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LE FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY! JULY 1 TO AUGUST 6, 2017 – Fourth week

By Newswire on 19 July 2017 Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Piano

Joliette, July 19, 2017 – Le Festival de Lanaudière is pleased to welcome you to concerts of the fourth week of its 40th season. On Friday, July 21 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, pianist Marc-André Hamelin takes you into a world of passion and fantasy in sonatas by Haydn, Feinberg and Beethoven, followed by Schumann’s Fantasy Op. 17. The next day, Saturday, July 22 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, the Orchestre Métropolitainunder the direction of Mathieu Lussier performs Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute and Symphony No. 41. After intermission, Marc-André Hamelin joins the orchestra for Beethoven’s grandest piano concerto, No. 5 (Emperor). On Sunday, July 23 at 2 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, come support the up-and-coming generation by…

OPERA America selects 13 participants from the U.S., Canada and Latin America for its 2017 Leadership Intensive Program

By Newswire on 19 July 2017 Arts Industry, Employment, Opera

Developing Future Leaders and Strengthening Opera Companies July 19, 2017 (New York) — OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation’s leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce that 13 participants from the United States, Canada and Latin America have been selected for its 2017 Leadership Intensive program. These future industry leaders were chosen through a competitive selection process focusing on candidates’ potential to make significant contributions to the opera field. This program is made possible by the generous support of American Express. The Leadership Intensive exemplifies OPERA America’s long-standing commitment to identify and nurture leaders who will advance…

Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival, 2012. Stéphane and the NOSQ accepting a standing ovation after a performance of Elgar’s Piano Quintet. (From left to right: Stéphane Lemelin, Brian Manker, Eric Nowlin, Jonathan Crow and Andrew Wan).

New Artistic Director for the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival

By Newswire on 18 July 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical Music

PICTON, ON – Stéphane Lemelin, founding artistic director of the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival, has announced that the 2017 Festival will be his final season. The Board of the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of the New Orford String Quartet as new artistic directors of the Festival, effective October 1, 2017. Stéphane Lemelin first visited Prince Edward County while on a Piano Six tour in 2001. He fell in love with the beauty and charm of the County and the friendliness and enthusiasm of the people. He realized it would be an ideal…

Symphony Nova Scotia presents Free concerts across the city with its first-ever summer season

By Newswire on 17 July 2017 150/375, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Folk, Newswire, Orchestral

HALIFAX, NS – This summer, Symphony Nova Scotia proudly presents its first-ever summer season, featuring 13 FREE concerts and events in public venues throughout Halifax from July 17 to 31. The festivities will feature Symphony Nova Scotia musicians giving live performances at venues like the Alderney Landing Theatre, the Keshen Goodman Public Library, and the Halifax Central Library’s O’Regan Hall. Highlights include the RDV 2017 Tall Ships Regatta Celebration on the waterfront with Natalie MacMaster, full-orchestra performances celebrating Nova Scotia with singer Reeny Smith and Mi’kmaq drummer Trevor Gould in Halifax and Dartmouth, and a charming afternoon Tea Dance with Halifax Pride at the Halifax Citadel. The full-orchestra concerts will be conducted by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, Symphony Nova Scotia’s Artist in Residence and Community…

Lebrecht Weekly – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady: Romantic duets (Hänssler Profil)

By Norman Lebrecht on 14 July 2017 Art Song, CD and Book Reviews, Lebrecht Weekly, Romantic

I spent a morning with the great baritone in his Berlin home a couple of years before he died. Fischer-Dieskau was in morose mood. His wife Julia was out teaching, he told me twice, seeming to resent her absence. ‘I did too much,’ he confessed, regretting his dominance in Lieder, a field in which he covered not just German song but English, Russian and French. Still, sometimes too much is not enough. The present release is a 1989 duet recital he gave with his wife and the pianist Robert Höll at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, expecting that it would be…

Marc Blitzstein (center) with the original 1937 cast of The Cradle Will Rock

At Opera Saratoga, New Hands Rock Blitzstein’s Cradle

By Charles Geyer on 9 July 2017 Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight, Opera

PREVIEW: Opera Saratoga’s new, full-out production of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 musical masterpiece, The Cradle Will Rock; and INTERVIEWS: with director Lawrence Edelson and musical director John Mauceri. Though it’s remembered as a work of social protest and impassioned ideals, “nobody has experienced The Cradle Will Rock the way it was intended,” says celebrated musical director, educator and historian John Mauceri of composer/librettist Marc Blitzstein’s landmark 1937 opera. “It’s a piece that everybody knows, but nobody’s ever heard!” Point well taken. Ever since its famously unorthodox premiere, when an extraordinary concatenation of adversities forced a last-minute decision to present the work…

Lebrecht Weekly – Shostakovich, Martinu: Second cello concertos (Bis)

By Norman Lebrecht on 7 July 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral, Strings

The second concerto for cello by Dmitri Shostakovich is the least ingratiating of the six he wrote, two for each major instrument. Opening with a gloomy, growling monologue, the solo part is matched in misery by the orchestra. The concerto was written in 1966 and first performed by Mstislav Rostropovich at a Moscow concert to mark the composer’s 60th birthday. Knowing that public pessimism was an offence in the Soviet Union, Shostakovich held nothing back. The four-minute middle movement is friskier, though no less morbid than the opening Largo. Only in the finale does the composer express some relief and gratitude…

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Suoni per il Popolo Festival) Montreal, June 2017

By Marc Chénard on 6 July 2017 Arts Industry, La Scena Online, Quebec Music, Scena Jazz

Words: Marc Chénard / Images: Jacques Gravel There once was a time when the city of Montreal sported one major music event, the Festival International de jazz de Montréal (FIJM). In its 37 years, the city has turned into a mecca of music festivals in all shapes, forms and styles, with events galore held in all seasons. But that one big event stood alone for many years as the only act of its kind in town, each annual ten-day run broken by a long hiatus of live music in the rest of the year. In those dry times, Montreal was just…

Lebrecht Weekly – Ben-Haim: Concerto Grosso 1, Symphony No. 2 (NDR)

By Norman Lebrecht on 30 June 2017 CD and Book Reviews, La Scena Online, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

In May 1933, the composer Paul Frankenburger left Munich for Tel-Aviv, where he Hebraised his surname and became teacher of the first generation of Israeli-born composers. An austere man, steeped in German Bildung, Ben-Haim grew excited by the microtonal singing of Jews from Arab lands and accompanied the Yemenite performer Bracha Zefira at the piano on extensive concert tours. His orchestral music, however, remained strictly tonal. The Concerto Grosso, premiered by the Palestine Symphony Orchestra under Issay Dobrowen, takes its neo-classical form from Stravinsky and Strauss and its expansive slow movement from Mahler and Brahms. That said, Ben-Haim is…

Kent Nagano will be passing the torch in 2020

By Newswire on 29 June 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Classical Music, Orchestral, Quebec Music

News by Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Transmitted by CNW Group on June 29, 2017 12:45 ET Kent Nagano will be passing the torch in 2020 The music director will continue to lead the Orchestra for the next three seasons MONTREAL, June 29, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and Kent Nagano are announcing today that, after a long deliberation, he has decided not to accept the invitation by the OSM to extend his contract as music director beyond 2020. “We intend to continue the relationship with Maestro Nagano at the end of his term in three…

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