This program celebrates the raw energy and wild colouristic possibilities of chamber music being written in the 21st century, even as it, in many cases, harkens back to music from earlier eras.
Date/Time: Dec 18 2017, 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, The Orpheum | Event calendarCost: $22.50
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NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 1 - STANDING WAVE
NICO MUHLY Doublespeak
RODNEY SHARMAN Pavane, Galliard and Variations
VINCENT HO Sandman’s Realm
BERNARD PARMEGIANI Accidents/Harmoniques (World Première)
/ ARR. JAMES O’CALLAGHAN
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Workers Union
POST-CONCERT LOUNGE Join DJ michael red, musicians, and composers for a post-concert lounge in the Westcoast Energy Hall lobby. Cash bar.
PROGRAM NOTE
This program celebrates the raw energy and wild colouristic possibilities of chamber music being written in the 21st century, even as it, in many cases, harkens back to music from earlier eras. Nico Muhly’s Doublespeak references 1970s minimalism; James O’Callaghan’s Accidents/Harmoniques is an acoustic reworking of 1970s electronic music. Rodney Sharman’s Pavane, Galliard and Variations explores the keyboard music of Renaissance composer William Byrd in the broad colour palette of the sextet. In Sandman’s Realm, Vincent Ho uses as his starting point the huge variety of timbral possibilities that can be created by the tamtam. Taking yet another look back at 1970s music, this time with an extreme focus on rhythm and noise, Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union (1975), written for any loud sounding group of instruments, demands rhythmic fidelity while allowing for maximal variety of pitch and tone colour.
STANDING WAVE
Lauded as “Vancouver’s most adventurous chamber ensemble” (Alex Varty, The Georgia Straight), Standing Wave are six of Vancouver's most sought-after musical multitaskers. The ensemble ventures into a wide array of musical worlds with passion and assurance, bringing an audaciously intimate aesthetic to the most complex and ground-breaking music. In its 26-year history, Standing Wave has commissioned and premiered over 85 works, toured across Canada, and released 4 CDs - the most recent of which, New Wave, won the 2017 Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Artist/Ensemble of the Year. Recent highlights include a sold-out show at ISCM World New Music Day 2017, critically acclaimed performances for the VSO New Music Festivals (2014-2017), an 8-night run of Jeffrey Ryan’s Book of Love with Kokoro Dance and an appearance at Ottawa’s Chamberfest. Standing Wave presented the multi-media program, Sculptress: the Music of Nicole Lizée with Lizée on live electronics, at the 2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and at the 2017 SMCQ Montréal New Music Festival.
Standing Wave:
Christie Reside flute
A-K Coope clarinet
Rebecca Whitling violin
Peggy Lee cello
Allen Stiles piano
Vern Griffiths percussion
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