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It’s November at last, in a more than usually acerbic election year in the USA, in the final days of a presidential campaign revolving in large part around a slogan about making America great again. All of which causes me to recall a moment in CBC Radio history, just over 40 years ago, that not … Read more
The announcement of Phillip Glass as the 11th recipient the Glenn Gould Prize this past April 14 gives us an opportunity to remember that Glenn Gould was himself an artist who walked amongst us. Although he was someone who changed the world of music in a number of significant ways, the fact remains that he … Read more
Artistic restraint within a new medium may signal aesthetic maturity, yet in the case of electro-acoustics one can be too polite. Rather than exploit every possible device the Canadian composer David Jaeger’s Sarabande for Viola and Tape, composed for Rivka Golani and played at her Wigmore Hall recital on 13 February, deployed tape feed-back purely … Read more