François Mario Labbé named as one of the best professionals of 2019
Montréal, December 3, 2019 — In operation for more than 100 years in the performing arts industry, Musical America Worldwide unveiled earlier today its Top…
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Classical Streaming is Coming: Never Fear
I’m not against streaming,” François Mario Labbé said in his spacious and well-lit corner office overlooking Jarry Park. How could he be? Angèle Dubeau, the marquee artist…
Streaming and Classical music: Reconciliation at Last
Already prophesied at the end of the last century, the decline of physical media and the concomitant rise of digital broadcasting platforms have brought about…
Leaf Music: The Independant Label That Could
In 2012, Jeremy VanSlyke was part-way through a master’s in sound recording at McGill’s Schulich School of Music when he started Leaf Music. “Having grown…
Trends in Arts Consumption: What are We Really Competing For
It is an honour to be invited to write the first installment of a new column on arts management for La Scena Musicale, which will…
The Song of Names Brings Music to Life
Inevitably a conveyor of meaning in cinema at some level, music sometimes moves to the foreground of a film while retaining its wonted role as…
Mariss Jansons, 1943-2019
Mariss Jansons, chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and former chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, died at his home in St.…
Industry News
Radio-Classique 99.5 FM Goes Pop-Rock Radio-Classique 99.5 FM, a pillar of classical listening in Montreal for more than two decades, will become another pop-rock outlet…
A Vinyl Renaissance: Stepping Forward or Stepping Back?
In an editorial meeting at La Scena, our jazz editor Marc Chénard posed the following questions: “With the resurgence of vinyl as a delivery medium,…
Editorial
Download PDFLa Scena Musicale’s Dec/Jan issue returns to a bilingual format. The cover features Hugo Laporte and Anne-Marine Suire in the upcoming production of The…
