“Exquisite,” I thought, “is a bold promise.” But the PEISO did not disappoint…Linda Bouchard’s “Exquisite Fires” made a striking contrast with the Haydn…
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour…
…One work on Saturday’s program, Linda Bouchard’s The House of Words, did away with all dramatic convention…
It’s a hallucinatory distillation of the real-life experiences of dancer-choreographer Aisan Hoss…
It started with children’s voices and evolved into electronic textures from which acoustical instruments…
Murderous Little World features a versatile three-man ensemble of brass and accordion – Bellows and Brass – that…
…a mesmerizing multi-media combination of music, video, and theatre …
Linda Bouchard’s “Gassho,” for instance, combined its piano part with a prerecorded haze of Tibetan Bowl tones…
Linda Bouchard’s remarkable expressionist work, Songs for an Acrobat, based on eight poems by the Quebec poet…
Bouchard uses a prepared piano, with various screws and mutes, creating a gently percussive set of sounds as a…
Rehearing this jewel of many colours after all these years was a treat, particularly since Nézet-Séguin and…
…given its American premiere was Linda Bouchard’s refreshing “Liquid States.” Here, the Canadian…
The music is restless and energetic, hanging by its fingertips from total disintegration by a firmly ordered succession…
Two weeks ago, on the opening night of ODC’s Dance annual “Dancing Downtown” season, the revival of co-artistic…
As David Finn’s stark lighting and Linda Bouchard’s score evoke an ominous atmosphere, dancers splinter…
The lithe, playful interaction of sounds, rhythms, and timbres lends this attractive work an airy, dance-like vitality and…
Bouchard insists on the abstraction of her work, it also sounds very natural. Her inspiration flows from the instruments…
The highlight of these was the world premiere of the very Canadianly-titled Neiges. A theme and variations…
Bouchard’s work is full of timbral puns that play on the similarities of tone lurking within very different instruments…
The instruments may be played unconventionally, but nothing sounds strained or forced. Her structures, too, had a deeply…
…kept the emotional temperature high… not a demonstrative solo but a central protagonist in this effective…
…Yes, this truly was an extraordinary event. Curiously, you might say, that with all that we enjoyed in this event…
The instruments offer considerable timbral variety. And “Ductwork”, which floats in and out of tonality, varies the textures…
Immediately striking. Full of musical ideas, an especially refined sense of orchestration and a glimpse into something…
Linda Bouchard’s LungTa came in five movements and a coda, with elements of world music about it that might be…
Nothing in the earlier music I’d heard by local conductor Linda Bouchard prepared me for the effective theatricalism…
Bouchard’s ‘Tokpela’ was a tour-de-force that called to mind a latter-day answer to Varèse’s ‘Ionisation’…
…the slickly professional pointillism of Linda Bouchard’s ‘Transi-Blanc’ is rooted in East Coast avant-garde chamber music…
… one of Canada’s brightest ‘New Music’ talents… She has quickly established the ground work for…
… A chimerical tapestry of rarified sounds… Miss Bouchard does have an undeniable gift for creating eloquent sonorities…
