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...
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
2017-18 Season Roll Out
Welcome to our new season. This year, the hard working people at sL have decided to tease you into things: announcing our season...
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- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Trip - Biennale
Concert day: La Biennale di Venezia! The climax to this whole project, and one of Europe's biggest annual arts festivals. The concert...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
April Shows, not Showers
This post is the next in the series of suddenlyLISTEN's email reposts! Adams, Baroni, Crofts As easy as 1,2,3... 8pm, Wednesday, April 5,...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
February Update
I haven't posted here for quite a while, yet I spend hours assembling wonderful and informative suddenlyLISTEN email blasts. SO I thought...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Listening. Listening?
Summer is a good time for thinking. For me it is the pause between the old and new year, and I often find myself pondering what I have...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Recording Project II
Well, I've been working at it. The Big Recording Project. Each day I head down to my little room at 1313 Hollis Street and commit...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
The Big Recording Project
I've been thinking about this for a while: A solo record. I don't think of myself as a soloist really, but I am definitely a person who...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Glasgow Blog 5
I’ve jumped a day again. Each day is quite full out here! Monday morning we awoke before 7, (well I sort of opened my eyes, as I was in...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
London Blog 4
Wow I missed a day there. Yesterday was very busy, with computer work in the morning, drifting into the afternoon, and The AMM concert at...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
London Blog 3
It was a productive day yesterday, begun by dragging my jetlagged butt out of bed and soaking it in strong coffee for a good period. Then...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
London Blog 2
The flight and following daze was as disorienting as usual! I took the tube into central London as usual, and made the short walk to the...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
UK trip 2015!
Last year at this time, I was was feeling pretty burned out, by an unrelenting schedule of orchestra, administration, suddenlyLISTEN...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Bozzini +4 >> Derome
I am especially excited about presenting the music of Jean Derome on this concert. Jean is one of Canada’s most active and eclectic...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Bozzini + 4 >> Wolff
This is the second in a series of three posts outlining the composers and works featured on suddenlyLISTEN’s Bozzini + 4 concert at 8pm...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Bozzini + 4 >> Cardew
This is the first in my series of articles about the composers we are performing on suddenlyLISTEN's Bozzini + 4 concert. First:...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
Bozzini Quartet +4 #1
On Tuesday, November 17, the Bozzini Quartet of Montreal and friends Suzanne Lemieux, Dominic Desautels, Susan Sayle and Norman Adams...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Why??? Oh Lord Why?
“So what am I doing? Why do I do this? What is the &%#8@ point??” That question comes up pretty frequently with me these days. I’ve been...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Pedersen, Dulberger and Adams Oct.4
The concert this weekend is one that’s very special to me. Mostly because I’m the biggest fan of Craig Pedersen…. Craig is a young...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Back Patting
The other day I saw a listing online, of the guest artists at the Vision Festival in New York City. The Vision Fest is celebrating the...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
A look back at suddenlyLISTEN in 2014-15
It’s nice to look back, especially in the arts and arts organization business, where we spend so much time looking forward. In fact if I...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Hermitofthewoods: Questions and Answers
Norman Adams, AD of suddenlyLISTEN asked Hermitofthewoods (aka Michael McGuire) a few probing questions this week, and here's what he...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
And Finally
As I now sit at home in Halifax, having experienced the past week and especially the most recent two whirlwind days, the tour seems a bit...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Ontario
The Hammer. Who knew there was improvised music there? Well, I don’t think there was very much until Cem Zafir arrived last year. Cem is...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
Even Further Out
Vancouver and Victoria are so fortunate to have artist-run centres that are dedicated to new music programming. Halifax had the Khyber,...
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- Sep 22, 2020
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The West Coast
One of the other temples of improvised music is The Western Front in Vancouver. It’s one of the countries oldest artist-run centres, and...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
C/A/P + GH in Montreal
Casa del Popolo on Rue St. Laurent, is one of the Canadian temples of adventurous live music, and last night was a special as we all...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Blogging from the road
It’s quite an undertaking touring a group of musicians. In Canada at least fringe art forms need financial help. The Canada Council helps...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Pierre-Yves Martel - Questions and Answers
I have been listening to and hearing about Pierre-Yves Martel for years, he's been on my to-invite list for quite a while. The reason for...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
2014 - Who knew so much happened?
I don't measure years the same way as many people do, So looking back in January is a little strange. Because of years of Symphony...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Magali Babin: Questions and Answers
I met Magali Babin when we were both serving on a Canada Council jury together, several years ago. (Jury service always yields new...
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