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Winnipeg - Friday, January 28, 2011 ~ Winnipeg Art Gallery

TANGLE
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Don't miss a "unique happening" -
the kick-off concert of the WSO New Music Festival 

Moving freely around The Art Gallery, the audience can watch visual artists,
Katherine Bruce and John Funk, an inter-active installation by
Daryn Bond, improv performances by XIE and music and
theatre piece by Gordon Fitzell, Jim Hiscott, and Diana McIntosh,
performed by:

Bede Hanely, Oboe
Allen Harrington, Saxaphone
Meredith Johnson, Double Bass
Laura Loewen, Piano
Diana McIntosh, Piano, Spoken Voice & Percussion
Victoria Sparks, Percussion

Tickets available at the door or at The Art Gallery

 

 



Ottawa - early May, 2011 ~ National Arts Centre
(Details TBA)

 

 


Winnipeg - 8:00 PM Thursday, May 12, 2011 ~ Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall 
University of Winnipeg
A GroundSwell concert curated by Diana
(Details TBA)

Peak Experience

a fascinating theatrical concert
of music written and performed by

Diana McIntosh
 with prima percussionist
 Beverley Johnston
Solitary Climb
a revealing autobiographical piece
paralleling  the highs and lows, the successes and failures of McIntosh’s 2 worlds - new music and mountain climbing
and the premieres of
The Ledges
two contrasted scenarios of climbers stranded on mountain ledges - one fictional and humorous, the other factual and tragic.
(commissioned by Beverley Johnston through the Manitoba Arts Council)

and

Les Souliers de Montmartre
a multimedia piece inspired by the shoes walking through Montmartre             

                 

McIntosh possesses the remarkable ability
to create music out of thin air....The Winnipeg Sun

  

Thursday ~ September 16, 2010 ~ 8:00 PM

Heliconian Hall

35 Hazelton Ave. (at Yorkville), Toronto 416-922-3618.

Tickets - $ 20.00 at the door
    

    







Winnipeg - 2:30 PM,  Sunday, January 24, 2010 ~ in the foyer of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
(a Canadian Music Centre  'New Music in New Places'  concert)

Winnipeg - 8:00 PM ~ Friday ~ February 5, 2010 ~ Winnipeg Art Gallery
Opening concert of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's
Imris New Music Festival

Thunder Bay, Ontario ~  12:30 Noon, Tuesday ~ March 2, 2010 ~ Lakehead University



Winnipeg ~ 2:30 PM ~  Sunday ~ January 24 ~ 2010
~  ~  ~
in the main foyer of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
(a.k.a. Eckhardt Hall)

 Diana McIntosh
piano & percussion
 

with
Vincent Ellin
bassoon
 

in

 "TRAVELS"

Music by McIntosh and Morel will transport you to new views and other worlds.
From an African safari and Montmartre in Paris to a Canadian mountain woman,
Diana and Vincent will be your guides and fellow travelers


Amboseli District, Kenya

Shoes in Montmartre


Diana's Aunt Kate

Diana age 9, with bear age ??, at the Banff Dump
~ ~ ~
"It will be an informal affair, and Vincent and I are looking forward to
chatting with the audience about what we play, during the concert"
complimentary  refreshments
.Admission - FREE

~ ~ ~
    sponsored by the  

Prairie Region
in their concert series
New Music in New Places
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.
 curated by


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 The CMC and Diana wish to express their appreciation
for the support of

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Visit Diana's website - www.dianamcintosh.com
         

                                                    



Winnipeg - 8:00 PM ~ Friday ~ February 5, 2010

.
Diana will perform 2 of her theatrical works in the

opening concert of the

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's
.

2010 Imris New Music Festival

in the

Link to WAG website
.
the WSO bills this as a "HAPPENING"
and at least in the case of Diana's pieces, which
she will perform, "Happening" fits the description!

From Wapta Ice
Diana's original music with spoken text of a poem
"The Source", by Banff writer Monica Meneghetti
.
Bow Lake & Bow Glacier with Numtija Lodge in foreground
Wapta Icefield at Bow Lake, AB, with Num-ti-ja Lodge

All Too Consuming
Diana's original music with spoken text of a poem,
"It Says I Can Eat all I Want ", by B.C. poet Peter Christensen
 .
Glorious Dining Room
Glorious Dining Room


Thunder Bay, Ontario ~  12:30 Noon, Tuesday ~ March 2, 2010


The Faculty of Music
Lakehead University ~ Thunder Bay ~ Ontario

 presents

Canadian pianist/composer/performance artist
 Diana McIntosh

Diana as Beryl Markham

A Theatrical Concert
 a program in which she performs 4 of her distinctive, original works


Aunt Kate

My Aunt Kate lived in Banff, Alberta most of her life, where I spent several summers with her in my pre-teens. 
For a woman brought up in Ontario in the Victorian period, she was amazingly independent and free-spirited -
a colourful and eccentric character.  She was an influence on my life in many ways.  I only wish I had asked her
more questions about herself.
Les Souliers de Montmartre
While sitting outside a café in Montmartre, I was fascinated by the colourful variety of shoes that "walked"
past us - from classy stiletto heals to floppy sandals.  I noticed that my husband was taking a lot of photos,
and when I asked what he was snapping, he said, "The shoes of Montmartre".  "What a terrific title for a
piece of music!", I said, and immediately began formulating in my mind a solo piece for piano, percussion,
tape and video projection, and Les Souliers de Montmartre resulted.  The music and the video are not
intended to be synchronized in any way.  They each reflect independent, shifting rhythms.  In Montmartre I
found two tiny music boxes that play, "I Love Paris" and "Can Can" when the little cranks are turned.  The
metallic sounds of these tunes drift in and out of the piece, as if coming from a distance.

Beryl Markham: Flying West With the Night
(excerpt)
.
Beryl Markham, the intrepid British woman who lived almost all her life in Kenya, and who learned to fly there,
became, in 1936, the first person to solo the Atlantic from East to West.  The text is exclusively from Markham’s
book, “Flying West With The Night”.


Opening Windows
Opening Windows is based on a brief excerpt from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons.  McIntosh played with the idea
of looking at the text through different “windows” and ended up with twelve.  Stein often used repetitive words and
phrases for their sound and rhythm only,  and in this piece I present the same text in 12 different moods.



Jean McNulty Recital Hall
Wm. H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts
Thunder Bay, Ontario
12:30 noon

Visit Diana's website - www.dianamcintosh.com
         

                                                   



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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
(click here to see complete catalogue)

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 Ambiance 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


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