Author: Carey Rutherford
Swallowed by the mutual loves of words and music (but far too chicken-shit to perform them with a band), Carey’s writing career started slowly as a freelance writer in 2003, starved him nearly to personal bankruptcy until 2008, and changed directions while writing for FastForward, Beacon Calgary, GayCalgary, and Examiner magazines. With the death of many old-school periodicals, and the explosion of musical diversity in Calgary, the modern approach to writing about live music performance in the Calgary region presented uncluttered landscapes for the focussed passion that Carey’s conversations with musicians, drag queens, festival producers and small animals has uncapped. He was moulded by the brilliance of paper-based periodicals old and new (Life, rolling Stone, Swerve! and Adbusters etc.), and sees the info-verse as needing creative, empathetic, but clear-eyed Agents to communicate these performances.
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Perhaps that’s not the expected way to open a conversation with a respected virtuoso violinist like Yi- Jia Susanne Hou, who will be performing culturally significant classical music in the vaunted halls of the Centre for Performing Arts, . . .
Prokofiev’s back . . . With a turntable!
We never even mention the connection, but how is it possible to completely ignore one’s paternal descent from a figure like Sergei Prokofiev? Sergei’s sons ended up in England, and Gabriel Prokofiev is the British-born grandson, working in music on his own accord, and discovering a …