My music “career” started while growing up in Vancouver, as a very active 5yr old listening to Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade), Franz von Suppe (Light Cavalry Overture) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker) on our 78 record player, my parent’s “electronic babysitter”. When LP’s first came out, I bought and listened to early LP samplers, folk, […]
Getting To Know NOC
Getting to Know Helen Walker
Helen has been playing the violin for eighty years! She’s a Manitoba gal; so, in addition to her music lessons, she enjoyed cold weather sports. When she was young she became a competitive speed skater, and later tried figure skating. And she practiced ice dancing with a a lovely RCMP officer, whose detachment was near […]