MUSICAlive! Magazine and its Interviewees MUSIC is Alive!

"The Magnettes sing about Go’ing Ugly, but their press photos are cutesy-psycho. does it work? It worked for Alice Cooper: though he used less cutesy in his psycho, it would reappear occasionally. The gendered difference between a man whisking these together and 2 women doing it are obvious upon listening, but we think they serve the same purpose. MUSICAlive! spoke with the founders, first Sanna and then Rebecka when they passed through Calgary during the Western Canada Music Association’s conference in late September this year: what’s with the expletive genre label?”

Intro music performed by Glenn Gould

https://musicalivemag.ca/the-magnettes-attract-theyre-like-a-punk-pop-experiment/#content

Eating About Music 1: an hour with a musical Influencer over lunch.

Vincent Ho is an Ottawa-born classical composer who currently teaches at the University of Calgary and, incidentally, has works being performed and premiered ALL OVER the place, in a happy demonstration of how it’s Good to be Busy. While having lunch at The Palomino, at the heart of Calgary’s downtown, MUSICAlive! congratulated him on this achievement.
“(Those are only the concerts) that I KNOW of: I just found out that there’s a few more . . . Thank you very much! I’m very pleased with that: I’m not complaining at all! I just wish I could be at all of (the premieres). It’s sort of like seeing your child be born but you can’t be there.”
The most recent works he mentions are ‘Horizon Images’ for cello and piano that was premiered last season in Ottawa by the Cheng² Duo, and his portion (Earthbeat) of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s commission for Canada’s 150th birthday, True North: Symphonic Ballet, which occurred in Calgary and online last November.







YouTube Link:
https://musicalivemag.ca/happily-hectic-vincent-is-composing-his-brains-out/#content

Who They Are (#1): The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change & Their 2018 Synthesis Report by MUSICAlive! publisher in conversations about music.

“Kurt Loewen has been to Calgary before: in fact, his parents still live here, as evidenced by them sitting just behind us when he and other locals performed at an outdoor concert in Ramsay in mid-September. It was a very folky, friendly, family event with other young adults and some parents and acquaintances wandering through the shared 2-yard space.

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Intro music performed by Oscar Peterson.

https://musicalivemag.ca/kurt-loewen-and-folk-friends-a-human-touch-despite-social-distancing/

“We sit down with Jonathan Gresl, the bassoonist of the Perfect Cadence Wind Quintet. and His Fox Renard 222 looks impressive at their recent performance. ‘It is not even the most expensive bassoon you can get,’ explains Jonathan. ‘This one is extremely cheap, between 6 and 7 grand – that is in US dollars, by the way. You can spend up to 25 or even $35,000.00 on a bassoon,’ he says.”

Intro music performed by Mahotella Queens.

https://musicalivemag.ca/perfect-cadence-wind-quintet-chamber-music-is-conversation-among-friends/#content

“MUSICAlive caught up with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s newest Associate Conductor, Karl Hirzer. After some back and forth, the conversation started with the absolute basics. ‘What is your job as a conductor?’ we ask.
‘That’s a good question,’ Hirzer laughs. ‘I’m still figuring it out myself!’”

Intro music performed by Thievery Corp..

https://musicalivemag.ca/from-the-beauty-to-the-pragmatics-of-performance-karl-hirzer-and-the-calgary-philharmonic/#content