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Cheryl Duvall: The Plains

Read "The Plains" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
December 25, 2025

Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith was born in New York City in 1957. She began her composition studies in high school in New York and continued music study at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1977 she went to Canada to study composition and theory at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. In 1981 she moved to Toronto. In 1986 she was invited by Morton Feldman to attend his lectures at SUNY Buffalo, NY, as a guest. Her compositions have been ...

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Anna Höstman, Cheryl Duvall: Harbour

by John Eyles
February 5, 2020

When the Another Timbre label issued the ten albums of its Canadian Composers Series in two batches in 2017-18, including releases by Linda Catlin Smith, Cassandra Miller and Lance Austin Olsen among others, the reaction of some Canadians was that the genie had been let out of the bottle and more Canadian composers were sure to follow those in the series. At the time, Another Timbre proprietor Simon Reynell wrote, “ I could happily produce another ten CDs covering music ...

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Fonya: Upper Level Open Space

Read "Upper Level Open Space" reviewed by Michael Askounes

by Michael Askounes
October 1, 2000

Fonya’s Upper Level Open Space is the sixth release from an extremely talented composer and performer named Chris Fournier, a performer who not only composed and arranged all the tracks on the release but also plays every single note of sound on the CD as well. The artist’s style adroitly combines the best qualities of both new age and symphonic rock, focusing on the former’s trance-like sounds and the latter’s emotional aggressiveness with fantastic results. One minute you’ll be “zoning ...