News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
Written By Canadian-Ukrainian composer Anna Pidgorna: At the moment much of the world is focused on the atrocities being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The destruction is catastrophic, the attacks on the civilian population absolutely horrific. I was born in Ukraine and have family and friends there. Life as I knew it ended on [...]
by Sean Bickerton | Nov 4, 2021 | 0 comments NEW DISTANCE REHEARSAL TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO PERFORMING ARTS GROUPS IN VANCOUVER The Canadian Music Centre in BC and City Opera Vancouver today announced a new Jack Trip Virtual Studio headset rehearsal system now available for loan to performing arts groups in Greater Vancouver from the Canadian [...]
Today is our first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, created, in the words of the website set up to commemorate the occasion, to "honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of [...]
The Canadian Music Centre in BC and Redshift Music Society are pleased to announce the first-ever R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop, a free online seminar offered to composers across the country with the goal of exploring spatial (or ‘socially-distanced’) acoustic music. Building on the success of CMC BC’s Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings and [...]
Written by Jennifer Butler (Published with permission by composer Jennifer Butler. Previously published by CBC) R. Murray Schafer's annual Wolf Project is a participants-only collaborative, experiential week of chant, music, theatre and camping in the wilderness of Haliburton Forest. Composer Jennifer Butler has been a participant in Schafer's Wolf Project since 2000 and recalls the [...]
Remembering R. Murray Schafer (Published with permission of Jon Washburn and Vancouver Chamber Choir) In my 48 years as conductor of the Vancouver Chamber Choir, my greatest privilege was to be a colleague, friend and champion of the great and genius Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. "Our Murray Schafer", as we often thought of him, [...]
As you may have surmised from the title, I've been re-reading Hilary Mantel's glorious Booker Prize-winning Cromwell Trilogy, which culminates in The Mirror And The Light. One of the many things that struck me through this second reading was the constant presence of plague in the shadows of the main storyline. There was no understanding [...]
Renewal is very much in the air. We can see it all around us as the natural world gives birth again to abundance and plenty, ushering in entire new generations of insects and birds and animal life and the plants that sustain us all. I’ve been working up on the Sunshine Coast for personal business [...]
CMC BC is proud to help introduce BIPOC Voices, a new resource to help opera companies, orchestras, and individuals find and program music by culturally diverse composers. BIPOC Voices is currently accepting submissions of works for voice and instruments, and looking to make free demo recordings of some of these works. You can learn more at [...]
From The Vancouver Sun By Kevin Griffin Published Apr 11, 2021 A return to normal gatherings indoors could happen progressively through the fall with larger venues back to full capacity by the end of 2021, Henry told an arts roundtable organized by the B.C. Alliance for Arts + Culture. But it all depends not only on [...]