My roommate, the redoubtable (I love that word) Mark Takeshi McGregor, will present his Doctoral Lecture-Recital this evening at 8pm, at the UBC School of Music. As well as giving a short lecture on three flutists who have worked extensively with composers, he’ll be performing the Berio Flute Sequenza and a new piece, Yurei, by Jeffrey Ryan. Be there or be less educated!
Actually, I don’t. But I used to…
(Please be patient with the link above, they’re having a weird bandwidth day.)
I should probably explain – this is my drawing for the Vancouver Draw Down! (Links are below.) I should also utter the immortal disclaimer, “I am Not a Visual Artist!!” in case anyone had any doubts.
Vancouver Draw Down is a lot of fun to play with – if you have 5 – 20 minutes to waste, this really beats surfing the internet.
I just needed to tell somebody. (Lots on itunes that is worth buying; youtube is a bit more trouble.)
Here are two small excerpts, so you’ll know what I mean.
Stifters Dinge
Max Black
This is not a real post! It is but an update about the Capital Chamber Choir concert in Ottawa tonight! Be there, or be elsewhere in Canada! From the CCC themselves: “The Capital Chamber Choir invites you to join them for their final concert of the 2011-12 season – a moving all-Canadian programme featuring: Eulogies by John Estacio, Exaudi by Jocelyn Morlock, and Requiem by Eleanor Daley. The choir is joined by cellist Jonathan Poenn.”
Tickets may be found here.
A very small picture of the concert poster is below:
Unrelated to any of this, I feel compelled by solidarity with my roommate (who is currently painting a fluorescent boa constrictor (!) in a rather menacing forest) to say May the Fourth Be With You. He did, after all, provide coffee…
Michael Juk of CBC has just created a post about Nikolai Korndorf, called Gone but not forgotten. I wanted to point this out because I think Nikolai was one of the great composers of the 20th century and his music has been neglected since his untimely death in 2001.
Some good news here – Valery Gergiev is conducting Nikolai’s cello concerto (Concerto Capriccioso), with Alexander Ivashkin on cello, this June in St. Petersburg, and Toccata Classics will be releasing his complete cello music.
As of this week, Ned the Neck, a reptilian piece for wind ensemble, is being sold by Long & McQuade. If you are interested in purchasing the score and parts from Long & McQuade, please contact Greg Passmore directly.
Greg Passmore
Band Music Specialist
(604)734-4886 (ext 250)
1-800-663-1351 (ext 250)
vanbandmusic@long-mcquade.com
Ned the Neck is also available at the Canadian Music Centre so you may contact them for sales as well, at CMC music services.
I fear I am about to prove my lovely and talented roommate, Mark McGregor, wrong. He said that I would be far too modest to tell anyone that I’ve been appointed Music on Main’s first Composer in Residence, but I am not quite that modest, as you can see.
Completely unrelatedly (except by the colour red), esteemed photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward has included me in his series of photos of Vancouver people wearing his mother’s rebozo. (Link is to Frida Kahlo wearing a similar garment.) If you want to know about the eyebrow connection, and the picture doesn’t say enough, please have a gander at Alex’s site.
