Word: canadiana
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...soloist; sideman (for Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie); composer; and leader of the Oscar Peterson Trio, which some call jazz's finest. He could hold back, then rip down the keyboard at lightning speed; he was a hard-swinging, dizzying improvisor on technically and creatively stunning works like Canadiana Suite and Blues Etude. He made 300 records and won eight Grammys. His passion was improvisation, which he called a "daredevil enterprise." He succumbed to kidney failure...
...centennial has also capped a Canadian culture boom; new museums, libraries and planetariums are going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
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