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    Episodes (12)

    NMNM - Bekah Simms

    NMNM - Bekah Simms

    Learn more about Bekah on her website

    Listen to Bekah's music on Bandcamp here. Make sure to listen to Bestiaries her Juno Award nominated recording!

    The singular Chik White AKA Darcy Spidle

    The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where Bekah teaches

    New Adventures in Sound Art 

    The Canadian League of Composers

    Continuum Contemporary Music from Toronto.

    New Music Concerts also of Toronto

    Bekah's Juno nomination - https://junoawards.ca/nomination/2023-classical-composition-of-the-year-bekah-simms/

    Dublin's Crash Ensemble

    Canadian composer living in Berlin Marc Sabat

    And our sponsors, The Canadian Music Centre!

    NMNM - Allison Cameron

    NMNM - Sam Shalabi

    NMNM - Sam Shalabi

    This episode we're including links to Bandcamp for listening. Sure, Apple Music has SO MUCH music, and it may be a great place to start, but, Bandcamp is far more generous to artists, so we recommend you discover new music and support artists by buying their music, there! 

    Listen to Sam's solo releases here.

    Sam's important bands, although he didn't mention them all by name, include:

    Shalabi Effect

    Dwarves of East Agouza

    Land of Kush

    Collateral

    more information on the December 2 suddenlyLISTEN concert

    NMNM - Glenn Hodgins and Season Wrap

    NMNM - Glenn Hodgins and Season Wrap

    Here are some links:

    FIrst, the Canadian Music Centre 

    This website has listings of Associate Composers, and their works. Spend some time on this site!

    NMNM and suddenlyLISTEN wish to thank the CMC for their support this past season! Thanks to a donation from the CMC, we release 4 episodes featuring Atlantic Canadian composers and creators! Dale Sorenson from PEI; Andrew Staniland, from Newfoundland and Labrador; Emily Doolittle (and Peter Togni) from Nova Scotia, and André Cormier (and Nadia Francavilla) from New Brunswick. Please check out those episodes!

    Picanto is the CMC's new streaming service.

    During the episode, Glenn mentioned a lot of interesting references in passing. check these out if you're curious. Go ahead head down a rabbit hole!:


    Classical Next

    The International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)

    Toronto jazz musician and composer Phil Nimmons

    The Canadian League of Composers

    Legendary Toronto educator and arts leader Ezra Schabas

    Montreal composer, guitarist and arts leader Tim Brady

     

    NMNM - Peter-Anthony Togni

    NMNM - Peter-Anthony Togni

    In this episode we have started a new "If you can listen to one piece, listen to THIS one" portion of our podcast. 

    So the first thing you should do after listening is head to Spotify here to listen to The Lamentations of Jeremiah. Peter recommends the 5th movement, but you can listen to the whole thing!

    He also recommended Responsio. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify

    And Sea Dreams. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify

    On YouTube there's a film on Peter's latest composition Voice of the Weaver.

    And there's another film on YouTube about the making of Living Flame of Love

    Check Peter's website here

    Learn more about Jeff Reilly, Peter's regular collaborator here

    Here's a link to Peter's father Victor Togni

    And info on Jean Langlais Peter's teacher at the Schola Cantorum Paris

    Finally the donor of the "quote of the episode": the great conductor Bernhard Gueller!

    NMNM - Daryl Jamieson

    NMNM - Daryl Jamieson

    This was a fun episode! It is dense with references to dig into, so brace yourself for some links!

    After hearing Akasha at a Symphony Nova Scotia school concert, Daryl eventually went on to study composition with Glenn Buhr, Akasha's composer.

    Daryl referred numerous times, to Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith and her effect on his path as an artist: 

    You can also listen to the New Musings episode which featured Linda Catlin Smith here. And there's a Part 2 as well! 

    Peter Hatch is another Canadian with whom Daryl studied composition.

    Daryl has composed frequently for Joe Browning,  he's a little tough to track down, but here is a link to his bio.

    At York in the UK Daryl studied with Nicola LeFanu

    Morton Feldman was an inspiration to Daryl, and many of us frankly! Here is his bio, and recordings of his music can be found on all the platforms

    Daryl studied and was mentored by Jo Kondo in Japan. His music is played all over the world!

    Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival takes place each year in the UK

    IRCAM the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Musicis the research centre in Paris that virtually at which Daryl spoke recently. This is a very interesting site with many resources for music and technology!

    NMNM - Emily Doolittle

    NMNM - Emily Doolittle

    This was a very entertaining episode, with all sorts of interesting diversions!

    First of all, you MUST listen to Emily and Kristen Cooke (oboes) performing with the very musical whippet, Idris Donut on YouTube!

    You can learn more about Emily at her website. There you'll find scores to look at and links to her music.

    Emily has some videos (including the above) on her YouTube Page.

    Emily referenced several ensembles like Halifax's Fifth Wind

    She also talked about adapting folk songs performed by England's The Copper Family and also found in the research of Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton.

    This episode was sponsored by The Canadian Music Centre. Learn more about the work of The CMC at their website where you can hear Canadian music, order scores and learn about Canadian composers and their work.

    NMNM - Louise Campbell

    NMNM - Louise Campbell

    Learn more about Louise on her website here.

    During the episode Louise spoke about One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Company in Calgary. You can learn more about OYR here.

    Louise has done a lot of creative work with C.A.R.E. Centre, and has made the Stories of Care podcast there! You can listen to it here

    Louise spoke about (and both her and Norm are involved with) The Canadian New Music Network. You can learn more about CNMN here.

    Finally, Louise is the manager of the Participatory Creative Music Hub hosted by CNMN, you can see the hub here.

    NMNM - Dale Sorenson

    NMNM - Dale Sorenson

    More information on Dale Sorensen can be found at his website.

    You can see Dale's multi-trombone videos on YouTube.
     

    During the episode, Dale spoke about Island composers:

    Jane Naylor - https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

    Rick Covey - https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

    Monica Pearce - http://www.monicapearce.com/ and https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

    Jim O'Leary - https://www.jimoleary.net/home and https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

    as well as non Islander Barbara York - https://www.barbarayork.com/

    Dale teaches at the UPEI Dept of Music

    Learn about and listen to many Canadian composers at the Canadian Music Centre website.


     

     

    NMNM - Episode 14 - Hildegard Westerkamp # 1

    NMNM - Episode 14 - Hildegard Westerkamp # 1

    For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp visit her website here.

    See some examples of Hildegards work on YouTube.

    In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. You can learn more about him here.

    Schafer's World Soundscape Project is also referenced. Find information on that project here.

    Hildegard spoke about composer Barry Truax. Information about him is here.

    And she spoke about composing for Vancouver pianist Rachel Iwaasa. Visit her website.

    NMNM - Episode 11 - Norm and Barbara Check-in

    NMNM - Episode 11 - Norm and Barbara Check-in

    In this Episode Barbara and Norm bring 2020 to a close with a conversation on what they're up to, their favourite episodes, and what they have learned so far! Stay tuned for new NMNM episodes in 2021.

    During the episode the work of Francois Houle was referenced. Check out Francois' work at www.francoishoule.ca

    AND if you'd like to write us and make comments or suggestions for future guests, lease write Norm at norm@suddenlylisten.com

     

    NMNM - Episode 10 - Helen Pridmore

    NMNM - Episode 10 - Helen Pridmore

    Learn more about Helen Pridmore at: www.helenpridmore.ca

    You can hear some of Helen's performances on Youtube: A Pandemic Opera and excerpts from Helen's Centrediscs release Janet.

    There's more great listening at Helen's Soundcloud page as well!

    You can learn more about Helen's work with Regina's Voice Lab here

    During the podcast Helen referenced the multiPLAY projects, including the regular online music making. The multiPLAY site is here.

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