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One of the first images in the video installation is of the chorus, shot from behind, being led by conductor Ajtony Csaba, music professor and symphony orchestra director at the University of Victoria. Everyone dressed in black to...

The video installation moves back and forth between whole and split screens, an effective way of showing the terrain as the viewer gets to see the site and...

Several times throughout the piece, the camera focuses upon the conductor. He stands alone, in the centre of the screen on an outcropping of rocks, facing the glacier in his tuxedo...

In another section of the video installation, a woman attached to a safety rope, slowly and methodically walks across the glacier. She is singing with sheets of music in her hand, seemingly communing with, and offering homage to, the...

The installation of Requiem for a Glacier at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is particularly effective. The twenty-two-foot-long screen takes up the entire wall of the gallery, reflecting the monumentality of the site. As...