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Music Arts

Students deliver romping Don Giovanni concert

By Jessica Werb
The spirited UBC Opera Ensemble singers performed a condensed version of the cautionary tale of an incorrigible lothario whose unrepentant debauchery leads to a nasty end. What they lacked in polish they made up for with passion.
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Pygmalion inspires and entertains

By Jessica Werb
Heracles would have approved of the performances of the lyrically sensitive Lawrence Wiliford and the playful Suzie LeBlanc in the final concert of the Vancouver Early Music festival.
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Leipzig String Quartet offers no-frills excellence

By Ken Eisner
The young German group offered an ideal interpretation of Beethoven's third “Razumovsky” quartet, which begins with celestial tuning, swims in pools of unearthly beauty, and ends with a near-dissonant cavalry charge.
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Borealis String Quartet brighten a gloomy day

By Jessica Werb
The young and energetic group set the bar high with a program featuring the world premiere of String Quartet No. 2 by Okanagan-based composer Imant Raminsh.
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Highbrow fun in Music in the Hall of Mirrors

By Jessica Werb
Music in the Hall of Mirrors: Entertaining the Duke of Mantua
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Blissful harmony from Grupo de Canto Coral

By Ken Eisner
Grupo de Canto Coral
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Denyce Graves holds on to her roots

By Janet Smith
The American mezzo-soprano may live in Paris, but her heart remains in Washington, D.C. The lucky Vancouver opera fans at her Festival Vancouver show on August 5 will hear a singer at the height of her considerable vocal powers.
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Constantinople shows its common Mediterranean musical heritage

By Alexander Varty
It’s tempting to look for political intent in Constantinople’s choice of singer, but the group’s founder, Kiya Tabassian, says there isn’t any. Yes, he and his fellow instrumentalists were born in Iran, their vocalist of choice is Jewish, and religious tensions in the Middle East are at an all-time high. But, as Tabassian explains, the Quebec-based early-music ensemble is working with Françoise Atlan for musical reasons rather than to make any particular socio-political point.
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Argentine pianist Adrián Iaies gives jazz a tango lesson

By Alexander Varty
On the line from Buenos Aires, Adrián Iaies confesses that our chat is his first-ever interview in English. But the Argentine pianist, whose trio makes its Vancouver debut at the Norman Rothstein Theatre on Friday (August 8), is warm and witty despite the language barrier, and his vigorous and imaginative modern jazz needs little translation.
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Explosion Africaine blasts off with dance and drums

By Ken Eisner
As someone who glides easily between classical, world-music, and jazz settings, Sal Ferreras knows plenty of African players on the Canadian scene. But he was particularly struck by recent encounters with Guinean-born dancer and choreographer N’Nato Camara.
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Yamandú Costa’s eclectic past flavours his guitar work

By Ken Eisner
Brazil has long been a cornucopia of great guitarists. But even in the context of bossa nova, choro, and Afro-samba greats, Yamandú Costa stands out. Familiar to Brazilian musicians as a brilliant technician and an innovative melder of styles on the seven-string classical instrument unique to his part of the world, the 28-year-old was virtually unknown elsewhere until a couple of years ago.
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Sequentia resurrects the swan-bone flute

By Alexander Varty
To the untrained eye, the swan-bone fragment recovered during an archaeological dig at a 10th-century German castle might have been nothing more than kitchen refuse from the days when lords and ladies dined on roast cygnet. Someone noticed, however, that this bone had been modified, and someone else deduced that it had been used as a flute, and in time this news reached a craftsman in Boston, Massachusetts, who undertook to reproduce the ancient instrument.
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Photos from the 2008 Vancouver Folk Festival

The 31st Annual Vancouver Folk Festival was another great weekend of local and international musical artists. Check out some photos we've received and upload any of your own that you'd like to share.
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival looks to the future

By Alexander Varty
Kris Klaasen makes no bones about the fact that when he joined the Vancouver Folk Music Festival board in 2005, the venerable organization was in trouble.
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Meet Abigail Washburn, the accidental folksinger

By Alexander Varty
Abigail Washburn didn’t set out to become a musician, but one thing led to another—and that’s led to a brilliant, if unconventional, career for the banjo player and singer.
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Markus James takes blues back to its African roots

By Alexander Varty
Some musicians are said to have sold their soul at a lonely crossroads in order to play the blues. Markus James had a gentler initiation: he was on his way to nursery school in Washington, DC, when he first encountered the music that’s become one of his two great loves.
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Les Chauffeurs à pieds pursue joy, beer, and sensual pleasure

By Tony Montague
Of all the fine traditional bands to have come out of Quebec in the past decade, Les Chauffeurs à pieds is probably the least known in the rest of the country. According to leader and founder Antoine Gauthier, there are two main explanations for this. The first is that, to maintain a sense of well-being, the trio requires ready access to quality brews from its home province—at festivals especially. As a result, the band hasn’t travelled all that much. The other reason is less colourful.
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Lau, Scotland’s hottest folk act, has a B.C. connection

By Alexander Varty
Lau is one of the most exciting new bands in the Scottish traditional-music scene, and that’s been confirmed by BBC Radio 2’s annual Folk Awards, which recently named the Edinburgh trio 2008’s best group.
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Hayley Sales happy to take a hands-on approach

By Alexander Varty
The rising B.C star is one of several young artists who are broadening the appeal of the annual Vancouver Folk Music festival at Jericho Beach Park.
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Jason Collett tackles issues close to his heart and home

By Alexander Varty
As a solo artist, Broken Social Scene’s singer-songwriter is hard to categorize. On Here’s to Being Here, there are touches of Fleetwood Mac–influenced pop rock, Rolling Stones–style grit, Dylan-esque balladeering, and Bob Marley–brand reggae.
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Aimee Mann keeps moving to avoid the world’s smilers

By Alexander Varty
If there’s one thing that gets Aimee Mann riled up, it’s unwanted attention from the perpetually cheerful. In fact, if you run into her at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and tell her to turn that frown upside down, she’ll probably be tempted to knock your block off. Mann might be based in Hollywood, but she’s more interested in the Golden Gloves tournament than the Golden Globes.
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Jajouka’s Master Musicians keep ancient tradition alive

By Tony Montague
In the small Moroccan village of Jajouka lives a caste of artists, mostly elderly men, who make music in a tradition that snakes back into the mists of time.
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Pianist Rachel Iwaasa goes interplanetary

By Alexander Varty
According to Carl Jung’s notion of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence, Rachel Iwaasa’s upcoming Cosmophony concert was meant to be—even if, at first, the Vancouver pianist only wanted to play George Crumb’s zodiac-inspired Makrokosmos II in an unusual setting.
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Berkshire choristers sing Canadian classic Requiem

By Alexander Varty
Participants in the annual Berkshire Choral Festival training program don’t sing morning, noon, and night. And so when they’re in Vancouver, where the festival has set up shop for the second consecutive year, it’s entirely possible that some of the 200 singers might check out the view from Cypress Mountain or even attempt the Grouse Grind.
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Red Chamber prescribes musical medicine

By Jessica Werb
No one needs to tell the top-flight performers playing in local health-care facilities that music is good for mind and body, and that it can provide vital intellectual and emotional experiences.
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