![]() ![]() I find Troy Brooks art fascinating because there is always a story intricately woven into the brushstrokes. When I look at visual art, the same holds true. When I have attended, or been involved in, any play that leaves me feeling something is lacking, it is always that ability to tell a story that has fallen short. Theatre is always the story of relationships. If my cast and I are not on the same page regarding the story telling, the show will miss the mark. How the characters will interact, with each other, with the audience, with the words emotional ebb and flow of any good story. ![]() Not the words the playwright has formed together on the page, rather the way in which those words resonate with me and the vision it creates for me of a story about the relationships in the show. When I direct a play, the first thing I do is look for the story that I want to tell. Perhaps that is the best response to the question, “Is that art?” If the conductor and the performers are not on the same page regarding the interpretation of the charts the result is unsettling to the audience.Īnd that was when I thought, “That is true with all art!” One of the instructors was discussing music that a group of us were working on and he noted the importance of telling the same story with the music. We had a variety of very useful experiences that informed and developed our skill sets as musicians and the day was capped by a truly wonderful recital by faculty members playing in a brass quintet joined at one point by the guest musician, James Miller, principal trombone for the L.A. Yes, there is a prof who is still there 40 years later! The moniker is now Western, not UWO, and very few staff are the same. There were a great many wonderful memories born there, most happened well outside the classes but around the faculty.Ī lot has changed of course: The FOM was torn down and completely rebuilt to house more students with a grand reopening in 2018. It is over 40 years since I wandered the halls of the FOM. Joni and I attended Western’s Faculty of Music for a brass day with a few band friends and I heard something that truly resonated with me.Īs we drove up with our friends Bill Hainer, Sarah Huang and Meighan Lung I reminisced a bit about what we called The Factory of Music (FOM) from my days at UWO. Recently I was given cause to reflect on that again. I have pondered the question, “What makes art, art?” in this column before. By Dan White – Special to the Sydenham Current ![]()
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