by Lawrence Wiliford | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
John Beckwith composer, educator, writer (March 9, 1927 – December 5, 2022) Canadian music lost one of its great champions with the passing of John Beckwith. CBC Music posted an announcement of his death on Monday, December 6, and CBC Radio’s Metro Morning...
by Webmaster | Mar 9, 2022 | Performances
In Celebration of John Beckwith’s 95th birthday, CASP is releasing a music video performance of Beckwith’s Four Short Songs – settings of German poems by Wassily Kandinsky as translated to English by Elizabeth R. Napier. Released as part of CASP’s REACHING...
by Webmaster | Mar 1, 2022 | Recordings
The Canadian Art Song Project is proud to announce the release of FOUND FROZEN: SONGS OF JEFFERY RYAN. The new recording features premiere commercial recordings of composer Jeffery Ryan’s Of Passion’s Tide (1991), Found Frozen (1997), and Miss Carr in Seven...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog, current project, Recordings
We have been in the studio for a new recording project focussing on the works for voice and piano by Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan. This month we have been recording our 2018 commission, Miss Carr in Seven Scenes with mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and pianist...
by Webmaster | May 23, 2019 | press
Published May 23, 2019 on operaramblings.blog – Link to article This year’s Canadian Art Song Project commission is a setting of poems by EJ Pratt by Dean Burry entitled Sea Variations. It was given its first performance yesterday in the Richard Bradshaw...
