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ANDREW WAN, OSM CONCERTMASTER AND MADELEINE CAREAU, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, MONDAY MORNING.

The OSM Returns to the Maison Symphonique

By Newswire on 1 June 2020 Newswire

The Orchestra will give a recorded concert at the Maison symphonique for broadcast this week Montreal, June 1, 2020 — The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is pleased to announce that its musicians have started a much awaited return today to the Maison symphonique for a reduced ensemble concert to be broadcast on June 4. This was made possible after the Minister of Culture and Communications Nathalie Roy announced on May 22, the green light to recorded indoor performances and concerts without a live audience. During the pandemic, the Orchestra has multiplied online initiatives in order to maintain a close contact with its loyal…

Metropolitan Opera announces new opening date of December 31, 2020

By Newswire on 1 June 2020 Newswire

Fall performances canceled in response to the health crisis New York, NY (June 1, 2020)—The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the company has made the difficult decision to cancel the first few months of its 2020–21 season, based on current information regarding the ongoing health crisis. The new season is now scheduled to begin on December 31, 2020, with a special gala performance, the details of which will be shared at a later date. “Given the enormous organizational complexity of the Met’s schedule, we have no choice but to cancel our fall season,” General Manager Peter Gelb said. “The health…

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Luciano Berio: Coro Cries of London (Bis)

By Norman Lebrecht on 28 May 2020 Lebrecht Weekly

Since we’re unlikely in the next few years to hear another live performance of Berio’s massive Sinfonia – his collage tribute to Mahler’s second symphony – we’ll have to make do with the works that followed it. Coro developed out of Cries of London, written for the King’s Singers in 1973-74. It is a montage of street songs, madrigals, verses by Pablo Neuruda and snatches of colloquialism, built upon a large orchestral foundation – 84 instruments – of pure ascetic modernism. It’s wonderfully challenging to all our musical preconceptions and frequently beautiful beyond words. This is peak-period Berio, before he…

The Concertgebouworkest during one of the first rehearsals in the Grote Zaal of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. (photo: Milagro Elstak)

Gustavo Gimeno to conduct distanced Concertgebouw Orchestra

By Newswire on 28 May 2020 Newswire

AMSTERDAM, May 28 2020 – Under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno, the Concertgebouworkest has been working towards a configuration on the ground floor of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw which would allow it to perform symphonic repertoire while duly observing all coronavirus measures in force. The rehearsals, in which the players maintain a distance of 1.75 m from one another, have shown that it is quite possible to perform symphonic works scored for not too large an orchestra in such an arrangement and – at least for the moment – without an audience. The rehearsals have also established that the Concertgebouworkest can…

Uri Caine: The Passion of Octavius Catto (816 Music)

By Norman Lebrecht on 22 May 2020 Lebrecht Weekly

Around the turn of the century, an Argentine-Israeli composer living in Massachusetts was suddenly all the rage. Osvaldo Golijov was a maker of fusions, welding symphonic, jazz and folk music into orchestral scores, often with a choral component. Such was his success, that he was showered with commissions by Big Five US orchestras and film deals from Hollywood. It all got a bit much for Golijov, who missed one deadline after another before eventually pronouncing himself blocked. Nothing has been heard from him for a decade and eclecticism has gone totally out of fashion. So I was quite thrilled to…

National Arts Centre Orchestra and Alexander Shelley : “Darlings of the Muses” (Analekta)

By Arthur Kaptainis on 21 May 2020 CD and Book Reviews

“Darlings of the Muses.” Brahms: Symphony No. 1. Schumann: Symphony No. 1. Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto Op. 7. Gabriela Montero: Five Improvisations. Gabriela Montero, piano. National Arts Centre Orchestra/Alexander Shelley. Analekta AN 2 8877-8. Total Time: 122:17. Clara, Johannes and Robert (Schumann, Brahms and Schumann) have long been a source of voyeuristic fascination. In 1947 there was a sentimental movie, Song of Love, supposedly based on the triangle. Now there is Darlings of the Muses, a serious-minded album from the National Arts Centre Orchestra under Alexander Shelley combining orchestral music by all three with a set of improvised piano miniatures intended to…

Canada Council Details on Emergency Aid

By Newswire on 15 May 2020 Newswire

We continue to think of you during these difficult times and we hope that you are well. We are writing with important information about your organization’s potential eligibility for emergency funding relief during the COVID-19 crisis. You are receiving this email because you are listed as one of the key contacts in our granting portal for an arts organization that received a project or core grant from the Canada Council over the past three years. If you are no longer a key contact for an organization that has received funding from the Canada Council, please share this email with the…

Music around the Bauhaus (MDG)

By Norman Lebrecht on 15 May 2020 Lebrecht Weekly

I wish more piano albums were like this, formed by an original idea and a lot of unfamiliar sounds to tweak the ear. All five composers performed were involved in some way with the Bauhaus that Walter Gropius founded at Weimar in 1919 to rethink the look of the built environment. Gropius was wedded to visual austerity even while he was married to Alma Mahler and the composers who gathered around him were not entirely a bundle of laughs. (One who does not feature here is Erwin Ratz, Gropius’s secretary, who went on to become a hugely controversial editor of…

Photo: Concerts Lachine

Virtual versions of Lachine Music Festival and the Lachine International Vocal Academy

By Newswire on 14 May 2020 Newswire

Lachine, May 13, 2020 – Concerts Lachine is very proud to have adapted its summer programming in order to allow the public to discover classical music without leaving the comfort of your home. Between July 4 and 19, you will be able to enjoy the Lachine Music Festival via Facebook and/or on other platforms. Obviously, this solution will not replace live events in the concert hall, but we believe that this initiative will be particularly appreciated by our artists and by our existing and new audience members to this exciting series that has been presented for over 40 years. As…

The 29th Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur: A Shared Solitude,20 artists, 20 creations, 1voice

By Newswire on 14 May 2020 Newswire

Montreal, May 14, 2020. Undaunted by the challenges and constraints the current pandemic has imposed on us all, the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (FASS) has created an innovative way to bring you a unique and memorable FASS 2020 edition. Focusing on Quebec resilience, solidarity and creativity, it is with great pride that Guillaume Côté, the artistic director of the Festival, announcesthis remarkable project: A Shared Solitude. Conceived as a collaboration between Guillaume Côté, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur and the Orchestre Métropolitain, this 29th edition of FASS truly enables us to fulfil our mission of creativity…