SATURDAY • JULY 15 • 10:30PM

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THE CREW

PIANISTS
Murray McLachlan
Michael Massey
Stéphan Sylvestre
Jason Cutmore
Charlie Austin

SPEAKER
John Dyck


John Dyck is a lecturer in philosophy at Baruch College and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the City University of New York. A proud native of Edmonton, John grew up in the Beverly area—his only broken bone is from a sledding accident in Rundle Park. He has since studied philosophy of art in Winnipeg, Philadelphia, and New York City. He has published articles in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Journal of Value Inquiry. John lives in Brooklyn. He loves the music of Shostakovich, Bach, and Kanye West.

Murray McLachlan

Michael Massey

Stéphan Sylvestre

Jason Cutmore

Charlie Austin

A Light & Frothy Musical Intoxication by British, French & American Composers
The “un-Canadian” Anniversary:
A Musical Tribute to Canada’s (bff) Friends

Canadians have been celebrating Canada all year long, as right we should. But Canadians are known internationally for their generosity, friendliness, and lack of overt nationalism. This programme takes a moment out of the Canada-centered celebrations to pay tribute to three nations whose cultures have been deeply formative to our own since our founding in 1867. This rollicking programme promises to be the wildest musical ride of the 2017 Alberta Pianofest!

Programme

Tragic Propaganda, or Tragically Hip?:
Can art be great if it’s nationalistic?
Talk by John Dyck

Ronald Stevenson
(1928-2015)		 ‘A’e Gowden Lyric’,
trans. Murray McLachlan (2015)
John McLeod
(b. 1934)		 Hebridean Dances(1981)
Francis George Scott
(1880-1958)		 ‘There’s news, lasses, news’,
trans. Ronald Stevenson (1963)
Murray McLachlan
   
John Ireland
(1879-1962)		 Greenways
The Cherry Tree
Cyprus
The Palm and May
Michael Massey
   
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)		 Une barque sur l’océan
Stéphan Sylvestre
L.M. Gottschalk
(1829-1869)		 Souvenir de Havane
The Banjo
Jason Cutmore

plus a surprise musical offering from the inimitable jazz pianist Charlie Austin

Tickets:

Adult $15 / Student $10. Only 50 tickets available in advance and at door! NO PASSES.

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Much of our favourite art appeals to shared identities. We like Stompin’ Tom or the Tragically Hip because they speak to us as Canadians. Punk music speaks to rebels; Debussy and Proust appeal to urbane aesthetes. Can art ever be great if it springs from a tribalistic or nationalistic impulse? Or does that make it worse? And does classical music somehow transcend this kind of tribalism?