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April 7, 2000 In a GroundSwell Concert
held in the Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg,
McIntosh performed with Robert Gardner - percussion -
in Omar Daniel's "Changes: Steady State; Impact; Ramifications";
with Greg Lowe - guitar - in Lowe's "Too Much Money";
with Rosemarie van der Hooft - mezzo soprano,
and Elise Lavallee - viola, in Michael Colgrass's "New People" (nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5);
with van der Hooft and Gardner in Kurt Weill's "My Ship"
and "Alabama Song"; and with Patricia Spencer - flute,
in Northern Light (from Luminaries) by McIntosh.
This concert, curated by McIntosh, was the first ever given
in the fascinating and beautiful foyer of the Mint.
The concert was extremely well received by the large audience.

In June/July, 2000,
McIntosh performed in Scotland, Ireland and England,
solo concerts of 6 of her shorter one-woman
theatrical/musical works, as shown below:

IN, ON, AND AROUND THE PIANO
one-woman theatre written and performed by

DIANA McINTOSH
Canadian pianist/actor/composer

*** PROGRAM ***

 All in Good Time: 
   	An upbeat, jazzy dialogue for piano, tape and mouth percussion. 

 Eliptosonics: 
   	This highly accessible piano piece speaks for itself. 

 The Mountain Gods: 
    	Musing on the poem "The Mountain Gods" by Canadian  poet Liliane 
	Welch, McIntosh - herself a mountain climber - evokes  the mystery 
	of a  night on a mountain en  route to the  summit, awaiting 
	the mountain gods' whims.

In the blind sky,
its tight windy hand
of thunder calls and hard biting suns.

In the rock broken by lightning,
open-bellied, alive with night,
its shivering, leaping spine.

Yes. In everything now,
unknown, knee-deep in clouds,
Solemn, promising deliverance.

The mountain gods, waiting for us.
Liliane Welch © 1985

*** INTERVAL ***

Glorified Chicken Mousse:
A recipe recitation from "The Joy of Cooking", this is one of a
number of homey pieces written and performed by McIntosh's alter
ego, Maude Pilly, from Dandelion, Manitoba.

Go Between:
Originally written for three pianos and tape, this piece, based
on L. P. Hartley's novel, "The Go Between", expresses the haunting
atmosphere of an illicit and tragic love affair in Victorian
England, in which an innocent young boy becomes the go between,
delivering secret messages for the lovers. In this version, McIntosh
has pre-taped her performances of two of the piano parts.

Doubletalk:
A playful exchange between the performer and two loudspeakers.
All the sounds on tape were made by McIntosh and recorded
separately on the channels of a 4-track tape recorder. The
work gives new meaning to the word "communication".


The tour performances will be at: 

    Lyth Arts Centre, by Wick, 
    Caithness, KW1 4UD 
    Scotland 
        Saturday, June 24, 2000
        Contact William Wilson - phone: 01955 641 270 
		Fax:	01955 641 414 

    The Triskel Arts Centre 
    Tobin Street 
    Cork 
    Ireland 
        Friday, June 30, 2000
        Contact Gary Sheehan - phone:  01353 212 72022 
		email:	triskel@iol.ie 
  

    The Hitchin Festival 
    Hitchin 
    Hertfordshire 
    England 
        Saturday, July 8, 2000
        Contact Maya Pieris - phone:  01462 653 655 
		email:	maya.pieris@btinternet.com

Other presenters please note availability, for your venues,
of performances and workshops by Diana McIntosh.

climb_spoon

One of McIntosh's most popular theatrical musical works, her satirical Eliptosonics, is a send-up of avant-garde program notes. Amy Duncan, a New York reviewer, wrote, "Multimedia performance is a natural outcome of the age, and McIntosh is one of its important voices. Watch for her."

Diana McIntosh is, in fact, a mountaineer. She combines music and mountains in a full-evening one-woman show Solitary Climb,in which her audience shares a daring experience "scaling the sheer face of new music."

Maude Pilly (Diana's alter-ego, and Manitoba's Sarah Binks) comes from remote Dandelion, Manitoba. She is a folksy and entertaining composer/performer.

A partial list of solo works by Diana McIntosh
available for performance on tour:

Solitary Climb, 1990, a one-woman music/theatre piece of new music and mountains. Drawing on her mountain climbing experience, McIntosh has created a multi-
media work that combines spoken text, original music
for piano, tape, and magnificent slides of climbs she
has made. Text and music by McIntosh (45').

Eliptosonics, 1979, theatre piece for piano and spoken voice (8') with slides, tape (13').

Slipping the Bonds - From Birds to Bondar, 1999,
for spoken text, piano and tape. Text prepared from
tape of an interview McIntosh had with Roberta
Bondar, Canada's first woman astronaut (60').

Aiby-Aicy-Aidyai, 1983, for toy piano and extended vocal techniques (5').

Doubletalk, 1983, for extended vocal techniques and electronic tape (5').

...and 8:30 in Newfoundland, 1985, theatre piece for extended vocal techniques, percussion & digital delay (10').

Glorified Chicken Mousse, 1984, a recipe piece by the composer's other persona, "Maude Pilly" (5').

Sampling the Communication Parameters in the Ambience of Structural Phrasing and Dynamics in Contemporary Music, 1986, a theatre piece for spoken voice, piano (12').

McIntosh the Stein Way, 1992, for spoken text, piano, digital delay and movement. Text of Gertrude Stein (45')

In A Sense, 1994, for spoken text, thumb piano and percussion. Text by Diane Ackerman (18').

Beryl Markham - Flying West with the Night, 1995, for spoken text, piano and tape. Text by Beryl Markham (50').

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