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23 Nov 2017, Trinity St. Paul's Centre, Toronto Esprit Orchestra Conductor: Eugene Astapov
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Commissioned by Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk, Music Director (November 2017), with financial support from the Government of Ontario.As a member of the “east coast diaspora” currently living in Ontario, the concept of “Ontario 150” has an inherently different slant to me: my identity and personal history are not connected to this land. However, as I’ve lived in Toronto, I’ve accumulated bits of history of the region that are interesting to me; most notably, I live on Davenport Road, which was the ancient shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois. I can’t return to my apartment without seeing a placard denoting that this road is the remnant shoreline of a great lake, larger than our current Lake Ontario.Reflecting on the climate changes that shaped Ontario, particularly with its lakes during the last ice age, created automatic analogies between the landscape then and the landscape today. The St. Lawrence River downstream from the lake was blocked by an ice sheet, which acted like a dam; its melting resulted in a very sudden lowering of the lake to current day levels. Ontario at the end of the last ice age experienced a period of great movement and change, as both people and animals were forced to adapt (or not) to this new environment. Today’s people and animals face the same challenges as the planet gets hotter – scientists say that over 50% of species are “on the move,” with many peoples living in areas that will soon become too hot for humans, or submerged by the ocean. “Remnant Shoreline” uses modern recordings of glaciers from Greenland as a launching point: the glaciers, constantly on the move, emanate varying densities of cracks and sizzles. Using spectral software, I found the most prominent of the fundamentals
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