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ISCM 2017: Canada's largest-ever gathering of new-music composers embarks on an aural adventure
from National
on November 1, 2017

"It’s all new, and almost a hundred years old. When the International Society for Contemporary Music convenes World New Music Days 2017 in Vancouver, it will present 35 concerts, soundwalks, and seminars, along with several hundred compositions, almost all of them previously unheard in these parts. But the society...

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Soundstreams goes cerebral, to haunting effect
from National
on October 31, 2017

"The Canadian contemporary music company Soundstreams, known for difficult and cerebral works, has mounted a music and theatre production about the life and ideas of admired Quebecois composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983), whose life was rough and tumultuous and whose music was cold, luminous and haunting. The...

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ISCM World New Music Days 2017: Vancouver Welcomes the World
from British Columbia
on October 27, 2017

From November 2-8, 2017, Canada welcomes the world as Vancouver hosts the ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Since its founding in 1922, the International Society for Contemporary Music has been the world’s premier network for new music. Each year, its festival is hosted in a different city around the globe.

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Luis Ramirez wins the 2018 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition
from Prairie
on October 25, 2017

Luis Ramirez wins the 2018 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition

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nief-norf Summer Festival 2018 Call for Scores & Composition Workshop
from National
on October 19, 2017

nief-norf Summer Festival 2018 Call for Scores

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Local composer's piece about Canadian seasons to be performed by Kingston Symphony
from National
on October 18, 2017

"The changing of seasons is something every Canadian understands and has experienced and the Kingston Symphony is hoping to bring some of those feelings to life in their latest concert, entitled Canadian Seasons.

The all-Canadian concert will be performed at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on...

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24 Questions For James Rolfe
from National
on October 17, 2017

A few times a month, Ludwig Van poses 60 questions to an artist who has made a mark on Toronto’s music scene. Each artist picks and chooses, with a minimum response of 20.

"A staple composer in Toronto, James Rolfe has worked in many facets of creative life in our city, from choral, chamber...

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Esprit Orchestra celebrates 35 years of championing Canadian composers
from National
on October 13, 2017

"Prepare to get out your cellphones as part of this season’s Esprit Orchestra program: you’ll be participating in a performance about the birth and maturity of the telephone.

The February concert will begin with a Eugene Astapov composition that includes an 1885 recording of Canadian telephone inventor...

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An-Lun Huang oratorio gets world premiere in San Jose
from National
on October 11, 2017

"An-Lun Huang’s music has been heard around the world — in 1995, pianist Lang Lang won the First Prize in the International Tchaikovsky Youth Piano Competition with the Chinese-Canadian composer’s “Chinese Rhapsody No. 2.”

This week, Bay Area music lovers can hear one of Huang’s major works, as Symphony...

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A murdered composer, a lost libretto...could this be Canada's greatest opera?
from National
on October 10, 2017

Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork

"Against the Grain Theatre is an innovative and nontraditional opera company. The company sings in pubs, invades mansions and does radical things with music, staging and scores. And this summer at...

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