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?Read more...
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
I went to journalism school with a sports writer who landed a part-time job at a parenting magazine right after graduation. She got the job after she completed an internship we both applied for. (She got the internship, I went elsewhere.)
She’s a smart, career-focused, young woman, who is not a parent. The type who’d probably never picked up a parenting magazine, except to prepare for the interview that ultimately landed her the job (I mean, why would she read a parenting magazine?) Meanwhile, I’d spent a year of mat leave reading them.
Jobs are so weird.
Now I’m writing NHL score re-caps, taking on some extra work for a client. Those who know me, understand this is much more ironic than the above-mentioned non-mom landing the parenting magazine gig over me. As in, this is way, way ironic. As in, Alanis had nothing on this. As in, it’s i-ron-ic. Read more...
We might not be able to pull off triple axel-double toe loop combinations, but we’re pretty great at the double feature-triple popcorn bucket combo. Here’s our skating Bunchbrary:
So, so many good scenes to choose from in this Disney Classic, but Coach Bombay reconnecting with the ice and his childhood, shedding his corporate D-bag persona in the process — awesome. The Mighty Ducks is a great skating movie because Gordon Bombay takes takes the worst team in the history of peewee hockey and, after a visit to Hans, teaches the Ducks some much needed hockey basics.
Firstly, it’s nearly impossible to not enjoy a Jimmy Stewart movie. Secondly, Jimmy Stewart staging a massive skating revue in Canada just to prove to his wife Joan Crawford he can do things on his own? Genius. And while it’s well before our time, we feel some collective-conscious nostalgia for those massive swimming, dancing, singing and skating extravaganzas from the 1930s. Read more...
