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Glasgow 1
I have arrived and am a couple of days into work with Nick Fells. We started with a walk around west end Glasgow, getting the lay of the...
Norm Adams
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Lessons of the Semi-Tone Modulation
Day one of a super sweet gig in Kingston is done! I love my summer life in Charlottetown, it's true. The cycling, tearing through the...
Norm Adams
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Sabbatical Tour Chronicles #1
It’s a stunning morning, misty and unusually warm for late-ish October. As the sun rises the beams stream in the windows of Stanfield...
Norm Adams
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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2017-18 Season Roll Out
Welcome to our new season. This year, the hard working people at sL have decided to tease you into things: announcing our season...
Norm Adams
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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The Big Trip - Biennale
Concert day: La Biennale di Venezia! The climax to this whole project, and one of Europe's biggest annual arts festivals. The concert...
Norm Adams
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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April Shows, not Showers
This post is the next in the series of suddenlyLISTEN's email reposts! Adams, Baroni, Crofts As easy as 1,2,3... 8pm, Wednesday, April 5,...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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February Update
I haven't posted here for quite a while, yet I spend hours assembling wonderful and informative suddenlyLISTEN email blasts. SO I thought...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20201 min read
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Listening. Listening?
Summer is a good time for thinking. For me it is the pause between the old and new year, and I often find myself pondering what I have...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20203 min read
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The Big Recording Project II
Well, I've been working at it. The Big Recording Project. Each day I head down to my little room at 1313 Hollis Street and commit...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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The Big Recording Project
I've been thinking about this for a while: A solo record. I don't think of myself as a soloist really, but I am definitely a person who...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Glasgow Blog 5
I’ve jumped a day again. Each day is quite full out here! Monday morning we awoke before 7, (well I sort of opened my eyes, as I was in...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20204 min read
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London Blog 4
Wow I missed a day there. Yesterday was very busy, with computer work in the morning, drifting into the afternoon, and The AMM concert at...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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London Blog 3
It was a productive day yesterday, begun by dragging my jetlagged butt out of bed and soaking it in strong coffee for a good period. Then...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20203 min read
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London Blog 2
The flight and following daze was as disorienting as usual! I took the tube into central London as usual, and made the short walk to the...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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UK trip 2015!
Last year at this time, I was was feeling pretty burned out, by an unrelenting schedule of orchestra, administration, suddenlyLISTEN...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Bozzini +4 >> Derome
I am especially excited about presenting the music of Jean Derome on this concert. Jean is one of Canada’s most active and eclectic...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Bozzini + 4 >> Wolff
This is the second in a series of three posts outlining the composers and works featured on suddenlyLISTEN’s Bozzini + 4 concert at 8pm...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Bozzini + 4 >> Cardew
This is the first in my series of articles about the composers we are performing on suddenlyLISTEN's Bozzini + 4 concert. First:...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Bozzini Quartet +4 #1
On Tuesday, November 17, the Bozzini Quartet of Montreal and friends Suzanne Lemieux, Dominic Desautels, Susan Sayle and Norman Adams...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20201 min read
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Why??? Oh Lord Why?
“So what am I doing? Why do I do this? What is the &%#8@ point??” That question comes up pretty frequently with me these days. I’ve been...
Norm Adams
Sep 22, 20204 min read
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