcasts by clicking on the links on our homepage and please don’t forget to like us on Facebook and Follow us on Instagram and Twitter! (click the links on the front page as well) Thanks for listening!!
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani
2-Minute Promo: Dahlia Wasfi
Dahlia Wasfi is an Iraqi-American justice activist who has written and spoken extensively on U.S. policy in the region of Iraq. She is currently writing a book on Iraq and recently published the article "Battling ISIS: Iran-Iraq War Redux." She discusses the past quarter century of U.S. bombing of Iraq.
Wasfi, Skip, Chris and Todd talk about upcoming events including UFC and Wasfi's birthday bash super bowl party.
Karim Wasfi is the director, soloist, and artistic advisor for the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the faculty at the Music and Ballet School of Baghdad, the IU Jacobs School of Music, and the Cairo Academy of Art.
This week Visibility 9-11 welcomes peace activist Dr. Dahlia Wasfi to discuss her connections to the war in Iraq, her activism against the war, and her views on the 9-11 cover-up. Dr. Wasfi also responds to recent ad hominem attacks aimed at her and other alleged "signers" of the Kennebunkport Warning.Visit Dr. Wasfi's website here.Iraq Veterans Against the WarCourage to ResistIntermission music by Yvan Le Gall.