Brief updates

• Mercury Records have confirmed Arcade Fire will release their third album next year.
• If you missed Nico Muhly and Richard Reed Parry with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony I've got something for you - all you other clever people who did listen to it also of course. First up a recording of the whole thingy that was broadcasted. If you're only interested in Richard's involvement in the concert you're probably best off downloading this. It only features the interview with Richard and his orchestral piece "For Orchestra and Heart and Breath" which you can read more about here. Oh and both of these are mp3 recordings.
  

Juilliard-trained string players on LP3

Yeah, so says Richard Reed Parry in this interview with Eye Weekly about tonight's concert with Nico Muhly and the KWSO.

Juilliard-trained string players! ...still, my heart!

CBC Radio 2 to the rescue

As previously reported here and here Nico Muhly and Richard Reed Parry together with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony are today (Oct 29th) performing in Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. For all us who can't be there CBC Radio 2 comes to the rescue. On November 25th The Signal will broadcast the concert. Fantastic news.

CBC News has put up a good article in which they talk to both Nico Muhly and Richard Reed Parry about how this concert came about.

Further more local people can go to the concert for free! Call 416.408.0208 and use promo code 72737 (max 2 tickets each).

Richard's Scrapbook 2009-10-18

For Heart, Breath and Orchestra

Thursday, October 29, at 8:00pm
Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto

For Heart, Breath and Orchestra is the third in a series of compositions which use automatic/involuntary muscles in the human body (specifically the lungs and the heart) as the performance parameters. All of the notes are read from a score, but the tempos at which they are played are governed by either the heart rate or breathing rate of the individual players, or the conductor. During the performance, many of the performers wear stethoscopes which enable them to play in synch with their own heartbeats.

But you guys who follow this blog already knew about this event since I made a post about it almost a month ago. I'd have loved to been able to go see this!

Nico & Richard

Oy, you lucky Toronto people. Don't miss this!

Nico’s Choice
Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
8:00 PM
Koerner Hall
Genre: Pop, Classical: Orchestra


Nico Muhly and Richard Reed Parry with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Edwin Outwater, conductor He's composing for an opera (for the MET), writing film scores (for The Reader ) and working with rock's most engaging musicians (Bjork, Grizzly Bear, Antony and the Johnsons)... all at the ripe age of 27! Meet Nico, hear some of his favourite music, and meet his friend Richard Reed Perry (from Arcade Fire), who is composing a new piece specially for the KWS.

The Royal Conservatory: Nico's Choice