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Michel Donato gets Order of CanadaNFB toon composer earns Canada's highest civilian honourMichel Donato, who contributed music to such classic National Film Board of Canada cartoons as Catuor and Oneiromancy,becomes a Member of the Order of Canada on Tuesday.
(Source: www.bcdb.com) Jazz bassist and composer Michel Donato will be named as a Member of the Order of Canada on Tuesday. One of 89 people named this year, he will receive Canada's highest civilian honour. An upright bassist who has performed with Jacques Brel, Toots Thielemans, Oscar Peterson and others, Donato also performed on the 1970 jazz animated short Catuor. Donato composed the music for other NFB shorts like 1972's Modulations, 1978's Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf and 1987's Oneiromancy. He also performed on 1997's Le Jardin d'Ecos (The Garden of Ecos), which won at the Chicago International Children's Festival. Fellow artistic recipients of the Member of the Order of Canada include choral director Sister Katherine Bellamy, mystery writer Howard Engel , composer Roland Gauvin, novelist Barbara Gowdy, poet Frances Itani, visual artist Alex S. Janvier, singer/songwriter Connie Kaldor, stage directors Jean Roberts and Mark H. Rowswell, novelist Jane Vance Rule, curator Joan Stebbins and composer David A. Young. Hollywood film director Arthur Hiller was named as an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in Edmonton in 1923, his directorial credits include live-action weepie Love Story (1970) and Man of La Mancha (1972). He also directed the buddy comedy Silver Streak (1976) and Author! Author! (1982), which starred the late comedian Dudley Moore.
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