Performances in 2004
[2008] [2007] [2006] [2005]

[2004] [2003] [2002] [2001] [2000] [1999] [1998] [1997]

keyboard

Home  Bio  Performing  Composing Catalogue Program Notes Hear & See
Past  Workshops Discography Teachers   Press Releases  Awards  Tours
Photos  Associations Links End



"Cloud Walking"

A theatrical concert of works by Diana McIntosh
performed by her and percussionist Beverley Johnston

8:00 PM Thursday, April  29, 2004

The Music Gallery
 St. George the Martyr Church
197 John Street
(north of Queen at Stephanie)
Toronto, Canada
ph: 416-204-1080

The program featured 2 world premieres: That Damned Illusive Muse of Mine, for percussion, piano and spoken text, using colourful and witty text by New York writer Diane Ackerman, about some bizzare ways muses have been found. Johnston and McIntosh creatinged the work together, using improvisation as a major component.

The other premiere was From Wapta's Ice, for piano, tape and spoken text, using poetry about Wapta Glacier, above Num-ti-ja Lodge, high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by Alberta writer Monica Meneghetti.

Other theatrical works on the program were Uhuru Kamili, for percussion and piano, which was inspired by a balloon safari that McIntosh took over the Masai Mara in Kenya, in October 2002, while she was on a 3-concert tour there.  The balloon was named "Uhuru", which means 'freedom' in Swahili.  "Uhuru Kamili" means 'complete freedom', and the music expresses the awe and excitement McIntosh felt on this incredible adventure.

Also on the program was The Mountain Gods, for piano, tape and spoken voice/extended vocal techniques, about a climb up Manstorna peak in the Italian Dolomites, by New Brunswick writer, Liliane Welch; and Made To Scale, a humorous piece combining music and mountain climbing terminology, with both the music and text by McIntosh.


          note.gifnote.gifnote.gif          note.gifnote.gifnote.gif             note.gifnote.gif           

GroundSwell Concert
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall - University of Winnipeg

October 16, 2004

 a solo piano program called

Piano DNA

curated by Diana McIntosh and featuring

"lioness of the keyboard" American pianist

Jo Boatright
Jo Boatright

included on the program was the premiere of McIntosh's

From A Dark Journey  blinking arrow


3notes.gof                                                3notes.gif

School of Music
University of Manitoba

October 27, 2004

Diana performed her one-woman theatrical musical work

McIntosh The Stein  Way  blinking arrow


                      


Austin, Texas
November 1st and 2nd, 2004

Diana gave a workshop/performance for
 
The Composers' Forum, University of Texas in Austin
on Monday, November 1st,  4:00 - 5:30 pm

and
 
a solo theatrical performance of her works in the
 
Recital Studio of the University
on Tuesday, November 2nd, at 8:00 pm. 

The program included her McIntosh the Stein Way, From Wapta Ice, The Mountain Gods and other works that combine piano, percussion, spoken text, electronics and tape,.

(blinking arrow See Program Notes for these works)

She was also

Composer-in-Residence at the Murchison Middle School in Austin

where she gave a workshop/performance and talk to the students.


note.gifnote.gifnote.gif          note.gifnote.gifnote.gif          note.gifnote.gifnote.gif


The Banff Centre
Music and Sound Building

December 6, 2004

Diana performed her  one-woman theatrical musical work

McIntosh The Stein  Way 



  3note.gif             3note.gif          3note.gif


Di climbing piano

note.gifnote.gifnote.gif


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').

Eliptosonics


    [2005][2004] [2003] [2002] [2001]

    [2000] [1999] [1998] [1997]

 

piano keyboard

4Home 4Bio  4Performing  4Composing 4Catalogue 4Program Notes 4Hear & See
4Past  4Workshops 4Discography 4Teachers   4Press Releases  4Awards  4Tours
4Photos  4Associations 4Links 4End

5
2004

469 Kingston Cr., Winnipeg, Canada R2M   0V1
Tel: (204) 233-4163 Fax: (204) 237-3773
mcint@mts.net
apple

Revised Mar. 9-05
home life get learn past links end