Author Archive

Music For Archaeus: Compositions by Maya Badian, “Metamorphoses” piano duet with Chunson Park, LBCD-1015-2008 (2008).  

Music for Orchestra III, Ottawa: The Canadian Musical Heritage/Le patrimoine musical canadien, 1995, xl, 195 pp.

Performing Our Musical Heritage: Piano II, Ottawa: Clifford Ford Publications, 2004.

Piano Music II, Ottawa: The Canadian Musical Heritage/Le patrimoine musical canadien, 1986. xv, 282 pp. “It constitutes an important contribution to our overview of a part of our collective cultural experience.” – Gordana Lazarevich in the Canadian University Music Review (1991)

Piano Music I, Ottawa: The Canadian Musical Heritage/Le patrimoine musical canadien, xxiv, 246 pp. “Exceptionally well presented in facsimile format, the album has plentiful notes and documentation…” The Musical Times (1984)

Performing Our Musical Heritage: Piano I, Ottawa: Clifford Ford Publications, 2004.

The printed program of Mrs. Widder’s 1844 Soiree Musicale, a formal concert at her lavish Toronto home, lists eleven musicians performing opera, parlour ballads, and glees. This information helped trace the networks which drew a working tenor and leisured Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs into a brilliant program balancing aesthetics with social politics. The Widder program reveals how conventions linking class and gender with musical genre and local issues shaped the […]

Legend of the First Rabbit with Robert Cram, flutist, and Julian Armour, cello, Studea Musica CD (1999). La légende du premier lapin, un projet conjoint entre Studea Musican et la Galerie Jeannine Blais, comprend un disque compact, avec narration en anglais et en français, et un livre d’histoire illustré. La légende amérindienne canadienne choisie pour cette œuvre met en scène Glouscap, personnage clef de la culture wabanakie qui transformait la […]

Canadians at the Keyboard, Carleton Sound CD-1008 (2000). “Canadians at the Keyboard, featuring Elaine Keillor, is a valuable listening companion to the Historical anthology of Canadian Music. The recording is an eclectic collection of piano and organ compositions and transcriptions spanning from 1791-1939. The program notes are meticulously written and offer an excellent summary of important historical information. Dr. Keillor’s playing is clean and direct, and there are many outstanding […]