One fact I found out only this past weekend (after I had packaged this show, and therefore am too lazy to go back into it and edit my script to rerecord, ANYWAYS!..) is a wonderfully serendipitous connection between composers Parisa Sabet and John Weinzweig. Upon graduating from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, with a degree in composition, Sabet was awarded the John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship. Well deserved! I have a copy of the broadcast recording of the premiere in 1949 of Weinzweig s complete Red Ear of Corn (never mind how I got it!..well, it s nowhere near as nefarious or exciting a story. Actually it was for a potential project, OK?!?). I will have to listen to it again (it s been a while), and might consider playing it at some time. Probably the first time it will have been heard in over 70 years if I do. Yes, that was snow on the ground you saw this past weekend. It s Ottawa.
R Murray Schafer, Composer Who Heard Nature s Music, Dies at 88 nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
R Murray Schafer, composer and acoustic ecology visionary, dies at 88 thereminder.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thereminder.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.