2021/22 in Review: Whew!
Hi from PEI. We’ve settled here over the past week or so, for our usual (first time in 2 years!) summer work at the Charlottetown...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
20 Years
What a time it continues to be! We’ve all had the discussion (“what’s going to happen?” “What a world we live in”). We’ve asked the...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 24, 2020
- 3 min
Weird Times Continue
It is completely outside our experience to look out our windows into an international crisis, feeling the disruption, discomfort and...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 24, 2020
- 3 min
The Strangest Times
These are the strangest of times. By Friday, March 13 we at suddenlyLISTEN knew things were shifting quickly for us, our work, our...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
The Big Trip Italy 2
So time has flown. I'm actually back in Halifax now, in normal life, with echoes of this tour and these concerts ringing in my ears! But...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Big Trip - Italy
We have now been in Italy for 2 days. I've had a couple of chances to look around a bit, eaten some food, and had numerous (very small)...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Trip - Edinburgh 2
Things have been busy! So I'm bit behind on posts. Here's the final Scottish post. It's warmer here in Bologna..... I’m writing now from...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Trip - Edinburgh
Wow that was an intense 2 days! It started with an early rise, a 9am fast train that turned slow, a 3 hour late arrival, a sudden meal of...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Big Trip - London
I guess you don't really need to write much about The Colourscape Music Festival in London...a picture, (especially here) is worth a...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Big Trip #3
I'm such terrible picture taker! I apologize for this blog's freedom from photographs! I am so busy looking around, it just doesn't occur...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Big Trip #2
It's amazing how two cellists can travel from distant points on the globe and manage to meet up, on time, in Kings Cross Station in the...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Trip #1
Introduction: Summer ended yesterday. They say in PEI that the weather changes after the Gold Cup and Saucer Harness Race. With global...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
More Travels!
suddenlyLISTEN and I are so happy to announce that A:B, my duo with my friend Italian cellist, Nicola Baroni of Bologna, will undertake a...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
Travels
It's been a great season for suddenlyLISTEN travels, and with this exciting announcement, we can tell you about more to come! 2017/18 saw...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
Freedman Closes out 17/18
It was 2007 when suddenlyLISTEN first brought Lori Freedman to Halifax. This was by no means her first trip east, she’d been here many...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
Glasgow 3
I don’t mind getting to the airport early, it gives me a chance to reflect a bit on the trip that is ending, and people watch…. The past...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Glasgow 2
The past two days have been fascinating. Nick and I continue to confront questions about our piece and imagine new possibilities! Each...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Glasgow 1
I have arrived and am a couple of days into work with Nick Fells. We started with a walk around west end Glasgow, getting the lay of the...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Lessons of the Semi-Tone Modulation
Day one of a super sweet gig in Kingston is done! I love my summer life in Charlottetown, it's true. The cycling, tearing through the...
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Norm Adams
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Sabbatical Tour Chronicles #1
It’s a stunning morning, misty and unusually warm for late-ish October. As the sun rises the beams stream in the windows of Stanfield...
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