Xenia Pestova Bennett

Gayle Young: As Trees Grow

by John Eyles
April 29, 2022

Born in St Catharines, Ontario, in 1950, Gayle Young has had an abundance of eclectic music-related roles during her career. In addition to her being a composer and performer, these have included designing and building new musical instruments, sound sculpting and installations, journalism (she wrote for Musicworks from 1978 and was its managing editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2007) and other writing--notably, The Sackbut Blues (1990), a biography of electronic music pioneer Hugh Le Caine. Given all ...