“When you sing, I can’t die, I live forever” Lila Downs at the FIJM
Lila Downs performed last Saturday night at the Métropolis theatre for the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Close to 2,000 fans gathered to see the singer-songwriter…
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Concert Review: Orford Music Festival, Poulenc & Gounod
ORFORD – Orford Musique, as the festival in the Eastern Townships now calls itself, got under way Friday night, almost a month after it started. The educational…
“Mozart was born in New Orleans!” Paquito D’Rivera at FMCM Review
“The most beautiful piece written for the clarinet is Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major and we did a study on it at the Louisiana…
Concert Review: The Mixed Magic of Impromptu Improvisation
Spirits were running high during the final bows at the FMCM’s opening night last Thursday, June 9 at Pollack Hall, but opinions were mixed. The…
Review: Les Feluettes by Opéra de Montréal and Pacific Opera Victoria
Saturday night’s world premiere of Les Feluettes was an accomplishment long in the making. A co-commission by Opéra de Montréal and Pacific Opera Victoria, the opera was conceived…
Review: Chants Libres – The Trials of Patricia Isasa
Last night’s world premiere of Kristin Norderval’s The Trials of Patricia Isasa at the Monument-National was a resounding success, to say the least. The opera, libretto by Naomi…
Polyphonic Extravagance Wows Audiences at the Gesù
Musica Orbium, under the direction of Patrick Wedd, treated audiences to some stunning vocal performances at two performances of their concert “Extravagance Polyphonique” at the…
U.S. Premiere in Austin (Tx): “Compassion” Shows the Way Towards Peace and Understanding
Verdi: Nabucco Overture Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor “Unfinished” Nigel Westlake/Lior Attar: Compassion (U.S. Premiere) Lior Attar, singer Austin Symphony Orchestra/Peter Bay Long Center Austin, Texas Saturday, April 9,…
Anton Nel Spectacular in Saint-Saëns Egyptian Concerto
Grantham: J’ai été au bal Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major Op. 103 “Egyptian”* Serpa: An Invocation Copland: Rodeo (complete ballet score) Anton…
Anna Karenina: Dancing on the Grave of Love
Is Anna Karenina the greatest novel ever written? Dostoyevsky and Nabokov declared it “flawless.” Faulkner described it as “the best ever written.” Hemingway, Woolf, Proust,…
