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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…

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 Week in Montreal (June 13 – 19)

By Michele Duguay on 12 June 2016 Chamber Music, Mainstream Jazz, Musical Theatre, Opera, Scena Jazz, Theatre, This Week in Montreal

Montreal Chamber Music Festival, June 3-19 The pre-festival activities of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival began on February 23, but the festival proper will continue until June 19. Tenor Ben Heppner will be narrating Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss with pianist Stéphane Lemelin (June 18). In the days following see the Goldberg Variations with pianist Simone Dinnerstein (June 15) and the rare opportunity to hear Casals’ cello played by Israeli cellist Amit Peled (June 16). Pollack Hall and Bourgie Hall. www.festivalmontreal.org François Bourassa’s Pianorama In the years following his breakthrough as winner of the Montreal Jazz Festival Competition in…

Theatre

By Rebecca Anne Clark on 1 September 2014 Musical Theatre, Theatre

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Flash version here. This autumn, many English-language theatre companies in Montreal have programmed their 2014-15 seasons with the recent controversy over Quebec’s Charter of Values in mind. Teesri Duniya Theatre (teesridtheatre.weebly.com) and Tableau D’Hôte (www.tableaudhotetheatre.ca) present shows focused on diversity within Quebec society in 2015, and Geordie Productions (geordie.ca) has planned a season for young audiences entitled Inspiring Dialogue, which explores intolerance and what it means to be different. At the Segal Centre, 1960s coming-of-age comedy The Graduate runs until September 21. Original music composed and performed live on stage by Justin Rutledge and Juno winner Matthew Barber puts a…

Stratford Festival's Brilliant Fiddler on the Roof!

By Paul E. Robinson on 24 June 2013 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre

by Paul E. RobinsonBy Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry BockDirector and Choreographer: Donna FeoreSet Designer: Allen MoyerMusical Director: Shelley HansonCast:Tevye: Scott WentworthGolde: Kate HennigTzeitel: Jennifer StewartHodel: Jacquelyn FrenchChava: Keely HuttonShprintze: Krista LeisSaturday, June 15, 2013Festival TheatreStratford FestivalSeveral weeks ago, in Texas, I found myself deeply moved and inspired by a fine Marc Chagall exhibition – Chagall: Beyond Color – at the Dallas Museum of Art. The show included numerous versions of the Green Violinist (1923-24), often fantastically perched on a roof of a Russian house. This experience proved to be excellent preparation for a fine new production of the musical Fiddler on the Roof at Stratford. While the work is clearly based on stories by Sholem Aleichem, Chagall’s unforgettable…

Rock Opera: Mega Multi-media Tommy Stratford’s “Biggest Ever” Musical!

By Paul E. Robinson on 24 June 2013 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre

Wilde and Weill at Shaw: An Ideal Husband and a Touch of Venus

By Paul E. Robinson on 9 October 2010 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre

by Paul E. RobinsonSUMMER FESTIVALS SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, 2010Kurt Weill has always been an enigma for classical music lovers – his career started so propitiously: he studied composition first with Humperdinck, and later with Busoni; he turned out dozens of remarkably mature early works; his Symphony No. 2 was given its premiere by Bruno Walter; he made his mark in the German musical theatre too, first with The Threepenny Opera, and later with Mahagonny.Then came Hitler and the Nazis, and in 1933 Weill was forced to flee Germany. He sent his parents to Palestine and he and his wife Lotte…

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