Tag Archives: Toru Takemitsu

A New Civic Arts and Culture Advisory Panel?

Last Monday, I attended a session led by Vancouver’s Office of Cultural Affairs and also attended by a diverse cross section of Vancouver’s cultural sector as well as several City Councillors. The purpose was to discuss how best to create a civic Arts and Culture Advisory panel that would report directly to Mayor and Council [...]

Colourful World

  Rodney Sharman on Fanny Kiefer Hear Rodney’s new work this weekend along with music by Debussy and Takemitsu! Sunday, January 29, 2012 8pm   Enjoy this rare opportunity to be musically engaged with a new chamber symphony by Rodney Sharman, the Canadian premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s Archipelago S.  and a new arrangement of Debussy’s Jeux [...]

Colourful World

January 29, 2012 8pm presented in partnership with Turning Point Ensemble reflects on a century of colourful and vivid soundscapes with Colourful World – a program built around the premiere of Rodney Sharman’s  new large-scale commission. Turning Point pairs Sharman’s new work with pieces by Claude Debussy and Toru Takemitsu. Composer Michael Bushnell has created for [...]