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Breaking News | Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Cancels 23/24 Season

By Eva Stone-Barney on 18 September 2023 La Scena Online, Newswire, Toronto

Sept. 18, 2023 – The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Ontario’s third largest orchestra, announced this morning that the organization has canceled “scheduled concerts and all other activities for the 2023/24 season,” effective immediately. This shocking news comes days before the season was supposed to begin, and just two days before its 54 musicians were set to come back to work. With the KWSO being the largest employer of artists and cultural workers in the region, the implications of this decision are significant. The KWSO has cited financial challenges as the reason for this abrupt cancellation. According to its CRA charity…

Preview | SMCQ présents : Amitiés et étrangeté

By Viktor Lazarov on 12 September 2023 Contemporary, La Scena Online, Montreal, This Week in Montreal

On September 24, 2023, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) will present the fourth concert in their Hommage 2023-2024 series, dedicated to composer Sandeep Bhagwati. Organized in collaboration with the Vietnamese Cultural Centre of Canada, the multimedia event will involve music, text and images, centered around such themes as proximity, distance, estrangement and familiarity. Titled Amitiés et étrangeté, the program focuses on a single work by Bhagwati, Exercices d’étrangeté 1, inspired by a verse by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Duy, about Vietnamese diasporic communities. The idea of encountering the unknown is embodied by the musical collaboration that will bring…

Newswire | The Royal Conservatory: Introducing Alexander Brose, President & CEO Designate

By Newswire on 8 September 2023 Newswire, Toronto

TORONTO, September 7, 2023 – The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) welcomed its President & CEO Designate, Alexander Brose, this week. Mr. Brose will begin his yearlong transition with current Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO, Dr. Peter Simon, who will retire on August 31, 2024. “I am so incredibly excited to be here, finally, in Toronto and at The Royal Conservatory. I cannot wait to get to know the diverse community that supports this historic institution – from teachers, students, staff, donors, and a myriad of other important stakeholders – and to participating in the RCM’s evolution. This coming year…

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Newswire | Bourgie Hall: The 2023-2024 Season is Fast Approaching!

By Newswire on 8 September 2023 Montreal

Montreal, Thursday, September 7, 2023 – A new cultural season is upon us: the opening concert of Bourgie Hall’s 2023-2024 season is only a few weeks away. The kick-off for this exciting season will be given on September 27, at 7:30 p.m., by the prestigious Dover Quartet. Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, these exceptional musicians’ presence in Montreal is certainly not to be missed. The programming, unifying and aligned with today’s musical preoccupations, has been carefully developed by its directors, Artistic Director Olivier Godin and Executive Director Caroline Louis.…

Jacques Lacombe (Photo by J. F. Bérubé)

Jacques Lacombe and Orchestre classique de Montréal: Full Circle

By Justin Bernard on 1 September 2023 Classical Music, Montreal, Orchestral

Although Maestro Jacques Lacombe only became the artistic director and principal conductor of the Orchestre classique de Montréal in July 2023, his history with the OCM dates back much farther. Here, he reflects on this relationship, his recent experience at the helm of the institution, succeeding the late Boris Brott, and his longer-term goal and ambitions. “Even before I was appointed artistic director,” he recounts, “the OCM’s general director, Taras Kulish—a good friend of mine whom I’ve known for 30 or 40 years—had asked me, after Boris’s tragic death, to give him a hand in designing the season. Even before…

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Choir Guide 2023

By La Scena Musicale Team on 1 September 2023 Choral, Guides, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto

Quebec Bas-Saint-Laurent Le Choeur de Rimouski www.choeurderimouski.wordpress.com Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean La Bande Sonore Saguenay www.fb.com/La-Bande-Sonore-448817948495426 National-Capital Choeur Azurythmes www.choeurazurythmes.com Choeur de l’Université Laval www.choeurul.asso.ulaval.ca Choeur de la Cité www.lechoeurdelacite.com Choeur de la Colline www.choeurdelacolline.org Choeur de Québec Choeur du Domaine www.fb.com/lechoeurdudomaine Choeur du musée de la civilisation www.choeurmuseecivilisation.com Choeur du Vallon www.choeurduvallon.com Choeur La Clé des Saisons www.choeurlacledessaisons.org Choeur Les Rhapsodes www.lesrhapsodes.com Chorale l’Odyssée vocale de Vanier www.odysseevocale.com Cœur de Charlesbourg www.coeurdecharlesbourg.com Ensemble de musique sacrée de Québec www.emsq.org Ensemble Polyphonia de Québec www.polyphonia.qc.ca Ensemble vocal Baroquo-Negro www.baroquo-negro.com Ensemble vocal CharleVoix www.ensemblevocalcharlevoix.com Groupe vocal Les Loriots de Cap-Rouge www.lesloriots.ca L’Odyssée Vocale www.odysseevocale.com…

Massey Hall: Improve Everything, Change Nothing

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Classical Music, Toronto

Author : (Eva Stone-Barney)

The pressure was on for the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall when, in 2018, they announced they were closing Canada’s oldest and most well-respected concert hall for a major renovation and restoration project that would span 18 to 24 months. Following almost three years of construction (the project was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic), the hall reopened in November 2021, and has been back in action ever since. Massey Hall was opened in 1894. For almost 100 years, it was the home of both the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Countless musical stars have…

Davóne Tines, Photo by Noah Morrison

Fall Highlights: Orchestras, Chamber, Solo

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Art Song, Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Montreal

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) Led by conductor Rafael Payare, the OSM celebrates the orchestra’s 90th anniversary this season, along with the 10th anniversary of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique. The orchestra will start the year with an electric performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sept. 12-14). Payare and OSM concertmaster Andrew Wan will later take the stage to interpret Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Webern’s Passacaglia, and Mozart’s “Haffner’’ Symphony (Oct. 25, 26). Come November, Christoph Eschenbach will conduct Alban Berg’s Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 (Nov. 8, 9). The orchestra will get in the…

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Fall Festival Guide

By Andréanne Venne on 1 September 2023 Guides, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, West

Canada Culture Days Across Canada / Partout le Canada, September 22 to October 15 www.culturedays.ca Les Journées de la culture Across Quebec / Partout le Québec, September 29 to October 1 www.journeesdelaculture.qc.ca Newfoundland Festival 500 Growing The Voices St. John’s, October 1 to 6 www.growingthevoicesfestival500.com Festival of New Dance St. John’s, October 2 to 7 www.festivalofnewdance.ca Nova Scotia Celtic Colours International Festival Cape Breton, October 6 to 14 www.celtic-colours.com New Brunswick Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival Fredericton, September 12 to 17 www.harvestmusicfest.ca Silver Wave Film Festival Fredericton, November 2 to 9 www.swfilmfest.com Montréal Festival Quartiers Danses Montréal, September 6 to…

Ballets Jazz Montréal presents Essence

Fall Highlights: Dance

By Nathalie de Han on 1 September 2023 Dance, Montreal

September Essence, an all-woman triple bill, marks the 50th anniversary of Ballets Jazz Montréal. The emblematic Les Chambres des Jacques by Aszure Barton and Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue by Crystal Pite are joined by We Can’t Forget About What’s His Name by Ausia Jones, a young performer from Ballets Jazz Montréal. Her movements are influenced by groove and counterpoint. Théâtre Maisonneuve, Sept. 27-30. www.dansedanse.ca How to coexist in a shifting space? The triple project S’imbriquer + The Choreographic Garden + Espaces construits extends beyond performance space and inspires freedom. Philippe Dépelteau, Hanna Sybille Müller and the FRAM…

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