New Musings on New Music – Details, episodes & analysis

Robert Pritchard's webpage.

Keith Hamel one of Bob's teachers and a prof at UBC

Megumi Masaki, one of Bob's collaborators 

An article about Bob's work with Vancouver's Turning Point ensemble. There is a great video link here.

Bob's students:

Kiran Bhumber there is beautiful video work here.

Chantelle Ko-Mitchell, there are video links here!

Fidelia Lam with more video links

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The second portion of Norm and Barbara's talk with Toronto composer Linda Catlin Smith. Linda touches on Listening, teaching composition and her large work for cello and piano, Ballad.

For more information on Linda Catlin Smith please visit her website.

During the talk, Linda reference Faure's Piano Quintet it can be heard on Youtube

Linda mentioned Morton Feldman's works For Philip Guston and String Quartet #2. They can be heard on Apple Music here and here

Norm and Barbara made a concert recording of Linda's piece Ballad which you can listen to on Soundcloud

If you would like to help fund New Musing on New Music you can do so on the suddenlyLISTEN website. 

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Learn more about Bekah on her website

Listen to Bekah's music on Bandcamp here. Make sure to listen to Bestiaries her Juno Award nominated recording!

The singular Chik White AKA Darcy Spidle

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where Bekah teaches

New Adventures in Sound Art 

The Canadian League of Composers

Continuum Contemporary Music from Toronto.

New Music Concerts also of Toronto

Bekah's Juno nomination - https://junoawards.ca/nomination/2023-classical-composition-of-the-year-bekah-simms/

Dublin's Crash Ensemble

Canadian composer living in Berlin Marc Sabat

And our sponsors, The Canadian Music Centre!

Learn more about Allison at her website here.

You can hear Allison's music at: allison cameron Pliny (excerpt) Another Timbre

allison cameron in-memoriam-robert-ashley by the avens

allisoncameron 3rds-4ths-5ths

theallisoncameronband mach shorn

allison cameronmusic In Svalbard 2013
 

Here are more links: from Allisons early years: Lloyd Burritt  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloyd-burritt-emc

From the Victoria and later Toronto time: Martin Arnold  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Arnold_%28composer%29

John Abram  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abram

Rudolf Komorous  https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

Henryk Górecki  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_G%C3%B3recki

From the Amsterdam time: Frederic Rzewski  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski

Walter Zimmerman  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Zimmermann

Per Nørgård  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd

Louis Andriessen  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Andriessen

Maarten Altena  https://maartenaltena.nl/

The great UK record label that is very sympathetic to Canadian composers: Another Timbre http://www.anothertimbre.com/

For more information on Patrick, and to listen to his favourite music, including memento mori and Canvas Study, head to his website here.

During the episode Patrick referenced Peter Allen, Malcolm Goldstein, and Gillian Smith - (search out Gillian's new CD coming soon!)

Longy School of Music is where Patrick is currently studying.

And read more about the story behind Patrick's Lego Beach here

And here!

To learn more about Nicole and see and hear some of her music, head to her website.

You can also see a lot of video and music by searching Nicole Lizée on YouTube.

Nicole specifically suggests we start with listening to Black MIDI

and Death to Kosmische played by Kronos Quartet.

and Book Burners performed by Stéphan Tétreault and DJ P-Love.

Nicole also spoke about the RCA Select a vision. Learn more here.

This episode we're including links to Bandcamp for listening. Sure, Apple Music has SO MUCH music, and it may be a great place to start, but, Bandcamp is far more generous to artists, so we recommend you discover new music and support artists by buying their music, there! 

Listen to Sam's solo releases here.

Sam's important bands, although he didn't mention them all by name, include:

Shalabi Effect

Dwarves of East Agouza

Land of Kush

Collateral

more information on the December 2 suddenlyLISTEN concert

Please check out these links to performances of David's notable pieces:

Constables Clouds performed by Winona Zelenka

Favour performed by Rivka Golani

A Blessing performed by Karen Usha Gray. This is the David Cameron poem David recites in the episode!

There are many other pieces by David Jaeger on Youtube, search them out!

Some links you might enjoy clicking:

David Jaeger's bio from the CMC site - cmccanada.org

Canadian Electronic Ensemble -  https://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com/

Winnipeg New Music Festival - https://www.wnmf.ca/

Christina Petrowska Quilico - https://christinapetrowskaquilico.com/

Lawrence Cherney - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lawrence-cherney-emc

Soundstreams - https://soundstreams.ca

Glenn Gould Studio - https://www.cbc.ca/glenngouldstudio/

Here are some links:

FIrst, the Canadian Music Centre 

This website has listings of Associate Composers, and their works. Spend some time on this site!

NMNM and suddenlyLISTEN wish to thank the CMC for their support this past season! Thanks to a donation from the CMC, we release 4 episodes featuring Atlantic Canadian composers and creators! Dale Sorenson from PEI; Andrew Staniland, from Newfoundland and Labrador; Emily Doolittle (and Peter Togni) from Nova Scotia, and André Cormier (and Nadia Francavilla) from New Brunswick. Please check out those episodes!

Picanto is the CMC's new streaming service.

During the episode, Glenn mentioned a lot of interesting references in passing. check these out if you're curious. Go ahead head down a rabbit hole!:

Classical Next

The International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)

Toronto jazz musician and composer Phil Nimmons

The Canadian League of Composers

Legendary Toronto educator and arts leader Ezra Schabas

Montreal composer, guitarist and arts leader Tim Brady