{"id":13143,"date":"2013-06-18T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:59:19","slug":"this-evening-a-short-little-sundowner-of-new-works-by-composer-andrew-ager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/06\/18\/this-evening-a-short-little-sundowner-of-new-works-by-composer-andrew-ager\/","title":{"rendered":"This evening: A ‘short little sundowner’ of new works by composer Andrew Ager"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Ager (Tara McMullen photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the benefits of having Andrew Ager back in Toronto and back at St James Cathedral is also having more of his music around, like at a concert starting there today at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

On the programme are two of Ager’s works, with the composer at the piano: Divertimento for Cello and Piano<\/em>, written in memory of Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, with Mary-Katherine Finch as soloist; and four Goethe Lieder<\/em>, with mezzo Vicki St Pierre.<\/p>\n

I’m a huge fan of Ager’s aesthetic, which mixes old classical forms with his own tonally slippery idiom — an aesthetic that would have made C\u00e9sar Franck and the old masters of the 19th century Schola Cantorum in Paris beam with pride.<\/p>\n

For more info about Ager, click here<\/a>. If you need a taste of Ager’s sensibility, here is Prelude & Fugue<\/em>, Op. 30, No. 1:<\/p>\n