How can music influence the ways in which we remember and connect with history?<\/p>\n
Soundstreams\u2019 first Encounters<\/em> of 2019 explores these questions in an evening of performance and discussion, featuring David Buchbinder and Lawrence Cherney with music from David Buchbinder and Hilario Duran from their JUNO award-winning Odessa\/Havana.<\/em> Remembering the past can be painful; it can also be celebratory. Through the lens of two distinct musical projects, Steve Reich\u2019s Different Trains<\/em> and David Buchbinder\u2019s Odessa\/Havana<\/em>, Lawrence Cherney (Artistic Director, Soundstreams) and David Buchbinder (musician, composer, producer) present two contrasting perspectives on how music and memory intersect.<\/p>\n American composer Steve Reich\u2019s \u201cDifferent Trains\u201d is a work (for string quartet and tape) he created to bear musical witness to the Holocaust.\u00a0 It is a meditation on Reich\u2019s childhood train trips across the US in the 1940s, with the realization that as a Jew, had he grown up in Europe at that time, those train journeys would have had a very different outcome.<\/p>\n David Buchbinder\u2019s Odessa\/Havana<\/em>, a collaboration with Cuban-born pianist, Hilario Dur\u00e1n, is a project that also bears witness through music and unites memories from miles apart. The cities of Odessa and Havana share cultural roots, and David\u2019s ensemble reflects on these by exploring Jewish and Cuban music\u2019s little-known common ancestry.<\/p>\n Encounters is a free performance and discussion series, held at The Gladstone Hotel. Discover and engage with Soundstreams music, artists, and themes in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.<\/p>\n About Soundstreams: https:\/\/soundstreams.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Doors at 7 PM<\/p>\n Discussion and Performance: 7:30-8: 30 pm.<\/p>\n Free Admission.<\/p>\n