Tamara Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4073153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Best love – Ann
This article introduces forty letters that Toronto composer Ann Southam (1937-2010) wrote to Winnipeg-based choreographer Rachel Browne (1934-2012) between 1995 and 2003, and which Circuit is publishing on its website. Although Browne’s letters to Southam are lost, the surviving half of the correspondence documents an artistically fruitful friendship between two major figures in Canadian music and dance. (Browne was a founding mother of contempor…
Isn’t That Life, in a Way
Canadian composer Ann Southam (1937–2010) was a proud, outspoken, and generous feminist who found affinities between feminism and the minimalist musical language she developed in the late 1970s. At the same time, Southam was a very private person; it was only towards the end of her life that she began to speak on record about being gay. Music writer Tamara Bernstein, a friend of the composer, weighs the merits of focussing on this side of Southam…
It’s about Complete Incorporation
In a conversation with Tamara Bernstein, Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan discusses topics related to her musical formation and early career, significant professional relationships, and the professional voice.Hannigan describes her early decision to specialize in contemporary music as a moment of quasi-religious vocation; she recounts the artistic processes of composers George Benjamin and Hans Abrahamsen when they were writing opera roles for h…
The Vocal Music of Ana Sokolović
Enchanted by the vocal music of Serbian-born Canadian composer Ana Sokolović, Tamara Bernstein visited the composer at her home in Montreal. Sokolović’s music draws on several sources, including the theatrical world and the culture of the Balkans. The extended vocal techniques in Sokolović’s music are rooted not in the avant-garde music of the twentieth century, but in the oral traditions and poetic voice of Serbia. It seems that the more the com…
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The Vocal Music of Ana Sokolović
Enchanted by the vocal music of Serbian-born Canadian composer Ana Sokolović, Tamara Bernstein visited the composer at her home in Montreal. Sokolović’s music draws on several sources, including the theatrical world and the culture of the Balkans. The extended vocal techniques in Sokolović’s music are rooted not in the avant-garde music of the twentieth century, but in the oral traditions and poetic voice of Serbia. It seems that the more the com…
It’s about Complete Incorporation
In a conversation with Tamara Bernstein, Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan discusses topics related to her musical formation and early career, significant professional relationships, and the professional voice.Hannigan describes her early decision to specialize in contemporary music as a moment of quasi-religious vocation; she recounts the artistic processes of composers George Benjamin and Hans Abrahamsen when they were writing opera roles for h…
Isn’t That Life, in a Way
Canadian composer Ann Southam (1937–2010) was a proud, outspoken, and generous feminist who found affinities between feminism and the minimalist musical language she developed in the late 1970s. At the same time, Southam was a very private person; it was only towards the end of her life that she began to speak on record about being gay. Music writer Tamara Bernstein, a friend of the composer, weighs the merits of focussing on this side of Southam…
Best love – Ann
This article introduces forty letters that Toronto composer Ann Southam (1937-2010) wrote to Winnipeg-based choreographer Rachel Browne (1934-2012) between 1995 and 2003, and which Circuit is publishing on its website. Although Browne’s letters to Southam are lost, the surviving half of the correspondence documents an artistically fruitful friendship between two major figures in Canadian music and dance. (Browne was a founding mother of contempor…
Musical (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Singing (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work)