The Canadian Art Song Project welcomes Marion Newman and Ian Cusson for a compelling discussion
“Conversations with CASP is the podcast of the Canadian Art Song Project, an organization dedicated to creating and celebrating Canadian art song, and its latest episode takes a close look at the appropriation of Indigenous story and song in Canadian art music.
“I had a lot of questions about appropriation of Indigenous culture in Canadian art song,” says Lawrence Wiliford, co-artistic director of CASP and host of this podcast episode. “There were certain things that I knew were not OK, but other things on which I needed some guidance. Who better to talk to than my friends/colleagues who live and breathe these questions now?
So, Wiliford invited mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and composer Ian Cusson to the Conversations with CASP studio…”
