January 23, 2001
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Centara New Music Festival
Centennial Hall, Winnipeg
Through the Valley: Milgaard McIntosh has just completed the writing of this orchestral work, and she will be the guest pianist/narrator in its premiere performance with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned the work through the Manitoba Arts Council.
The epic struggle of Joyce Milgaard to free her son David who was wrongly imprisoned for 23 years was McIntosh's inspiration and focus for the writing of this 25-minute work. Maestro Bramwell Tovey was so moved by Joyce Milgaard's book, A Mother's Story, that he asked McIntosh, a long time friend of Milgaard, if she would like to write an orchestral work about it.
March 13, 2001
Jean McNulty Recital Hall
Wm. H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario
March 15, 2001
The Music Gallery
St. George-the-Martyr
Toronto, Ontario
March 24, 2001
National Aviation Museum
Ottawa, Ontario
Slipping The Bonds - From Birds to Bondar This is McIntosh's recently written one-woman theatrical musical tribute to Roberta Bondar, Canada's first woman astronaut. McIntosh will perform this 55-minute show at the above venues.
This theatrical work is a celebration of the development of flight - from monks jumping and flapping off monastery walls to Bondar's rocketing into orbit. It is written for live spoken text, acoustic piano (or electronic piano), percussion, and electronic music which is mixed with Bondar's voice from an interview with McIntosh.
March 31, 2001
Eckhardt Gramatte Hall
University of Winnipeg
In a concert titled "Another Look to Spain", presented by GroundSwell, Winnipeg's new music series of which McIntosh is a Co-Artistic Director, she will perform the following solo piano works:
Agregats Sonores, etude III ................... Maurice Ohana
Suburbis .............................................. Federico Mompou
Concert Curator for this program of solo piano works by lesser-known Spanish composers is GroundSwell's guest curator Jose Evangelista, of Montreal.
November 23, 2001
Rolston Recital Hall
The Banff Centre
Banff, Alberta
The Rolston Hall Series, of The Banff Centre, presented the premiere of McIntosh's Wenkchemna, for flute, violin, english horn, cello and 2 narrators. The Banff Centre had commissioned the work which includes text from The Fells of Brightness, by the late Banff poet Jon Whyte. McIntosh was one of the narrators.
Other presenters please note availability, for your venues,
of performances and workshops by Diana McIntosh.
