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		<title>Stile Antico: Not at all of the Phlegmish School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had another sickening love-in visit from yet another early music ensemble thanks to Early-Music Vancouver. Stile Antico is a group of twelve singers who are actually thirteen singers from the UK who specialize in pre-Bach choral music. We&#8217;re told they&#8217;re supposed to be young and if you&#8217;re old, they probably are. To the four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SongDrama: Clara/Clara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to a Schumann song cycle can sometimes feel like you&#8217;re sitting down to see how many baked potatoes you can eat in one sitting. Most of us who&#8217;ve done so will tell you that there are only three good ones: The first two and the last one. The first potato beckons seductively from it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purcell&#8217;s King Arthur &#8211; Vancouver Early Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this post by saying that I think I&#8217;m in love with early music people. I love their weird instruments, I love that an integral aspect of being an early music nerd is being a bigger nerd than the person next to you, I love their anal-retentive adherence to a modestly documented performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forehead Forum 2010 and lots of but(t)s&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I debated with myself for exactly one second about whether or not I would mention the extreme amount of dead air this blog has been piping out for the past few months.  First instincts were against it, as mentioning dead air has all the usefulness of telling someone who chortles quietly to themselves to pipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something You Do With Your Ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve wanted to write something about this piece for a while now: Concubia Nocte by Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi. I first heard it on the CBC as I was going to bed.  I had just finished my nightly rituals and was setting my alarm, clicking it past the radio option to the alarm-radio option, and happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmophony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Iwaasa performed her Cosmophony set for us at the Western Front last night.  The set is compromised of a set of pieces composed by local composers using the planets of the solar system as subject matter centered around George Crumb&#8217;s Makrokosmos.  To aid in the narrative, an image of each stellar artifact was modestly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duck Fat Enema</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst food I&#8217;ve ever eaten wasn&#8217;t something that tasted bad.  It smelled good, it looked good, and most importantly: I could make it FAST and CHEAP.  Little did I know that I hadn&#8217;t anything similar to an accurate representation of &#8216;good&#8216; in mind when I was doling out adjectives.  At the time, the important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonic Boom 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very fortunate to have the Nu:BC ensemble perform a piece of mine at Sonic Boom this year.  It&#8217;s an extended piece scored for flute, clarinet, cello, and piano called &#8216;A Perfect Focus&#8217;. I&#8217;m not really interested in going into a huge diatribe on what the piece is about and why it&#8217;s about anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CITR and a cure for a disease of your choice if we have time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as I hate hearing the sound of my own voice on a recording (still?), I feel like I should post it here because it features both some of my dots and a polite conversation with minimal swearing in which the finer points of dot-making are discussed. Simply follow  this feed to hear me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrissivak.com/citr-and-a-cure-for-a-disease-of-your-choice-if-we-have-time/</link>
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		<title>Im Wunderschönen Monat April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are once again preparing for spring concerts.  Often at this time of year I&#8217;m in a state of near-hysterics as I furiously  revise and mail, mail and revise, revise and mail and re-revise before re-mailing.  This year is different somehow.  When I go to clutch my skull in frustration I find that not [...]]]></description>
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