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The McKinney Avenue Contemporary & Voices of Change presented Diana McIntosh in 2 performances of her program titled In, On and Around the Piano, a solo program of 4 of her own theatrical musical works - Solitary Climb, Go Between, Eliptosonics and All In Good Time.
February 24, 2002
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Murial Richardson Auditorium
The School of Music at the University of Manitoba presented Diana McIntosh in a program she titled "McIntosh On Mountains". It included 5 of her compositions that were inspired by mountains - Imprints, The Wiwaxy Ledges, Using the Equipment, The Mountain Gods, and Wenkchemna. Diana said, "As a former Albertan, mountain climber and a composer/performer, I have had a long love affair with the Canadian Rockies ..."Other performers on the program were Laurel Ridd, flute; Robin MacMillan, english horn/oboe; Nicole Shaver, violin; Tom Watrous, cello; JoAnna Dutka, narrator; Charlene Pauls, mezzo soprano.
March 7, 2002
The Music Gallery
St. George - The - Martyr
Toronto, Ontario
In this program, titled simply, "Diana McIntosh", she presented 2 Ontario premieres - Wenkchemna and Through the Valley: Milgaard (solo version, with tape rather than orchestra).
Other performers on the program were Shelley Brown, flute; Robin MacMillan, english horn/oboe; Wendy Solomon, cello; Parmela Atariwala, violin, JoAnna Dutka, narrator.
April 20, 2002
Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
Regina Symphony Orchestra
Regina, Saskatchewan
May 11, 2002
Persephone Theatre
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
Saskatoon, Sask.
Maestro Earl Stafford in Saskatoon.
Through the Valley: Milgaard was performed by these two orchestras with Diana McIntosh as guest pianist/narrator. Both were given standing ovations. The orchestra was under the baton of Maestro Victor Sawa in Regina, and
May 25, 2002
Copall Equestrian Centre
Winnipeg
In a concert titled "From the Horses Mouth", presented by GroundSwell, Winnipeg's new music series of which McIntosh is a Co-Artistic Director, and was the curator of this concert, she produced an outstanding "happening" in the fabulous Copall Equestrian Centre. It included some outstanding horsemanship and 13 magnificent horses, along with the music. It was the first concert ever given in the Centre, and the first time the horses had been trained in a routine using contemporary music. For developing the routines, Sadie Turko, the trainer, used a tape of the music, but at the dress rehearsal, with real live musicians, to the horses that was something else, and it presented some unexpected challenges for the riders - and for the concert curator!
Included on the program was the premiere of Diana's She Had Some Horses, for cello, percussion and spoken text, which was written especially for this concert. In the work Diana plays some light percussion and narrates poetry of Native American, Joy Harjo, from her book of that same title.
October 17, 2002
Aero Club of East Africa
Wilson Airport
Nairobi, Kenya
October 22, 2002
Karen Country Club
Nairobi, Kenya
October 23, 2002
Muthaiga Club
Nairobi, Kenya
The Aero Club of East Africa, in Nairobi, invited Diana to perform her one-woman theatrical musical show Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night at their celebration of 75 years of aviation in Kenya.
This 50-minute one-woman theatrical musical work combines McIntosh's original music for piano and tape with live spoken text from Markham's fascinating autobiography, "West With The Night". McIntosh's dramatic work recounts the incredible experiences of the intrepid pioneer flyer, Beryl Markham, who learned to fly in Kenya, was a bush pilot, scouted elephant for the white hunters, and became the first person to solo the Atlantic from East to West, in 1936. Markham had been a member of the Aero Club, and is its most celebrated past member, with many photographs of her on the walls.
The Karen and Muthaiga Clubs were quick to offer performances when they learned that Diana was to be in Nairobi. (The Mombassa Country Club also planned a performance, but they were unable to provide a piano on time!)
Part of her compensation from the Aero Club was a 2-day safari in Kenya's renowned Masai Mara, including a hot air balloon safari. That was an extraordinarily enthralling event, never to be forgotten, and it inspired her to write Uhuru Kamili ("Complete Freedom" in Swahili).
December 2, 2002
Ralston Recital Hall
Tha Banff Centre
Banff, Alberta
A workshop performance of Four On The Floor, for 4 pianos, 3 brass and 2 percussion, which Diana had in its final stages of composition, was performed in a casual afternoon recital. Musicians, apart from Diana herself, who was one of the 4 pianists, were paticipants in Banff Centre programs at the time.
Other presenters
please
note availability, for your venues,
of performances
and workshops by Diana
McIntosh.
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- Eliptosonics, 1979, theatre piece for piano and spoken voice (8') with slides, tape (13'). Slipping the Bonds - From Birds
to Bondar, 1999, 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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