{"id":11799,"date":"2023-07-31T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T06:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:22:06","slug":"orchestra-gifted-bow-made-cancer-patients-hair-memory-canadian-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/07\/31\/orchestra-gifted-bow-made-cancer-patients-hair-memory-canadian-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestra Gifted Bow Made From Cancer Patient&#8217;s Hair in Memory of Canadian Conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11802\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Catherine-Dallaire.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Dallaire\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Dallaire, Concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec, performs on a violin bow made out of Chemotherapy Patient&#8217;s hair. Photo: Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Catherine Dallaire premiered a new bow donated by a woman battling cancer in a fundraising concert honouring the death of Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s principal guest conductor, Bramwell Tovey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did this come about?:\u00a0<\/strong> A woman named Karine, who is currently battling cancer, donated her hair to a luthier to be made into a violin bow for the orchestra\u2019s fundraising concert for the Quebec Cancer Foundation. The orchestra is playing the concert to mark the anniversary of the death of Bramwell Tovey, their principal guest conductor, who died of sarcoma on July 12th, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are human hair bows a thing?:<\/strong> Not really. For the past 400 years, violin bows have been made from 160-180 strands of horsehair. Human hair is slightly thinner than horsehair, although the two share similarities, according to the luthier who made Dallaire\u2019s new \u201cBow of Hope.\u201d Horsehair is often used in wigs, including those worn in British courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Karine, now a cancer survivor, expressed that she felt filled with pride that her own struggle with cancer would be heard during the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Karine\u2019s story, watch the bow being made, and hear some Bach played with it [<a href=\"https:\/\/the-message.ca\/2023\/07\/17\/quebec-symphony-launches-innovative-fundraiser-with-bow-of-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Dallaire premiered a new bow donated by a woman battling cancer in a fundraising concert honouring the death of Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s principal guest conductor, Bramwell Tovey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3],"tags":[311,309,310],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Catherine-Dallaire.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11803,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/11803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}