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The evening, the third organized by the University, featured speeches by DCLA recipients Louise Fréchette, Rick Hansen, and Bob Rae, as well as a speech and performance by Meritas Tabaret Award recipient and world-famous concert pianist Angela Hewitt. She played five movements from J. S. Bach’s French Suite in G Major.
Members of the University’s Opera Workshop — soprano Katie Murphy, baritone Jean-Sébastien Kennedy and piano accompanist Hannah Parks — also performed a duet and arias from works by Mozart and Leonard Bernstein.
In her remarks, Hewitt told guests that leadership sometimes means having to go against the grain. The other recipients also spoke engagingly about various aspects of leadership.
Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae said that leading was about “leading the band,” rather than “jumping on the bandwagon.” Man in Motion Foundation CEO Rick Hansen discussed the transformative power of an attitude change, while Deputy UN Secretary General Louise Fréchette made a distinction between “fear leaders” and “hope leaders.”
