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About Paul Steenhuisen's Composition/s

Pensacola (2002)
for orchestra, spatialized brass, soundfiles

                   
"Pensacola has a wonderful sense of not being about going someplace. It simply is rock-solid past, present and future - all one in the same imposing block of marble."
- Elissa Poole, the Globe and Mail, June 2002

                   ". . . Recognizable by its intensity of expression and variety of colour, among other things, his music attempts to actively engage, inspire, and challenge the listener to hear music in new ways. Technically this is achieved through circuitous and labyrinthine formal designs, dense textures with vast depths of field, dynamic extremes, wide-ranging interconnection of materials, and an approach to orchestration based on traditional approaches to instruments and irreverence for its conventional limitations..."
- The Canadian Music Centre, 1994.

                   Read the complete CMC article

                   Please visit this page soon for details.

                   Esprit performance: Sunday, November 23, 2003 - This Isn't Silence - Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto, Ontario


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