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PRAIRIE SOUNDS
Fall 2007
University of Saskatchewan International Conference
The Vision of Murray Adaskin (1906-2002):
His Contributions to the Musical Scene of
Canada and Beyond
CMC
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has been on the air for over
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mostly new recordings of
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Adaskin at age 84. Photograph courtesy of Marten Bot
University of Saskatchewan
International Conference The Vision of Murray Adaskin
(1906-2002): His Contributions
to the Musical Scene of Canada
and Beyond will be presented at
the University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
November 29 - December 1,
2007. This major event was
conceived and organized by
internationally-renowned
University of Saskatchewan
musicologist Dr. Walter Kreyszig.
The Saskatoon Composers’
Concert Society will be
presenting a concert entitled
It’s in the Books – Adaskin:
Composer, Colleague, and Teacher
sponsored by CMC’s New Music
in New Places program, in the
Music Education Library at the
University of Saskatchewan as
part of this event. This concert
will take place on December 1,
2007 at 7:30 p.m. and will
feature the works of the late
Murray Adaskin, David
Kaplan, Monte Keene PishnyFloyd and Wayne Toews.
PRAIRIE SOUNDS Fall 2007• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Editor’s Notes
Issue #62 Fall 2007
ISSN 0822-7500
Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Prairie Sounds is the newsletter of the Canadian
Music Centre, Prairie Region and is distributed to
supporters of Canadian music in the Prairies.The
Canadian Music Centre is a nonprofit charitable
organisation that exists to encourage and promote
the awareness, appreciation, performance and
study of contemporary Canadian music, in particular that of its Associate Composers. Names of the
Associate Composers of the CMC appear in bold.
The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily
the opinions of the Canadian Music Centre.
Editor: John C. Reid
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George Fenwick, our longtime Coordinator
of Office and Library, left us over the summer
to move on to other projects, his composer
commissions and professional writing
commitments among them.
I recall clearly when he dropped by the office
about ten years ago after moving back to Calgary
to be close to his aging mother following
several years of living on the West Coast. He
expressed an interest in the CMC and agreed
to come in occasionally as a volunteer. As we
were occasionally short-staffed at the time, he
then began to work for us on a paid, part-time
basis, and this gradually evolved into his working
full-time for our organization. Our patrons,
composers, and Voting Members all know
George as an affable, competent, and (as I like
to say) fearless individual! George, we will
miss you, but we wish you all the best in your
coming activities. God bless, and we will be
seeing you soon.
John C. Reid
CMC Prairie Regional Council
2007-2008
Glen Carruthers, Brandon
Neil Currie, Saskatoon
Quenten Doolittle, Calgary
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton
James Hiscott, Winnipeg
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton
David McIntyre, Regina
Naomi Lacey, Calgary
Richard Mercer, Calgary
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon
John Partridge, Calgary
Serge Rand, Calgary
Roberta Stephen, Calgary
CMC Prairie Region Voting Members
2007-2008
Jorie Adams, Banff
George Andrix, Edmonton
Martin Arkell, Calgary
Colleen Athparia, Calgary
Allan Bell, Calgary
Allan Bevan, Calgary
Victor Botari, Edmonton
T. Patrick Carrabré, Brandon
Glen Carruthers, Brandon
Cheryl Cooney, Red Deer
Neil Currie, Saskatoon
David Dahlgren, Moosomin, SK
Quenten Doolittle, Calgary
Paul Dornian, Calgary
Tim Eckert, Edmonton
John Estacio, Edmonton
Charles Foreman, Calgary
Marnie Giesbrecht, Edmonton
Lynden Gill, Calgary
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton
Carmen Gorgichuk, Grande Prairie
Elsie Hepburn, Edmonton
James Hiscott, Winnipeg
Michael Horwood, Cowley, AB
Patricia Hrynkiw, Calgary
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton
Patrice Jegou, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Keith Davies Jones, Winnipeg
Mel Kirby, Calgary
Jacobus Kloppers, Edmonton
Naomi Lacey, Calgary
John Lowry, Calgary
James Mason, Banff
Michael Matthews, Winnipeg
Bob McPhee, Calgary
Diana McIntosh, Winnipeg
David McIntyre, Regina
Richard Mercer, Calgary
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon
Pauline Minevich, Regina
Tom Mirhady, Calgary
Marilyn Nasserden, Calgary
Laurelie Nattress, Edmonton
Kenneth Nichols, Brandon
Winston Noren, Calgary
Gladys Odegard, Edmonton
Deanna Oye, Lethbridge
Jack Partridge, Regina
John Partridge, Calgary
John Pauls, Calgary
Alain Perron, Regina
James Picken, Calgary
Audrey Poirier, Calgary
Tanya Prochazka, Edmonton
William Pura, Stonewall, MB
Serge Rand, Calgary
Leonard Ratzlaff, Edmonton
Allen Reiser, Calgary
Ursula Rempel, Winnipeg
Don Ross, Edmonton
Lore Ruschiensky, Regina
Friedemann Sallis, Calgary
Bill Sands, Calgary
Jane Sather, Regina
Peter Savage, Calgary
William Sgrazzutti, Regina
Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, Edmonton
Apollonia Steele, Calgary
Roberta Stephen, Calgary
Jamie Syer, Sundre, AB
Phyllis Thomson, Winnipeg
Wayne Toews, Saskatoon
Angelo Toselli, Calgary
Russ Whitehead, Edmonton
James Whittle, Edmonton
PRAIRIE SOUNDS Fall 2007• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Many thanks for your service. —Sharon Boan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
PRAIRIE NEWS
Malcolm Forsyth in his
Seventieth Year
Malcolm Forsyth
The Symphony Nova Scotia
celebrated the music of Malcolm
Forsyth during their Malcolm
Forsyth Festival at the end
of their 2006/2007 season.
This festival consisted of three
performances with the first
concert featuring his work
Valley of a Thousand Hills: for
Orchestra on February 27, 2007.
The second performance in this
festival on March 20th included
his Trumpet Concerto performed
by Richard Simoneau. The final
performance on May 1st featured
his Electra Rising: Concerto
for Violoncello and Chamber
Orchestra with his daughter
Amanda Forsyth as soloist.
Recently, Forsyth has
also been busy working on
numerous commissions; he was
commissioned by the CBC,
along with nine other Canadian
composers, to write a Prelude and
Fugue for piano to commemorate
Glenn Gould. In addition,
Forsyth’s solo piano piece,
entitled Preludio e Fuga Sul Nome
di Glenn Gould, was premiered
live-to-air by Peter Tiefenbach
on September 25th at the Glenn
Gould studio in Toronto. Forsyth
was also recently commissioned
by the Ritchie Trombone Choir
to write the piece Arcadian
Panoply for trombone choir and
soloist, which will be premiered
in Edmonton featuring Darren
George on trombone.
Currently, Forsyth is in the
process of writing a piece for
oboe, bassoon and piano for
the International Double Reed
Society for their conference in
Salt Lake City in April of 2008.
He is also in the process of
writing a piece entitled Trickster
Coyote, Lightening Elk for violin
and orchestra for the Canadian
violinist of Mohawk heritage,
Tara-Louise Montour of the
Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Forsyth remains active as
a conductor with his position
as resident conductor of the
Mill Creek Colliery Band; they
will release their first CD in
November of 2007. Forsyth
has also been involved with
Edmonton’s Opera Nuova as a
conductor.
Calgary Opera Announces
New Opera Commission
Following the enormous
success of Filumena (2003) and
Frobisher (2007), Calgary Opera
announced the commission
of the company’s third fulllength opera, The Inventor, by
Juno Award winning composer
Bramwell Tovey, with a libretto
by John Murrell. The Inventor
tells the story of Sandy Keith,
nephew of famous Nova Scotian
brewer Alexander Keith, who
was a brewer, politician, good
samaritan, conman, husband
to two different women and a
possible terrorist. The Inventor
explores these mysteries of Sandy
Keith’s life, relating the story of a
quintessential conman in words
and music as lively and
intriguing as Keith and the times
in which he lived. The first of five
workshops for The Inventor begin
in Calgary in December 2007.
The Inventor will receive its world
premiere in Calgary in January
2011.
Five of a (New) Kind
Launches a New Direction
for the ECCS (excerpt from
an article written by Jerry A.
Ozipko)
July 31, 2007 was a very
special day in the twenty-two
year history of the Edmonton
Composers’ Concert Society. This
was only the third time that the
society has produced a concert
of orchestral works, and in this
particular instance, a series of
works for organ and strings, with
its own ensemble of musicians
under the direction of Jacek
Rogala. This was made possible
largely due to a special project
grant from the Canada Council
for the Arts, along with various
other donors and sponsors.
The concert was co-presented
under the auspices of the Royal
Canadian College of Organists
as part of the “Windspiration
Edmonton Organ Festival” held
at various venues across the city
between July 30 and August
3. In addition, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
recorded the concert for future
national broadcasts of the
individual works on its FM
Radio programme “The Signal.”
The concert opened with
Piotr Grella-Mozejko
brought real life in four
dimensions to the oftenephemeral music. Songs of the
Seven Strings by Siaw Kin Lee
performed by organist Wendy
Markosky and Charles Stolte’s
Blumen for Organ and String
Orchestra featuring organist
Robert Zylstra were also included
on the program. The final work
on the program was In memoriam
Edward Boguslawski: Concerto per
organo ed archi by Piotr GrellaMozejko with organist Stillman
Matheson.
New Recording Showcases
Alberta Composers
Jacobus Kloppers
George Andrix
a performance of Fantasia for
Organ and Strings by George
Andrix with organist Belinda
Chiang. Reinhard von Berg’s
piece NOW performed by
organist Tammy-Jo Mortensen
Arktos Recordings has just
released In the Pipes, a set of two
CDs of music for pipe organ by
Alberta composers. Conceived
and performed by James
Picken, the collection includes
representative repertoire from the
1940s to the present day. Many
of these works have never been
recorded and some previously
existed only on CMC Archive
recordings.
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Thank you so very much! I am now a fan of the CMC! – Devra Epstein, Vancouver, British Columbia
PRAIRIE NEWS
In Memoriam | Oscar Morawetz
Associate Composer Oskar Morawetz passed away on
Wednesday, June 13th at his retirement residence in
Toronto. Composer, pianist and teacher Oskar Morawetz
(b. Svetla nad Sazavou, Czechoslovakia, January 17,
1917) was a highly regarded and acclaimed music creator,
credited with an enviable career that spanned over 50
years. His music has been admired by prominent artists
such as Glenn Gould, Yo-Yo Ma, Maureen Forrester, and
Ben Heppner, who interpreted his works in numerous
performances across five continents.
With over 100 compositions to his credit, Morawetz’s
ouevre extends over a wide range, although the core of
his work was written for orchestra. In addition to being
one of Canada’s most performed composers, numerous
recordings of Morawetz’s music exist on such labels as
Columbia, RCA Victor, EMI, Centrediscs, and CBC. The
CBC issued a seven-disc anthology of his music in 1984,
and Centrediscs issued a Composer Portraits double CD
in 2002, containing representative pieces and an audio
documentary. A recording of Morawetz chamber works for violin with Canadian violinist Jasper Wood
is set for future release on the Centrediscs label.
Oskar Morawetz was often recognized for his outstanding achievements. In 1960, 1967, and 1974
he was awarded the Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship for his contributions to Canadian music.
In 1987 Morawetz became the first composer to receive the Order of Ontario and in 1989 he received
the Order of Canada. SOCAN honoured him with the Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Award in 1994
and the William Harold Moon Award in 1999.
Morawetz taught music theory and composition from 1946 until his retirement in 1982 as
professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
A memorial service and reception in Oskar’s memory was held on June 28th in Walter Hall,
University of Toronto Faculty of Music. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the
Oskar Morawetz Entrance Scholarship in Music (University of Toronto, (416) 946-3580), to the
Parkinson’s Society of Canada (416) 227-9700) or the Regent Park School of Music (416) 364-8900).
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Calgary organist James
Picken chose instruments for
the recording to suit each piece.
The Carthy Organ at the Jack
Singer Concert Hall allows vast
choices of timbre and contrast.
In Dulci Jubilo and Dialectic
Fantasy by Jacobus Kloppers
and Departure Point by John
Burge showcase that instrument.
The Carthy Organ in Wyatt
Hall at Mount Royal College is
clear and enables the listener to
pick out the inner voices in Four
Short Hymn Settings by Gerald
Bales and Six Preludes on ShapeNote Tunes by Arthur Ward.
The organ at the Cathedral
Church of the Redeemer has
a rich acoustic with a woolly
hollow pedal. It is used to good
effect in Palestriniana by Piotr
Grella-Mozejko, David L.
McIntyre’s liturgical dance, The
Way of the Cross, and pieces by
Richard Eaton, Hugh Bancroft,
and Arthur Ward. A piece for
organ and percussion written by
Dwayne Engh and James Picken,
Primal Trinity, provides yet
another dimension.
In Memoriam | Gerhard Josef Wuensch
Associate Composer Dr. Gerhard Josef Wuensch passed away on Friday, June 8th at age
82. Composer, musicologist and pianist Gerhard Josef Wuensch completed a Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1950 and a diploma in composition and
piano from the State Academy of Music in Vienna in 1952. Dr. Wuensch went on to
an extensive teaching career that started at Butler University in Indianapolis (1956-63).
Immigrating to Canada in 1964, Dr. Wuensch continued teaching at the University
of Toronto (1964-69), the University of Calgary (1969-73) and the University of
Western Ontario (1973-76), of which he was chairman of the theory and composition
departments. He resumed teaching at Western in 1991 and remained there as professor
emeritus until his passing.
A memorial service was held in London, Ontario on Tuesday, June 19th at First-St.
Andrew’s United Church. Memorial contributions to the Alzheimer Society would be
gratefully acknowledged.
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Thanks very much for your help. That’s all for now. It’s fun to let Americans
know that Canadians write great music... — Michelle Crouch, Iowa City, Iowa
COMPOSER NEWS
Marcel Bergmann
Bergmann’s Urban Pulse for
two pianos was performed by
piano duo Yoshie Shiramizu &
Takashi Fujii (the winners of
the Best Performance Prize of
the work at the 10th Murray
Dranoff International Two
Piano Competition in Miami
in December 2005) on August
5th at the Mitaka Arts Center
in Tokyo. The Bergmann Piano
Duo gave further performances
of Urban Pulse in Langley/
Vancouver in April and at the
Gina Bachauer International
Piano Festival in Salt Lake City
in June.
were recently published as
part of the Canadian National
Conservatory of Music’s series
Making Tracks – An Expedition
in Canadian Piano Music.
Laurie Duncan
Laurie Duncan has recently
written a Concerto for Piano
and Strings. This piece is a
four movement work and
approximately 30 minutes in
duration. This work is available
through the CMC.
Laurie Duncan
Ron Hannah
Ron Hannah’s Symphony
on Chinese Folktunes (3rd
movement) was premiered
Bergmann’s new piece for two on March 3rd by the Georgian
pianos, Incessant Bells, received
Bay Symphony conducted
its premiere by the Bergmanns
by John Barnum. This piece
at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio
was written in China when
in Toronto as part of an On
he was teaching English there
Stage concert on March 27th.
(2003/5). Also from that time
Since the original broadcast on
is his set of solo erhu (2-string
May 27th, it has been featured
violin) pieces, and his Chinese
on several other CBC radio
Impressions for erhu and guzheng
programs. In addition, the
(Chinese koto). The latter work
Bergmann Duo performed
was premiered on February 5,
this piece last spring at the
2005 by George Gao, erhu, and
Grand County concert series in Calla Tan, guzheng, at the Royal
Tabernash/Colorado and at the Ontario Museum, sponsored
Rose Gellert Hall concert series by the University of Toronto’s
in Langley.
Faculty of Music as part of their
Midnight Journey was
Chinese Music Old and New
performed by pianists Tyler
concert. In addition his The
Seidenberg and Susan Mander
Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
Powell at this year’s Composer
for full orchestra was based
Gala of “Summer Sizzle” in
partially on a Chinese melody
Palmerston, Ontario. Morning
called 100 Birds Worshipping the
Train and Midnight Journey
Phoenix.
Marcel Bergmann
Ron Hannah
On a more occidental note,
Hannah’s Holland Point Music
for soprano saxophone
and marimba was recently
released by the Edmonton
Composers’ Concert Society on
a disk entitled Westwind:
Canadian Music for Saxophone,
featuring William Street;
and his Ballade for piano
solo has been recorded by
Sylvia Shaddick-Taylor for an
upcoming ECCS CD release.
This piece was originally
premiered by Daan VandeWalle
at The October Evolution
Festival in Edmonton on
October 29, 2005. ShaddickTaylor performed this piece in
a personal recital on March 3,
2007.
Jim Hiscott
Jim Hiscott has had a busy
summer with premieres in
Utah, Manitoba, Ontario, and
Nunavut. On May 11 and 12,
he was a featured composer at
the Deseret Festival in Provo,
Utah, where six pieces were
performed, including the
world premiere of River of
Light for woodwind quintet,
button accordion and double
bass, a Barlow Endowment
commission. Magic Phoenix
for Balinese gender quartet
and retuned keyboard was
premiered June 3rd at CrescentFort Rouge United Church
in Winnipeg by Maja Gender
and Cheryl Pauls. On July
23rd Beating Heart, a double
concerto for violin and button
accordion, was premiered by
Atis Bankas, Jim Hiscott, and
the Orchestra of St. Mark’s,
conducted by Daniel Swift, in
the opening gala of the Niagara
International Chamber Music
Festival at St. Mark’s Church in
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
The NICMF commissioned
this piece through the
Manitoba Arts Council, and
also programmed Hiscott’s
String Quartet No. 1 later in the
Festival (performance by the
Gould Quartet). On September
15th, the CBC-commissioned
Jim Hiscott
piece Manimasii Aura, for
button accordion and chamber
ensemble, was premiered by
Simeonie Keenainak, button
accordion, and the CBC Radio
Orchestra led by Alain Trudel,
at the 2007 CBC True North
concert in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Michael Horwood
Michael Horwood’s new
orchestra CD, Suite and Serious,
has been released by Albany
Records in the U.S. This CD was
recorded last January in Poland
with the renowned Sinfonia
Varsovia under the direction of
Ian Hobson. Four works make
up the CD: Horwood’s two
concert favorites - Amusement
Park Suite and National Park
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I wish the U.S. had something like CMC! — Barbara Wood, Columbia, Missouri
COMPOSER NEWS
Michael Horwood
Suite, plus his Symphony No.
1 and Intravariations, a piano
concerto featuring Joseph
Kubera, soloist. The CD is
available through the CMC’s
Distribution Service.
Plans are now in the works to
record a complete retrospective
of Horwood’s percussion music
with the Toronto Percussion
Quartet under the direction of
John Brownell. A commission
by the TPQ is currently being
considered for a new percussion
work, Piece Percussionique No. 6,
which would be premiered on
the new CD.
Horwood’s very successful
chamber work Birds, for piccolo
and piano, will be given its
Mexican premiere in October
during the International Flute
Festival to be held in Monterrey.
Katie Calvey, principal flutist
of the Chihuahua Symphony
orchestra, will be the soloist.
David Kaplan
Kaplan’s composition Aria, for
piccolo trumpet and piano,
was commissioned for and
premiered by Dean McNeill at
the Convo Series, University
of Saskatchewan on Sept 10,
2006. His piece Dances of
Machon for Klezmer Band was
the featured background music
for a Saskatchewan Educational
TV Documentary in the spring
of 2007. Bridgin’ the River,
commissioned by the Bridge City
Chorus, was premiered by the
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Chorus on May 12, 2007. The
Congress of the Humanities was
held this year at the University of
Saskatchewan and the Sakatoon
Klezmer Band was asked to
perform during this event. At
this performance Linda Bardutz,
SSO solo cellist, performed
Kaplan’s Daniel’s Bulgar and
SSO solo violist, James Legge,
performed Kaplan’s Richard’s
David Kaplan
Sher. On June 24 the Saskatoon
Klezmer Band presented a
two hour performance at the
Mendel Art Gallery; many of
Kaplan’s klez compositions
were featured. Kaplan directed
the Saskatchewan Orchestra
Workshop in Saskatoon from
July 2nd to 9th. His Symphony
for Chamber Orchestra was
premiered on July 9 and his duet
for clarinets, Clarinetto Horando,
was premiered on July 4. Kaplan
was the Artistic Director of
the Second Annual Drum
Festival held in Friendship Park
overlooking the River.
Michael Matthews
Matthews’ work The Language
of Water was chosen by the
Canadian Section of the
ISCM for submission to the
2008 International Society for
Contemporary Music Festival in
Vilnius, Lithuania.
In 2008 Matthews will have
two new works premiered
in Mexico City: one by the
Onix Ensemble, the other
by Trio Neos. Both works
are commissions from the
ensembles. Also in 2008
pianist Duane Cochran will
premiere his new work De
Reflejo a Fulgor for piano and
tape, commissioned by the
Centro Mexicano para la Música
y las Artes Sonoras. In May
The Mexico City Woodwind
Quintet performed Away, Tear
Away on the Foro Internacional
de Música Nueva Manuel
Enríquez, and in October the
Quintet will present the world
premiere of El Viento Helado on
the 35th Festival Internacional
Cervantino in Guanajuato.
Matthews has been
commissioned by the Ensemble
Sarisatio (Leipzig) to compose
Diana McIntosh
San Francisco – Solitary Climb,
for the Stanford Women’s
Club of the East Bay, and Beryl
Markham: Flying West With the
Night, for The Metropolitan
Club of San Francisco. In
April McIntosh presented
and performed in a fund
raising concert entitled African
After-Image for the Refugee
Committee of the Nassau
Street Churches in Winnipeg.
Also in April in Heliconian
Hall, Toronto, McIntosh gave
a concert of her music as well
as works by Micheline Roi,
Mary Gardiner and Beverley
Johnston. Also in that concert
Beverley Johnston gave the
premiere performance of
McIntosh’s theatrical work All
Michael Matthews
Too Consuming, for percussion,
spoken word and tape, and
a new work, which they will
McIntosh premiered her own
premiere next season. In
A rose is a rose..., for piano
February the Harrington/
and live electronics. In June
Loewen duo toured Atlantic
McIntosh was commissioned by
Canada (under the auspices of
Debut Atlantic) with Matthews’ the CBC, along with nine other
Canadian composers, to write a
piece The Skin of Night, which
they will record in December for Prelude and Fugue for piano to
commemorate Glenn Gould. All
their upcoming CD. Another
of these works were performed
project in the works is a CD of
solo piano music to be recorded live-to-air in the Glenn Gould
studio in Toronto on September
in Ghent by Belgian pianist
25th, in celebration of Gould’s
Daan Vandewalle.
life and legacy. In the fall of
2007 she will give concerts
Diana McIntosh
for the Faculties of Music at
In February 2007, Winnipeg
the Universities of Manitoba,
composer/performer Diana
McIntosh performed two of her Brandon, Lakehead, and Reno,
Nevada.
one-woman theatrical works in
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I am returning herewith Aria and Toccata for piano by Walter Buczynski to
the CMC library. Thank you so much for your assistance.
— Barbara Anhang, Winnipeg, Manitoba
David R. Scott
Winnipeg composer David R. Scott finished a
large-scale education project for the Winnipeg
Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Manitoba
Chamber Orchestra. The idea behind the project
was to compose a new piece for the combined
orchestras but have members of the Youth
Symphony help create it. Between November and
February, Scott worked with the young musicians
to conceive of and try out musical ideas. The
fruit of these musical brainstorming sessions was
a three-movement work entitled Dwarf Planets.
This work received its premier on April 18th
in Winnipeg with additional presentations in
Gretna, Manitoba on April 19th and 20th.
Scott recently completed his String Quartet #2
David Scott with an excerpt of the graphic score for his new work Dwarf Planets
which was commissioned by the Agassiz Music
Festival and premiered at this festival in June.
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Upcoming New Music in New Places 2007/08 events
The CMC’s New Music in New Places special project is funded by the SOCAN Foundation and the
Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund.
Artist:
Western Canadian Music Awards-Classical Music
Showcase with Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, Michael Strutt,
Dean McNeil and Bonnie Nicholson
Location: Zion United Church, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Date:
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Artist:
Various local performers highlight the music of the late
Murray Adaskin, David Kaplan, Monte Keene
Pishny-Floyd and Wayne Toews, “It’s in the Books!”
Location: Music Education Library, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Date:
December 1, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Artist:
Calgary Saxophone Quartet
Location: Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Date:
Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Artist:
Various local performers, featuring the music of David
Kaplan, “Making Bigger Music Happen in Biggar”
Location: Biggar Museum and Gallery, Biggar, Saskatchewan
Date:
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Artist:
Canzona, directed by Henry Engbrecht
(featuring choral music of Robert Turner)
Location: Osborne Village Resource Centre, Main Floor,
107 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Date:
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Artist:
Ensemble Resonance
Location: Calgary Farmers Market, Art Central,
University of Calgary
Date:
Various
Artist:
JUNO Awards-Classical Music Showcase
Location: Calgary
Date:
Spring 2008
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PRAIRIE SOUNDS Fall 2007• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Page 7
Donors of the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Association
Endowment Builders
The following individuals have made
Endowment commitments which,
when fully realized, will add over
$100,000 to the CMC Prairie Region
Fund of the
Calgary Foundation:
Anonymous
Violet Archer
Calgary Universal
Foundation for the Organ
David Dahlgren
Quenten & Joyce Doolittle
Michael Horwood
Richard Mercer
David McIntyre
Isabelle Mills
James Picken
John Reid
Sylvia Shaddick-Taylor
Brian Unverricht
Composers’ Circle ($5,000 +)
Anonymous
Benefactors ($1000 - $4999)
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon
Patrons ($500 - $999)
Fine Art Framers, Calgary
Keith Davies Jones, Winnipeg
Richard Mercer, Calgary
Esther Ondrack, Spruce Grove, AB
Roberta Stephen, Calgary
Sustainers ($250 - $499)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Cantos Music Foundation, Calgary
Glen Carruthers, Brandon
Libby Davies, Calgary
Joyce & Quenten Doolittle, Calgary
Malcolm Forsyth, Edmonton
Patrice Jegou, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Dr. Thomas G. Kucera. Winnipeg
Lap Lam, Calgary
Mountain View Connection, Calgary
Craig & Verna Reid, Calgary
John Reid, Calgary
George Ross & Sally Truss, Water Valley, AB
Rubaiyat, Calgary
Contributors ($100 - $249)
Jorie Adams, Banff
Colleen Athparia, Calgary
Banff Centre Music and Sound, Banff
Robert Bardston, Medicine Hat
Hallgrimur Benediktsson, Calgary
Calgary Opera
Carol Brisbin, Calgary – In Memory of Sheila Shinkewski
Calgary Exhibition & Stampede, Calgary
Eugene Cramer, Calgary
Maria Curcic, Calgary
Marg Daly, Edmonton
Shane Fage, Calgary
Marnie Giesbrecht & Joachim Segger, Edmonton
Harold and Elfie Gleusteen, Calgary
Monica Grainger, Coleman
Heather Henderson, Arcadia, CA, USA
Dr. John and Nancy Henderson, Calgary
Celia & Michael Horwood, Cowley, AB
Heather Hryhoriw, Calgary
Jazz Is Society, Calgary
Peter Jancewicz, Calgary
Ernest Kassian, Regina
Rita Kennedy, Red Deer
Naomi Lacey, Calgary
Lissi Legge, Calgary
Alan MacDonald, Calgary
Blair Mason, Calgary
Donald McKay, Calgary
Millennium Music Foundation, Calgary
Alexandra Munn, Edmonton
Marilyn Nasserden, Calgary
NATS Calgary, Calgary
Laurelie Nattress, Edmonton
Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
Gladys Odegard, Edmonton – In memory of Mrs. Lila D. Lee and
Mr. Clifford E. Lee
Opus Music Works, Calgary
John Partridge, Calgary
John Pauls, Calgary
Lori Lynn Penny, Orleans, ON
Miklos Pogonyi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Audrey Poirier, Calgary
Barbara Poole, Edmonton
Serge Rand, Calgary
Leonard Ratzlaff, Edmonton
Allen Reiser, Calgary
Cathy Robinson, Canmore, AB
Bill Sands, Calgary
Jane Sather, Regina
William Sgrazzutti, Regina
Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, Edmonton
Les Smith & Carmen Tellier, Calgary
Apollonia Steele, Calgary
Phyllis Thomson, Winnipeg
Wayne Toews, Saskatoon
U of C Dept. of Music, Calgary
U of C Press, Calgary
Geoff Van Blaircom, Calgary
Tom Van Hardeveld, Calgary
Emily Westell, Calgary
Geoffrey Whittall, Grande Prairie
James Whittle, Edmonton
Stan Witkin, Toronto
Friends (up to $99)
Helen Akerboom, Ft. Saskatchewan, AB
Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary
Alberta Views, Calgary
Roberta Allen, Edmonton
Dr. Audrey Andrist, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Anonymous (4)
Katherine Ardo, Calgary
Martin Arkell, Calgary
Bianca Baciu, Edmonton
Raymond Baril, Edmonton
Adin Bauman, Brandon, MB
Gwen Beamish, Sarnia, ON
Allan Bell, Calgary
Ms. Rosemarie Bell, Burnaby, BC
Beverley Berkhold, Calgary
Susan Billington, Calgary
Joanne Birtz, Medicine Hat
Paul Boeda, Calgary
Norbert Boehm, Concertmaster, Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra,
Lethbridge
Glen Boles, Cochrane, AB
Victor Botari, Edmonton
John Bulger, Calgary
CBC Radio Calgary
Classics Plus, Calgary
Collage Gallery, Calgary
Barbara Collier, Stratford, ON
Cheryl Cooney, Red Deer, AB
Alison Crabb, Airdrie
Philip Creery, Calgary
Lynn Curzon, Calgary
Janice Dahlberg, Calgary
Jan Dammann, Edmonton
Leanne Dammann, Edmonton
Rao & Dawn Darsi, Calgary
Andrew Dilay, Calgary
Carol Donhauser, Regina
Paul Dornian, Calgary
Georgianne Dwyer, Calgary
East Kootenay Teachers Assn., Kimberley, BC
Eau Claire Wine Market, Calgary
Tim Eckert, Edmonton
E-gré National Music Competition, Brandon, MB
John Estacio, Edmonton, AB
Marc Faw, Norman, OK, USA
Livia Fekete, Calgary
George Fenwick, Calgary
Mary Fenwick, Calgary
Dianne Ferguson, Ottawa
Charles Foreman, Calgary
Paul Fu, Calgary
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton
Mandy Glettler, Regina
Gay Hahn-Schmaus, Edmonton
Ian Hale, Calgary
Aubrey Hallis, Calgary
Nikki Herbst-Walker, Calgary
Elaine Higgin Case, Calgary – In Loving Memory of Mary Fenwick
James Hiscott, Winnipeg
Home Depot Foundation Matching Gift Center, Stuart, FL, USA
Honens, Calgary
Liisa Honish, Calgary
Eileen & Robert Hooper, Calgary
Janos Horvath, Calgary
Patricia Hrynkiw, Calgary
Ethel Huber, Calgary
Jack Hurt, Edmonton
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton
Irene Johansen, Calgary
Dorothea Johanson, Calgary
Lawrence Jones, Brandon
Madelainne Joss, Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Linda Kundert-Stoll, Calgary
Bernard Leveille, Saint-Boniface, MB
Greg Lowe, Winnipeg
John Lowry, Calgary
Joel MacDonald, Saskatoon
Gillian MacKay, Toronto
Ann Marten, Bellevue, WA, USA
F.R. Matthews, Calgary
Michael Matthews and Therese Costes, Winnipeg
Barbara McClean, Calgary
Joy McFarlane-Burton, Biggar, SK
David McIntyre, Regina
Marie McMahon, Calgary
Tom Mirhady, Calgary
Louise Moore, Calgary
Brenda Morlock, Winnipeg
Margaret Muir, Calgary
Joan Munro, Edmonton
Music Box Shoppe, Calgary
Marilyn Newbury, Grand Cache, AB
Jack and Sheila Newman, Rosedale Valley, AB
Jennifer O’Neill, St. John’s, NF
Olds & District Music Teacher’s Assn., Olds, AB
Rod Olstad, Edmonton
One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary
Ellyn Ottersen, Grande Prairie
Robert Falcon Ouellette, Neufchatel, QC
Dr. Deanna Oye, Lethbridge
Renata Palmer, Calgary
Jack Partridge, Regina
Wendy Patterson, Calgary
Alain Perron, Regina
James Picken, Calgary
Fordyce Pier, Edmonton
Guy Plecash, Calgary
Aura Pon, Calgary
T. Popoff, New York, USA
John Preskar, Calgary
William Pura, Stonewall, MB
Margaret Ramsay, Calgary
Lois Reid, Calgary
Ursula Rempel, Winnipeg
Rideau Music, Calgary
Judith Ritchie, Winnipeg
Sheena Roberts, Mt. Pearl, NF
Jean T. Robin, Lethbridge
Barbara Robison, Calgary
Zoltan & Eva Roman, Victoria, BC
Don Ross, Edmonton
Mary Rozsa de Coquet, Calgary
Maryanne Rumancik, Lorette, SK
Lore Ruschiensky, Regina
Sandro’s Restaurant, Calgary
Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Assn., Regina
Peter Savage, Calgary
Simone’s Bistro, Calgary
Spiritus Chamber Choir, Calgary
Simon Streatfeild, East Grinstead, UK
Vera Swanson, Calgary
Jamie Syer, Sundre, AB
Connie te Kampe, Victoria, BC
Glen Teasdale, Vermilion, AB
Theatre Calgary, Calgary
Joy Thomas, Calgary
Donna Thomson, Alsask, SK
Maryan Threndyle, St. Albert, AB
Gloria R. Thurn, Calgary
Ann Trump, Calgary
Yuki Umezaki, Nagasaki, Japan
Brian Unverricht, Saskatoon
Peter Van Ginkel, Winnipeg
Allan Walden, Calgary
Viola M. Wallbank, Edmonton
Webster Galleries, Calgary
M.J. Whalley & R.A. Rees, Calgary
Dr. Dale Wheeler, Red Deer
Barbara Wood, Columbia, MO, USA
Diana Woolrich, Regina
Evin Zapf-Gilje, Vancouver
January 1 to December 31, 2006
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