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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FOR OPENERS | DAVID PERLMAN<br />
Rear<br />
View<br />
Mirror:<br />
NINE PRIME<br />
NOVEMBERS<br />
The theme of this month’s opener is, I confess, a bit of a happy accident;<br />
I recently noticed posters announcing the imminent arrival in town<br />
(courtesy Mirvish) of a musical based on a book I like enough that my<br />
curiosity at how the heck someone managed to make it into a stage play is locked<br />
in mortal combat with my fear of coming away feeling that they killed the book.<br />
The book is called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by<br />
Mark Haddon and in it (just one of many insights into the mind of the narrator)<br />
the chapters are numbered not in the usual fashion, but as prime numbers in<br />
sequence: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17,19, <strong>23</strong> and so on. As the book’s narrator explains,<br />
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.<br />
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never<br />
work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”<br />
(One could suggest that music is endless logic sonically infused with emotion,<br />
but that would be the beginning of another essay.)<br />
In any case, this just happens to be the <strong>23</strong>rd <strong>November</strong> since we launched<br />
this publication in September 1995. So here for your amusement are the covers<br />
of our other eight “Prime <strong>November</strong>s.” You can dip into them at your leisure by<br />
going to our website, where under the “About Us” tab you will find complete<br />
flip-through editions of all 218 issues in our history to date.<br />
Depending on the personal memories and musical interests you bring to doing<br />
so, you will find the exercise an inexhaustibly patterned experience.<br />
Next “Prime <strong>November</strong>” won’t be till <strong>Volume</strong> 29 – our 20<strong>23</strong>/24 season – so our<br />
next “Rear View Mirror” will have to use a different excuse for dipping into the<br />
memory pool.<br />
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Vol 2: Doug Sanford and East York<br />
Symphony (now Orchestra Toronto);<br />
Vol 3: Joel Quarrington and<br />
Raymond Luedecke;<br />
Vol 5: Robert Aitken;<br />
Vol 7: Penderecki String Quartet;<br />
Vol 11: Jim Montgomery;<br />
Vol 13: Anton Kuerti;<br />
Vol 17: Richard Greenblatt<br />
and Ted Dykstra;<br />
Vol 19: Suzie LeBlanc<br />
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