Episode 17: Conductor Holly Mathieson and remembering R Murray Schafer

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I speak with Holly Mathieson about her personal musical journey and endorse a Giller Prize winner. LINKS NYTimes on subway chimes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/13/arts/subway-train-sounds.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUyYiZ_tU1Gw5CRWySB4B991re1b-Wm_s1nGPlazOIQylL3qEJGYGB_QLWYrdla8B13yieQJUJFo4Tc8FI770VOV1xGU7vo52YlY4MKDk0t4_0Bjxu08KdBL59rTS3Pizkc-wkge3nsUjDbmbtXKbf1yd1cQwysoIlIQ_xoQEAxqjCGuBw0tZ-zK1hUsg8HWFcEXHM6_r4CBx-OMGEZwXc6GQ1XeJYWTLSmr2M-u5KMVUSWR-dEiQJsStr48hcOdgUIK_0MxckHcL7ir8SAWZtR5y7pmYAt83CIxgl0vBWC_GFfg&smid=url-share Do Not Say we have nothing, by Madeline Thien https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/259732/do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by-madeleine-thien/9780345810434 Interview with the Author in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/08/madeleine-thien-interview-do-not-say-we-have-nothing R. Murray Schafer https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc 50th Anniversary of the World Soundscape Project https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/world-soundscape-project-1.4640278 Acopolypsis-2015 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-end-is-nigh-apocalypsis-production-to-blow-people-s-minds-1.3129522 A CBC story about another long-running participatory project https://www.cbc.ca/music/why-people-gather-each-year-in-the-haliburton-forest-to-take-part-in-murray-schafer-s-wolf-project-1.5406731 Holly Mathieson is music director of Symphony Nova Scotia https://www.hollymathieson.com https://symphonynovascotia.ca Excerpts from R Murray Schafer’s Trio for Flute Viola and Harp-performed by Trio Verlaine https://music.apple.com/ca/album/trio-for-flute-viola-and-harp-ii-slowly-calmly/905067700?i=905067733 https://open.spotify.com/album/4rEp8TtftbHqIaK6GJNdiI?si=Nihhj1O-S960-sQiDPKH9A&dl_branch=1 Holly Mathieson recommended—— William Grant Still - Symphony No. 5 “Western Hemisphere” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/still-w-g-symphonies-nos-4-autochthonous-and-5/332767908 https://open.spotify.com/album/6H5G9x9y5suBLveGNtq3zk?si=0CmfLQ2ZSUqrAmiox9hjEA&dl_branch=1 Franz Schreker - “Der Geburtstag der Infantin” (Birthday of the Infanta) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/zemlinsky-die-seejungfrau-schreker-der-geburtstag-der/1562851792 Thea Musgrave “Phoenix Rising” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thea-musgrave-phoenix-rising/1440067691 Franz Schreker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schreker William Grant Still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grant_Still Rebecca Thomas (Halifax Poet Laureate 2016-2018) https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/rebecca-thomas.html Published August 2021 https://www.culturemonster.ca https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster