Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 2003

More documents

Info

NEW MUSIC composer 2composer INTERVIEW WITH depressed, so the strings keep ringing almost to infinity. Of GEORGE course, I was also influenced by composers like Debussy, whose music seems to reflect that same CRUMB obsession with the slow decay of sounds and reverbation. MARCH2003 by Paul Steenhuisen George Cnunb was born on October 24, 1929, the Black Thursday of the great stock market crash. Throughout his career, he has composed numerous mysterious, introverted, and distinctively orchestrated works that are part of · the post-1950 musical canon, including his Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels, Night of the Four Moons, and Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), among others. On Sunday April 13, at the Gleim Gould Studio, New Music Concerts brings him to Toronto for a concert entitled The Unknown Cnunb. In an affiliated event, students of the Glenn Gould · Professional School will perform other of his works on Friday April 11 at the Royal Conservatory. Since first learning about this concert, I've looked forward to talking with this renegade American composer. STEENHUISEN: You've written that "the tndy magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche, and that every composer, from his or her formative years, has acquired 'a natural acoustic' that remains in their ear for life. " How did your sense of time and place, and your environment in the Appalachian river valley influence you as a composer? CRUMB: I was influenced by the particular acoustic of the Kanawha river valley in West Virginia. You would hear echoing effects from sounds that were across the river, and it had a kind of ricochet effect, becatlse sound travels very well over water. I think this just became part of my hearing. My music is involved with echoing effects and this is precisely the acoustic of such a place. 'I love instruments that appear not to ever want to die out, like tams tams and gongs -thesoundsjustkeep reverberating. When I write for piano, usually the damper pedal is STEENHUISEN: Did your early musical experience and geography affect your unique sense of instrumental timbre as well?
torontda rtsbounci I l\!>'ar'"'• 1•no1n bodyol 111• City~! Toro_nlo ONTAllO UTl COUNCM. COmEJI.: DU MT'S DE L'ON'J).QO Jj;° -1.allotlink CM:lu.:> '.I'll• SOCAN Fo1111Mr1UnfiLd l'o111Uitio11 SOCAN April 1 - May 7 2003 www .thewholenote.com 23
Page 2 and 3: April 2003 concerts A classic date
Page 4 and 5: JUN© AWAtDS Classical Album of the
Page 6 and 7: COVER STORY OPERA ·OD by Christoph
Page 8 and 9: Ill~~~~T~-~~~~-~~~~~~~g~~~~~~~~lll
Page 10 and 11: ~infqnia ioronLo NURHAN ARMAN MUSIC
Page 12 and 13: ket series at the Newmarket Theatre
Page 14 and 15: performance of Benjamin Britten's c
Page 16 and 17: Nadina Mackie Jackson in a stunning
Page 18 and 19: April 9 is the first of a fivenight
Page 20 and 21: TORONTOHEARANDNOW (NEW MUSIC) by Pa
Page 24 and 25: the century, and now again I think
Page 26 and 27: when I would play something Since t
Page 28 and 29: Left to right: Giuseppe Macina, Mar
Page 30 and 31: ~,~~~tfiO " T.O. Opet"~: BVILT ON G
Page 32 and 33: FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS ••• cont
Page 34 and 35: Canadian Child~ Opera Chorus Sounds
Page 36 and 37: Swing Band: Bum the Floor circumpol
Page 38 and 39: software, recording and performance
Page 40 and 41: SERGE ARCURI & INGRAM MARSHALl' THE
Page 42 and 43: Yuen, piano; Matthew Jaskiewicz, co
Page 44 and 45: Heritage Theatre, 86 Main St. N ..
Page 46 and 47: Oakville. 905-469-8695, 905·845·3
Page 48 and 49: FACULrY 'l~ ~\ UNIVERSITY OF TORONT
Page 50 and 51: - 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Touch. li
Page 52 and 53: 2021.$20. - 2:00: Toronto Latvian C
Page 54 and 55: 2683. $30. Net proceeds to the Duke
Page 56 and 57: - 8:00: Rosedale Concerts. Hebraic
Page 58 and 59: Deborah Overes, performers; Derek B
Page 60 and 61: ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED *April 27 9
Page 62 and 63: WholeNote's Special Editorial Focus
Page 64 and 65: on April 9 with violin soloist Jame
Page 66 and 67: includes a B&W recording from 1961
Page 68 and 69: and Hua Yanjun. Definitely a CD to
Page 70 and 71: Editor's Note: Heather Schmidt's Ce
Page 72:
• ~ ::; Erin Parh II;)' LEXUS TOY
show all

Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 2003

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?