Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater is now a symphony
Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater is a recollection of his childhood in small-town Quebec (Ste. Justine, population 1,200) in the 1940s. He wrote it in 1979, and the next year it was turned into an animated short for the National Film Board. The drawings used in the animated film were also used to make it into a children’s book, which is probably read to the vast majority of Canadian kids. We love this story so much, we put it on our money! Carrier’s story is nothing short of iconic, so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra wanted to put it to music. Bunch spoke to Roch Carrier this week to see what he thinks of Abigail Richardson’s take on it.
What can you tell us about the new symphony adaptation of The Hockey Sweater?
