Upstream Orchestra Upcoming Concert:
Sonic Courage International Festival
Saturday , June 23rd, 2007
Upstream Orchestra with Fred Frith, Lisle Ellis and Pierre Tanguay
Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dalhousie Arts Centre
Repertoire: New works by Jeff Reilly, Lisle Ellis, and Fred Frith
Personnel:
This year Joining Frith, Eliis and Tanguay will be Janice Jackson/voice, Lee Park/violin, Ruth Boggild/flute, Suzanne Lemieux/oboe, Chris Palmer/bassoon, Jeff Reilly /bass clarinet, Rick Waychesko/trumpet,Dani Oore/soprano sax, Chris Mitchell/alto sax, Paul Cram/tenorsax, clarinet, Dawn Hatfield/baritone sax, Tim Crofts/piano, Lukas Pearse/bass, David Burton/drums, Jeff Torbert/guitar.
The Upstream Orchestra is a 21st Century orchestra. It has an elastic attitude and embraces improvisation as a central component in its process. As such, it has as its antecedents such groups as the The Vienna Art Orchestra, The New York Jazz Composers Orchestra, The Ensemble Moderne of Frankfurt, The AACM Orchestra (Association for the Advancement of Creative Music in Chicago) The London Jazz Composers Orchestra,, The Willem Breuker Collective, The Instant Composers Pool, The Scratch Orchestra, Hemispheres of Toronto, NOW Orchestra of Vancouver and many other similar ensembles that are cropping up al over the world: ensembles with high professional standards that are taking improvisation in all its forms very seriously: ensembles that are exploring new compositional, notational and conducting techniques to consistently achieve a high level ofexcitement in performance by involving the performers intimately in the actual creation of the music. As the 19th Century military model of orchestral music is becoming less relevant in the creation of a brave new world, the Upstream Orchestra embraces open-minded musicians from classical , jazz and world music orchestral traditions by creating contexts where we can all play together.