Volume 26 Issue 3 - November 2020

At Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, in
November 2017: Obomsawin’s first concert in 30 years,
where she sang Bush Lady in its entirety.
and member of the jury of the 12th Prize Laureate in 2018, acted as
master of ceremonies, describing how Glenn Gould had passionately
believed in the power of music and the arts to transform lives,"
and how, in that spirit, the aim of the foundation today is to celebrate
“artistic heroes.”
Laurie Anderson introduced the jury by saying what a pleasure it
had been for her, listening to the jurors’ passionate speeches and
insights into the work of the 24 nominees they had to choose from.
“I’d like to hear about your thought process,” she said, inviting each
of them in turn to speak. Hilary Hahn – Anderson called her “the best
violinist in the world, in my opinion, a very sharp juror looking at
Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger (2019)
COURTESY OF TIFF
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