Archive for January, 2017

To Music: Canadian Song Cycles. With Wanda Procyshyn, soprano. Carleton Sound, 2010. Collaborator with Wanda Prochshyn in recording of nine song cycles by Canadian composers, never previously recorded. Excerpts from Reviews include: 1) Richard Todd of Ottawa Citizen, 11/9/2010 – 4 stars. “…there is likable and engaging music here, expertly sung by Procyshyn and sympathetically accompanied by Keillor. Only two of the nine composers represented in this collection are living. […]

Remembered Voices, with Ralitsa Tcholakova, violin, Carleton Sound CD-1012 (2008). Scott Locke of the IAWM Journal 16/1 (2010) – “Remembered Voices, featuring violinist Ralitsa Tcholakova and pianist Elaine Keillor, presents a somewhat unusual program at first glance, but the liner notes reveal a number of connective threads neatly tying the program and artists together….”  John S. Gray in The Whole Note (Feb.-March 2009) – “As a violin and piano recording, […]

A Little Knight Music: Selected Works by Sir Maurice Grove Taylor. With Birgit Knecht, violin, Joan Harrison, cello. CD Enterprising Rabbit, 2012. General Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, KCB, CMG, DSO (1881-1961) led a fascinating life, retiring at the age of 60 as commanding officer of the Royal Engineers in England. His passionate avocation, though, was to compose music. As a child he had been surrounded by music because his father […]

Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006, x, 499 pp. Paperback edition, 2008. “…Keillor’s knowledge and experience of Canadian music is vast and insightful. She has written a book that allows the reader to discover and celebrate the music of Canada in all of its diversity.” J. Drew Stephen in CAML Review (2007)

Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America, (Assisted with advice from Timothy Archambault and Dr. John Medicine Horse Kelly), Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press ABC-CLIO, 2013. “This encyclopedia will be useful for budding ethnomusicologists and for libraries supporting undergraduate programs in music or Native American studies. Summing Up: Recommended.” – Choice “This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries that focus on music or Native Americans.” – ARBA “This […]

John Weinzweig and His Music: the Radical Romantic of Canada. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. xviii, 316 pp. …a well-researched, authoritative study that deserves to be in all college and conservatory libraries…includes excellent music lists, discography, and bibliography. CHOICE Elaine Keillor provides a useful monograph on an important composer from Canada. American Music

Sounds of North: Two Centuries of Canadian Piano Music. 4-CD set, Gala Records, GAL-108, 2012. A four-CD survey of Canadian piano works spanning 200 years.  John Teraud says: “Thank goodness there is someone like Keillor, a devoted contributor to the storehouse assembled by the Canadian Musical Heritage Society, champion of women composers, the musical traditions of First Nations and of new music. Keillor has an unaffected, elegant playing style that neatly […]

By a Canadian Lady: Piano Music 1841-1997, Carleton Sound CD-1006 (2000). Jon Gonder in CAML Review 29/1 – “The title of this disc aptly describes the intent of this recording: it is a collection of piano music written entirely by female composers of Canada. A total of 18 selections are included in a variety of styles…. Dr. Keillor has admirably designed and performed this compilation, and it stands as a […]

Views of the Piano Sonata, Carleton Sound CD-1002 (1998). “The unassuming title of this disc, Views of the Piano Sonata, hardly does justice to the pianist, whose fine ‘view’ achieves the triple coup of introducing four substantial yet infrequently heard works by women writing in that genre, of presenting an opportunity for comparison with compositions by male peers, and of offering the listener a fresh listening experience in the form at […]