Hoody

Hoody is a tongue in cheek reworking of Little Red Riding Hood.  The schtick is that the characters have all fallen out of a copy of Perreault’s Once Upon A Time and ended up in Toronto.  In the process they have changed form so that LRRH is now a very large man (Graham Knox) and the Wolf is now a woman called Lu (Lu, loup geddit?) with an unfortunate addiction to human flesh.  It’s written by Dawna Wightman (who also plays Lu) and presented by Hoody Ink in the Solo Room at Tarragon as part of the Fringe.

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Ascent

lipmanascentHaving been impressed by violist Matthew Lipman at the two OPUS IV concerts earlier this week I decided to check out his CD, Ascent, which consists of a number of works for viola and piano with pianist Henry Kramer (currently faculty at Université de Montréal).

There are six pieces on the disk.  The first is York Bowen’s Phantasy for Viola and Piano Op. 54 which dates from 1918.  It’s inventive and colourful and demands great virtuosity, which it gets.  I particularly like the final section which uses dance rhythms to good effect.

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