City of Camrose

Songs of Vienna

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Franz Schubert. Johannes Brahms. These composers are very familiar names, and perhaps many readers will also know that all three are famously associated with Vienna, Europe’s socalled “City of Music” and the birthplace of European modernism, which would shape much of the musical culture of the 20th century. The funny thing about

Alexander Carpenter, these famous “Viennese”

Music, University of Alberta Augustana Campus composers is that virtually none of them were actually Viennese, with the notable exception of Schubert. He was born in what is now the city’s ninth district, the Alsergrund, in 1797. Schubert is best known for the more than 600 songs he wrote for voice and piano, but he was also a prolific composer of symphonic music, chamber music, and works for solo piano. His music is dramatic, harmonically adventurous and melodic, blending the charm of Viennese classicism with the darker, more expressive impulses of early Romanticism. In recent years, musicological scholarship has examined the possibility that Schubert was a homosexual, and that some of his music might (somehow) reflect this reality.

Mozart is especially linked with Vienna: visitors are inundated with Mozart memorabilia, part of the city’s efforts to maintain its 18th century patina, and to hold on to the fading glow of its glorious Imperial age, exemplified by the splendor of its neo-classical architecture and reinforced by the ubiquitous concerts featuring the “greatest hits” of Mozart (along with a liberal dose of Strauss waltzes).

However, Mozart–one of the greatest “Viennese” classical masters–was from Salzburg, not Vienna. In 1781, after years of touring Europe, mastering the popular Italian opera styles, and gaining fame all over the continent, he moved permanently to Vienna to seek his fortune. Mozart was eager for a lucrative court appointment, which proved elusive. He lived lavishly and sometimes struggled to make ends meet. He was finally appointed to a modest position at court in 1787, after which time he composed some of his greatest operas, symphonies, and solo keyboard music, even as his popularity as a performer and composers in Vienna was–unbelievably–in decline. So, not only was Mozart not Viennese, nor did he live in the city very long, but he also found himself, at the very peak of his creative genius, falling out of favour with the famously fickle Viennese audiences.

Brahms was also not Viennese. He was a German (born in Hamburg), but he settled in Vienna in 1863 and was eventually appointed conductor of one of Vienna’s most famous choirs, the Wiener Singakademie. Compared to Schubert and Mozart, Brahms was something of a “late bloomer”: extremely anxious about following in the footsteps of the great Beethoven, Brahms didn’t compose his first symphony until he was 43 (and he even modelled it after Beethoven’s iconic fifth symphony). Brahms enjoyed considerable fame during his Vienna years, but also became embroiled in the most important aesthetic debates of the 19th century. Brahms represented a more conservative, classically-oriented approach to music that featured complex counterpoint and motivic development, in sharp contrast to the high Romanticism of other composers like Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, whose music privileged the expression of powerful feelings and ideas.

Ultimately, it doesn’t seem to matter whether a composer was Viennese born; breathing the air and walking the cobbled streets of the “City of Music”–a city with music deep within its bones, as the Viennese music critic Max Graf once observed–was certainly more than enough for composers like Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms to have absorbed the Viennese musical spirit, and to become emblems of the city’s style and history.

For those interested in experiencing these “Viennese” composers, on Sunday, November 27, the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta will host the concert Songs of Vienna. The concert will feature piano and vocal music by Schubert, Mozart, and Brahms, performed at the Lougheed Performing Arts Centre by pianist Dr. Roger Admiral and soprano Nicole Brooks.

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Augustana drama launches fall production

By Murray Green

The University of Alberta Augustana Campus Drama Department will be presenting in front of live audiences again this fall.

Professor Kevin Sutley’s students have been hard at work rehearsing to present Love and Information in the Augustana Theatre building.

British playwright Caryl Churchill’s play Love and Information explores a world in which we are bombarded with information, where the speed of communication replaces human connection. She focuses on the human desire for information, identity, memory and love. The play shows how our insatiable appetite for knowledge needs to be informed by our capacity for love.

Churchill shares scenes as if we are scrolling through Instagram or going down an internet rabbit hole. All the while, we are asked questions: How ethical is information gathering? What is justified to get it? And what is it used for? How do we construct memory? And how does it shape our identity? What really matters? Is it love or life?

Opening night for this fantastic production is November 18, with five more dates to follow on November 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27. While the play is being presented in the Augustana Theatre building, tickets can purchased through camroselive.ca or at the Lougheed Centre box office.

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James set to return to Camrose

By Murray Green

Platinum-selling blues guitarist Colin James was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, but often travelled to Hope, British Columbia to visit his grandparents.

Going back and forth between the provinces, he became very familiar with Alberta as well. “As a kid, getting off the prairies and into the foothills was a thrill for us. When I play as a trio, we don’t do those shows that often. I like to go to smaller cities, places we don’t always get to, where I can get closer to the audience, such as Camrose. That is what I love about it,” Colin said.

He recalled his stop in Camrose with the Holiday Train and noticed how much the crowd loved his music. A performance at the Lougheed Centre soon followed.

“I try to do as many of the old favourites as I can, while sharing the new music. The last three albums have been more blues oriented, but I like to cover other music as well,” said Colin.

The trio consists of Steve Mariner on harmonica and bass, and new member guitarist Anders Drerup, who appeared on The Voice television show.

“Starting in the new year, we will be touring the major cities from the east coast to the west. Then in March, we join Biddy Guy in touring the United States. It’s good to be busy again,” Colin said. His 20th studio album called Open Road was Colin James

released on November 5 by Stony Plain Records.

“Making records is such a privilege. You work on it and then let it go and move on. It has to stand on its own. Then you move forward and write some more.”

Following this summer’s track “Down On The Bottom”, the Canadian music industry Hall of Famer has revealed the release’s video.

“I found it hard to write in isolation. I just can’t wait to see my friends across the country. Now we have work to do,” said Colin.

Having set a soaring bar for inimitable talent in Canadian music, Colin remains at the top of his game, continuously challenging himself creatively.

Open Road lands no differently and follows Colin’s JUNO-winning and most recent full-length 2018’s Miles To Go–an album that garnered worldwide attention as it debuted on the Billboard Blues Charts, the iTunes Blues Chart, and added six new Maple Blues Awards to his running total of 27. His 1988 self-titled debut, featuring two selfpenned hits “Voodoo Thing” and “Five Long Years”, was the fastest-selling album in Canadian history, winning him his first of now seven JUNOs, and an opening spot on tour with Keith Richards.

In addition to his own studio offerings, Colin has worked with some of the

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Colin appears on November 21 at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre.