Volume 26 Issue 2 - October 2020
Following the Goldberg trail from Gould to Lang Lang; Measha Brueggergosman and Edwin Huizinga on face to face collaboration in strange times; diggings into dance as FFDN keeps live alive; "Classical unicorn?" - Luke Welch reflects on life as a Black classical pianist; Debashis Sinha's adventures in sound art; choral lessons from Skagit Valley; and the 21st annual WholeNote Blue Pages (part 1 of 3) in print and online. Here now. And, yes, still in print, with distribution starting Thursday October 1.
Following the Goldberg trail from Gould to Lang Lang; Measha Brueggergosman and Edwin Huizinga on face to face collaboration in strange times; diggings into dance as FFDN keeps live alive; "Classical unicorn?" - Luke Welch reflects on life as a Black classical pianist; Debashis Sinha's adventures in sound art; choral lessons from Skagit Valley; and the 21st annual WholeNote Blue Pages (part 1 of 3) in print and online. Here now. And, yes, still in print, with distribution starting Thursday October 1.
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Svetlana Lunkina in The Dreamers Ever<br />
Leave You, National Ballet of Canada<br />
many ways there are to connect with our audiences, even though<br />
dance is primarily a visual art form, ideally experienced live.”<br />
Keeping “Live” at the core: Most FFDN events will be experienced<br />
by the majority of audiences through live streams via a new “Netflixlike<br />
website,” but Ibrahimof was insistent on keeping a live element<br />
at the heart of the festival, The popular Open Studio, for example,<br />
usually located at Union Station, is moving to Meridian Hall’s West<br />
Lounge where audiences can watch choreographers and dancers at<br />
work within aglass-walled mini-studio. The other hugely popular<br />
“I really wanted to still be<br />
able to present a show in<br />
the theatre even if it meant<br />
we produced it simply for a<br />
camera crew.”<br />
— Ilter Ibrahimof<br />
DARLENE HUYNH<br />
KAROLINA KURAS.<br />
FFDN for short: Fall for Dance North Festival was co-founded<br />
by artistic director Ilter Ibrahimof toreflect Toronto’s multiculturalism,<br />
with the aim of creating an atmosphere of shared discovery<br />
that will entice people to attend live dance performance throughout<br />
the year. Of necessity this year’s live performance element will be<br />
much smaller than it usually is, but it will still exist amidst FFDN’s<br />
<strong>2020</strong> exploration, in collaboration with over 100 artists and technical<br />
experts, of expanding the ways in which audiences engage with<br />
dance. “It was eye opening,” Ibrahimof told me, “to discover how<br />
Union Station-based free event, Big Social, where anyone could show<br />
up to watch and take workshops in various styles of social dance has<br />
taken a futuristic step forward – transformed into an augmentedreality<br />
experience at Harbourfront’s Natrel Pond. Spaced around the<br />
pond on social-distancing circle decals, audience members will focus<br />
a smart phone or other device on a target image in the centre of the<br />
pond to launch an almost holographic six-and-a-half-minute moving<br />
image collage of three couples dancing in tango, swing or vogue styles<br />
to a specially composed soundscape. Not the same thing as dancing<br />
Father OWEN LEE<br />
at www.opera-is.com<br />
Admired by millions around the world for his brilliant<br />
intermission commentaries in radio broadcasts for the<br />
Metropolitan Opera in New York and for many decades<br />
of knowledgeable and witty appearances on the Texaco<br />
Opera Quiz broadcasts, Father Owen Lee passed away<br />
in 2019, just shy of his 90th birthday.<br />
This memorial site, curated by Iain Scott, includes seven video<br />
interviews; a wide selection of Lee’s Met radio broadcasts; audio<br />
playlists exploring his musical and dramatic analyses and commentaries;<br />
a brief introduction to each of his 21 books; lists of his published articles<br />
and public lectures; biographies, his eulogy and several obituaries.<br />
www.opera-is.com<br />
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