SOUNDSTREAMS CANADA CONCERTS/CONCERTS SOUNDSTREAMS DU CANADA
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Mission Statement
Soundstreams is a charitable organization dedicated to strengthening public engagement with Canadian music through commissioning, developing, producing and disseminating new works. Our stages are home to diverse Canadian identities and perspectives, and we're committed to innovative programming that explores significant themes of social justice which resonate across our communities. We aim to inspire, foster, and enable excellence in Canadian music to the highest international standards. Soundstreams' definition of Canadian music is music created in Canada. Soundstreams has three key objectives: Building legacy for Canadian music by creating new opportunities for a greater diversity of artists. Telling stories through music that contextualize our time and place. Providing a brave space for conversation by building trust and relationships. Soundstreams’ key to realizing these objectives remains to stimulate and provoke ‘cultural conversations’ that bring new and diverse voices to the table. A ‘cultural conversation’ is a form of storytelling: multiple participants interpret and respond to themes that ponder identities, values, attitudes and issues, and unfolds over time. We tell these stories in the following ways: Illustrating the Conversation Our Main Stage series explores diverse Canadian identities and perspectives. Recently, in partnership with Signal Theatre, we premiered Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin / Gállábártnit, two Indigenous-led music dramas set in the Cree and Sámi languages based on Indigenous storytelling. It has been invited to the 2024 European Capital of Culture in Bodo, Norway. Opening Up the Conversation Main Stage themes are introduced in advance through digital marketing, and outreach programming such as Encounters. Upcoming examples include events in various venues in the Greater Toronto Area in collaboration with LASOs (Local Arts Service Organizations), and a discussion/workshop in fall 2021 around Clarence & Anita, a new work in development, exploring themes of racism and sexual harassment. Extending the Conversation New digital formats combined with international touring will allow us to bring Canadian stories to ever wider audiences. Our productions of Claude Vivier’s Musik für das Ende and Love Songs will be centrepieces in a Vivier Festival at the Southbank Centre in 2022, the largest celebration of Canadian music ever hosted by a major international venue.
About This Cause
Soundstreams began as the answer to a challenge. Igor Stravinsky’s 100th birth anniversary was in 1982, but despite his strong connection to the CBC Symphony during his lifetime, no celebration was planned in Canada. We seized that opportunity and hosted a Stravinsky Festival, dedicating ourselves to creating a legacy for Canadian and international new music. This answer to a challenge has driven us since that moment, as we continue to inspire, foster, and enable excellence in Canadian music. In our first decade, we created a substantial body of Canadian theatre/opera repertoire with high levels of engagement for young audiences. We returned to music theatre – R. Murray Schafer’s The Children’s Crusade (2009), Brian Current’s Airline Icarus (2014) – and by 2016 we were producing it annually, opening up opportunities for national and international exposure. In 1993 we initiated a series in co-production with CBC Radio 2 designed to elevate the global profile of Canadian new music by presenting Canadian composers alongside their international counterparts. We have since built strong relationships with artists and organizations around the world, due to Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney’s extensive travel and research into Latin American, Asian, Australasian, African, European, and especially the Nordic countries. In parallel, we forged a 25-year long association with Indigenous artists and organizations. Years of collaboration with artists from diverse cultures have laid the groundwork for our emergence on the world stage. Productions like Vivier’s Musik für das Ende, the Cree- and Sámi-language Two Odysseys, and Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood Songbook are enjoying measurable international success because of the vast web of cultural conversations we initiated years ago. These productions have received critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Exploring the foundations of our history have enabled us to explore new vistas and share the themes of our programming with audiences both old and new.