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Welcome to the February/March 2025 national issue of La Scena Musicale, which features our annual special on Summer Studies. This is also a special issue on Orchestras and Conductors. Our French cover features Quebec Symphony’s new music director Clemens Schuldt. Globe-trotting conductor Jordan de Souza is the cover artist of our English edition.
Our themed issue also shines a light on conductors Véronique Lussier, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and Alexis Hauser. Features include a profile of violinist Gwen Hoebig, Les petits violons on their 60th anniversary, Orchestre philharmonique de Québec, Tafelmusik and Canadian Sinfonietta. Also included is our Orchestras Guide. A complete guide to Canadian orchestras will be published on our website.
CELEBRATION OF LOVE
February is La Scena Musicale’s annual month to celebrate love. See our staff’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide on page 17. We feature the love story of husband and wife duo Julian Armour and Guylaine Lemaire and feature our favourite Puccini love duets.
We begin our 15th Annual Singing Valentines Campaign with the aim of sharing the joy of personalized serenades. As we have successfully done in past years, we are offering 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 percent of donations generated from personalized serenades ordered for specific singers and for specific songs.
La Scena Radio
We are bringing back La Scena Radio by streaming recordings reviewed in the last two issues, as well as 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.
SUBSCRIPTION AND DONATION DRIVE
The 2024-25 season continues the all-colour format the magazine adopted in November 2017. 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 our paying subscribers.
La Scena Musicale 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 focuses on news and events.
As we look ahead in 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 to 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 students, parents or artists.
As always, La Scena Musicale maintains a vigorous presence on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn. 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
- 12 La Nef
- 12 Women’s Musical Club of Toronto
- 14 Esprit Festival
- 16 Pro Musica
- 16 Noémie Raymond-Friset
- Love
- 17 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
- 17 Singing Valentines
- 18 Great Puccini Opera Duets
- 19 Julian Armour & Guylaine Lemaire
- Summer Studies
- 20 Music Camps
- 21 Les Boréades Academy
- 22 Camp Guide
- 24 CD Reviews
- 25 New Releases
- 26 Choral Calendar
- 27-31 Montreal New Musics Festival
- 32 Jazz: Bourgie Hall
- 33 Jazz: Sun Ra Arkestra
- Orchestras Special
- 34 Orchestra Guide
- 36 Jordan de Souza
- 39 Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra
- 40 Clemens Schuldt
- 42 Tafelmusik
- 42 Canadian Sinfonietta
- 43 Véronique Lussier
- 44 Gwen Hoebig
- 44 Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser
- 45 Alexis Hauser
- 46 Olga Kern and the OPQ
- 46 Les Petits Violons
- 48 National Calendar
- 49 Concert Previews
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