THIS CONSTANT SONG: Piano Music from Southern Ontario
St. George's Anglican Church
83 Church St, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3C7, Canada
Ontario
43.1615826
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Description
On Saturday, Novemeber 25th, two singular pianists join forces to celebrate the work of southern Ontario composers, Ann Southam, Carol Ann Weaver and Juliet Palmer. Soloists Amelia Grace Yates and Adam Sherkin take up the challenge.
An unlikely champion of minimalist aesthetic, Ann Southam worked tirelessly throughout her career, experimenting with style and structure, always staying true to her own voice and musicality. Later in life, as she embraced minimalism - particularly at the keyboard - she navigated her own brand of lyricism, intimacy and efficiency of line not only as feminist, but as an individual artist born of unquestionably North American sensibilities. She advocated for women in the arts and cultivated her own – very unique – career, all the while cohabitating a compositional world heavily dominated by men. CBC Producer Eitan Cornfield once said: “Ann Southam blasts the stereotype of the Canadian composer. She is proudly, politically female, in a stuffy male universe.”
Dedicated to her grandmother, Julet Palmer's Aquamarine celebrates "the tension between the piano’s percussive mechanism and the fluidity of water." In an extended piano work where "watery fragments from the musical past refract and reflect," Palmer weaves a unique musical narrative from the beginning of this millenium: rembereing the past and inquiring - urgently - about the present and future.
Carol Ann Weaver's "Spirit Unbound" was written in honour of a Ukrainian man who was captured by Russian troops. One hears the tumult of conflict, balanced with music of hope, and fragments of the Ukrainian National Anthem in this work; the man is still not free.
This is a co-presentaion with Canadian Music Centre, Ontario Region.
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Programme:
ANN SOUTHAM:
Four Bagatelles,
Rivers IV (2nd Set), Rivers III and IV (3rd Set)
Pond Life I, II and III
Fiddle Creek and Fidget Creek
Three In Blue
CAROL ANN WEAVER:
Spirit Unbound (2022)
JULET PALMER:
Aquamarine (2005)
ADAM SHERKIN:
This Constant Song* (Homage to Southam, 2023)
Daycurrents, Op. 14 (2009)
* world premiere
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Start:
2023-11-25T17:30:00-05:00
End:
2023-11-25T19:30:00-05:00
Category
Music
Tickets
Student with valid I.D.
10.0
CAD
30
Senior
22.0
CAD
40
General
27.0
CAD
40
