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Welcome to the February/March 2024 national issue of La Scena Musicale, which celebrates International Women’s Day. Soprano Barbara Hannigan is featured on the cover of the French edition, and mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska is the cover artist on our English edition. Both Canadian stars on the vocal and opera scene will be making appearances across Canada this winter and spring.
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This issue also celebrates Black History Month with a two-page tribute to Max Roach. We offer a reflection on the career of recent CQM Prix Opus Hommage winner Isolde Lagacé. We also reflect on the 80th anniversary of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, as well as on the work of Frances Wainwright. We recap the Riviera Maya Festival, and preview the second half of the 2023-24 season at Bourgie Hall and the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. La Nef, Les Violons du Roy, and Esprit Orchestra talk to us about their upcoming concerts. This issue also features interviews with violinists Isabella d’Éloize Perron and Emmanuel Vukovich.
As always, we offer reviews of recently released albums—both classical and jazz—as well as a selection of book reviews. This February, we will begin publishing reviews of film scores and movie-musicals on our website.
CELEBRATION OF LOVE
February is also La Scena Musicale’s annual month to celebrate love. See our staff’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide on Page 26. We begin our 14th Annual Singing Valentines Campaign with the aim of sharing the joy of personalized serenades, as we successfully did last year, to more people by offering at least 100 free Singing Valentines to seniors.
To do this, head to our website and fill out the order form, and we’ll choose the singer and song for you. This year, along with paying our singers through fundraising activities, we will also offer them 50 per cent of donations generated from personalized serenades ordered for specific singers and for specific songs.
La Scena Radio
In December and January, we tested our new internet streaming radio station by playing recordings of our featured cover artists, Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein. Starting in February 2024, we will begin streaming more structured programming, which will include recordings reviewed in this issue, and other newly released albums. We also hope to launch a mobile app to make it easier for you to listen on your phone. Visit myscena.org/radio.
2023-24 Season
Our 29th season (2023-24) of publishing includes six full-colour issues (three in the fall and three in the winter and summer) of La Scena Musicale.
All six issues will be national issues, with separate English and French editions, which asserts our position as the largest bilingual arts media in Canada. We may also publish special issues during the year for paying subscribers.
Stay tuned, as we will continue our personalized serenades service this year in May, for Mother’s Day. We are currently recruiting singers for this project. Please email [email protected] if you are interested.
We look forward to providing new, innovative content—and more of it—both in print and online. Be sure to check out our weekly Highlights column, available on our website.
SUBSCRIPTION AND DONATION DRIVE
La Scena has evolved with changing consumer habits in media consumption, while also maintaining its core mission: to promote music and the arts. Our print magazine will continue to provide quality curated articles and interviews in both English and French, while our website will focus on news and events.
As we look ahead to the 2024-25 season, we aim to increase both digital and print content. As this issue demonstrates, we have many talented writers and we wish to give space for their voices. Frequent increases in the price of magazine paper, however, are cause for concern. We hope you will consider supporting our magazine through a donation and/or by joining our fundraising committee by contacting us at [email protected].
Another way to support the magazine is through the LSM Boutique at mySCENA.org, where greeting cards and tickets to our partners’ events are available for purchase. We are also reviving our Discovery Box, which was suspended during COVID.
As a result of the pandemic, we have changed from street distribution to home delivery. We invite our readers to purchase subscriptions so as to ensure they continue to receive all of our annual issues. Subscriptions can also be purchased for others, and make an ideal gift for parents or artists.
As always, La Scena Musicale maintains a vigorous presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The website offers new resources almost daily. The live performing arts are back, and La Scena Musicale is here to support them.
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Contents
- 6 Editorial
- 8 Industry News
- 10 Opus Prize Gala
- 12 Frances Wainwright
- 12 Recurrence
- 14 Bourgie Hall
- 16 Pentaèdre
- 16 La Nef
- 17 Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
- 18 Barbara Hannigan
- 20 Ema Nikolovska
- 23 Four Seasons, Two Ways
- 23 Les Violons du Roy
- 24 Three Afternoons of Chamber Music
- 24 Prix d’Europe 2024
- 25 Esprit Orchestra
- 26 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
- 26 La Scena’s Singing Valentines
- 27 Emmanuel Vokovich
- 28 Mont Analogue
- 28 Duceppe
- 29 Theatre Calendar
- 29 Projet Polytechnique
- 30 Studio Monitors Reviewed
- 31 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival 2023
- 31 New Releases
- 32 Cd Reviews
- 36 Book Reviews
- 37 The Préville Fine Arts Centre
- 38 Jazz
- 40 National Calendar
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