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TSO New Creations presents Hellgate and more

3/16/2016

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PictureComposer-conductor Brett Dean.
rday’s Toronto Symphony concert – ominously entitled “Knocking at the Hellgate” – at Roy Thomson Hall was the third and final event in this year’s New Creations Festival. However, it was the first of the three I attended – so I can’t conclusively say that the whole festival was disappointingly uneven. But alas, this concert was.

The best music of the evening came as a surprise, and with a touch of irony. After the TSO had played their way through a couple of orchestral pieces, a young man calling himself “Scratch Bastid” took to the stage with a table full of electronic gear, and proceeded to perform his Festival Remix.



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Soundstreams presents James MacMillan

3/10/2016

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PictureScottish composer James MacMillan.
In a review of the premiere of Schoenberg’s Verkälrte Nacht, back in 1902, a clever critic wrote that the piece sounded like someone had “smeared the score of Tristan und Isolde while the ink was still wet on the page.”

I can see what the writer was getting at. Indeed, I would even agree with him – if it were possible to disconnect his metaphor from its dismissive and condescending implications. (I think Verkälrte Nacht is a masterpiece.)



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The Bad, the Ugly and (Yes!) the Good

3/3/2016

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PictureLet's take aim at contemporary classical music.
This article originally appeared on the website 3 Quarks Daily.

“Contemporary classical music?” To some, the phrase may sound like a contradiction in terms. But, believe it or not, classical music aspires to be a happening, up-to-date art form – laying claim to the place at the cultural table next to contemporary art, film and literature.



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    Eatock Daily

    I'm a composer based in Toronto – and this is my classical music blog, Eatock Daily.

    When I first started blogging, Eatock Daily was a place to re-post the articles I wrote for Toronto’s Globe and Mail and National Post newspapers, the Houston Chronicle, the Kansas City Star and other publications.

    But now I have stepped back from professional music journalism, and I'm spending more time composing.

    These days, my blog posts are infrequent, and are mostly concerned with my own music. However, I do still occasionally post comments on musical topics, including works I've discovered, enjoyed, and wish to share with others.


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