In his latest book, Schafer describes a composition as “a multicultural event in which we laugh at ourselves and each other.” It’s a good description for the memoir itself: its scope is vast, but its tone is irreverent, lighthearted. Schafer does nothing here to dispel his reputation as an enfant terrible. He makes cheeky, bombasticContinue reading “R. Murray Schafer. My Life on Earth and Elsewhere.”
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Philip Glass
Most people get presents or have parties thrown for them on special occasions. Philip Glass, however, was in more of a giving mood as he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday at the end of January. The candles on his cake marked the start of a remarkable year that has the American composer travelling around the worldContinue reading “Philip Glass”
Nico Muhly
“Rules in cooking are not iron-cast (and, as in any medium of expression, they are often bent or broken by practitioners of talent—but to break rules, one must have rules). They are merely the expression of a well of experience formed and enriched over the centuries, re-examined, modified, or altered in terms of changing needs,Continue reading “Nico Muhly”
Winter 2010
Spring 2010
Paul Steenhuisen. Sonic Mosaics. Conversations with Composers.
Sonic Mosaics is a collection of interviews conducted by Paul Steenhuisen with thirty-two contemporary music composers between September 2001 and November 2004. Most of these were originally published in Wholenote Magazine, a monthly Toronto publication covering all aspects of musical activity within the Greater Toronto Area. James Harley: I’m willing to argue that all musicContinue reading “Paul Steenhuisen. Sonic Mosaics. Conversations with Composers.”
