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February 10 ~ Toronto
April
17 ~ Winnipeg
May 15 ~ Toronto
June 6 ~
Invermere, BC
August 31 ~ Winnipeg
September 15 ~ Winnipeg
September 18 ~ Brandon,
Manitoba
Sunday ~ February
10 ~ 2008 ~ Toronto  Canada's prima percussionist Beverley Johnston was invited by Ulla
Colgrass
and her Pulitzer Prize-winning composer husband, Michael
Colgrass, to give a
"recitalette" of about 45 minutes in their gracious home in Toronto, for
a select audience of 25 - 30 people. Beverley
saw this as an outstanding opportunity to "workshop" some of my new works that she and I have been preparing to premiere in the May 15th concert of my music in Heliconian Hall, in Toronto. I was delighted to be part of Bev's concert at Colgrass's, and we've had a great time getting it together. We've had some invaluable help with the theatrical aspects from George Bloomfield, in Toronto. The featured piece we're "workshopping" is my duo for percussion, piano, spoken text and tape, Prodigies of the Nose, which uses texts from the writings of Diane Ackerman, Edmund Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac), Helen Keller and some of my own. I will also be workshopping a new solo piece of mine for spoken text, piano and small percussion called Opening Windows. In this piece, about moods, the text is by Gertrude Stein. Her often bizarre texts are written for their sound and rhythm rather than for any meaning. My piece uses the same text and rhythm throughout, but as seen through different "windows" or moods - 12 of them! Beverley will also be performing 2 solo works for percussion - To The Earth, by Fred Rzewski, for flower pots and voice, and Axion Esti, by George Kondogiorgosanother, for stamna (jug) and voice. Diana
McIntosh ~ Winnipeg 1-15-08
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Ulla's snaps of the concert
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| 8:00 PM ~ Thursday ~ April 17 ~ 2008 ~ Winnipeg Rolf Schulte, violin and James Winn, piano the outstanding American duo/soloists in a concert presented by GroundSwell New Music Now curated by Diana McIntosh in a program of music by Elliott Carter ~ Anton Webern ~ Fred Lerdahl Mario Davidovsky ~ Michael Matthews Diana McIntosh also on the program Trails of Gravity and Grace, for clarinet, cello and piano by Calgary composer Allan Bell, performed by Andrea Bell, cello ~ Pat Daniels, clarinet Diana McIntosh, piano Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg 8:00 PM ~ Thursday ~ April 17 ~ 2008 Tickets: Adult: $19 ~ Senior: $17 ~ Student: $9 Ticket info ~ 943-5770 ~ free parking available behind the CBC Building - access via lane off Young Street ~ Music from this concert will be broadcast on CBC's "The Signal "
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Arts presents SOLITARY CLIMB an autobiographical theatrical musical show, with humour, about Diana McIntosh's mountain climbing experiences and her parallel struggles with contemporary music written and performed by Canadian international theatrical performer/composer Diana McIntosh on Ophidian Glacier
Mistaya area, B.C., Canada  Lake O'Hara Yoho National Park, BC 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 enormously creative woman - entertaining, resourceful,
and
courageous. - The Winnipeg
Free Press
Christ
Church Trinity
7:30 PM Friday, June 6, 2008 Tickets: $21.00 adult ~ $10.00 student (including reception following) ~ available at 
Dave's Book Bar ~ Essentials
~ Pynelogs Trims and Treasures - Fairmont N'Deco - Radium and at the door Alice
Hale
Caraway Pottery Westside Road ~ Invermere (250) 342-9504 |
