The Big Purple School: Hay River
From Inuvik back to Yellowknife, then on to a Buffalo Airways plane waiting to whisk us to Listen Up stop #4, Hay River. Apparently, [...]
North of North: Inuvik
Stop #3 on the Listen Up tour: Inuvik. At 68.4°N latitude, we were a couple of degrees north of the Arctic Circle, and as [...]
Way Up River: Norman Wells
Our next Listen Up stop was Norman Wells. Only accessible by air for much of the year. Population ca. 800. Norman Wells is an [...]
First Stop: Yellowknife
The Listen Up tour began last week when composer Carmen Braden and I arrived under cover of darkness (which, in the Arctic in November, does not [...]
If you need me, I’ll be on the Mackenzie
I’m off to Yellowknife (again, the third time this year) to start a three-week tour of the Northwest Territories in conjunction with the Gryphon [...]
Old, but new to me
I’ve been a composer for a long time now, almost twenty years since I finished my doctoral degree in Cleveland. I’ve written for all [...]