Carleton University is celebrating two collaborative research projects inspired by the music of the late Eldon Rathburn, film composer with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The Romance of Improvisation in Canada: The Genius of Eldon Rathburn, a CD produced and arranged by Music master’s student Adrian Matte and alumna Allyson Rogers, has recently been released by Justin Time Records of Montreal. Prof. James Wright’s new book, They Shot, He Scored: The Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn, will be published by the McGill-Queen’s University Press in March 2019.
When: Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: Carleton University Art Gallery, Carleton University
Info: This wine and cheese event is free and open to the public.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Rathburn was one of the most fascinating composers of the 20th century, writing more music than any other Canadian composer of his generation. He served for 30 years as a staff composer with the NFB, scored the first generation of IMAX films, and created a diverse catalogue of orchestral and chamber works.
For The Romance of Improvisation in Canada, Matte and Rogers created a series of arrangements based on some of Rathburn’s jazz-inspired film themes. Carleton Music instructor and saxophonist Petr Cancura is featured on the recording, leading a quintet of some of Canada’s finest jazz performers.
With the aid of extensive archival and documentary materials, Wright’s They Shot, He Scored chronicles Rathburn’s extraordinary life and works. In addition to providing a close reading of Rathburn’s film and concert scores, the book follows his early years in New Brunswick and Los Angeles, his time at the NFB, his encounters with some of the most celebrated figures in his field, and his collaboration with the Canadian innovators who launched IMAX. They Shot, He Scored illuminates the extraordinary career of an unsung creative force in the Canadian film and music industry.
This event is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the School for Studies in Art and Culture.
A story on these creative research projects is here: https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/nfb-composer-eldon-rathburn/
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Monday, November 19, 2018 in Media Advisories
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