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 Curious, Cultural Conversation from Calgary and Beyond! CULTURE MONSTER delivers intriguing stories about the giants from the past and introduces you to fascinating figures from the present. Hear what art-makers think about their work in their own words, and listen to host Jonathan Gresl bring to life some forgotten tales from the worlds of music, film, literature and more. There is always more to explore on CULTURE MONSTER.Jonathan Gresl Art Divertissement et arts du spectacle
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    • Episode 18: Season Finale with Leonard Slatkin

      Episode 18: Season Finale with Leonard Slatkin
      Aug 30 2021
      Episode 18: American Conductor Leonard Slatkin For the Culture Monster season finale, I speak with conductor Leonard Slatkin about his remarkable career and his new book, “Classical Crossroads.” I also endorse music by David Lang and Alan Hovhaness. LINKS The film “Olympia” documenting the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin https://thesportjournal.org/article/leni-riefenstahls-olympia-brilliant-cinematography-or-nazi-propaganda/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LOPhRq3Es David Lang is an American composer known for his association with “Bang on a Can” https://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/89442735/david-lang-wins-music-pulitzer https://bangonacan.org/about_us/ “Cheating, Lying, Stealing” originally for chamber ensemble, heard here in a later version for band. https://davidlangmusic.com/music/cheating-lying-stealing-arr-band/ Leonard Slatkin conducted the premiere of Lang’s first orchestral work with the Boston Symphony in 1991. “International Business Machine” https://davidlangmusic.com/music/international-business-machine/ Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-biography.html Mysterious Mountain- Symphony no. 2 https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain.html “Five Sacred Trees” Album from John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra which includes “Mysterious Mountain” https://open.spotify.com/album/4pjd4sL03OuKTp9nxsyAJo https://music.apple.com/ca/album/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain/263090524 Leonard Slatkin is an internationally acclaimed conductor, most recently Music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra https://www.leonardslatkin.com/timeline/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Symphony_Orchestra in 2016, Slatkin made a series of videos showing how conducting works. Conducting School 1.0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_S0hFw3zDl47TtV7iYbu-XhiuSrkgaW Slatkin’s latest book is entitled “Classical Crossroads.” https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152225/Classical-Crossroads-The-Path-Forward-for-Music-in-the-21st-Century https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/classical-crossroads-the-path-forward/9781538152225-item.html?ikwid=classical+crossroads&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0#algoliaQueryId=83201876771428de3e0ddae5987b9caa Slatkin wrote about his appearance at the Aspen Music Festival at his blog https://www.leonardslatkin.com/august-2021-a-tale-of-two-orchestras/ Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has had many differing interpretations https://medium.com/the-gleaming-sword/socially-distant-beethovens-fifth-symphony-5b457b0bb019 Leonard Slatkin referred to Leonard Bernstein’s deconstruction of Beethovens’s fifth for a 1950s Television show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2HJerMp8A&t Julia Perry “Short Piece for Orchestra” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/short-piece-for-orchestra/554425306?i=554425313 Brahms Serenade no. 1 Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 Copland “Organ Symphony” recorded by Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis Symphony Orchestra https://music.apple.com/ca/album/copland-dance-symphony-short-symphony-organ-symphony/1362101560 Mason Bates “B-Sides” performed by Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnsy9KHdwQ Slatkin also recommended music by James Lee III https://www.jameslee3music.com Support the podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster Published August 2021 https://www.culturemonster.ca
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    • Episode 17: Conductor Holly Mathieson and remembering R Murray Schafer

      Episode 17: Conductor Holly Mathieson and remembering R Murray Schafer
      Aug 23 2021
      I speak with Holly Mathieson about her personal musical journey and endorse a Giller Prize winner. LINKS NYTimes on subway chimes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/13/arts/subway-train-sounds.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUyYiZ_tU1Gw5CRWySB4B991re1b-Wm_s1nGPlazOIQylL3qEJGYGB_QLWYrdla8B13yieQJUJFo4Tc8FI770VOV1xGU7vo52YlY4MKDk0t4_0Bjxu08KdBL59rTS3Pizkc-wkge3nsUjDbmbtXKbf1yd1cQwysoIlIQ_xoQEAxqjCGuBw0tZ-zK1hUsg8HWFcEXHM6_r4CBx-OMGEZwXc6GQ1XeJYWTLSmr2M-u5KMVUSWR-dEiQJsStr48hcOdgUIK_0MxckHcL7ir8SAWZtR5y7pmYAt83CIxgl0vBWC_GFfg&smid=url-share Do Not Say we have nothing, by Madeline Thien https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/259732/do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by-madeleine-thien/9780345810434 Interview with the Author in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/08/madeleine-thien-interview-do-not-say-we-have-nothing R. Murray Schafer https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc 50th Anniversary of the World Soundscape Project https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/world-soundscape-project-1.4640278 Acopolypsis-2015 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-end-is-nigh-apocalypsis-production-to-blow-people-s-minds-1.3129522 A CBC story about another long-running participatory project https://www.cbc.ca/music/why-people-gather-each-year-in-the-haliburton-forest-to-take-part-in-murray-schafer-s-wolf-project-1.5406731 Holly Mathieson is music director of Symphony Nova Scotia https://www.hollymathieson.com https://symphonynovascotia.ca Excerpts from R Murray Schafer’s Trio for Flute Viola and Harp-performed by Trio Verlaine https://music.apple.com/ca/album/trio-for-flute-viola-and-harp-ii-slowly-calmly/905067700?i=905067733 https://open.spotify.com/album/4rEp8TtftbHqIaK6GJNdiI?si=Nihhj1O-S960-sQiDPKH9A&dl_branch=1 Holly Mathieson recommended—— William Grant Still - Symphony No. 5 “Western Hemisphere” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/still-w-g-symphonies-nos-4-autochthonous-and-5/332767908 https://open.spotify.com/album/6H5G9x9y5suBLveGNtq3zk?si=0CmfLQ2ZSUqrAmiox9hjEA&dl_branch=1 Franz Schreker - “Der Geburtstag der Infantin” (Birthday of the Infanta) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/zemlinsky-die-seejungfrau-schreker-der-geburtstag-der/1562851792 Thea Musgrave “Phoenix Rising” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thea-musgrave-phoenix-rising/1440067691 Franz Schreker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schreker William Grant Still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grant_Still Rebecca Thomas (Halifax Poet Laureate 2016-2018) https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/rebecca-thomas.html Published August 2021 https://www.culturemonster.ca https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster
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      56 min
    • Episode 16 Conductor Dina Gilbert | Richard Strauss and the Olympics

      Episode 16 Conductor Dina Gilbert | Richard Strauss and the Olympics
      Aug 16 2021
      I speak with conductor Dina Gilbert about her life and career and tell the story of the great Olympic Hymn by Richard Strauss, that time forgot. LINKS Darius Milhaud was a busy well-known composer during the 20th Century. The New Yorker published a guide to his music in 2017 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-indomitable-humanism-of-darius-milhaud Arthur Fiedler conducted the Boston Pops for 50 years. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1217.html The “Boston Pops” an offshoot of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is one of the most recorded ensembles in the world—known for its association with Arthur Fiedler, John Wiliams, and current conductor Keith Lockhart https://www.bso.org/brands/pops/about-us/historyarchives/the-history-of-the-boston-pops.aspx Richard Strauss was an important German composer who lived from 1864-1949 ClassicFM’s 15 facts about Strauss https://www.classicfm.com/composers/strauss/guides/facts-gallery/ “Olympische Hymne” by Richard Strauss was premiered August 1, 1936 during the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympische_Hymne Photo of Strauss in rehearsal at the Olympic Stadium https://web.archive.org/web/20091027074318/http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/2891/olympia.htm Dina Gilbert is Music director of the Kamloops Symphony http://www.dinagilbert.com https://www.kamloopssymphony.com Gilbert is also directrice musicale of Orchestre Symphonique de l’Estuaire https://ose.qc.ca and principal conductor Les Grand Ballets’ Orchestra https://grandsballets.com/en/ Kent Nagano is a notable American conductor who was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2020. https://www.kentnagano.com/about-kent/ The english language version of his memoir “Classical Music: Expect the unexpected” is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press https://www.mqup.ca/classical-music-products-9780773556348.php?page_id=73& Samy Moussa is a busy Canadian composer with a long association with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra http://www.samymoussa.com/biography Moussa’s Violin Concerto has been recorded by Andrew Wan-with Nagano conducting the OSM https://music.apple.com/ca/album/ginastera-bernstein-moussa-works-for-violin-and-orchestra/1533874089 https://open.spotify.com/album/6nTReYFzI0mZHhco5cX7Q3 Dinuk Wijeratne is an award-winning composer who lives in Nova Scotia https://www.dinukwijeratne.com/biography/ Dina recommended his Tabla Concerto https://www.dinukwijeratne.com/tablaconcerto/ You can support the podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster Published August 2021
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