Highlights | Karl Tremblay Has Cancer, Land Back Advocacy at Bluesfest and Orchestral Music on TikTok

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Welcome to La Scena Musicale‘s first Highlights article, a curated, weekly list of arts-related news stories from across the world!

Music Industry

La Presse | Singer Karl Tremblay announces that he has cancer
(This article is written in French.)
Karl Tremblay, singer for Cowboys Fringants, announced on Facebook that he has had cancer since January 2020.

Karl Tremblay (Credit: Philippe Boivin, La Presse Archives)

Toronto Star | From travel woes to inflation, music festivals face the most unpredictable summer yet
From artists cancelling performances because of COVID to a shortage of goods, festivals are facing many issues in summer 2022. But festival organizers have found solutions, namely hiring backup artists and extending their festivals by one day to recuperate lost funds.

Slipped Disc | Breakthrough: UK Supreme Court grants holiday pay to music teachers
The UK’s highest court has granted summer holiday pay to music teachers.

Music Culture

Cody Fry made the final 48 on the 14th season of FOX’s “American Idol”, 6 years before he would achieve viral fame via TikTok. (Credit: Getty)

Classic FM | Research says orchestral music is more popular on social media than in schools – one TikTok star explains why
Cody Fry has become an orchestral star in the most unexpected of places… TikTok! Classic FM follows up with Fry on some research that suggests the growing popularity of orchestral music on social media.

CTV News | Rage Against the Machine calls for Indigenous ‘land back’ at Canadian show
At their Bluesfest concert, Rage Against the Machine condemned Canada’s treatment of Indigenous issues during the band’s “Public Service Announcement” tour. The band labelled the much higher number of Indigenous peoples killed by police, as well as the reports of thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women, as a “genocide”.

Classic FM | Former Mariinsky opera singer sentenced to 10 years in Russian jail following COVID-19 protest
Baritone Vadim Cheldiev was arrested for leading a 2,000-person protest against Russia’s COVID lockdown policies. During the protest, he called the “non-existent coronavirus” a tool used by the government to “enslave the people”.

La Presse | Daniel Lavoie will be inducted
(This article is written in French.)
On September 24, Jim Corcoran will induct Daniel Lavoie into the Canadian Authors and Composers’ Hall of Fame.

Two days after protesters stormed the President’s house in Sri Lanka. (Credit: Getty)

Classic FM | 125-year-old piano ‘destroyed’ after protestors capture Sri Lankan president’s private residence
In the midst of the ongoing Sri Lankan revolution, Ranil Wickremesinghe’s home was set on fire. His century-old piano and over 4,000 books were destroyed.

Montreal Gazette | Hudson Music Festival returns with diverse lineup
Ron Di Lauro Ensemble, the Blue Mondays Jazz Orchestra Big Band, Justin Saladino Band and Scott-Pien Picard will play at the 16th Hudson Music Festival between July 29 to August 3.

CTV News | Ambleside Music Festival
West Vancouver’s Ambleside Music Festival returns from August 12-14 with such bands as The Offspring and Mother Mother.

Global News | Calgary Folk Music Festival returns to Prince’s Island Park
Prince Island will once again be graced with performances from the Calgary Folk Music Festival, featuring more than 70 artists over a four-day period.

Reviews

OperaCanada | Nuova Opera and Music Theatre Festival’s The Coronation of Poppea
A lot of standout singers performed in NUOVA Opera’s The Coronation of Poppea, a Monteverdi opera set in ancient Rome, but according to Bill Rankin, the production choices were hit or miss.

Hadleigh Adams as the Beast in Opera Parallèle’s La Belle et la Bête (Credit: Cory Weaver)

Classical Voice | Opera Parallèle Works Its Magic With La Belle et la Bête
Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête was already an unusually spectacular creation when it was composed in the mid-1990s; the score was set to a silent showing of Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film Beauty and the Beast. Opera Parallèle, however, have taken the opera far beyond Glass’s original scope in what Lira Hirsch describes as a “great theatrical coup”.

Classical Voice | The Valkyrie Survives Another Sci-Fi Trip at the Hollywood Bowl
While the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s musical performance of The Valkyrie was well rehearsed and performed, Yuval Sharon’s direction and stage production was overly ambitious, says Jim Farber.

La Presse | Half Moon Run and Les Plaines, an incredible pairing
(This article is written in French.)
Half Moon Run generated an inviting atmosphere at the Festival d’été de Quebec, says Marissa Groguhé

Downbeat | Terri Lyne Carrington’s Montreal Jazz Fest Invitation Series
In between gushing over Terri Lyne’s performance at the Montreal Jazz Fest, John Murph explores the musical history of this seasoned drummer, composer and bandleader.

Obituary

Le Monde | Dani, singer, actress and queen of « Paris by night » of the 1970s, has passed away
(This article is written in French.)
Danièle “Dani” Graule (1944-2022) is famous as an actress – François Truffaut chose her for the role of Liliane in La Nuit américaine, which won an Oscar in 1974 – and as a singer.

Vincent DeRosa (Credit: Slipped Disc)

Slipped Disc | Death of US horn legend, 101
Vincent DeRosa (1920-2022) was a French horn player and a prolific Hollywood soundtrack musician. His performances are featured in such classic films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Marry Poppins and Rocky, and in such shows as Hawaii Five-O and Star Trek. He also worked closely with Frank Sinatra and Henry Mancini.

Slipped Disc | Ballet chief dies, 69
Philippe Cohen (1953-2022) was the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s head of ballet for 19 years until he retired in 2003.

Slipped Disc | Miles Davis bassist dies at 71
Michael Henderson (1951-2022) was an acclaimed bassist who played for Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder.

Slipped Disc | Label chief, 52, dies after heart surgery
Jeroen van Riel (1970-2022) was the managing director of Brilliant Classics, a Dutch record label.