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    Winnipeg ::  (Jan. 23/07) ~ (April 1/07) ~ (Sept. 19/07)

Brandon, MB ::  Oct. 9, 2007 

Reno, Nevada  ::  Oct. 30/07

San Francisco, CA ::  Feb. 23/07  and  Feb. 25/07

Thunder Bay, ON ::  Sept, 25/07   

Toronto, ON ::  April 19, 2007  and  Sept.25/07- (CBC)

 Nouvelles Musiques en Nouvelles Espaces (New Music in New Places) sponsored by The Canadian Music Centre in the Student Centre Cafeteria St. Boniface College 12:00 noon, Tuesday, January 23, 2007 What's new and original? come and hear a concert of music and theatrical pieces by Canadian composers, for spoken voice, percussion, bassoon and cello featuring 3 works by Diana McIntosh hear the premiere of her evocative piece, Pensés enfantines, with text from St. Exupery's Le Petit Prince with cello, percussion and voice ~ Programme ~ Asia for solo cello ........................................................................ Jim Hiscott Anerca I for solo bassoon with spoken poetry ................................. Milton Barnes Pensés enfantines for voice and percussion ................................... Diana McIntosh Vocalise #2 for solo bassoon ........................................................ Murray Adaskin Images III for solo bassoon ............................................................ Peter Paul Koprowski Elephant Walk for voice and percussion ........................................ Diana McIntosh Metamophoses for bassoon and tape ............................................ Peter Hatch Paprika for bassoon and cello ....................................................... Raymond Luedeke Doubletalk for voice and percussion .............................................. Diana McIntosh ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~                   ~ Musicians ~                                 Karin Erhardt, cello Vincent Ellin, bassoon Diana McIntosh, spoken text and percussion  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ produced by Diana McIntosh ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Canadian Music Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the SOCAN Foundation and the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund

Friday ~ February 23 ~ 2007 The Metropolitan Club of San Francisco presents Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night written and performed by Diana McIntosh    Diana McIntosh at Western Canada Aviation Museum

5:00 PM ~ Sunday  ~ February 25 ~ 2007 Stanford Women's Club of the East Bay San Francisco presents SOLITARY  CLIMB an autobiographical theatrical musical show about Diana McIntosh's mountain climbing experiences and her parallel struggles with contemporary music written and performed by Diana McIntosh                                   Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, B.C., Canada                                                                                Diana McIntosh on Ophidian Glacier                            Mistaya area, B.C., Canada We invite you to experience DIANA  MCINTOSH.   Well known in her native Canada, she is a pianist, multi-media performance artist and composer of new music who entertains audiences with “serious fun”.  Diana McIntosh (www.dianamcintosh.com) is widely recognized as distinctive, original and innovative with effervescent wit. She has performed throughout Canada, widely in the USA, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Portugal, and Kenya. Her commissions for new music have included works for orchestra, chamber, ensemble, choir, vocal and instrumental soloists, dance, mime and electronic tape. Diana will perform her own 50-minute creation Solitary Climb, a theatrical musical work that combines spoken text, piano and tape.  It reflects parallels that she sees between her musical career and mountain climbing.  In her words, “As an avid mountain hiker and climber, as well as a composer/theatrical performer/pianist, I’ve found that mountains have been a direct or indirect influence in the music I create … I created Solitary Climb as an autobiographical work to show the relationships I feel between mountains and music – the adventure, the mystery, the tensions, the special techniques, the exhilaration of both.”  Here are a few comments about Diana and her shows: “Diana McIntosh is a national treasure.  She is a leading light for any composer, particularly for female composers, and she also brings a very welcome sense of humour and creativity to the concert stages of Canada.” – Bravo TV News “…one of the wonders of the Canadian contemporary music world. Contemporary music is not often so engaging, entertaining and delightful.” --- The Halifax Chronicle-Herald “Diana McIntosh is an enormously creative woman - entertaining, resourceful, courageous.  And it must also be cheerfully said, she is a bit of a nut.”  Winnipeg Free Press Plan to stay for a reception with the artist, which will include a dinner of heavy hors d’oeuvres and libations. This is truly an extraordinary opportunity.  Do join us!                       When:     Sunday, February 25, 2007   5:00 PM registration; 5:45 PM performance; reception immediately following.            Where:   Soda Center, St. Mary’s College, 1928 St. Mary’s Road, Moraga            Cost:      $40 for SWCEB members; $45 for guests and non-members Directions: From Oakland/Berkeley, take Hwy 24 through the Caldecott Tunnel, exit Orinda/Moraga.  Turn right and follow Moraga Way about 5 miles.  Turn left at Moraga Road (a major intersection), then right onto St. Mary’s  Road. The College is on the right.                     From Walnut Creek, take Hwy 24 west to the Central Lafayette exit. Exit right, go right again under the freeway, turn right onto Mt. Diablo Blvd. Go 1 block, turn left onto Moraga Road for 1.3 miles, then left onto St. Mary’s Road for 4 miles. College is on the left. After the kiosk, turn left. Follow the drive to the back of campus.   Questions:  Barbara Ward (925) 323-2596 or Barborinda@aol.com

3:00 pm ~ Sunday ~ April 1 ~ 2007 at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church ~ Wardlaw and Nassau ~ Winnipeg

8:00 P.M. ~ Thursday ~ April 19 ~ 2007 Heliconian Hall ~ Toronto 35 Hazelton Avenue In  A  Sense a provocative, theatrical concert of music, drizzled with humour, and inspired by our amazing 5 physical senses              sound                     touch                   sight                      taste                  smell Diana McIntosh pianist/composer/performance artist will be joined on stage by Beverley Johnston  ~  percussionist/composer Mary Gardiner ~ pianist/composer Jane Blackstone ~ pianist  performing works by Gardiner ~ Johnston ~ McIntosh ~ and Micheline Roi admission  $20.00 ~ at the door ~ Financial assistance provided by the Manitoba Arts Council   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In A Sense All sound has an original context that appeals to hearing, seeing, smelling, touching  and even tasting.  This information received by our senses allows us to understand the complete “picture”. (excerpt from an article by composer Natasha Barrett in the September, 2006 Nordic Sounds) PROGRAM In a Sense for spoken text and hand percussion ............... Diana McIntosh     Excerpts from A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman,     are structured by McIntosh into an evocative and provocative theatre     piece about our 5 physical senses.     Diana McIntosh, performer Out of Touch * for piano duet ......................................... Mary Gardiner     As well as exploring many different ways in which piano sounds     are created by simply changing the touch, this work also focuses     on the colloquial meaning of the title.  Sometimes the duet partners     seem to be ‘out of touch’ with each other, (not even on the same     page!) but, they always manage to get back ‘in touch’ again.     Jane Blackstone and Mary Gardiner, pianists All Too Consuming * for spoken text and a table setting . Diana  McIntosh     Using the poem, “It says I can eat all I want”, by Peter Christensen,     McIntosh’s theatre piece, All Too Consuming, explores the sensual     delights of a sumptuous meal.     Beverley Johnston, percussion/narration Of Experiential Fruit  for solo piano ................................ Micheline Roi     Although Roi has said the title for this aggressive and often     relentless piano piece doesn't mean anything specific, McIntosh     wonders if she was "tasting" and experimenting with the many     sound sources of the whole piano.     Diana McIntosh, piano INTERMISSION Elephant Walk * for spoken text and hand percussion .... Diana McIntosh     In Africa, poems and music are old forms of story-telling.      McIntosh discovered some traditional African poetry about     fish, birds and animals, and has created her piece, Elephant     Walk to communicate in her own way, the child-like playful-     ness and charm of the poems.     Diana McIntosh, narrator/percussion Snare Drama for solo snare drum and tape .................. Beverley  Johnston     Johnston dresses up as a male teenage hip-hop “snare drummer”     with attitude! The voice on the tape is that of  the “female” snare     drum who lures the young drummer into her snares!  Within their     encounter they get to know each other through dancing, some     intimate moments of touching, slapping, rubbing and kissing.      Of all the pieces that Bev has commissioned and performed, she     thinks her students, unfortunately, will remember this work the most!     Beverley Johnston, percussion A rose is a rose ... *, for solo piano and live electronics ... Diana McIntosh     As individual as the smell of a rose, is Gertrude Stein’s distinctive     use of rhythm and repetition in her words and phrases.  Based on     one of Stein’s utterances, which begins, “Convincing to anyone,     convincing to almost anyone, in being one under-standing anyone’s     understanding that thing ....”, McIntosh’s piano piece plays with     its rhythm and contours.     Diana McIntosh, piano                                                                                                         * World premiere

       

12:30 noon ~ Wednesday ~ September 19 ~ 2007 Eva Clare Hall, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Faculty of Music Diana McIntosh Pianist/Composer performing her own compositions ~ ~ ~ ~ In  A  Sense hear                  touch                  see                 taste                 smell Summit  Ridge Diana and Grant on Mt. Schaefer ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ At the end of the concert Diana will chat with the audience in the hall

12:30 noon ~ Tuesday ~ September 25 ~ 2007 The Faculty of Music Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario presents a solo concert  by Canadian composer/pianist/performance artist Diana McIntosh autobiographical show "Solitary Climb"  including Summit Ridge ---- Made to Scale From Wapta Ice ---- Climb to Camp One   Diana McIntosh on Ophidian glacier, B.C, Canada photo by Phil Hein, CMG Jean McNulty Recital Hall Wm. H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts Thunder Bay, Ontario 12:30 noon

So You Want to Write a Fugue? That's the question CBC posed to 10 Canadian composers a couple of months ago. I was one who said, "Yes!"         Here's the gist of the commission -             This fall marks two significant anniversaries for Glenn Gould: September 25th: his 75th birthday     October 4th: the 25th anniversary of his death         For this occasion we (CBC), are commissioning ten composers to write a Prelude and Fugue (for solo piano).           Here are the particulars -  it should be roughly 5 to 6 minutes in length  it should not be a pastiche of Bach  the 'head' of the fugual subject should be G-E-G-D (on Glenn Gould's name)  the character/tempo/etc. is left up to you.  It can be witty and humorous or reverential and profound...you   decide  the delivery date is Labour Day ~ ~ ~ ~ the ten works will be performed in a concert in the Glenn Gould Studio Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto 8:00 PM ~ Tuesday ~ September 25 ~ 2007 and broadcast live-to-air at that time - 8:00 PM - in all time zones, except - 9:00 PM Atlantic 9:30 in Newfoundland on CBC's Canada Live program, On Radio 2  (FM) Concert admission - $10.00 ~ Info. phone - (416) 205-5555 ~ (reportedly 'sold out') I'm very pleased to tell you that Stephen Clarke, a renowned Toronto pianist, will be performing my work     And here's a sample of what he has to cope with .... to hear the work on CBC's website, click this line     A note I put on the score says - "Russia’s historic Mir Space Station was launched in 1986 and was in orbit until 2001. Reference to Mir in my Prelude and Fugue is nebulous and might only be obvious to the exceptionally perceptive!"                         Here's a complete list of the commissioned composers, and the pianists who'll perform their work -                 André Ristick, Montreal ~~~ Gregory Oh                 Ka Nin Chan, Toronto ~~~ Lydia Wong                 MalcolmForsyth, Edmonton ~~~ Peter Tiefenbach                 Stewart Goodyear, Toronto ~~~ Stewart Goodyear                 Gary Kulesha, Toronto ~~~ Andrew Burashko                 Andrew P. Macdonald, Sherbrooke ~~~ Robert Kortgard                 Diana McIntosh, Winnipeg ~~~ Stephen Clarke                 Joclyn Morlock, Vancouver ~~~ David Swan                 Heather Schmidt, Toronto ~~~ Heather Schmidt                 Ana Sokolovic, Montreal ~~~ Christina Petrowska      I'm giving a noon-hour concert at Lakehead University, in Thunder Bay, that day but will WestJet-it to               Toronto for the evening performances.  It will be fascinating and fun!  If you're able to tune-in, I think     you'll enjoy it - let me know!

Tuesday ~ October 9 ~ 2007 12:40 Noon Faculty of Music ~ Brandon University Brandon MB, Canada Lorne Watson Hall presents SOLITARY  CLIMB an autobiographical theatrical musical show about Diana McIntosh's mountain climbing experiences and her parallel struggles with contemporary music written and performed by Diana McIntosh                              Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, B.C., Canada                                                                               Diana McIntosh on Ophidian Glacier                            Mistaya area, B.C., Canada     You are invited to experience DIANA  MCINTOSH, the well known pianist, multi-     media performance artist and composer of new music who entertains audiences with "serious              fun”.  Diana McIntosh (www.dianamcintosh.com) is widely recognized as distinctive, original     and innovative with effervescent wit. She has performed throughout Canada, widely in the USA,             England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Portugal, and Kenya. Her commissions for new music have             included works for orchestra, chamber, ensemble, choir, vocal and instrumental soloists, dance,             mime and electronic tape. Diana will perform her own 50-minute creation Solitary Climb, a                      theatrical musical work that combines spoken text, piano and tape.  It reflects parallels that                     she sees between her musical career and mountain climbing.  In her words, “As an avid                         mountain hiker and climber, as well as a composer/theatrical performer/pianist, I’ve found that             mountains have been a direct or indirect influence on the music I create … I created Solitary                 Climb as an autobiographical work to show the relationships I feel between mountains and                     music – the adventure, the mystery, the tensions, the special techniques, the exhilaration of                     both.”  Here are a few comments about Diana and her shows:         Diana McIntosh is a national treasure.  She is a leading light for any composer, particularly                         for female composers, and she also brings a very welcome sense of humour and creativity to                     the concert stages of Canada. --- Bravo TV News         …one of the wonders of the Canadian contemporary music world. Contemporary music is                         not often so engaging, entertaining and delightful. --- The Halifax Chronicle-Herald         Diana McIntosh is an enor