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The inaugural concert of the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières’s 2023-24 season, conducted by Alain Trudel, will take place Oct. 21, 2023 and will feature two works of exceptional breadth: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Op. 55,“Eroica” and Gilles Bellemare’s Cœur—five symphonic poems for choir and orchestra.
The idea for Cœur was born out of a collaboration between the composer, chief conductor, and first artistic director of OSTR, Gilles Bellemare, and cardiologist François Reeves. The symphonic poems written for choir and orchestra were inspired by the audible and visual rhythms of heartbeats. Each of the five movements is based on an arrythmia observed in a patient of a cardiology institute; these different movements, associated with individual hospital rooms, make it possible to discern different characters, different stories, and different physical states through the heartbeats.
This unique project includes poems by François Reeves sung by the choir, and results in a deeply organic and human mixture of music and poetry which makes it possible to pay homage to the patients, nursing staff, and to life itself.
Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières
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Translation by Kristen Whittle
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