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Fathom Events partners with the Cliburn to bring this prestigious musical contest to movie 300 theaters, including an exclusive live interview with Maestro Leonard Slatkin ORT WORTH, Texas, February 23, 2017—The Cliburn is proud to announce that the Final Round of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will be broadcast  in cinemas around the United States. The one-day event “2017 Cliburn Competition LIVE in Cinemas” will highlight the six final pianists in concerto performances with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Leonard Slatkin. (Friday evening performances will be presented in delayed broadcast, leading into Saturday’s performances presented live.)…

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OPERA MCGILL’S 24-HOUR FESTIVAL FEATURING 7 OPERAS! Operas by Purcell, Mozart, Massenet, Ravel, Bartók, Malcom Fox, & a North American Premiere by James Garner Friday, March 10 & Saturday, March 11 Patrick Hansen, Director, Opera McGill  Opera McGill’s spectacular 60th anniversary season concludes on March 10 & 11 with a delicious array of operatic delights for all ages and tastes. Offering over 24 hours of unadulterated musical indulgence, the Lisl Wirth Black Box Opera B!NGE Festival presents two evenings and a full day of opera in multiple venues around Montreal. The wide-ranging event, programmed by Patrick Hansen, now in…

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CANADA Dance Me: In the 2017–18 season program of the Grands Ballets Canadians, a special show celebrating the 375th anniversary of Montreal will organize the meeting between music and dance with a special tribute to Leonard Cohen. Many works of the great singer will be performed the Petits-chanteurs du Mont-Royal. [La presse| [Radio-Canada] [Grand Ballets canadiens] The Regroupement des artisans de la musique (RAM) wishes to have a conversation about the new commercial realities of the music industry: “We are agree with music streaming, […] but the artists have to be fair remunerated, which is currently not the case.” [Our translation] [Radio-Canada] The…

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CANADA Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Artistic director of the Société d’art lyrique du Royaume (Chicoutimi), explain his plans and ambitions for the orchestra. [La Presse – Le Quotidien] To celebrate the 50 anniversary of the SMCQ, Radio-Canada will publish a series of web and radio rendez-vous, highlighting the greatest contemporary. [Voir] Sherbrooke: Review of the concert with the pianist Anne-Marie Dubois, accompanied by the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra. [La Presse] Demographics et numerical challenges for the cultural organisms in the East of Quebec.[Radio-Canada] INTERNATIONAL  Opéra Lafayette’s production of Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal a real success. – [washingtonclassicalreview] [TheWashingtonpost] [La Scena] European Union Baroque Orchestra: The orchestra will relocate…

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The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club advertises a venerable history with its very name. On Feb. 5 in Pollack Hall the organization paid tribute to its 125th anniversary by asking Stewart Goodyear to recreate Glenn Gould’s Montreal debut recital of 1952. Gould is the quintessentially inimitable pianist, yet Goodyear in Orlando Gibbons’ Pavan and Galliard for the Earl of Salisbury demonstrated straightway a certain affinity with his fellow Torontonian by making the left and right hands seem so indepedent. Perhaps his eagerness to use the full sound of the Steinway was a individual trait. Oddly, Bach’s Partita No. 5 flew by…

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As a celebration of the 60 years of Opera McGill, the Schulich School of Music late last month presented a run of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus in the Monument National. The opening was a big success, with a fresh array of voices, exquisite Art-Nouveau sets by Vincent Lefèvre and brilliant costumes by Ginette Grenier. No minimalism from director Patrick Hansen, although the camp was generally of the high rather than low variety. Spoken dialogue was mostly in German – a useful pedagogical exercise as well as a means of avoiding a language fuss. There were, nonetheless, a few touches of…

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All the rage elsewhere in North America, cinema in concert is more complicated in the Maison symphonique, given the paucity of Hollywood blockbusters in French. Well, then, what about silent film? On Friday, February 17, the OSM collaborated with the Kino organization on an evening of shorts, ancient and modern, accompanied by the Grand Orgue Pierre Béique with occasional contributions from a piano. Chaplin classics began and ended the almost-two-hour evening. Much of the middle was made up of 21st-century silent films, some of which paid homage to the style of century ago. First we had Stephan Le Lay’s Le…

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MONTREAL As part of the 8th edition of the biennial Montréal/Nouvelles musiques Festival (MNM), Walter Boudreau will lead La symphonie du millénaire II. In 2000, the performance of the first Symphonie du millénaire, brought together more than 70’000 people. [Le Devoir] Review on the concert of OSTR, highlighting Bach’s works. [La Presse] André Sauvé will join the OSM for a special concert on July 21 and 22. [La Presse] INTERNATIONNAL Le beau Danube is 150-year-olds. Back on one of the greatest successes from Strauss. [La Presse] [Radio-Canada] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t38fIJgvWEM The first recording of Bartók’s piano quartet in C minor (1898) was found and published. [Scena…

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  Tuesday – February 21 1:30PM Longueuil Campus of UdeM, Édifice Port-de-Mer, 101, Place Charles-Lemoyne, Longueuil. 14$. Les matinées d’Opéramania au Campus Longueuil- I Puritani de Bellini. 1-855 790-1245. 7:00PM. Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal), 2550 Ontario Est, Montreal. 0-2$. Signer and pianist from Guadeloupe perform urban compositions. 514-872-7882. 7:00PM Music Faculty of the University of Montreal – Serge-Garant Hall (B-484), 200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy. Atelier d’improvisation – Classe de Jean-Marc Bouchard. 7:30PM. Bourgie Concert Hall, 1339, Sherbrooke Ouest Street, Montreal. 30$-100$. Camp Tutti concert bénéfice. 514-486-8727.  Wednesday – February 22 7:30PM – OM – INSPIRATION AND HOPE: Inspire by…

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ROUSE: Symphony No. 5 (world premiere). BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op. 19. RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome). Emanuel Ax, piano. Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden. Meyerson Symphony Center. Dallas, Texas. February 11, 2017 For classical music lovers, each new composition by Christopher Rouse, one of America’s most often performed composers, is an “event”. Rouse’s Symphony No. 5, premiered last week by the Dallas Symphony (DSO), under its music director Jaap van Zweden, proved to be a major addition to the repertoire. This memorable concert also featured Emanuel Ax, better than ever at the…

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