Ok. So this isn’t the most recent news, but I’ve been meaning to post about The Canadian Music Centre’s fantastic new search engine for music by Canadian composers, Centre Streams.

Use this search interface to find scores available for loan, rental and/or for purchase from the CMC. Also, listen and view sample works and music by CMC’s Associate Composers. To find Published Scores available for purchase, please visit CMC Boutique.

Tapestry composers on Centre Streams include Abigail Richardson, Jeffrey Ryan and Andrew Staniland.

Click here to listen to Abigail Richardson’s Mother Everest (with librettist Marjorie Chan) from Tapestry’s Opera to Go 2004.

• Performers: Lynne McMurtry, soprano; Ian Funk, baritone; Tapestry new opera works; Wayne Strongman, conductor. From a concert in the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, broadcast on the TWO NEW HOURS programme on CBC radio. There is commentary pertaining to this work, with host Larry Lake in conversation with composers Abigail Richardson, James Rolfe and director Wayne Strongman, before the actual work. On the archived .wav file, the work itself begins at 10:00, after the commentary.

Click here to listen to Jeffrey Ryan’s The Laurels (with librettist Michael Lewis MacLennan) from Tapestry’s Opera to Go 2002.

• This concert version: performed by Charlene Pauls, soprano; Mel Braun, baritone; The Winnipeg Symphony Chamber ensemble; Michelle Moore, conductor.

Photo Credtis: (Top) Lynne McMurtry & Ian Funk in Mother Everest – Opera to Go 2004, (c) Michael Cooper.  (Bottom) Laura Whalen & Steven Pitkanen in The Laurels – Opera to Go 2002, (c) Chris Thomaidis