WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

DIANE LABROSSE, JOHN OSWALD AND PIERRE TANGUAY

8:00PM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24
SCOTIA BANK DANCE CENTRE

SET 1

NOW

IMPROVISATION

COAT COOKE REEDS AND FLUTE

THE GREAT BLUE ORB AND
THE WELL HUNG CHADs*
COAT COOKE
Duo IMPROV
HAMMETT-VAUGHAN,
SAMWORTH
THE LOWEST TIDE*
JOHN KORSRUD
D'UNE MARE A L'AUTRE*
PIERRE TANGUAY

ORCHESTRA

KATE HAMMETT-VAUGHAN VOICE

COAT COOKE is the NOW Orchestra Artistic Director and one of
Canada's most lyrical and inventive saxophonists and composers. His
work has included a wide selection projects with dance, theatre, multi-media
and film over the last thirty years. Coat has toured Canada, the USA
and Europe performing in major festivals in Berlin, Lisbon and Chicago,
and his collaborations include work with George Lewis, Wadada Leo
Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Butch Morris, and most recently with Marilyn
Crispell. His latest Coat Cooke Trio recording, Up Down Down Up, is
available on Cellar Live Records at www.cellarlive.com. Coda Magazine
says: "Cooke's mercurial wayward blowing heating up and blasting out
and his trio's utter togetherness at all times."

RON SAMWORTH GUITAR

DIANE LABROSSE has appeared regularly on contemporary, improvised

CLYDE REED BASS

and avant-garde music stages both in Canada and in Europe, where she
has performed at a number of important festivals. In recent years she
has been especially active in creating music for dance (for Gilles Simard,
Catherine Tardif, and Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood), for the theatre
Thirty-eight tales from Shakespeare, for the cinema Montreal vu par ...,
Pendant que les arbres tombent, L'Entrevue and Plan de fuite and for
radio Le Navire «Night» and Les decrocheurs d'etoiles.

BRUCE FREEDMAN ALTO SAXOPHONE
SAUL BERSON REEDS AND FLUTE
GRAHAM ORD REEDS AND FLUTE
KEVIN ELASCHUK TRUMPET
JOHN KORSRUD TRUMPET
ROD MURRAY TROMBONE
BRAD MUIRHEAD BASS TROMBONE

p AUL BLANEY BASS

SET 2

SPECIAL GUESTS

RIEN NE PLUS*
JOHN OSWALD

DIANE LABROSSE ELECTRONICS
PIERRE TANGUAY PERCUSSION

JOHN OSWALD SAXOPHONE
STRING QUARTET IMPROVISATION
BLANEY, REED, DUNAWAY,
GUEST STRING PLAYERS
BHATTACHARYA
REBECCA WHITLING VIOLIN
TRIO IMPROVISATION
BLAINE DUNAWAY VIOLIN
LABROSSE,TANGUAY,OSWALD
BRIAN Mix cELLo
BRASS QUARTET
SHANTO BHATTACHARYA CELLO
AND DRUMS IMPROVISATION
PRODUCTION STAFF
ANIMAL TALES
DIANE LABROSSE
KRISTA LOMAX VIDEO MIXER

* WORLD PREMIERES
COMMISSIONED BY
THE NOW ORCHESTRA

COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES

CHRIS GESTRIN RECORDING ENGINEER
GALIA GOODWIN STAGE MANAGER
DAVE CHOKROUN HOUSE MANAGER
STEVE BAGNELL PRODUCTION
ASSISTANT

ALI..YSONMCGRANE ADMINISTRATION
EMMA LANCASTER PUBLICIST
JENNIFER SMITH BARTENDER

JOHN OSWALD is "the most famous person who is not very well known,"

says composer Tom Third. In 1990, Oswald's most notorious recording,
Plunderphonic, was destroyed by prudes in the Recording Industry
representing Michael Jackson. He has since released recordings on
Elektra, Avant, ReR Megacorp, Blast First, & Swell, featuring
transformations of the music and performances of Stravinsky, Metallica,
James Brown, Gyorgy Ligeti, Dolly Parton, Sonic Youth, & many others.
Grayfolded, the first disc of his Grateful Dead production, was selected
as the #1 international recording of the decade by The Toronto Sun. In
the same year Acoustics, his album of improvised music, was a #1 critic's
selection in Coda Magazine. The GrayFolded Package, completed the
following year, was selected for best of the year lists in Rolling Stone,
The New York Times and many other publications. A recent retrospective
CD box-set of Plunderphonic works has been called "mind-numbingly
amazing" by Peter Kenneth in Rolling Stone, and made Spin Magazine's
top 10 list.
PIERRE TANGUAY is a percussionist, composer and inveterate inventor
whose music shows the wide range of his experience in ancient and
contemporary music, jazz, and music for dance, theatre and cinema. He
plays with some 20 established groups, such as Dangereux Zhoms,
Evidence, Castor et compagnie and Karen Young, and is the founder of
Strada, Midi Tapant and Derome Tanguay Danse. He has produced five

albums and collaborated closely on some 50 others, and has more than
20 compositions for dance (Lucie Gregoire, Andrew Harwood, Irene
Stamou and Francine Gagne) and a number for theatre and film (Allan
Booth, Imago and Roberto Ariganello) to his credit. He regularly tours
throughout Canada and Europe.
JOHN KORSRUD is a Vancouver composer and bandleader. John is the

leader of The 17-piece new music ensemble The Hard Rubber Orchestra
and 20-piece salsa/latin-jazz Orquesta Goma Dura. As a composer he has
been commissioned by The Vancouver Symphony, The CBC Radio
Orchestra, numerous European ensembles and several film documentary
scores such as Heroines and Prisoners of Age. This year sees John create
three scores for various Dutch ensembles and a Cello Concerto for Peggy
Lee and Vancouver's Turning Point Ensemble. John is the recipient of
The Canada Council's Joseph S. Stauffer Prize and the second Canadian
to be awarded the prestigious Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy.

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