February 20, 2019
BBC Music Magazine: Album Review – Angel Heart, a music storybook
Tag: Luna Pearl Woolf
Ludwig van Montréal : WEEK-END | Nos recommandations: concerts, bouffe et autres activités palpitantes
Par Caroline Rodgers le 15 février, 2019
EN FAMILLE
On invite jeunes et moins jeunes à la librairie Drawn & Quarterly pour assister à la lecture de Angel Heart, un conte de l’auteure Cornelia Funke sur la musique de la compositrice Luna Pearl Woolf. Cette histoire a aussi fait l’objet d’un très beau livre-disque sous étiquette Pentatone. Avec le violoncelliste Matt Haimovitz et quatre de ses étudiants. Narration: Jean Marchand. C’est samedi 16 février, 17 h, chez Drawn & Quarterly, 176 rue Bernard. Page Facebook de l’événement.
Broadway World: Enter A Haunting World Of Dreams & Lullabies With ANGEL HEART: A MUSICAL STORYBOOK
By BWW News Desk December 5, 2018
Haunting, gentle spirits from far-flung worlds meet in the pulsing sphere of dreams and lullabies that is Angel Heart, a music storybook. With an original tale by best-selling children’s fantasy writer Cornelia Funke, Angel Heart weaves an evocative original score by Luna Pearl Woolf with beloved songs by Irving Berlin, Lennon-McCartney, Jake Heggie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gordon Getty, and others. An affecting narration by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons layers upon intoxicating performances by singers Frederica von Stade, Daniel Taylor, Lisa Delan, and Zheng Cao – all above a rich bed of cellos, Matt Haimovitz and his Grammy-nominated ensemble Uccello.
Exquisite images by the award-winning creative studio Mirada unfold the tale, and the deluxe boxed cd-and-story package includes a coloring poster, stickers and cards for sharing the magic. Originally released in 2013, and accompanied by premiere performances in Los Angeles and at Carnegie Hall in New York, this is the first international release of Angel Heart, from the PENTATONE Oxingale series, available for digital and CD release on December 7.
Ludwig van Montréal: LA RELÈVE | Quelque part, mon jardin: cinq compositeurs, deux ensembles et un spectacle éclaté typiquement montréalais
Par Frédéric Cardin 4 juin, 2018
Le samedi 9 juin 2018 à 20 h, à l’Usine C à Montréal, un audacieux spectacle fait de nouvelle musique très éclatée, de théâtre, de poésie et de projections vidéo abordera le thème de l’appartenance et de l’identité. Quelque part, mon jardin / My Backyard, Somewhere présenté par les ensembles montréalais collectif9 et Architek Percussion, sur des textes de Kaie Kellough, lui aussi de la métropole, arrive juste à temps (et enfin!) pour nous plonger de façon positive et créative dans un sujet brûlant. On devrait probablement y inviter tous les politiciens actuels, tiens.
Le spectacle d’une heure et demie environ s’articulera autour des textes de Kaie Kellough, auteur et poète montréalais bilingue dont le travail se concentre justement sur les questions d’identité, le sentiment d’appartenance à une culture, à un lieu.
Continue reading “Ludwig van Montréal: LA RELÈVE | Quelque part, mon jardin: cinq compositeurs, deux ensembles et un spectacle éclaté typiquement montréalais”Médium large avec Catherine Perrin | Collectif9: donner une couleur plus rock à la musique classique
By: Catherine Perrin 4 juin, 2018
En utilisant une approche hors de l’ordinaire, le groupe collectif9 souhaite rendre plus accessible la musique classique et contemporaine, parfois méconnue du grand public et peu accessible. Par exemple, les membres du groupe utilisent la mise en scène et l’éclairage, et jouent debout devant leur public. Catherine Perrin rencontre trois membres du groupe, qui présentera, le 9 juin à l’Usine C, à Montréal, le spectacle Quelque part, mon jardin, en compagnie d’Architek Percussion.
LUNA PEARL WOOLF ON THE JURY FOR THE PRIX 3 FEMMES
May 18, 2018
Montreal-based Musique 3 Femmes is uncovering the Next Wave of female talent in opera creation in Canada! Our first project? The new Prix 3 Femmes: prizes for operas by teams of women composers and librettists!
Musique 3 Femmes is dedicated to identifying and supporting the work of emerging female leaders in Classical music. Based in Montreal, it was created in 2018 by pianist/coach Jennifer Szeto, soprano Suzanne Rigden, mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff.
Our first initiative, the Prix 3 Femmes, addresses the need for better representation of women’s voices in opera creation and direction. It involves cash awards and invaluable opportunity for teams of emerging female composers and female librettists, including a workshop and presentation hosted by Opera McGill (Sept 2018) with participation from other organizations, as well as subsequent performances of these works in Toronto (March 2019).
Our 2018 jury panel includes:
- Michael Mori (Artistic Director of Tapestry Opera, Toronto)
- Composer Luna Pearl Woolf (Montreal)
- Matthias Maute (Artistic Director of Ensemble Caprice, Montreal)
The Mercury News: Lieder Alive! adds new songs to an old tradition
By Georgia Rowe January 10, 2018
Lieder — the revered song tradition closely associated with the Romantic era — isn’t fixed in the past. It’s still evolving, and Lieder Alive! is helping to keep it that way.
This weekend, the San Francisco organization launches its 2018 offerings with a “Neue und Alte” (new and old) Liederfest. The concert presents well-known works from the song repertoire by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and others, “in dialogue with” new works by contemporary composers Mark Carlson, Kurt Erickson and Luna Pearl Woolf.
The featured singers include soprano Heidi Moss Erickson and mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich; pianists Kurt Erickson and Ronny Michael Greenberg are the program’s accompanists.
Details: 5 p.m. Jan. 14; Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco; $35 advance, $40 at the door; $75 premium reserved seats; 415-561-0100; http://www.liederalive.org.
New York Times: When Musicians Get Up and Move
…If opera singers are expected to move about the stage and interact with other performers, Ms. Woolf argued, so could string players. “When we hear a musical phrase, we hear a statement of language,” she said. “We all are in the business of emotional storytelling — with everything we have.”…
A Victorian dictum, now out of fashion, states that children should be seen, not heard. The opposite might be said of the 19th-century concert setup: Players were to be heard, not seen — or at least not draw attention to themselves.
But that view is changing as well. Continue reading “New York Times: When Musicians Get Up and Move”
Calgary Herald: New Music review: Evelyn Glennie and Land’s End Ensemble provide spectacular evening of six premieres at the Bella
…perhaps best summarized as an opera aria for cello, entangling a dramatic theatricality and an erotic intimacy between instrument and performer(s). — a striking image about music and our acoustical relationship to it through the innateness of deeply felt rhythmic vibration, elucidating our permanent entanglements with such deeply intimate musical experiences…
This past Friday night was a truly special one for Calgary’s new music community and a milestone for the city’s arts community as a whole. Land’s End Ensemble hosted internationally-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie its 20th Anniversary Celebration at the Bella Concert Hall, Mount Royal University, in a wrap-up recital of epic proportions capping off the new hall’s exciting début series.
The sold-out concert was the month’s hottest ticket in town, featuring percussion-themed premieres of no less than six new compositions specially written for Glennie by Allan Gordon Bell, Luna Pearl Woolf, Omar Daniel, Derek Charke and Vincent Ho, the ensemble’s artistic director and concert curator.
Superconductor: Concert Review: Let Me Drown. Novus NY plays Become Ocean.
Friday, May 19, 2017
…The concert opened with After the Wave by Ms, Woolf. It started with a lone, faraway trumpet, answered from a seemingly great distance by oboe and English horn, that most desolate sounding of wind instruments…Swelling surges of strings and brass crashed and broke on the senses, at turns meditative and anguished, moaning of irredeemable loss…
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| The composer John Luther Adams who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean. |
St. Paul’s Chapel, located in the long shadow of the World Trade Center is one of the oldest and most historic churches in New York. On Thursday afternoon, the last matinee concert of the annual music series sponsored by Trinity Church featured another historic occasion: the second New York pperformance of Become Ocean, the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composition by John Luther Adams. This concert, featuring contemporary orchestra Novus NY under the baton of Trinity Church maestro Julian Wachner, paired Mr. Adams’ creation with works by contemporary composers Luna Pearl Woolf and Jessica Meyer. All three composers were in attendance. Continue reading “Superconductor: Concert Review: Let Me Drown. Novus NY plays Become Ocean.”
Luna Pearl Woolf 