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Fall Highlights: Choral Previews

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Choral, Classical Music, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto

Quebec Ensemble ArtChoral Titled A Viennese Evening: Songs, Waltzes, and Romance, and directed by Matthias Maute, the group will perform works by Strauss and Schubert, alongside excerpts of Brahms’s Liebeslieder, Op. 52 and 65 (Sept. 8). www.placedesarts.com/en/producer/ensemble-vocal-arts-québec OSM Chorus Led by conductor Andrew Megill, the OSM Chorus will join the orchestra for several exciting performances this season. The OSM’s 90th season kicks off for the Chorus with Stravinsky’s bombastic The Rite of Spring, conducted by Rafael Payare (Sept. 12-14). Under the baton of Gemma New, the choir will sing as part of September performances of Holst’s The Planets (Sept. 27,…

Orchestras: Ontario

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Ottawa, Toronto

Toronto Symphony Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 season has something for everyone, with their Masterworks series, Pops concerts, special events, and youth programming. To start off the season, conductor Gustavo Gimeno will lead the orchestra in performances of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, programmed alongside Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sept. 20, 21). Seong-Jin Cho will then join the orchestra at the piano in a performance of works by Ravel (Sept. 28-30). Trevor Wilson, the TSO’s RBC Resident Conductor,will take the podium for a program of English favourites,…

Pirates et Corsaires

Fall Highlights: Visual arts

By La Scena Musicale Team on 1 September 2023 Arts Industry, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Visual Arts

Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 25, 2023-March 10, 2024 If you want to dance with the devil, then this nonconformist, nontraditional, and absolutely shocking exhibit will surely stir your spirits. Russian feminist artists known for their conceptual eye tinged with nonconsensual flavours continue to be discovered and defy the authoritarian regime of their homeland. The project, which stems from a meeting in Moscow between co-founder Maria (aka Masha) Alyokhina and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and was launched by Reykjavik’s Kling & Bang gallery, brings its own taste for justice to the MAC. This culturally-sensitive…

CD Review | Moongate (Self-published, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 31 July 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Ottawa, Romantic, Strings

Moongate Victor Anastacio, guitar; Philippe Charbonneau, bass; Colleen Leslie, flute Self-published, 2023 Moongate, the debut album by composer and acoustic guitarist Victor Anastacio, is a hidden gem. The work sounds deceptively simple at first. The titular Moongate, as well as Amethyst Sky and Northern Lights, are easy to digest: light and peaceful, with an emphasis on the play between Leslie’s disjunct flute melodies and Anastacio’s fingerpicking. Gathering Wind’s more staccato performance breathes energy into the album before the deep, slow notes of Charbonneau’s bass rein in the two treble instruments for a few compositions, creating a more melancholic experience. The…

Newswire | Music and Beyond’s First Ever Live Synchronized Performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks

By Newswire on 25 July 2023 Newswire, Ottawa

OTTAWA, July 20, 2023 – In a groundbreaking presentation of music and visual spectacle, Music and Beyond made history as it presented the first-ever live performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, synchronized with live fireworks. This unprecedented feat was a testament to the seamless blend of classic music with contemporary technology, demonstrating the limitless possibilities of live performance art. Audiences enjoyed the performance from a variety of vantage points. Many revelled in the harmonious blend of music and visual display at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, observing the fireworks on the screen as the music was played by the…

Museum and Gallery Exhibition Picks

By Robin Mader on 29 May 2023 Montreal, Ottawa, Scena Arts, Toronto, Vancouver, Visual Arts

QUEBEC Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, ongoing This narrative sequence of 30 tableaux forms a triptych more than 40 metres long. On display here in a glass case with subtle lighting, Jean Paul Riopelle’s largest work was acquired by the museum in 1996 and has been seen by more than 1.3 million people since that date. Riopelle began work on this immense composition in his studio on Île-aux-Oies in November 1992, after having learned of the death in Paris of his former companion, the American painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg is a…

Photo: Raoul Manuel Schnell

Quatuor Despax: All in the family

By Justin Bernard on 29 May 2023 Chamber Music, Interviews, Ottawa, Strings

The kinship that unites the members of the Quatuor Despax has stood the test of time—20 years, to be exact. Dedicating itself to a wide range of musical genres over the years, the group has kept its momentum going by maintaining its ties to kin, friends and music lovers alike. For those who may not know them, they are brothers and sisters (two of each) who play the required instruments for a standard string quartet comprised of two violins, a viola and a cello. A recent meeting with them for a conversation left no doubts about the family…

John Rutter (Photo provided)

Music and Beyond: The Big Comeback!

By Charles Geyer on 26 May 2023 Classical, Contemporary, Indigenous, Ottawa

It’s back! And it promises to be as big and bold as ever. It’s Music and Beyond, Ottawa’s summer music and arts festival which—every July since its inception in 2010—has blossomed across the capital in a gloriously scatter-cast profusion of musical sounds, styles and intriguing interdisciplinary programming. “The public is ready to return,” says Julian Armour, the festival’s plucky and indefatigable founder and artistic and executive director. “We’re doing a big festival! We’re going to do about 64 different major concerts.” It’s a bracing and welcome assertion of renewal, after the scaled-back famine years of global pandemic. Rock and a…

Pablo Ziegler and Masae Shiwa (Credit: São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra)

Pablo Ziegler: Music and Beyond Welcomes Back the Piazzolla Pianist

By Zenith Wolfe on 26 May 2023 Contemporary, Ottawa, World Music

This summer, composer and Piazzolla quintet pianist Pablo Ziegler is bringing experimental Argentine tango to Ottawa. On July 4, Ziegler will host the Opening Gala: Homage to Piazzolla concert for his third Music and Beyond season. It’s his first time as the festival’s gala performer, and his first time back since the start of the pandemic. But he’s kept busy with international performances in the meantime. During lockdowns, Ziegler and his wife Masae Shiwa started experimenting as a piano duo before visiting Japan, Brazil, and Argentina for duet concerts, with New York lined up later this year. Their concert at…

Summer 2023 Canadian Festival Guide

By La Scena Musicale Team on 26 May 2023 Classical Music, Guides, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver

Newfoundland Camber Arts Woody Point, Corner Brook, May 1 to September 30 www.camberarts.ca Nickel Independent Film Festival St. John’s, June 12 to 18 www.nickelfestival.com Canada’s Big Birthday Bash St. John’s, June 30 to July 1 www.georgestreetlive.ca Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival St. John’s, July 7 to 9 www.nlfolk.com Shakespeare by the Sea Festival St. John’s, July 7 to August 20 www.shakespearebytheseafestival.com Salmon Festival Grand Falls-Windsor, July 13 to 17 www.evsalmonfestival.com Stephenville Theatre Festival Stephenville, July 14 to August 13 www.stephenvilletheatrefestival.com Annual Southern Shore Shamrock Festival Ferryland, July 22 to 23 www.ssfac.com George Street Festival St. John’s, July 27 to August…

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