Volume 4 Issue 6 - March 1999

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Tafelmus.ik's
Jeanne
Lamon:
Baroque
"middleman"
INTERVIEWED BY
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New York native Jeanne Lamon's certain occasion; for a certain
cmmection with Tafelmusik audience, a certain hall, a certain
really began in April 1980, when time of the year. Huge hall,
she came to Toronto to guest church at Christmas, intimate
direct the Toronto Chamber parlour- these things all affect
Music Collective, established in the decision. And then you bring
1978 by Ke1meth Solway and that music to life, you bring it off
Susan Graves, with the aim of the page, you· take those black
becoming a world-class period spots on that white piece of paper
orchestra. , and you somehow make it mean
In 1981 Lamon assumed something to the audience. It all
the position of Music Director. sounds oversimplified and
What has occurred since then has obvious, but it is important to
been little short of breath-taking; remember, because there is no
including many, many tours (IS other art form that is quite like
·European tours alone), over fifty that.
recordings, and four Jtmo awards. · Music is the only art fonn
Jeanne Lamon has been recog- that requires a "middle man" ih
nized for her work with
this sense. Even a dancer is not
Tafelmusik with an honorary an interpreter in the same sense
doctorate from York University, as a musician is. In the case of
the Muriel Sherrin award for Baroque music, in particular,
· intemational success in music we're very lucky and we're very
and theM. Joan