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La Scena Online is the digital magazine of La Scene Musicale.Contents: News, Concert reviews, CD reviews, Interviews, Obituaries, etc; Editor: Wah Keung Chan; Assistant Editor: Andreanne Venne
ISSN: 1206-9973

Video of the Day – Jacques Offenbach

By Michele Duguay on 20 June 2016 Opera, Romantic, Video of the day

Born on June 20 1819, German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach is particularly known for his operettas. Orpheus in the Underworld and The Tales of Hoffman are still part of today’s repertoire. During Offenbach’s lifetime, Paris’s Opera-Comique was not interested in staging his works and the composer had to rent his own venue and the Champs-Élysées. Watch an excerpt of La Périchole where the title character sings after a few evening drinks.

Wilfrid Pelletier and the OSM (1963), City of Montreal Archives

This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Wilfrid Pelletier

By Michele Duguay on 20 June 2016 Orchestral, This Day in Music

The first artistic director of the OSM, conductor and pianist Wilfrid Pelletier, was born in Montréal on this day in 1896. In 1966, the largest room in the Place des Arts was named after him. Pelletier is also known for beginning the OSM in the Parks tradition, which is still alive today. You can see the OSM in Chartier-De Lotbinière park in Rigaud on July 26 and Poly-Aréna park in Brossard on the 27. Assistant conductor Dina Gilbert will return to lead a program of Russian symphonic works by Glinka, Borodin, Glazunov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky, featuring 2010 OSM Competition winner…

“Mozart was born in New Orleans!” Paquito D’Rivera at FMCM Review

By Camilo Lanfranco on 19 June 2016 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Mainstream Jazz, Scena Jazz, World Music

“The most beautiful piece written for the clarinet is Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major and we did a study on it at the Louisiana University of Jazz with my friend Wynton Marsalis… We arrived to the conclusion that Mozart was not from Austria, he is from the New Orleans! And that the right way to play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major is as a blues, in fact, a New Orleans blues!” —Paquito D’Rivera, Pollack Hall, 17 June 2016 Winner of 14 Grammy Awards with a discography of more than 30 solo albums since he first started his career…

This Week in Montreal (June 20–26)

By Michele Duguay on 19 June 2016 Baroque and Early, Musical Theatre, Theatre, This Week in Montreal

Montréal Baroque, June 23–26 On June 24, the first of four grand concerts, Prospero’s Tempest, combines theatrical music by Purcell and Blow with great lines from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Spanish violinist Lina Tur Bonet will join the Montreal Baroque Band as a special guest of the festival. On June 25, the washed-up acrobats of the Nouvel Opera present La veuve Rebel à la foire Ville-Marie. The Montreal Baroque Band returns on June 26 for the grand closing concert featuring four young singers in three cantatas. For the full programmation, visit www.montrealbaroque.com The Producers, June 15 – July 10 Montreal’s Dora Wasserman’s…

This Day in Music – Pleyel

By Michele Duguay on 18 June 2016 Baroque and Early, Classical, This Day in Music, Video of the day

Austrian-born composer Ignaz Joseph Pleyel was born on June 18 1757. Living in Strasbourg during the Reign of Terror, he avoided the consequences that could have been brought on by his “foreign status” by composing highly patriotic French music. Upon moving to Paris in 1795, he founded a music publishing business and eventually started manufacturing pianos. His son Camille eventually took the reins of Pleyel and Cie, who provided pianos to Frédéric Chopin. Watch a performance of a Chopin waltz on a restored 1848 Pleyel grand piano.

Known Issues with mySCENA beta

By Kiersten van Vliet on 17 June 2016 La Scena Online

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new web platform mySCENA.org beta. There are a number of issues and bugs with the platform that we are aware of and actively fixing. Several have arisen due to complications with making our web platform fully bilingual, others are due to the sheer amount of archival material transferred over to the new platform. It takes time to sort through a twenty-year-old archive, including giving credit to our valued contributors and volunteer translators. Over the summer, a dedicated team of interns will make entire back issues of La Scena Musicale available in…

Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli

Daily News Roundup: 17 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 17 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Musical Theatre, Scena Jazz, Vocal

+ From The Guardian’s archive: A collaboration between Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli. + The 2018 World Choir Games will be held in Gauteng Province in the Republic of South Africa. + Some of the most important pioneers of electronic music were women, as explained in this preview for London’s Deep Minimalism festival next week. + Learn some of the science behind “the chills” you feel when listening to your favourite works of music. “Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, said the results were valuable for those hoping to understand music’s pleasurable effects in…

This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Gounod & Stravinsky

By Michele Duguay on 17 June 2016 Contemporary, Dance, Romantic, This Day in Music, Video of the day

Today marks the anniversary of Gounod’s (1818) and Stravinsky’s (1882) births. Winner of the 1839 Prix de Rome, Gounod studied at the Paris Conservatory. His musical legacy comprises a dozen of operas, oratorios, and several motets and songs. His 1872 piano piece The Funeral March of a Marionette, orchestrated in 1879, achieved fame in the 20th-century as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. One of the defining figures of 20th-century music, Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky defied convention and achieved worldwide fame with his compositions for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. The uproar caused by the premiere of The Rite…

Lebrecht Weekly – Dmitri Shostakovich: piano trios and viola sonata (Decca)

By Norman Lebrecht on 17 June 2016 Chamber Music, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

The three works on this album encompass an entire composing life. The first piano trio was written by a 17 year-old for his girlfriend in 1923. The mastery is already undeniable and the thumbprints instantly recognisable: pathos, scepticism and the juxtaposition of polar opposites. This is not the way most of us would go about wooing the love of our life. Shostakovich was always an original, even at his most eclectic. Everything he writes can be interpreted equally as its opposite, a device that became the key to the composer’s survival in Soviet Russia. The second piano trio, written in…

Stratford Festival Theatre

Daily News Roundup: 16 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 16 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Musique populaire, Theatre, Vocal

Hello and welcome to your first Daily News Roundup! This is a daily column where we select the articles and news posts from around the web that have caught our eye. + The Guardian’s Ian Ritchie explains how the climate impacted European artistic output in 1816. + David Lang’s new opera, Anatomy Theater, may be the goriest opera yet. + Here is a comprehensive review of Peter Sellars’ Ojai Festival 2016. + The New York Times’ Wesley Morris takes stock of black popular culture in America. “The black people shaping the culture have grown not just comfortable in their blackness but also defiant in…

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