Opening Day made Best Label and Entertainment Group - Canada - by the NBW

OPENING DAY has been awarded best Label and Entertainment Group — Canada — two years in a row now and are nominated again this year by the NEW BUSINESS WORLD. So much of what we do is behind the scenes so to be recognized for how we do business and with whom and acknowledged for it is greatly appreciated. Many thanks to the NBW 2021, 2022 for noticing. It is greatly appreciated. This is for all of you who have been with us.

Ensemble Vivant’s iFugue

Ensemble Vivant - iFugue

When the great, now late Canadian composer John Burke heard Antonio Vivaldi’s fugue in e minor (from Sinfonia in e minor for strings and continuo, RV 134), he immediately knew it would be a perfect complement to Ensemble Vivant’s fugue recording. Cleverly coining it ‘iFUGUE', John gifted his brilliant arrangement of this fugue to Ensemble Vivant. iFUGUE fittingly leads off Ensemble Vivant’s album iFUGUE, A World of Fugues, soon to be released.

See our featured single and a preview of our spring 2022 album release: iFugue ~ A World of Fugues on our YouTube Channel.

WELCOME

For several years Opening Day has been embarking on its largest collective, collaborative project with those both inside and outside the music sector in a shared vision. We are in conversations and programs both old and new that will better serve and support all for a more just, harmonious, and healthy world. To create a more comprehensive rendering to include those who have been a part of our evolution to date and moving forward, how would you like to be part of the journey?

Song of Hope, World Band

ENSEMBLE VIVANT and EUTERPE CANADA performers Catherine Wilson, piano, Norman Hathaway, viola, and George Koller, bass (all Opening Day Recording Artists) were honoured to participate in the wonderful world-band initiative performing Peter Meechan’s The Song of Hope in support of renowned trumpet player RYAN ANTHONY in his courageous 8-year battle against cancer.

We believe in the power of music to heal and enrich people’s lives throughout their lives, and that Music is the Key for happier, healthier individuals, communities and nations.

Spearheaded by a group of Los Angeles-based film makers, musicians from all over the world performed Song of Hope alongside Ryan Anthony and his colleagues to create a world band, which as composer Peter Meechan wrote: “is about inclusivity, collaboration, togetherness and uniting in music to give hope to all who hear and see the film.”

Ryan’s formidable fight against cancer ended on June 23, 2020. Throughout his difficult battle, it was music that sustained him and gave him hope and joy.

In Ryan Anthony’s words:

“The power of music to heal is profound.
Regardless of closed doors, music cannot be contained and will ultimately prevail over viruses and cancer. From one generation to the next, we’re giving a gift that will never fail to prosper.
That’s the power of music.
You have to stay true to it
And be respectful to it
Or you don’t understand
The power of healing that it can do.”