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    2021/22 in Review: Whew!
    • Jun 9
    • 3 min

    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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    • 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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    The Big Trip Italy 2
    • 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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    The Big Trip - Italy
    • 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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    The Big Trip - Edinburgh 2
    • 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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    The Big Trip - Edinburgh
    • 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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    The Big Trip - London
    • 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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    The Big Trip #1
    • 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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    More Travels!
    • 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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    Travels
    • 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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    Glasgow 3
    • 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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    Glasgow 2
    • 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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    Glasgow 1
    • 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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    2017-18 Season Roll Out
    • 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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    The Big Trip - Biennale
    • 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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    Listening. Listening?
    • 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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    The Big Recording Project II
    • 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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    The Big Recording Project
    • 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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    Glasgow Blog 5
    • 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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    London Blog 4
    • 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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    London Blog 3
    • 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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    London Blog 2
    • 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
    • 1 min

    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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