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CANNOPY partners with IDAGIO!
Plus an exclusive interview with John Adams on his latest compositions
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DANE THIBEAULT
Dear Reader,
Some ideas require time to grow, and some make sense from the moment they arrive. When we first had the idea to partner with IDAGIO — the global leader for streaming classical music — it was immediately clear that something had clicked. Here at Cannopy, our mission is always to share art that inspires, and that includes great music. In IDAGIO, we’ve found the perfect partner to share high-quality recordings from our favourite composers, many of who we’ve presented in conversation. So we are sincerely delighted to launch this editorial partnership IDAGIO, bringing you exclusive access to everything that this platform offers. Subscribe to IDAGIO today and get your first 30 days on us!
This special edition of TORPA reads like a grocery list of all the things we love about IDAGIO. It starts with an in-depth profile on how IDAGIO has innovated on streaming classical music — written by Toronto’s Gianmarco Segato. Next, join us in conversation with IDAGIO’s founder, Till Janczukowicz, as he talks about the current state of the recording industry. Till reminds us that the music business must always put the music first, so this partnership launch wouldn’t be complete without inviting one of our favourite musicians — and one of the most celebrated living composers today — John Adams. Also, for the uninitiated, we thought it’d be great to introduce you to IDAGIO through a list of albums we’re listening to this month.
As always, thank you for tuning in to our big-tent-approach to independent arts journalism. We’re excited to have you along this journey as we begin this partnership in music.
Thank you for giving us a read!
—The Cannopy Team
WORDS BY GIANMARCO SEGATO
Back in the bad old days of the early noughties, a recording-obsessed classical music lover might have found cause for celebration with the advent of Apple iTunes. Finally, a digital space to access a potentially infinite supply of recordings both old and new, with the bonus of clearing one’s shelves of CD clutter. For anyone who tried, however, iTunes turned out to be terrible for classical. Uploading tracks from CDs took hours with even more time wasted putting them back in the album’s original order which iTunes somehow deemed as unimportant. Even more frustrating was the default “Artist/Album/Track” labeling ─ which works well enough for pop and rock ─ but is insufficient when it comes to accessing recordings of works that have been performed hundreds of times by a myriad of ensembles and soloists under different conductors. — Continue reading
IN CONVERSATION WITH IDAGIO’s FOUNDER:Till Janczukowicz
INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL ZARATHUS-COOK
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CANNOPY PRESENTS John Adams in Conversation
WORDS BY STEPHANIA ROMANIUK
The Canadian premiere of John Adams’s latest orchestral piece Frenzy will take place during election week in the US—coincidental, and perhaps fitting for a composer whose works regularly respond to inflection points in American politics. Operas like Nixon in China, the controversial The Death of Klinghoffer, and Doctor Atomic (about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning choral-orchestral work On the Transmigration of Souls (in response to 9/11) explore figures within the events themselves, but also serve as large-scale reactions to some of the most highly charged times in American history. Now one of the world’s most celebrated and regularly performed contemporary composers, Adams will also be conducting the performance. At the podium, not only can he explore the needs of the work more fully, but performing the piece also fulfills for him music’s ultimate aim: communication. — Continue reading
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