Volume 21 Issue 1 - September 2015
Paul Ennis's annual TIFF TIPS (27 festival films of potential particular musical interest); Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeffrey Beecher on the Silk Road; David Jaeger on CBC Radio Music in the days it was committed to commissioning; the LISTENING ROOM continues to grow on line; DISCoveries is back, bigger than ever; and Mary Lou Fallis says Trinity-St. Paul's is Just the Spot (especially this coming Sept 25!).
Paul Ennis's annual TIFF TIPS (27 festival films of potential particular musical interest); Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeffrey Beecher on the Silk Road; David Jaeger on CBC Radio Music in the days it was committed to commissioning; the LISTENING ROOM continues to grow on line; DISCoveries is back, bigger than ever; and Mary Lou Fallis says Trinity-St. Paul's is Just the Spot (especially this coming Sept 25!).
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Beat by Beat | In With the New<br />
The Soaring<br />
Female Voice<br />
WENDALYN BARTLEY<br />
As things go, the sweet sounds of summer are winding down as<br />
we gear up for the beginning of a new concert season. Three<br />
highlights of the summer for me personally were joining with<br />
1000 other performers as a choir member in R. Murray Schafer’s<br />
Apocalypsis, singing with the Element Choir backing up the mindblowing<br />
Tanya Tagaq at Nathan Philips Square and experiencing the<br />
purely delightful piece DIVE, featuring singer Fides Krucker and<br />
the music of Nik Beason. In all three, the voice was a predominant<br />
player. As I looked over the listings for this coming month, I couldn’t<br />
help observing the number of concerts and events featuring music<br />
by women composers and leading performers. One can question<br />
whether a point should be made about this, but given the long<br />
struggle for gender equality in both composition and conducting, it<br />
is worth noting that something is shifting. One element that appears<br />
in common among several of these events is the presence of the<br />
female voice.<br />
Monk Feldman and Caitlin Smith: On <strong>September</strong> 29 Arraymusic<br />
is collaborating with the Canadian Opera Company to present the<br />
works of two women composers – Barbara Monk Feldman and Linda<br />
Caitlin Smith – for the free noon hour series at the COC’s Richard<br />
Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Monk Feldman’s piece, Love Shards of<br />
Sappho, originally commissioned by Arraymusic in 2001, is being<br />
presented in celebration of the COC’s premiere in late October of<br />
her opera Pyramus and Thisbe. The piece is built around texts<br />
written by the Greek lyric poet Sappho, who lived during the<br />
600s BC on the Greek island of Lesbos. Renowned during her<br />
time, only a few fragments of Sappho’s writings remain. The<br />
texts used by Monk Feldman are clear and full of musicality.<br />
The words begin: Harmony clear voiced/I shall go/Clear voice I go/<br />
Clear voice/Garlanded/Adorned/ Delightful choir. Feldman’s music<br />
has been described as quiet and full of an intense intimacy. One can<br />
easily imagine the inspiring pairing these words and musical style will<br />
create, particularly in the hands of soprano Ilana Zarankin.<br />
The other work on the program is Hieroglyphs, written<br />
in 1998 by Linda Caitlin Smith. Smith’s music is characterized<br />
by great attention to the sensuous qualities of sound<br />
OBJECTS ON A TABLE<br />
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, <strong>2015</strong>, 8 PM<br />
PERFORMERS: RICHARD ANDREW BURROWS,<br />
KATHRYN LADANO, ISABELLA STEFANESCU<br />
PERIMETER INSTITUTE<br />
31 CAROLINE ST. N., WATERLOO, ON<br />
$35 general | $20 senior/arts worker | students $15 | eyeGO $5<br />
perimeterinstitute.ca/pushingperimeter<br />
20 | Sept 1 - Oct 7, <strong>2015</strong> thewholenote.com
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