Since sports are on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is another way to get your Battle of Alberta fix. Seventy musicians from the Calgary Philharmonic and Edmonton Symphony orchestras joined forces for a special rendition of “Hockey Night in Canada,” with each performer — sporting an Oilers or Flames jersey — separately recording their track.
It took hours of meticulous editing and post-production work to get the finished product together. “You think of the efficiency of having 70 people on stage and performing a four-minute piece all at once.
Then you consider those same 70 people recording it on their own, sending 70 files of four-minute length to an editor or producer like me to chop up and edit and EQ and put it all together,”