{"id":49731,"date":"2017-12-07T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=49731"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:58:11","slug":"scoop-calgary-philharmonic-orchestra-drops-early-christmas-gift-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/12\/07\/scoop-calgary-philharmonic-orchestra-drops-early-christmas-gift-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP |\u00a0Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Drops Surprise Christmas Gift For All Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49734\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/1718_CPO_Meludia_Programme_Goes_Live.jpg\" alt=\"Meludia Goes Live: Paul Dornian, President and CEO, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Meludia Vice President Kevin Kleinmann, CPO donor Jeremy Clark, Meludia CEO Bastien Sannac, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Rune Bergmann. (Photo courtesy CPO)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/1718_CPO_Meludia_Programme_Goes_Live.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/1718_CPO_Meludia_Programme_Goes_Live-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/1718_CPO_Meludia_Programme_Goes_Live-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meludia Goes Live: Paul Dornian, President and CEO, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Meludia Vice President Kevin Kleinmann, CPO donor Jeremy Clark, Meludia CEO Bastien Sannac, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Rune Bergmann. (Photo courtesy CPO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra has unveiled an early Christmas present for Canada\u2019s classical music community at large.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a landmark partnership with Meludia, an online musicianship resource, music literacy is now within easy reach of all internet users from within the country. The platform will be free to access from Canadian IP addresses until December 5, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Newly-installed for the Calgary Philharmonic\u2019s 2017-18 season, music director Rune Bergmann wasted no time in implementing the initiative early in his tenure, together with the orchestra\u2019s president and CEO Paul Dornian. \u201cThe first thing I thought when I came here: \u2018this should be an orchestra for the world,\u2019\u201d Bergmann revealed at Wednesday\u2019s news conference in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>CPO Mus.Dir. Rune Bergmann\u2019s welcome message to Meludia users:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX3c2cWH-4M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMusic literacy is a basic human right,\u201d announced Kevin Kleinmann, vice president of Meludia. \u201cYou will not find a civilization or a society in this world who does not have music in their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service is projected to reach up to 40 million people by December 2018, including 35.2 million Canadians and millions of visitors to the country. \u201cTo our knowledge, there\u2019s never been an educational deployment of this size done anywhere,\u201d said Kleinmann.<\/p>\n<p>Kleinmann\u2019s vision extends further than granting public access to the online platform: for him, the initiative will help fill concert halls in the longer-term. \u201cIf you have a musically-literate public, you\u2019re going to have an audience. If they have ears that understand music more than just pretty melodies, they\u2019re going to want to hear concerts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meludia\u2019s approach to music literacy is based on strengthening aural musicianship, in contrast to the visual nature of a conventional music theory education. Interactive modules adapt to users of all levels \u2014 from children, to uninitiated individuals, to professional musicians. Cognitive science is integrated into fun exercises, complementing music pedagogy methods such as Orff, Dalcroze and Kod\u00e1ly.<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with its pan-Canadian launch, Meludia is embarking on a tour across the country to introduce the platform to remote communities as well as institutions such as hospitals, Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia care centres, schools, and prisons.<\/p>\n<p>With this deployment, Canada joins Estonia and Malta in enabling nation-wide access to Meludia. Last year, Meludia was also made available to students and faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Paris, Meludia was a finalist in the 2015 SXSW Festival\u2019s \u201cBest Music Innovator\u201d category. It is available as a mobile app as well as on the web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra\/Meludia offer can be accessed <\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meludia.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong> within Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><b><i>#LUDWIGVAN<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><i>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and reviews before anyone else finds out? Follow us on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><i>Facebook<\/i><\/u><\/a><i>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LudwigVanTO\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><i>Twitter<\/i><\/u><\/a><i>\u00a0for all the latest.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48756 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/LudwigVan-head-text-looking_right.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"35\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/LudwigVan-head-text-looking_right.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/LudwigVan-head-text-looking_right-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/LudwigVan-head-text-looking_right-768x1213.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/LudwigVan-head-text-looking_right-648x1024.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 35px) 100vw, 35px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_business\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra has unveiled an early Christmas present for Canada\u2019s classical music community at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":49734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,14,36,39,61],"tags":[14610,14611],"yst_prominent_words":[14600,7538,14596,6715,14617,14613,14620,14598,6616,6648,14614,14612,14597,6613,14619,6981,14036,14615,14616,14618],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/1718_CPO_Meludia_Programme_Goes_Live.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-cW7","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49731"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49739,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49731\/revisions\/49739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49731"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}