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La Scena Musicale Presents 2021 Mother’s Day Celebration!
This Mother’s Day, join La Scena Musicale with a weekend of Celebration of Mothers.
- On May 7, attend a special dedication concert with musicians performing for their mothers, featuring Gino Quilico, Aline Kutan, Raphaelle Paquette, Chantal Dionne and many others.
- And on May 8 and 9, our singers will deliver Personalized Serenades for special mothers. Every mom deserves a song! Place your order!
CONCERT (May 7 – Streaming Now)
- Featuring Gino Quilico, Aline Kutan, Raphaëlle Paquette, Chantal Dionne
- Date: May 7
- Time: 7 PM
- Admission: Free on Facebook and YouTube
- Link on Facebook to get reminder
- Last Year’s Concert
- Donate for the Concert (50% of the donations go to La Scena Musicale and 50% go to the artists performing in the concert).
- Watch the Concert streaming now
PERSONALIZED SERENADES (May 8-9)
This Mother’s Day, Order a Personalized Serenade!
For a $30-$100 donation ($50-$120 for Zoom), you can provide your mother with a special experience of a lifetime with a personalized serenade. On May 8-9, trained singers will send the perfect Mother’s Day gift, a personal serenade of their favourite long song (by telephone, facetime, zoom or recorded video) to your mother, all in your name!
To Order:
- Online: make your donation via PayPal using the following link and then you would be redirected to the Order Form for the details (name of mother, contact info, singer, song, date and time needed): suggested amount $30-$100 ($50-120 for Zoom): http://bit.ly/serenadesmomdon
- All donations will benefit La Scena Musicale (with 50% going to the singer) and will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax receipt.
Raphaelle Paquette, soprano (Canada)
(Video and Phone/Zoom not available on May 8 before 5 PM)
- Ma mère chantait toujours (Plamondon)
- Sound of music/Chanson des collines
- Tellement j’ai d’amour pour toi (Céline Dion/Eddie Marnay)
- Maman tu es la plus belle du monde (Louis Mariano)
- Mamma (Chanson italienne)
- L’amour en héritage
- Quand on n’a que l’amour (Jacques Brel)
- Sous le ciel de Paris (Édith Piaf)
- Liberté (Nana Mouskouri)
- C’est magnifique (Louis Mariano)
- Cheek to cheek (Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers)
- C’est beau la vie (Jean Ferrat)
- website | Facebook
Valérie Poisson, soprano (Canada)
- La Vie en rose (Édith Piaf)
- Pour que tu m’aimes encore (Céline Dion)
- Quando m’en vo (La bohème, Puccini)
- Vilja, (La veuve joyeuse, Lehàr)
- L’amour est oiseau rebelle (Carmen, Bizet)
- Ch’il bel sogno (La rondine, Puccini)
- Full list (see PDF)
- website | watch
Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano (Canada):
Marie-Andrée Mathieu, mezzo-soprano (Canada)
Video only
- Tellement j’ai d’amour
- The Sound of Music
- Parlez-moi d’amour (chanson)
- Petite fleur (jazz)
- L’hymne à l’amour (chanson)
- Cent mille chansons (chanson)
- Poulenc: Les chemins de l’amour (mélodie)
- Raynaldo Hahn – L’heure exquise
- Jacques Offenbach – Vois sous l’archet frémissant
- Gabriel Fauré – Au bord de l’eau
- Ambroise Thomas – Connais-tu le pays
- Franz Schubert – Auf dem Wasser zu singen
- Website | Facebook
Erica Lee Martin, singer (Canada)
Video only
- Les Berceaux (Fauré)
- So in Love (Cole Porter)
- Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
- Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
- Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
- website/biography
Kripa Nageshwar, soprano (Canada)
- Classical
- Tamil:
- – Amma, Amma varuvaye
- – Amma Amma Endhan Aaruyirae (Ilayaraja, from Uzhaippali)
- – Amma Endrazhaikkaadha (Ilayaraja, from Mannan)
- Hindi:
- – Tu kitni achchi hai
- – Maa mujhe apne aanchal mein chhupa le
- – Yeh toh sach hai ki Bhagawan hai
Mélodie Vanier-St-Jean, singer (Canada)
- -Plus je t’embrasse (Blossom Dearie)
- -Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald)
- -Fly me to the moon (Frank Sinatra)
- -Gee baby ain’t I good to you (Nat King Cole)
- -It don’t mean a thing (Ella Fitzgerald)
- -The girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
- -I can’t give you anything but love (Louis Armstrong)
- -Halleluyah I love her so (Ray Charles)
- -L.O.V.E. (Nat King Cole)
- ORDER
Simon Chaussé, baritone (Canada)
- La vie en rose (Edith Piaf)
- Plaisir d’amour (Martini)
- La Mer (Charles Trenet)
- Hymne à l’amour (Edith Piaf)
- Les Roses de Picardie (Eddy Marnay)
- Quand on a que l’amour (Brel)
- L’amour en héritage (Nana Mouskouri)
- Maman la plus belle du monde
- Some Enchanted Evening (Hammerstein (South Pacific)
- You raise me up (Josh Groban)
- Edelweiss (Sound of music)
- What a wonderful world (Louis Armstrong)
- Deh! Vieni alla finestra (Mozart: Don Giovanni)
- Torna Sorriento (De Curtis)
- Serenata (Tosti)
- Musica Proibita (Gastaldon)
Pierre Grimm, singer (Canada)
- Charles Trenet: Mes jeunes années
- Florent Pagny: La ou je t’emmenerai
- Edith Piaf: l’hymne a l’amour
- Henri Salvador: Jardin d’hiver
- Francis Cabrel: Je l’aime à mourir
- The Beatles: Something
- Elton John: Your song
- Elvis Presley: Can’t help falling in Love
- Frank Sinatra: I’ve got you under my skin
- Cat Stevens: Wild world
- ORDER
Dino Spaziani, singer (Canada):
- Je t’aimais, je t’aime et je t’aimerais (Francis Cabrel)
- You are so beautiful (Joe Cocker) (Listen)
Wah Keung Chan, tenor (Canada):
- Morgen (Richard Strauss) (Listen) (Text)
- Che gelida manina, (La Bohème, Puccini) (Listen) (from Interview)
- My Funny Valentine (Rodgers & Hart) (Listen) (Text)
- Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (from Rückert Lieder, Mahler) (Listen) (Text)
- Love Me Tender (Vera Matson & Elvis Presley)
- La fleur que tu m’avais jetée, (Carmen, Bizet) (Listen)
Please reserve in advance, as spots for this incredible offer are limited. Offer your mother the joy of song! Serenades can be sent in Canada and the US by telephone or anywhere in the world by personalized video!
To Order:
To book a song and singer for May 8 and 9, please use one of the following methods:
- Online: make your donation via PayPal using the following link and then you would be redirected to the Order Form for the details (name of mother, contact info, singer, song, date and time needed): suggested amount $30-$100 ($50-$120 for Zoom): http://bit.ly/serenadesmomdon
- Phone: 514-948-2520 x3
- Email: [email protected]
All donations will benefit La Scena Musicale (50% will go to the singer) and will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax receipt.
Media:
- Wah Keung Chan and Kripa Nageshwar talked about the project on CBC Daybreak Montreal.
- See Valérie Poisson’s video invitation here.
- The idea behind the Singing Valentines: Listen to Wah Keung Chan’s interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 12, 2011).
- Interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 8, 2014).
- Interview with Mike Finnerty, CBC Daybreak, Feb. 12, 2015 (includes excerpt of Che gelida manina)
- Interview with Barry Morgan, CJAD, Feb. 13, 2015 (includes excerpt of Che gelida manina)
- Interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 6, 2016).
- Feedback on Singing Valentines 2017 (in French)
- Sing It! A Moving Eighth Edition of the Singing Valentines, (La Scena Musicale, April/May 2018)
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