2017/2018Concert Series

Northern Encounters Musik für das Ende Tan Dun’s Water Passion Freddy’s TuneThe Little Match Girl PassionEar Candy Series

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From The Artistic Director

Soundstreams started 35 years ago with a festival celebrating Igor Stravinsky’s 100th. Just as he had changed the course of music in the 20th century, our 2017/18 season shines a light on the movers and shakers of Canadian music in the 21st. What are our musical and cultural roots? Where are we going now and in the next 35 years?

Claude Vivier, too, was one of the giants of the 20th century. This season we present the first staged performances of his mesmerizing Musik für das Ende, and a staging of Zipangu with stunning choreography by Michael Greyeyes.

Our season touches on the generations of Canadian composers that followed Vivier right up to the present, with world premieres in a diverse range of styles and aesthetics. And we continue to put our artists on the world stage by featuring them alongside international figures like Tan Dun and David Lang.

We’re 35 years young and going strong – come celebrate with us!

Lawrence Cherney Artistic Director

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Electric Messiah The Drake Underground Dec 4, 5, & 6, 2017

Almost Unplugged Buddies In Bad Times Cabaret Feb 1, 2018

Beat It! Buddies In Bad Times Cabaret May 15, 2018

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Northern EncountersMusic and Dance from Canada and Finland with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra

Oct 16, 2017 – 8pm Koerner Hall

Musik für das EndeA ritual journey through life, death, and beyond

Oct 27 to Nov 4, 2017 Crow’s Theatre

Freddy’s TuneInspirations from King Frederick’s gift to Bach

Apr 21, 2018 – 8pm Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

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Water Passion After Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Mar 9, 2018 – 8pm Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

“The Lapland Chamber Orchestra is wonderfully eclectic.” —The Guardian

Soundstreams’ 35th season opens with a celebration of kindred northern identities. Europe’s northernmost professional orchestra performs music by iconic composers from Canada and Finland, past and present, including Jean Sibelius, Harry Somers, and Claude Vivier. Doubly marking Canada’s sesquicentennial and Finland at 100, this program features new dance by powerhouse choreographer Michael Greyeyes, the world premiere of Soundstreams’ 35th Anniversary Fanfare, and gems by Stravinsky and Debussy.

“The Music of the End is where all is forever erased, where all becomes infinite silence.” —Claude Vivier

Musik für das Ende invites audiences into a mesmerizing and utterly immersive multimedia experience featuring an intercultural vocal ensemble and actor. We proudly present the world premiere of the first staged production of this work by legendary Québécois composer Claude Vivier. Choir 21, award-winning director Chris Abraham, and music director John Hess collaborate to create an intimate and unforgettable ritual that symbolizes some of the pressing themes of our time: exile, immigration, and “otherness”.

“[The Gryphon Trio] plays with strength and unanimity… big, bold, almost orchestral performances.” —Los Angeles Times

In 1747, Bach paid a visit to his patron King Frederick the Great. King Freddy, a talented amateur musician, handed Bach a theme and challenged him to improvise. That theme became the basis for Bach’s masterpiece The Musical Offering. The Gryphon Trio joins forces with DJ SlowPitchSound, Cuban-born drummer Dafnis Prieto, trombonist/composer Scott Good, and Roberto Occhipinti on bass, to create a spectacular cross-genre Musical Offering. From the world premiere of a Bach remix, to an arrangement of John Adams’ dazzling Phrygian Gates, expect an energetic evening inspired by Bach’s timeless brilliance.

“[Water] is the beginning, and the beginning is the ending, and the end is the beginning. That’s the meaning of resurrection. Resurrection isn’t just a new life, but a new idea.” —Tan Dun

Seventeen dramatically lit water bowls adorn the stage in this reimagining of Bach’s great masterpiece, where Tan Dun explores themes of birth, death, and resurrection. Using water as a sound and symbol of transition, Water Passion is a powerful narrative that explores a range of vocal styles from Mongolian overtone singing, to Peking Opera, to Bach. David Fallis conducts Choir 21 and a small instrumental ensemble with baritone and soprano soloists in this distinctly modern reworking of a timeless liturgical text.

The Little Match Girl Passion The provocative Pulitzer Prize- winning setting by David Lang

Jun 6 & 7, 2018 – 8pm Crow’s Theatre

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Northern Encounters Oct 16, 8pm

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Oct 27, 8pm Oct 28, 3pm Oct 28, 8pm

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“I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a new, and largely unheralded, composition as I was by David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion, which is unlike any music I know.” —Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize Juror

The Little Match Girl Passion is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s famous tale about a poverty-stricken young woman sent out into the cold by her father to sell matches. David Lang has created original text and music for four voices that both relays and comments upon the girl’s trials, drawing the audience into the very heart of this compelling drama, and revealing the fragile line between hope and tragedy. The program also features a world premiere by Canadian composer James Rolfe for voices and accordion.

“Electric Messiah, a fascinating cross-cultural, multimedia take on Handel’s classic.”

—The Globe and Mail

Electric Messiah returns to revamp Handel’s holiday classic through a plugged-in and completely immersive musical experience. Nominated for the Classical:NEXT 2017 Innovation Award last season. In Almost Unplugged, trailblazing Canadian violinists Andréa Tyniec and Jesse Zubot perform a dazzling array of repertoire with and without electronics, showcasing the range of this timeless instrument.Master percussionist Ryan Scott takes the stage with special guests in Beat It!, a program reflecting diverse genres and traditions to explore the many unique expressions of rhythm and melody.

Electric Messiah The Drake Underground, Dec 4, 5, & 6, 2017

Almost Unplugged Buddies In Bad Times Cabaret, Feb 1, 2018

Beat It! Buddies In Bad Times Cabaret, May 15, 2018 Centre Aisle Wheelchair Accessible Balcony

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