Lyric
CANADA 2010
National Conference
OCTOBER 21-23
brock
shaw

Schedule and Program

The Conference will take place October 21-23, 2010 at both Brock University, St. Catharines and the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake.
see the conference PROGRAMME (PDF, 2.5 MB). Schedule is FINAL.

day time name title

THURSDAY
October 21, 2010
13h30 -15h30 REGISTRATION                              Sankey Chambers, Brock U.
15h30 - 16h00 WELCOME Orientation                   POND Inlet, Brock U.
coffee (host)
16h00 -17h00 PLENARY Jim Betts
Composer, Lyricist, Librettist
Smile Company; Scriptlab, ON
POND Inlet, Brock U. 
Why Canadians Can't Write Musicals (And Why Almost No One Else Can, Either)
17h00 - 19h00 DINNER (nohost, suggest Guernsey market (on campus) or hotel)
19h00 - 21h00 Thursday SHOWCASE (Youth)
SHAW Festival Studio Theatre 
Niagara-on-the-Lake 
followed by Wine Reception with return transfer via The Falls
MM Robinson High School, Burlington Concrete Daisy
Stratford Central SS and Britta Johnson, writer, director, and accompanist
Big Box Story
Sheridan College  Marathon of Hope
     

FRIDAY
October 22, 2010
8h30 - 9h00 coffee (host TBC)   
POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs 
9h00 - 10h00 KEYNOTE  Stewart Wallace
New York-based composer
POND Inlet, Brock U.
FATE! LUCK! CHANCE! Adventures in Opera Making
10h00 - 10h30 coffee (host) POND upstairs
10h30 - 12h00 
PANEL 1 POND
Discovering our stories in Lyric Theatre chair: Dr. Brian Power
Denyse Lynde
Memorial University, NL
"Artistic Fraud": Kaleidography; in particular, the meticulous use of grid and music to create new stories
Helen Zdriluk
Brock University, ON
Where do I go from here? Youth and Lyric Theatre in Canada 
Ted Baerg
University of Western Ontario, ON
Facilitating and Enhancing the Intersection of Musical Theatre and Opera In Post Secondary Performance Training 
10h30 - 12h00    
PANEL 2 SANKEY
Breaking the Sound Barrier chair: Dr. Gregory Betts
Mel Atkey
London-based author of Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre
A Million Miles from Broadway: Musical Theatre from a Universal Persective
Julie Salverson
Queen's University, ON
Opera meets clown and the Atomic Bomb . . . The development of Shelter
12h00 -13h30   LUNCH (nohost)                           Guernsey Market POND: Writers and Composers Workshop for Students with guest Sarah Schlesinger
13h30 - 15h00    JOINT SESSION #1 POND Capturing the Moment chair: David Vivian
Kathryn Harvey
University of Guelph, ON
University of Guelph's L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives: an overview of the holdings and discussion of the challenges of archiving performance, particularly musical theatre
  Francesca Marini
Statford Festival, ON
An Overview of Productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Jean Bridge and Sarah Pruyn
Brock University, University of Guelph
variable media archiving methodologies
15h00 - 15h30 coffee (nohost)
15h30 - 17h00

ROUNDTABLE
POND Inlet, Brock U.
Future Directions in Lyric Theatre in Canada

MODERATED ROUNDTABLE: Jim Betts, Marjorie Chan, Wayne Strongman, Tracy Michailidis, David Warrack
moderator: Virginia Reh

17h00 - 19h00 DINNER (nohost, suggest Guernsey market (on campus) or hotel)
20h00 - 22h00 Friday SHOWCASE   
SHAW Festival Studio Theatre 
Niagara-on-the-Lake
David Warrack, Elizabeth Beeler Dancing in the Coal Dust
Randall Eng and Alexis Bernier Henry's Wife
Ian McAndrew
and Gordon Portman
Cassandra (and others TBC)
  Leslie Arden One Step Forward
  Bram Gielen, Tracy Michailidis Biggish Kids
     

SATURDAY
October 23, 2010
8h30 - 9h30 information table OPEN
POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs 
9h30 - 10h30 PLENARY  Sarah Schlesinger
Chair of Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, Tisch School of Arts (NYU)
POND Inlet, Brock U.
Nurturing and training the next generation of writers and composers in lyric theatre.
10h30 - 11h00 coffee (host) 
POND Inlet, Brock U. upstairs
11h00 - 12h30     PANEL  3  POND Celebrating the Singer: Strategies in Song chair: Deborah Linton
David Playfair and
Gordon Portman,
Brandon University, MB
Structured Training for the Singing Actor 
Helen Pridmore,
Mount Allison University, NB
The Singer Alone:  Music for Solo Voice, a  Lecture Recital

Susan Blyth-Schofield,
Carleton Univeristy, ON

From Page to Stage in Opera: Decoding the Score for 
Performance(A How-to survival Guide for the Singer-Actor)
11h00 - 12h30   PANEL 4 SANKEY Kissing Qwerty: New Horizons chair: Dr. Derek Knight
Meryn Cadell,
University of British Columbia, BC
Writing for DIVA: Digitized Voice Actors
Sheldon Rosen
Ryerson University, ON, and
Darren Russo
McGill University, QC
Hansel & Gretel: Typographic Play
12h30 -13h30   LUNCH (host)                                    POND upstairs TBC
13h30 -15h00
PANEL 5 SANKEY
Getting it up and Putting it on: Producing Challenges
chair: Dr. Carol Merriam
Sandy Thorburn
Lakehead University (Orillia, ON); University of Waterloo, ON; Resident Musical Director, Thousand Islands Playhouse, ON
Challenging the Familiar: New Directions for Musicals in Canadian Summer Theatres
Ian McAndrew, composer, and Gordon Portman, librettist,
Brandon University, MB
Non-subsidized creation in lyric theatre: the way to go? 
SG Lee
playwright, director, librettist, teacher and arts administrator;
Imperial Theatre, Saint John, NB
Size Matters: A Consideration of the Canadian "Shoebox Musical"
13h30 - 15h00   PANEL  6 POND The Elephant in the Lyric Castle chair: Dr. David Fancy
Ruth Howard
Jumblies Theatre, Toronto
Wanna Hear My Door Squeak?
Graham Wolfe
Brock University, ON
Catalyst Theatre's 'Frankenstein': Lyric Theatre as Catalyst
Gretchen Helbig
www.sayyestoopera.com
with Trish O'Reilly, Ellen Vesterdahl, Genevieve Proulx
"Say Yes to opera!" guerilla opera animating urban spaces
15h00 - 15h30 coffee (nohost TBC)
15h30 - 17h00    JOINT SESSION #2 POND Familiar Histories in Foreign Lands: The Future of Lyric Theatre in Canada? chair: Dr. Natalie Alvarez
Robert Walsh, composer From the Ashes: The development of lyrics in The Forbidden Phoenix    
Wayne Strongman
Tapestry New Opera, Toronto
Opera for Now: Excerpts from Tapestry B-roll footage of Iron Road, Elijah's Kite, Sanctuary Song, The Shadow, Dark Star Requiem
17h00 - 19h30 CLOSING DINNER
(host, begins at 18h00)
Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club
20h00 - 22h00 Saturday SHOWCASE 
SHAW Festival Studio Theatre
Niagara-on-the-Lake 
Virginia Reh,
Kristin Mueller-Heaslip
Fallen Voices :
Time will Erase
Cathy Elliott Gothic
Sheldon Rosen and
Darren Russo
Hansel & Gretel: Typographic Play
Tapestry New Opera
Marjorie Chan
Tapestry’s Creative Process:  Marjorie Chan, Writer in Residence as hostess; A writer/composer team from the most recent LIBLAB; 2 Opera Briefs
Paul Sportelli, Jay Turvey, 
and Shaw Company
Maria Severa

 

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