My preview of the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Pops concert with the True Jive Pluckers is in today’s LeaderPost. An excerpt: Everything the True Jive Pluckers play is based on swing music of the late 1930s — but everything they play isn’t 1930s swing music. For the Regina Symphony Orchestra pops concert Saturday, violinist Eduard …
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Hasenpfeffer immortalized in song
You might think it’s hard to work Hasenpfeffer into a song lyric (except, of course, for the theme song to Laverne and Shirley), but John Anealio at Sci-Fi Songs has managed it, as one line in a tribute song about the recent The SF/F/H Book Reviewers Linkup Meme started by John Ottinger at Grasping for …
I preview The Stampeders…
Classic Canadian rock band The Stampeders (“Sweet City Woman”) plays Casino Regina on Saturday: my preview is in today’s LeaderPost. Here’s an excerpt: Remember Art Linklater’s Kids Say the Darndest Things? Members of the veteran Canadian band The Stampeders, which plays Casino Regina on Saturday night, have heard a few doozies of their own from …
A first step toward the future of Andy Nebula?
My 1999 YA science fiction novel Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star (which you can read online, or download, in its entirety) postulated a future in which company called Sensation Singles uses a computer to identify the next “big thing” on the interstellar music scene, plucks a person matching that description from musical obscurity, and raises …
A preview of Saskatchewan Express
My preview of Saskatchewan Express‘s December show Deck the Halls, Broadway Style is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. It begins: Saskatchewan Express does a December show in Regina every year, but it doesn’t always do a Christmas show. This year, it is, and it opens tonight at the Shumiatcher Theatre in the MacKenzie Art Gallery. “I …
Mozart, Mahler, Magic
My review of Saturday’s Regina Symphony Orchestra concert is now online at the LeaderPost. An excerpt: “The Concerto for Flute and Harp “(which Sawa himself had never heard played live before now) was originally written as a piece for chamber orchestra, and thus couldn’t help but be lighter in tone. In fact, aside from two …
My review of the National Arts Centre Orchestra…
…which played a benefit concert for the Regina Symphony Orchestra Saturday night, is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got those strings” would be one way to sum up the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s concert Saturday night at the Conexus Arts Centre. The strings are the heart of …
Another satisfied reader!
A Science Fiction Book Club member writes on the club’s page for Marseguro: “Good read, strong character…I enjoyed this book all in one evening. It was too good to put down. Strong female character and good evolution of all the central characters.” There have been enough good reviews from various sources now I’m starting to …
The science of what I’m doing right now: music
I’m currently in the middle of a Saskatchewan tour with the Canadian Chamber Choir. In fact, we have a joint concert with Juventus in Regina on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster United Church. Because my brain is currently stuffed full of music, it’s hard for me to come up with a scintillating new science …
My preview of next week’s Philip Scriven organ recital…
…was in yesterday’s LeaderPost. It begins: When the organist and “Master of the Choristers” of the centuries-old Lichfield Cathedral plays recitals, you might expect him to limit himself to the most traditional pieces of the classical repertoire. In the case of world-renowned Philip Scriven, giving a recital at Holy Rosary Cathedral on Oct. 22 at …
Canadian Chamber Choir tour is getting close!
From October 18 to 25, I probably won’t be blogging much, if at all, because I’ll be touring Saskatchewan with the Canadian Chamber Choir. Here’s the information about the tour from the official press release. If you’re in the neighborhood of one of our concerts, please come out! It’s a great group. We sing really …
Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: Music
Notes for this week’s CBC radio segment of Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House: ****Regina has a long history as a musical city, with musical clubs, choirs, bands and, of course, the Regina Symphony Orchestra getting started within a few years of the city’s founding. Ed Willett’s grandparents-in-law, Nancy and Sam Goodfellow, were an …
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