Diana McIntosh - Work

Performances ~ 1999

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April 9, 10, 11, 1999 - Slipping The Bonds - From Birds To Bondar - (See PRESS RELEASE)

McIntosh premiered her new multimedia one-woman theatre work,
Slipping The Bonds - From Birds To Bondar, in 3 performances in the
Planetarium Theatre, Museum of Man and Nature,Winnipeg, Canada

This show explores the evolution of flight
and focusses on the achievement of Roberta Bondar,
Canada's first woman astronaut, and features her voice
as recorded in an interview by McIntosh.

February 24, 1999 - "Time And Again"
The New York New Music Ensemble premiered the theatrical trio they
commissioned from McIntosh, Time And Again, for flute, clarinet and piano.
Merkin Hall, New York

February 25, 1999 - "McIntosh The Stein Way"
Diana performed her McIntosh The Stein Way at The Knitting Factory, in New York.
This is the one-woman music theatre piece which McIntosh created
using text exclusively from the writings of Gertrude Stein,
combined with original music for piano, tape and percussion.

Other presenters please note availability, for your venues,
of performances and workshops by Diana McIntosh.

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').

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