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Art and Politics: Interviews with Peter Herrndorf
Peter Herrndorf – today’s President and CEO of the National Arts Centre (title changed from Director General used in Southam’s day) comments on the importance of good contacts in government to get things done at federal cultural agencies and the connections he developed, especially with former Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, the elder statesman who was the right hand to Prime Minister Chretien, als with and the former deputy minister of Canadian Heritage and, later Clerk of the Privy Council (the most powerful job in the Canadian public service), Alex Himelfarb.
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Herrndorf speaks on the importance of having a national cultural life
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Herrndorf comments on the climate of the times for the arts in Canada today
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Earlier:
Interviews with G. Hamilton Southam
Interviews on the National Arts Centre
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