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The Danns: Robin, Steven, Alana Zarankin, baby Zarankin Dann, Lucas and Nico. Zosha di Castri holds her WMCT commissioned score Near Brute Force. (Someone else was holding her baby).
By Robin Elliott on April 8, 2016, MUSICAL TORONTO
“Dannthology” was the title of a recital by the Toronto violist Steven Dann, together with family members (sons Nico and Lucas, daughter Robin, and daughter-in-law Ilana Zarankin, who is married to Nico) and friends (bassist Joel Quarrington and pianist James Parker), for the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto on Thursday afternoon, April 7 in Walter Hall. For only the second time in its 118-year history, the members of the WMCT arrived to find a drum set on the stage (the first time was for trumpet player Jens Lindemann’s recital last season). The drum set, along with timpani and sundry other smaller percussion instruments, was played with much expertise by Nico in two works on the programme. The other three family members appeared only in a new work by Zosha di Castri, about which more anon. …
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Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri was pretty busy with commissions – including one for the WMCT – when she was called by the National Arts Centre and offered another.
“But the fact that the result would be Dear Life, the most ambitious commissioned work undertaken by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, was too good to pass up. Di Castri’s 25-minute-long score will have pride of place in the first concert led by Alexander Shelley as NACO’s seventh music director. The piece is based on a short story by Alice Munro.“
The world première of Ms Di Castri’s WMCT commission will be performed at Music in the Afternoon by Dannthology, Steven Dann, viola, and friends and family on April 7, 2016.
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