Vistas John Gordon Armstrong

• John Gordon Armstrong (b. 1952): False Spring:
• 1 Armstrong: False Spring - 1. The Lake 02:19
• 2 Armstrong: False Spring - 2. Red Leaves 01:25
• 3 Armstrong: False Spring - 3. So faint the geese this fall 01:09
• 4 Armstrong: False Spring - 4. Pavane 01:54
• 5 Armstrong: False Spring - 5. Old Photographs 00:23
• 6 Armstrong: False Spring - 6. False Spring 01:21
• 7 Armstrong: False Spring - 7. Return 02:32
• Vistas:
• 8 Armstrong: Vistas - 1. Horizon 05:19
• 9 Armstrong: Vistas - 2. Dance of the Shadows 03:13
• 10 Armstrong: Vistas - 3.Sunset 03:27
• Ghosts:
• 11 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 1. Shadows 01:01
• 12 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 2. Strange Sounds 00:33
• 13 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 3. Evening Shade 00:54
• 14 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 4. Sudden Storm 00:24
• 15 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 5. Ghost Dance 01:03
• 16 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 6. Rippling Water 01:25
• 17 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 7. Darkness Swirling 01:02
• 18 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 8. Morning Mist 00:45
• 19 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 9. Desert Winds 00:32
• 20 Armstrong: Ghosts 3 - 10. Icicles 01:03
• Child's Play:
• 21 Armstrong: Child's Play - 1. First Steps 01:47
• 22 Armstrong: Child's Play - 2. Curious 02:20
• 23 Armstrong: Child's Play - 3. Waking 02:50
• 24 Armstrong: Child's Play - 4. Mischievous 00:59
• 25 Armstrong: Child's Play - 5. Sleeping 03:38
• An die Musik:
• 26 Armstrong: An die Musik II - 1. Antimusic 03:38
• 27 Armstrong: An die Musik II - 2. Viola 03:03
• 28 Armstrong: An die Musik II - 3. And die Muzik 01:46
• 29 Armstrong: An die Musik II - 4. Syrinx 02:43
• 30 Armstrong: An die Musik II - 5. If Muzik 04:39
• Songs for Lyra:
• 31 Armstrong: Songs for Lyra - 1. Night Song 04:58
• 32 Armstrong: Songs for Lyra - 2. Songs of Darkness 01:40
• 33 Armstrong: Songs for Lyra - 3. Love Song 04:04
• Total Runtime 01:09:49

Info for Vistas

"Vistas" for flute and guitar was commissioned by Entr’acte with funds from the Ontario Arts Council. It is one of my most performed works. Premiered November 24, 1983 at the Royal Conservatory Recital Hall in Toronto, it was immediately taken on tour by Entr’acte under the auspices of Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. It has subsequently been played by a number of different performers in Canada and the United States. It is extremely accessible to all audiences and not terribly difficult. It would be appropriate for advanced students of both flute and guitar.

The performance here is by Robert Cram, flute, and John Armstrong, guitar, at the University of Ottawa in 1999.

John Armstrong, classical guitar

John Armstrong
studied composition at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan where he received his Doctorate in 1983. His teachers included George Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winners Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom, as well as the celebrated pedagogue Nadia Boulanger.

John won prizes in both the William St. Clair Lowe and Sir Ernest MacMillan competitions sponsored by the Composer’s, Author’s and Publisher’s Association of Canada (now SOCAN). He has been commissioned and performed by musicians such as William Beauvais, Ray Sealey, Louis Trépanier, Catherine Donkin, Alan Torok, Norbert Kraft, Robert Riseling, Dorothea Brinkmann, Douglas Perry, Jane Perry, Jill Dreeben, Elizabeth Volpé, Charles Hamann, Doreen Taylor-Claxton, Sandra Mangsen, Craig Sylvern, Janine Gaboury, SaxArt, The Canadian Guitar Quartet, The Continuum Consort, The Victoria Guitar Trio, The Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects, The Guitar Society of Toronto, The Cantata Singers of Ottawa and Coro Vivo Ottawa. He has received multiple grants and commissions from the Laidlaw Foundation, the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, Alberta Culture, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the City of Ottawa. Performed and broadcast throughout Canada, his music has also been played in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Korea, Norway, Vietnam and the United States. His music is published by Palliser Music Publishing (Calgary), Cypress (Vancouver) and the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto).

Although primarily a composer of concert music, he has also written for film, dance and theatre; he is well known in Ottawa for his 12 collaborations with Odyssey Theatre. Having taught at a number of universities in Canada and the United States, John Armstrong is currently an Adjunct Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Ottawa.

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