Have you heard yet ? MORE of The New Music 101: Your Introduction to Contemporary Classical Music @ Toronto Reference Library
Are you feeling cutting edge? Fancy yourself progressive with eclectic musical tastes?
New to New Music? Curious about Contemporary? Join us for “New Music 101” that opens new perspectives on the world of contemporary classical music. Members of the Toronto New Music Alliance will serve as your personal audio tour guides. Open discussion and live performance combine to both inform and inspire.
Hosted by Toronto Star’s classical music critic John Terauds. The programs are free (and no tickets required!) and will take place in the Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference Library.
Think of the clever dinner party conversation this will supply you with!
Program 3: From Sound to Structure
Form & Process in Contemporary Music: Monday, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
There’s music that’s fleshy, and then there’s music that shows its bones – where the structure and working are evident. Continuum and CONTACT Contemporary Music provide the content for an exploration of music with obvious “process” – from very early examples through to 1960s minimalism, to a work for massed metronomes. Performers are Carol Lynn Fujino (violin), Gregory Oh (piano), Rob MacDonald (guitar), and Ryan Scott (percussion).
Composers: Gyorgy Ligeti, Helmut Oehring, Steve Reich, G. P. Telemann, Nebosja Zivkovic.
Continuum Contemporary Music has commissioned and premiered nearly 150 new works from emerging Canadian and international composers.
CONTACT Contemporary Music is both an ensemble and concert producing organization that connects to other media, champions established and emerging composers, and offers outreach to underserved communities.
Program 4: From Eye to Ear
Visual Influences in Contemporary Music: Monday, May 16, 7:00 p.m.
A marriage of music, image and architecture: this final program investigates the use of spatial transformations and abstract imagery to inspire, capture and communicate musical expressions. A current resurgence of modern historical movements references trail-blazing mid-century composers. Live performance and audiovisual projections connect the eye and ear in multisensory experiences. Performers include Eve Egoyan (piano) and Quartetto Graphica.
Composers: John Beckwith, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, George Crumb, Alexina Louie, and others.
Program 4: The Music Gallery is a centre for promoting and presenting innovation and experimentation in all forms of music, and has become one of Canada’s most important hubs for creative new music. www.musicgallery.org
Canadian Music Centre is the primary place to discover music by Canada’s largest community of professional composers. The CMC advances the appreciation, study, performance, recording and broadcast of music created by close to 800 Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. www.musiccentre.ca
All programs are free, with no tickets required, in the Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference Library, Main Floor.
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