{"id":19747,"date":"2014-07-15T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:08:02","slug":"toronto-composer-and-violinist-included-in-2014-polaris-music-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/07\/15\/toronto-composer-and-violinist-included-in-2014-polaris-music-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto composer and violinist included in 2014 Polaris Music Prize shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19748\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Owen-Pallett-Pekka-Kuusisto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Owen-Pallett-Pekka-Kuusisto.jpg\" alt=\"Composer Owen Pallett and Violinist Pekka Kuusisto, rehearsing his violin concerto  co-commissioned by the Barbican and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Owen-Pallett-Pekka-Kuusisto.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Owen-Pallett-Pekka-Kuusisto-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Owen Pallett and Violinist Pekka Kuusisto, rehearsing his violin concerto co-commissioned by the Barbican and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/blog\/2014-polaris-music-prize-short-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Polaris Music Prize shortlist<\/a> has just been released. Included on\u00a0the list is classical composer and award-winning indie-pop violinist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owenpalletteternal.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Pallett<\/a>, for his new CD\u00a0<em>In Conflict<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2014\/03\/02\/toronto-violinist-and-composer-owen-pallett-among-oscar-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\">recall<\/a>, Pallett premiered his Violin Concerto at the 2013 Toronto Symphony New Creations Festival with Pekka Kuusisto, and was also among the 2014 Oscar nominees for his participation in the score to the film <em>Her<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Arcade Fire \u2014 Reflektor<br \/>\nBasia Bulat \u2014 Tall Tall Shadow<br \/>\nMac DeMarco \u2014 Salad Days<br \/>\nDrake \u2014 Nothing Was The Same<br \/>\nJessy Lanza \u2014 Pull My Hair Back<br \/>\nOwen Pallett \u2014 In Conflict<br \/>\nShad \u2014 Flying Colours<br \/>\nTanya Tagaq \u2014 Animism<br \/>\nTimber Timbre \u2014 Hot Dreams<br \/>\nYAMANTAKA \/\/ SONIC TITAN \u2014 UZU<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced during the Polaris Gala at The Carlu in Toronto on September 22. The 11 member Grand Jury will be selected from the larger pool of 190 music journalists, broadcasters and music bloggers from across Canada who make up the Polaris jury.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to all the nominees!<\/p>\n<p>Michael Vincent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 Polaris Music Prize shortlist has just been released. Included on\u00a0the list is classical composer and award-winning indie-pop violinist Owen Pallett, for his new CD\u00a0In Conflict. Readers might recall, Pallett premiered his Violin Concerto at the 2013 Toronto Symphony New Creations Festival with Pekka Kuusisto, and was also among the 2014 Oscar nominees for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,5,39],"tags":[4773,2546],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Owen-Pallett-Pekka-Kuusisto.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-58v","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions\/19751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}