Volume 23 Issue 3 - November 2017
In this issue: conversations (of one kind or another) galore! Daniela Nardi on taking the reins at "best-kept secret" venue, 918 Bathurst; composer Jeff Ryan on his "Afghanistan" Requiem for a Generation" partnership with war poet, Susan Steele; lutenist Ben Stein on seventeenth century jazz; collaborative pianist Philip Chiu on going solo; Barbara Hannigan on her upcoming Viennese "Second School" recital at Koerner; Tina Pearson on Pauline Oliveros; and as always a whole lot more!
In this issue: conversations (of one kind or another) galore! Daniela Nardi on taking the reins at "best-kept secret" venue, 918 Bathurst; composer Jeff Ryan on his "Afghanistan" Requiem for a Generation" partnership with war poet, Susan Steele; lutenist Ben Stein on seventeenth century jazz; collaborative pianist Philip Chiu on going solo; Barbara Hannigan on her upcoming Viennese "Second School" recital at Koerner; Tina Pearson on Pauline Oliveros; and as always a whole lot more!
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<strong>Volume</strong> <strong>23</strong> No 3 | <strong>November</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
ON OUR COVER<br />
PHOTO: © CONOR MCSWEENY<br />
Pictured is New York City-based violinist/multiinstrumentalist/composer<br />
Laura Ortman, in the middle set<br />
of the middle concert of the Music Gallery’s 12th X Avant<br />
Festival which took place October 11 to 13 at 918 Bathurst<br />
Cultural Centre, subject of this issue’s cover story (page 14).<br />
The concert, co-presented with Indigenous music platform<br />
Revolutions Per Minute (RPM), was an evening of electronic<br />
and experimental Indigenous music featuring Native<br />
American (Cherokee/Muscogee) composer and artist Elisa<br />
Harkins and Vancouver’s Mourning Coup along with Ortman.<br />
The gig followed on the heels of the release of Ortman’s latest<br />
solo album, My Soul Remainer. Ortman was back in town the<br />
following weekend for a screening at the Horseshoe – as part<br />
of the imagiNative Film + Media Arts Festival – of filmmaker<br />
Nanobah Becker’s “My Soul Remainer” video billed as “starring<br />
New York City Ballet sensation Jock Soto (Navajo) and crazy<br />
violinist Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache)!”<br />
ACD2 2765<br />
FEATURES<br />
7 OPENER | Rear View<br />
Mirror: Nine Prime<br />
<strong>November</strong>s | DAVID PERLMAN<br />
8 FEATURE | Music of<br />
Remembrance |<br />
DAVID JAEGER<br />
10 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |<br />
Solo Phil: pianist Philip<br />
Chiu | PAUL ENNIS<br />
12 CONVERSATION | Ben Stein<br />
on 17th Century Jazz |<br />
DAVID PERLMAN<br />
14 COVER STORY | Daniela<br />
Nardi at 918 Bathurst |<br />
DAVID PERLMAN<br />
63 WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S<br />
CHILDEN | MJ BUELL<br />
64 REMEMBERING | Deep<br />
Gratitude: Pauline Oliveros<br />
| WENDALYN BARTLEY<br />
65 MUSIC AND HEALTH | Life<br />
After Injury | VIVIAN FELLEGI<br />
Haunted<br />
By BraHms<br />
Brahms lieder<br />
as you have<br />
never heard it<br />
sung before!<br />
Lewis Furey<br />
64<br />
G R I G O R I A N . C O M
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