In Passing: A Moving, Multi-disciplinary Testament

by admin on January 15, 2012

Many, many thanks to all who attended In Passing at the Western Front November 12 & 13.  We were so proud to be a part of Vancouver’s 125th celebrations, and incredibly moved by your heartfelt response. Photos of Apparition (music by George Crumb; text by Walt Whitman) Heather Pawsey, soprano Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano Tara Cheyenne [...]

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Astrolabe Musik Theatre Presents ‘In Passing’

by admin on September 15, 2011

A multidisciplinary work on mourning & mortality with Heritage Vancouver, Tara Cheyenne Performance, and SD Holman Part of the City of Vancouver’s 125 anniversary celebrations What is time, and how do we perceive it?  In the midst of life, how do we regard and acknowledge death?  How can we honour and celebrate the present without [...]

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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL Rocks the Rain!!

by admin on May 16, 2011

Wow!  Despite the unseasonably damp day, approximately 200 people braved the elements to embark on a rockin’ adventure with Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – Astrolabe’s 10th “New Music in New Places” concert. Led from site to site by our trusty tour guides, these hardy souls discovered “hidden treasure” in the Copper Sulphate Shed; took part in some [...]

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Astrolabe Presents: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A New Music in New Places Concert at Britannia Mine

April 26, 2011

A moveable concert through the historic buildings and artifacts of the Britannia Mine, once the largest copper mine in the British Empire, now an award-winning Museum and National Historic Site!  An all-contemporary, all-Canadian concert featuring the music of Clifford Crawley, Jocelyn Morlock, Jeffrey Ryan, R. Murray Schafer, Norman Symonds, and more, and featuring the WORLD [...]

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Astrolabe presents Tasting Notes at Richmond’s Minoru Chapel

January 6, 2011
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TASTING NOTES Minoru Chapel Opera Series Imbibe an effervescent program devoted to the pleasures of the glass! TASTING NOTES:  “Full-bodied and harmonious.  Well-structured and stylish, featuring rich colours with sparkling accents.  Astonishing artistry with a beguiling beginning and a flavourful finish.” Gabriel Charpentier’s chamber opera A Tea Symphony, or, The Perils of Clara – a [...]

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Astrolabe Presents the Lulu Series: Opera Meets Rap in Richmond, BC

January 6, 2011
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THE LULU SERIES:  ART IN THE CITY City of Richmond Opera Meets Rap Set up on an artistic “blind date” for the Tomorrow Collective’s Brief Encounters, soprano Heather Pawsey and DJ Timothy Wisdom learned each other’s musical language and synthesised their styles.  Two weeks later they’d introduced opera to rap and created a smash-hit love-child. [...]

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Astrolabe Unveils New Directions for 2011

December 5, 2010

APPARITIONS Music on Main:  A Month of Tuesdays Come – reconsider.  Sex.  Religion.  Death. A three-cycle exploration of the mystical, the sensual, and the transcendent, John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs, Leslie Uyeda’s The First Woman and George Crumb’s Apparition have, at their core, intensely personal, erotic relationships with “God” and mortality – attempting, with passion and conviction, [...]

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