Kierkegaard, Strolling through Toronto

Kierkegaard, Walking is one of my favorite of my works; I look through the score and get a smile from every measure. My former student Max Scheinin, a violinist, has arranged a performance of it for this Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 PM at St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto, 270 Gladstone Ave. The other performers are Jamie Thompson, flute; Camilo Davila, clarinet; and Lucas Tensen, cello. Other composers on the program include Bernstein, Bach, and Nils Vigeland, a superb composer who worked closely with Feldman as part of the Creative Associates in Buffalo, and with whom I haven't been in touch in years. Thanks, Max!

November 8, 2009 9:51 PM | | Comments (3) |

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Thanks for the plug, Kyle! We're really looking forward to performing your Kierkegaard, Walking later this week, such a sublime work. It should sound particularly evocative in the domed sanctuary of St. Anne's! Cheers, Jamie

Hi Kyle, I'm a student of Dr. Vigeland's at MSM. It's good to see his work getting played! Dr. V is much loved by the students and faculty here, and I think that it's thanks to his talent that MSM has such a good, diverse composition department.

Hey Kyle.
Are you a Kierkegaard fan? I'm something of a
kierkegaardian existentialist myself. As a teen I discovered Kiekegaard and Ives, and they have influenced me ever since. I was a very weird youngster.

KG replies: Sure, Richard, I spent a year of college reading nothing but Kierkegaard, and eventually went through about half his books. When I went to Copenhagen I wrote a series of posts about walking in his footsteps:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/09/hero_of_the_subjective.html

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