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Coming of Age In The 1990s – Part 2

It was 3:40 in the morning. The forest was in absolute stillness, the canoe slipping into the water, barely making a sound. It was a cool September morning on Wildcat Lake in the Haliburton Forest in 1997. My cargo – two condenser microphones and a portable digital recorder – and I were heading out to … Read more

Concert Report: Journals from ISCM 2017, Part I

The World New Music Days festival has been held in a different country each year, since 1922. Organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music

Music of Remembrance

In 2009 Canadian poet Suzanne Steele was appointed as the first ever Canadian war poet, and served in Afghanistan with the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s

Remembering Glenn Gould (1932-1982): On the 85th Anniversary of His Birth

Perfection, and in particular, the pursuit of perfection in the performing arts, can be an infectious thing. An artist who has attained a high standard

A Lecture on the Weather

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

Coming of Age in the 1990’s

The decade of the 1990s witnessed a flourishing of Canadian musical creativity, in terms of both the composition of significant new works and the growing

Remembering Glenn Gould

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

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