Volume 23 Issue 9 - June / July / August 2018
PLANTING NOT PAVING! In this JUNE / JULY /AUGUST combined issue: Farewell interviews with TSO's Peter Oundjian and Stratford Summer Music's John Miller, along with "going places" chats with Luminato's Josephine Ridge, TD Jazz's Josh Grossman and Charm of Finches' Terry Lim. ) Plus a summer's worth of fruitful festival inquiry, in the city and on the road, in a feast of stories and our annual GREEN PAGES summer Directory.
PLANTING NOT PAVING! In this JUNE / JULY /AUGUST combined issue: Farewell interviews with TSO's Peter Oundjian and Stratford Summer Music's John Miller, along with "going places" chats with Luminato's Josephine Ridge, TD Jazz's Josh Grossman and Charm of Finches' Terry Lim. ) Plus a summer's worth of fruitful festival inquiry, in the city and on the road, in a feast of stories and our annual GREEN PAGES summer Directory.
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FEATURE<br />
HOW TO<br />
GROW A<br />
COMPOSER<br />
DAVID JAEGER<br />
James Rolfe<br />
World premieres are a gift at any time during a<br />
concert season, and there are a few that I’m<br />
looking forward to as the summer season<br />
approaches. One that I’m most anticipating is Toronto<br />
composer James Rolfe’s (b. 1961) new song cycle, I Think<br />
We Are Angels. This is a major work: nineteen songs<br />
divided between a quartet of singers who play hand-held<br />
percussion, in addition to their vocal performance.<br />
MUSIC FROM<br />
SCRATCH<br />
Free music creation workshop<br />
for youth 18-25yrs<br />
MONDAY, AUGUST 27 TO<br />
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, <strong>2018</strong><br />
With CONTACT and guest artist<br />
Giorgio Magnanensi<br />
NO MUSICAL EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!<br />
The Canadian Music Centre<br />
20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto<br />
INFORMATION/REGISTRATION<br />
Matthew Fava<br />
416-961-6601 ext.207<br />
mfava@musiccentre.ca<br />
www.musicfromscratch.org<br />
www.facebook.com/musiccreationworkshop<br />
www.contactcontemporarymusic.org www.facebook.com/contactcontemporarymusic<br />
They are accompanied by a single musician, an accordionist. The<br />
Soundstreams original production features a dynamic group of singers<br />
under the musical direction of John Hess: soprano Vania Chan,<br />
mezzo Andrea Ludwig, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and baritone Stephen<br />
Hegedus. The accordionist is the remarkable Michael Bridge.<br />
Rolfe based his song cycle on the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler<br />
(1869–1945). Lasker-Schüler was Jewish-German, associated with the<br />
Blue Rider group of expressionist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky,<br />
Paul Klee and Franz Marc. Rolfe writes that “Lasker-Schüler created a<br />
body of poetry which dealt with romantic and sensual love, as well as<br />
spirituality and Judaism. Only weeks after being awarded Germany’s<br />
highest literary prize in 1933, she was accosted by Nazi thugs in the<br />
streets of Berlin. She immediately fled, first to Switzerland, and finally<br />
to Jerusalem, where she died in 1945.” The songs, Rolfe continues,<br />
describe a journey: “From the youthful celebration of physical, sensual<br />
love, we travel through loneliness and a yearning for God, finally<br />
TIMELESS<br />
RÉA BEAUMONT, piano<br />
Philip Glass<br />
John Adams<br />
Srul Irving Glick<br />
Jordan Nobles<br />
Jordan Pal<br />
Réa Beaumont<br />
New CD www.ReaBeaumont.com<br />
12 | <strong>June</strong> | <strong>July</strong> | <strong>August</strong> <strong>2018</strong> thewholenote.com
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