The Record Roundup
Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal — Under the Influence Suite Justin Time JTR 8597-2 Two years after its debut release on the ATMA label, Montreal’s…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Stingray Classica: A New Start
Global leader in the music services market for cable companies, the Stingray Digital Group has seen tremendous growth in recent years. Just in 2017, the…
Press Review: Hamburg’s Take on Orchestre Métropolitain
Montreal’s second orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, got positive press for their concert at the Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Elbphilharmonie) last Friday (December 1, 2017). Joachim…
Great Canadian Basses & Baritones
I will begin this short article on basses and baritones with eighty-eight-year-old Joseph Rouleau, our elder born in Matane, Quebec, in 1929. Joseph Rouleau left…
Éva Gauthier (1885-1958): Pioneer of 20th Century Music (Part 2)
Eva Gauthier spent the summers of 1922 and 1923 in Europe, studying voice with Anna Schoen-René in Berlin, renewing her acquaintance with composers and colleagues…
Review: The Exterminating Angel
Guess who’s coming dinner — and never leaving? In the case of composer Thomas Adès’s new opera, The Exterminating Angel, the answer is: everyone. The…
Frédéric Antoun on The Exterminating Angel
Canadian tenor Frédéric Antoun is one of the voices in most demand in the world of opera today. In the last five years, he has…
David T. Little JFK: Politics, opera, and the evoking of emotion
Composer David T. Little’s wildly rampant mane of curly hair could pass for an out-of-control Afro. Add a Mephistophelean goatee and broad moustache and you…
Lucas Debargue: Nomadic pianist
Lucas Debargue, the enigmatic pianist whose career took off after he was placed fourth at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, performs in Quebec for…
20th Anniversary of the FACE Symphony Orchestra: More Strings to its Bow
In 1998, Theodora Stathopoulos founded the Symphony Orchestra of Montreal’s FACE School (Fine Arts Core Education). The purpose was to train young musicians via newly-minted…
