Neal Colgrass is producing a documentary of the life and work of his father, Toronto-based composer Michael Colgrass. He has shared a fascinating clip, that follows his father to the Arctic in 1989, to explain the birth of Arctic Dreams, a suite born of geography mixed with Inuit customs and lore.
I love the relationship between Colgrass’s score and its original inspiration — the relationship is clear, but the depiction is all about the composer’s own imagination.
http://youtu.be/Tro9q808Bqc
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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