FRIDAY MARCH 1, 2013
Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble
Perform RICHARD REED PARRY / ROSE BOLTON / SCOTT GODIN
@ ACADEMY OF LIONS GENERAL STORE | 64 Ossington Avenue
8:00PM
$10-General Admission
CASH BAR by The Ossington
A portion of bar proceeds support LIFT Toronto
PROGRAMME:
Richard Reed Parry | Quartet for Heart and Breath
(member-ARCADE FIRE, Montreal)
Rose Botlon | The Coming of Sobs for String Quartet
(Toronto)
Scott Godin | "all that is solid melts into the air" for String Quintet
(revision premiere- Castlegar, BC)
POST CONCERT SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
with Tasseomancy // DJ Adam Terejko //Projections by Kate Young // Magical Appearances by Harry Zimmerman
For the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places 2012-2013 Festival, Music in the Barns team's up for a first-ever Live Music Night at the Academy of Lions General Store.
The Academy of Lions General Store is not your average space- serving as both a cafe and “Functional Gallery". Music in the Barns and the CMC New Music in the New Places Series will introduce another level the Academy of Lions mash-up storefront - LIVE MUSIC!
Featuring works by three Canadian composers: Richard Reed Parry (Member of ARCADE FIRE, Montreal), Rose Bolton (Toronto) and Scott Godin (BC) , Music in the Barns will introduce the composers and create a gateway to their compositional realm.
Post-concert sights and sounds feature Tasseomancy ("otherworldly...baroque-folk duo"- Toronto Life Magazine), and post-post concert with Dj Adam Terejko, projections by Kate Young and magical appearances by Harry Zimmerman.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 8, 2012
Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble
& Special Guest, David Schotzko, Percussion
Perform works by Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt, Xenakis and Crumb
ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS MAINSPACE
7:30PM Pre-Concert Chat
8:00PM Performance
$30-General Admission $20-Student/Seniors
Cash Bar
Explore our relationship to light through composition and scientific imagery on Saturday, December 8; the first night of Chanukah and the Anniversary of John Lennon’s death.
PROGRAMME:
Igor Stravinsky | Concertino for String Quartet
Arvo Pärt | Psalom for String Quartet
Arvo Pärt | Summa for String Quartet
Arvo Pärt | Fratres for String Quartet and Percussion
Iannis Xenakis | Psappha
George Crumb | Black Angels "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land"
Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble, with special guest David Schotzko, percussionist, will transform the urban-industrial Artscape Wychwood Barns Mainspace for another cutting-edge performance event. Known for their dynamic and innovative presentations, the concert, entitled “Light”, explores the essence of light in music.
Featuring the heritage site’s first-rate acoustics as the backdrop for the evening, Music in the Barns will offer yet another daring mix, combining composition with scientific imagery and taking its audience on a journey of the senses.
Opening with Stravinsky's rhythmic and intense Concertino for String Quartet, the evening will move into a more reflective mood with three works by Estonian minimalist composer, Arvo Pärt. Utilizing two stages over the course of the evening, Iannis Xenakis’ virtuoso percussion solo will be presented in- the-round, allowing audience members an intimate opportunity to get up close with the performer.
The centerpiece of the evening is George Crumb’s groundbreaking 1971 composition Black Angels: “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land”- a musical spectacle scored for amplified string quartet, 20 tuned crystal glasses and a myriad of other percussion devices.
Woven into the evening are stunning projected images of microscopic florescent proteins photographed in the Brill Lab at Sick Kids Hospital Research Institute. The event includes a cash bar and pre-concert chat with artistic director, Carol Gimbel, cell biologist, Julie Brill, PhD. and moderated by York University Film Professor, Howard Wiseman.