I speak with Holly Mathieson about her personal musical journey and endorse a Giller Prize winner. 
 
LINKS
NYTimes on subway chimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/13/arts/subway-train-sounds.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUyYiZ_tU1Gw5CRWySB4B991re1b-Wm_s1nGPlazOIQylL3qEJGYGB_QLWYrdla8B13yieQJUJFo4Tc8FI770VOV1xGU7vo52YlY4MKDk0t4_0Bjxu08KdBL59rTS3Pizkc-wkge3nsUjDbmbtXKbf1yd1cQwysoIlIQ_xoQEAxqjCGuBw0tZ-zK1hUsg8HWFcEXHM6_r4CBx-OMGEZwXc6GQ1XeJYWTLSmr2M-u5KMVUSWR-dEiQJsStr48hcOdgUIK_0MxckHcL7ir8SAWZtR5y7pmYAt83CIxgl0vBWC_GFfg&smid=url-share
 
Do Not Say we have nothing, by Madeline Thien
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/259732/do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by-madeleine-thien/9780345810434
 
Interview with the Author in The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/08/madeleine-thien-interview-do-not-say-we-have-nothing
 
R. Murray Schafer
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc
 
50th Anniversary of the World Soundscape Project
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/world-soundscape-project-1.4640278
Acopolypsis-2015
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-end-is-nigh-apocalypsis-production-to-blow-people-s-minds-1.3129522
 
A CBC story about another long-running participatory project
https://www.cbc.ca/music/why-people-gather-each-year-in-the-haliburton-forest-to-take-part-in-murray-schafer-s-wolf-project-1.5406731
 
 
Holly Mathieson is music director of Symphony Nova Scotia
https://www.hollymathieson.com
https://symphonynovascotia.ca
 
Excerpts from R Murray Schafer’s Trio for Flute Viola and Harp-performed by Trio Verlaine
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/trio-for-flute-viola-and-harp-ii-slowly-calmly/905067700?i=905067733
https://open.spotify.com/album/4rEp8TtftbHqIaK6GJNdiI?si=Nihhj1O-S960-sQiDPKH9A&dl_branch=1
 
Holly Mathieson recommended——
William Grant Still - Symphony No. 5 “Western Hemisphere”
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/still-w-g-symphonies-nos-4-autochthonous-and-5/332767908
https://open.spotify.com/album/6H5G9x9y5suBLveGNtq3zk?si=0CmfLQ2ZSUqrAmiox9hjEA&dl_branch=1
Franz Schreker - “Der Geburtstag der Infantin” (Birthday of the Infanta)
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/zemlinsky-die-seejungfrau-schreker-der-geburtstag-der/1562851792
Thea Musgrave “Phoenix Rising”
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thea-musgrave-phoenix-rising/1440067691
 
Franz Schreker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schreker
William Grant Still
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grant_Still
Rebecca Thomas (Halifax Poet Laureate 2016-2018)
https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/rebecca-thomas.html
 
 
Published August 2021
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