Work 1998
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PERFORMANCES IN 1998
March 17, 1998 - "Kiviuq - An Inuit Legend"
For chamber ensemble and narrator, composed by McIntosh.
Diana will also perform Alexina Louie's solo piano work,
"I Leap Through the Sky With Stars", and in Hope Lee's chamber work,
"No Word, No Whisper, No Cry", in a GroundSwell concert titled "And She Took Flight".
Curated by McIntosh
8:00 p.m.
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain
Winnipeg, CanadaMarch 26, 1998 - "In A Sense"
A one-woman theatre piece that uses text from
"A Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackernan.
8:00 p.m.
McNally Robinson Booksellers
Grant Park Mall
Winnipeg, CanadaJune 30, 1998 - "Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night".
This is McIntosh's 55-minute music theatre piece that she performed
in 12 of the 14 locations on her tour to New York, the maritime provinces
and Ontario last October. This dramatic work tells the true story of the
pioneer English pilot who was the first woman to get a bush-pilot's
license in Africa, and became the first person to fly the Atlantic
solo east to west, from England, in 1936, crash-landing in Cape Breton.
She survived the crash and wrote her fascinating book, "West With the Night",
from which McIntosh selected text for the work. This theatrical work reflects
the unique combination of lyricism and wit in Markham's writing.McIntosh's piece, in which she assumes Markham's persona,
is essentially story-telling - Markham's decsciption of her childhood in Kenya,
how she learned to fly, harrowing flights, and her trans-Atlantic flight.
Accompanying the text, and sometimes replacing the text, is McIntosh's original
music for piano and tape, based on an authentic African folk tune.
It's a very accessible show, suitable for any audience.The Halifax Chronicle Herald wrote of this work...
"Contemporary music is not often so engaging, entertaining and delightful".
Hitchin Arts Festival
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
England
maya.pieris@btinternet.comMcIntosh will be in Britain for the month of June
and will be available for performances at other venues.
Please e-mail mcint@mb.sympatico.ca or fax: (204) 237-3773.August 5, 1998 - McIntosh will perform her
"Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night"
as well as 3 of her shorter theatrically-oriented pieces -
"Doubletalk", "All in Good Time" and "Eliptosonics".
The Hornby Festival.
Hornby Island, BC.August 14 - 23, 1998 - McIntosh will perform her
"Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night"
The Edmonton Fringe Festival.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
fta@alberta.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:
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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'). |
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