Marketing the Arts in 2020
Five tools to implement today by Kayla van Zon Marketing in our digital age has become more difficult than ever. With consumers getting a plethora…
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The Next MSO Music Director: Looking into the Crystal Ball
And the next music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra is… Unknown. Perhaps even to the committee that was struck in October 2017 to seek…
Tous en chœur autour de Beethoven with the OSCM
Tous en chœur autour de Beethoven with the OSCM The Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de la Montérégie (OSCM) this year celebrates the fifth anniversary of…
Jean-Claude Picard of the OSTR “A good conductor must be a good leader”
by Adrian Rodriguez and Andréanne Venne It’s a homecoming for conductor Jean-Claude Picard, who has studied and worked in Europe for the past 12 years…
Elias String Quartet A Big Year for Beethoven
Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 1, Mendelssohn’s Op. 13, Beethoven’s Op. 131: The program is logical enough. After all, the Elias String Quartet takes its name from…
Le Fantôme de l’Opéra Opening Night Team Review
La Scena’s team attended the opening night of Fantôme de l’Opéra at Théâtre St-Denis last Wednesday. Here is what we thought. Team average on 10:…
Titanic Live: Soundtrack comes to the fore
James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic became one of the most profitable movies of all time, grossing over $2 billion at the box office and winning…
Independant Opera Companies
by Andréanne Venne & Justin Bernard NOVA SCOTIA Maritime Concert Opera Founded in 2003 by Nina Scott-Stoddart, the Maritime Concert Opera Society aims to present…
CD Reviews
Shostakovich plays Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, Iosif Volovnik, Daniil Shafran, David Oistrakh, Maxim Shostakovich, Miloš Sádlo, Nina Dorliak, Zara Dolukhanova, Aleksei Maslennikov, Mieczysław Weinberg, Alexander Gauk,…
Jessye Norman: Grace Befitting Royalty
by Susan Platts Jessye Norman: where can one possibly begin? Be it the soprano, mezzo or alto repertoire, the music of Strauss, Wagner, Berg, Berlioz or Cage, the…
