SEVEN DEADLY SINS

2018 / 2019 Concert Series FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

It’s all Kurt Weill’s fault! I’ve always loved his So commissioning seven new works, each Seven Deadly Sins, composed to a text of based on one of the seven sins, opened the Bertolt Brecht. Our original idea had been to door to an intercultural and intergenre-based perform the Weill complete, interspersing exploration of the theme. Besides those four between each of his “sins” seven newly artists, we added into the mix two commissioned ones on the same themes. accomplished composers from the concert Creative an idea though this was, it would have music genre, Chris Mayo and Analia Llugdar. taken more than three hours to perform. And And to complete this snapshot of music that furthermore, Kurt Weill’s publisher wasn’t keen reflects society’s taboos, we invited the talented on interspersing other composers’ music John Kameel Farah, Berlin-based pianist, between the movements. So we hauled up the composer and improviser. anchor and set sail without the Weill altogether. You can take genuine pleasure in these seven In the meantime, in recent seasons sins without feeling the least bit guilty, and we Soundstreams has begun to work with a really hope you will! number of imaginative singer/song writers in projects like Claude Vivier’s Musik für das Ende and our annual Electric Messiah. These artists include Chloe Charles, Aviva Chernick, Robin Dann and Elizabeth Shepherd. Each has made rich contributions to our programming outside of more conventional new music, and brought Lawrence Cherney, us influences and inspirations from jazz, improv, Artistic Director, Soundstreams indie, neo soul, and R&B.

Soundstreams would like to acknowledge that this event takes place on traditional territories. The territories include the Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations, and the Métis Nation.

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Performers

Chloe Charles, Vocalist Joel Schwartz, Guitar Aviva Chernick, Vocalist Neil Whitford, Guitar/Electronics Robin Dann, Vocalist John Kameel Farah, Piano Andrea Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano Moshe Shulman, Accordion/Bandoneon Elizabeth Shepherd, Vocalist Erika Raum, Violin Jamie Drake, Percussion Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass/Bass Guitar Gregory Oh, Conductor Program

The program order will be announced from the concert stage. There will be one 20 minute intermission. All works on this program are world premieres.

Elizabeth Shepherd Envy Elizabeth Shepherd, Vocalist Jamie Drake, Percussion Joel Schwartz, Guitar John Kameel Farah, Piano Moshe Shulman, Accordion Erika Raum, Violin Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass

Envy is commissioned with the generous support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Elizabeth Shepherd’s appearance is supported by Margaret Grottenthaler and Doug Harrison.

Proud to support SoundMakers. Chloe Charles Gluttony Chloe Charles, Vocalist Jamie Drake, Percussion Neil Whitford, Guitar/Electronics John Kameel Farah, Piano Erika Raum, Violin We are working together with Soundstreams Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass

Gluttony is commissioned with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council. to make a difference in our communities. Chloe Charles’ appearance is supported by Margaret Grottenthaler and Doug Harrison.

Analía Llugdar Lust Gregory Oh, Conductor Andrea Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Drake, Percussion John Kameel Farah, Piano Erika Raum, Violin Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass Lust is commissioned with the generous support of Michael and Sonja Koerner.

John Kameel Farah On Pride John Kameel Farah, Piano

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SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 5 Program (continued) STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robin Dann Reaching Robin Dann, Vocalist for a leaf Jamie Drake, Percussion Joel Schwartz, Guitar John Kameel Farah, Piano Moshe Shulman, Bandoneon Erika Raum, Violin Staff Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass

Reaching for a leaf is commissioned with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council. Robin Dann’s appearance is supported by Elaine Gold. Lawrence Cherney Artistic Director

Christopher Mayo Spirit Gregory Oh, conductor Ben Dietschi Wrestlers Andrea Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano Executive Director Jamie Drake, Percussion Joel Schwartz, Guitar Emma Fowler John Kameel Farah, Piano/Sampler Director of Artistic Planning & Outreach Moshe Shulman, Accordion Erika Raum, Violin Tim Crouch Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass Director of Marketing & Patron Experience

Spirit Wrestlers is commissioned with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council. Cheryl Stone FAUXSTALGIA Manager of Advancement & Patron Engagement Aviva Chernick Wrath Aviva Chernick, Vocalist Arranged: Jamie Drake, Percussion Felix Mills Aviva Chernick and Joel Schwartz, Guitar Metcalf Foundation Intern Transcription and Creative Midwifery: John Kameel Farah, Piano Community Engagement Associate James Rolfe Moshe Shulman, Accordion Expanded Sound Sourcing and Erika Raum, Violin Theatrical Consultant: Jesse Dietschi, Bass Guitar Fides Krucker Board of Directors A GENRE AND Yiddish Translation: Hindy Nosek-Abelson GENDER BENDING Dramaturgy and Text Consultant: Daniel Weinzweig Rabbi Bronwen Mullin President CABARET

Wrath is commissioned with the generous support of Stanley H. Witkin. Lawrence Smith – Vice-President Rob Kempson, Creative Consultant Original Script by Rob Kempson Norman Woo MAY 8 Patrick Lavender, Production Manager Sound Recording by Richard Feren Treasurer David DeGrow, Associate Production Manager – Matthew Pencer, Sound Technician Joseph J. DiStefano Secretary THE DRAKE

This program is dedicated with gratitude to Roger D. Moore, brilliant scientist and stalwart Daniel Bernhard UNDERGROUND advocate of contemporary music. Thank you, Roger for sharing your love of music far and wide. You were a part of the heartbeat of this community; your loss is felt so deeply. Katherine Smalley – Gabe De Roche SOUNDSTREAMS.CA

Special thanks to Steinway Piano for their support.

6 2018-2019 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 7 composer Analia Llugdar says, “Lust degrade and become incomprehensible.” finds its essence in the pleasure of the transgression of the forbidden, in the Singer Aviva Chernick describes Wrath SEVEN delectation of going beyond what seems natural with a verse: and socially accepted, more than the pursuit of frenzied sexual pleasure.” Llugdar found Under the surface is a storm, contained yet inspiration in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. perpetually brewing. DEADLY She says, “Reading this book is destabilizing. Hallucinations, metamorphoses, terrifying and The voice is the conveyor of this previously comical erotic scenes, make us taste lust in its stifled potency. purest state. My intention is to musically SINS translate this vertiginous and psychedelic There is sound riding on supple breath. There is literary universe by creating a sort of whirlwind language, sacred and spitting. sound that will take the listener in different directions-situations without being able to The containment gives way to an unleashing. By David Jaeger predict or escape them.” What damage will there be in the wake of Singer, songwriter and pianist Elizabeth this storm? Shepherd, who was so divinely featured in Soundstreams’ Electric Messiah in 2017, turns Chernick is collaborating with composer James a corner to show us another side of her artistry Rolfe in the composition of Wrath. with her take on Envy. She says, “it is the bleakest of sins given that unlike the others, Finally, for Sloth, vocalist Robin Dann thought it’s not a perversion of a fundamentally positive about a certain creature. Dann says, “I’d like to Evagrius Ponticus (345–399 AD) is hardly a Pianist/synthesist & composer John Kameel attribute or pleasurable human experience. write music that a sloth (the animal) might live familiar household reference for most of us. Yet Farah says of his composition, On Pride, “Pride Through music, I will be exploring the by. The constant aim will be to generate music this fourth century monk and ascetic is credited is related to balance. If we have too little or too fundamentally corrosive and absolutely joyless that flows slowly and yet is thick with intention, with the classification of the seven deadly sins, much self-esteem, we are out of balance. When nature of this sin, as well as investigating the in the same way that a sloth might reach for a namely: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath we are shamed, humiliated, we cannot function. antidote - which is not a matter of finding leaf on a branch with single-minded intention and sloth. His writings and those of his When we are inflated with too much of it, it some equilibrium as is the case with the other and focus.” Dann adds that her work “will followers helped to eventually lead the Roman drives us but we are on a destructive path. This sins, but instead requires an entire recalibration present the performers with the possibility of Catholic Church to designate these as cardinal piece alternates between the two extremes of of perspective.” improvising within certain constraints of time, sins. Naturally enough, the seven deadly sins bluster and dejection, and how both extremes dynamic and note choices. This will create a have been the subject of countless depictions reside within us.” Orchestral-soul-pop singer songwriter Chloe musical ‘blur’ in order to express the feeling of in the arts, including music. For Soundstreams’ Charles calls her interpretation of Gluttony, resistance to movement and softness of time Artistic Director, Lawrence Cherney, they Composer Christopher Mayo, when thinking “a commentary on capitalism that lyrically and space.” seemed to be eternal sources of inspiration for about his plans to compose on Greed, chose to focuses on our society’s warped value set musical creation, and therefore, a source to be reflect on a branch of a Russian religious sect, that appreciates never-ending growth which is Let the Sinning begin! tapped for the seven commissions of original the Sons of Freedom, Doukhobors. Mayo says, actually unsustainable. Gluttony to me mimics musical works that form tonight’s program. “The Doukhobors held an extreme aversion to this never-ending need to devour more and material wealth. To protest their own temptation more and more to distract ourselves from the Given the broad relevance of such transgressions by greed and an aggressive reminder of humility, fact that we don’t understand our existence. in human experience, Cherney felt that any the Doukhobors would burn down their own We feed ourselves materialistically in desperation collection of musical settings should include houses, schools and community buildings to fill this void but find ourselves unsatiated. a great diversity of approaches in the mix of rather than accumulate wealth and belongings. Musically, I want to write something that begins musical genres and of participating artists. The Doukhobors have a unique and well quite innocently and delicately, and then Thus we have great contrasts both between documented musical tradition which I hope to suddenly introduce an abrupt and jolting and within the commissioned pieces, in styles analyze and explore as a method of generating musical exclamation that sets off an unending ranging from classical and avant garde, to pop, material and creating a sound world for the piece and ever more layered and chaotic build that jazz, soul and world music. which is organically linked to its subject matter.” at its climax, explodes and then begins to

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Chloe Charles Aviva Chernick Robin Dann John Kameel Farah Analía Llugdar Christopher Mayo Vocalist, Composer Vocalist, Composer Vocalist, Composer Piano, Composer Composer Composer

Chloe Charles’s debut album Aviva Chernick is an award- Robin Dann is a singer and a John Kameel Farah is a Analía Llugdar was born in Christopher Mayo (b. 1980) Break The Balance wowed winning world music artist. songwriter. Educated in music, Canadian composer and Argentina in 1972. She began is a Toronto-based composer critics while leaving them She garnered critical acclaim (BMus (jazz) from U of T, MMus pianist whose work embraces studying piano and composition of orchestral, chamber, vocal grasping to locate her in a as the lead singer of the twice (creative practice) from aspects of baroque and early at Cordoba National University and electronic music. His work, single genre. Her mesmerizing JUNO-nominated Canadian Goldsmiths, U of London, UK. music, experimental, contem- and received a degree in piano variously described as “cogent, sound was lauded by Billboard World Music group Jaffa Road Robin is lucky to belong to a porary classical, improvisation, performance in 1999. Analia haunting and…desperately magazine (which called her one for over a decade and released close community of musicians middle-eastern music and moved to Canada in 1999 and poignant” (The Times) and “a of ‘Five Canadian Acts to her first album of original songs both in Toronto, where she is forms of electronic music. continued composition studies steampunk collection of gnarly Watch’) and Canadian national in 2013. based, and abroad. Recent at Laval University and then at machine-like noises, flashy daily The Globe and Mail notable collaborations include Collaborations have included the University of Montréal timbres, and explosive rhythms” declared that she is “Toronto’s Tours have taken her, among the creation of Noisy with several scores for iconic where she studied with José (Classical Voice North America), next big singer-songwriter.” other places, to Sao Paolo, choreographer Ame Henderson, Canadian choreographer Evangelista and completed a is characterized by its Jerusalem and San Francisco musician Matt Smith and the Peggy Baker, and rising ballet Master of Music. She went on distinctive rhythmic language Her sophomore album With and to all three coasts of dancers of Toronto Dance star Robert Binet. He has also to complete her doctorate at and wide range of diverse and Blindfolds On received Canada. Highlight performances Theatre (winter 2016/17), a worked with astrophysicist the same institution under the eclectic inspirations. accolades for its opening track include the Library of Congress co-written and produced EP John Dubinski, composing supervision of Denis Gougeon. ‘Black & White’ before the full in D.C., Koerner Hall in Toronto with Ben Gunning as POM soundtracks to animations Her catalogue includes both Christopher’s works have LP’s official release, winning and a cultural festival in Igloolik, (December 2016), continuing of galaxy formations and instrumental and vocal music been performed by ensembles the 2014 Grand Prize (Session Nunavut in Canada’s arctic. backup vocal work for Martha collisions in a project called and she has received several including London Symphony II) in the John Lennon Song- Wainwright on her 2017 Gravitas. In 2010 he became awards for her work, including Orchestra, Vancouver writing Contest and the Lennon Aviva was the first Canadian Midnight City UK international a member of the Canadian First Prize in the chamber Symphony Orchestra, London Award for Pop. Soon after she to be awarded a Virginia Folk tour and the creation of a new Electronic Ensemble, the music category of the CBC Sinfonietta, Crash Ensemble, was awarded the Victor Martin Life apprenticeship to study work, Parents, for the Music oldest continuously active Radio National Competition and Alarm Will Sound. Lynch-Staunton Award from with ‘American National Gallery’s 2015 Emergents II. live-electronic performing for Young Composers, the the Canada Council for the Treasure’ and Sephardic Robin’s band Bernice has been group in the world. In Berlin, Jeunesses Musicales du Also a versatile orchestrator, Arts, which recognized her musician Flory Jagoda. recording and touring interna- he frequently works with the Canada Award and the Grand Christopher has collaborated outstanding achievement in tionally since 2011. Through the Oriel String Quartet and the Prix of the Canada Council for with artists including Carly Rae music. Aviva is also trained in the support of the Canada Council early vocal ensemble Vox the Arts. Her music has been Jepsen, DVSN, Tanya Tagaq, Cantorial arts and mindfulness for the Arts and with label Arts Nostra. In 2016 he received a performed in Canada and Matthew Herbert and Goldie. Chloe has played the North meditation, leading and & Crafts, Bernice released Puff, Dora Mavor Moore Award for , and at international Sea Jazz Festival, the British teaching about the voice in in 2018. sound design/composition for festivals in Europe and Commonwealth Games, prayer and contemplative his work with Peggy Baker Hong Kong. Hillside, and the London Jazz practice in communities Dance Projects. Festival. She won the 2014 across North America. Sirius XM Indie Award for Soul/R&B and the 2012 Harbourfront Soundclash Award, and was in the Top 20 on Canada’s CBC Radio 2 chart for 5 consecutive weeks.

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Elizabeth Shepherd Andrea Ludwig Moshe Shulman Jamie Drake Erika Raum Joel Schwartz Vocalist, Composer Mezzo-soprano Accordion, Bandoneon Percussion Violin Guitar

Elizabeth Shepherd has been Born and raised in Regina, Russian-born Israeli composer, Described as “an incredibly Known for her “lively tempera- Joel Schwartz is a guitarist hailed as “a jazz virtuoso Saskatchewan, mezzo-soprano violin, viola, bandoneon and musical percussionist” and as ment, energetic individuality and multi-instrumentalist from blessed with a pop sensibility”, Andrea Ludwig is an artist of accordion player, Moshe having an “impeccable sense of and warm and communicative Toronto, and a unique voice in praised by critics worldwide for tremendous depth, musicality Shulman, received both Bachelor time and feel”, Jamie Drake is tone” (Muzsika, ), the Canadian and American her arrestingly original writing and scope. and Master of Music degrees in a Toronto-based percussionist, violinist Erika Raum continues music scenes. and soulful delivery. Along with composition from the Jerusalem drummer and composer. He developing a following here artists like Esperanza Spalding, Andrea has appeared with Academy of Music, and a PhD received his MMus from the in her native country and As an in-demand freelance Robert Glasper, and Jose the Canadian Opera Company in composition from the State San Francisco Conservatory of internationally. Playing musician, Joel has toured and James she is seen as part of a in numerous roles including University of New York at Music and has pursued doctoral professionally since the age recorded with a diverse range wave of jazz musicians bringing Nireno in Handel’s Julius Buffalo (UB). He has studied studies at the University of of twelve, Erika quickly rose of artists throughout Canada, the art form to a new genera- Ceasar, the Second Niece in with Mark Kopytman, David Toronto with Russell Harten- through the ranks by taking United States, the Middle East, tion of music fans. Versed in Britten’s Peter Grimes, and Felder and Johannes Schollhorn. berger. His solo and chamber first place at the 1992 Joseph and Europe. Recent credits equal parts Stevie Wonder, Flora in The Turn of the Screw. performances have included Szigeti International Violin include Birds of Chicago, Salvation Army brass bands Moshe is a performer of premieres by , Competition in Budapest as Amelia Curran, Matt and Jill and classical sonatas, it is Very much in demand for classical music, Argentine Elinor Armer and John Luther well as the award for best Barber, Great Lake Swimmers, perhaps no surprise that this contemporary opera, Andrea tango, Klezmer, and Gypsy Adams. As a member of TorQ interpretation of a Mozart Royal Wood, Jessica Mitchell, globetrotting talent has has been involved in many of music. In Spring 2012 he led the Percussion Quartet, he has concerto. She has returned The Lovelocks, Kate Rogers, developed such a distinct Tapestry Opera’s projects Baires Klezmer Orchestra in performed numerous concerts, on many occasions to perform Andrea Koziol, Aviva Chernick, and unique voice. including their LibLab and Buenos Aires, Argentina and in workshops and educational in , , , Jadea Kelly, and many others. Opera Briefs, as well as the the summer 2012 formed the shows across Canada, the , , England, The four-time JUNO nominee world premiere of Juliet Buffalo Tango Orkestra for United States and Europe. and France. She has Joel’s contributions on guitars, has released four widely Palmer’s Shelter at Edmonton which he arranges the music. A busy freelance percussionist, appeared as guest artist mandolins, slide, and banjo acclaimed records and toured Opera in 2012 and Toronto in In addition, Moshe performed he has performed with Evelyn with orchestras including the can be heard on several film extensively in North America, June 2014. Andrea was Nada in on the bandoneon in Toronto, Glennie, NEXUS, Soundstreams, Budapest Radio Orchestra, and television scores by Ari Europe, Japan, and Mexico. the multi Dora-nominated Washington DC, Boston and Amici, Niagara Symphony, the Szombathely Symphony Posner, Amin Bhatia Rob Carli, She has sold out legendary Queen of Puddings’ production Baltimore with world famous Aradia Ensemble, and is Orchestra, the Austro-Hungarian Stacey Hersch, Jim McGrath, clubs from Tokyo to Detroit, of Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba tango artists such as Ariel Ardit. percussionist and on the Orchestra, and the Franz Liszt and Charlie Finlay. played major festivals like (The Wedding) that had it’s artistic staff for the Hamilton Chamber Orchestra. Montreal and North Sea Jazz world premiere in Toronto in Currently he is on the Music Children’s Choir. He recently Original projects and collabo- Festivals, shared the stage with June 2011. Faculty at University at Buffalo, he served as interim percussion Both a recitalist and chamber rations include: Love Scene, Victor Wooten, Branford Walden Summer Music Camp, instructor at Acadia University, musician, some of her recent a multimedia project that Marsalis and Christian Andrea has also been nominated and composer in residence with and as a composer, percussion international highlights include performs improvised songs McBride, and opened for Jamie for a Juno for her recording of the Commonwealth Lyric Opera consultant, and performer for the Beethoven Festival in and soundscapes, Tarbelle, Cullum at The Hollywood Bowl. Canadian composer Peter in Boston, Massachusetts. the second season of the CBC , the BargeMusic a powerful duo with vocalist Elizabeth is also the only jazz Togni’s Responsio in with Jeff television show Canada’s Festival in New York, and the Andrea Koziol, and Zebrina, Jon vocalist to ever have been long Reilly, Suzie LeBlanc, Charles Smartest Person. He released Seattle Chamber Music Feldman’s original instrumental listed for the Polaris Prize – an Daniels and John Potter. his first solo album, Night, in Festival and most recently, the project, featuring avant-garde honour she has received twice. July 2014. Festival Pablo Casals de clarinetist Ben Goldberg. Prades, France.

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Gluttony Text by Chloe Charles

A. A.

We are so lonely We are so lonely So empty So empty We must eat We must eat Jesse Dietschi Rob Kempson Double Bass, Bass Creative Consultant Holes leaves us floating Holes leaves us floating With no meaning With no meaning Guitar We must hoard We must hoard

With performance credits Rob Kempson is a theatre artist Fill my holes Fill my holes ranging from orchestral soloist and educator, working as a Hungry Ghost Hungry Ghost to jazz session player, Toronto playwright, composer, I am nothing I am nothing bassist Jesse Dietschi is a performer, and director. truly versatile musician and Worthless I forgot my soul Worthless I forgot my soul composer equally experienced Director: Electric Messiah It’s all alone It’s all alone in jazz, classical, and popular (Soundstreams), The Ballad of Fighting Fighting music. Jesse has appeared Stompin’ Tom (Sudbury on international broadcasts Theatre Centre); The Canadian, I know not why so I deny my real existence I know not why so I deny my real existence including the CBC’s Sounds Maggie and Pierre, Million Fill me with rot for I am not here in my presence Fill me with rot for I am not here in my presence of the Season and Murdoch Dollar Quartet, Daisy Amazed Mysteries, and NBC’s hit show Me, Violet’s the Pilot, Rose’s Forgot I have Forgot I have Hannibal. Jesse is a member Clothes (Thousand Islands I am enough I am enough of the international touring Playhouse). Need no false subsistence Need no false subsistence ensemble Tunnel Six, contem- porary jazz outfit the Nick He was a member of the 2014 B. Maclean Quartet, and has Stratford Festival Playwrights’ performed with the Canadian Retreat, the 2015-16 Storefront Lure me into your den of sin Opera Company, Esprit Theatre Playwrights’ Unit, and Feed me riches to fill my thin Orchestra, Toronto Concert has been a Resident Artist Endless glutton Orchestra, Talisker Players, Educator at Young People’s Ceaseless growth Sony Centre/Attila Glatz Theatre and the RBC Intern Gratify me Productions, and Against Director for The Musical Stage Let us toast the Grain Theatre. Co. He is the past Artistic Producer of the Paprika Stimulate me till I cant feel As a composer and bandlead- Festival, the past Associate Kneel beneath me with grapes you’ve peeled er, Jesse leads the Catalyst Artistic Producer at Theatre Flesh in excess Ensemble, a Toronto-based Passe Muraille, and the past Stuff my holes chamber jazz hybrid ensemble Associate Artistic Director at It hurts so good that uses strings and rhythm the Thousand Islands Play- That I’ll take the toll section to perform genre- house. Rob works regularly as bending compositions. He has a community arts facilitator I’m hungry for you also performed, toured, and and curator, collectively recorded with a wide range of creating performances and artists including The Head- interactive exhibits with stones, Metric, the Gryphon community members. Trio, Robi Botos, Ken Lavigne, Tapestry Opera, Irene Torres and the Sugar Devils, and Mexico’s Festival de Febrero.

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Lust Text inspired by: Excerpts from Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs Excerpts from 1870 newspapers An anonymous joke

Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, Ho, ho, ho, ho ... (expirations) Sam run slow eyes over Tony’s body Tony Ho, ho, ho, ho… He does not hear smiling into his eyes No, not now She presses her mouth against his she moves back pulling him off the platform She puts on a record, into… He takes off his clothes with swift sure Catch thirty three Meshuggah His face swells with movements He close his eyes His face swells with blood and stands naked before her She moves in a slow circle eyes phosphorescent pulsing Slow circle he screams all the way She makes a motion for him She moves, She moves, She moves in a circle the rising sun burning over his body like She takes off her shirt gasoline moving her head around in a slow circle Tony ho, ho, ho, ho All right, boys Darling, darling The only doubt we have in the matter is lest sitting down naked on a pink silk dais some chicken-hearted man who couldn’t say no She takes off her shirt when asked to sign the petition Get with it! was hid behind his wife’s petticoat I want to Darling, I want to, please I want to ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… Tony screams like a bird the sky, sky Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… Today the case of the state will be tried A train The popularity of Dandelion Tonic Well, all right ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… It being know as a very valuable blowing Blood and Liver remedy He lies down on his back ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… Blood remedy He close his eyes sky ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… I understand you will print, you will print Does that hurt? over the names of those ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… you will print Ha, come along eyes ho, ho, ho, ho , ho , ho… A train roar through him whistle blowing She moves in a circle a scream shoots down a white hospital She moves slow in We are always delighted to receive notes a white hospital corridor Moving From the ladies, the rising sun fills the room with pink light Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho Time jump like a broken typewriter Ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha (expiration/inspiration) Written in a nice little delicate hand O……………n Ha (scream) We can assume the fair writer that we will hold Ktktktktktktktkt n………ah ! Ou her name in perfect confidence if she wishes

Are any Halloween monsters good at maths? No, unless you Count Dracula!

16 2018-2019 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 17 PERFORMANCE TEXT reaching for a leaf Wrath Text by Robin Dann Music and Original Text by Aviva Chernick Arranged by Aviva Chernick and James Rolfe Transcription and Creative Midwifery by James Rolfe Seeing a leaf, Expanded Sound Sourcing and Theatrical Consultant, Fides Krucker thinking of the world, Yiddish translation by Hindy Nosek-Abelson thinking of the leaf in the world, as an outline Dramaturgy and Text Consultant by Rabbi Bronwen Mullin

Seeing a leaf, thinking of the world, Thank you! thinking of the leaf in the world, as a language Each of the people who worked with me during this creation served, in a way, as midwife, to the text, to my voice and to the music itself helping me move it out of my body, onto the page and to In the world of a leaf, living a green dream you. eating that sunbeam for free, unaware of me James has been my primary partner on this adventure and an incredibly generous one encourag- ing with skill and wisdom. Fides has been my vocal guide for over a decade and her groundbreak- Incoming thought, existing from within ing work with the voice continues to be transformative. Bronwen, the Punk Rock opera, theatre making, Talmud scholar Rabbi, is my inspirational hevruta/my anger study partner for Jewish text. Reaching for the leaf Hindy Abelson has opened the door to Yiddish for me. It feels like a kind of homecoming. Thank you to my Soundstreams family for inviting me on this adventure.

In the world of Kabbalah that Rabbi Moses ben Nahman 1194-1270 (better known as Nachmanides) embodied there was no greater sin, no greater human frailty than unbridled Spirit Wrestlers anger. Text from The Hope Slide (1992) by Joan MacLeod Audio samples drawn from the film In Search of Utopia (1978) by Larry W. Ewashen. Two excerpts from the letter called Igeret Haramban that was written by Nachmanides to his son on his son’s wedding night, c 1267. The original text is in Hebrew.

Where are the Doukhobors now? They are in The angels of God are good thoughts. Each (from section 8) “Listen my son, speak gently at all times, with your head bowed, your eyes looking split-level houses with satellite dish-es, they are living thing a church where he lives. Watch me down to the ground.” in the cities, impossible to spot in a crowd. The breathe. Leaders. The Doukhobors were always Sons of Freedom are nearly gone— some went looking for a leader, someone to take them (from section 2) “Accustom yourself to speak all of your words calmly to every person and at every to South America, a few are still in prison. home, away from here. They knew this place time. In doing so you will be saved from anger which is a bad attribute in a person, which may Gilpin, the last Freedomite village, is just shacks was just temporary borrowed, their footprints cause them to sin.” now—poor, forlorn— like some of the re-serves barely formed before they would vanish. Poof. way up north. I am lost, lead me out. Take me by the hand, Tayere Tochter away from here. (written by Aviva Chernick in English, performed in Yiddish.) But I keep looking for them, watching for a flash of eyes at night, peering out, looking for a Dear Daughter, distant fire between the trees. Black work. They You know, you know injustice. used to say they were making a pillar of fire to Don’t look down. Look up, speak up, speak clearly. join the earth to heaven. I need them now, a You know, you know injustice. pack of rebels, lighting a fuse, making a protest, Be not afraid even though this is what I and those who came before me were taught. making a pillar of fire for all to see. Words swallowed and buried deep down becoming sickness. Anger turned in. Dear Daughter, this is not your inheritance. You know, you know injustice. Speak up and in doing so you will be liberated from this inheritance.

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Envy Text by Elizabeth Shepherd

You And me. There is no we - only you, and me.

Why me? What have I done to deserve this? Why me - not them?

Me - I deserve this. Me - not them.

In fairness, it’s justice I want Now where’s the harm in that? I don’t look for advantage, Just to make these wrongs right. A noble yearning, To correct the balance of life.

They possess all that I don’t, That which can’t be mine And shouldn’t be theirs to have - Not now, or forevermore.

Justice, like an arrow That can poison, once in flight

Let this poison flow To the young, the bold, The bright, the old The free, them of beauty Of talent, of joy The successful, the few Asking little of life, Whose blessings are doled And counted in spades. To those who’ve come before In time stretching back, And deep into the future, To all who breathe, All who walk this earth: Let this arrow go.

You and me - There is no we; Only you, and me.

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Creator’s Fund Friends Circle $500 – $999 Government James Baillie Q.C. Evelyn Aimis Lawrence and Linda Cherney David Fallis Vern and Frieda Heinrichs Elaine Gold Michael and Linda Hutcheon Ruth Manchee Kenins Michael and Sonja Koerner Kathleen McMorrow John McKellar Margaret Procter Lawrence and Donna Smith Alison Girling and Paul Schabas Kristine Vikmanis and Denton Creighton Kayla Seyler Stanley H. Witkin

$100 – $499 Premiere Circle $5,000 + Andrea Alexander Corporate Lawrence and Linda Cherney Gordon Best Philip Cowperthwaite and Susan Hunter Helen Burstyn In Memory of Jim Doherty Susan Cohen Vern and Frieda Heinrichs Anonymous Michael and Sonja Koerner Peter Deroche John McKellar Anne Douville Lawrence and Donna Smith Janne Duncan Kristine Vikmanis and Denton Creighton Anonymous Foundations Stanley H. Witkin Drew Fagan David Fisher Willem Hart S2,500 – $4,999 Patricia Herdman Margaret Grottenthaler Glenn Hodgins Michael and Linda Hutcheon Ani Hotoyan-Joly Katherine Smalley Karen & Fred Leitner An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario Neil and Carolyn Turnbull Don McLean Daniel Weinzweig & Nancy Nightingale Daphne Mitchell Ian Morrison THE KOERNER FOUNDATION Peter and Lynne Raxlen THE MARY-MARGARET WEBB FOUNDATION Sound Circle $1,000 – $2,499 Colleen Renihan THE CATHERINE AND MAXWELL MEIGHEN FOUNDATION Anonymous Bernard Schiff THE HAL JACKMAN FOUNDATION James Baillie Ryan Scott and Sanya Eng THE ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION Elisabeth Bihl and Frank Delling Richard Shallhorn THE LLOYD-CARR HARRIS FOUNDATION Paul Caston Sandra M. Shaul Gabriel De Roche Jini Stolk In-Kind Ben Dietschi Max Streicher Joseph and Lynne DiStefano Barbara Thompson Randall Howard & Judy McMullan Penelope Tyndale STEAMWHISTLE Ellen Karp & Bill Johnston Morden Yolles HARBORD BAKERY Elizabeth Mitchell and Robert Mansell Joyce Zemans Ronald and Margaret Slaght Season Partners Norm and Amanda Woo

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