Kevin Press
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Emilie Cecilia LeBel is a Canadian composer and music teacher who calls Edmonton home now. Redshift Records will release her debut solo album field studies on May 12. We talked about the new LP, teaching and why her home country gets under the skin of so many artists.
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This week’s faves: Plus one from the old days:
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The application of psychiatric diagnoses to historical figures is a tricky business. No matter how sincere one’s motivations, our ability to line up historical accounts with a modern-day understanding of mental illness is at least somewhat limited. In the case of Ludwig van Beethoven, suspicions of mental illness date back to Dr. Paul Radestock in…
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Toronto-based Pursuit Grooves and Masahiro Takahashi are performing Apr. 12 as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s “innovative contemporary music” series. Pursuit Grooves is a solo artist by the name of Vanese Smith. She’s from Washington, D.C. originally, and has been making music since she was a teen. Takahashi is Japanese by birth. He produces…
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Violinist Conrad Harris and pianist Joe Kubera will premiere a new piece by composer MIchael Vincent Waller on Wednesday at Daniel Goode’s Soho Loft in New York. The full program includes the new work, “Sustain,” and a pair of other Waller pieces, “Sequel” and “Layers.” The duo will open with Morton Feldman’s celebrated 1977 composition…
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