Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate to Release LOWAK SHOPPALA On Azica Records
The recording, conducted by Tate, features the Chickasaw Nation Children s Chorus and Nashville String Machine.by BWW News Desk
On Friday, June 4, 2021, composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate will release the world premiere recording of Lowak Shoppala (Fire and Light) on Azica Records. Lowak Shoppala expresses Chickasaw identity through the medium of modern classical music and theatre through eight scenes and features orchestra, narration of a libretto by Chickasaw poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, children s chorus, traditional Chickasaw and classical vocal soloists, and Chickasaw storytellers. Each scene (Fire and Light, Double Header, Shell Shaker, Clans, Removal, Spider Brings Fire, Hymn, Double Header & Finale) depicts a part of Chickasaw culture and history and is sung in Chickasaw.
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Rock historian delivers details, but not dirt
This summer will be the 50th anniversary of the release of
So Long, Bannatyne, the 1971 Guess Who album.
That fact and countless other details of the Winnipeg group’s recording career fill the pages of
Wheatfield Empire: The Listener’s Guide to the Guess Who, written by Toronto rock historian and author Robert Lawson.
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Toronto author Robert Lawson has also penned books about Nazareth and Cheap Trick.
Lawson grew up in Winnipeg not on Bannatyne Avenue but in East Kildonan, where he delivered the
Free Press as a kid but he moved away when he was 10. His family says the first concert he attended was the Guess Who, but he was only two, tagging along with his father, who was an avid record collector.
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But its Russian choreographers, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, could hardly have imagined their sumptuous ballet blanc would now be springing to life through computer screens and smart TVs, with the global pandemic having forced arts organizations, including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, to pivot hard this season as a critical turning point in its own 81-year history. This latest production started by asking what can we do to keep the dancers dancing, RWB associate artistic director Tara Birtwhistle says during a recent phone interview. Audiences will get a whole new perspective and a different way of enjoying the ballet, and we’re all thrilled with the results.
Winnipeg Free Press Music Matters By: Holly Harris | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
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For hundreds of years, those proverbial “dead white male composers” have fueled and ruled the world of classical music, with lofty works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, among others trumpeted on programs while their female counterparts have often been relegated to the shadows of history.
For hundreds of years, those proverbial dead white male composers have fueled and ruled the world of classical music, with lofty works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, among others trumpeted on programs while their female counterparts have often been relegated to the shadows of history.
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WSO celebrates Winnipeg New Music Festival s 30th with slate of virtual offerings Music Matters By: Holly Harris Posted:
Last Modified: 12:39 AM CST Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 | Updates
Livestreamed concerts from the New Music Festival will be available to viewers worldwide.
Technology rides shotgun when the 2021 Winnipeg New Music Festival roars back to life this weekend.
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Technology rides shotgun when the 2021 Winnipeg New Music Festival roars back to life this weekend.
The 30-year-old festival will be powered entirely by the internet and will include three COVID-19-friendly concerts, shown exclusively via livestream on Jan. 23, 26 and 29.
But it’s also a testament to its host organization, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and its ability to think outside the box that this year’s streamlined pandemic edition