Ahem.
If you’re in Montréal on Tuesday February 12, don’t miss ECM+, Ensemble de flûtes Alizé et chœur de jeunes flûtistes being directed by Véronique Lacroix in Les Quatre Éléments!
Mardi 12 février 2013, 19h30, Salle de concert du Conservatoire – 4750, rue Henri-Julien, Montréal. (Note the start time is 19h30, not 2000.)
Tickets are $20 regular, $12 students/composers/other musicians.
ECM+ Facebook page is here, and web page for this concert is here.
Anyone living in Vancouver and interested in modern piano writing will want to hear tonight’s Music on Main concert – Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa premieres new music by Lisa Miller, Rodney Sharman, and Greg Newsome, and is also performing Rzewski’s De Profundis and Jeff Ryan’s Fornax Chemica. More info here.
Manitobans might like to hear Couloir, who are continuing their Prairie Debut tour this week with shows in Minnedosa today (February 5), Carman on February 7, and Brandon on February 8. The Brandon concert is part of Brandon University School of Music’s Pro Series. Sonatas by Boccherini and Debussy, and my piece, Three Meditations on Light. More info here. If you want a nifty downloadable PDF of all of the Brandon Pro Series concerts for the 2012-13 season, it is found here. Soundcloud recordings of Three Meditations on Light are found here, here, and here.
If you’re in Montreal, please come to the ECM – Ensemble de flûtes Alizé concert, conducted by Véronique Lacroix, LES QUATRE ÉLÉMENTS on February 12. There will be more flutes than you can shake a stick at! Four world premieres – Water: Rivières et marées by Éric Champagne, Air: Qui a vu le vent? by Emily Hall, Fire: Salamander by Jocelyn Morlock, Earth: AS8 Earthrise by Edward Top, plus Ana Sokolovic’s Vez (2005).
Yes, concerts. (The “Wild Pile of Toast” is a frightening beverage, Swamp Water for the non-teetotaler.)
Monday and Tuesday, January 28 and 29, at 8pm, Music on Main presents Reich and Rite – the Canadian premiere of Steve Reich’s Piano Counterpoint, and a tour de force solo performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Both are being played by New York based pianist Vicky Chow. More info and ticket sales on the Music on Main website here, and two nifty articles about Vicky here and here (Vancouver Sun and Georgia Straight, by David Gordon Duke and Alex Varty, respectively.) If you’re planning to go, buy tickets soon – the Monday concert is 90% sold out, and Tuesday is also selling quickly.
Wednesday January 30th at noon – Gamelan Gita Asmara plays a raucous noon-hour show at UBC (recital hall, School of Music), featuring the world premiere of Michael Tenzer’s Sphinx with choreography by Justine Chambers. Also featuring the music and dance of Legong Kuntul and Kebyar Wiranjaya. Tickets are a steal at $5. Facebook event page is here.
Wednesday night at 9pm, Lisa cay Miller performs with Q, during the ongoing series NoSchmo presents artist in residence Lisa cay Miller at El Barrio@X-Cite Restaurant – 2270 East Hastings Street. Facebook event page is here. (LcM is playing piano and wurlitzer, and is joined by Reg Quiring on viola, Peggy Lee on cello, Steve Smith on bass, and Skye Brooks on drums.)
That’s all I can think of for now but I’m sure I’m missing lots! (If you’ve got a new-music concert in mind that I should add, let me know…)
Lots of nifty new things this weekend, and the following week! Music by Ana Sokolovic, Michael Oesterle, Edward Top, Jeff Ryan, me, Steve Reich, and a bunch of other people too…don’t forget Stravinsky!
VSO premieres Totem by Edward Top, this Saturday (Jan 20) and Monday (Jan 22) at the Orpheum, 8pm.
This Sunday, January 20, there are two showings of Turning Point Ensemble’s Film and Music Collide, at 2pm and 8pm, at SFU Woodwards. Music includes Michael Oesterle’s Chromo Concerto.
Monday and Tuesday, January 21 and 22, the Push Festival and Music on Main are co-presenting Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba. Don’t miss this, it’s one of the Georgia Straight’s highlights of the Push Festival. Here’s Alex Varty’s article about it…
Friday January 25, 8pm, pianist Sarah Hagen performs music by Rachmaninoff, me, Jeff Ryan, Haydn and Debussy, at Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral. Jeff Ryan’s piece, Saturn, and my Prelude (on the name of Glenn Gould) are the 21st century content.
The following week, January 28 and 29, will see the premiere of Steve Reich’s Piano Counterpoint, and a solo performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, played by pianist Vicky Chow. Reich and Rite is another co-pro by Music on Main and the Push Festival.
The final Music on Main concert of 2012 features Vicky Chow as a one-woman percussion orchestra in tonight’s performance of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano!
Cellar Restaurant & Jazz Club – 3611 West Broadway
Door opens at 6:30 pm, the show starts around 8:00 pm.
Programme:
A Conversation About Cage with Composer In Residence Jocelyn Morlock & Vicky Chow
John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
Here’s a rather cool in-piano view of Sonata V, played by Bobby Mitchell:
Running late, but here is a quick look at some of what’s going on this week:
Tonight:
Boulez contra Cage – 8pm at the Western Front, info here. Cage and Boulez arguing onstage! Music by the both of them, and other nifty new works…
Moonless Night – first in a series of concerts featuring the Piano/Erhu Project (PEP!)
- facebook info here: It’s at UBC, 8pm. Erhu and piano is a fascinating pairing – I was at a recent workshop and was delighted by the expressive possibilities of Erhu (you’ll find a link to the workshop video on the facebook page…)
Richter 858 – presented by Vancouver New Music, featuring Bill Frisell, at the Vancouver Playhouse tonight at 8pm, info here. Bill Frisell! Gerhard Richter! Need I say more?
Tuesday night, November 27 – Music on Main presents Linda Bouchard’s Murderous Little World. Based on the poetry of Anne Carson (I am a big fan), and with several Epitaphs for Evil…More info here. Doors at 6:30, concert at 8:00.
I wish I could hear more than two of these concerts, but I can’t! (More details about the rest of the week later on, meanwhile I must run around like the proverbial headless chicken!)
This Saturday, November 10th, Fringe Percussion and Gamelan Si Pawit present : Remembrance: John Cage at 100.
The concert takes place at the Vancouver Community College auditorium. It features powerful, contemporary music that celebrates the work of John Cage and local composers who have been influenced by his thoughts, ideas, and music.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Cage’s “Haikai” with Gamelan Si Pawit on the original instruments for which it was written and other masterworks such as Cage’s “Third Construction” and Lou Harrison’s “The Song of Quetzalcoatl”. The program also features “I Love Paul Klee” by Vancouver’s own Jocelyn Morlock and the world premiere of Jon Siddall’s “Nitobe, Tea”.
Tickets available at fringepercussion.brownpapertickets.com
Here are a couple of excerpts – this is a bit of Twittering Machine.
And this is a bit of She Bellows, We Play.
Alias MRRRRRRP! Not entirely random, either, because it is all audio/visual type stuff, and exhortatory. Yes. (“Exhortatory” is a real word, too. I looked it up.)
Thing One: Stimmhorn. I can’t explain, I don’t understand, but you must hear it! Especially verse two. I gargle with delight! (1:05 is a good place to start, there is the distinct intonation of some kind of natural horn, followed by a rather indescribable sound that seems to involve yodelling, gargling, and super-fast accordion. No, really…2:53 is pretty special, too.)
Thing Two: Live streaming of Aventa’s concert tonight, starting at 7:45 Pacific Time – if you can’t attend in real life, this is a dandy option! Georg Friedrich Haas – In Vain. Don’t miss it, or they will have done all that practicing in vain! (quack.) Link below goes to live feed 15 minutes before the concert starts.
http://finearts.uvic.ca/music/events/live/live.html
Thing Three: Couloir is almost out of time! Yikes! http://www.indiegogo.com/couloir
Thing Four: Vancouverites/Victorians (Victors/Victorias?) – Those live concerts I mentioned in my last post, attend them! You’ve had an extra hour of sleep, go out and live a little!
It’s a great week for new music in Vancouver and Victoria! Here are a few of the many events to choose from (unless you have a teleportation device or evil twin, in which case, see them all):
November 1 – Wall Soundscape No. 1- Organized by Alfredo Santa Ana, Wall Composer in Residence, and Emily Molnar, Artistic Director of Ballet BC, this is a free concert, 12:30 pm at the Plaza outside the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, 1088 Burrard Street. Music is performed by a 12-piece brass band consisting of some of Vancouver’s finest brass players – Alexander Cannon, conductor.
November 2 – Chucho Valdes quartet at the Chan Centre (UBC Campus), preceded by Ava Grayson’s “Chanfare” – more info here.
November 3, 4, and 5 – The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra plays Edward Top’s “Symphony Golden Dragon” as well as less recently-composed orchestral hits at the Orpheum…info and tickets here. Nov. 3 and 5 concerts at 8pm, Nov. 4 at 2pm.
November 3 and 4 – The Erato Ensemble performs music by tons (Tons!) of BC composers, including Diane Berry, Matthew Emery, William George, Evan Harding, Adam Hill, Leila Lustig, David MacIntyre, Daniel Marshall, Martin Ritter, Alvaro Rojas, Remy Siu, Glenn Sutherland, Russell Wallace, and Chris Kovarik’s specially-commissioned “Love and Other Absurdities.” Nov. 3 concert 8pm at St. Andrew’s Wesley Church, Nov. 4 concert 3pm at the Canadian Music Centre. More info here and tickets here. N.B. Beware the time change Saturday night! CMC Erato concert begins at 3pm but if you have any doubt, their phone number is 604-734-4622 – call and confirm!
November 4 in VICTORIA – The Aventa ensemble performs Georg-Friederick Haas’ “In Vain” 8pm, Philip T. Young recital hall. More info here, live streaming here (starting at 7:45 pm.)
November 5 – Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal brings its Generation 2012 tour, brand new music by up-and-coming composers Annesley Black, Gabriel Dharmoo, Marielle Groven and Riho Esko Maimets, conducted by Véronique Lacroix, to the SFU campus downtown. 8:00 pm start (time change from 7:30 pm just confirmed), Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. Info here and here.
November 6 – Music on Main’s Month of Tuesdays concerts continue with Jane Coop, Nikolai Maloff and Sergei Saratovsky, piano – music by Shchedrin, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and others (who don’t start with S.) 8pm at the Cellar, 3611 Broadway. Doors open at 7pm, food and drinks are available. More info here, tickets here. MUSIC ON MAIN IS SOLD OUT!
November 6 – Friends of Chamber Music present the Pavel Haas quartet performing mostly modern repertoire including Schnittke’s third quartet and Britten’s second. 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Info here, tickets here.
November 6 – DATE CHANGE! – Standing Wave presents N O R T H E R N V I S I O N S – 8pm at the Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver. Music of Fabian Svensson, John Luther Adams, Rolf Wallin, Terrry Riley, Thorkell Sigurdbjornson, and a new piece by Daniel Janke. Georgia Straight article about the concert here, tickets via the Cultch, here.
A poll, a poll! Musically speaking, should I be
jocelynmorlockmusic@gmail, or jmorlock@gmail?
Yes, these are the only choices.
