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Standing Wave:
Ex Machina

53rd Season / 419th Event

Artistic Direction
Brian Current

Sunday, Nov.20.2022

St. George by the Grange
30 Stephanie St
Toronto, ON
M5T 1X6

7:00PM Doors
7:15PM Discussion with Guests
7:45PM Introduction and Young Artist Overture: Derives I by Pierre Boulez performed by Musicians from The Glenn Gould School
8:00PM Main Show
9:30PM Reception

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Vancouver’s Standing Wave Ensemble performs Ex Machina, a showcase of exceptional mid-career composers in dialogue with the Canadian Jennifer Butler’s arrangement of master French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Le Merle Noire.

Featuring:

Programme

  • Bekah Simms (CAN) single Red flower (2022)
  • Mari Alice Conrad (CAN) Atalanta's Arrow (2022)
  • Olivier Messiaen (FRA), arranged Jennifer Butler (CAN) Le Merle noir (1952, arr. 2013)
  • James O'Callaghan (CAN) in an archipelago (2020)
  • Gordon Fitzell (CAN) Deus ex Machina, the Nine Lives of Schrödinger's Cat (2019)

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