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    Linda Catlin Smith – Wilderness (European Première)

    by 5:4 December 20, 2022 • 05:00
    December 20, 2022 • 05:00

    Behind today’s Advent Calendar door is a beautiful, contemplative orchestral work by Canada-based composer Linda Catlin Smith. Wilderness was composed in 2005, and while it would be inaccurate to call it a work for violin and orchestra (still less a concerto), a solo violin has a role distinct from the …

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    Linda Catlin Smith – Adagietto (European Première)

    by 5:4 December 17, 2021 • 05:00
    December 17, 2021 • 05:00

    i want to make a bold, seemingly absurd statement about the orchestral work behind today’s Advent Calendar door. The more time i’ve spent with Adagietto by Linda Catlin Smith, the more i’ve perceived it as having no movement in it whatsoever. Let me explain. What i don’t mean is that …

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    Proms 2019: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 October 2, 2019 • 12:17
    October 2, 2019 • 12:17

    Many thanks to all of you who took part in this year’s Proms première polls. As ever, there was a stark imbalance in the number of votes certain works received, but interestingly, whereas in previous years this tended to be focused on works performed earlier in the festival (since there …

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    Proms 2019: Dobrinka Tabakova – Timber & Steel; Linda Catlin Smith – Nuages (World Premières)

    by 5:4 September 3, 2019 • 20:04
    September 3, 2019 • 20:04

    i’ve often wondered whether, in music today, energy and complexity tend to be mutually exclusive. The whole ‘clocks and clouds’ dichotomy: regularity versus ambiguity, pulse versus drift, clarity versus obfuscation. This is certainly one of the considerations that arises from the latest pair of Proms premières: Dobrinka Tabakova‘s Timber & …

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    Proms 2019: pre-première questions with Linda Catlin Smith

    by 5:4 September 1, 2019 • 06:00
    September 1, 2019 • 06:00

    This evening’s Prom concert, given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, opens with the world première of a new work, Nuages, by US composer Linda Catlin Smith. In preparation for that, here are her answers to my pre-première questions, plus the programme note for the piece. …

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    Another Timbre: Canadian Composers Series (Part 2)

    by 5:4 October 24, 2018 • 17:16
    October 24, 2018 • 17:16

    Record label Another Timbre has recently released the five discs that comprise the second part of its Canadian Composers Series, featuring music by Alex Jang, Cassandra Miller, Lance Austin Olsen and Linda Catlin Smith. While the excellent accompanying booklet to the series (which, at over 100 pages, is more a book …

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    Mixtape #43 : International Women’s Day

    by 5:4 March 8, 2018 • 00:00
    March 8, 2018 • 00:00

    As today is International Women’s Day, for my March mixtape i’ve allowed myself to indulge in a celebration of fabulous music by women composers and musicians. Compared to most of my mixtapes, this was one of the more difficult to create, for two reasons. First, because the shortlist of music …

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    Another Timbre: Canadian Composers Series (Part 1)

    by 5:4 April 28, 2017 • 15:24
    April 28, 2017 • 15:24

    Among the most interesting releases to have come out in the opening months of this year are the first five discs in Another Timbre‘s Canadian Composers Series. It’s an ambitious project that seeks to provide an overview of, if not the entirety of contemporary Canadian compositional thought (which is hugely diverse), then …

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