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Canadian Women Composers Project addresses the catch-22

"When you hear a piece of music, you will have one of two reactions. You will either like it enough to listen to it again, or you won’t. You might like the melody, the harmony, or the way the poetry makes you feel. Then again, you might...

The Canadian Music Centre will be closed December 22nd at 1 pm and will reopen January 2nd.

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"Carleton University music professor Elaine Keillor will give $2 million to the university to bolster research on Canadian music, a topic that she has championed.

The university announced Tuesday that Keillor’s gift, which will include a bequest in her will, will be used to create the Helmut Kallmann Chair...

"The term "new music" is a confusing one: It doesn't mean all recent music, but rather something quite narrow and specific. When critics talk about "new music," they are referring to that subset of the art music tradition that is contemporary. We can't call it classical any more, because there's nothing either...