ACWC 40th Anniversary - September

Title: “It was not all a dream”
Performers: Mark Calvert, tenor; Sally Schlichting, flute; Meghan Johnson, cello.
October 1, 2016, Juneau, Alaska

Program note: These words by Lord Byron, from his much longer poem “Darkness,” seemed to me eerily predictive of the environmental catastrophe that awaits us – possibly even in this century – if we humans don’t stop producing and using fossil fuels.

It was not all a dream - Leila Lustig

Planet Earth
Soprano & piano
Kellie Masalas, soprano; Brahm Goldhamer, piano 
May 4, 2019, Array Space, Toronto
[Duration: 9’40”]
Program note:
The text for this piece is a poem celebrating the earth, written by the Canadian West-Coast poet P.K. Page. It was composed for a concert at a conference on her work at Trent University in 2002. The form of the poem is a "glosa", where four lines from Pablo Neruda's poem "In Praise of Ironing" are the inspiration and final line of each of the four stanzas. In 2001 this poem was chosen by the United Nations to be read simultaneously in the Antarctic, the South Pacific, and New York to celebrate the International Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations.

http://www.janaskarecky.com/

Planet Earth - Jana Skarecky

White Cat Blues - three songs for soprano and piano; poetry by Lorna Crozier.

1. The White Cat
2. The Colour Blue
3. Shadow

The three poems are about the colour blue - sometimes beautiful, sometimes cool or sad, sometimes just itself.

Premiered by soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen and pianist Terence Dawson in 2010 at the Vancouver International Song Institute at UBC.

http://www.leslieuyeda.com

White Cat Blues - Leslie Uyeda

Kontraband Kollektif - Oizys
Voice, Tenor Saxophone, Double Bass, Drum kit
Lieke van der Voort, Emily Steinwall, Hayden Farrar, Alfie Vienneau 
Humber College Studio, 2016-2017

First song of the EP Atropos, this song is part of an aural account of illness, suicide, loss and and my personal conflicting feelings surrounding these events. For more in depth information, please refer to an interview done in 2018: https://acourseindying.com/interview-when-your-father-commits-suicide/

Kontraband Kollektif was created in 2016 by Lieke van der Voort. Refusing to tie herself down to a single musical project and longing for extended collaborations, Lieke decided that an open concept collective would be the ideal situation. Kontraband Kollektif is an always shifting, moving and inclusive collaborative: anybody can be a part of it.

http://www.kontrabandkollektif.com/index.html

Oizys - Lieke van der Voort

Hard Shell Baptists - single movement work, on Songs for My Mother CD, 2018, for soprano and piano, time: 7:25. 
Mary-Catherine Pazzano, soprano, Carol Ann Weaver, piano.  Recorded Grebel Chapel, University of Waterloo, 2018.  The song is a setting of text by Miriam L. Weaver (mother of Carol Ann) about the vivid rituals and customs of Hard Shell Baptists, as practiced in rural Appalachian Kentucky, USA, in mid 20th C.

https://carolannweaver.com/

Hard Shell Baptists - Carol Ann Weaver

Walking in the Public Gardens After Rain

An Afternoon at the Cafe Down the Street

Peace Comes is the premiere of a new upper voice choral work by Gerda Blok-Wilson, inspired by Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

Peace Comes

Glimpse 4

Prophecy Sun recorded Bird Curious almost entirely in her living room using an iPhone, with the exception of one track which was recorded while riding her bicycle. Each song was captured live in one take. The compositions focus on the voice as a symbol of the unconscious, capturing the immediacy of emotive textures and sounds that live inside her head. Her rhythms are of day dreams, future visions and lost love serenades.

Available for free download on the label Panospria May 1, 2012.

Moments pass

A 6-song album of electroacoustic compositions by Carmen Braden, self-released March 2013. carmenbraden.com

4 Inopa Naipo

Written for Isabelle Kerouac's dance piece Third Space

Third Space

Text: Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773)
Music: Anna Pidgorna

Soprano: Anna Devin
Piano: John Hess

This work was commissioned by the Irish Art Song Project. Scores, recordings and Irish language resources are available free of charge at: www.cmc.ie/AmhrainEalaineGhaeilge

This song is a setting of excerpts from the most famous of Irish laments, composed by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s (Eileen the Dark O’Connell) upon the death of her young husband Art Ó Laoghaire (Art O’Leary) in 1773. Eileen was honest in her assessment of their marital life. She thought him very handsome and a good lover, and found him generous and loving towards her and their children. He had a temper, however, which she had to navigate and deflect as women have generally been expected to do in patriarchal societies.

The text comes from:

Tórramh-Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire / Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (Sliocht) The Funeral Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire / Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (Excerpt)
As/From: Ferriter ms No. 1, University College Dublin, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vol. IV (2002)

Tionscadal na nAmhrán Ealaíne Gaeilge 2019 / Irish Art Song Project 2019

Free

Amhráin Chaointe / Keening Songs: I. Caoineadh Eibhlín / Eileen's Lament

Invention and Toccata - I. Invention

Invention and Toccata - II. Toccata

Aurora Borealis

Association of Canadian Women Composers

The ACWC is a professional organization for Canadian women composers, their supporters, and the performers of their music.

Planet Earth - Jana Skarecky

ACWC / ACC

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