100th Anniversary Of Jean Coulthard

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Canadian composer Jean Coulthard, and there were several requests for her music on Here's To You (9 a.m.) this morning.

One came from one of her biographer's, Bill Bruneau, who apparently interviewed her 56 times (!) as part of the research for the book, Jean Coulthard: A life In Music. Sometimes immersing oneself in a subject only increases its significance to the immerser -- sounds like this is true for Bruneau, given his request. And Catherine's happy to honour it, with a performance of Coulthard's Piano Concerto, with Robert Silverman at the piano with the CBC Radio Orchestra.

As for Coulthard's work, as one Peter Togni (host of Weekender) once put it: "She has her own musical language, partly West Coast, mostly from another golden universe. She was comfortable with herself, yet kept searching for a different shade of colour to start another canvas."