Volume 30 Issue 3 | December 2024 & January 2025

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3003_Dec2024_cover.indd 12024-11-19 6:58 PMThe WholeNoteVOLUME 30 NO 3DECEMBER 2024 & JANUARY 2025EDITORIALPublisher/Editor in Chief | David Perlmanpublisher@thewholenote.comeditorial@thewholenote.comRecordings Editor | David Oldsdiscoveries@thewholenote.comListings Editor | John Sharpelistings@thewholenote.comSOCIAL MEDIADanial Jazaeri, Colin Storysocial@thewholenote.comSALES, MARKETING & MEMBERSHIPAdvertising & MembershipsOri Dagan & Kevin Harrisadvertising@thewholenote.commembers@thewholenote.comProduction & Operations | Jack Buelljack@thewholenote.comAdvertising Artadart@thewholenote.comWEBSITE / SYSTEMSDanial Jazaeri, Kevin Kingsystems@thewholenote.comCIRCULATIONSheila McCoycirculation@thewholenote.comSUBSCRIPTIONSsubscriptions@thewholenote.com + HST (6 issues)single copies and back issues *international - additional postage appliesWholeNote Media Inc.Centre for Social Innovation503–720 Bathurst StreetToronto ON M5S 2R4Phone 416-323-2232 | Fax 416-603-4791Instagram: @the_wholenoteFacebook & X: @theWholenotethewholenote.comON OUR COVERVOLUME 30 NO 3DECEMBER 2024 & JANUARY 2025MUSIC! LISTINGSlive and livestreamedSTORIESprofiles, previewsand interviewsRECORD REVIEWSand Listening RoomComposer Kotoka SuzukiPHOTO: GUANGLONG PENG & HENGJIE ZHAO6 FOR OPENERS | When boards gooverboard and some hopefullyhappier tales | DAVID PERLMANSTORIES & INTERVIEWS10 IN WITH THE NEW |December drought, Januaryflood | WENDALYN BARTLEY12 FROM UP HERE | SoloJourneys - boomerangs,loopers, and home fromhome | SOPHIA PERLMANVolume 30 No 3 | December 2024 & January 2025Composer Kotoka Suzuki’s commission for ContinuumContemporary Music will be performed January 25 at the21C Music Festival. It was inspired primarily by snowflakes,she said, in particular the complex ways that snowflakecrystals form. “Usually [they] have six stems, butsometimes they form irregular shapes, like twelve-sidedcrystals or a triangular shape. I want to create an illusion ofthis motion as the snowflake is formed,”See IN WITH THE NEW on page 1014 ART OF SONG | Still pushingboundaries - West End MicroMusic Festival | LYDIA PEROVIĆ15Circulation Statement - October 4, 20247000 printed & distributedCanadian Publication ProductSales Agreement 1263846ISSN 14888-8785 WHOLENOTEPublications Mail Agreement #40026682WholeNote Media Inc. accepts no responsibility orliability for claims made for any product or servicereported on or advertised in this issue.COPYRIGHT © 2024 WHOLENOTE MEDIA INCWNWHOLENOTEMEDIA INC.4 | December 2024 & January 2025 thewholenote.com

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