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3. Array Ensemble Invited to Perform At EMPAC in Albany, New York. 4. A New Listening Room - Coming to The Array Studio Soon - - - - - - - - 1. Composer Paul Swoger-Ruston Presents At The Array Studio, Suite 218, 60 Atlantic Avenue, Toronto Featured Performers: How does one translate a poet's unique style of reading into music? What can an instrument reveal about language and voice?
Paul Swoger Ruston is a prominent composer, instructor and is the Chair of Arraymusic's board. Arraymusic Announces It Is The Proud Recipient of a New 3-Year The Foundation has granted Arraymusic $60,000 over 3 years to build a new core repertoire and presenter network for The Array Ensemble. This propels Array's central new Strategic Plan Initiative that creates a more vibrant performance future for its virtuosic group. This Fall, The Array Ensemble will commence rehearsing and performing selected works as it develops this new core repertoire for sale, increasing ensemble run-out and touring activities, audiences and concert revenues. The repertoire will be chosen by artistic director Bob Stevenson in consultation with The Array Ensemble members and will represent the best works in Array's extensive Library of Scores, developed over the past 36 years. Bob and the group are both excited and pleased to be awarded this opportunity to demonstrate a body of work that compellingly represents Array's impressive legacy of music. Arraymusic's board, staff and ensemble thank the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation. - - - - - - - - The Array Ensemble has been invited by EMPAC, The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre, located in Troy, New York, to perform a program of Tenney, Vivier and a collection of Array Miniatures (November '08). Arraymusic received the invitation as part of its work completing a feasibility study on the viability of developing a new presenter network for its recent George Cedric Metcalf Foundation application. Visit http://www.empac.rpi.edu/ to learn more about EMPAC. - - - - - - - - A New Listening Room at The Array Studio As part of its plans to complete the development of, and launch, The Array New Music Centre, using support provided by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Arraymusic is developing a listening room in its 60 Atlantic studio home. The space will feature over 1,000 eclectic and rare orchestral, jazz, experimental and pop albums for the general public. Folks will be able to drop by, bask, browse and listen. More details will follow in the coming months as Array completes and unveils its new listening room. School of COBRA 2008 at Array Studio This Summer - A Class in Improvised Noise ala John Zorn's Cobra, Instruction by Misha Glouberman Part of Misha Glouberman's Terrible Noises for Beautiful People Series, this is an introduction to improvised noise, organized around John Zorn's famous Cobra. The classes take place in the summer of 2008 in The Array Studio. It's a fun-fuelled unique, highly participatory experience that is unlike anything else. Do check this out. Visit http://www.schooloflearning.org/cobra_08.html for more information. In closing... Array has just begun its Metcalf Foundation initiative and it's already paying off. The Array Ensemble and EMPAC are a perfect fit and we're honoured to be invited to perform there, since they'll just have opened their doors to their new centre in November. Array in New York - it's a fabulous hand in a cool glove. Have the grandest of summers, folks... may it be full of peace, patios, seasonal produce and, of course, exceptional new music. Keep up-to-date with Toronto's comprehensive creative music events and don't forget to check out wwww.smashedpiano.com for the latest in concert news - visit our growing online creative music community soon. -- general manager Sandra Bell.
Arraymusic is home to the acclaimed Array (chamber) Ensemble and to a vanguard of Toronto's experimental, jazz and improvisational musicians. |
