Yes, it was. Thank you very much, Mr. Gill.
We thought it was very important that we would leave a legacy, and so to that end, artists from Calgary, San Francisco, Toronto, Regina, Halifax, Vancouver, New York, and the Siksika Nation, which is Blackfoot territory just outside of Calgary, were commissioned to create new works to celebrate the 75th anniversary.
As I mentioned earlier, we did a lot of co-commissioning. For instance, we co-commissioned a String Quartet composition with the Juilliard School in New York and Stanford University. That String Quartet has been performed all over North America, Australia, and Europe. We also co-commissioned with Luminato the aboriginal dance piece Tono, which has been seen around the world.
We created a book, where we invited writers and obviously commissioned them to write for us. We produced a CD boxed set of works that had been created and performed here at the Banff Centre. We had some concrete legacy pieces, but we also think the commission pieces, which will have a much longer life and will be seen on multiple stages, are very important. We also commissioned some art work, which not only resides in our collection but, again, is able to be seen elsewhere. We thought those were very important pieces as part of the legacy of the 75th anniversary.
I just want to add that we've also embraced as much as we can the technology that's available to us. In that year we joined the iTunes U site, and we've developed a whole range of podcasts of activities that have gone on here—interviews with artists, etc.—and those are available for download for free for anyone. That's something we've been growing since that time because we think it's a really important dimension for people who can't actually be here to see what happens here.