Volume 19 Issue 1 - September 2013

FOR OPENERS | DAVID

FOR OPENERS | DAVID PERLMANPRICELESS!There are some things in the world thatmoney just can’t buy.Such as giving 15 or so minutes of yourtime to freely share information aboutyourself with us, without cash or prizes ormerchandise as a reward.And that, dear reader, is what we arehoping you will do, by completing theREADER SURVEY on pages 35 to 38 of thisissue and mailing it back to us.The better we know you, our readers, inaggregate, the better we we can chart acourse to serve you in the years to come.And remember, it’s not only the specificanswers you give or the comments youmake on the survey that will help us. It’sthe very fact of how many of you chooseto respond that will tell the story of thepriceless relationship we believe we havewith our readers.So please, complete the survey and mailit in (or complete and submit it online ifyou prefer).We’re counting on you to count yourself in.Sometimes it helps to make music …And Sometimes It HelpsTo Make Noise!And sometimes a little bit of the latter helps to keep the place of the former front and centrein circumstances where society’s attention has every excuse to wander.There’s a great little example of this noise/music mutual aid society in “Seeing Orange,” oureducation watch (page 57), where concerned and concerted muttering helped keep music alivein the region’s largest public school board for another year.There’s also probably a complex variation on the theme that could be braided out, by learnedlycontrasting the issue’s three strikingly different “takes” on new music: Ben Stein’s “ChoralScene”(page 26), Wendalyn Bartley’s “In With The New” (page 31) and Austin Clarkson’s reflectionson the tightrope between music and noise walked by some of the past century’s seminalcomposers (page 12).More straightforward, as the community we serve teeters on the edge of another new seasonof music making, is the simple observation that they (our region’s music presenters) are in thebusiness of making music, and we are in the business of making a whole bunch of cheerfulnoise about their music, so that you, dear readers, have one fewer reason for your attentionsto wander from the front-and-centre place that the conspicuous bravery of making live musicwarrants in a civilized society. They’ll do their bit, we’ll do ours, and you, we have no doubt,will continue to do yours.Mind you, this isn’t the easiest month in Toronto for making noise in the arts media aboutanything other than film, as TIFF once more takes the town by the scruff of its cultural neck.Happily, our Paul Ennis, with one foot planted squarely in his love of film and the other inmusical delight, has found a way for conflicted music lovers to rationalize an annual Septembermovie binge (“Music Lover’s TIFF,” page 10).So, let the woofing and tweeting begin! 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