Diana McIntosh - Work

Work 2000

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PERFORMANCES IN 2000

April 7, 2000 In a GroundSwell Concert
held in the Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg,
McIntosh performed with Robert Gardner - percussion -
in Omar Daniel's "Changes: Steady State; Impact; Ramifications";
with Greg Lowe - guitar - in Lowe's "Too Much Money";
with Rosemarie van der Hooft - mezzo soprano,
and Elise Lavallee - viola, in Michael Colgrass's "New People" (nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5);
with van der Hooft and Gardner in Kurt Weill's "My Ship"
and "Alabama Song"; and with Patricia Spencer - flute,
in Northern Light (from Luminaries) by McIntosh.

This concert, curated by McIntosh, was the first ever given
in the fascinating and beautiful foyer of the Mint.
The concert was extremely well received by the large audience.

In June / July
McIntosh will perform in Scotland, Ireland and England
solo concerts of 6 of her shorter
one-woman theatrical/musical works, as follows:

"IN, ON, AND AROUND THE PIANO"

one-woman theatre written and performed by
DIANA McINTOSH
pianist/actor/composer

*** PROGRAMME ***



 All in Good Time: 
   An upbeat, jazzy dialogue for piano, tape and mouth percussion. 

 Eliptosonics: 
   This highly accessible piano piece speaks for itself. 

 The Mountain Gods: 
    Musing on the poem "The Mountain Gods" by Canadian  poet Liliane 
Welch, McIntosh - herself a mountain climber - evokes  the mystery 
of a  night on a mountain en  route to the  summit, awaiting 
the mountain gods' whims. 

     In the blind sky, 
     its tight windy hand 
     of thunder calls and hard biting suns. 

     In the rock broken by lightning, 
     open-bellied, alive with night, 
     its shivering, leaping spine. 

     Yes.  In everything now, 
     unknown, knee-deep in clouds, 
     Solemn, promising deliverance. 

     The mountain gods, waiting for us. 
                          Liliane Welch © 1985 
  


***    INTERVAL    ***

 Glorified Chicken Mousse: 
     A recipe recitation from "The Joy of Cooking", this  is one of a 
number of homey pieces written and performed by McIntosh's alter 
ego, Maude Pilly, from Dandelion, Manitoba. 

 Go Between: 
     Originally written for three pianos and tape, this  piece, based 
on L. P.  Hartley's novel,  "The Go  Between", expresses the haunting 
atmosphere  of  an illicit and tragic love affair in Victorian 
England,  in which an  innocent young boy becomes the go between, 
delivering secret messages for the lovers.  In this version, McIntosh 
has pre-taped her performances of two of the piano parts. 

 Doubletalk: 
      A playful exchange between the performer and two loudspeakers. 
All  the sounds on tape were made by McIntosh and recorded 
separately on the  channels of  a 4-track tape recorder.  The 
work gives new meaning to the  word "communication". 

The tour performances will be at: 

    Lyth Arts Centre, by Wick, 
    Caithness, KW1 4UD 
    Scotland 
        Saturday, June 24, 2000 at 8:00 pm 
        Contact William Wilson - phone: 01955 641 270 
		Fax:	01955 641 414 

    The Triskel Arts Centre 
    Tobin Street 
    Cork 
    Ireland 
        Friday, June 30, 2000, at 8:00 pm 
        Contact Gary Sheehan - phone:  01353 212 72022 
		email:	triskel@iol.ie 
  

    The Hitchin Festival 
    Hitchin 
    Hertfordshire 
    England 
        Saturday, July 8, 2000, at 8:00 pm 
        Contact Maya Pieris - phone:  01462 653 655 
		email:	maya.pieris@btinternet.com

Other presenters please note availability, for your venues,
of performances and workshops by Diana McIntosh.

She delivers program notes that sound real but extremely cerebral. They are so profuse, her audience hears but tiny samples of the music.

Diana McIntosh is, in fact, a mountaineer. She combines music and mountains in a full-evening one-woman show SOLITARY CLIMB in which her audience shares a daring experience "scaling the sheer face of new music."

Maude Pilly (a favorite Diana McIntosh character) comes from the backward Dandelion, Manitoba. She is wonderfully sophisticated, perhaps from reading unintelligible program notes.

A partial list of solo works by Diana McIntosh
available for performance on tour:

Solitary Climb, 1990, a full-evening (80 minutes) one-woman music/theatre piece of new music and mountains. With magnificent slides of climbs she has made, mountaineering gear, recorded mountain climbing sounds (live as well as played on a keyboard sampler), and much music on and in the piano, including Climb to Camp and Made to Scale.

Eliptosonics, 1979, theatre piece for piano and spoken voice (8') with slides, tape (13').

Shadowed Voices, 1988, a theatre piece for piano, extended vocal techniques, percussion and digital delay (10').

Aiby-Aicy-Aidyai, 1983, for toy piano and extended vocal techniques (5').

Doubletalk, 1983, for extended vocal techniques and electronic tape (5').

...and 8:30 in Newfoundland, 1985, theatre piece for extended vocal techniques and digital delay (10').

Glorified Chicken Mousse, 1984, a recipe piece by the composer's other persona, "Maude Pilly" (5').

Sampling the Communication Parameters in the Ambience of Structural Phrasing and Dynamics in Contemporary Music, 1986, a theatre piece for spoken voice, piano (12').

Tay Ploop, 1986, a theatre piece for kitchen percussion and electronic tape by "Maude Pilly" (5').

Process Piece, 1988, a theatre piece for food processor, two pots, a measuring cup, a wooden spoon and vegetables (5').

Eliptosonics

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