Mountain View Cemetery, 5455 Fraser St.
Little Chamber Music and Mountain View Cemetery continue to build and grow their unique relationship, and we are proud to present three amazing events this June. To our knowledge no other cemetery has a Composer in Residence (our own Assistant Director Mark Haney) or an Ensemble in Residence (Little Chamber Music’s designation)! General Manager Diane Park has also be named an Artist in Residence at Mountain View in recognition of the installations, photographic and video elements that make our events so memorable.
Summer Solstice in Mountain View Cemetery: A Celebration in Dance and Music
June 19, 2016, 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm (performance approximately 20 minutes)
Our 2nd annual Summer Solstice In Mountain View Cemetery celebrates the circle of life, death and renewal by bringing community together to mark the longest day of the year with art, live music and performance by 30 community dancers! Project Director/Artist Diane Park, Composer Mark Haney, Singer/Songwriter Sarah Wheeler and choreographer Caroline Liffmann joined forces to create this unique celebration of art and community.
Last year’s event was a huge success, attracting 800 people through the evening! Led by Diane Park, and featuring an installation by her, this year’s solstice celebration reflects on The Journey and what that means to each of us. Mark Haney composed Life Is Not a Horse Farm for string quartet based on his walk of the Camino Santiago this past year,.
Thirty community dancers met in the cemetery on Mondays for three months creating and rehearsing choreography under the direction of Caroline Liffman.
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music performed by Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto)
June 25, 2016, 9:00 pm (performance approximately 80 minutes) in the Celebration Hall
Celebration Hall will fill with the sounds of this ambient masterpiece, and we’re opening the doors so the audience can enjoy the sounds from both the inside of the hall and its beautiful courtyard. On the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music, Toronto’s classical Contact ensemble, led by artistic director and percussionist Jerry Pergolesi, weighs in with a modern arrangement that harks back to the adventurous experimentalism of the original. In Contact’s version, acoustic and electric instruments (cello, violin, soprano saxophone, guitar, double bass, vibraphone, piano, flute and gongs) take the place of Eno’s EMS synthesizer, channeling the underlying melodies of the piece until the ensemble itself becomes a kind of “looping apparatus”.
Mark Haney’s 3339 Remembering Terry Fox on the 35th Anniversary of his death
June 28, 2016, 7:30 and 9:00 pm (performance is 33 minutes and 39 seconds in length) in the Celebration Hall
Commissioned by Redshift Music in 2012, Mark Haney’s 3339 places the story of Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope into the context of the mythical hero’s journey. This piece for alto flute, viola, double bass, percussion, narrator, projection and field recordings (taken where the Marathon began and ended) was created to tell the greatest Canadian story in a new way.
“I was frustrated that Terry’s story was always framed by what he didn’t do; he wanted to run across Canada but didn’t make it,” Mark Haney says. “I wanted to frame it with his incredible accomplishment. He ran 3,339 miles. That’s a marathon a day for almost six months.”
Very well received at it’s premiere at The Cultch in 2012, we are proud to present this work on the 35th anniversary of Terry’s death. It is very appropriate to be performing it at Mountain View Cemetery with its tag line: Where Vancouver Remembers.
