National Music Centre | 7 Floors | Construction - Page 2

Spring2008 · #21 Posted **Apr 14, 2014, 3:50 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelS

$75 million for this came from government. $25 from each level I think.

And the remaining $75million from private/corporate donations with a whole bunch of mixes of use including museum, national music hall of fame, performance venues, recording studios etc. Ambitious project that I'm looking forward to checking out when open.

Surrealplaces · #22 Posted **Apr 14, 2014, 4:03 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by RyLucky

A canto is also one part of an epic poem.

Interesting. I just assumed it came from the Spanish word for song, but who knows. Canto also means 'song' in Italian, but the plural form is 'canti'.

Chadillaccc · #23 Posted **Apr 14, 2014, 5:11 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spring2008

And the remaining $75million from private/corporate donations with a whole bunch of mixes of use including museum, national music hall of fame, performance venues, recording studios etc. Ambitious project that I'm looking forward to checking out when open.

That is awesome, I didn't realize there would be a hall of fame or museum. That is fantastic. This thing just keeps getting better

So the total cost of the project is $150 million?

Spring2008 · #24 Posted **Apr 14, 2014, 5:39 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

That is awesome, I didn't realize there would be a hall of fame or museum. That is fantastic. This thing just keeps getting better

So the total cost of the project is $150 million?

Yup, that's the latest estimate.

Chadillaccc · #25 Posted **Apr 15, 2014, 5:17 PM**

Wooot! Crane up on the east side!

Surrealplaces · #26 Posted **Apr 29, 2014, 3:31 PM**

National Music Centre by Construction Mania, on Flickr

Bigtime · #27 Posted **May 1, 2014, 8:42 PM**

Montreal based Power Corporation of Canada has donated $1M

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...116/story.html

Bigtime · #28 Posted **May 15, 2014, 6:31 PM**

The first steel piece has been installed.

Surrealplaces · #29 Posted **May 15, 2014, 7:26 PM**

These were taken before the first piece of steel was installed, but still recent.

National Music Centre by Construction Mania, on Flickr

lineman · #30 Posted **May 15, 2014, 9:22 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigtime

The first steel piece has been installed.

Chadillaccc · #31 Posted **May 16, 2014, 5:59 PM**

Here is an absolutely excellent article about the National Music Centre. Very informative and well-written.

Calgary’s National Music Centre plans to wow both inside and out

Quote:

In its current lovely, if nondescript, heritage building, the National Music Centre in Calgary offers no hint of the treasures it houses: among them, a 1679 harpsichord, early synthesizers, and the piano on which Elton John composed his first four albums. In recent years, the place has seen everyone from Brian Eno and Philip Glass to Billy Corgan and Gotye drop by to ooh and ah and sometimes even experiment with the instruments and sound equipment.

But the NMC’s volume – at least architecturally – is about to be turned up to 11. Friday, it broke ground on what promises to be an eye-popping, $135-million facility, set to open in 2015. “We travelled around the world looking at different music institutions,” says architect Brad Cloepfil. “We looked and looked for precedents and models. And we learned bits and pieces from things, but there’s nothing like it.”

Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/...rticle8968942/

Surrealplaces · #32 Posted **May 17, 2014, 4:46 AM**

NMC and Guadian by Construction Mania, on Flickr

Spring2008 · #33 Posted **May 28, 2014, 6:49 PM**

Donations keep pouring in for the NMC:

Quote:

$1M donation for new National Music Centre

Family of the victims of a fatal bus crash make a huge donation ot the National Music Centre. Kevin Fleming reports

Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary

A foundation honouring two young girls killed 24 years ago is making a huge donation to the new National Music Centre in their honour.

Jaimie Hill, 10, and Tammy-Lynn Powers, 16, died in 1990 while on a chartered bus trip to Penticton for a dance event.

The girls were killed when pipes slid off a truck near Golden and slammed into the bus.
Related Links

National Music Centre
Jaimie Hill & Tammy-Lynn Powers Memorial Foundation

Photos
$1M donation, National Music Centre, Jaimie Hill &

The National Music Centre is expected to open in 2016.

Members of the Jaimie Hill & Tammy-Lynn Powers Memorial Foundation raised money by selling charity bears, collecting bottles, working casinos and hosting golf tournaments.

The group has been working on fund raising for years and recently presented the National Music Centre with a $1M donation.

The stage in the 300-seat performance space of the new centre will be dedicated to the memory of the girls and organizers say the theatre is a good fit for the donation.

“They saw that dance would fit in with this as well because without music you can't have dance, and with dance you need music, so it worked,” said Don Powers, Tammy-Lynn’s father.

“The girls would love to see the programs that the National Music Centre does, they would love to be a fit with that I believe, and we're carrying through their name in an amazing project,” said La Shayna Ozubko, bus crash survivor.

A portion of the money will be used to construct the building and the rest will go into programming.

The National Music Centre is scheduled to open in early 2016.

Read more: http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/1m-donatio...#ixzz332OgEQC0