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The 39th Festival de Lanaudière – Time to Take Stock!

By Newswire on 9 August 2016 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Piano, Violin

Joliette, August 8, 2016 – For its 39th season, le Festival de Lanaudière invited music lovers to discover some of the works that its founder, Father Fernand Lindsay, liked to hear and teach. Between July 9 and August 7, 2016, fourteen concerts were presented at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, eight in churches throughout the region, and two at the Musée d’art de Joliette. In addition, there were four cinema evenings and five morning yoga sessions held outdoors. Nearly 53,000 people attended Festival events – a significant increase over the figure for 2015. The piano takes center stage This year, the…

Simon Gamache Named New Executive Director of I Musici de Montreal

By Newswire on 8 August 2016 Arts Industry, Newswire, Orchestral

Montréal, August 4 2016 – Mr. David B. Sela, Chairman of the Board, announces the appointment of Mr. Simon Gamache as Executive Director of the Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal. He will join I Musici in his new position as of September 19, 2016. Mr. Gamache will replace Mrs. Stéphanie Rose, who occupied the position for the past five years. Mr. Gamache was involved in the Quebec musical scene for over a decade as a freelance musician (French horn) and teacher. He has been employed by the Banff Centre (Alberta) for the past six years where he oversaw…

Danish String Quartet

Daily News Roundup: 2 August 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 2 August 2016 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Daily News Roundup, Folk, Literature, Orchestral, Piano, Romantic

+ The Heckeler’s Andrew Burn takes on Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate with respect to the context around its creation and performance. “I’m not saying that this music shouldn’t be performed, quite the contrary. Its presentation, however, could be better geared to outlining the complex nature of its creation and allow for us to better appreciate our own history through live performance. What I am advocating for is an embrace of the whole truth to a work, even if that means acknowledging certain facts which may run contrary to the intent of its performance.” + The Danish String Quartet…

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Video of the Day – Conducting with Yannick Nézet-Séguin

By Kiersten van Vliet on 2 August 2016 Orchestral, Video of the day

In today’s Video of the Day, maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin gives us a crash course in orchestral conducting, describing his process. He starts with the basic hand position for the baton, which prioritizes clarity of movement above all else. Eschewing the baton, Nézet-Séguin discusses the merits of baton-less conducting, which allows for more flexibility in both hands; with a baton a conductor only has her left hand to shape the music. With rehearsal excerpts from Verdi’s ubiquitous Requiem, Nézet-Séguin demonstrates this practice in action. At 1:12, Nézet-Séguin describes the rather simple “code” of orchestral conducting, or the basic signals that are universal for…

Orchestre de la Francophonie, Photo: Michel Pinault

Review: Orchestre de la Francophonie (July 28)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 2 August 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Musique québécoise, Orchestral, Romantic

For their 15th anniversary season, the Orchestre de la Francophonie participated in Les Concerts Populaires for a celebration of French music that placed foundational Quebec composers in a lineage extending from Ravel to Claude Champagne, Saint-Saëns to Pierre Mercure. The evening of July 28 marked the first Thursday of the season that was not interrupted by the Jeux du Québec, which increased competition for venues at the Parc Olympique from July 17 to 25. The concert, a veritable kaleidoscope – even with its French roots – began with a piece of the same name by Mercure, a constantly-shifting ternary form…

Lebrecht Weekly – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 3, 6 and 7 (BIS)

By Norman Lebrecht on 29 July 2016 Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral, Romantic

This is one the world has been waiting for. The Minnesota Orchestra’s partnership with the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä is a treasure of our times, especially when they play music of the frozen north. Minnesota is sufficiently remote from the rest of musical America to maintain its own sound and Vänskä, ever the iconoclast, has his own particular way of refreshing familiar scores. The start of their Sibelius cycle hit the decks with a whoosh five years ago. Then, disaster. A hardline board, allied to an inept English manager, got into a wage dispute with the orchestra and locked them…

Marc Andre Hamelin (Photo: Fran Kaufmann)

Daily News Roundup: 26 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 26 July 2016 Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Scena Jazz, Vocal Jazz

+ Sir Roger Norrington is celebrating the unorthodox at the Proms this week. “As a rule, conductors stand on their dignity. They take themselves seriously. They like to be revered. In his own idiosyncratic way, Norrington himself is all three: dignified, serious and revered. But he is also a lot of fun. He wants to connect with his audience. So when his listeners laughed out loud at a musical joke during his performance of a Haydn symphony, he was not offended but delighted.” + Speaking of the Proms, read a review of Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra performing…

Valery Gergiev

Daily News Roundup: 20 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 20 July 2016 Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Musique populaire, Opera, Orchestral, Scena Jazz

Today’s Daily News Roundup is wondering where the great British composers went. Plus a new appointment to the NAC, reviews, and more. + Veteran arts manager Heather Gibson has been named the head of the Canadian music series NAC Presents. + Philip Clark asks in The Guardian, “Where have the great [British] composers gone?” “There’s nothing unassuming about the BBC Proms, which launched its 2016 season last week, but the playbill of modern composition on offer again raises questions about where all those composers with real cultural weight, and a corresponding degree of mainstream visibility, might have gone. With all due…

Marie-Josée Lord, Photo Laurence Labat

Daily News Roundup: 19 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 19 July 2016 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Orchestral, Scena Jazz, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, World Music

Today’s Daily News Roundup asks whether Classical music is as calming as we are lead to believe. Plus a new appointment to the Philadelphia Orchestra, and more. + Is Classical Music calming for our brains? Gramophone’s Andrew Mellor deconstructs the notion. “Let’s not deny great music its reassuring, contemplative and soothing qualities. But let’s not pretend that’s all it does either. Music of all kinds – whether heard live at the Philharmonie in Berlin or via your phone on the top deck of the 196 bus – has the ability to temporarily realign the chemical balance in our brains. It’s a…

Siege of Leningrad

This Day in Music – 1942: Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony Debuts in America

By Weiyu Dang on 19 July 2016 Contemporary, Orchestral, This Day in Music

Perhaps one of the most idiosyncratic composers, Dmitry Shostakovich became a symbol of anti-totalitarianism and a bulwark against Axis powers. Symphony No. 7, considered by many to be his greatest work, was originally dedicated to the achievements of Vladimir Lenin, but later to the completion of Leningrad and the power of its people. With latent poignancy and impassioned melodies, the Symphony would become a powerful propaganda tool used both by the Americans and the Soviets to promote an allied resistance to the German encroachment. Though receiving mixed reviews in America for its bombast, the Symphony was a success after its debut…

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