Volume 22 Issue 7 - April 2017
In this issue: Our podcast ramps up with interviews in March with fight director Jenny Parr, countertenor Daniel Taylor, and baritone Russell Braun; two views of composer John Beckwith at 90; how music’s connection to memory can assist with the care of patients with Alzheimer’s; musical celebrations in film and jazz, at National Canadian Film Day and Jazz Day; and a preview of Louis Riel, which opens this month at the COC. These and other stories, in our April 2017 issue of the magazine!
In this issue: Our podcast ramps up with interviews in March with fight director Jenny Parr, countertenor Daniel Taylor, and baritone Russell Braun; two views of composer John Beckwith at 90; how music’s connection to memory can assist with the care of patients with Alzheimer’s; musical celebrations in film and jazz, at National Canadian Film Day and Jazz Day; and a preview of Louis Riel, which opens this month at the COC. These and other stories, in our April 2017 issue of the magazine!
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SIMON FRYER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR<br />
<strong>2017</strong><br />
2018<br />
CBC Radio Two: The Living Legacy<br />
OCTOBER 5, <strong>2017</strong> | 1.30 PM<br />
LARA ST. JOHN<br />
Lara St. John, violin<br />
Matt Herskowitz, piano<br />
NOVEMBER 9, <strong>2017</strong> | 1.30 PM<br />
ZODIAC TRIO<br />
Riko Higuma, piano; Kliment Krylovskiy,<br />
clarinet; Vanessa Mollard, violin<br />
MARCH 8, 2018 | 1.30 PM<br />
ELIAS STRING<br />
QUARTET<br />
Sara Bitlloch, violin; Donald Grant, violin;<br />
Martin Saving, viola; Marie Bitlloch, cello<br />
APRIL 12, 2018 | 1.30 PM<br />
Sylvia Schwartz, soprano<br />
Olivier Godin, piano<br />
Simon Fryer with guest cellists:<br />
TORONTO DEBUT<br />
SYLVIA SCHWARTZ<br />
MAY 3, 2018 | 1.30 PM<br />
CELLODRAMA!<br />
Ariel Barnes<br />
Roman Borys<br />
David Hetherington<br />
Paul Widner<br />
Thomas Wiebe<br />
Leanne Zacharias<br />
Winona Zelenka<br />
SPECIAL GUEST: Sarah Slean, soprano<br />
120 th Season<br />
Subscribe to Five Thursday Afternoon<br />
Concerts for $175 (special price until May 31)<br />
Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s Park (Museum Subway)<br />
wmct@wmct.on.ca<br />
www.wmct.on.ca<br />
416-923-7052<br />
Harry Somers<br />
When Harry’s<br />
Voice Came<br />
to Play<br />
DAVID JAEGER<br />
The explosion of Canadian artistic creativity that led up to and<br />
accompanied the Canadian centennial celebrations in 1967<br />
spawned ripples that continued for years, if not decades. In<br />
addition to the more than 2000 artistic infrastructure projects that<br />
the federal Centennial Commission created, there were also dozens<br />
of original musical works commissioned, by various bodies including<br />
CBC Radio, to celebrate the milestone. Some of these have remained in<br />
the canon of Canadian classical repertoire, such as Norma Beecroft’s<br />
The Living Flame of Love, Harry Freedman’s Rose Latulippe, Jacque<br />
Hétu’s Woodwind Quintet, Barbara Pentland’s Suite Borealis, Murray<br />
Schafer’s Requiems for the Party Girl, and Harry Somers’ Evocations.<br />
In December 1967 the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) published a<br />
comprehensive catalogue of nearly 200 of these new works. RCA<br />
Victor collaborated with the CBC’s international service, Radio Canada<br />
International (RCI), to create a centennial edition LP series, Music and<br />
Musicians of Canada, which ran to 17 volumes. Other labels, such<br />
as Columbia, also released Canadian classical works, although less<br />
numerous than the RCA/RCI collaboration.<br />
Harry Somers’ and Mavor Moore’s opera Louis Riel was arguably<br />
the crowning achievement among all this creative activity.<br />
The opera was produced by the Canadian Opera Company in 1967,<br />
continues to page 86<br />
PHOTO CREDIT GILBERT A. MILNE & CO.<br />
PHOTO COURTESY CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE<br />
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