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Daily News Roundup: 1 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 July 2016 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Romantic, Scena Jazz, Violin

+ The marriage between text and music in contemporary opera is more important than ever, says William Littler, citing Fellow Travelers (Cincinnati Opera) and Les Feluettes (Opéra de Montréal) as recent examples. “Perhaps today, more than at any other time in the recent past, librettists are coming into their own as something approaching full partners with composers in the creation of successful opera. And tied to this development is the heightened importance in an age of film and television of casting singers who can give visual credibility to their roles. Tenor Aaron Blake and baritone Joseph Lattanzi both looked and…

Andris Nelsons Photo: Marco Borggreve

Daily News Roundup: 30 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 30 June 2016 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Scena Jazz

+ Andris Nelsons has pulled out of a production of Parsifal that opens the Bayreuth Festival. “Owing to a differing approach in various matters, the atmosphere at this year’s Bayreuth Festival did not develop in a mutually comfortable way for all parties,” said a written statement that was issued on behalf of Mr. Nelsons and his management team, Konzertdirektion Schmid. + Long-time proponent of new new music, violinist Anahid Ajemian has passed away at the age of 92. + His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada announced 113 new appointments to the Order of Canada. See…

Daily News Roundup: 28 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 28 June 2016 Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Scena Jazz

+ Alan Fletcher, the CEO of the Aspen music festival in Colorado, asks why great American symphonists are neglected by American orchestras. + From the Archive: Jon Vickers interview from 15 March 1985 in The Guardian. “The foundation on which I stand as an artist is that all art must appeal to the intellect. Then we’re making a contribution to civilisation, to the uplifting of man. But if we chose to indulge ourselves and chase dollars and fame at the expense of artistic integrity, if we smear the line between entertainment and art, we’re in trouble. “And the operatic world…

Daily News Roundup: 21 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 21 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Literature, Musique populaire, Scena Jazz, Vocal Jazz

+ R.E.M’s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with the TSO was quite the hit with younger audiences. + A miniseries based on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace begins shooting in August and will appear on both Netflix and CBC. + Sook-Yin Lee is moving onto a project called Sleepover, after Definitely Not the Opera got cut from CBC’s on-air programming earlier this year. + Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi is raising awareness for the environmental degradation of the North by playing on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Watch a video of his performance. +…

Daily News Roundup: 18–20 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 20 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Musique populaire, Opera, Scena Jazz

Welcome to today’s Daily News Roundup, where we celebrate great musicians from home and abroad. Plus, check out a rather large portrait of Beethoven. + Joshua Errett asks what type of music should make up a jazz festival in “If Sarah McLachlan plays a jazz festival, is it still a jazz festival?” for CBC News. + This portrait of Beethoven takes up a million square feet. + Tenor Juan Diego Flórez signed to Sony Classical in an exclusive recording contract. + Dutch bass and Baroque specialist Peter Kooij has received the Bach medal from the city of Leipzig (French).…

“Mozart was born in New Orleans!” Paquito D’Rivera at FMCM Review

By Camilo Lanfranco on 19 June 2016 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Mainstream Jazz, Scena Jazz, World Music

“The most beautiful piece written for the clarinet is Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major and we did a study on it at the Louisiana University of Jazz with my friend Wynton Marsalis… We arrived to the conclusion that Mozart was not from Austria, he is from the New Orleans! And that the right way to play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major is as a blues, in fact, a New Orleans blues!” —Paquito D’Rivera, Pollack Hall, 17 June 2016 Winner of 14 Grammy Awards with a discography of more than 30 solo albums since he first started his career…

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 Day in Music – Edvard Grieg & Ella Fitzgerald

By Michele Duguay on 15 June 2016 Romantic, Scena Jazz, This Day in Music, Video of the day, Vocal Jazz

June 15, 1843 is the birthday of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Born in Bergen, he is widely considered as one of the leading romantic composers. His music celebrates both the Norwegian Folk heritage and the width of European culture. Listen to a 1906 recording of Grieg playing Butterfly, one of his 66 Lyric Pieces for piano. Today also marks the death anniversary of the First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald, who passed away on June 15 1996. She led a brilliant solo career—as her 14 Grammy awards indicate—and also recorded and performed with other great jazz musicians such as Duke…

Concert Review: The Mixed Magic of Impromptu Improvisation

By Rebecca Anne Clark on 13 June 2016 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Mainstream Jazz, Scena Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Spirits were running high during the final bows at the FMCM’s opening night last Thursday, June 9 at Pollack Hall, but opinions were mixed. The evening’s stars, soprano Measha Brueggergosman and trumpeter Jens Lindemann, carried the show—though not the show that the audience was expecting. While the program announced an arrangement of Bach’s Air on the G string for the second half of the evening, instead audiences were treated to a preview of the following June 10 jazz concert. After the intermission, the Honourable Tommy Banks (piano), Eric Lagacé (bass), and David Laing (drums) performed an off-the-cuff program of Duke…

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…

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