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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
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This Week in Montreal: August 3 to 9

By Michele Duguay on 3 August 2015 Chamber Music, Orchestral, Strings, This Week in Montreal

Marianne Fiset (Photo: Maxime Tremblay)This Week in Montreal: August 3 to 9Carmen at OSM’s Classical Spree A must-see event at the end of the summer, the 4th Classical Spree will begin on August 5 with a free outdoors concert conducted by Kent Nagano. This year, a shortened version of Bizet’s Carmen will be presented at the Olympic Park, featuring Michèle Losier, Joseph Kaiser and Marianne Fiset. As in previous years, 30 low-price 45-minute concerts and a variety of free activities will take place on August 7 and 8, to present the beauties of classical music to the public. In a…

This Week in Montreal: July 27 to August 2

By Michele Duguay on 27 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Marc Hervieux (Photo: Maryse Gagné)This Week in Montreal: July 27 to August 2Orchestre Métropolitain in the ParkThis summer, the OM is playing in the park. Catch the July 24 concert at Vancouver Park in l’Île-des-Sœurs, featuring the great classics from Mozart and Schubert directed by Andrei Fehrer. Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin will direct the Fantasy-Overture from Romeo and Juliet and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 on two occasions – July 29 at the park on l’Île Lebel de Repentigny and July 30at the Chalet de la Montagne as part of the Campbell Concerts series. www.orchestremetropolitain.comConcerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro…

This Week in Montreal: July 20 to 26

By Michele Duguay on 20 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Andrei Feher (Photo: Pierre-Etienne Bergeron)This Week in Montreal: July 20 to 26Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Larforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre Da…

This Week in Montreal: July 13 to 19

By Michele Duguay on 13 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Alexandre Da Costa (Photo: Bo Huang)This Week in Montreal: July 13 to 19Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Laforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre…

This Week in Montreal: July 6 to 12

By Michele Duguay on 6 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Andrei Feher (Photo: Pierre-Etienne Bergeron)This Week in Montreal: July 6 to 12Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Laforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre Da…

9th Edition of the Prix Arts-Affaires de Montréal

By Michele Duguay on 23 June 2015 La Scena Spotlight, Newswire

Left to right: Mr Jan-Fryderyk Pleszczynski (CAM President), André Bourbeau, Ivanhoé Cambridge, Tampopo, Charles Milliard, Mr Michel Leblanc (CCMM President and Chief Executive) By Michèle Duguay The 2015 winners of the Prix Arts-Affaires were announced yesterday afternoon at the Maison du Conseil des arts de Montréal. This event aims to promote ties between cultural organizations and the business world. According to Jan-Fryderyk Pleszczynski, president of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal, “this year’s winners reflects the diversity and sense of innovation shown by people and enterprises in their commitment to arts organizations”. The winner of the Entreprise category, sponsored by…

Eifman Ballet performs Anna Karenina to music by Tchaikovsky in Montreal’s Place des Arts 15-18 April

Anna Karenina: Dancing on the Grave of Love

By Robert Kilborn on 14 April 2015 Concert Reviews, Dance, Romantic

Is Anna Karenina the greatest novel ever written? Dostoyevsky and Nabokov declared it “flawless.” Faulkner described it as “the best ever written.” Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Mann, and countless others learned large parts of their craft from it. In 2007, Time magazine published a poll of 125 big-name authors – from Norman Mailer to David Foster Wallace – which placed Tolstoy’s epic tale of outlaw passion and self-destruction at Number One in a list of “The Top Ten Books of All Time.” Numerous stage, film, television, radio, opera, dance, and other adaptions of Anna Karenina have swelled consciousness for more than…

Worthy Sibelius Tribute in Austin, Texas

By Paul E. Robinson on 12 February 2015 Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Romantic

by Paul E. RobinsonPeter Bay and the Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in the Long CenterDukas: Fanfare for La Péri (1912)Glazunov: Wedding March Op. 21 (1889)Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47 (1903)Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor Op. 39 (1899)Karen Gomyo, violinAustin Symphony Orchestra (ASO)/Peter BayLong Center for the Performing ArtsAustin, TexasFebruary 7, 2015Composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1857)This is going to be a big year for Finnish composer Jean Sibelius; born in 1865, 2015 is the 150th anniversary of his birth. Orchestras everywhere will be playing his music and there will surely be a plethora of new recordings. Conductor…

Andris Nelsons Photo: Marco Borggreve

Video of the Day – Andris Nelsons in Boston and Lucerne

By Paul E. Robinson on 5 October 2014 Orchestral, Video of the day

Andris Nelsons has now taken charge of the Boston Symphony. The video comes from a concert given by Nelsons and the BSO this past July at Tanglewood. It includes excerpts from two Dvorak works: the Symphony No. 8 and the Violin Concerto, the latter with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. By all accounts the new BSO music director has been warmly received by audiences, critics and members of the orchestra. Meanwhile, Nelsons has been very active in Europe too. When Claudio Abbado passed away earlier this year his Lucerne Festival Orchestra was left wondering what to do. The orchestra had been…

Video of the Day – The Legend of Django Reinhardt

By Paul E. Robinson on 19 August 2014 Strings, Video of the day

For anyone brought up to appreciate the artistry of men like Andres Segovia and Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), it is sad to see the abuse of the guitar in contemporary popular music. The instrument has been transformed into a monster emitting deafening electronic noise. And the more distortion the better.Django was in his prime in the 1930s and 40s. The war interrupted his career and together with some mishaps and bad judgment his postwar career was a series of hits and misses. But the recordings he made are jazz classics. Very little of his work was captured on film but it…

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