Xara's WAIL a fanciful Maritime tale TheChronicleHerald.ca The music, by Bob Chilcott, Pekka Kostiainen, Miklos Kocsar, Eileen Cameron Henry, Jeff Enns, R. Murray Schafer, Tom Waits, Samuel Barber, Kurt Bikkembergs, Anna-Mari Kahara, Ben Duinker, includes some folk music, too. The Xara artistic team have their ...
Sounding Selves hears you loud and clear The Coast Halifax “I'd read a book by R. Murray Schafer called The Tuning of the World, and I started thinking about how we live in a world where we've always had recordings spanning decades or recordings from all over the world. It's amazing to think about living in a ...
Liu Fang - 10th Annual Small World Asian Music Series blogTO (blog) She has also premiered a number of new compositions such as the works of Canada's major composers R Murray Schafer and Jose Evangelista, and made frequent appearances in national and international TV and radios. Liu Fang is also highly acclaimed for ...
Cityscape/Soundscape: Exploring Our Sonic Environment blogTO (blog) In the late 1960s, Canadian composer and environmentalist R. Murray Schafer introduced the concept of soundscape, which refers to “our sonic environment, [or] the ever-present array of noises with which we all live.” Soundscapes include both natural ...
Leonard Cohen donates $50K from Glenn Gould Prize CBC.ca The Montreal troubadour joins an esteemed list of previous Gould Prize laureates, including: Jazz great Oscar Peterson. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Conductor and music educator Jose Antonio Abreu. Composer R. Murray Schafer. Leonard Cohen acknowledges the ...
Q&A: Soundscape explorer Nature.com Composer and naturalist R. Murray Schafer defined it as everything that reaches our ears in a given moment. There are three kinds of sound: geophony (from wind, rain, earthquakes and other natural, non-living sources); biophony (from non-human animals) ...
Measha Brueggergosman, Feist feted by Royal Conservatory CBC.ca Founded in 1886, the conservatory has trained and/or tested some of Canada's greatest musical artists, including Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, R. Murray Schafer, Jon Vickers and David Foster. The renowned institution is also working with ...
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra: at Ottawa's National Arts Centre on June 1 Ottawa Start (press release) The TSO has welcomed great international artists and renowned composers, including Henri Dutilleux, R. Murray Schafer, and the late Sir Michael Tippett. Toronto-born conductor Peter Oundjian, noted for his probing musicality, collaborative spirit, ...
