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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

World Premire of One-Woman Cabaret

World Premire of Carolyn Guillet's One-Woman Cabaret

Plucked, Hammered and Strung


How many poems, songs, films and plays have been written about love and yet we never tire of the subject in all its mystery. This fall Inifnithtre explores the topic, from two very different perspectives, both of them female. Running concurrently for two weekends at the Bain St-Michel with Carole Frchette's John and Batrice, is the world premire of Carolyn Guillet's one-woman cabaret, Plucked, Hammered and Strung.


A woman, a piano, and five lovers. Six obsessive love songs. Nine dying fathers and a forgotten spouse or two. A theatrical performance event full of passion, lamentation and frivolity. Themes of yearning, absurdity and insanity are played out to the tune of Chopin's Funeral March and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. This is Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera meeting Aeschylus' Electra; a cross between Peggy Lee and Mozart improvising "Variations on the Theme of Love".


Juxtaposed with Frchette's mythic fairytale, Guillet plays it close to the bone with this semi-autobiographical (or is it?) rendering of all the "first loves" of her lifeĶso far. The piano, her closest confidante throughout, plays a major role in her life and the piece, as Carolyn weaves original songs as well as pop ballads and a few choice classical piano solos into the storyline. In an attempt to deal with the death of her father and the subsequent muddy resurgence of all her dead affairs, Guillet takes the audience though a labyrinth of fantasy and reality; funny, dark, brutal and touching. Dovetailing perfectly with the other two themes of Infinite's 2008 09 season, 'Hope' and 'Faith', Plucked, Hammered and Strung is a story of eternal renewal.


Regarding the issue of semi-autobiographical material, Guillet, the writer admits, "I steal things. And then I lie. I 'use' the truth, twist it just enough to make it entirely believable." However, Guillet, the actor, felt a little over exposed. "I thought the character was a little too close to the real me. But as the work developed, the characters multiplied and I got all these different names to play with, like different hats in a costume box. Every time she [the character] sits down at the piano, she's someone elseĶor a slightly different version of herself. I have to fall in love over and overĶdiscover the pleasures of sex over and over again, as if for the first time."


Guillet, who is working on a sequel to her first original script, Seventeen [Anonymous] Women, entitled Seventeen [Particular] Men asked Diana Fajrajsl to dramaturge the work as she developed it through a CALQ grant. "Diana was indispensable. She kept me at it, kept me laughing, got me out of the mud and into a place of wit, clarity and elegance." Arianna Bardesono, an NTS graduate having just come off her successful directorship of Repercussion Theatre's The Tempest, is directing. Bardesono had attended a reading of Plucked at Playwright's Workshop Montreal and when she and Guillet met last summer at an international master class for directors in Ottawa, they hit it off.


OF SPECIAL NOTE: "Strung Out on Sushi" - an additional fundraising performance of Plucked, Hammered and Strung will be held on Monday, November 10th to raise money to support Infinithtre's ongoing mandate to discover, develop and produce Qubecois writers. Sushi dinner at 6:00 PM with the performance following. For those enticed by the play AND keen to support local theatre, this is the perfect combo! Call Infinithtre for more info at (514) 987 1774.

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The American Federation of Musicians


THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA APPLAUDS CONGRESS FOR PASSING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT MEASURES

Passage of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act will Stem the Growth of Music Piracy and Protect AFM Members Hard Work

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) applauds Congress for passing the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property PRO-IP Act. This bill will greatly increase the federal governments ability to fight music and video piracy and enforce intellectual property and counterfeiting laws. Music piracy and intellectual property theft represent some of the most serious threats to musicians, the music industry and AFM members. The AFM thanks Congress for its passage of the PRO-IP Act and its support for the creative community.

The AFM, working in a labor-management coalition, advocated for passage of the bill. The Senate unanimously passed the PRO-IP Act (S.3325) on Friday, September 26, and the House of Representatives overwhelmingly, 381 members voting for passage to 41 members voting against, passed the bill on Sunday, September 28.

The PRO-IP Act will increase penalties for copyright violations and counterfeiting. It will strengthen the governments ability to enforce intellectual property and counterfeiting regulations by providing funding for additional FBI agents and Justice Department personnel dedicated solely to intellectual property protection and prosecuting those caught violating the law. Finally, the bill creates the position of Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in the White House. This position is designed to coordinate the federal governments intellectual property and counterfeiting enforcement operations across all departments and agencies.

About the AFM

Founded in 1896, the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), AFL-CIO, is the largest organization in the world dedicated to representing the interests of professional musicians. With more than 90,000 members, the AFM represents all types of professional musicians, including those who record music for sound recordings, film scores, radio, television and commercial announcements, as well as perform music of every genre in every sort of venue from small jazz clubs to symphony orchestra halls to major stadiums. Whether negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying legislators, the AFM is committed to raising industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape. www.afm.org


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La jeune fille et la mort par Les Violons du Roy - 3 octobre 10h30 et 20h


La jeune fille et la mort
Srie Grands Rendez-vous
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, chef dorchestre


Vendredi 3 octobre, 20 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qubec)

Srie chefs-duvre du matin
Vendredi 3 octobre, 10 h 30
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qubec)

B. Britten Prlude et fugue pour 18 cordes, opus 29
 B. Britten Variations sur un thme de Frank Bridge, opus 10
 F. Schubert Quatuor en r mineur La jeune fille et la mort , D. 810
 (Arrangement pour orchestre cordes de G. Mahler)


Qubec, le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 La saison 2008-2009 des Violons du Roy souvrira avec le premier concert de la srie Grands Rendez-vous, le vendredi 3 octobre, 20 h, la Salle Raoul-Jobin du Palais Montcalm. Pour loccasion, Jean-Marie Zeitouni dirigera des uvres de Benjamin Britten et lun des chefs-duvre du rpertoire romantique, le Quatuor La jeune fille et la mort de Franz Schubert dans larrangement pour orchestre cordes de Gustav Mahler. Cette dernire uvre sera aussi donne en matine, 10 h 30, dans le cadre de la srie de concerts comments Chefs-duvre du matin.

La premire partie sera consacre deux uvres pour orchestre cordes de Benjamin Britten, toutes deux composes pour un ensemble londonien rput, lOrchestre cordes Boyd Neel. Le concert souvrira avec le Prlude et fugue, opus 29, une uvre qui met bien en lumire la virtuosit de chacun des musiciens, tous tant traits en soliste. Suivront les Variations sur un thme de Frank Bridge, opus 10 cres au Festival de Salzbourg en 1937. Dans cette srie de variations, Britten rend hommage son matre, Frank Bridge, mais surtout, il prend un plaisir vident voquer le style de nombreux prdcesseurs et contemporains, notamment Beethoven, Verdi, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel, Bach et Bartk. Cette uvre destine faire briller lorchestre contribua grandement la clbrit du compositeur alors g de 24 ans.

En deuxime partie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni dirigera larrangement pour orchestre cordes du Quatuor en r mineur La jeune fille et la mort de Schubert, ralis par Gustav Mahler dans le but de rendre plus accessible ce magnifique chef-duvre. Mis en musique par Schubert en 1817, le court pome de Matthias Claudius, Der Tod und das Mdchen (la mort et la jeune fille) relate le dialogue entre une jeune fille effraye et la Mort. Sept ans plus tard, le compositeur, alors confront sa mort prochaine, reprend son lied et sen inspire pour crer son quatorzime et avant-dernier quatuor. Cette uvre en quatre mouvements, porte par un souffle dramatique puissant, constitue sans contredit lun des sommets de tout le rpertoire romantique.

La Caisse de dpt et de placement du Qubec est le partenaire prsentateur de ce concert. Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada, est le diffuseur officiel des Violons du Roy. La saison 2008-2009 Qubec est prsente par Hydro-Qubec, partenaire de saison Qubec.


Srie Grands Rendez-vous : Cinq concerts denvergure
Pour ceux qui aiment la diversit, la srie Grands Rendez-vous propose cinq grands concerts o lon pourra entendre des uvres magnifiques telles La jeune fille et la mort de Schubert, La nuit transfigure de Schoenberg, La messe de minuit de Charpentier et mme de la musique klezmer. Truls Mork, Karina Gauvin, lensemble Kleztory et La Chapelle de Qubec figurent parmi les invits de marque de cette srie aux saveurs varies !


Srie Chefs-duvre du matin
La srie Chefs-duvre du matin est de retour, cette fois avec une offre de cinq concerts. Ces concerts comments par les chefs et ponctus de dmonstrations des musiciens permettent aux mlomanes denrichir leur exprience du concert. Dune dure denviron 70 minutes sans entracte, ces concerts ont lieu en matine 10 h 30.


Labonnement

Abonnez-vous lune des sries de la Saison 2007-2008 et profiter dun rabais sur le tarif rgulier et de nombreux privilges. En vous abonnant avant le 3 octobre, vous courez la chance de gagner lun des trois prix du concours Trois chances plutt quune . Tous les dtails sont disponibles dans la brochure de saison ou sur le site : violonsduroy.com.
Nouveaut : la formule Trio Dcouverte permet de crer votre srie de 3 concerts parmi 14 grands concerts du soir et de dcouvrir ainsi la gamme varie du rpertoire des Violons du Roy. Vous pouvez mme choisir autant de trios que vous le dsirezĶ
Le tarif 29 ans et moins de retour !
Un concert de haut niveau au mme prix quun film, soit seulement 12,50 $.


Information et Rservation


Billetterie du Palais Montcalm
(418) 641-6040, poste 0
(418) 692-3026
ou www.billetech.com

Concerts venir au Palais Montcalm :
Mardi 4 novembre 10 h 30 : Flte alors !
 Concert comment par Bernard Labadie,
Srie Chefs-duvre du matin
Mardi 4 novembre, 20 h Flte alors !
Avec Bernard Labadie, chef; et Maurice Steger, flte bec
srie Bach avant-tout

www.violonsduroy.com

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PSO Kinderkonzert Series Begins October 20th


PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S KINDERKONZERT 2008-09 SERIES OPENS WITH "STRINGS: FOUR SEASONS," OCTOBER 20
Introducing young children to instrument families and musical concepts

PORTLAND, Maine The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) kicks off its popular Kinderkonzert series of the 2008-09 season with "Strings: Four Seasons" beginning October 20 and running through November 19.

The PSO String Quartet will guide kids aged 3-7 through the experience of how music can remind us of our surrounding environments. The PSO String Quartet, comprised of violin, viola, cello and double bass, will demonstrate how music can tell a story in much the same way as words and pictures. Various stringed instruments can conjure different seasonal weather patterns and their subsequent moods the plucking of violin strings might make one think of a rain shower while the deep sounds of the double bass may being to mind a thunderstorm.

The "Strings: Four Seasons" program opens on October 20 at the Crooker Theater in Brunswick High School and then travels to nine other locations in Maine and New Hampshire for a total of 24 performances.

Kinderkonzerts are entertaining, interactive programs with Portland Symphony musicians where kids ages 3 - 7 can sing, dance, wiggle, clap, and have fun listening and learning about music and instruments. School systems can coordinate the Kinderkonzert visit with Science and English Language Arts instruction in addition to Visual and Performing Arts. Specially prepared worksheets designed to support Maine's Learning Results are available online or by contacting the PSO.

Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, all Portland Symphony Orchestra Kinderkonzert tickets are $3 per person with advance reservation, $4 at the door (adult or child). For additional information, reservations and ticketing information visit www.portlandsymphony.com or call (207) 773-6128.

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PSO Kinderkonzert Schedule for Strings: Four Seasons:

October 20, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30, 1:00

Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School

116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick

October 21, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30, 1:00

Gorham High School

41 Morrill Ave, Gorham

October 22, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30

South Portland High School Auditorium

637 Highland Avenue, South Portland

October 23, 2008 | 9:00, 10:00, 11:00

Olin Arts Center, Bates College

75 Russell Street, Lewiston

October 30, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30

Reiche Community School

166 Brackett Street, Portland

November 3, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30

Manchester Elementary School

17 School Street, Manchester, ME

November 7, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30, 1:00

Fairfield School

75 Beach Street, Saco

November 14, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30

Town & Country Motor Inn

Route 2, Shelburne, NH


November 18, 2008 | 9:30, 10:30, 1:00

Oxford Elementary School

79 Pleasant Street, Oxford, ME


November 19, 2008 | 10:30 *

Hear Me Now

New Gloucester, ME


* Sold out

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2009 JUNO Awards Submissions Start October 1st

Get in the Running for the 2009 JUNO Awards
- Call for Submissions Start on Wednesday, October 1st -

CARAS introduces new partnerships and
changes to category and voting guidelines

Toronto, ON (September 30, 2008) - The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today that submissions for the 2009 JUNO Awards open on Wednesday, October 1st; giving Canadian artists the opportunity to enter eligible works to be considered for the 38th edition of Canada's Music Awards. The 2009 Juno Awards Weekend will take place in Vancouver, BC, March 26-29, 2009.

This year, CARAS has introduced new category guidelines, voting criteria and an all-new partnership with YANGAROO to streamline the judging process. Using YANGAROO's patented Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) which is a secure, accessible and easy-to-use digital file transfer system, eligible submissions will be distributed electronically to judges during the voting period.

CARAS is also pleased to announce that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will be the official ballot accountants for the 2009 JUNO Awards.

Important Dates to Remember:

  • Submissions for the 2009 JUNO Awards open October 1, 2008
  • Early-Bird deadline (to receive discounted submission rates) is October 22, 2008 before 5 p.m. (EST)
  • Final submissions for CRAFT Categories (5-39) must be received by
    November 12, 2008 before 5 p.m. (EST)
  • Final submissions for SALES Categories (3-4) must be received by January 7, 2009 before 5 p.m. (EST)

2009 eligibility applies to works released during the period between September 1, 2007 to November 12, 2008. For a complete list of JUNO Awards categories, eligibility rules, voting criteria and submission forms, go to www.junoawards.ca.

Along with the announcement of submission dates and deadlines, CARAS has also introduced significant changes to several JUNO Awards categories effective for 2009.

Voting Criteria Changes: Nominations for Artist of the Year and Group of the Year will now be determined based on split criteria of 50% sales and 50% Academy member votes, with the winner decided by a final Academy members' vote.

Category Crossover: Aboriginal Album of the Year* and Contemporary Christian /Gospel Album of the Year can now cross over into another genre category (provided the album meets the specific genre category criteria). *Aboriginal Album of the Year is now a FULL album category. Single track submissions will no longer be considered for this category.

Voting: To receive voting ballots for 2009 Single of the Year, Group of the Year and Artist of the Year, participants must be current CARAS members as of December 1, 2008. For all other member-voted categories, voters must be current CARAS members prior to February 1, 2009. Registrations received after this date will be ineligible to vote for the 2009 JUNO Awards.

Sponsors of The 2009 JUNO Awards include FACTOR, Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters and the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage's "Canada Music Fund," The Province of British Columbia, The City of Vancouver and Radio Starmaker Fund.

About CARAS:
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences/L'academie canadienne des arts et des sciences de l'enregistrement (CARAS) is a not-for-profit organization created to preserve and enhance the Canadian music and recording industries and to contribute toward higher artistic and industry standards. The main focus of CARAS is the exploration and development of opportunities to showcase and promote Canadian artists and music through vehicles such as The JUNO Awards. For more information on the 38th Annual JUNO Awards or the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' (CARAS) please visit our websites at www.carasonline.ca and www.junoawards.ca.

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Yuli Turovsky conducts I Musici de Montreal


The VSO Presents Yuli Turovsky and I Musici de Montral

Vancouver BC I Musici de Montreal is one of Canadas top chamber orchestras, specializing in Chamber and Baroque. The VSO is proud to present them, with their founding director, Yuli Turovsky, for the opening concert of the Bach & Beyond series in a perfect baroque concert: the music of Bach and Handel. I Musici de Montreal performs at The Chan Centre for Performing Arts on October 10th and 11th.

Turovsky, a man of high passion

--The Montreal Gazette

I Musici de Montreal is a decidedly virtuoso group

--South China Morning Post, Hong-Kong

Founded by cellist and conductor, Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal is a chamber orchestra of 15 musicians that specializes in Baroque repertoire. Maestro Turovsky has joked that back in 1983, he purchased a few batons on sale while in New York City and decided that since he had these new batons, he needed an orchestra to conduct. With this new goal, he went back home and founded I Musici de Montreal. This string orchestra is now celebrating its 25th anniversary and performs over one hundred concerts annually at home and abroad.

I Musici de Montreal visits Vancouver as part of their Western Canadian Tour, which also includes performances in Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon. The VSO presents them for the first concert of the 5-concert Bach & Beyond series, while the VSO is on its Asia-Pacific Tour.

CONCERT INFO

Bach & Beyond Series

The VSO Presents I Musici de Montral

Friday, October 10, 8pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Saturday, October 11, 8pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Yuli Turovsky, conductor

I Musici de Montreal

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op.6, No.1 in G Major

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op.6, No.4 in A minor

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, No.12 in B minor

JS Bach Goldberg Variations

Tickets: $35 to $59 (Senior, Student and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available from Ticketmaster Charge-by-Phone, 604.280.3311, VSO Customer Service at 604.876.3434, or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

The VSOs Bach & Beyond Series Endowed By:

The Chan Foundation of Canada

The presentation of this series is made possible in part through the generous assistance of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts of the University of British Columbia.

Radio Sponsor:

600AM

BIOGRAPHIES

Yuli Turovsky, conductor

Born in Moscow, dynamic and visionary conductor Yuli Turovsky began studying the cello at age 7. He continued his studies at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Galina Kozulupova and in 1969 received First Prize in the USSR Cello Competition. After graduating, he toured the world as a member of the celebrated Moscow Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Rudolph Barchai.

After immigrating to Canada and establishing himself in Montral, Yuli Turovsky formed I Musici de Montral Chamber Orchestra in 1983. An ensemble of 15 strings with a repertoire that extends from the baroque to the contemporary, I Musici de Montral performs over 100 concerts per year throughout the world.

I Musici de Montral

Founded by cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montral is a chamber orchestra of 15 musicians that performs a vast repertoire extending from the Baroque to the Contemporary. The orchestra presents a busy schedule of over 100 concerts per season throughout the world, including three series in Montreal. This extraordinary amount of activity places I Musici de Montral among the most important touring orchestras in Canada. Since its beginnings, I Musici de Montral has released more than 40 CDs for the Chandos and Analekta Record Labels that are distributed in more than 50 countries around the world.

These recordings have won the orchestra and Maestro Turovsky many awards, including a Diapason dOr for their 1988 recording of Shostakovichs 14th Symphony and a 1992 Penguin Guide Rosette for their Concerti grossi, opus 6 by Handel. I Musici de Montrals recording of Handel has since become a reference recording of the highest standard. In December of 1998, the Conseil qubecois de la musique gave two Opus Awards to the orchestra for Recording Event of the Year and Best Recording - contemporary music for a CD grouping works by Gorecki, Prt and Schnittke. In August 2001, BBC Music Magazine named as their CD of the Month I Musici de Montrals 40th CD, a recording of Miaskovsky, Schnittke and Denisov, naming it Pickof the month. In 2007, the orchestra won the Opus Award for their latest record Shostakovichs Circle and was nominated for a Juno Award.

In 1999, I Musici de Montral was awarded the Grand Prix by the Montreal Urban Community for their exceptional contribution to music presentation in and around Montreal. In 2004, the Orchestra and Maestro Turovsky received a uniquely special award for International performances presented by the Conseil qubcois de la musique. This award saluted the 20th anniversary of the orchestra and the whole work that made the reputation of the orchestra throughout the years.

Under the dynamic and visionary direction of Maestro Yuli Turovsky who also performs as cello soloist with the orchestra, I Musici de Montral has performed in some of the greatest halls in the world: New Yorks Lincoln Center, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, the Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, the Tonhalle in Zrich, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Kioi Hall in Tokyo and Philharmonie in Luxemburg, among others. Public enthusiasm and critical acclaim underlining the precision, cohesion and virtuosity of their performance as well as the brilliant and distinctive sound of the orchestra confirm I Musici de Montrals importance on the worlds musical stage.

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NACO, Oct. 9-10: Measha Brueggergosman


Measha Brueggergosman sings Barbers Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Bolcom cabaret songs with the NAC Orchestra on October 9 and 10

Ottawa (Canada) Marvellous Measha Brueggergosman, Canadas soprano sensation, returns to the National Arts Centre Orchestra to sing *Barbers Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a musical interpretation of an elegant memory poem by James Agee (poet, novelist and scriptwriter of The African Queen), as well as three cabaret songs by William Bolcom. These opening concerts of the Bostonian Bravo Series on Thursday, October 9 and Friday, October 10 at 8 p.m. in the NACs Southam Hall are led by young American conductor James Gaffigan making his NAC debut. Gaffigan will also lead the NAC Orchestra in Rossinis Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers and Beethovens Symphony No. 1.

James Gaffigan says, This program is like the perfect dinner, the audience gets a taste of everything, without getting too full. A Rossini overture is the ideal appetizer in a concert program; it whets the appetite with loads of charming humour and unexpected drama in just eight minutes time. Measha then takes the stage with two contrasting but equally engaging vocal works. The first being the elegiac Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber, followed by the effervescent cabaret songs of Wiliam Bolcom. These pieces will show the depth of diversity in these American composers as well as in Meashas interpretive abilities. After intermission, the orchestra shifts gears to the classical meat and potatoes in Beethovens first symphony. This work combines the intensity often associated with the composer, as well as passages of alluring beauty.

The cabaret songs by William Bolcom George, Total Stranger in the Garden and Amor will be heard in new orchestrations by the composer performed live for the first time in Canada after being recorded by Measha Brueggergosman on her Juno Award-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording entitled Surprise! She says, What these songs do so brilliantly is to create highly theatrical mini-dramas in which the music is borne out by the texts not the other way around. Its catching the sly mix of the casual and the formal in these songs that is their particular challenge.

Critically acclaimed by the international press as much for her innate musicianship and voluptuous voice as for a sovereign stage presence far beyond her years, Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of the most magnificent performers and vibrant personalities of the day. Her appearances this season include performances with Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Symphony Orchestra, lOrchestre symphonique de Montral, and concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland, Miami, and at Carnegie Hall. She has performed several times with the NAC Orchestra, most recently this past July during Orchestras in the Park.

James Gaffigan, born in 1979, is the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland, a chamber orchestra which presents free concerts throughout the city. His appearances as a guest conductor have included appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Tonhalle Orchestra, and this season he makes his debut with, among others, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony as well as the NAC Orchestra.

Tickets for these Bostonian Bravo Series concerts on Thursday, October 9 and Friday, October 10 at 8 p.m. are on sale now at $19.00, $39.00, $49.00, $59.00, $69.00 with box seats at $86.00 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NACs website at www.nac-cna.ca.

Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid student ID card. Live Rush tickets (subject to availability) for full-time students (aged 13 to 29) are $11 at the NAC Box Office from 2 p.m. the day before the concert to 6 p.m. the day of, upon presentation of a valid Live Rush card.

Groups of 10 and more save 15% to 20% off the regular price of tickets to NAC Music, Theatre and Dance performances. To reserve your seats call 613-947-7000 ext. 384 or email grp@nac-cna.ca.

*Measha Brueggergosman requested a change of programme. The Barber and Bolcom will be performed in place of the previously announced Les Nuits dt by Berlioz.

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Prix Zof du partenariat 2008 : appel aux candidatures

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Prix Zof du partenariat 2008 : appel aux candidatures

Prix Zof 2008 Cration de l'artiste Donald Doiron
Prix Zof 2008
Cration de l'artiste Donald Doiron
Ottawa, le 29 septembre 2008 - Pour une 6me anne, la Fdration culturelle canadienne-franaise (FCCF) s'associe au gouvernement du Qubec pour honorer un partenariat gagnant entre un organisme du Qubec et un organisme des communauts francophones et acadienne dans le domaine des arts et de la culture. Le Prix sera remis en 2008 en marge du Forum sectoriel des arts et de la culture qui se tiendra du 20 au 21 novembre Qubec.

Si vous connaissez un organisme qubcois et un organisme des communauts francophones et acadienne qui oeuvrent dans le domaine des Arts et de la Culture; qui, ensemble, contribuent promouvoir la francophonie et qui, par leur(s) initiative(s) commune(s), renforcent les liens entre le Qubec et la francophonie canadienne, faites-nous en part en remplissant le formulaire de candidatures sur notre site www.fccf.ca , rubrique Prix Zof.

Un jury, compos de reprsentants du gouvernement du Qubec et du secteur des Arts et de la Culture de la francophonie canadienne se runira pour slectionner la meilleure initiative qui se sera distingue par la qualit et l'originalit du partenariat ainsi que par son impact sur le rseautage des arts et de la culture entre le Qubec et les communauts francophones et acadienne.

Les candidatures doivent parvenir soit par courriel info@fccf.ca , par courrier au 450, rue Rideau - Bureau 405 - Ottawa K1N 5Z4 ou encore par tlcopie au (613) 241-6064 au plus tard le 3 novembre 2008.

D'ores et dj, nous tenons remercier toutes celles et ceux, qui par l'envoi des candidatures, contribuent faire connatre la richesse et la diversit des initiatives de la francophonie au Canada.

La Fdration culturelle canadienne-franaise est un organisme national dont la mission est de promouvoir l'expression artistique et culturelle des communauts francophones et acadienne. Elle runit des reprsentants de sept regroupements nationaux en thtre, en littrature, en chanson-musique, en arts mdiatiques et en arts visuels, ainsi que des reprsentants de onze provinces et territoires du Canada.


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Pink Martini Show Announcement


SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT:

PINK MARTINI RETURNS TO TORONTO

FOR A ROY THOMSON HALL PERFORMANCE

Friday, June 19 at 8 PM

Tickets on sale to FriendsFirst members Sept. 30 at 10 AM; to the Public on Oct. 4 at 12 NOON

$69.50 - $49.50 - Call 416-872-4255 or online at www.roythomson.com

or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office

The fabulous Pink Martini, beautiful and sophisticated, as declared by The New Yorker, returns to Toronto after a highly successful debut on March of 2008. In writing about the groups last appearance in March, the Toronto Star wrote, "Pink Martini represents all that Toronto aspires to - sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and a type of delight that sometimes involves dressing up and carousingĶwith its heterogeneous tastes and facility in languages, the pop orchestra might have sprung from our own diverse metropolis, but hails instead from Portland, Oregon. And the National Post wrote, "Like the cocktail they're named after, Pink Martini packs a punch when you get past the frothy sweetnessĶIt's music to dress up for, in heels and pearls; music that gets the ballroom buzzing."

The Portland, Oregon-based little orchestra was founded in 1994 by Lauderdale, a Harvard graduate and classically trained pianist, to perform at political fundraisers for progressive causes such as civil rights, the environment, affordable housing and public broadcasting. In the years following, Pink Martini grew from four musicians to its current twelve, and has gone on to perform its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Canada and the United States. In the US, the band has performed with such symphony orchestras as the Boston Pops, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and special engagements have included the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonics new Frank Gehry designed Walt Disney Concert Hall; the opening party of the New York Museum of Modern Art; and the 100th birthday celebration for the William Morris Agency with soul legend Al Green.

Pink Martini is like a romantic Hollywood musical of the 1940s or 50s but with a global perspective which is modern, says founder and artistic director Thomas M. Lauderdale. We bring melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is new and beautiful. All band members have studied different languages and music from different parts of the world, so because everyone in the band contributes in the writing and arranging of songs, the repertoire is wildly diverse. At one moment, you feel like youre in the middle of a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro, and in the next moment, you are suddenly in a French music hall of the 1930s or in a palazzo in Napoli. Its like an urban musical travelogue, says Lauderdale.

Pink Martinis debut album, Sympathique, was released in 1997 on the bands own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdales dog) and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for Song of the Year and Best New Artist in Frances Victoires de la Musique Awards. Seven long years later the high-anticipated follow-up, Hang on Little Tomato, was released and climbed to #1 on Amazon.coms best sellers list. A new CD is in the works (details to come before the June concert date), but until then, Pink Martinis last album was Hey Eugene!, released in May 2007. This recording is a twelve-track sonic journey that travels the globe with uplifting songs of hope and beauty. The title track Hey Eugene, an audience favourite for years, is delivered with sultry grace by lead singer China Forbes, who wrote the song about a boy she met at a party who asked for her number and then never called.

PINK MARTINI

Friday, June 19, 2008 at 8 pm / Roy Thomson Hall

178 Victoria Street, Toronto
Tickets $69.50-$49.50 - Call 416-872-4255 or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office

www.masseyhall.com


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OSM / les concerts du mois d'octobre

October at the OSM

Great violinists at the OSM:

Joshua Bell, James Ehnes and Itzhak Perlman

5 to 8 is back

with Hubert Reeves and Andr Robitaille

Pianist Alain Lefvre in the land of the tsars (sold out)

Tribute to musical creativity

and

Symphonic Matinees: two OSM musicians in the spotlight

Montreal, September 24, 2008: The programming for the month of October at the OSM will appeal to a huge audience. On October 1, the last chance to hear remarkable violinist and Grammy Awardwinner Joshua Bell perform The Red Violin Concerto written by John Corigliano. An American composer, Corigliano won an Oscar in 1999 for the soundtrack to the film The Red Violin. The concerto, conducted here by Jacques Lacombe, is an expansion of the soundtrack and incorporates some of the more memorable themes of the original score. At intermission, Joshua Bell will be in one of the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier lobbies for a record-signing session.

The popular series 5 to 8 at the OSM opens on October 7 when astrophysicist and scientific popularizer Hubert Reeves shares his musical selections with the audience. Hosted by actor Andr Robitaille and led by OSM conductor in residence Jean-Franois Rivest, the 5 to 8's at the OSM are a pleasant way to wind up the day in music.

As part of the Air Canada Classical Escapes series, well-known pianist Alain Lefvre will perform Rachmaninov's celebrated Second Concerto at a concert on October 14 conducted by Jean-Franois Rivest and devoted entirely to masterpieces of Russian music. In addition to Rachmaninov, the program features Prokofiev, Borodin and Stravinsky.

Canadian violinist and Grammy winner James Ehnes revisits the OSM and conductor in residence Jean-Franois Rivest on October 5 with one of the most beloved works in the violin repertoire, the Sibelius Concerto. On October 29, the OSM presents Tribute to musical creativity. Conductors Walter Boudreau and Susanna Mlkki will lead the Orchestra and violinist Chantal Juillet in a program bringing together works by five composers of our time: Paul Frehner, Andr Prvost, Gyrgy Ligeti, Steve Reich and Claude Vivier.

On October 21 and 22, violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman will perform and conduct Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Concerto BWV 1042. He will also conduct Mozart's "Haffner"Symphony as well as Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Finally, on October 15, the audience will get to hear OSM concertmaster Richard Roberts and principal oboe Theodore Baskin in a concerto Bach wrote for the two instruments, among other works. Also on the program, Dvok's Symphony No. 5.

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

THE OCTOBER CONCERTS:

October 1 at 8 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Grand Concerts: Joshua Bell and The Red Violin. Jacques Lacombe, conductor; Joshua Bell, violinist. At 7 p.m.: pre-concert discussion: Kelly Rice welcomes Ramon Humet.

October 5 at 2:30 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Musical Sundays: James Ehnes and the Sibelius Concerto. Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor; James Ehnes, violinist. At 1:30 p.m.: pre-concert discussion: Kelly Rice welcomes Joseph Zuskin, Gilles Moisan and Olivier Thouin.

October 7 at 7 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) 5 to 8 at the OSM: Hubert Reeves' choices. Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor. At 5:30 p.m.: cocktail reception (Piano Nobile).

October 14 at 8 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Air Canada Classical Escapes: From the Land of the Tsars. Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor; Alain Lefvre, pianist. At 7 p.m.: recital by a young pianist (Piano Nobile).

October 15 at 10:30 a.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Symphonic Matinees: OSM Stars in the Spotlight. Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor; Richard Roberts, violinist; Theodore Baskin, oboist.

October 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Grand Concerts: Perlman Plays and Conducts. Itzhak Perlman, conductor and violinist.

October 29 at 8 p.m. (Thtre Maisonneuve) Non-series concert: Tribute to musical creativity. Walter Boudreau and Susanna Mlkki, conductors; Chantal Juillet, violinist.

Information on the month's concerts:

Grand Concerts:

Joshua Bell and The Red Violin

Violinist Joshua Bell, winner of a Grammy Award and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize, hailed by critics and acclaimed by the public, revisits the OSM in The Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano. The work, in four movements, dedicated to the memory of the composer's father, concertmaster with the New York Philharmonic for nearly a quarter-century, is an extension of the soundtrack to the movie The Red Violin, which won an Oscar for best original score in 1999. The composer first extracted a Chaconne, a concert piece performed on disc by Joshua Bell, but wanted to expand it into an impassioned, romantic violin concerto. The work was premiered and recorded by Joshua Bell last year with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and is being presented in Montreal for the first time.

Jacques Lacombe, principal guest conductor at the OSM from 2002 to 2006, whose career was rewarded in 2005 with the Prix Opus for his reputation abroad, also revisits the Orchestra's musicians in Bartk's Concerto for Orchestra, one of the most remarkable orchestral works of the 20th century.

Opening the program, Ramon Humet, winner of the Olivier Messiaen Prize at the first edition of the OSM International Composition Prize, offers a premiere, Escenas de viento.

There will be a pre-concert discussion at 7 p.m.: Kelly Rice, producer-coordinator and host on CBC Radio Two, will welcome Ramon Humet, composer.

Grand Concerts

September 30 and October 1 at 7 p.m.: pre-concert discussion

September 30 and October 1 at 8 p.m.: concert

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Jacques Lacombe, conductor

Joshua Bell, violinist

Ramon Humet Escenas de viento, world premiere, OSM commission

John Corigliano The Red Violin Concerto

Bla Bartk Concerto for Orchestra

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

Musical Sundays:

James Ehnes and the Sibelius Concerto

Violinist James Ehnes, winner of a Grammy Award in 2008, returns to the OSM and conductor in residence Jean-Franois Rivest in the Sibelius Concerto, one of the most magnificent and most difficult for the instrument, with its many virtuoso passages. The concerto is bookended by works by Shostakovich: a short piano piece orchestrated by Joseph Zuskin and an imposing symphony, the Eighth, which evokes the tragedy and horrors of war, and which aspires to a tranquil peace. In its depth, its expressive intensity, its wealth of feeling and its epic properties, the work is one of the most personal and powerful the composer created, and one of his best loved.

At 1:30 p.m. there will be a pre-concert discussion: Kelly Rice, producer-coordinator and host on CBC Radio Two, will welcome Joseph Zuskin, orchestrator, Gilles Moisan, clarinettist and saxophonist and Olivier Thouin, OSM associate concertmaster.

Musical Sundays

October 5 at 1:30 p.m.: pre-concert discussion

October 5 at 2:30 p.m.: concert

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor

James Ehnes, violinist

Dmitri Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue, Opus 87, No. 24 (orch. Zuskin)

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

5 to 8 at the OSM:

Hubert Reeves' choices

Special moments of after-work relaxation, 5 to 8 at the OSM, hosted by actor and veteran host Andr Robitaille, is an original way to end the day. Musical discovery joined to pleasures of the palate, this one-hour concert conducted by Jean-Franois Rivest, the OSM's conductor in residence, will lead the audience into the rich universe of the inspiring astrophysicist and scientific popularizer Hubert Reeves. In addition, audience members can mix with other music fans when, starting at 5:30 p.m., tidbits and fine wines are served in the Piano Nobile starting at 5:30 p.m.

5 to 8 at the OSM

October 7 at 5:30 p.m.: cocktail reception at Piano Nobile

October 7 at 7 p.m.: concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor

rik Satie Gymnopdie No. 1

Gilles Tremblay Vers le soleil, excerpt

Felix Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jean Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela

Arnold Schoenberg Transfigured Night, excerpt

Maurice Ravel Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chlo

Tickets from $38.50

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

Air Canada Classical Escapes:

Pianist Alain Lefvre in the land of the tsars

Alain Lefvre, a standard bearer of the romantic repertoire, will be performing Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, certainly the most renowned concerto of the 20th century, a tormented, passionate and particularly lyrical work. The program also includes Borodin's captivating Polovtsian Dances, the suite from Stravinsky's magnificent ballet The Firebird, excerpts from Prokofiev's opera War and Peace and the grand-scale 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky, everything under the direction of OSM conductor in residence Jean-Franois Rivest.

At 7 p.m. there will be a recital at the Piano Nobile by a young pianist.

Air Canada Classical Escapes

October 14 at 8 p.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Jean-Franois Rivest, conductor

Alain Lefvre, pianist

Sergei Prokofiev Overture from War and Peace

Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2

Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Igor Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

Symphonic Matinees:

OSM Stars in the Spotlight

Two of the first chairs of the OSM, concertmaster Richard Roberts and principal oboe Theodore Baskin, are soloists for a program focusing on concerto works. Richard Roberts will first perform a jewel of Mozart's before yielding to Theodore Baskin in a concerto by Bellini, both works of great elegance and lyricism. The two musicians will then share the stage in the Bach Concerto BWV 1060, a work of great polyphonic richness and emotional range. Dvok's intense Symphony No. 5 will conclude the program.

Symphonic Matinees

October 15 at 10:30 a.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor

Richard Roberts, OSM concertmaster

Theodore Baskin, OSM principal oboe

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio for Violin, K. 261

Vincenzo Bellini Oboe Concerto in E-flat major

Antonn Dvok Symphony No. 5

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

Grand Concerts:

Perlman plays and conducts Bach, Mozart and Prokofiev

One of the true stars of the violin, Itzhak Perlman is one of those exceptional artists who touch the hearts of audiences around the world, through his remarkable technique but above all thanks to the profundity with which he conveys the subtleties of the repertoire. Here he will be both soloist and conductor in a program consisting of Bach's Violin Concerto BWV 1042 a work in which the writing and the architecture are subtle and contained Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, a work of powerful epic spirit.

Grand Concerts

October 21 and 22 at 8 p.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Itzhak Perlman, conductor and violinist

Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 35, K. 385, "Haffner"

Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

Non-series concerts:

Tribute to musical creativity

Since the very first years of the OSM's existence, steady attention has been brought to bear on the creation of new works. A number of these have over the years become the classics of today. This concert, to begin with, will mark the 10th anniversary of the premiere of the Violin Concerto by Andr Prvost, performed by its dedicatee (and the violinist who premiered it), Chantal Juillet. Orion by Claude Vivier, a composer the 60th anniversary of whose birth and 25th anniversary of whose death are being noted in 2008, was commissioned and premiered by Charles Dutoit and the OSM in 1980. The American Steve Reich, meanwhile, is represented by his City Life. We will also hear Lontano by Gyrgy Ligeti, as well as Lila by Canada's Paul Frehner, a work that won its author the Claude-Vivier National prize at the OSM's International Composition Prize in 2007. Walter Boudreau, artistic director of the SMCQ, and Susanna Mlkki, music director of the prestigious Ensemble Intercontemporain de Paris, share this unique and bold program, which eloquently demonstrates the vitality of contemporary creativity.

Non-series concerts

October 29 at 8 p.m.

Thtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Walter Boudreau, conductor

Susanna Mlkki, conductor

Chantal Juillet, violinist

Paul Frehner Lila

Andr Prvost Violin Concerto

Gyrgy Ligeti Lontano

Steve Reich City Life

Claude Vivier Orion

Tickets from $24.75

Information and reservations: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca

The Orchestre symphonique de Montral is presented by Hydro-Qubec

in association with National Bank

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Le 10e festival d'automne Orgue et Couleurs


LE 10e FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE ORGUE ET COULEURS SE POURSUIT JUSQUAU 5 OCTOBRE 2008 AVEC SES GRANDS CONCERTS, SES MIDIS LA CARTE, SES CONCERTS APROS

CONCERTS VENIR

info-festival et billetterie : 514-899-0938
achats en ligne et info : www.orgueetcouleurs.com


LES GRANDS CONCERTS 20 h : Les contemporains REMIX leurs classiques ; un voyage interplantaire avec linterprtation de la suite orchestrale Les plantes de Gustav Holst ; un hommage original Olivier Messiaen ; les chanteurs Marie-Denise Pelletier, Patrick Olafson et trois chanteurs de lAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral, les sopranos Caroline Bleau et Marianne Lambert ainsi que le baryton-basse Stephen Hegedus, nous convient un rcital de grands airs dopra et de mlodies de clbres comdies musicales ; et en clture du festival, lOrchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivires (cordes, trompette et percussions) sous la direction de Jacques Lacombe.

LES MIDIS LA CARTE : Douze jeunes organistes gs de 14 28 ans, tudiants des neuf classes dorgue des conservatoires et universits du Qubec, en prestation lors de cinq rcitals dans cinq glises Ķ un menu de choix pour dcouvrir la relve et la richesse des orgues de Montral, la ville aux cent clochers.

LES CONCERTS APROS 17 h : Des concerts intimes de musique de chambre, suivis dune rencontre avec les artistes, agrmente dun verre de vin. Dans les churs des glises, lorgue se fait intime et dialogue avec lart lyrique.

glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus : 4215, rue Adam (mtro Pie-IX, bus 139 Sud)
glise Trs-Saint-Rdempteur : 3530, rue Adam (mtro Joliette ou Papineau, bus 34 Est)
glise Saint Andrew & Saint Paul : rue Sherbrooke, coin Bishop (mtro Peel)
Muse du Chteau Dufresne : 2929, avenue Jeanne-dArc (mtro Pie IX)

PROGRAMMATION DTAILLE

GRANDS CONCERTS
De grandes rencontres entre lorgue et ses complices


Chaque Grand concert dbutera par la Fanfare du 10e Festival dautomne, uvre en deux versions instrumentales (une pour orgue et quintette de cuivres, lautre pour orgue et deux cuivres) commande au compositeur Enrico O. Dastous. Elle sera interprte par lorganiste Raymond Perrin et les musiciens du quintette de cuivres Buzz : les trompettistes Sylvain Lapointe et Frdric Gagnon, le corniste Marc-Antoine Corbeil et les trombonistes Jason De Carufel et Sylvain Arseneau (prestation orgue et quintette : les 26 septembre, 3 et 5 octobre // orgue et deux cuivres : les 27 septembre, 2 et 4 octobre).

jeudi 2 octobre (glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus), 20 h 15$-20$ Ģ REMIX de classiques!
Les contemporains REMIX leurs classiques ! Une soire o les hommages transcendent les siclesĶ avec la cration dune uvre pour orgue et lectroacoustique, Chorals orns (2008), du compositeur montralais Yves Daoust, daprs des chorals du recueil Orgelbchlein de J.S. Bach, avec lorganiste Rgis Rousseau. En premire partie, lorganiste Isabelle Demers joue des uvres de compositeurs du 20e sicle qui rendent hommage certains de leurs prdcesseurs : Hommage Dietrich Buxtehude de Eben (1987), Variations sur un thme de Clment Jannequin de Jehan Alain (1936), Ricercare Ommaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi de Ligeti (1953), Fantaisie et fugue sur B.A.C.H. de Reger (1900).
Concert prsent en collaboration avec Rseaux des arts mdiatiques

vendredi 3 octobre (glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus), 20 h - 20$-25$ Ģ Orgue en orbite
Lorganiste Raymond Perrin et les membres du quintette de cuivres Buzz Sylvain Lapointe et Frdric Gagnon (trompettes) Marc-Antoine Corbeil (cor) Jason De Carufel et Sylvain Arseneau (trombones) nous emmnent en voyage interplantaire avec linterprtation de la suite orchestrale Les plantes de Gustav Holst dans une transcription du compositeur montralais Enrico O. Dastous o les cuivres et lorgue rsonneront avec clat et splendeur. En premire partie de programme : Fugue en sol mineur BWV 578 de Johann Sebastian Bach, Premier Choral en mi majeur de Csar Franck, Sextuor opus 335 de Michel Colombier, Fugue sur le Salve Regina de J-Antonio Thompson et Flourishes de Carlyle Sharpe.

vendredi 3 octobre (glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus), 22 h 28 10$ Ģ Banquet pour O
Un hommage original Olivier Messiaen, soulignant son 100e anniversaire de naissanceĶ
Le temps nest plus, le temps stire et nous hypnotise avec cette r-interprtation du Banquet cleste de Messiaen qui passe de 10 100 minutes ! Euphorie, motion et envotementĶ une exprience vivre avec lorganiste Patrick Wedd et un chur muet qui marquera le passage du temps en allumant une chandelle toutes les minutes, de 22 h 28 00 h 08. Une ide originale de Scott Tresham

samedi 4 octobre (glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus), 20 h - 20$-25$ Ģ Opra vs Broadway : une rencontre au sommet
Les chanteurs Marie-Denise Pelletier, Patrick Olafson et trois chanteurs de lAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral, les sopranos Caroline Bleau et Marianne Lambert ainsi que le baryton-basse Stephen Hegedus, nous convient un rcital de grands airs dopra et de mlodies de clbres comdies musicales, faisant ainsi se ctoyer certains des personnages de ces deux univers. Ils seront accompagns par un quatuor cordes plac sous la direction du violoniste Philippe Dunnigan, par lorganiste Rgis Rousseau et par le pianiste Pierre Benot qui ralisera galement les arrangements.

Au programme : Berger/Plamondon, Le monde est stone (Starmania) // Bernstein, Tonight, Maria et Somewhere (West Side Story) // Bizet, Air du Torador et Habaera (Carmen) // Catalani, Ebben? Ne andr lontana (La Wally)
Delibes, Duo des fleurs et Air des clochettes (Lakm) // Donizetti, Una furtive lagrima (LElisir damore) // Gershwin, Summertime (Porgy and Bess) // Lerner/Loewe, I could have danced all night (My Fair Lady) // Mozart, Non pi andrai (Le Nozze di Figaro), L ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni), Duo Papageno-Papagena (La Flte enchante) // Rodgers/Hammerstein, Some enchanted evening (South Pacific), The hills are alive (The Sound of Music) // Verdi, Addio des passato (La Traviata), Va, pensiero (Nabucco) // Webber, All I ask of you (Phantom of the Opera), Dont cry for me Argentina (Evita).

dimanche 5 octobre (glise Saint Andrew & Saint Paul), 19 h 30 - 20$ Ģ Symphonies de couleurs
Pour clore le festival et souligner la 1re dition du nouveau Concours international dorgue du Canada Montral (CIOC), un grand concert avec lorganiste amricain James Higdon membre du jury du CIOC et lOrchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivires (cordes, trompette et percussions) sous la direction de Jacques Lacombe. Au programme : les pices dorgue Litanies et 2e Fantaisie de Jehan Alain, les uvres orchestrales Rakastava de Jean Sibelius, The unanswered question de Charles Ives, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten de Arvo Prt et le Concerto pour orgue, orchestre cordes et timbales, en sol mineur de Francis Poulenc.
Concert prsent en collaboration avec le CIOC et lOSTR.

CINQ MIDIS LA CARTE

ACTIVITS GRATUITES DE JOUR

Une tribune pour la relve de lorgue
29, 30 septembre, 1er, 2 et 3 octobre, midi Entre libre
glises Trs-Saint-Rdempteur, Saint-Nom-de-Jsus,
Saint-Lon de Westmount,
du Ges et Saint-John The Evangelist

Douze jeunes organistes gs de 14 28 ans, tudiants des neuf classes dorgue des conservatoires et universits du Qubec, en prestation lors de cinq rcitals dans cinq glises Ķ un menu de choix pour dcouvrir la relve et la richesse des orgues de Montral, la ville aux cent clochers.
Le lundi 29 septembre, Batrice Ltourneau et Nicolas Delisle-Godin (classe de Jose April, Conservatoire de Rimouski) et Jean-Luc Clauzier (classe de Mireille Lagac, Conservatoire de Montral) ;
Le mardi 30 septembre, Marie-Claude Duchesne (classe de Cline Fortin, Conservatoire de Saguenay) et Jordan de Souza (classe de John Grew, Universit McGill) ;
Le mercredi 1er octobre, Carl-Mathieu Neher (classe de Danielle Dub, Conservatoire de Gatineau) et Nicolas-Alexandre Marcotte (classe de Rjean Poirier, Universit de Montral) ;
Le jeudi 2 octobre, Laurence Jobidon et Emmanuel Bernier (classe de Danny Belisle, Conservatoire de Qubec) et Franois Pothier-Bouchard (classe de Raymond Perrin, Conservatoire de Trois-Rivires) ;
Le vendredi 3 octobre, Marie-Hlne Greffard (classe de Richard Par, Universit Laval) et Jonathan Vromet (classe de Jean Le Buis, Conservatoire de Montral).

CINQ CONCERTS APRO

Concerts intimes de musique de chambre,
suivis dune rencontre avec les artistes, agrmente dun verre de vin.
29, 30 septembre, 1er et 2 octobre 2008 17 h 30 [15$ et 12$]
glises Saint-Nom-de-Jsus (SNJ) et Trs-Saint-Rdempteur (TSR)
3 octobre 17 h au Muse du Chteau Dufresne (CD) [15$ et 12$]


Dans les churs des glises, lorgue se fait intime et dialogue avec lart lyrique :

lundi 29 septembre, 17 h 30 (SNJ) Ģ Deux cycles, deux visions
Lorganiste Tim Pyper et le contre-tnor Daniel Cabena prsenteront deux cycles musicaux : la Missa in Simplicitate du compositeur franais Jean Langlais (1907-1991), une mise en musique des textes sacrs dun office religieux, et le cycle Aspects of Time du compositeur canadien Barrie Cabena (n en 1933), bas sur des textes profanes de provenance varie, de dictons et proverbes traditionnels des extraits de pices de Shakespeare en passant par des textes originaux du compositeur lui-mme.

mardi 30 septembre, 17 h 30 (SNJ) Ģ Le charme franais
Lorganiste Denis Bonenfant, la soprano Aurelia Calabrese et le baryton Sbastien Ouellet nous feront goter au romantisme franais, travers de belles mlodies, de pieuses prires et dtonnantes pices dorgue sous le charme du romantisme franais. Au programme, les uvres vocales D'un cur qui t'aime, Ma belle amie est morte et Prire de Gounod, Si mes vers avaient des ailes et C'est ma banlieue de Hahn, Les berceaux, Le secret et le Cantique de Jean Racine de Faur, la Barcarolle dOffenbach, et les pices dorgue Andantino de Andlauer, Cantilne religieuse de Dubois, Trois gnossiennes de Satie et Prire Notre-Dame de Bollmann.

mercredi 1er octobre, 17 h 30 (TSR) Ģ Arioso
Lorganiste Dominique Gagnon et le contre-tnor Jean-Franois Gagn nous rvleront lart du chant, les plus belles expressions que peut prendre la voix selon les styles et les poques. Au programme : Ouverture de Girolamo Frescobaldi, Nel dolce tempo et Cara sposa de Georg Friedrich Handel, Nulla in mundo de Antonio Vivaldi, Alto Giove de Nicola Porpora, Du bist die Ruh, An die Musik et Litanei de Franz Schubert, Adieu, Mai et Le secret de Gabriel Faur, Incipit vita nova de Gavin Bryars.

jeudi 2 octobre, 17 h 30 (SNJ) Ģ Aux temps des fes
Lorganiste Louis Brouillette et la soprano Caroline Demers nous entraneront dans un univers magique et enchanteur tel quimagin par diffrents compositeurs travers les poques. Au programme : Le baiser de la fe de Stravinski, Alles hllt sich in Dunkel (Die Reinnixen) dOffenbach, The fairies de Trevor Bax, Danse de la fe Drage (Casse-noisette) de Tchakovski, Hark, tis fairy Music stealing de Blewitt, Dear Delight et The Fairies Dance de Head, Elves de Rowley, The Forest fairys Song de Horn, Dans la fort du charme et de lenchantement de Chausson, O vous quen mes rves denfance (La fe aux chvres) de Varney, Les elfes de Bonnet, Aux temps des fes de Kchlin, et les rcentes crations de deux jeunes compositeurs qubcois, Aventure ferique de Jocelyn Lafond (n en 1989) et Imaginaire contrl de Vincent Hamel (n en 1979).

Au Muse du Chteau Dufresne :
vendredi 3 octobre, 17 h (CD) Ģ Hommage Messiaen
Dans le cadre des clbrations soulignant le centenaire de naissance dOlivier Messiaen (1908-1992) places au Qubec sous le vocable de lAutomne Messiaen, la pianiste Louise Bessette, le violoniste Jonathan Crow, le clarinettiste Simon Aldrich et le violoncelliste Yegor Dyachkov interprteront le fameux Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940) de Messiaen et, avec cette mme formation instrumentale inusite, une uvre hommage du compositeur montralais Nicolas Gilbert, Le temps des impossibles (2008).



LA PETITE HISTOIRE DU FESTIVAL
Le FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE est n il y a dix ans dans le quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, dans la foule de la restauration du grand orgue Casavant de lglise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus, pour mettre en valeur ce magnifique instrument aux 6 200 tuyaux et faire connatre davantage le rpertoire diversifi de lorgue un plus large public. Fond par Pierre Larivire, directeur de la Maison de la culture Maisonneuve et par Rgis Rousseau, titulaire de cet orgue et directeur artistique et gnral de ORGUE ET COULEURS, ce Festival annuel dsire rvler la polyvalence de lorgue, et propose ainsi des mariages inusits entre celui-ci et diffrents instruments. En 2001, une autre glise du quartier, Trs-Saint-Rdempteur, sest ajoute aux lieux de diffusion, suite linstallation en ses murs dun orgue du facteur qubcois Karl Wilhelm.
Rapidement, ORGUE ET COULEURS a largi son champ daction en prsentant diffrentes activits tout au long de lanne : la LIGUE DIMPROVISATION LORGUE (2001-2006) dont les matchs se droulaient dans plusieurs villes du Qubec de janvier mai ; ltonnant marathon dorgue LES 24 HEURES DU BANC (2000-2006) tait prsent lors du week-end du Grand Prix automobile de Montral ; lactivit ORGUES OUVERTES (2000-Ķ) prsente durant les Journes de la culture permet, chaque anne depuis neuf ans, une trentaine dorganistes travers le Qubec de faire connatre le roi des instrument aux rsidants de leur quartier respectif.
lt 2003, le Service culturel de la ville de Montral a confi ORGUE ET COULEURS lorganisation des CONCERTS POPULAIRES DE MONTRAL, une srie estivale de musique symphonique prsente au Centre Pierre-Charbonneau. Pour sa 44e saison (2008), LES CONCERTS POPULAIRES DE MONTRAL, ont attir plus de 8 000 spectateurs.
ORGUE ET COULEURS a reu, du Regroupement indpendant des diffuseurs dvnements artistiques unis du Qubec (RIDEAU), les prix Initiative 2001 pour le FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE et Initiative 2003 pour la Ligue dimprovisation lorgue; du Conseil qubcois de la musique, le prix Opus 2001-2002 Directeur artistique de lanne (Rgis Rousseau) et le prix Opus 2002-2003 Diffuseur de lanne pour le 4e FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE; de lOffice franco-qubcois pour la jeunesse, le prix de la Meilleure reprsentation ltranger pour son projet Musicora/Paris 2003.

ORGUE ET COULEURS bnficie du soutien et de la collaboration de plusieurs partenaires dont le ministre du Patrimoine canadien, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec, le ministre des Affaires municipales et des Rgions du Qubec, le Conseil des arts de Montral et le Service du dveloppement culturel de la ville de Montral.

INFOS : 514-899-0938 - www.orgueetcouleurs.com http://www.orgueetcouleurs.com

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ric Blanger POP Montral


Eric Blanger Pop Montral le 4 octobre !

Montral, le lundi 29 septembre 2008. Auteur-compositeur-interprte, Eric Blanger a lanc son premier album, Bananaspleen, le mardi 16 septembre dernier. Il sera de retour sur scne le samedi 4 octobre dans le cadre du Festival Pop Montral. C'est 21 h 30 au Gymnase (4177, rue St-Denis) que l'on pourra couter ric et dcouvrir sa faon unique d'habiter la scne. Il partagera la soire avec Jane Ehrhardt et Darren Hayman (Hefner).

Pop Montral est un festival international de musique indpendante qui rend hommage aux superstars tablies ainsi qu'aux toiles montantes. Le Festival prsente des talents francophones et anglophones internationaux jumels avec les meilleurs artistes du Qubec et du Canada.

Finaliste et gagnant de plusieurs prix au Festival de Granby 2006 (coup de cur du ROSEQ, coup de cur de Tadoussac, coup de cur festival Pully-Qubec en Suisse), participant de l'aventure On s'en va Granby (diffuse sur les ondes de Musimax en 2007) et gagnant de deux prix au concours Vue sur la relve (coup de pouce Pop Montral et coup de pouce Vue sur la relve / Cration etc.), ric Blanger fait ses dbuts dans l'univers de la musique. Il revient tout juste de Suisse, o il a pu charmer lors du Festival Pully-Qubec. Psycho-ducateur auprs des jeunes en difficult, il crit et chante depuis peine 5 ans.

Bien que relativement nouveau sur la scne musicale qubcoise, ric Blanger compte bien s'y installer Ķ et y demeurer ! Bananaspleen est disponible en magasin depuis le mardi 9 septembre. Les billets pour le spectacle du samedi 4 octobre sont en vente au www.popmontreal.com.

www.ericbelanger.net

www.myspace.com/ericblanger

Photos et entrevues disponibles sur demande.

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NMC - November Mini Festival


New musical inventions that provoke, awaken and inspire

November Mini-Festival

GENERATION 2008 November 1

THE MONTREAL STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT November 15

SYDNEY HODKINSON, HOPE LEE & DAVID EAGLE November 30

Toronto, September 29, 2008: New Music Concerts launches its 38th season with a splendid trio of concerts to brighten up the month of November. Once again, NMC looks forward to a colourful variety of challenges in a quest for outstanding performances. Presenting a convincing musical performance through interaction with the composer, realizing their every wish, is one of the most satisfying pleasures of performing music today, ponders Robert Aitken, renowned flute virtuoso and artistic director of NMC. Ideally, a performer should work with the composer. Imagine the excitement of playing for Bach or Mozart. A performers interpretation of a work should be a mirror of the composers mind and guide the listener along the path of his musical imagination.

With this concept as a starting point, NMC proudly presents GENERATION 2008 on Saturday, November 1 at The Music Gallery. The touring program of lEnsemble contemporain de Montral (ECM+) under the direction of Vronique Lacroix has become a bi-annual feature of New Music Concerts programming. It is 100% Canadian and illustrates the fabulous compositional talent we have in the youth of this country. Four young composers are chosen by jury and invited to compose for ECM+, where the pieces are workshopped and eventually performed. These compositions will be given their world premiere performances in Toronto on November 1 including works by Fuhong Shi (a Toronto-based composer whose NMC commissioned Lightenings went on to win the 2008 Karen Kieser Prize for Canadian Music), Scott Good (Toronto), Michael Berger (BC) and Brian Harman (Montreal).

When polling NMCs audience, the name of the composer most frequently mentioned is Karlheinz Stockhausen. So NMC is pleased to bring The MONTREAL STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT to the Enwave Theatre (Harbourfront Centre) on Saturday, November 15. This concert features Montreals celebrated flutist Lise Daoust and four other Montreal musicians who have worked extensively with Stockhausen, and whose performances have met with his satisfaction. Our original idea was to commemorate his 80th birthday, explains Robert Aitken, but with his passing at 79 on December 7, 2007 there is even more reason to present this concert with musicians who know exactly how his music should be performed. The program of works for flutes, basset horn and electronics includes AVE and ENTFHRUNG; FLAUTINA and KATHINKAS GESANG. These live performances will be preceded by a presentation of the seminal electronic composition GESANG DER JNGLINGE.

GENERATION 2008 and The MONTREAL STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT are part of Harbourfront Centres Qubec Now A celebration of contemporary Qubec arts and culture in Toronto

From September to December 2008, Qubec Now! showcases the best of contemporary culture from Qubec in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film. Harbourfront Centre is very proud to partner with the Bureau du Qubec Toronto

and the Ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine du Qubec to present Qubec Now!, one of the largest organized Qubcois arts and cultural celebrations to take place in Toronto.

On Sunday, November 30, composers SYDNEY HODKINSON, HOPE LEE & DAVID EAGLE share the stage at The Music Gallery. Winnipeg born composer Sydney Hodkinson feels himself very much a Canadian in spite of having spent his professional career south of the border. Hodkinson taught composition and conducting at the Eastman School and now directs the Contemporary Music Ensemble at the prestigious Aspen Colorado Music Festival. His works are fascinating, highly crafted and original; they provide a marvelous contrast to the music of Calgary-based composers Hope Lee and David Eagle who decided to celebrate 25 years of marriage by producing a CD of their chamber works for the Centrediscs label. The disc includes a New Music Concerts broadcast recording of Lees Voices in Time (commissioned by NMC) and new recordings of her Fei Yang for string quartet and accordion (also an NMC commission) and David Eagles Breath for string quartet and electronics. Both of these works feature NMC core string players Accordes, with Joseph Macerollo the accordionist on Fei Yang. NMC is happy to mark the launch of the CD by including these two pieces on the November 30 concert.

Saturday November 1, 2008 at The Music Gallery (197 John Street, Toronto)

GENERATION 2008: ECM+; Vronique Lacroix;

Tim Brady, electric guitar; Scott Good, trombone;

Michael Berger (Canada, b.1980) Skeleton (2008)

Scott Good (Canada, b.1972) Shock Therapy Variations (2008)

Fuhong Shi (China/Canada, b.1976) Kaleidoscope (2008)

Brian Harman (Canada, b.1981) Gregarious Machines (2008)

7:15 Illuminating Introduction with the composers / 8PM Concert

Tickets: 416-204-1080 - $33 (reg)/$20 (seniors/arts workers)/$10 (students)

Saturday, November 15 at the Enwave Theatre (Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay)

The MONTREAL STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT

Lise Daoust; Genevive Draspe; Chlo Labb; Franois Duval; Marie-Hlne Breault

Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany 1928 2007):

FLAUTINA (1989) (flutes)

AVE from MONTAG AUS LICHT (1984/85) (G flute and basset horn)

ENTFHRUNG from MONTAG AUS LICHT (1986) (piccolo and electronics)

KATHINKAS GESANG from SAMSTAG AUS LICHT (1983) (flute and electronic music)

7:15 Illuminating Introduction includes GESANG DER JNGLINGE (1955-56) / 8PM Concert

Tickets: 416-973-4000 - $33 (reg)/$20 (seniors/arts workers)/$10 (students)

Sunday, November 30 at The Music Gallery (197 John St., Toronto)

SYDNEY HODKINSON, HOPE LEE & DAVID EAGLE

Accordes; Joseph Macerollo; Fujiko Imajishi, NMC Ensemble conducted by Sydney Hodkinson

David Eagle (Canada, b.1955) Breath (1998)

Sydney Hodkinson (Canada, b.1934) Rogatio Gravis (2003)

Hope Lee (Taiwan/Canada, b.1953) Fei Yang (2001)

Sydney Hodkinson Bricks: Concerto fantasia for solo violin and chamber sextet (2005)

Sydney Hodkinson Requiescant: Elegy for chamber sextet (2001)

7:15 Illuminating Introduction with the composers / 8PM Concert followed by CD release party.

Tickets: 416-204-1080 - $33 (reg)/$20 (seniors/arts workers)/$10 (students)

Subscriptions (6 events): $135 | $80 | $30

Pick 3 (or more): each $25 reg | $15 snr | $7.50 student

New Music Concerts

157 Carlton Street, Suite 203 Toronto ON M5A 2K3

416.961.9594 / fax 416.961.9508

nmc@interlog.com / www.NewMusicConcerts.com

New Music Concerts gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts; Toronto Arts Council; The Department of Heritage through Arts Presentation Canada; The Province of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council & the Ontario Arts Foundation Endowment Fund; The Goethe Institut; The Julie-Jiggs Foundation; The Koerner Foundation; The McLean Foundation; Roger D. Moore; The SOCAN Foundation; The Imperial Tobacco Canada Foundation; The Amphion Foundation Inc.; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.; Edward Epstein and Gallery 345


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Le CRTC accorde une nouvelle frquence Radio Ville-Marie


Dans une dcision rendue publique le vendredi 26 septembre dernier, le Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des tlcommunications canadiennes accorde une nouvelle frquence Radio Ville-Marie (CIRA-FM), soit le 104,1 FM Rimouski. Ce mdia spcialis a connu une vive croissance au cours des cinq dernires annes. Nous sommes fiers de cette dcision car elle rpond une demande rpte de la population de Rimouski. mentionne Jean-Guy Roy, directeur gnral. l'aube de ses 14 ans d'existence, le rseau de la Socit Radio Ville-Marie occupe maintenant une place enviable dans le paysage mdiatique qubcois.

Entre en ondes en 1995, Radio Ville-Marie diffuse prsentement aux frquences 91,3 FM Montral, 100,3 FM Sherbrooke, 89,9 FM Trois-Rivires et 89,3 FM Victoriaville. Selon un vaste sondage CROP, ralis auprs de 4112 rpondants, Radio Ville-Marie rejoint 306 000 auditeurs dans le Grand Montral et l'Estrie. Ce mdia spcialis qui aborde les grandes questions humaines, sociales, culturelles et spirituelles a le vent dans les voiles. Radio Ville-Marie a du succs parce qu'elle touche le cur et les proccupations des gens de chez nousaffirme Jean-Guy Roy qui est la barre de cette radio depuis bientt neuf ans.

Devant la diminution des missions sociales, culturelles et spirituelles, la question identitaire des Qubcois et la recherche de valeurs inspirantes, Radio Ville-Marie rpond un besoin rel et le grand public lui manifeste sa vive satisfaction. En tant que mdia spcialis, RVM s'inspire des grandes valeurs et traditions qui ont faonn notre histoire, notre patrimoine collectif et notre identit commune. RVM, proprit d'une socit but non lucratif, se dfinit comme un service de radiodiffusion d'inspiration chrtienne. C'est une belle radio et les gens s'y reconnaissent. ajoute Jean-Guy Roy.

Elle est devenue au fil des annes, l'une des radios des plus culturelles du Qubec. Radio Ville-Marie c'est un vaste rseau de personnes et d'organismes engags au cur de la socit qubcoise pour la promotion des valeurs de justice, de solidarit, d'intelligence et de respect. La nouvelle station devrait entrer en ondes au dbut 2009 la grande joie des Rimouskois. Radio Ville-Marie, tout un monde dcouvrir!


Pour informations : (514) 382-3913
Courriel : cira@radiovm.com

www.radiovm.com

Une radio branche sur la vie;
Un carrefour culturel impressionnant;
Une radio de solidarit;
Un mdia d'avenir.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

American Federation of Musicians


THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS HONORS HOUSE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN JOHN CONYERS

AFM International President Tom Lee Presents Congressman John Conyers with a Lifetime Achievement Award and Honorary Membership

On Saturday, September 27 the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) will present House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his continued and steadfast support of the AFM, music and musicians. Chairman Conyers also will be made an honorary member of the AFM. These awards will be presented to Chairman Conyers by AFM International President Thomas F. Lee.

The awards ceremony will be held during a two-hour brunch at The H.R. 57 Center for the Preservation of Jazz hosted by the musicFIRST coalition, of which AFM is a member. Performing at the brunch will be jazz impresarios Jimmy Owens, Vic Juris, Winard Harper and Dr. Larry Ridley. The brunch is being organized to thank Chairman Conyers for his support of music and musicians, but most importantly for the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 4789) and the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property PRO-IP Act (H.R. 4279), for which he has been a consistent and successful advocate.

Both the Performance Rights Act and the PRO-IP Act are merely two examples of issues for which Chairman Conyers has fought on behalf of musicians. For that reason AFM has chosen to honor Chairman John Conyers.

About the AFM

Founded in 1896, the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), AFL-CIO, is the largest organization in the world dedicated to representing the interests of professional musicians. With more than 90,000 members, the AFM represents all types of professional musicians, including those who record music for sound recordings, film scores, radio, television and commercial announcements, as well as perform music of every genre in every sort of venue from small jazz clubs to symphony orchestra halls to major stadiums. Whether negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying legislators, the AFM is committed to raising industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape. www.afm.org

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Opera Atelier posts surplus for 2007-08 season


Opera Atelier posts surplus, celebrates an outstanding year

Toronto, ON (September 26, 2008) ĶJane Hargraft, general manager for Opera Atelier, reported the company closed its 2007/08 season with a $64,000 surplus posted on an annual operating budget of $2.4 million. Ms. Hargraft attributed the successful year-end results in particular to record-breaking ticket sales for Idomeneo and a significant increase in development revenue (+ 28 %).

We continue to build on the momentum generated last season, said Ms. Hargraft. Our subscription revenues are 14% ahead of last year and we are forging exciting new partnerships with donors and sponsors.

Opera Atelier launches its 2008/09 season with a new production of Mozarts The Abduction from the Seraglio (November 8 15, 2008) followed by The Coronation of Poppea (April 25 - May 2, 2009) at the Elgin Theatre. The company is pleased to announce that male soprano Michael Maniaci has been cast in the role of Nero and Canadian mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber will make her Opera Atelier debut in the role of Ottavia.

Subscriptions for Opera Ateliers 2008/09 season are on sale now and may be purchased by calling 416-703-3767 ext. 24. Single tickets range from $30-$135 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 416.872.5555 or at www.ticketmaster.ca . For more information visit www.operaatelier.com .

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Edmonton Opera AGM Results


2007-08 A Banner Year for Edmonton Opera


Edmonton Opera showcased a banner 2007/08 season at its Annual General Meeting yesterday evening. With one sold-out production (Carmen); a Sterling Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical (H.M.S. Pinafore); the Edmonton premiere of one of Verdi's greatest operas (Falstaff); a collaboration with Alberta Ballet and the Richard Eaton Singers (Mozart's Requiem); and a tour through Berlin with Artistic Director Brian Deedrick for eight Edmonton Opera patrons, Edmonton Opera's 44th season was ambitious artistically, as well as financially solvent.


"I'm very pleased to report that, for the sixth year in a row, Edmonton Opera is in a surplus position," said Edmonton Opera's General Manager, Mary Phillips-Rickey. "This surplus was achieved with careful choices in repertoire, cost monitoring in all categories, and increased revenue in several areas." The company has been dept-free for five years, and is looking towards a bright future from this solid financial position.


Outgoing Board Chair Francis Price thanked Board members, staff, volunteers, the Opera chorus members, guild, crews, patrons, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for their generosity and enthusiasm. "I am grateful to everyone who has helped Edmonton Opera to fly and who has soared alongside us," said Price.


Price leaves the Board's leadership to incoming Chair Dianne Kipnes, who noted she begins her term as Chair in an enviable position. "I have the good luck to be the beneficiary of the hard work of all former board members and out past chairs," said Kipnes. "But, Francis Price and his team have worked incredibly hard to put the company in its current position." Kipnes intends to take Edmonton Opera's good financial and artistic position forward aggressively by bringing more opera productions to the Jubilee stage, increasing opera audiences across all age groups and financial levels, and by launching new fundraising experiences.


The 2008/09 Board of Directors was also announced at the AGM, with Dianne Kipnes, Francis Price Dan Wiart, Larrie Boddy, Gabe Shelley, Bill Clark, Helen Cheung, Hilary Rose, Jim Johannsson, Axel Meisen, Katherine Braun, Brian Hetherington, Eleanor Olszewski, June Emery, Daniel Kim, Kyle Murray, Lynn Mandel, Ed Wiebe, David Austen, Laura Fitzgerald, Mary LeMessurier, Betty Kolodziej and Rob Rock as directors.


Edmonton Opera opens its 2008/09 season with a haunting production of Wagner's masterpiece The Flying Dutchman October 25, 28 and 30. All performances begin at 7.30pm and run at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Subscriptions and single tickets for Edmonton Opera's 45th season are on sale now, visit www.edmontonopera.com for details.

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National Arts Centre Roundtable

Broadcaster Valerie Pringle and daughter Catherine Pringle to act as keynote speakers for National Arts Centre Foundation Roundtable on Media, Communications and Technology:
Healthy Mental Development for Children and Youth

Ottawa (Canada) The National Arts Centre is delighted to announce that broadcaster Valerie Pringle and her daughter Catherine Pringle, will be this years keynote speakers at the National Arts Centres (NAC) Foundation Roundtable called Media, Communications and Technology: Healthy Mental Development for Children and Youth, to be held on Saturday, October 4, 2008, at 8:30 a.m. in the NAC Salon.

A prominent group of leaders in the medical and social policy fields, as well as arts supporters and senior public policy makers, will join Valerie and Catherine Pringle to discuss how media and the arts can contribute effectively and creatively to improved mental health for children and youth. Mother and daughter will also share their personal experience coping with mental illness.

Participants will discuss topics ranging from pure science to clinical applications, in a language that is both simple and engaging.

The Roundtable is held each year in tandem with the National Arts Centres Annual Gala, which raises funds for the Centres National Youth and Education Trust. The Trust supports the artistic development of young Canadians through educational resources, professional training, mentoring programmes and young audience performances. This years Gala, featuring Tony Bennett, takes place on the same day as the Roundtable.

It is an honour for the National Arts Centre to host this important discussion with so many of Canadas brightest minds, as well as leading Canadian arts supporters, said Darrell Louise Gregersen, CEO of the National Arts Centre Foundation.

Roundtable participants include Dr. Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, Dalhousie University; Dr. Bruce Ballon, head of the Adolescent Clinical and Educational Services for Problem Gambling, Gaming and Internet Use at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH); Dr. Michael Rich, Director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Harvard and Childrens Hospital, Boston, and; Dr. David Wolfe, RBC Investments Chair in Childrens Mental Health Chair at the CAMH.

Beginning in 2002, three NAC roundtables on philanthropy in the performing arts explored the importance of adequate financial resources for arts organizations, to ensure that they can fulfill their vital role of fostering a creative culture in Canada. In 2005, the Roundtable began a series of discussions on healing and the arts, exploring the profound role that music and other performing arts play in different aspects of human health and development. Each year, results of the discussions from Roundtables are shared with more than 3,000 arts and health organizations.

The Roundtables have featured a wide range of Canadian and international participants including the Hon. Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.; Louise Blouin MacBain, international arts philanthropist; Richard Bradshaw, the late General Director of the Canadian Opera Company; Martha Piper, former University of British Columbia; President, James Wolfensohn, business leader, arts patron, former President of the World Bank and Chairman Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Frank ODea, Second Cup co-founder, as well as a long list of federal Cabinet ministers.

The National Arts Centre Foundation gratefully acknowledges Sun Life Financial as the Presenting Sponsor and the University of Ottawa and Rx&D as Associate Sponsors of the NAC Roundtable.

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Important Message from the Handel and Haydn Society




Harry Christophers is named Artistic Director of Handel and Haydn Society

Plans for 2009-2010 season, when Harry Christophers tenure as Artistic Director is launched, include Mozarts Mass in C Minor, an all-Bach program, and expanded media, community, and touring initiatives

Celebration 2009 highlights Societys 2008-2009 season with Harry Christophers as Artistic Director Designate

September 26, 2008 (Boston, MA) Today, the Handel and Haydn Society, Americas oldest continuously-performing arts organization, announced the appointment of Harry Christophers as Artistic Director. Mr. Christophers, a regular guest conductor of the Society, begins his tenure as Artistic Director with the 2009-2010 season and will be the organizations thirteenth artistic leader since its founding in 1815. As Artistic Director Designate during the 2008-2009 season, Mr. Christophers will oversee all aspects of artistic planning and programming for future Handel and Haydn Society seasons. The initial term of Mr. Christophers contract with the Society spans through the 2011-2012 season.

Commenting on his appointment as Artistic Director, Harry Christophers said, I am so honored to be entrusted with the artistic leadership of this exceptional institution. Throughout its history, the Society has established and maintained its reputation as Americas oldest and one of the worlds most respected performing arts organizations. Our work together thus far has been immensely rewarding, and I am thrilled to continue my relationship with the Societys outstanding choral and instrumental musicians, and to enrich our audiences concert experience with authentic interpretations of the core repertoire whilst also presenting innovative programs of less familiar works and composers from this exceptional period of music.

Harry Christophers has distinguished himself as one of the worlds foremost interpreters of Baroque and Classical music, and we are thrilled to continue our work with him as he takes the artistic helm of the Society, commented Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Marie-Hlne Bernard. Harrys work with the group has shown true synergy, a common goal to create excitement in each and every live performance, and a shared passion for authenticity. His appointment launches a new era, one that will honor the Societys long-held commitment to musical excellence and to education and community initiatives.

Harry Christophers has conducted the Handel and Haydn Society each season since his first appearance in September 2006, when he led a sold-out performance in the Esterhzy Palace at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. Held in the same location where Haydn lived and worked for nearly 40 years, this Austrian appearance marked the Societys first in Europe in its then 191-year history. Mr. Christophers returned to conduct the Society in Boston in a critically acclaimed performance of Handels Messiah in December 2007, followed by an appearance at Symphony Hall in January 2008. Founder and Music Director of the renowned United Kingdom-based choir and period-instrument orchestra, The Sixteen, he is also in demand as a guest conductor for leading orchestras and opera companies worldwide and in the United States.

As Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers will craft a balance between the Societys core repertoire and the introduction of innovative programming for voice and period instruments, highlighting less familiar works of the Baroque and Classical periods. Mr. Christophers plans to conduct annual performances of Handels Messiah at Bostons Symphony Hall, with regular cycles of oratorios, operas, and works for smaller ensembles by Handel, Haydn, and their contemporaries. Plans for the 2009-2010 season include Mozarts C Minor Mass (planned for commercial release), excerpts from Glucks Orfeo, and a program devoted to Bachs secular and religious works. Sir Roger Norrington will continue his work with the Society with performances of Beethovens Missa Solemnis, and specialist guest conductors will periodically be invited by Harry Christophers to lead programs in the genres with which they have become synonymous. Under Mr. Christophers leadership, the Society will continue its tradition of showcasing established and emerging artists, and will actively explore the use of new media technology to expand educational and outreach programs. In addition to launching annual releases of commercial recordings, Mr. Christophers and the Society will expand the Societys international touring schedule and explore concert opportunities in underserved markets throughout New England.

2008-2009 Season Highlights with Artistic Director Designate Harry Christophers

The upcoming 2008-2009 Handel and Haydn Society season with Harry Christophers as Artistic Director Designate is marked by Celebration 2009, in observance of the anniversaries of the Societys namesake composers. Commemorating the 250th and 200th anniversaries of deaths of Handel and Haydn, programmatic highlights of the season include the opening weekend of concerts with Harry Christophers conducting an all-Handel program; the Societys 155th annual performance of Handels Messiah, led by Paul Daniel; and two Haydn programs conducted by Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington, which include a concert performance of the seldom heard Haydn opera Lanima del filosofo that will be recorded for release in May 2009 by Signum Records. Celebration 2009 culminates in a performance of Haydns masterwork, The Creation, conducted by Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn.

The celebratory 2008-2009 season demonstrates the Societys renewed commitment to the Boston community with the launch of cultural and educational partnerships, including collaborations with the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and others. National and international collaborators include the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, at which the Society performed in September 2006, and which is organizing the worldwide performances of The Creation on May 31, 2009; the Haydn Society of North America, dedicated to promoting the legacy of Haydn; and Handel House Museum in London.

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CIFF Last-Minute Closing Gala Tickets


THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL RELEASES

LAST MINUTE CLOSING GALA TICKETS FOR BART GOT A ROOM


Calgary, AB Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is pleased to announce the festival will celebrate its closing on September 27th with Brian Hecker's Bart Got a Room. As of Midnight Thursday, September 25, 2008 150 tickets for the screenings of Bart got a Room have been made available to the public for sale.


What: CIFF Closing Gala

VIPs: Director Brian Hecker in attendance

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008

Time: 7:00 PM and 7:30 PM

Where: Globe Cinema, 617 - 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

Tickets are available at: www.calgaryfilm.com or at the Fido Box Office


The film was a hit at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, and stars Academy Award winner William H. Macy (Fargo, Magnolia), Cheryl Hines, and Steve Kaplan. Bart Got a Room is American writer/director Hecker's first feature, and the hilarious plot and superb cast makes it an ideal closing for the 2008 CIFF.


Featuring cinematography by award-winning Norwegian cinematographer Hallvard Brin; edited by Annette Davey and Danny Rafic. Bart Got a Room is produced by Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, Tony Shawkat, Reagan Silber, and Jai Stefan. Executive producers are Stephen Benedek, Ed Hart, Dina Burke, Mario Fallone, Pamela Hirsch, Michael LaFetra, Bruce Lunsford, and Randy Simon Writer Brian Hecker. Bart Got a Room will screen at the Volkswagen Closing Night Gala on Saturday, September 27 at the Globe Theatre starting at 7:00 p.m. The Gala reception will follow at Flames Central.


The complete 2008 CIFF line-up, as well as festival tickets and passes, are available online at www.calgaryfilm.com from August 25, 2008. The Fido Box Office opens at Eau Claire Market and the CIFF Souvenir Program Guide goes on sale at all Calgary Starbucks locations on September 5, 2008.


About CIFF

Founded in 1998, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization based in Alberta, Canada. Inspired by the pioneering spirit and maverick ideals of the community, CIFF showcases films that break traditional boundaries and forge new cinematic ground. CIFF celebrates an unparalleled breadth and depth of cultural diversity through the meaningful, accessible, and artistic medium of film and engages thousands of artists to showcase the best films from filmmakers in over 100 countries around the world. CIFF is held annually at the end of September, screening over 200 films and hosting several gala events, awards, and special presentations. For more information visit www.calgaryfilm.com.


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Gerald Finley news


Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Julius Drake

BRAHMS

8 Lieder und Gesnge Op. 57

Schumann

4 Lieder from Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre Op. 98a

Frauenliebe und leben Op. 42

Release Details

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson mezzo-soprano

Julius Drake piano

Schumann Frauenliebe und leben, Brahms 8 Songs Op. 57

Release Date: 27 October 2008

Catalogue Number: WHLive0024

SALES POINTS:

Ģ Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - 1 March 1954 - 3 July 2006

Ģ Wigmore Hall Live are proud to release on their Archive series this very special 1999 live recital by the great, beloved American born mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson who tragically died in 2006.

Ģ This release adds to the universally acclaimed 1998 recital also released by Wigmore Hall Live (WHLive0013) Now that her recordings are all we have left, this one is particularly valuableĶI]t captures the incomparable beauty of Hunt Liebersons voice

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Ģ The dramatic intensity and passionate commitment to her material earned her countless comparisons to Maria Callas.

Ģ Noted for her interpretation of Handel and Bach, this recital of lieder by Schumann and Brahms demonstrates the breadth of her repertoire and her meticulous artistry.

Ģ After her death, she won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her Rilke Songs and again in 2008 for her

performance of her husband's Neruda Songs.

PRESS ACCLAIM FOR PREVIOUS HUNT-LIEBERSON RELEASE WHL0013:

A GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION to the final shortlist of 3 discs

ALBUM OF THE WEEK - THE INDEPENDENT "This Wigmore disc shows what magic she wrought with Mahler and Handel" The Independent

VOCAL CHOICE OF THE MONTH - BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE "The unique warmth of tone is sounded in the first notes even of the lighter Mahler songs, but there's also a spiritual grace in her approach ... peerless" BBC Music Magazine


Gerald Finley & Julius Drake

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Tchaikovsky

Mussorgsky

Songs and Dances of Death

Ned Rorem

War Scenes

Release Details

Gerald Finley bass-baritone

Julius Drake piano

Songs by Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death, & Ned Rorem War Scenes

Release Date: 27 October 2008

Catalogue Number: WHLive0025

SALES POINTS:

Ģ Gerald Finley writes: It is with great sense of pride that this disc becomes the 25th release of the Wigmore Live series, in a musical partnership I have enjoyed for many years with Julius Drake. Performing at the Wigmore is always a highlight of any career. The others in the series are distinguished performers I have admired for years and the performances are wonderful. The audiences at the Wigmore are always welcoming and knowledgeable, and this atmosphere is captured perfectly. Already a fine catalogue, I hope the Wigmore Live series continues its honour roll

Ģ Critically praised for his performances both on stage and in concert, this recital of American and Russian song by Gerald Finley offers listeners the rare opportunity to hear one of todays most in-demand baritones within the beautiful,

Intimate setting of the Wigmore Hall.

Ģ After a recital at Carnegie Hall in March, 2007, Finley was praised by New York Times critic Bernard Holland as having a "bass-baritone of easy luxury" and that his "sensibilities begin with the pre-eminence of words."

Ģ His recording of Stanford's Songs of the Sea and Songs of the Fleet with Richard Hickox and the BBC NOW for Chandos received the Editor's Choice Award at the 2006 Classic FM Gramophone Awards.

PRESS ACCLAIM FOR FINLEY AND DRAKE AT WIGMORE HALL:

Gerald Finley is one of the few baritones before the public today with whom it's virtually impossible to find fault Music OMH

No other baritone can touch him for declamatory expressiveness The Independent

Finley and Drake paced them all tactfully, precisely mediating between relaxed storytelling and rapt introspection. Here was very fine singing of truly great songs The Guardian

For my money this inspired pianist is now the best in the business New York Magazine

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

NAC Gala with Tony Bennett on Oct. 4


NAC Orchestra programme announced for NAC Gala with the legendary Tony Bennett on Oct. 4

Ottawa, Canada The National Arts Centre Gala has been sold out for some time and lucky ticket-holders have a truly spectacular night ahead on Saturday, October 4. Tony Bennett, famously described by Frank Sinatra as the best singer in the business, together with his quartet will give a one-hour command performance in the second half of the Gala. And, to launch this night of glamour and style, Pinchas Zukerman will lead the NAC Orchestra in a complementary classical programme.

Two young Ottawa string virtuosos will join Maestro Zukerman and the Orchestra in the opening half. Stanley Leong, a 13-year-old cellist, and his brother 11-year-old violinist Kerson Leong will join forces to perform the Allegro from Vivaldis Concerto in B-flat major for Violin and Cello, filled with acrobatic highjinks requiring nimble fingers! Both have been multiple top prize winners in the Canadian Music Competition, and both participated in last summers Tenth Anniversary NAC Summer Music Institute in the Junior Strings Programme.

The five participants in this seasons Institute for Orchestral Studies (IOS) will be onstage performing with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. They are Emily Westell (violin, 23, Calgary, AB), Amline Chauvette-Groulx (violin, 25, Ottawa, ON), Tali Kravitz (viola, 24, Israel), Leat Sabbah (cello, 21, United States), and Theodore Chan (double bass, 24, Ottawa, ON).

The NAC Gala is a benefit for the National Youth and Education Trust, investing in young Canadians through the performing arts. Both the Summer Music Institute and the Institute for Orchestral Studies are among the NAC programmes that are supported by the National Youth and Education Trust.

Maestro Zukerman will also lead the NAC Orchestra in Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn, and will close the first half with Ravels thrilling Bolero, an orchestral tour de force that is one of the most popular compositions in the entire classical repertoire.

In the second half Tony Bennett will take the stage with his quartet consisting of Lee Musiker (music director and piano), Gray Sargent (guitar), Jim Hughart (bass) and Harold Jones (drums). Mr. Bennett will announce his programme from the stage.

The Gala Committee NAC is chaired for the third year by Janet Yale, TELUS executive vice president, Corporate Affairs. Mrs. Laureen Harper is the Galas Honourary Chair.

There will be a pre-concert reception in the Foyer for all patrons at 5:30 p.m., followed by the concert at 6:30 p.m. Those who have purchased Encore Seating will join Gala sponsors at a post-concert reception in the Foyer, followed by dinner on the Southam Hall stage.

TELUS, Founding Partner of the NACs National Youth and Education Trust, is the Presenting Sponsor of the annual Gala. This commitment reflects TELUSs continuing support of the National Youth and Education Trust, a primary resource for supporting the artistic development of young Canadians through educational resources, professional training, mentoring programmes and young audience performances. The Trust is also supported by SunLife Financial, patrons of the Gala and the National Arts Centre Foundation Donors Circle.

Tony Bennett is the stuff of legends. His unforgettable voice has touched the heart and moved the souls of admirers around the globe. For nearly 60 years he has entertained us, yet has remained forever young and wowed generation after generation of new fans. He is an international treasure, honoured by the United Nations as a Citizen of the World. With over 50 million records sold world-wide and platinum and gold albums to his credit, Bennett has received thirteen Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His appearance with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the 1993 MTV Video Awards ceremony introduced him to a whole new generation with his recording MTV Unplugged garnering Grammys top award, Album of the Year. The New York Times declared Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it.

Tony Bennett is one of a handful of artists to have new albums charting in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond. He introduced a multitude of songs into the Great American Songbook that have since become standards for pop music. He has toured the world to sold-out audiences with rave reviews whenever he performs. To celebrate his 80th birthday in 2006, Tony Bennett recorded Duets - An American Classic with some of the top names in contemporary music, including Bono, Michael Bubl, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and Stevie Wonder.

The NAC Orchestras own Pinchas Zukerman was one of the instrumental superstars on Tony Bennetts Duets An American Classic. Named Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1998, Maestro Zukermans genius and prodigious technique have been a marvel to critics and audiences for over four decades. He is equally respected as a violinist, violist, conductor, and chamber musician while his dedication to teaching has been a major catalyst for many of the education initiatives supported by the National Youth and Education Trust. Pinchas Zukerman's discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him 21 Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards. He was named first-prize winner of the 1969 Leventritt Competition, and, in 1983, President Reagan awarded him a Medal of Arts for his leadership in the musical world. In October 2002, he became the first recipient of the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence at the National Arts Awards Gala in New York City. Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra donate their services for the NACs annual Gala.

Kerson Leong, violin, and Stanley Leong, cello

Kerson Leong is 11 and has already won the Grand Prize at the Canadian Music Competition for four straight years, each time achieving the highest mark of any age group or instrument. In the recent 2008 competition in Quebec City, the judges awarded him a mark of 99% for his stunning performance. He was recognized in the Galaxie Rising Star Program of the CBC and was also the youngest finalist in the 2006 nationwide CBC Mozart Variation Contest held to celebrate Mozarts 250th birthday anniversary.

Stanley Leong is 13 and has been a top prizewinner at the Canadian Music Competition for 6 years in a row. At the recent 2008 competition in Quebec City, he won First Prize once again and made his solo debut at the CMC Gala with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Yoav Talmi.

Both young musicians have been guest soloists with the NAC Orchestra at a TD Canada Trust Young Peoples Concert, as well as with I Musici de Montreal, and have performed at the 2008 Ottawa Chamberfest and at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.

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Brve internet - Pauline Julien

DIMANCHE SUR ESPACE MUSIQUE

SPCIAL PAULINE JULIEN

Le dimanche 28 septembre, pour souligner le 10e anniversaire du dcs de PAULINE JULIEN, l'animateur FRANOIS DOMPIERRE consacre un segment de son mission cette pote et grande dame de la chanson qubcoise, en compagnie d'invits en studio, sur les ondes d'ESPACE MUSIQUE (100,7 FM Montral).

De 14 h 15 h, plusieurs artistes rendront hommage Pauline. Aprs une entrevue, la chanteuse CLINE FAUCHER, qui se consacre l'uvre et au rpertoire de Pauline Julien, interprtera Une sorcire comme les autres et La croqueuse de 222 accompagne du pianiste MARC-ANDR CUIERRIER.

Franois Dompierre rencontre galement NELSON MINVILLE, metteur en scne d'un spectacle consacr la chanteuse cet automne. Aussi, MARA TREMBLAY et RIC GOULET (M. Mono) chantent en duo Ce soir, j'ai l'me la tendresse, un des grands textes de Pauline Julien sur une musique de Dompierre.

Ne ratez pas, ce dimanche, ce moment mouvant ddi la mmoire de Pauline Julien offert par Franois Dompierre et ses invits, sur les ondes de la radio musicale de Radio-Canada.


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Bill Eddins is Joined by H.K. Gruber


Classic Landmarks Masters:

The ESO explores humanity's dark side with a little Man, Myth and Magic.

Bill Eddins conducts H.K Gruber's Frankenstien!!

October 3rd 7:30pm and October 4th- 8:00pm

Edmonton, AB Ķ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) explores humanity's dark side in an outrageous evening of musical storytelling, featuring narration by H.K. Gruber. Composer, conductor, chansonnier and double bass player, Gruber is one of the most well-known and well-loved figures in contemporary music, and yet he remains something of an enigma. His music remains refreshingly non-doctrinaire - a deceptively simple and darkly ironic idiom which often includes a heavy dose of black humour.

Bill Eddins conducts the weekend's performances which feature low-life criminals, the end of civilized society and an outlandish classic horror story - H.K. Gruber's Frankenstien!! Also featured is music from Bernard Herrmann's score to the classic film Fahrenheit 451, The Threepenny Opera Suite by Kurt Weill, and Ravel's lush Concerto in G, with Bill Eddins as soloist and conductor.

Ticket prices for this performance range from $20-$69 (agency fees apply). Student and senior $20 rush tickets are on sale, subject to availability, two hours prior to curtain time.

Afterthoughts will feature conductor Bill Eddins and H.K Gruber. Saturday evening's 7:15pm Symphony Prelude features ESO Music Resource D.T. Baker.

The next performance of The Masters takes place on October 17 and 18 with Conductor Gregory Vajda and Pianist William Wolfram.

This series is generously supported by Classic Landmarks Master Builder

Media Sponsor: CKUA Radio Network

uber's debut with the ESO.

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Le Concours international d'orgue promet d'blouir

Le Concours international d'orgue promet d'blouir

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada dvoile une programmation digne du Roi des instruments

Montral, le 25 septembre 2008 Avec l'arrive de l'automne se tiendra le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) du 8 au 19 octobre 2008. Cet vnement est non seulement le premier concours international d'orgue de grande envergure se drouler Montral, mais il promet aussi d'tre un des plus importants et prestigieux concours d'orgue au monde. Grce ce concours international, l'auditoire ici prsent aura l'occasion d'assister un spectacle de haut calibre, men par de jeunes organistes qui procureront tous les amateurs de musique d'orgue des moments de pur ravissement , a indiqu son Excellence la trs honorable Michalle Jean, gouverneure gnrale du Canada et prsidente d'honneur du CIOC, dans un message aux organisateurs du Concours. La programmation de haut niveau fera vivre au public une exprience acoustique et visuelle unique.

Un concours international prestigieux

Seul concours international d'orgue des Amriques en 2008, le CIOC accueillera Montral, berceau de l'orgue, 15 jeunes organistes virtuoses provenant de 11 pays. Nous clbrons aujourd'hui le succs d'un travail d'quipe. Le dvoilement de notre programmation est le fruit de ce travail acharn. Il reprsente galement un pas important pour Montral, puisqu'il raffirme son statut comme capitale nord-amricaine de l'orgue , a dclar Nol Spinelli, prsident du conseil d'administration du CIOC.

Une exprience unique pour le spectateur

Grce des crans gants ainsi qu'au son enveloppant caractristique des orgues, le CIOC invitera les spectateurs profiter des plaisirs qu'offre un rendez-vous musical unique en son genre. L'entre tant libre, ils pourront voir 15 artistes de classe mondiale se produire sur ce que Mozart a jadis dsign Le roi des instruments. En combinant des dispositifs visuels aux sons naturels de l'orgue et en rendant l'accs au Concours libre, nous permettrons au public de vivre une exprience unique , a dclar Ren Frchette, directeur gnral du CIOC. Radio-Canada et CBC marqueront leur prsence ce rendez-vous musical en assurant la diffusion du Concours, tant la radio que sur Internet.

Orgue la carte

Le Concours se droulera en trois preuves, qui s'taleront entre le 8 et 17 octobre. La premire preuve se tiendra l'glise Immacule-Conception et sera joue sur l'orgue Beckerath du 8 au 10 octobre. La deuxime preuve aura lieu l'glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste sur l'orgue Casavant les 13 et 14 octobre. La finale se droulera la basilique Notre-Dame le 17 octobre et sera galement prsente sur un orgue Casavant.

En plus du volet comptitif, le programme du CIOC comprend des concerts spciaux, des rcitals des membres du jury, des cours de matre ainsi que des visites guides. Ces activits feront dcouvrir au public les artistes, les orgues ainsi que le riche patrimoine architectural de Montral.

Avant la tenue de la premire preuve, un concert gala d'ouverture, organis conjointement avec le Festival d'automne Orgue et couleurs aura lieu le 5 octobre l'glise St. Andrew & St. Paul 19 h 30. L'organiste amricain et membre du jury James Higdon agira comme soliste, alors que Jacques Lacombe dirigera les cordes de l'Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivires. Finalement, un Concert gala de clture incluant une crmonie de remise des prix et des rcitals donns par les laurats des trois grands prix se tiendra le 19 octobre 19 h 30 l'glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

Le plus important prix en argent

Le jury de renomme mondiale attribuera les plus importants prix en argent jamais octroys parmi les concours d'orgue au monde. Grce aux contributions des partenaires du Concours, des prix totalisant 72 000 $ seront remis. Un gnreux don de la fondation Dane and Polly Bales s'ajoute au premier prix le portant 30 000 $. Le public dcernera l'un des cinq concurrents qui se produiront lors de l'preuve finale le prix du public Richard Bradshaw de 5 000 $. Ce prix honore la mmoire de notre ami et collgue, le regrett Richard Bradshaw, qui a fortement encourag la tenue du Concours , a prcis John Grew, directeur artistique du CIOC. Le public pourra voter sur place le 17 octobre ou sur le site Internet du CIOC (http://www.ciocm.org/) jusqu' midi le 19 octobre.

Partenaires et visionnaires

C'est grce aux efforts et l'engagement des membres du conseil d'administration du Concours que des appuis financiers importants ont t obtenus. Avec les intervenants du milieu de l'orgue, ses donateurs et ses partenaires fondateurs savoir RBC, quipe Spinelli, Cantos Music Foundation, Financire Sun Life et Hydro Qubec, le Concours international d'orgue du Canada jouera un rle de premier plan pour promouvoir la musique d'orgue grce au talent de jeunes organistes qui mettront en valeur ces instruments spectaculaires, souvent inconnus du public. Mentionnons le soutien des ministres des Affaires municipales et des Rgions, du Tourisme, et de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine, ainsi que la Ville de Montral et de nombreux partenaires cls. Fort de tous ces appuis, le CIOC garantira le succs de sa premire dition et assurera sa continuit.

propos du CIOC

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) accueille au pays de jeunes organistes recruts travers le monde. L'organisme effectue un travail annuel pour promouvoir l'orgue comme instrument majeur dans la culture musicale au pays en plus de contribuer au rayonnement de la musique d'orgue grce au talent de jeunes organistes. Prsent sur des instruments de qualit dans des lieux d'une grande beaut architecturale, le CIOC jouera un rle important dans la mise en valeur du patrimoine qui a fait de Montral une rfrence nord-amricaine dans le domaine de l'orgue. Pour tous les dtails, visitez le site Web du CIOC au www.ciocm.org.

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CIFF Doc Series and Animation

CIFF DOC SERIES, FASHION IN FILM, AND AN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM ROUND OUT THURSDAY'S CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Calgary, AB With only four days remaining of the 9th Annual Calgary International Film Festival, time is running out to catch the many cinematic gems being presented at this year's event. This year, the festival has been marked with a strong line-up of documentaries, narrative features, and parties, and these great shows and fantastic events will continue until Sunday's close.

THURSDAY NIGHT DOCS

The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan

Soorgul and Amir return to their country in search of their families after 16 years of living as refugees. When their paths diverge, their futures are filled with unexpected and unpredictable turns as they seek to find resolution in their lives. The Sweetest Embrace tells an intimate story set against one of the world's harshest, and yet beautiful, landscapes, where life has been shaped by war, but where spirit remains resilient.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ Cineplex Eau Claire

Bird's Nest

Bird's Nest follows two Swiss architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Beijing and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China, as they build bridges between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems. The documentary shows how Chinese culture affects the construction work, the specific architectonic form and the struggle to achieve it, giving insight about the society, the culture and everyday life in China.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ The Globe Upstairs

FASHION PICK

Gloss

This entry into the Life in Focus: Fashion in Film series is a satirical fairytale set in modern Russia, where unbridled capitalism has created a seedy, decadent lifestyle for Moscow's nouveau rich. Galya goes to Moscow to realize her dream of becoming a supermodel, but is promptly rejected and told she is too gangly to become a model. Through perseverance and help from her gangster ex-beau, she is catapulted to the cover of magazines though in ways she never expected.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:30 p.m. @ The Globe Downstairs

Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:30 p.m. @ The Globe Downstairs

AMERICAN INDY ANIMATED FEATURE

Sita Sings the Blues

Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Director Nina Paley varies her rich animation, site gags and a 1920s jazz soundtrack by legendary singer Annette Hanshaw in order to tell "The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."

Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ The Uptown Downstairs

Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ Cineplex Westhills

The complete 2008 CIFF line-up, as well as festival tickets and passes, are available online at www.calgaryfilm.com from August 25, 2008. The Fido Box Office opens at Eau Claire Market and the CIFF Souvenir Program Guide goes on sale at all Calgary Starbucks locations on September 5, 2008.

About CIFF

Founded in 1998, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization based in Alberta, Canada. Inspired by the pioneering spirit and maverick ideals of the community, CIFF showcases films that break traditional boundaries and forge new cinematic ground. CIFF celebrates an unparalleled breadth and depth of cultural diversity through the meaningful, accessible, and artistic medium of film and engages thousands of artists to showcase the best films from filmmakers in over 100 countries around the world. CIFF is held annually at the end of September, screening over 200 films and hosting several gala events, awards, and special presentations. For more information visit www.calgaryfilm.com

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Nagata Shachu's 10th Anniversary Concert

Nagata Shachu
Japanese Taiko and Music Group
10th Anniversary and CD Release Concert


NAGATA SHACHU, Canada's pre-eminent taiko (Japanese drum) group, will celebrate their tenth anniversary with a release of a new recording, Tsuzure (tapestry), and a very special concert on Saturday, November 29, 2008.

Featuring new works, a number of pieces from the CD, as well as old favourites from Nagata Shachu's extensive repertoire, this year's annual concert promises to be like no other. Featuring an arsenal of taiko (including the massive O-Daiko drum), bamboo flutes, the three-stringed shamisen and an array of gongs, cymbals, shakers and wood blocks, NAGATA SHACHU'S 10th Anniversary Concert will take you on a musical journey beyond all borders.

New works to be premiered will include:
o Mamagoto (composed by Kiyoshi Nagata)
Mamagoto or 'child's play' features two shinobue (bamboo folk flutes), orchestra bells, various taiko drums, cymbals and an array of toys and noise makers. It is a light-hearted and whimsical tune depicting the adventures of children as they play their day away.
o Take Ito Kawa (improvisations by Aki Takahashi, Scott Kusano, and Kiyoshi Nagata)
The contrasting yet complimentary sounds of bamboo shakuhachi flute (TAKE), silk-stringed shamisen (ITO), and the skin of the taiko (KAWA), combined with the performers' improvisational skills and musical instincts, are at the heart of this rapid-fire exchange.
o Jinari "Rumbling of the Earth" (composed by Kiyoshi Nagata)
In this physically demanding and thrilling solo, Kiyoshi Nagata will perform on the massive O-daiko (big drum), that requires body, mind, and spirit to become one.
o Finale
This yet to be titled work is a heart-stopping showcase featuring four drummers playing improvised solos on the large taiko drums accompanied by the sharp and rapid attack of three small drums. This piece is guaranteed to awake the senses and turn Ryerson Theatre into one big boom-box!

Amidst a very busy touring schedule, NAGATA SHACHU will present their 10th Anniversary Concert for one night only, Saturday, November 29, in Toronto. On October 31 and November 1 NAGATA SHACHU will be participating at La TOHU in Montreal and later that month they will be guests at the prestigious CAPACOA in Ottawa. In February 2009 they will travel to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, MA, in March to McMaster University in Hamilton, and in April they will tour Michigan.

NAGATA SHACHU (formerly the Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble) has enthralled audiences with its mesmerizing and heart-pounding performances of the Japanese drum (taiko) since its formation in 1998. The group has toured widely throughout Canada, the US, and Italy, performing in theatres, concert halls, and at major music festivals. While rooted in the folk drumming traditions of Japan, the ensemble's principal aim is to rejuvenate this ancient art form by producing innovative and exciting music that seeks to create a new voice for the taiko. Taking its name from founder Kiyoshi Nagata and the Japanese word shachu, meaning group, Nagata Shachu, has become renowned for its exacting, straightforward, yet physically demanding performances as well as for its diverse repertoire. Their playing is the combination of unbounded spirit and passion with the highest levels of musicianship and discipline. The result is an unforgettable experience that is both powerful in expression and heartfelt in its sincerity.

The ensemble's artistic director Kiyoshi Nagata's career as a preeminent taiko soloist spans twenty-six years. After completing his studies with prominent taiko musicians, he started teaching himself at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, as well as at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. For eight years, he instructed two community groups, Isshin Daiko in Toronto and Do-Kon Daiko in Burlington, which he helped establish in 1995. Kiyoshi is also regularly invited by universities and taiko groups to conduct workshops and present lectures. In 1994, Kiyoshi founded the cross-cultural percussion ensemble, Humdrum, whose debut Toronto performance was ranked fourth in Now Magazine's "Top Ten Concerts of 1995". He has composed and performed taiko music for dance, theatre, film and radio and continues to collaborate with artists from all genres of music including traditional Japanese instrumentalists.


"Since 1998, the nine-person group, headed by Kiyoshi Nagata has consistently added new layers of invention to the traditional drumming-and-dancing repertoire." John Terauds, Toronto Star



NAGATA SHACHU
formerly Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble
Presents 10th Anniversary and CD release Concert
Kiyoshi Nagata, artistic director - taiko, shinobue
Aki Takahashi - shamisen, vocals, taiko
Scott Kusano - taiko, shakuhachi
Angela Colangelo - taiko, shinobue
Nick Shao - taiko
Atsushi Kato- taiko
Miki Kato - taiko, sanshin

Saturday, November 29, 2008 @ 8pm - One Show Only!
Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard Street East, Toronto (between Yonge and Church)

Tickets
$25-$30 adults; $20 seniors and students
On-line: www.UofTtix.ca; By phone: 416-978-8849

www.kiyshonagata.com

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James Ehnes wins 2008 GRAMOPHONE Award

James Ehnes wins 2008 GRAMOPHONE Award


...James Ehnes brings to this great concerto a rapt identification, tingling temperament and glowing ardour...Not only is Ehnes's technical address impeccable and intonation miraculously true, his contribution is remarkable for its intrepid emotional scope, athletic agility and (perhaps above all) jaw-dropping delicacy (nowhere more heart-tuggingly potent than in the finale's accompanied cadenza). (Gramophone)

Ehnes, in whom technical acumen and beauty of tone can be taken for granted, captures the passion and wistfulness of the concerto's temperament ideally, the ebb and flow of emotion and pacing finding poignant counterparts in the way Andrew Davis conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra (Daily Telegraph)

He plays Elgars Violin Concerto with an alchemic mix of passionate intensity and clear-headed intelligence, lavishing upon this spacious, hyper-romantic work a sound of staggeringly rich, luscious beauty, from first note to last. (Sunday Times)

James Ehnes has won the 2008 Gramophone Award for Best Concerto Recording of the Year for Elgars Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), conducted by Sir Andrew Davis released on the ONYX label. This recording has received unanimous praise from critics worldwide [it] will be heard many times over the years as a model of an exceptionally intelligent and sensitive approach to the work. (BBC 3 CD Review).

This is the third major award for James Ehnes this year his recording of the Barber, Korngold and Walton Concertos with the Vancouver Symphony conducted by Bramwell Tovey (CBC Records/ONYX) won the 2008 GRAMMY and JUNO Awards for Best Classical Album of the year. It also won the Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Classical Recording.

James's extensive discography of over 20 titles includes award-winners for the CBC, Analekta, Black Box, Chandos, Telarc, and Sony Classical labels in repertoire ranging from Bach to John Adams. His 250th Mozart anniversary double-disc of the composers complete works for violin and orchestra won the 2007 JUNO for best orchestral recording and has been hailed as a benchmark recording: a clear first choice in the field (Classic FM).

Homage, to be released shortly on the ONYX label, pays tribute to the worlds most celebrated violin-makers. This unique CD\DVD project features performances on 12 of the greatest instruments ever made by Antonio Stradivari, Pietro Guarneri (Peter of Mantua), Giuseppe Guarneri del Ges, Andrea Guarneri, Giuseppe Guadagnini, and Gasparo Bertolotti (Gasparo da Sal), all belonging to the extraordinary and unique Fulton Collection.

James Ehnes is widely considered one of the most dynamic and exciting performers in classical music. He has performed in over
20 countries on five continents with many of the worlds most renowned orchestras and conductors. The 2008-2009 season takes him to Malaysia, Western and Eastern Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, the UK, Detroit, Nashville, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

James Ehnes performs on the ex-Marsick Stradivarius of 1715 and gratefully acknowledges its extended loan from the Fulton Collection.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

CIFF Continues

HOT DOCS, BLACK ICE, A CANADIAN PICK, AND CLOSING GALA COME ALIVE ON THE SCREEN IN FOR SECOND HALF OF CIFF
HOT DOCUMENTARIES LIGHT UP THE NIGHT
The Calgary International Film Festival Documentary Showcase is dedicated to finding
the best and most inspiring films of the festival season, giving audiences a chance to rub shoulders with complex truths and realities. With a mix of both local and international perspectives, this program includes a diverse and challenging range of cinematic experiences for everyone to enjoy.
Tiger Spirit: Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotionally-charged journey into Korea's broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ Westhills
Bird's Nest Herzog and De Meuron in China: Bird's Nest follows two Swiss star architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Beijing 2008, and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China. Architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are literally building bridges between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems.
Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ Westhills
Hi My Name is Ryan: A documentary about Ryan Avery a milk and cookies connoisseur, a photo-booth artist, a fake moustache aficionado, and a punk rock performance artist determined to make his life super-awesome.
Friday, September 26, 2008 7:15 p.m. @ Uptown Downstairs
Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:00 p.m. @ Uptown Downstairs
Junior: The highly competitive world of hockey is put under the microscope in the National Film Board's fascinating film Junior. Following the Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, directors Isabelle Lavigne and Stphane Thibault focus on the sport's offices, hallways, and locker rooms and illuminate how the boys' financial futures hang in the balance every pressured day.
Friday, September 26 9:15 p.m. @ Uptown Upstairs
Saturday, September 27 2:15 p.m. @ Uptown Upstairs
OTHER FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Black Ice
Elegant, outgoing, gracious and entering middle age, Saara has discovered her husband is having an affair with one of his students. Intrigued, Saara looks deeper and ends up alternating between lies, the truth, manipulating others and giving in to her emotions. It's a gripping portrayal of jealousy and its ravages, a thriller stitched together with raw emotions, fateful coincidences and surprising psychological finesse.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:30 p.m. @ The Globe Downstairs
Confessions of a Porn Addict
*Director Duncan Christie in attendance. Q&A following screening.
Interviews and photo opportunities available.
Mark Tobias (Spencer Rice, Kenny vs Spenny) had it all: a good job, a beautiful wife, and a particularly unhealthy addiction to pornography. His wife, Felice (Lindsay Connell, Lars and the Real Girl), finally gets fed up with the competition and leaves him, causing Mark's addiction to spiral out of control, until one day he is caught literally with his pants down.
Wednesday, September 24 9:15 p.m. @ The Plaza
Tokyo Gore Police
Set in Tokyo in the near future where bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the Engineers. These unstoppable, genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a deadly combat form.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:00 p.m. @ The Plaza
Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:15 p.m. @ The Plaza
Volkswagen Closing Gala Bart got a Room
High school senior and student council vice president Danny Stein wants what every young man wants on prom night a hot date. Do you have yours for the Volkswagen Closing Gala?
Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:00 PM @ Uptown Downstairs
Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:30 PM @ Uptown Upstairs
The complete 2008 CIFF line-up, as well as festival tickets and passes, are available online at www.calgaryfilm.com from August 25, 2008. The Fido Box Office opens at Eau Claire Market and the CIFF Souvenir Program Guide goes on sale at all Calgary Starbucks locations on September 5, 2008.
About CIFF
Founded in 1998, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization based in Alberta, Canada. Inspired by the pioneering spirit and maverick ideals of the community, CIFF showcases films that break traditional boundaries and forge new cinematic ground. CIFF celebrates an unparalleled breadth and depth of cultural diversity through the meaningful, accessible, and artistic medium of film and engages thousands of artists to showcase the best films from filmmakers in over 100 countries around the world. CIFF is held annually at the end of September, screening over 200 films and hosting several gala events, awards, and special presentations. For more information visit www.calgaryfilm.com.

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Shaw Festival Announces Fall Lecture Series

Shaw Festival Announces Fall Lecture Series

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, September 24, 2008 Ķ The Shaw Festival is thrilled to announce its second fall celebrity lecture series: Four Lectures in the Provocative Spirit of Bernard Shaw. Funded by the Government of Ontarios Celebrate Ontario Festival and Event Enhancement initiative, The Shaw will present lectures by Seymour Hersh, Stevie Cameron, Tomson Highway and Dr. Samantha Nutt.

Inspired by the brilliance, bravery, humanity and humour of Bernard Shaw, the Shaw Festival is a crucible of progressive and provocative ideas which illuminate our understanding of todays world. Relevant and engaging theatre on the festivals three stages is enhanced each season with a robust education program. Like Shaws, the work of these four prominent and passionate speakers shines light on the dilemmas of our world, encouraging us all to take action.

On announcing this years lecture series, Shaw Festival Executive Director Colleen Blake said: The speakers we will present in our lecture series this year illustrate how the provocative spirit of Bernard Shaw still lives in discussions about todays critical world issues. We were thrilled with the audience reception to last years inaugural series, which included Ken Wiwa, Mary Walsh, Sir Salman Rushdie and Tim Flannery, and are delighted that, thanks to the Government of Ontario, we are able to continue the series this season.

Seymour Hersh October 12, 2008

Seymour Hersh is one of Americas most respected and groundbreaking investigative journalists. He has broken some of the biggest cover ups of the modern era -- from My Lai to Abu Ghraib -- and his work continues to uncover deceit and challenge corruption at the highest levels. In his analysis of U.S. foreign policy, he exposes the often shadowy world where official foreign policy stance meets political reality in other parts of the world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Hersh is also the author of Chain of Command and The Dark Side of Camelot.

Stevie Cameron October 19, 2008

Award-winning journalist Stevie Cameron is also a successful author, commentator, humanitarian and founding editor of Elm Street Magazine. Cameron's passion for writing, uncovering and dissecting stories of the day have earned her acclaim as one of Canada's foremost investigative journalists. In her lectures, Cameron takes a critical look at Canadian politics, business, society and the future.

Tomson Highway October 26, 2008

Tomson Highway is a playwright, author, musician, multilingual speaker, member of the Order of Canada and recipient of five doctorates. Throughout his life, he has overcome incredible obstacles, including the residential school system, prejudice, and struggles to have his work recognized, to become one of Canadas foremost aboriginal and creative voices.

Dr. Samantha Nutt November 2, 2008

Dr. Samantha Nutt is Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada. A medical doctor with over 13 years experience working in war zones and committed to peace, human rights and social justice, her ambition has always been to help war-affected women and children. Called one of 12 Canadians making a difference by Macleans Magazine, she has received numerous awards for her work, including Canadas Top 40 Under 40 Award.

Each lecture will be held at 11 am in the Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen St., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Tickets are $20 each or $65 for the series and $10 each for students. Tickets are available online at www.shawfest.com or by calling the Shaw Festival Box Office at 1-800-511-7429 or 905-468-2172.

The 2008 season is proudly presented by HSBC Bank Canada/HSBC Bank USA, N.A.

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Bill Eddins Leaves the Podium and Becomes Guest Soloist

Robbins Pops:

Bill Eddins leaves the podium and becomes the soloist for the First Night of the Pops!

Friday, September 26th and Saturday, September 27th 8:00pm

Edmonton, AB ĶOn September 26th & 27th, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) Music Director Bill Eddins shows Edmonton audiences a different side of himself as the evenings guest soloist. He shares the stage alongside symphony pops legend- Conductor Bruce Hangen, as the Robbins Pops season gets off to an impressive start, blending orchestral show-stoppers including Eddins at the piano in Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue. The Epsilon vocal quintet also makes an appearance in a medley of song hits from the Roaring Twenties. Theres also more music from Gershwin, as well as hits from Bernstein and Berlin.

Ticket prices for this performance range from $24 to $79 (agency fees apply). Student and senior rush tickets are subject to availability and can be purchased two hours prior to performance time. Tickets are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office.

The next performance of the Robbins Pops takes place on October 31st and November 1st and features conductor Jack Everly with music of the 1960s.

This series is generously supported by Bill & Mary Jo Robbins

Friday, September 26th is generously sponsored by Sobeys

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Bugs Bunny on Broadway!

Whats Up, Doc?!

The VSO presents Bugs Bunny on Broadway!

Vancouver BC The Wascally Wabbit is back! The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Global ComedyFest are proud to present Bugs Bunny on Broadway a unique and extraordinary concert experience that celebrates the worlds favourite classic Looney Tunes cartoons and their real classical scores.

The large video screen show cartoon jewels like Whats Opera, Doc?, The Rabbit of Seville, Long Haired Hare and a Corny Concerto while the Orchestra plays the classical soundtracks on stage. This roller coaster ride of a concert has sold-out the worlds greatest concert halls from The Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House (and in the past, the Orpheum and Queen Elizabeth Theatre!) and created an enthusiastically-devoted international audience of animation fans and classical music lovers alike.

Bugs conductor and co-creator George Daugherty takes the podium with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for this extra-special concert event. During the show, Daugherty explains how the genius of Chuck Jones and Warner Bros. took real classical and operatic scores, such as Rossinis Barber of Seville and Wagners Ring Cycle, and set not only Bugs Bunny cartoons to this great classical music, but many others as well. Its an eye-opening experience for audiences to learn that as they were growing up watching the hilarious antics of Bugs and friends, they were also listening to classical music!

Bugs Bunny on Broadway is a uniquely spirited, fun, and sophisticated combination of classic animation and spectacular symphonic music. George Daugherty and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform three concerts from December 28 to December 29 at the Orpheum Theatre.

Tickets for Bugs Bunny on Broadway go on-sale Wednesday, October 1st at 10am, exclusively through the VSO website at www.vancouversymphony.ca, and VSO Customer Service at 604.876.3434.

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Bilan de Vues d'Afrique

Bilan de Vues dAfrique

Un cinma qui fait rayonner la Francophonie

Qubec, le 24 septembre 2008 Le plus grand continent francophone prsente son cinma ! Cette manifestation consacre au cinma francophone du Sud sest termine samedi le 20 septembre avec la fiert de dire mission accomplie. Des centaines de personnes ont constat la vigueur et limportance du cinma crole et africain en assistant aux diffrentes projections et dbats au Muse de la civilisation ainsi quaux tables rondes et aux rencontres professionnelles lUniversit Laval.

Les ralisateurs Cheik Doukour, Bassek Ba Kobhio et Arnold Antonin et le critique de cinma Baba Diop taient tous agrablement impressionns de laccueil accord leurs films ou aux films quils reprsentaient. Sarrter en terres franaises du continent nord-amricain tait primordial pour eux, surtout en vue du XIIe Sommet de la Francophonie, de mme que pour la reprsentante de l'Organisation internationale de la francophonie, responsable du cinma, Mme Souad Houssein.

Notre collaboration avec lUniversit Laval et le Muse de la civilisation de Qubec est des plus fructueuse. Nous sommes fiers dannoncer la continuit de notre entente lanne prochaine avec ces deux partenaires majeurs sexclame le directeur gnral de Vues dAfrique, M. Grard Le Chne. Il est primordial de nos jours, que la francophonie rayonne travers le monde et les cinmas africain et crole, grce Vues dAfrique, y contribuent.

En 2009, Vues dAfrique aura lieu du 16 au 26 avril et ftera alors son 25e anniversaire. Un vnement majeur inscrire lagenda!

Vues dAfrique tient enfin remercier la population de Qubec toujours prsente en grand nombre aux rendez-vous de lvnement ainsi que ses prcieux partenaires que sont le Secrtariat d'organisation du XIIe Sommet de la Francophonie, lAgence canadienne de dveloppement international, le Ministre des Relations internationales du Qubec, le Muse de la civilisation, la Chaire de recherche du Canada en Littratures africaines et Francophonie (Universit Laval), le FESPACO et TV5 Qubec Canada.

www.vuesdafrique.org

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Opralia sur Espace classique

POUR TOUT SAVOIR SUR OPRALIA 2008 VISITEZ LA WEBRADIO
RADIO-CANADA.CA/ESPACECLASSIQUE

Grce la webradio d'Espace musique, Radio-Canada.ca/espaceclassique, les internautes peuvent tout savoir sur OPRALIA 2008, la clbre comptition internationale prside par PLACIDO DOMINGO qui se droule du 18 au 24 septembre dans la ville de Qubec.

Dans ce grand dossier spcial, le public peut prendre le pouls de l'vnement au jour le jour. Reportages vido sur la comptition, entrevues exclusives avec les finalistes, blogue enrichi quotidiennement... Le 24 septembre 19 h, le site diffuse la finale en direct pour la mettre ensuite en ligne gratuitement pendant un an.

Pour les internautes, ce sera l'occasion d'entendre les finalistes du prestigieux concours accompagns de l'Orchestre symphonique de Qubec dirig exceptionnellement par maestro Domingo. Anime par SYLVIA L'CUYER et BILL RICHARDSON de Radio-Canada, la soire sera, en plus du Web, diffuse galement l'antenne d'Espace musique et de CBC Radio 2.

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Davis legacy honoured at inaugural concert

The legacy of the family responsible for the world-class Davis Concert Organ in the Winspear Centre for Music will be recognized at Edmonton's first annual Winona and Stuart Davis Memorial Organ Recital. The concert, which spotlights French virtuoso Vincent Dubois holding court on the 6,551-pipe instrument at the Winspear (99 St. & 102 Ave.), Sunday, October 5 at 3 p.m., will also launch the Sundays at 3 Organ Recital Series 2008/2009 season.

The occasion will also bring to attention the establishment of the Davis Concert Organ Maintenance and Performance Trust, created to maintain the instrument in pristine condition and foster additional concerts that feature the organ.

"With 2008 acknowledged as the International Year of the Organ, the timing of this concert and trust is perfect," says Marnie Giesbrecht, who is on the trust's organizing committee and is acting managing co-director of the Sundays at 3 Organ Recital Series. "The trust will honour Dr. Stuart Davis's desire to keep the organ in top shape and enable more people to play and hear it. Organizations that present organists often can't afford the hall, so this trust is a good way to facilitate those possibilities. More groups using the organ will probably enhance more creative use of the Davis family's gift to the city of Edmonton."

Dr. Stuart Davis, a retired University of Alberta professor and a fan of organ music, donated $2 million to assist in the construction of the organ, which was built in the Winspear by Orgues Letourneau. Completed in 2002, the instrument was christened the Davis Concert Organ in memory of the doctor's late wife Winona. Dr. Davis passed away in 2005, having declared in his will that a trust continue to support the organ.

The concert's organist, Vincent Dubois, is currently the Assistant Director of the Conservatoire National of Angers and has been the titular organist at the Cathedral of Soissons since 2001. He's also won the Recital Gold Medal at the 2002 Calgary International Organ Competition and the Grand Prize at the 2002 International Competition of Toulouse, France, which resulted in a performance itinerary that has since stretched around the globe. Dubois will perform an all-French program that includes works by Marcel Dupr, Csar Franck, Louise Vierne and Maurice Durufl,

Tickets for the Winona and Stuart Davis Memorial Organ Recital are $20 and available at the Winspear box office (780-428-1414), Tix on the Square (780-420-1757) or at the door. For more information, contact the Sundays at 3 Organ Concert Series at (780) 429-1655 or visit their website at www.rcco.edmonton.ab.ca.

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CIFF Italian Party and Screening

CIFF ITALIAN FILM SCREENING AND PARTY LIGHTS UP TUESDAY NIGHT

Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is pleased to announce a series of special events and parties as part of this year's 9th annual event. As part of CIFF's ongoing commitment to provide stellar cinematic and cultural experiences, this year's festival special events schedule highlights our visiting delegates, local filmmakers, award-winners and gala films.

The CIFF Italian Party is one of the highlights of the event schedule this year. This VIP cocktail reception and takes place at Osteria de Medici (201 10th St. NW) after the screening of CIFF's highlight Italian film, Gomorrah. While the Sicilian Mafia has drawn the lion's share of media attention over the years, it is the Neapolitan mafia, known as the Camorra, who have created an insidious oligarchy of power. Director Matteo Garrone's hotly anticipated Gomorrah (a dark play on words) weaves five storylines culled from the best-selling literary expos of the same title about Neapolitan underworld. Like the Godfather films, Gomorrah examines organized crime from the inside out, except that the latter is more concerned with the assorted lowlifes and foot soldiers rather than those at the centre of power.

Event Details

Screening: Tuesday September 23, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ The Plaza

Party: Italian Film Party

Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008.

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Osteria de Medici, 201 10th St. NW, Calgary, AB

Admission: VIP and Gomorrah patrons

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Richard Li Young Artist Chair

Young Saskatchewan trumpeter Amy Horvey selected to hold the title of Richard Li Young Artist Chair for 2008-2009 season

Ottawa, Ontario The National Arts Centre today announced that Saskatchewan-born trumpeter Amy Horvey has been selected to hold the title of Richard Li Young Artist Chair for the 2008-2009 season. This honour is awarded annually to an exceptional young Canadian musician under the age of 35 who aspires to, or is in the early stages of, an orchestral career.

The Richard Li Young Artist Chair was established thanks to the generosity of Hong Kong-Canadian businessman Richard Li. In September 2006 he donated $1 million to the National Arts Centre Foundation the largest one-time gift in NAC history. In addition to providing a variety of performance and professional development opportunities to Richard Li Young Artist Chair recipients, the donation helps support several NAC young artist training programs, such as the Summer Music Institute and the Institute for Orchestral Studies.

Amy Horvey, 27, has performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra as an extra musician. As part of her duties as a recipient of the Richard Li Young Artist Chair recipient, Amy will perform solo recitals and teach masterclasses in Saskatchewan during the NAC Orchestras upcoming tour of Western Canada from October 24 to November 12.

Arts and music education are vital to maintaining and protecting the cultural fabric of Canada's rural areas, said Ms. Horvey. This is a major priority for me.

Ms. Horvey grew up on a farm near Cabri, Saskatchewan, a small prairie community which has a long been known for its excellent brass bands. (The Cabri Brass Band featured Bobby Gimby as one of its members. Mr. Gimby gained national attention as the composer of the 1967 Centennial song Canada and later received the Order of Canada for his contributions to the countrys national identity.)

Amy began playing trumpet at the age of six in a family of dedicated brass players her father plays trumpet, her mother plays French horn while her brother and sisters play the trombone and euphonium.

Amy has studied at the University of Victoria, the Glenn Gould School and the Rotterdam Conservatory. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, studying with the renowned trumpeter and teacher Edward Carroll.

Amy has a unique and very personal voice on the trumpet that is quietly gaining the attention of the international trumpet community, said Mr. Carroll.

In 2006 she toured Canada presenting a solo show of music commissioned from several internationally known composers and was invited by the legendary American jazz musician and composer Dave Douglas to be a featured soloist at the Festival of New Trumpet Music in New York City.

The National Arts Centre established the National Arts Centre Foundation in 2000, with the mandate to raise significant financial support for its artistic and educational programming. The Foundations mission is to inspire individuals, corporations and foundations to invest in the NACs vision of excellence and innovation as a national centre for performance, creation and learning. The National Arts Centre Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors made up of 23 leaders from across Canada.

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L'Orchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral relve de son dficit - EMBARGO 26 sept

LOrchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral relve de son dficit et prend un nouvel envol

Montral, 23 septembre 2008 loccasion du lancement de la saison 2008-2009 de lOrchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral dimanche prochain, madame Michelle Cormier, prsidente du conseil dadministration, annoncera trois dons majeurs : un de 540 000 provenant de madame Jacqueline et monsieur Paul Desmarais et deux de 100 000 chacun provenant de madame Carolyn et monsieur Richard Renaud et lautre de la Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Ces dons sont les puissants symboles dun soutien qui augmente jour aprs jour envers lOrchestre et son administration. Nous remercions les familles Desmarais, Bombardier et Renaud pour leur gnrosit. Ils sont de fervents admirateurs de lOrchestre et de son chef, Yannick Nzet-Sguin et grce eux, aujourdhui, lOrchestre peut entirement effacer son dficit et prendre un nouvel envol a affirm madame Cormier.

Des gestes administratifs significatifs

Depuis latteinte de dficit de plus de un million de dollars en 2005-2006, le conseil dadministration a travaill sans relche dans lidentification de nouvelles orientations menant au redressement financier. Ce dynamisme a attir de nouveaux appuis, tant parmi les comits de travail quau sein de son quipe interne ou de son conseil dadministration. Le conseil dadministration accueille dailleurs deux nouveaux membres dans ses rangs : madame Louise Frchette, vice-secrtaire gnrale aux Nations Unies (1998-2006), et madame Nicole Dub, directrice marketing de la Fdration des producteurs de lait du Qubec.

Aussi, une nergie nouvelle souffle aussi au sein de son quipe administrative interne, depuis larrive en mai dernier de la nouvelle prsidente-directrice gnrale, madame Luce Moreau CFRE, dont lexpertise en philanthropie est reconnue internationalement. Madame Moreau est dailleurs la premire Qubcoise et la premire francophone siger comme administratrice au conseil dadministration de lAssociation of Fundraising Professionnals, organisme international reprsentant 30 000 membres du milieu philanthropique, o elle vient tout juste dtre lue.

Nous sommes non seulement dans une situation financire saine, mais nous avons le bonheur de pouvoir offrir aux amateurs de musique le talent exceptionnel dun jeune chef montralais, reconnu internationalement, Yannick Nzet-Sguin. Nous prenons aujourdhui un nouvel envol et nous sommes enthousiastes ! Nous pourrons mieux assumer notre rle daccrotre laccs la musique classique et de promouvoir le travail des interprtes et compositeurs canadiens a conclu Luce Moreau, prsidente-directrice gnrale de lOrchestre.

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CIFF Welcomes Special Guests to the 2008 Festival

THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WELCOMES SPECIAL GUESTS TO THE 2008 FESTIVAL


Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival brings visiting directors, producers, and cast members to the festival, providing an up-close-and-personal look at the movie-makers taking part in this year's event. Special guests will be in attendance at their film screenings, and available for question and answer periods to discuss their work.


HIGHLIGHTED GUESTS

Noah & Logan Miller (Writers/Directors), Touching Home

Tue. Sep. 23, 2008 9:30 PM @ Globe Downstairs

Three months after their homeless father died in jail, twin filmmakers, Logan and Noah Miller cornered Ed Harris in an alley outside of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco and pitched him their autobiographical movie, Touching Home. Nine days later Harris called them and said he wanted the role. Touching Home is a courageous and honest portrayal of a family fighting to overcome the pain of wasted years and the crushing forces of addiction.


Carl Bessai (Director), Mothers&Daughters

Thu. Sep. 25, 2008 7:15 PM @ Uptown Upstairs

Sun. Sep. 28, 2008 3:00 PM @ Uptown Upstairs

Mothers&Daughters explores the hilarious, the ridiculous, and the complicated dynamics of mother/daughter relationships. Three mother/daughter pairs offer a diverse glimpse into the needs, the denials, and the inescapable love that these women feel towards each other. Ultimately, it is a celebration of the inexplicable bond of mothers and daughters.


Kent Tessman (Director), and Jennifer Lo & David Bajurny (Co-Producers), Bull

Sat. Sep. 20, 2008 4:45 PM @ Uptown Downstairs
Tues. Sep. 23, 2008 7:00 PM @ Westhills

Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir film, set among the heat-wave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie finds himself caught up in a twisty web where no one, no one at all, is telling the truth. Not only did Kent Tessman write, produce and direct this film, he also edited, mixed, completed the visual effects and composed the score, showing his talents as a one man filmmaking tour-de-force.


Najeeb Mirza (Director), Sweetest Embrace: The Return of Afghanistan

Thurs. Sep. 25, 2008 7:00 PM @ Eau Claire

In Najeeb Mirza's The Sweetest Embrace, Soorgul and Amir return to their country in search of their families. The film tells an intimate story set against one of the world's most harsh and yet beautiful landscapes, in a land where life has been shaped by war and hardship but where spirit remains resilient.


Denny Tedesco (Director), The Wrecking Crew

Tues. Sep. 23, 2008 7:15 PM @ Eau Claire
Sun. Sep. 28, 2008 2:30 PM @ Uptown Downstairs

Nicknamed by their conservative predecessors, the Wrecking Crew was comprised of prodigious rock 'n' roll session players in the prolific California music scene. Responsible for the lush instrumentation in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and in the Beach Boys' seminal Pet Sounds, the Wrecking Crew was behind nearly every hit of the '60s and some of the most enduring songs ever recorded.


GJ Echternkamp (Cast, Producer), Necessary Death

Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 11:30 PM @ Plaza
Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 2:45 PM @ Plaza

A Necessary Death is a taut dramatic tale of ambitious film students, desperate to be original, who spiral down a creative and moral hole from which they cannot emerge unscathed.


OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS OF NOTE

Michael Sparaga, Director Maple Flavour Films
Michael Selditch, Director Eleven Minutes
Murray Siple, Director Carts of Darkness
Taylor Greeson Director Meadowlark
Siu Tran, John Tran, Sam Tran & Daddy Tran, Director, Producer, Subject Daddy Tran
Steven Rose, Director Hi My Name Is Ryan

Juan Francisco Villa, Producer Alondra Smiles
Suzanne Chisholm, Director Saving Luna

Denny Tedescu, Director The Wrecking Crew


SHORTS

Local Filmmakers
Mitch Barany, City of Noise
James Reckseidler, Zinneke
Jonathan Joffe, Boiler Room
Cam Christiansen, The Real Place
Michael Peterson, Curse of The Piano
Devon Bolton, The Promise
Corey Lee, In Translation
Sandi Somers, The Panty Portal


Out of Town Short Filmmakers
Sara St. Onge, Lobotomobile
Jeff Chiba Stearns, Yellow Sticky Notes
Anna McRoberts, The Windfisherman
Ismael Nava, Greedy As A Pig
Randall Okita, Machine Wishbone

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OCTOBER at RTH/MH


OCTOBER LISTINGS 2008


ZUCCHERO ALL THE BEST TOUR

Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8 PM/ Massey Hall / $69.50 - $49.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

Italian blues superstar Zucchero returns to Massey Hall with his raucous mixture of soul and rhythm-and-blues and an offering of his very best hits. Many music lovers count themselves as fans, along with Miles Davis, Bono, Pavarotti, John Lee Hooker, and Eric Clapton to name a few.

Copresented with CHIN Radio and sponsored by Faema.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Friday, October 10, 2008 at 8 PM / Massey Hall / $99.50 - $39.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

The extraordinary Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is firmly established as one of the best and hardest-swinging groups in jazz today. Fifteen of the worlds finest jazz soloists and ensemble players are led by meganova trumpeter and artistic director Wynton Marsalis, performing newly commissioned works and honouring the jazz traditions of legends past.

Sponsored by TD Canada Trust

ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN, SOPRANO

Manitoba Chamber Orchestra/ Anne Manson, conductor / Serouj Kradjian, piano /

Hampic Djabourian, duduk

Friday, October 17, 2008 at 8 PM / Roy Thomson Hall / $89.50-$39.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.roythomson.com

Inspired by her first trip to her ancestral home of Armenia, Isabel Bayrakdarian celebrates the music of Gomidas Vartabed (1869-1935), Armenias national composer. The program also features music by Bartk, Ravel and Skalkottas.

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO

Monday, October 20, 2008 at 8 PM / Massey Hall / $69.50 - $49.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

They were catapulted to international fame in 1986 collaborating on the album and international tour of Paul Simons seminal work, Graceland. Today, led by Joseph Shabalala, Ladysmith interprets the a cappella vocal traditions of South Africa with deep bass voices blending in lush harmonies, with synchronized dance moves and the head-high kicks that are the Zulu tradition.

RON SEXSMITH

Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 at 8 PM / Massey Hall / $49.50-$29.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

With his latest album, Exit Strategy of the Soul, Sexsmith brings a provocative new approach to his expansive aesthetic. Informed, but not entrapped, by soul and gospel music, backed by Cuban horns and his compelling piano playing, Sexsmith achieves an otherworldly dimension while maintaining breathtaking intimacy.

Sponsored by LEXUS

MILTON NASCIMENTO & THE JOBIM TRIO

Friday, October 24, 2008 at 8 PM / Massey Hall /$69.50 - $49.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

Milton Nascimento's timeless tunes and unforgettable voice are loved by millions worldwide. This Brazilian icon and the Jobim Triowith Paulo and Daniel Jobim (son and grandson of the great Antonio Carlos Jobim) and Paulo Bragacombine forces to celebrate the 50th anniversary of bossa nova.

MOLLY JOHNSON

Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 8 PM / Massey Hall / $59.50 - $39.50

416 872 4255 / Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at King & Simcoe / www.masseyhall.com

Canada's most sublime voice returns to the roots of jazz with an all new record of standards due out this fall. Recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Molly embodies all the qualities of the quintessential jazz vocalist - inimitable style, grace and charisma.

19TH ANNUAL MASSED MILITARY BAND SPECTACULAR

Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 2 PM / Roy Thomson Hall / $69.50 - $29.50

Tunes of Glory! The massed military bands, pipes and drums pay tribute to the best Military Music in Canada. This spectacular features a sing-a-long of favourite tunes. Lobby displays begin at 12:30 PM.

Copresented with Royal Canadian Military Institute

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Shaw Festival Announces 2009 Season


The Idea

Shaw Ķ Coward Ķ Osborne? The ideas of these playwrights rocked society far beyond the confines of the theatre world. The Shaw Festivals 2009 season celebrates the brilliance of the work of these writers and opens up a new corner of its mandate to show the continuum of provocative theatre The Shaw is renowned for producing. In announcing the 2009 Season today, Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell said, Were thrilled to be embarking on our 2009 adventure. Two exciting events will be highlights of the season: a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of one of Bernard Shaws most famous contemporaries, fellow provocateur Noel Coward, and a new initiative in a new space with a new writer for The Shaw. Well do that and well present an additional six remarkable plays, while continuing our exploration of contemporary Shavian writers in our reading series. The choices made this season play to the strengths of our multi-faceted and extraordinary Company and are made in concert with our ongoing emphasis on nurturing the careers of emerging theatre artists and developing new work for our stages. Welcome aboard, and enjoy the ride.

The Reality

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, September 23, 2008 . . . Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell officially announced the Shaw Festivals 2009 season today. In 2009 The Shaw takes on a monumental and historic project with full productions of each play in Noel Cowards famous Tonight at 8:30 collection. The Shaws 2009 productions represent the first time all ten short plays have been performed in repertory by a professional company since they were first produced by Londons Phoenix Theatre in 1935-36. The plays will be performed in sets of three, one on each of the Festivals Niagara-on-the-Lake stages, with the tenth, the rarely produced Star Chamber, being the lunchtime production in the Royal George. And to celebrate this idea for the event that it is, on two separate occasions, we will present all ten in one day an event we are appropriately naming Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Ms. Maxwell said of the collection: As the idea of doing all of Cowards Tonight at 8:30 came to me, and as I reread the plays, I was struck that each one is a brilliant jewel like the best short stories some well known, some not. As is typical of Coward who was always pushing the envelope in both form and content the ten plays vary hugely. There are out-and-out comedies, heart-wrenching dramas, fantasy musicals and historical tales. Coward is a brilliant miniaturist, a master storyteller, and any group of these plays, seen together, is a truly satisfying evening at the theatre. The experience of seeing them in one fell swoop, for those who are game, will be thrilling indeed.

English actor, playwright and composer Noel Coward (1899-1973) is renowned for his full-length plays The Vortex, Hay Fever, Easy Virtue, Bitter Sweet, Cavalcade, Private Lives and Design for Living, most of which have been produced by The Shaw. His ambitious Tonight at 8:30 cycle, which he wrote and starred in with his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, was originally written to be performed in combinations of three plays for a different playbill each night.

Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell will direct the first set of plays, in the Festival Theatre. Titled Brief Encounters, this includes Still Life, We Were Dancing and Hands Across the Sea. The Royal George set, directed by Artistic Director Emeritus Christopher Newton, titled Play, Orchestra, Play, will include Red Peppers, Fumed Oak and Shadow Play. The Court House group, director to be announced, titled Ways of the Heart, will include Ways and Means, Family Album and The Astonished Heart. Kate Lynch will direct the lunchtime Star Chamber. Music plays a huge role throughout Tonight at 8:30 and The Shaws Music Director Paul Sportelli will be Music Director for the whole project.

John Osborne (1929-1994), playwright, activist and the original inspiration for the phrase angry young man, revolutionized English theatre in 1956 with his play Look Back in Anger. An outspoken critic of The Establishment and the monarchy, as well as English theatre, Osborne combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit. In 2009 The Shaw will produce a limited run of Osbornes 1957 play The Entertainer, directed by Jackie Maxwell in the Festival Theatre Rehearsal Studio. The Entertainer, a boldly theatrical piece combining drama and vaudeville that Osborne wrote for Laurence Olivier, uses the metaphor of the dying music hall tradition to comment on the vicissitudes of post-war life in 1950s England. The production of both Tonight at 8:30 and The Entertainer in the 2009 season will create a vivid juxtaposition between Osbornes angry existential soul search and the polished work of Coward, while also revealing the deep connection between the two.

The 2009 playbill includes six additional full productions. The Shaws celebration of Cowards witty and subversive world sits perfectly beside the work of house wit and subversive, Bernard Shaw. Bernard Shaws exhilarating The Devils Disciple, last produced at The Shaw in 1996, is directed in 2009 by renowned Polish director Tadeusz Bradecki, and presented in the Festival Theatre. The upcoming American election and the ensuing new administration will provide a fascinating backdrop to Shaws drama of the struggles between England and her American colonies in the late 1700s. In the Royal George, Shaws hilarious satire of philosophy, playwriting and acting, In Good King Charless Golden Days, will be directed by Eda Holmes.

Garson Kanins classic comedy Born Yesterday, directed by Neil Munro, will share the Festival Theatre stage. An enduring story of a corrupt tycoon and his not-so-dumb blonde girlfriend, the play was a huge hit on Broadway in 1946 with Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. Denouncing bribery, corruption and greedy corporate interests, this highly entertaining play could well have been written yesterday.

The Court House Theatre season also includes Eugene ONeills romantic drama A Moon for the Misbegotten, directed by Joseph Ziegler, who deftly handled ONeills Ah Wilderness for The Shaw in 2004. Continuing to programme Canadian classics, Michel Tremblays phenomenal Albertine in Five Times, in a new translation by Linda Gaboriau and directed by Micheline Chevrier, will complete the Court House season. The play, which provides a wonderful challenge for six female actors, is a brilliant deconstruction of the life of Albertine, a complex, troubled woman who appears in many of Tremblays plays and is one of theatres most mercurial characters.

Building on the success of the 2008 seasons A Little Night Music and Follies: In Concert, The Shaw continues to explore the work of Stephen Sondheim with a production of Sunday in the Park with George, directed by Alisa Palmer, which explores the eternal conflict between life and art through the story of the French Impressionist painter Georges Seurat. The piece is a perfect fit with the intimate jewel-box setting of the Royal George Theatre.

The Shaw Festivals popular reading series of contemporary Shavian writers continues to be an integral component of each season and an important area of growth for the Company. For the reading series, Jackie Maxwell and director Eda Holmes choose full-length plays that represent contemporary writing at its best witty and compelling, with a distinct modern-day perspective. Like Shaws, the work of these writers centres on the critical examination of the times and communities in which they live. The 2009 Reading Series focuses on diverse female playwrights with a political voice. It includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Topdog/Underdog, a bitingly funny, hard-hitting examination of poverty in America by African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Obsidian Theatres Artistic Director Phil Akin, and further titles to be announced.

The reading series is often informed by The Shaws play development work. As part of the 2009 reading series The Shaw also presents a new musical based on the brief life of Maria Severa Onofriana, a famous Portuguese fado singer who achieved near-mythical status after her death. Maria Severa is written by Shaw Festival Music Director Paul Sportelli and Ensemble member Jay Turvey, whose musical Tristan received its world premiere at The Shaw in 2007.

The Shaws play development programme is actively engaged with writers, providing dramaturgical support, playwright-in-residence opportunities and workshops with actors, often working towards producing new work for The Shaws stages. In addition to Maria Severa, other projects in development include an adaptation of Oscar Wildes The Canterville Ghost by Robin Patterson, Artistic Director of St. Catharines Theatre Beyond Words; Kaj Munk by Dave Carley, The Shaws 2008 playwright-in-residence; an adaptation, by Associate Director Neil Munro, of Henrik Ibsens The Master Builder; and an exciting new project with Cahoots Theatre Projects exploring and developing work from Asia and China of the mandate period.

For theatregoers who like to dig a little deeper into the world of plays, playwrights, theatre artists, and the world backstage, the 2009 season is complemented by Shaw Enriched, an extensive offering of seminars, workshops and other entertaining and informative behind-the-scenes experiences.

Regular ticket prices for the 2009 season range from $30 to $110 including GST. For Special Matinees, student tickets are $25 and senior tickets are $40. Lunchtime ticket prices are $30. Sunday night performances are available all season from $45 to $60 and, for patrons aged 19-29, $30 tickets are available for most performances. Preview prices are $55 to $70. Family tickets are available in each theatre: for each regularly-priced ticket purchased, one or two youth tickets (18 years or under) may be purchased for just $30. New in 2009 are specially designated $30 seats for most Festival Theatre performances.

Tickets for the 2009 season go on sale to Shaw Festival Members according to Membership level starting November 8. Tickets go on sale to groups and schools on January 5. Tickets go on sale to The Shaws high-loyalty customers on January 3 and to the general public by mail, fax or online on January 5 and by phone or in person on January 10.

Tonight at 8:30 is generously supported by Lombard Insurance.

Shaw Festivals 2009 Season at a Glance

Production

Author

Director/

Designer

Previews

Opens

Closes

Stage

Sponsor

Brief Encounters (1935/36))

Noel Coward

Jackie Maxwell/
William Schmuck

April 11

May 20

October 24

Festival

CIBC World Markets

In Good King Charless Golden Days (1939)

Bernard Shaw

Eda Holmes/

Camellia Koo/

Michael Gianfresco

April 17

May 21

October 9

Royal George

TBD

Sunday in the Park with George (1984)

James Lapine/Stephen Sondheim

Alisa Palmer/

Judith Bowden

April 1

May 22

November 1

Royal George

TD Canada Trust Music

A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947)

Eugene ONeill

Joseph Ziegler/

Christina Poddubiuk

April 28

May 23

October 9

Court House

Scotiabank Group

Born Yesterday (1946)

Garson Kanin

Neil Munro/

Sue LePage

May 5

May 23

November 1

Festival

Sun Life Financial

Play, Orchestra, Play (1935/36)

Noel Coward

Christopher Newton/

Cameron Porteous

June 9

July 11

October 31

Royal George

TBD

Albertine in Five Times (1986)

Michel Tremblay, Linda Gaboriau

Micheline Chevrier/

Teresa Przybylski

June 24

July 10

October 10

Court House

TBD

Star Chamber (1935/36)

Noel Coward

Kate Lynch/

William Schmuck

June 25

July 11

October 11

Royal George

TBD

The Devils Disciple (1897)

Bernard Shaw

Tadeusz Bradecki/

Peter Hartwell

June 14

July 9

October 11

Festival

TBD

Ways of the Heart (1935/36)

Noel Coward

TBD/

Sue LePage/

Judith Bowden

July 21

August 1

October 11

Court House

TBD

The Entertainer (1957)

John Osborne

Jackie Maxwell/

Peter Hartwell

July 31

August 15

September 20

Rehearsal Studio

TBD

* titles and dates subject to change

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Operalia 2008


OPERALIA 2008

CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL D'OPERA PLACIDO DOMINGO

QUEBEC, 18-24 SEPTEMBRE 2008

14 FINALISTES POUR UNE EDITION 2008 EXCEPTIONNELLE

A l'issue de l'audition de 42 candidats les 19 et 20 septembre derniers, le jury a retenu 24 candidats pour participer la demi-finale d'un concours qui se rvlait d'un niveau extrmement lev.

Ce sont 14 chanteurs qui participeront la finale le Mercredi 24 septembre 2008 au Grand Thtre de Qubec, dirig par Maestro Domingo la tte de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Qubec.

Les finalistes sont :

Thiago Arancam, tnor, Brazil, 26 ans

Stephen Hegedus, baryton-basse, Canada, 29 ans

Anna Kasyan, soprano, Georgia, 26 ans

Maria Katzarava, soprano, Mexico, 24 ans

Ketevan Kemoklidze, mezzo-soprano, Georgia, 27 ans

Oksana Kramaryeva, soprano, Ukraine, 29 ans

Christopher Magiera, baryton, USA, 25 ans

Aundi Marie Moore, soprano, USA, 27 ans

Marjorie Owens, soprano, USA, 27 ans

Joel Prieto, tnor, Espagne / Puerto Rico, 26 ans

Karoly Szemeredy, baryton, Hongrie, 29 ans

Diego Torre, tnor, Mxico, 28 ans

Jacquelyn Wagner, soprano, USA, 26 ans

Elena Xanthoudakis, soprano, Grce/Australia, 30 ans

Dans la catgorie Zarzuela 7 finalistes ont t retenus :

Thiago Arancam, Maria Katzarava, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Aundi Marie Moore,

Joel Prieto, Diego Torre et Jacquelyn Wagner.

A noter que les finalistes des airs de Zarzuela sont aussi tous finalistes des airs d'opra.

Les 11 membres du jury du concours 2008

Jean-Pierre BROSSMANN, Conseiller artistique ; Jean-Luc CHOPLIN, Directeur Gnral du Thtre du Chtelet (Paris, France) ; Marta DOMINGO, Metteur en scne ; Thierry FOUQUET, Directeur Gnral de l'Opra National de Bordeaux (France) ; Ioan HOLENDER, Directeur du Staatsoper de Vienne (Autriche) ; Peter KATONA, Directeur artistique du Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Londres, Royaume Uni) ; Grgoire LEGENDRE, Directeur Gnral de l'Opra de Qubec (Canada) ; Joan MATABOSCH, Directeur Artistique de l'Opra du Liceo (Barcelone, Espagne) ; Antonio MORAL , Directeur Artistique du Teatro Real (Madrid, Espagne) ; Jean- Louis PICHON, Directeur Gnral du Grand Thtre L'Esplanade (Saint-Etienne, France) ; Eva WAGNER-PASQUIER, Conseillre artistique du Festival d'Aix en Provence (France ) et du Metropolitan Opera de New-York (Etats Unis).


Les prix d'Opralia 2008

Les prix s'lvent un montant situ entre 140.000 et 200.000 $ US (cette somme est value en fonction du classement dfinitif, puisqu'il peut y avoir des laurats ex-aequo).

Premier prix femme (30 000 $ US) Premier prix homme (30 000 $ US)

Deuxime prix femme (20 000 $ US) Deuxime prix homme (20 000 $ US)

Troisime prix femme (10 000 $ US) Troisime prix homme (10 000 $ US)

Prix Zarzuela femme Pepita Embil de Domingo (10 000 $ US)

Prix Zarzuela homme Don Placido Domingo (10 000 $ US)

Les deux prix du public (homme et femme) sont dots de montres par notre partenaire Rolex


Placido Domingo et Opralia

Tout au cours du processus, Placido Domingo est sur place pour prsider le jury (mais ne vote pas) et prodigue ses conseils aux concurrents.

Mon but est d'aider les jeunes artistes passer travers les cueils et les obstacles pour les faire entendre aux meilleurs professionnels.

Mon objectif est de contribuer reconnatre non seulement les meilleures voix, mais plus encore, trouver les jeunes qui, par leur personnalit, leur caractre et leur force d'interprtation, garantissent la rvlation d'un artiste accompli. Ceux qui deviendront les stars de demain.

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CUFF Sponsors Film at Calgary Int'l Film Festival with Director attending!

The Calgary Underground Film Festival would like you to meet Ryan Avery screening Friday September 26 at CIFF

CALGARY, AB In conjunction with this year's Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is proud to present the Canadian Premiere of Hi My Name is Ryan, along with a special visit from attending director Stephen Rose.

The film's subject, Ryan Avery, is determined to make his life super-awesome. Faced with the trials and tribulations of adolescence, the milk and cookies connoisseur cum punk rock performance artist, displays behaviour that stretches far beyond the typical teenager.

CUFF's Festival Director, Brenda Lieberman, is excited about the collaboration between Calgary's two premier film festivals. "Hi My Name is Ryan is the type of film that we would program for the underground film festival. CUFF and CIFF both bring in world-class independent films that Calgarians would not normally get to see. We hope that our members and CIFF fans alike will come and check it out."

Hi My Name is Ryan screens at the Uptown Theatre Friday on 7:15 pm Friday September 26th and again on Saturday September 27th at 12:00 pm.

For more information, log onto www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org

About The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF):

CUFF elevates Calgary's cultural landscape with the best in local and international independent cinema. We challenge and entertain our audiences with boundary breaking films, compelling artist showcases and engaging events.

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Monday, September 22, 2008

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn performs with the VSO!


Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn performs Tchaikovsky with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Vancouver BC The VSO is proud to present 28-year-old internationally-renowned superstar violinist Hilary Hahn for three performances, from October 4th to 6th at the Orpheum Theatre. Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts a concert that includes a piece by former VSO Composer-In-Residence Jeffrey Ryan, Tchaikovskys beautiful Violin Concerto in D Major and Berliozs colossal Symphonie fantastique.

Hilary Hahn is one of those rare performers who can dazzle you with the warmth of her personality and knock you dead with the dexterity of her technique and the emotional depth of her interpretations.

--Los Angeles Times

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is part of a new generation of musical stars dedicated to expanding the fan base of classical music. She was named Americas Best young classical musician by Time Magazine in 2001 and is well-known for her intellectual and emotional maturity. Hahn maintains a comprehensive website and has launched her own custom-designed YouTube channel which she uses to answer fans questions. She recently used her You Tube channel to host a buzz-worthy Q&A session in honour of late composer Arnold Schoenbergs birthday. Hahn continues to try to bring classical music to a wider audience in new and sometimes unorthodox ways.

Hilary Hahn will join the VSO again for its upcoming Asia-Pacific Tour from October 10th to 20th where she will perform the same Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky featured in these Masterworks Diamond and Beltone Symphony Sundays concerts. The Asia-Pacific Tour will see the orchestra perform in China, South Korea, and the Special Administrative Region of Macau. It will also mark the first time a Canadian symphony orchestra will perform at the prestigious Beijing Music Festival.

CONCERT INFO

Masterworks Diamond & Beltone Symphony Sundays Series:

Hilary Hahn Plays Tchaikovsky!

Saturday & Monday, October 4 & 6, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Sunday, October 5, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre
Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Hilary Hahn, violin

Ryan The Linearity of Light

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Hilary Hahn, superstar! This sensational violinist joins the VSO for Tchaikovskys exciting Violin Concerto, and the orchestra weaves some sonic magic with a musical colossus by Berlioz.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Symphony Sundays Series Sponsor:

Beltone

October 4 Concert Sponsor:

Keir Surgical

Radio Sponsor:

CKNW AM980

BIOGRAPHIES

Bramwell Tovey

A musician of striking versatility, Bramwell Tovey is acknowledged around the world for his artistic depth and warm, charismatic personality on the podium. Toveys career as a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his work as a composer and pianist, lending him a remarkable musical perspective.

Tovey garnered a 2008 Grammy Award and a 2008 Juno Award for his recording with violinist James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony. Recently named Principal Guest Conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, he works frequently with the Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, among many others. He has presided as host and conductor of the New York Philharmonics Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall since its founding in 2004.

As a composer, he was honored with the Best Canadian Classical Composition Juno Award in 2003 for his Requiem for a Charred Skull. New works include a co-commission for the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics 2008 summer seasons as well as a full-length opera for the Calgary Opera, The Inventor, to premiere in January of 2011.

Tovey has been awarded honorary degrees, including a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London, honorary Doctorates of Law from the universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Kwantlen University College, as well as a Royal Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto. In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a Canadian prize awarded to artists for outstanding contributions in the performing arts.

Hilary Hahn

For the past decade, Grammy Award-winning violinist HILARY HAHN has been celebrated for her innovative interpretations and thoughtful musicianship. Her captivating stage presence and emotional sophistication belie her 28 years, while extensive international performances and recording activities confirm her place as one of the most sought-after artists on the concert circuit.

Hahn appears regularly with the worlds leading orchestras and on notable recital series throughout Europe, Asia and North America. In the 2007-08 season, she will tour the United States, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Israel, England, Switzerland, Italy, France, Austria, Scotland, Croatia, Japan and Korea as guest soloist with, among others, the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC), Montreal Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her recital tours and solo concert collaborations will take her to the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Hahns 2006-07 season brought wide-ranging recital tours of Europe and North America and appearances with major orchestras throughout the world. In April 2007, she was chosen to be the featured soloist in Pope Benedict XVIs 80th birthday celebration at the Vatican, a performance recently released on DVD.

Hahn records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon and, over the past five years, has released four albums, comprising works by Bach, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Paganini and Spohr. Her most recent recording was a collaboration with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and maestro Eiji Oue, pairing Paganinis Concerto No. 1 and Spohrs Concerto No. 8. All of Hahns recordings have received much critical acclaim and have spent weeks on the Billboard Top Ten list. In 2007, Deutsche Grammophon distributed a popular documentary entitled Hilary Hahn: A Portrait, containing exclusive interviews and concert footage. Her next albumthe violin concertos of Sibelius and Schoenberg, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonenwill be released in Spring 2008. Prior to signing with Deutsche Grammophon, Hahn made five award-winning recordings for Sony Classical, featuring repertoire by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Bernstein, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, in addition to a concerto written for her by American bassist/composer Edgar Meyer.

In 2004, Hahn was the violin soloist on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to M. Night Shyamalans film The Village, and in 2005 and 2006, she appeared as a guest on albums by the band ĶAnd You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. Most recently, she wrote and performed violin parts on singer-songwriter Tom Brosseaus record Grand Forks. Unique upcoming projects include concert collaborations with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter and mandolinist Chris Thile, a commissioned concerto by Jennifer Higdon, and a collection of contemporary encore pieces by living composers.

Hahn has received numerous distinctions throughout her career, including a Grammy for her recording of the Brahms and Stravinsky violin concertos, Diapason's d'Or of the Year, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics Award) and several Echo awards. She has appeared on the covers of all major classical music publications and has received mentions in mainstream periodicals such as Vogue, Elle and Town and Country. In 2001, Hahn was named Americas Best Young Classical Musician by Time Magazine.

Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1979. At the age of three she moved to Baltimore, where she began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki program of the Peabody Conservatory. For the next five years, Hahn studied in Baltimore with Klara Berkovich, a native of Odessa who taught for 25 years at the Leningrad School for the Musically Gifted. From age 10 to 17, she studied at The Curtis Institute of Music with the legendary Jascha Brodskythe last surviving student of the great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysayeworking closely with him until his death at age 89. Having completed her university requirements at 16, Hahn deferred graduation and remained at the school for several more years, taking additional elective courses in languages, literature, writing and drama, coaching regularly with Jaime Laredo, and studying chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman.

A year and a half after entering the Curtis Institute of Music, Hahn made her major orchestral debut. In March 1995, at age 15, Hahn made her German debut playing the Beethoven concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert broadcast on radio and television throughout Europe. Two months later, she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She attended the Marlboro Music Festival for several summers and, in 1996, made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In May of 1999, at the age of 19, Hahn graduated from Curtis with a Bachelor of Music degree.

An avid writer, Hahn keeps a journal on her website, www.hilaryhahn.com.

Christopher Gaze

Born and Educated in England, Christopher Gaze was inspired to come to Canada in 1975 by his mentor, legendary Shakespearean actor Douglas Campbell. He spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake then moved to Vancouver in 1983. After a couple of experiences with other outdoor Shakespeare events, Christopher recognized the potential in blending excellent Shakespeare productions with Vancouvers spectacular location. In 1990 he founded Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival where Bards signature open-ended performance tent allowed to actors to perform against a backdrop of the citys skyline and mountains.

The first summer of Bard on the Beach was a huge success. Beginning as an Equity Co-op production, it staged one play in a rented tent on an ambitious budget of $35,000. Today the Festival, which recently completed its 17th season, has a budget of over $2.7 million and has seen its attendance rocket from 6,000 in that first summer to more than 87,000 in 2007. The growth has been slow and organic, so the Festival has been able to sustain its mandate to provide quality Shakespeare productions that are accessible and affordable. As audiences have grown, so has support from the corporate and private sector, again helping to keep ticket prices among the lowest in the city for a professional production. Not only has attendance burgeoned from the local community, but Bard has contributed significantly to the city as major tourist attraction with approximately one quarter of its patrons from outside the Lower Mainland.

Bard on the Beach has also become a significant employer within the Arts, providing jobs in Vancouver in 2007 for over 100 artists and support staff. This includes a small full time and administration team plus more than 30 actors, 4 directors, 7 designers, 6 stage managers as well as the production crew, box office, front of house. The companys Bard in the Vineyard project in the Okanagan in 2003 also created over a dozen additional jobs for Vancouver artists. Bard employs primarily Equity actors but always mentors a couple of upcoming talents each season both on stage and on the production team. Many emerging actors have cut their professional teeth at Bard and have gone on to secure major roles in subsequent seasons at Bard and with other major theatre companies. Christophers support and mentoring of these new talents has played a large part in their success.

Christopher also introduced the Young Shakespeareans Acting Program at Bard which provides an opportunity every summer for over 250 young people to train with the season professionals on the Bard stages. The Festival has also developed a Student Matinee Series that annually sees more than 7,000 students introduced to the magic of Shakespeares stories and language. During the past two years, Bard has expanded its education programs with heavily subsidized Bard in the Classroom workshops for students and teachers. This commitment to youth outreach and education has made an important contribution to the development of a knowledgeable and enthusiastic audience of the future for the Arts in general.

Christopher, who trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, is an extremely talented actor and director. During his four decade professional acting career, Christopher has performed locally with the Playhouse Theatre Company and the Arts Club Theatre as well as in virtually every major centre across Canada, and England and the USA. In 2004 he was honoured with a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Playhouse production of Equus.

In addition to his role as Artistic Director, Christopher frequently performs and directs at Bard on the Beach. His directing credits include A Midsummer Nights Dream (2003 & 1990), Henry V (2002), The Winters Tale (1997) and As You Like It (1991). Favourite roles among the innumerable characters he has played at Bard are Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, the title role in Richard III, Cornwall in King Lear and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. In 2008 he plays the title role in the great tragedy King Lear.

A gifted public speaker, Christopher frequently shares his insights on the theatre and Shakespeare out in the community with school groups, service organizations and local businesses. He works with several other Arts organizations, notably as host of Vancouver Symphonys Tea & Trumpets and Christmas Concerts series, guest artist at selected Chor Leoni concerts, and as a guest host on the Knowledge Network. Christopher also works extensively as a character actor in film and radio, and he narrated the Emmy Award winning animation series Madeline. For three years he was on the Board of Tourism Vancouver, serving as the Festival and Events representative.

Christophers numerous honours include: induction into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame (2002), Canadas Meritorious Service Medal (2005), an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University (2006), the BC Community Achievement Award, and the 2007 Medallion from the Childrens Theatre Foundation of America. Most recently he received a Doctor of Letters from University of British Columbia in 2008.

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Day 5 of CIFF Highlights


CIFF HIGHLIGHTS MUSIC ON FILM, LOCAL TALENT, AND WORLD CINEMA

ON DAY-5 OF THE 10-DAY FESTIVAL


Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is moving into day-5 of the 10-day event, and tomorrow's schedule includes a wide variety of cinematic fare for every movie-lover Visiting special guests from the Music on Film and Canadian Perspectives program are the highlights of the day, as well as two urban fairytales from the Contemporary World section.


SEPTEMBER 23 HIGHLIGHTS

The Wrecking Crew

*Director Denny Tedesco in attendance. Q&A following screening.

Interviews and photo opportunities available.

Nicknamed by their conservative predecessors, the Wrecking Crew was comprised of prodigious rock 'n' roll session players in the prolific California music scene. The Wrecking Crew was behind nearly every hit of the '60s and some of the most enduring songs ever recorded. The Wrecking Crew springs to life with no less than a hundred memorable hits from the era and just as many backstage stories. Guitarist Tommy Tedesco's son, Denny, narrates and directs this loving tribute to the spirited gang behind hit records from Simon & Garfunkel, Jan & Dean, The Byrds, Tijuana Brass, The Mamas & The Papas, Ike & Tina Turner, and many more.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:15 p.m. @ Cineplex Eau Claire

Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:30 p.m. @ The Uptown Downstairs


Bull

*Director and Calgary-native Kent Tessman in attendance. Q&A following screening.

Interviews and photo opportunities available.

Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir film, set among the heat-wave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie finds himself caught up in a twisty web where no one, no one at all, is telling the truth. Not only did Kent Tessman write, produce and direct this film, he also edited, mixed, completed the visual effects and composed the score, showing his talents as a one man filmmaking tour-de-force.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ The Globe Downstairs


Mermaid

Mermaid blends age-old myths and youthful imagination into a surreal and beautiful urban romance. It is a fanciful tale of an introverted little girl named Alisa who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. When she is 18-years-old, she meets Him, who needed to be saved and she who was there to save him. Lending a hand, our mermaid's life begins to change and from this point on she learns about love, life and materialism.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ The Uptown Upstairs

Sunday, September 28, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ Cineplex Westhills


The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela

A plucky Filipino transsexual hopes porn and prostitution are the gateway to international travel and true love in this so-surreal-it-must-be-true "visiomentary." Exploitation, prostitution, poverty and First/Third World relationships are addressed, but the film's heart lies in the innovative transformation of "reality" into something far more fantastical and fabulous.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:15 p.m. @ The Uptown Downstairs

Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:15 p.m. @ The Uptown Downstairs


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Colloque "Entre le Qubec et le Brsil : Rinventer les Amriques", du 14 au 16 octobre l'UQAM


Du 14 au 16 octobre 2008 lUQAM

Colloque Entre le Qubec et le Brsil : Rinventer les Amriques

Montral, le 22 septembre 2008 - Pour souligner vingt-cinq ans d'changes interuniversitaires entre le Brsil et le Canada, le Centre de recherche sur le Brsil (CERB), la Chaire de recherche du Canada en esthtique et potique (CEP / CRSH) et le Dpartement d'tudes littraires de l'UQAM organisent un colloque intitul Entre le Qubec et le Brsil : Rinventer les Amriques.

Quand : du 14 au 16 octobre 2008

Lieu : Salle des Boiseries (J-2805), pavillon Judith-Jasmin, UQAM (405, rue Sainte-Catherine Est)

Entre libre

Inscription et renseignements : Denyse Therrien, 514 987-3000, poste 1578

Programme : http://www.esthetiqueetpoetique.uqam.ca/activitesavenir.htm

La commmoration des vingt-cinq ans dchanges entre le Dpartement dtudes littraires de lUQAM et les Instituts de lettres de lUniversit fdrale Fluminense de Rio de Janeiro et de lUniversit fdrale du Rio Grande do Sul de Porto Alegre sera loccasion de poser la question dune

rinvention possible des Amriques, notamment travers les productions littraires, artistiques et cinmatographiques du Qubec et du Brsil, o se jouent de nouvelles formes dappartenance et de dpossession qui donnent une coloration particulire la mmoire et limaginaire collectifs. Le Nouveau monde est-il encore nouveau, plus dun demi-sicle aprs sa dcouverte , quatre cents ans aprs la fondation de Qubec, prs de cinq cents ans aprs la cration de Rio? La-t-il dj t, aprs les nombreuses cultures prcolombiennes qui lont prcd et quon ne cesse de dcouvrir dans toutes leurs richesses et leurs complexits? Cette nouveaut est-elle commune toutes les Amriques, notamment au Brsil et au Qubec? Reste-il quelque chose dcouvrir entre ces deux ples des Amriques, qui permet de penser quun nouveau monde commun est en train de se dessiner? Ce sont autant de questions auxquelles les participants du colloque tenteront de rpondre.

Le colloque privilgiera une approche comparative des cultures qubcoise et brsilienne dans leurs tentatives de rinvention de leur amricanit et permettra non seulement de marquer lhistoire des changes entre le Qubec et le Brsil depuis vingt-cinq ans, mais aussi de dgager les territoires de recherche encore indits qui peuvent donner lieu de nouvelles collaborations pour les annes venir.

Ce colloque est rendu possible grce la collaboration du CLAT, de la Facult des arts, de Figura et de l'ALAQ.

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Violinist Henryk Szeryng Website Launch


WEBSITE DEVOTED TO THE ARTISTRY OF VIOLINIST

HENRYK SZERYNG

TO BE LAUNCHED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

A FUND OF INFORMATION AND MATERIALS IS NOW AVAILABLE ABOUT ONE OF THE GREAT ARTISTS OF OUR TIME


September 22, 2008, will mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of Henryk Szeryng, one of the greatest violinists of our time. As part of the commemoration of this milestone, a new website will be launched -- www.HenrykSzeryng.net. This site, dedicated to Szeryng's memory, will celebrate his reputation as a master of the violin, a performer of brilliance, an accomplished linguist; the Goodwill Ambassador for Culture of his adopted homeland, Mexico; and as a humanitarian whose life and work served to advance the values of civilization. The website, which will be written in four languages -- English, French, German and Spanish has been commissioned and managed by the Estate of Henryk Szeryng.


The site will contain extensive material concerning Szeryng's life and art - text, historic documents, photos, and excerpts from audio and video material that will convey as fully as possible the breadth and depth of this great man and artist.


Visitors to the www.HenrykSzeryng.net are invited to contribute to the contents of this web site. The purpose of this is to establish contact among individuals who have personal memories of Szeryng or are admirers of his art, or who have string connections, personal or professional, to the world of violin playing. www.HenrykSzeryng.net welcomes documents of all kind, personal texts, recollections, anecdotes or tributes to the artist.


It was part of Henryk Szeryng's philosophy of life to create and cultivate relationships between human beings. This web site will endeavor to keep his memory alive by perpetuating what was most important to him.


Henryk Szeryng's Artistry and Reputation

Henryk Szeryng, who was born in 1918 and passed away in 1988, secured his place in the history of music with a rare mastery applied to a wide range of musical styles. Whether involving a Bach Partita or a contemporary work written for or dedicated to him, Szeryng's performances were considered by audiences and fellow musicians alike to be consistently excellent. His interpretations reflected his ardent desire to serve the composer's style and personality and not his own.


Within the full spectrum of musical periods and styles, it was the music of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, that was inextricably woven into his life and career. Szeryng's legendary interpretation of Bach's Solo Sonatas and Partitas was unanimously acclaimed and remains so today. His first recording of these works for CBS in 1955 remains a milestone in violin performance. To this day, many teachers and students all over the world use his edition of the Solo Sonatas and Partitas published by Schott.


His interpretation of Beethoven's Violin Concerto was best expressed by one of his admirers in the following words: "He does not play, he celebrates [the concerto]." Unsurprisingly, therefore, many radio and television stations feature the Henryk Szeryng version of this concerto for broadcast performances.


Szeryng always felt a particularly strong connection to the music of Johannes Brahms; he performed the Violin Concerto throughout his career. Szeryng's career began in 1933 when he performed this beloved concerto. Destiny decreed that his final concert included this very work.


Audiences who attended his famous "marathons" would hear him play the Bach, the Beethoven and the Brahms concertos in the course of a single concert. He effortlessly did these performances -- disregarding the huge physical effort involved -- fired by the sheer joy and happiness of performing them. Often, the encore at these unforgettable events would be one movement of a Bach Partita!


Szeryng's artistry offers a great example of uncompromising devotion to present and future generations of musicians.


Henryk Szeryng - Biography

Henryk Szeryng was born in the Warsaw, Poland, suburb of Zelazowa Wola, the birthplace of Chopin, into a wealthy family, his father being a highly successful industrialist. At the age of three, his musical studies began with piano lessons from his mother. He was seven when he made the violin his instrument.


Szeryng's first teacher was Maurice Frenkel, an assistant to Leopold Auer (one of the greatest violin pedagogues in the history of music) in St. Petersburg prior to World War I. Although Frenkel was perhaps young Henryk's most influential teacher, it was the renowned pedagogue Carl Flesch (1873-1944) who imparted to Szeryng the brilliantly disciplined training in matters both musical and technical. Flesch nurtured Szeryng's immense talent between the years 1928 and 1932. Credit must also be given to the renowned Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman who, after hearing the 10-year-old Szeryng play the Mendelssohn concerto, convinced his parents that they should approach Flesch.


From 1935 to 1936, through the elegant and profound French violinist Jacques Thibaud and the coaching and guidance of Gabriel Bouillon, Szeryng became firmly associated with the French school of violin playing. His studies with them led to his graduation from the Paris Conservatory with the coveted First Prize in 1937. While still a student, Szeryng performed on an extensive concert tour that had resulted from his highly successful 1933 debut featuring the Brahms concerto.


Szeryng went on to study with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger, his guide in counterpoint and composition, who was responsible for introducing him to such personalities as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfred Cortot, Manuel Ponce, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.


At the outbreak of World War II, Szeryng was appointed liaison officer and interpreter (he spoke and wrote eight languages) by General Sikorski for the Polish government in Exile. He served in that capacity until 1945, having given well over 300 concerts for allied troops in Europe, Africa and the Americas. In 1942 he joined the exiled Polish Premier in Mexico who was in search of a home for some 4,000 Polish refugees displaced by the war. It was Mexico that finally accepted these desperate and homeless people. Henryk Szeryng was so moved by this humanitarian gesture that he returned to Mexico in 1943 where he was offered the post of director of the string department at the National University of Mexico. In recognition of his musical and cultural merits, he was granted Mexican citizenship in 1948.


Szeryng regularly gave concerts all over Latin America until 1950, when, in Mexico, he met his fellow Pole, Arthur Rubinstein, who encouraged him to extend his musical activities to all five continents. The two men enjoyed a deep friendship built upon mutual admiration and respect for each other as human beings and musicians. Rubinstein, who died in 1982, thought of his friend as an artist of the highest order and remarked: "Real music lovers want emotion -- great moments -- which Szeryng's playing gives them."


Apart from possessing a great technique and musicality, Szeryng was a tonalist and colorist whose broad musical lines and subtle interpretative nuances always reached for perfection. He was one of the most recorded violinists in the history of the industry; his recording career spanned more than forty years.


In addition to the various posts he held over the years, Szeryng served as Special Music Advisor to the Mexican Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in 1970 -- the first artist ever to travel on a diplomatic passport.


Many honors -- decorations, medals and awards were bestowed upon Henryk Szeryng, giving proof of the high esteem in which the world held this very special man.


The violins that have passed through the hands of Henryk Szeryng is a story of its own. Among these instruments were the "Hercules" Stradivarius of 1734 which had belonged to Eugene Ysaye. Szeryng put this famous instrument into the hands of Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, on December 24, 1972, for it to be used by the first concertmasters of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, as a special token of friendship towards the Golden City.


Henryk Szeryng, a great musician, diplomat, pedagogue and philanthropist, died suddenly in the middle of a tour on March 3, 1988, after a concert in the city of Kassel, Germany. The program of his last performance was the same as for his very first concert 55 years earlier: the Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms.


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LOrchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral ouvre les festivits


LOrchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral,
sous la direction de son chef Yannick Nzet-Sguin, ouvre les festivits
du 10e FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE ORGUE ET COULEURS
qui se droulera du vendredi 26 septembre au dimanche 5 octobre 2008

GRANDS CONCERTS CONCERTS APRO MIDIS LA CARTE ORGUES OUVERTES

info-festival et billetterie : 514-899-0938
achats en ligne et info : www.orgueetcouleurs.com
(Horaire, programmation, biographies, photos haute rsolution tlchargeables)

Le Festival dautomne Orgue et Couleurs clbre le Roi des instruments et fte ses dix ans en faisant rsonner les grandes orgues des glises Saint-Nom-de-Jsus, Trs-Saint-Rdempteur de Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, son quartier dorigine qui clbre en 2008 ses 125 ans de fondation. Le Muse du Chteau Dufresne et les glises du Ges, Saint John The Evangelist, Saint Andrew & Saint Paul et Saint-Lon de Westmount ouvriront galement leurs portes aux festivaliers.

Du 26 septembre au 5 octobre 2008, le 10e festival dautomne rvlera le ct classique et moderne de lorgue qui partagera sa tribune avec dautres instruments et dautres disciplines. Il clbrera la vitalit artistique de son quartier, sera festif, symphonique, lyrique, lectro, se commettra la comdie musicale et au ballet, honorera Olivier Messiaen, et donnera une tribune de jeunes organistes des classes dorgue des conservatoires et universits du Qubec. Vingt concerts et vnements spciaux (dont six gratuits) se drouleront en soire et au cours de la journe, avec les Grands concerts et autres Rendez-Vous, les Midis la carte, les Concerts apro, une Initiation lorgue et des Orgues ouvertes. Indmodable, le Roi des instruments !

Plus de soixante-dix artistes, organistes, instrumentistes, comdien et chanteurs, dont le chef dorchestre Yannick Nzet-Sguin, le tnor Marc Hervieux, les sopranos Chantal Lambert, Caroline Bleau et Marianne Lambert, Marianne Fiset, la mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne, le baryton Stephen Hegedus, les chanteurs Marie-Denise Pelletier, Patrick Olafson, lauteure Pauline Gill, Yves Daoust, les organistes Dominique Lupien et Mlanie Barney, Rgis Rousseau, Isabelle Demers, Raymond Perrin, Matthieu Latreille, Patrick Wedd, le Jeune Ballet du Qubec dans des chorgraphies de Frdric Tavernini et Hlne Blackburn...


LES CONCERTS DE LA FIN DE SEMAINE

Vendredi 26 septembre, 20 h Ģ Deux voix pour Berlioz
glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus - (20$-25$) - 4215, Adam (mtro Pie-IX, bus 139 Sud)

Le concert douverture du 10e FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE ORGUE ET COULEURS accueillera lOrchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral et son chef Yannick Nzet-Sguin dans leur premier concert de saison, avec la soprano Marianne Fiset et la mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne, dans un programme de musiques franaise et russe : La Valse de Ravel, Les Nuits dt de Berlioz, la mlodie Ni po krasavitsa pri mni de Rachmaninov et Les Tableaux dune exposition de Moussorgsky/Ravel.
(Concert prsent en collaboration avec le Comit Musique Maisonneuve et le Conseil des arts de Montral en tourne

Samedi 27 septembre, 20 h Ģ Un quartier, un festival, une histoire!
glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus - (20$-25$) - 4215, Adam (mtro Pie-IX, bus 139 Sud)

Pour souligner les 10 ans du Festival et les 125 ans du quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, plusieurs artistes de ce quartier, le tnor Marc Hervieux, la soprano Chantal Lambert, les organistes Dominique Lupien et Mlanie Barney, le pianiste Martin Dub, le Quatuor Molinari et Compagnie musicale La Nef feront, tour tour, vivre en musique des moments de la riche histoire de ce quartier qui clbre ses 125 ans en 2008. Lauteure Pauline Gill incarnera pour loccasion Victoire Du Sault (1845-1908), premire femme exercer le mtier de cordonnire au Qubec, dont limagination crative ft lorigine de la fortune de la clbre famille Dufresne. Au programme : plusieurs uvres de diffrentes poques pour dont deux pices dorgue clbres, la Toccata et fugue en r mineur BWV 565 de Bach et la Toccata de la 5e Symphonie de Widor, des mlodies et des extraits dopras romantiques, des uvres pour instruments anciens et le 3e Quatuor de Schnittke.

Ces deux Grands Concerts dbuteront par la Fanfare du 10e Festival dautomne, uvre en deux versions instrumentales (une pour orgue et quintette de cuivres, lautre pour orgue et deux cuivres) commande au compositeur Enrico O. Dastous. Elle sera interprte par lorganiste Raymond Perrin et les musiciens du quintette de cuivres Buzz : les trompettistes Sylvain Lapointe et Frdric Gagnon, le corniste Marc-Antoine Corbeil et les trombonistes Jason De Carufel et Sylvain Arseneau (prestation orgue et quintette : le 26 septembre, // orgue et deux cuivres : le 27 septembre).

Dimanche 28 septembre Ģ Orgues ouvertes
entre 11 h 30 et 17 h 30 - Entre libre - horaire spcifique pour chaque glise
Consultez www.orgueetcouleurs.com et www.journeesdelaculture.qc.ca
Activit prsente dans le cadre des Journes de la culture 2008

Cet vnement populaire dvoile les mystres de lorgue. Les organistes dune trentaine dglises au Qubec ( Montral, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Joliette, Qubec et Rimouski) invitent le public monter la tribune de leur orgue pour une rencontre privilgie avec le Roi des instruments. Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur ce magnifique et complexe instrument vous y sera dvoil en paroles et en musique !

Dimanche 28 septembre, 16 h Ģ De pied ferme!
glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus - [10$ tarif unique] - 4215, Adam (mtro Pie-IX, bus 139 Sud)

Lorganiste Matthieu Latreille et 16 danseurs du Jeune Ballet du Qubec se partagent tout tour la scne pour dmontrer leur virtuosit, quils dansent sur un tapis de scne ou sur le pdalier de lorgue ! Au programme, des pices dorgue pour pdalier solo (sans les mains !), pilogue de Jean Langlais, Variations sur La belle Franoise de Jean Le Buis et Variations on a Theme of Paganini de Thalden-Ball, ainsi que deux chorgraphies de Frdric Tavernini, Li Fet Met pour 12 danseurs sur une musique de J.S. Bach, et dHlne Blackburn, Exprience Blackburn (for Franoise) pour 16 danseurs sur des musiques de Andrea Parker et Steve Reich.
Concert prsent en collaboration avec Transatlantique, Manifestation de danse contemporaine

ET EN DBUT DE SEMAINE PROCHAINE
DEUX CONCERTS APRO 17 h30 [12$ et 15$]
glise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus
4215, Adam (mtro Pie-IX, bus 139 Sud)
Des concerts intimes de musique de chambre, suivis dune rencontre avec les artistes, agrmente dun verre de vin.
Dans le churs de lglise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus, lorgue se fait intime et dialogue avec lart lyrique :


Lundi 29 septembre Ģ Deux cycles, deux visions

Lorganiste Tim Pyper et le contre-tnor Daniel Cabena prsenteront deux cycles musicaux : la Missa in Simplicitate du compositeur franais Jean Langlais (1907-1991), une mise en musique des textes sacrs dun office religieux, et le cycle Aspects of Time du compositeur canadien Barrie Cabena (n en 1933), bas sur des textes profanes de provenance varie, de dictons et proverbes traditionnels des extraits de pices de Shakespeare en passant par des textes originaux du compositeur lui-mme.

Mardi 30 septembre Ģ Le charme franais
Lorganiste Denis Bonenfant, la soprano Aurelia Calabrese et le baryton Sbastien Ouellet nous feront goter au romantisme franais, travers de belles mlodies, de pieuses prires et dtonnantes pices dorgue sous le charme du romantisme franais. Au programme, les uvres vocales D'un cur qui t'aime, Ma belle amie est morte et Prire de Gounod, Si mes vers avaient des ailes et C'est ma banlieue de Hahn, Les berceaux, Le secret et le Cantique de Jean Racine de Faur, la Barcarolle dOffenbach, et les pices dorgue Andantino de Andlauer, Cantilne religieuse de Dubois, Trois gnossiennes de Satie et Prire Notre-Dame de Bollmann.

Et plus encore... Jusquau 5 octobre (voir communiqu en pice jointe)

LA PETITE HISTOIRE DU FESTIVAL
Le FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE est n il y a dix ans dans le quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, dans la foule de la restauration du grand orgue Casavant de lglise Saint-Nom-de-Jsus, pour mettre en valeur ce magnifique instrument aux 6 200 tuyaux et faire connatre davantage le rpertoire diversifi de lorgue un plus large public. Fond par Pierre Larivire, directeur de la Maison de la culture Maisonneuve et par Rgis Rousseau, titulaire de cet orgue et directeur artistique et gnral de ORGUE ET COULEURS, ce Festival annuel dsire rvler la polyvalence de lorgue, et propose ainsi des mariages inusits entre celui-ci et diffrents instruments. En 2001, une autre glise du quartier, Trs-Saint-Rdempteur, sest ajoute aux lieux de diffusion, suite linstallation en ses murs dun orgue du facteur qubcois Karl Wilhelm.

Rapidement, ORGUE ET COULEURS a largi son champ daction en prsentant diffrentes activits tout au long de lanne : la LIGUE DIMPROVISATION LORGUE (2001-2006) dont les matchs se droulaient dans plusieurs villes du Qubec de janvier mai ; ltonnant marathon dorgue LES 24 HEURES DU BANC (2000-2006) tait prsent lors du week-end du Grand Prix automobile de Montral ; lactivit ORGUES OUVERTES (2000-Ķ) prsente durant les Journes de la culture permet, chaque anne depuis neuf ans, une trentaine dorganistes travers le Qubec de faire connatre le roi des instrument aux rsidants de leur quartier respectif.

lt 2003, le Service culturel de la ville de Montral a confi ORGUE ET COULEURS lorganisation des CONCERTS POPULAIRES DE MONTRAL, une srie estivale de musique symphonique prsente au Centre Pierre-Charbonneau. Pour sa 44e saison (2008), LES CONCERTS POPULAIRES DE MONTRAL, ont attir plus de 8 000 spectateurs.

ORGUE ET COULEURS a reu, du Regroupement indpendant des diffuseurs dvnements artistiques unis du Qubec (RIDEAU), les prix Initiative 2001 pour le FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE et Initiative 2003 pour la Ligue dimprovisation lorgue; du Conseil qubcois de la musique, le prix Opus 2001-2002 Directeur artistique de lanne (Rgis Rousseau) et le prix Opus 2002-2003 Diffuseur de lanne pour le 4e FESTIVAL DAUTOMNE; de lOffice franco-qubcois pour la jeunesse, le prix de la Meilleure reprsentation ltranger pour son projet Musicora/Paris 2003.

ORGUE ET COULEURS bnficie du soutien et de la collaboration de plusieurs partenaires dont le ministre du Patrimoine canadien, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec, le ministre des Affaires municipales et des Rgions du Qubec, le Conseil des arts de Montral et le Service du dveloppement culturel de la ville de Montral.

INFO_FESTIVAL : www.orgueetcouleurs.com

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

CIFF continues with Hot Screenings and even Hotter Parties


THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CONTINUES WITH HOT SCREENINGS AND EVEN HOTTER PARTIES ALL WEEK LONG

Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival is in full swing, and the week ahead brings a bevy of hot screenings and even hotter parties to satisfy Calgary's film-loving public.


UPCOMING PARTIES


Tuesday, September 23

Italian Film Party

Following screening of hotly anticipated film Gomorrah (directed by Matteo Garrone).

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Osteria de Medici

Admission: VIP and Gomorrah patrons


Wednesday, September 24

Fashion Spotlight

Diamond event of inaugural Fashion in Film series. Party takes place after screening of Eleven Minutes. Includes live fashion show by Joe Fresh Style.

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Wild Ginger, 351 4th Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and Eleven Minutes patrons


UPCOMING HOT FILMS


Breakfast at Tiffany's

Monday September 22, 2008, 6:30 p.m. @ The Globe Downstairs

Long before Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw graced the small or big screen, Audrey Hepburn brought Truman Capote's iconic New York socialite Holly Golightly to life. Part of the Life in Focus: Fashion in Film series, this delightful, light-hearted comedy has enough charm, high fashion and New York opulence to outlast its 47 years in release.


Fix

Monday Sep. 22, 2008, 9:30 p.m. @ The Globe Upstairs

Saturday Sep. 27, 2008, 12:30 p.m. @ The Plaza

Shot in the first person by the actors in the film, Fix is a one-day odyssey through a myriad of worlds in Los Angeles. Documentary filmmakers Bella (Olivia Wilde, House) and Milo race frantically to get Milo's brother Leo (Shawn Andrews, City of Ghosts, Dazed & Confused) from jail to a rehab clinic before 8 PM. If they fail, Leo will face a three-year prison term.


Summer Hours

Monday September 22, 2008, 7:00 p.m. @ The Uptown Upstairs

The divergent paths of three "forty-something" siblings collide when their mother Helen Berthier, heiress to her uncle's exceptional nineteenth-century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, siblings Adrienne (a successful New York designer) Frederic (an economist and university professor in Paris) and Jeremie (a dynamic businessman in China) confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, backgrounds and unique visions of the future.


The Beetle

Monday September 22, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ Cineplex Eau Claire

Tuesday September 23, 2008 9:30 p.m. @ Cineplex Eau Claire

Yishai Orian, the movie's director and the old Volkswagen's owner, is about to become a father. Torn between the imminent responsibility of "growing up" with the birth of his son and his undying passion for his sputtering car, Yishai embarks on a heartwarming journey to get to know his Beetle by tracking down all of the previous owners and understanding the car's rich history.


An Animator's World Shorts

Monday September 22, 2008 7:00 p.m. @ The Globe Upstairs

Tuesday September 23, 2008 9:15 p.m. @ Westhills

The animator is a creator a magician if you will. Join us as we celebrate the best in animation from around the world with stories ranging from desperate fire dogs to hungry ogres these films are nothing short of extraordinary as they stretch the limits of animation.

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Le 6e Gala du Lys Blues attendu par l'industrie du blues au 400e de Qubec

Gala du Lys Blues

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Annonce de la programmation du 6e Gala du Lys Blues

Le 6e Gala du Lys Blues attendu par lindustrie du blues au 400e de Qubec

Montral- Cette anne, cest lors des festivits de la fte du 400e anniversaire de la Ville de Qubec que le 6e Gala du Lys Blues aura lieu, le 28 septembre 2008, au thtre petit Champlain de Qubec.

Seize trophes Lys Blues seront remis aux laurats du blues stant dmarqu au courant de lanne dernire. Les rcipiendaires, lu par la voix du public via le www.lenetblues.com, proviennent de tous les coins du Qubec, clbrer le blues qubcois.

Bob Harrisson, porte parole de lvnement, est fier de sassocier leffervescence du Blues qubcois. La relve est trs rafrachissante. Plusieurs laurats de Lys blues catgorie relve, des annes prcdentes, sont aujourdhui bien connus du monde artistique. On a qu penser Jonas Tomalty (2003) mieux connu aujourdhui sous le nom de JONAS, est aujourdhui un artiste accompli.

Cest toujours sous la barre de Martin Lachance, animateur de lmission Sous un ciel blues de CHAA FM, que le Gala 2008 se droulera. Vous pourrez voir six reprsentations de groupes Blues du Qubec dont le Bob Harrisson Band pour ne nommer que celui-l. Ces groupes vous prsenteront des exclusivits musicales qui seront entrecoupes des prsentations de trophes.

Cest beaucoup pour encourager la relve que les organisateurs du Gala poursuivent danne en anne. Les deux organismes, Le Net Blues et le Gala du Lys Blues de concert sefforcent daider les nouveaux venus dans le monde de la musique blues. Dailleurs, un DVD du Gala 2006 est toujours disponibles au www.lenetblues.com, les fonds de la vente du DVD sont un financement direct au gala 2008.

Les billets pour assister au Gala sont en vente sur le rseau Billetech.

Date : 28 septembre 2008

Endroit : Thtre du Petit Champlain, 68 rue du Petit Champlain, Qubec (Qubec) G1K 4H4 billetterie : 418-692-2631

Heure : 19h30

Un des grands rendez-vous culturel de lautomne, le Gala du Lys Blues 2008 saura vous faire vibrer sur des rythmes fous. Prsent au Thtre du Petit Champlain, cette anne, il met en scne des artistes qubcois de partout en province. Ce Gala a dj t applaudit par plus de 5 000 spectateurs de tous les coins du Qubec.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Arion en concert - le vendredi 26 septembre


ARION prsente Splendeurs versaillaises

avec le Chur de Chambre de Namur et le chef belge Guy Van Waas

Montral, le samedi 20 septembre 2008. L'orchestre baroque ARION amorce sa srie montralaise, Passions et clbrations, le 26 septembre la salle Claude-Champagne par une premire collaboration avec le Chur de Chambre de Namur et le chef Guy Van Waas de Belgique.

Une soire au chteau de Versailles

Au titre vocateur de Splendeurs versaillaises, le concert fait revivre les fastes sacrs et profanes de la Cour de France, la gloire de Dieu, la gloire du Roi Soleil, brillamment mis en musique par Henry Du Mont, Jean-Baptiste Lully et Antoine Dauvergne. Un magnifique programme avec des uvres rarement joues, certaines partitions proviennent du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles.

Les compositeurs : Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Du Mont et Antoine Dauvergne

Au chteau de Versailles, la musique est omniprsente. Pour rythmer les journes de la Cour de France, le roi Louis XIV n'hsite pas s'entourer de musiciens venus d'ailleurs.

L'imptueux Italien Jean-Baptiste Lully, surintendant de la Musique de Sa Majest, est matre d'uvre de presque tous les divertissements chants et danss la cour du Roi Soleil. On l'associe au thtre : il a crit la musique de plusieurs comdies-ballet de Molire. La pice Idylle sur la Paix, compose sur un texte de Racine, est une cantate commande par le marquis de Seignelay en l'honneur de la venue du Roi dans sa proprit de Sceaux. Idylle sur la Paix clbre la gloire de Louis XIV et la Paix rcemment dcrte entre la France, l'Autriche et l'Espagne.

Le Wallon Heny du Thier, devenu Henry Du Mont quelques annes aprs son arrive Paris vers 1640, est nomm en 1663 sous-matre de la Musique de la Chapelle Royale. Tous les matins aprs son conseil, Louis XIV se rend la chapelle couter trois motets, ces pices musicales composes spcialement et ne faisant pas partie de l'office. Le roi est entour par ses courtisans, plus assidus pour le spectacle musical que par ferveur chrtienne. Henry Du Mont, trs apprci du Roi et de Lully, a laiss une quantit impressionnante de motets, forme singulire de la musique sacre qu'il fait voluer en introduisant des voix de solistes, avec instruments et basse continue, une nouveaut dans la musique religieuse. Nisi Dominus est un psaume de la Bible mis en musique et Magnificat relve plus de la prire et du cantique.

Surintendant de la Musique de Sa Majest sous la gouverne de Louis XV et Louis XVI, Antoine Dauvergne est le crateur avec Vad, en 1753, du premier vritable opra-comique, Les Troqueurs. Tomb tort dans l'oubli, il a consacr sa vie composer pour l'art lyrique. Les quatre Concerts de Simphonies, crs au moment o les feux de Versailles dclinent, nous amnent doucement vers une autre poque.

Les invits : le Chur de Chambre de Namur et le chef Guy Van Waas

ARION est un orchestre de musique ancienne sur instruments d'poque fond en 1981. L'orchestre a effectu de nombreuses tournes au Canada, aux tats-Unis, en Europe et en Asie. Rcipiendaire de nombreuses distinctions, l'ensemble possde une discographie de 24 titres, en formation de chambre ou d'orchestre, distribue internationalement et qui a remport deux trophes Flix, quatre prix Opus et un International Handel Recording Price. La directrice artistique Claire Guimond invite rgulirement des chefs et des solistes de rputation internationale travailler avec l'orchestre.

Fond en 1987, le Chur de Chambre de Namur, actuellement sous la direction de Jean Tubry, aborde de grandes uvres du rpertoire choral tout en s'attachant la dfense du patrimoine musical de sa rgion d'origine. Habitu des festivals et des tournes internationales, l'ensemble a ralis une trentaine d'enregistrements dont l'excellence fut souligne notamment aux Victoires de la Musique Classique Paris. Parmi les prix rcemment dcerns mentionnons le Grand Prix de l'Acadmie Charles Cros en 2003, le Prix Liliane Bettencourt 2006 par l'Acadmie franaise des Beaux-Arts et l'Octave de la Musique 2007, catgorie musique classique , par le Conseil de la Musique de la Communaut franaise de Belgique.

Invit pour la premire fois par l'ensemble Arion, le chef Guy Van Waas viendra aussi de Belgique. Il conduira une formation exceptionnelle pour l'occasion comprenant les 16 choristes du Chur de Namur et un orchestre
de 17 musiciens : des cordes, un clavecin, un orgue, deux fltes et deux hautbois baroques. Musicien rput, Guy Van Waas est de plus en plus sollicit titre de chef d'orchestre. Depuis 2001, il est chef principal des Agrmens, ensemble baroque de la Communaut Franaise de Belgique, partenaire privilgi du Chur de Chambre de Namur, et dont les prestations sont unanimement clbres par la critique. Organiste, claveciniste et clarinettiste, c'est en se consacrant la clarinette ancienne qu'il est devenu un interprte des plus demands. Aprs avoir jou pendant dix ans dans l'Orchestre des Champs Elyses et dans les grands ensembles europens avec William Christie, Jordi Savall, il est actuellement clarinettiste de l'Orchestre du XVIIIe sicle et de l'Akademie fr Alte Musik Berlin.

Splendeurs versaillaises

ARION orchestre baroque

et le Chur de Chambre de Namur

Chef invit : Guy Van Waas (Belgique)

Programme du concert

Antoine Dauvergne (1713 1797)

2e Concert de Simphonies, oeuvre III n2
Ouverture - Menuet - Menuet secondo - Andante - Rondo - Allegro - Chaconne

Henry Du Mont (1610 1684)

Motet Nisi Dominus
Cinq solistes, choeur cinq parties, orchestre cordes et basse continue

Magnificat
Cinq solistes, choeur cinq parties, orchestre cordes et basse continue

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 1687)

Idylle sur la Paix (livret de Jean Racine) 1685
Six solistes, choeur quatre parties, orchestre cordes cinq parties la franaise et basse continue

Vendredi 26 septembre 2008, 20h

Salle Claude-Champagne de l'Universit de Montral (220 avenue Vincent-d'Indy)

Renseignements et billetterie : 514-355-1825 www.early-music.com/html/arion.html

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Friday, September 19, 2008

L'amour est un opra muet, la demande gnrale !

la demande gnrale
Pentadre, en collaboration avec OMNIBUS, le corps du thtre
Prsentent

L'amour est un opra muet
Daprs lopra Cosi fan tutte de Mozart
Arrangement pour quintette vent de Ulf-Guido Schfer

Mercredi 1er octobre 2008, 20 h

Une histoire damour et de trahison joue et mime
au cours de vingt-deux extraits du clbre opra.

Direction musicale Normand Forget
Matrise doeuvre Jean Asselin

Salle Pollack, 555, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
25 $ - 15 $ (tudiants/ans) 514-398-4547
www.pentaedre.com <http://www.pentaedre.com>


Montral, 4 septembre 2008 Fort du succs remport auprs du public et de la critique au printemps 2007, Pentadre et OMNIBUS sont fiers de prsenter, la demande gnrale et dans le cadre de la Journe internationale de la musique, Lamour est un opra muet, daprs lopra Cosi fan tutte de Mozart, le mercredi 1er octobre 2008, 20 h, la salle Pollack.

En 2001, le Centre dart dOrford commandait aux mimes dOmnibus un divertissement visuel accompagnant un concert de Pentadre, qui a donn le spectacle Ce que fait la musique. Dans Lamour est un opra muet, elles saventurent dans un domaine o le poids des corps dramatise la musique impondrable.

Depuis ses dbuts en 1985, Pentadre se consacre la dcouverte d'un rpertoire de musique de chambre vari, original et souvent moins connu. Compos de cinq musiciens talentueux, dont la technique et la prcision de jeu sont unanimement reconnues, Pentadre effectue des tournes au Qubec, au Canada, aux tats-Unis et en Europe. Rcipiendaire du Prix OPUS 2002 du Meilleur concert de lanne, musique actuelle, contemporaine, lectroacoustique, Pentadre collabore avec des artistes de renom et participe des crations audacieuses, dont rcemment lopra comique A Chair in Love ou LAmour est un opra muet avec les mimes Omnibus. Son enregistrement rcent du Winterreise de Schubert (version de chambre de Normand Forget), avec le tnor Christoph Prgardien, sest attir des loges de la critique internationale.

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Harbourfront Centre: GEEK OUT!

Amazing performances and interactive activities at Harbourfront Centre's family celebration of GEEKS this Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend, October 12 & 13. Admission is free.


TORONTO, Friday, September 19, 2008 Harbourfront Centre is excited to present its free family celebration of GEEKS with two jam-packed days of creativity and plenty of fun on Sunday and Thanksgiving Holiday Monday, October 12 & 13. HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! includes Beakman Live!, a live stage spectacle, based on the Emmy-winning show, Beakman's World, featuring large-scale, wacky science demos with lots of audience participation; Darwin, a brilliant show where electroluminescent creatures light up the stage; incredible theatre and music performances; Lego Invention Connection; the Laurentien Clubhouse; the Natrel Robot Reboot Station; a spelling bee; plus awesome interactive activities.



The BiG idEA for October's edition of HarbourKIDS (Harbourfront Centre's new family programme) is the celebration of GEEKS with a weekend of non-stop fun. GEEKS are those that march to the beat of their own drum, and can be artists or designers or architects or astronauts or anyone else with a passion for doing what they do. In other words, GEEKS are cool and amazing people! HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! is a chance for kids to do the things they love to do. Maybe they are ace spelling champs. Or master builders. Maybe they are amazing illustrators or video game whizzes.



HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! takes place on Sunday & Thanksgiving Holiday Monday, October 12 & 13, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. Admission is free. For information, the public can call

416-973-4000 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com/harbourkids.



HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! Highlights

Beakman Live!

Paul Zaloom (USA)

Sunday, October 12, 2:15 & 4:15 p.m.

Monday, October 13, 11:45 a.m. & 4:15 p.m.

Based on the Emmy Award-winning children's science TV show Beakman's World, Beakman Live! features Paul Zaloom as the eccentric, wacky scientist Beakman, who amazes his fellow humans with a series of death-defying and unbelievable demonstrations of intriguing scientific principles. See Beakman lie on a bed of needle-sharp nails! Watch Beakman make a flying bat materialize from thin air!



Marvel as Beakman breaks the sound barrier in front of everyone's eyes! Ponder the impossibility as Beakman makes a roll of toilet paper fly! Witness Beakman fearlessly stand in the path of a speeding bowling ball as the audience wonders in suspense if it will smash his really big head! Called "one of the most original and talented political satirists working in the theater" by The New York Times, Paul Zaloom is an award-winning performance artist, puppeteer and political satirist, who has written, designed and performed over 10 solo shows. Recommended for ages 5 and up. (For additional details on Beakman Live!, visit www.washingtonsquarearts.com/theatrical-beakman-live.asp.)



Darwin

CORBIAN Visual Arts and Dance (USA)

Sunday, October 12, 11:45 a.m.

Monday, October 13, 2 p.m.

Darwin, a Canadian premiere, is an amazing show where electroluminescent creatures light up the stage. Darwin takes audiences on a journey with Darwin, a dinosaur built by the hands of a great artist, Henslow. Kids follow Darwin from his origination as he stumbles over joy, creativity, fear, danger, victory and most importantly loveand like kids, in the process of growing up, learns life lessons and begins to make decisions for himself. CORBIAN brings together dance with the visual arts to present dinosaurs in an innovative and visually striking waymaking this performance accessible to younger audiences, while also giving a creative spin on dinosaurs, which many kids are already geeks for!



CORBIAN is dedicated to entertaining and educating using new, interesting and often-simple theatrical methods and materials. Much of CORBIAN's content includes sculptures of wire and/or epoxy rods lit over black space bringing forth living crayon-like creatures and characters. In addition to the story, this production has a Q&A that gives audiences the opportunity to learn about the company's use of electroluminescent wire to bring the characters to 'life.' Recommended for ages 7 and up. (For a video clip of CORBIAN Visual Arts and Dance, visit

http://www.iancarney.com/images/PROMO_G_web300.mov.)



O is for Ogre

Waterwood Theatre Projects (Canada)

Sunday, October 12, 11:15 a.m.

Monday, October 13, 11:15 a.m. & 1:45 p.m.

Waterwood Theatre Projects presents O is for Ogre, a performance about the joy of reading! It's a tale about a young boy, Owen Osborne and his love of books. A stubborn Ogre begins to take Os out of some of Owen's favourite books. Kids are invited to follow along as Owen figures out how to get them back. Beautiful table top, hand, rod and shadow puppets, along with music make this fun-filled and enchanting show come to life. Waterwood Theatre Projects has been presenting original shows for children and family audiences for over 20 years. Recommended for ages 5-9.



Annabelle Canto (Canada)

Sunday, October 12, 1 p.m.

Bilingual performance in English/French

From Montreal, soprano Christina Tannous becomes Annabelle Canto, the young opera singer who loses both her voice and memory on the morning of an important concert. Annabelle and her pianist, played by Dominic Boulianne, set out on a quest for this magical voice. Annabelle Canto, part of the Music with Bite ongoing family concert series, is a co-production with Jeunesses Musicales Ontario. The performance is also part of Qubec Now!, a Toronto-wide celebration of contemporary Qubec arts and culture. Recommended for ages 5 and up.



A is for Awesome Spelling Bee with musical guest Bob Wiseman

Sunday, October 12, 3:45 p.m.

Calling all amazing spellers! It's kids vs. adults. Participants receive ribbons and trophies designed by local artists. Participates must be 7 years of age or older. All ages are welcome as audience members.



Laurentien Clubhouse

Kids make artist cards that they can trade with other kids, and their own geek button at the Get your Button On station.



Lego Invention Connection

Geeks are great inventors. Kids are invited to get inspired by LEGO experts' models of famous inventions and then build their own.



Natrel Robot Reboot Station

Kids create their own robot costume out of Natrel milk cartons, crafts and their imagination. Afterwards, they are invited to join a huge robot dance party.



Electricity Lab with InterAccess

Adding electricity to one's favourite things isn't only easyit's fun! InterAccess is an artist-run centre that invites people to explore art and technology. For additional details on InterAccess, visit interaccess.org.



Other not-to-be-missed activities: HyperStory with author Emily Pohl-Weary who enlists the help of participants to create a huge choose-your-own adventure story; cool comic book workshops with Zach Wartan; Impossible Project Institute by Swintak; Dungeons and Dragons; and video games.



HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, Enwave, Sirius Satellite Radio, Pawsway, Queens Quay Terminal, Natrel, Aquafina, Laurentien and LEGO.



FOCUS: Pause

Harbourfront Centre wants you. to. slow. down. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and images, what happens when someone really takes the time to reflect? From September to May, Harbourfront Centre wants you to pause and make a connection to art, technology, the world. Find time for yourself by taking one of our Courses and Workshops; reflect while you wait for the World Stage curtain to rise; indulge in a great book during Authors at Harbourfront Centre. Harbourfront Centretime well spent.

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Culture Montral dvoile sa plate-forme culturelle en vue des lections du 14 octobre 2008

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Culture Montral dvoile sa plate-forme culturelle en vue des lections du 14 octobre 2008

Les partis politiques appels prendre des engagements clairs en matire dart et de culture


Montral, le 19 septembre 2008 Interpellant les partis politiques afin quils sengagent de faon claire favoriser le dveloppement des arts, de la culture et du patrimoine pendant campagne lectorale fdrale, Culture Montral lance aujourdhui une plate-forme culturelle qui sera porte lattention immdiate des candidats aux lections. Les six points dengagement de la plate-forme orienteront les changes prvus lors dun dbat entre les reprsentants des partis politiques fdraux qui aura lieu le mardi 30 septembre 2008, lAmphithtre du Ges (1200, rue de Bleury, Montral). Le dbat, initi par Culture Montral, sera anim par la rpute journaliste et animatrice Dominique Poirier.

Limportance dun soutien accru, adquat et rcurrent un secteur aussi vaste et dynamique que celui des arts et de la culture est plus que jamais une question dactualit, voire de sant, pour toutes les collectivits du Canada et plus spcifiquement pour Montral, explique Anne-Marie Jean, directrice gnrale de Culture Montral.

la suite des engagements pris par tous les partenaires du Rendez-vous novembre 2007 Montral, mtropole culturelle, les Montralais attendent dun nouveau gouvernement fdral des gestes et des investissements qui traduiront dans les faits ses responsabilits pour le plein essor de la mtropole culturelle du Qubec.

Ainsi, Culture Montral demande que les partis politiques fdraux sengagent :

1. Investir davantage dans le secteur des arts pour acclrer le dveloppement du secteur culturel et en maximiser les retombes conomiques et sociales :
  • En portant 300 millions de dollars le budget annuel du Conseil des Arts du Canada.
  • En augmentant les investissements permettant de consolider lensemble de la chane culturelle au Canada (formation, cration, production, diffusion)
2. Favoriser le rayonnement des artistes et des crations artistiques et culturelles dici lchelle internationale
  • En rtablissant et en bonifiant les investissements favorisant le rayonnement des arts et de la culture ltranger : la tourne internationale des artistes ; les projets internationaux dchanges, de rsidence, de perfectionnement et de coproduction ainsi que les initiatives de promotion des arts canadiens sur la scne internationale.
  • En dotant le rseau de reprsentation et les ambassades des moyens appropris lexercice de leur rle de promotion des artistes, compagnies et productions culturelles provenant du Canada.
3. largir laccs lassurance-emploi tous les travailleurs autonomes
  • En apportant des modifications la loi fdrale sur lassurance-emploi afin dassurer un meilleur filet social tous les travailleurs canadiens. Sans rduire les acquis, la loi devrait contenir certaines dispositions permettant aux travailleurs autonomes de souscrire un rgime public dassurance-emploi.
4. Participer au dveloppement et au maintien des infrastructures culturelles
  • En participant au financement des projets prvus dans le cadre du Plan daction 2007-2017, Montral mtropole culturelle, dont :
    - le Quartier des spectacles
    - laccroissement et lamlioration des espaces de cration, de production et de diffusion
    - la mise en valeur du canal de Lachine, du Vieux- Montral et du Vieux-Port de Montral
  • En mettant sur pied une initiative ddie au maintien et lentretien des immeubles vocation culturelle qui ont bnficis de subventions gouvernementales, de faon protger et valoriser les investissements consentis par les contribuables canadiens.
5. Favoriser laccroissement de la demande en matire dart et de culture
  • En instaurant de nouvelles mesures de soutien favorisant lacquisition doeuvres dart ainsi que la frquentation dvnements culturels dont les auteurs sont des artistes professionnels, citoyens canadiens, vivant et pratiquant leur discipline au Canada telles :
    - Lexonration de la TPS sur lachat doeuvres dart dans le cadre du march primaire, les abonnements culturels comprenant au moins trois reprsentations et les abonnements aux muses.
    - La cration dun programme de prt sans intrt pour lachat dune oeuvre dart dans le cadre du march primaire.
6. Actualiser lintervention du gouvernement fdral en matire de protection du patrimoine culturel
  • En dotant le Canada dune loi sur le patrimoine et dun plan daction concert avec les provinces et les territoires qui engageraient le gouvernement la protection et la mise en valeur du patrimoine dont il est fiduciaire ou qui relve de son champ de comptences, ceci en cohrence avec les conventions internationales ratifies par le Canada.
  • En instaurant une politique dintgration des arts larchitecture pour les difices fdraux.
Nous dsirons que cette plate-forme soit porte tant par acteurs culturels que les citoyens, les leaders de diffrents secteurs et les politiciens, conclut Anne-Marie Jean. Il faut maintenir les arts et la culture dans le peloton de tte des enjeux lectoraux et crer des espaces dchange transparents et ouverts, comme le dbat du 30 septembre, ceci dans le but dobtenir de tous les partis les engagements et appuis esprs.

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Fond en 2002, Culture Montral est un mouvement citoyen et non partisan dont le mandat est daffirmer le rle central des arts et de la culture dans toutes les sphres du dveloppement de Montral. Par le biais dactivits danalyse, de communication, de recherche et de concertation, Culture Montral contribue difier lavenir de Montral, mtropole culturelle. Lorganisation bnficie du soutien de ses membres, du ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine du Qubec, de la Ville de Montral, du Cirque du Soleil et de la Confrence rgionale des lus de Montral.

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Pour information : Sandra OConnor Directrice des communications Culture Montral (514) 845-0303, poste 21 sandra.oconnor@culturemontreal.ca

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

September/October Concert Listings


The VSOs September & October Concert Listings

Vancouver BC And theyre off! The Arts season is starting again in Vancouver and the VSO begins its exciting new season with cellist Lynn Harrell performing the Canadian premiere of Maestro Toveys new piece Urban Runway, co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic. The VSOs October concerts include Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn (who will also be accompanying the VSO on its Asia-Pacific Tour October 10th through the 20th); a Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets matinee concert featuring host Christopher Gaze; and Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian touring with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

While on tour, the VSO presents two visiting orchestras and one of the worlds top Cuban Timba bands in three concert series: I Musici de Montreal in the Bach & Beyond series opener at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; Tiempo Libre in the first London Drugs VSO Pops concert; and the National Arts Centre Orchestra with Maestro Pinchas Zukerman to kick off the PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver series. The month is rounded out nicely with Maestro Bramwell Tovey reprising his Inspector Tovey persona in the first concert of the Spectra Energy Kids Koncerts series, and a co-presentation of Video Games Live! with Live Nation.

The Symphony Season starts with a bang!

CONCERT INFO

Masterworks Gold Series:

The VSOs Opening Weekend

Saturday & Monday, September 27 & 29, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Lynn Harrell, cello

Lavallee O Canada

Tovey Urban Runway (Canadian Premiere)

Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suite

The VSOs 2008/2009 Season Opening weekend, featuring the worlds greatest cellist performing Schumanns beautiful Cello Concerto and a new work by VSO Music Director Bramwell Tovey.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets Series:

Opera in the Afternoon

Thursday, October 2, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Heidi Muendel*, soprano

Christopher Gaze, host

Verdi La Forza del Destino: Overture

Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture

Dvorak Rusalka: Song to the Moon*

Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee

Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty: Entracte, Act II, No. 18

Verdi Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, involami*

Wagner Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries

Puccini Madama Butterfly: Un bel di*

Puccini Tosca: Vissi darte*

Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, Op. 45

Bizet Carmen: March of the Toreadors

Maestro Bramwell Tovey and the VSO present an afternoon of beautiful operatic favourites, including selections by Puccini and Verdi.

Tickets $36 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Pacific Arbour

Masterworks Diamond Series:

Hilary Hahn Plays Tchaikovsky!

Saturday & Monday, October 4 & 6, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre
Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Hilary Hahn, violin

Ryan The Linearity of Light

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Hilary Hahn, superstar! This sensational violinist joins the VSO for Tchaikovskys exciting Violin Concerto, and the orchestra weaves some sonic magic with a musical colossus by Berlioz.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

October 4 Concert Sponsor: Keir Surgical

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Beltone Symphony Sundays Series:

Hilary Hahn Plays Tchaikovsky!

Sunday, October 5, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Hilary Hahn, violin

Ryan The Linearity of Light

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Hilary Hahn, superstar! This sensational violinist joins the VSO for Tchaikovskys exciting Violin Concerto, and the orchestra weaves some sonic magic with a musical colossus by Berlioz.

Tickets $20 to $56 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Beltone

Specials

Isabel Bayrakdarian with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, October 7, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Anne Manson, conductor

Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano

Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

Magnificent Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian graces the Orpheum stage with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. They will perform works by Ravel, Bartok, and Gorecki, as well as the beautiful music of Armenian composer Gomidas.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Bach & Beyond Series:

The VSO Presents I Musici de Montral

Friday & Saturday, October 10 & 11, 8pm, Chan Centre

I Musici de Montreal

Yuli Turovsky, conductor

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op.6, No. 1 in G Major

Handel Concerti Grossi, No. 4 in A minor

Handel Concerti Grossi, No. 12 in B minor

Bach Goldberg Variations

I Musici de Montral is one of Canadas top chamber orchestras. The VSO is proud to present them, with their founding director, Yuli Turovsky, for the opening concert of the Bach & Beyond series in a perfect baroque concert: the music of Bach and Handel.

Tickets $35 to $59 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available ONLY through Ticketmaster outlets, Charge-by-Phone at 604.280.3311 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca

Generously Supported By:

Radio Sponsor: 600AM

London Drugs VSO Pops Series:

Tiempo Libre!

Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Tiempo Libre, entertainers

Tiempo Libre is one of the worlds top Latin bands. Their sound is fresh, fun, exciting, and rife with the glorious rhythms of their Latin heritage.

Please Note: Tiempo Libre performs their musical act without the orchestra.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: London Drugs

Radio Sponsor: 600AM

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver Series:

Master Meets Master: Zukerman Plays Mozart

Saturday & Monday, October 25 & 27, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

National Arts Centre Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor/violin

Alexina Louie Infinite Sky with Birds

Mozart Violin Concerto 3 in G Major, K. 216, Strassburg

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op. 64

The VSO presents the National Arts Centre Orchestra from Ottawa, with their Music Director, Pinchas Zukerman. Maestro Zukerman also happened to be one of the worlds greatest violinists, and performs Mozarts beloved Violin Concerto No.3.

Tickets $25 to $78.50 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Video Screen Sponsor: TELUS

Video screen presentations created and produced by students and staff of digital video productions at Columbia Academy.

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Spectra Energy Kids Koncerts Series:

Inspector Tovey Goes to China

Sunday, October 26, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Fresh from the VSOs Asia-Pacific tour, Inspector Tovey returns (bearing a striking resemblance to the VSOs Music DirectorĶ) to investigate the instruments central to the great Eastern and Western musical traditions.

Tickets $26 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Spectra Energy

Premier Education Partner: TELUS

Specials

Video Games Live!

Wednesday, October 29, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Jack Wall, music director

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Video Games Live is a multimedia concert experience featuring the best music and exclusive synchronized video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. The music is performed live by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets $29.50 to $69.50 (NOTE: Tickets available through Ticketmaster or the VSO website ONLY. There are no discounts for Video Games Live, and the prices for this special do not include service charges.)

Tickets available ONLY through Ticketmaster outlets, Charge-by-Phone at 604.280.3311 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca

Tiny Tots Series:

Teddy Bears Music Picnic

Friday, October 31, 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre

Saturday, November 1, 10:00am, 11:30am, Terry Fox Theatre

Let Your Music Shine with Lisa and Linda, entertainers

Bring your teddy bear for this show filled with playful songs, games and musical stories. A family favourite!

Adult Tickets $15, Child Tickets $7

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Premier Education Partner:

TELUS

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Pacific Opera Victoria presents Thas

THAS
Sensuality, spirituality and a fatal attraction
OCTOBER 16, 18, 21, 23 AND 25, 2008

Pacific Opera Victoria presents Jules Massenet's THAS October 16, 18,
21, 23 and 25, 2008 at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street in
Victoria. Performed in French with English surtitles. Running time is
approximately three hours with two intermissions. All performances
begin at 8pm. Priced between $25 and $110, tickets are available from
the Royal and McPherson Box Office at (250) 386-6121, or on-line at
www.rmts.bc.ca.

Student RUSH tickets for those presenting valid student identification
are available at the door of the theatre, 45 minutes prior to each
performance, subject to availability. RUSH tickets are $15, inclusive
of all box office charges.


Jules Massenet is arguably the best of the romantic French opera
composers, penning rich and glorious scores that are immediately
familiar. After Manon and Werther, THAS is one of Massenet's most
performed operas, considered by many to be a jewel from the golden age
of French Grand Opera. THAS is now enjoying a new place at the top of
the repertoire with high profile productions at Covent Garden, Lyric
Opera of Chicago and The Met. Pacific Opera Victoria joins this
illustrious company with its own production of THAS October 16, 18,
21, 23 and 25 at The Royal Theatre in Victoria.

Based on a novel by Anatole France, THAS (pronounced tah-EES),
contrasts the devout with the decadent and illuminates the search for
meaning, love and everlasting life. The courtesan Thas lives a life of
luxury and eroticism, until she is confronted by Athanal, a monk
obsessed with saving her soul. Thas eventually repents, choosing
spiritual love and everlasting life, but Athanal discovers too late
that his feelings for her are sensual rather than spiritual. Through
Massenet's voluptuous music, his compelling characters and the tragic
inevitability of the story, he compassionately but relentlessly lays
bare the bond between religious and erotic passion.

Award-winning Maestro Timothy Vernon conducts this company premiere and
the renowned director-designer team of Renaud Doucet and Andr Barbe
(POV's The Tempest) return to re-create the sumptuous production of
THAS which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opra de
Montral. POV is building Mr. Barbe's stunning sets on a scale to fit
Victoria's intimate Royal Theatre - and introducing a brilliant cast of
singers who will be performing their roles in this opera for the first
time.

Monica Whicher, (POV's The Rape of Lucretia) returns to lend her pure
voice and lustrous tone to the role of Thas. Aaron St. Clair
Nicholson (POV'S Carmen), returns to POV after his recent Met debut to
portray the doomed monk Athanal. They are joined by Chad Louwerse
(POV's Madama Butterfly) as Palemon, Luc Robert (POV's Rigoletto) as
Nicias, and Rebecca Hass, (POV's Daphne) as Albine. Julie Daoust,
Mireille Lebel and Charlene Santoni make their company and role debuts
as Crobyle, Myrtale and La Charmeuse.

Performed in French with English surtitles, Pacific Opera Victoria's
production of THAS runs October 16, 18, 21, 23 and 25, 2008 at the
Royal Theatre in Victoria. All performances begin at 8pm. Priced
between $25 and $110, tickets are available from the Royal and McPherson
Box Office at (250) 386-6121 or www.rmts.bc.ca.

Student RUSH tickets for those presenting valid student identification
are available at the door of the theatre, 45 minutes prior to each
performance, subject to availability. RUSH tickets are $15, inclusive
of all box office charges.

For more information, please contact Pacific Opera Victoria at (250)
385-0222 or visit www.pov.bc.ca.

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Dr. Ulrike Hessler,First Woman in 169 yearsat Dresden Opera

Dr. Ulrike Hessler, First Woman in 169 years will be the next General Director of the famous Semper Opera Dresden

For the first time in its 169 year history, the Saxonian State Opera home to world premiere performances of most Richard Strauss and several Wagner operas has appointed a woman as its General Director. Today Saxony's Secretary of Science & Arts, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, announced the decision that Mrs. Hessler will lead the house starting 2010, succeeding current intendant Gerd Uecker.

Ulrike Hessler (52) has been working at the Bavarian State Opera since 1984, working her way up from assistant to the press spokesperson's to director for public relations and program development. When the Bavarian State Opera was without a GM during the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons, she formed an interim directorship with Music Director Kent Nagano, running the day to day affairs of the opera house.

Before working in the world of opera, Mrs. Hessler, who wrote her Ph.D. thesis about Bernard von Brentano's literature of exile, worked as a free lance journalists for Bavarian Radio and a has written for Harper's and Vogue. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Universities abroad and has been an Overseas Member of the Board of Governors der Tel Aviv University since 1990.

According to the Saxonian Ministry of Science & Arts, the factor deciding in favor of Ulrike Hessler was "the way how Mrs. Hessler thinks about the future of an opera house like this and how a very active repertoire- and ensemble theater with such a long tradition will successfully the tough international competition." Another important factor was the vision with which Mrs. Hessler has developed ideas for sharpening the company's profile and the importance she places on better communications of the house both internally and externally. Not the least her extensive leadership experience at the Bavarian State Opera and her range of contacts to singers, directors, dancers, and musicians has played a role. The former Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, and Bavarian State Opera, Sir Peter Jonas, was among the advisers to the ministry in this decision. The famous tenor and conductor Peter Schreier welcomed the decision, describing his impressions of Mrs. Hessler as an "incredibly creative and decisive" collaborator.

Helen Kamioner
Director
Creative Consultants
for the Arts
718-796-9802
www.creativepublicity.biz

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Bachtrack

New website shows the way to US classical concert-goers

Classical music website Bachtrack (www.bachtrack.com), started in the UK this year, is now launched in the US, starting with US listings of over 1,500 top concerts and operas. Bachtrack makes it easy for classical fans to find their favourite composers, works and performers, saying that many people don't go to concerts because they simply don't know what's on.

Bachtrack has the easiest and most comprehensive concert finder on the Internet covering top events, allowing users to browse its listings by composer, work, performer or orchestra, venue, city, type of work, date or any combination of these. The database now has over 5,000 listings including performances by the top orchestras and opera companies in the US and Europe.

If you're trying to find your favourite symphony or what concerts are on within an hour's drive from your home, standard search engines simply haven't been useful, says co-founder David Karlin. It's too hard to wade through the results, and there's so much great music going on that people just don't get to hear about. Bachtrack is convinced that it will increase audiences by showing classical music and opera fans what's on in a way and at a time that's convenient to them.

Bachtrack launched the US version of its site this week, with events from major US orchestras and opera houses (Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and others). Listings on the site are free, and Bachtrack is beginning to attract concert promoters of all types in the US to input listings. The site also features a special section to attract kids into classical music with listings of concerts and events for kids and teens.

As well as finding concerts, site visitors can see venues on a map, find recommended CDs of many of the works, Listen buttons to play clips from even more, and biographies and pictures of an increasing number of the performers.

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The Calgarry International Film Festival Announces 2008 Party and Special Event Schedule

THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2008 PARTY AND SPECIAL EVENT SCHEDULE

Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is pleased to announce a series of special events and parties as part of this year's 9th annual event. As part of CIFF's ongoing commitment to provide stellar cinematic and cultural experiences, this year's festival special events schedule highlights our visiting delegates, local filmmakers, award-winners and gala films. The line-up has something for everyone blow-out gala parties, intimate receptions, awards ceremonies, fashion shows, and post-screening festivities offering the opportunity to mingle one-on-one with those whose creations have hit CIFF screens this year.

Special Events Schedule

Thursday, September 18

PRE-PARTY American Express Opening Gala: Blindness

Red Carpet Fashion Show with fashions by Joe Fresh and the Core. Cocktail reception.

Time: 5:00 PM 6:00 PM

Where: Belgo, 501- 8 Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and gala patrons

American Express Opening Gala: Blindness

A celebration of the opening film, the gala is the kick-off to the festival and the party of the year!

Time: 9:15 PM

Where: Belgo, 501- 8 Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and gala ticket holders

Friday, September 19

Iceland Spotlight Party

Post-screening reception following highlight film of Iceland Spotlight, featuring Icelandic food by Iceland Naturally. Director Ragnar Bragason in attendance.

Time: 9:30 PM

Where: Chicago Chophouse, 604 - 8th Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and Children patrons.

Saturday, September 20

YYC Reception

Post-screening party to celebrate and honour the winners of our Youth by Youth Cinema competition. Filmmakers in attendance.

Time: 5:00 PM

Where: Pulcinella, 1147 Kensington Crescent NW

Admission: VIPs and YYC patrons.

Space Black Carpet Gala

CIFF's first-ever Black Carpet Late Shows Gala. Director Grant Harvey, actors Tom Green and Dave Lawrence, producer Josh Miller, and other cast and crew in attendance. Film shot locally.

Time: 9:45 PM

Where: Pulcinella, 1147 Kensington Crescent NW

Admission: VIPs and Freezer Burn patrons

Sunday, September 21

Industry Party

The annual industry party brings together festival delegates, festival VIPs, and festival staff for a night to meet, mingle, and exchange ideas.

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Escoba, 624 - 8 Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and invited patrons

Tuesday, September 23

Italian Film Party

Following screening of hotly anticipated film Gomorrah (directed by Matteo Garrone).

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Osteria de Medici

Admission: VIP and Gomorrah patrons

Wednesday, September 24

Fashion Spotlight

Diamond event of inaugural Fashion in Film series. Party takes place after screening of Eleven Minutes. Includes live fashion show by Joe Fresh Style.

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Wild Ginger, 351 4th Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and Eleven Minutes patrons

Wesley Willis After Party

Part of the Music on Film Series. Sponsored by Broken City and CJSW.

Live Music: Mt. Royal, The Hotel Lobbyists. Collapsing Opposites

Time: 11:00 PM

Where: Broken City

Admission: public event

Thursday, September 25

NFB Reception

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Eau Claire Market, 200 Barclay Parade SW

Admission:

Friday, September 26

Aboriginal Spotlight Party

Featuring performance by Aboriginal performance artist Skeena Reese (cast member and co-producer of Homestay).

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Escoba

Admission: VIPs and Homestay patrons

Saturday, September 27

Volkswagen Closing Gala: Bart got a Room

Celebration of CIFF closing gala film. Director Brian Hecker in attendance.

Time: 9:30 PM

Where: Flames Central

Admission: VIPs and closing gala patrons

Sweet Lady with a Nasty Voice After-Party

Part of the Music on Film Series. Sponsored by the Palomino Smokehouse & CJSW.

Live Music:: Stonehocker CD Release, The Garter Girls Burlesque, The Hours, Static in The Stars

Time: 11:00 PM

Where: Palomino, 109-7th Avenue SW

Admission: public event

Sunday, September 28

My Name is Albert Ayler After Party & Awards Presentation

**informal CIFF Wrap Party & Awards Announcement Sponsored by Escoba, C-Jazz, & CJSW

Live Music: free jazz by saxophonist Dan Meichel and music by DJ Rob Faust

Time: 9:00 PM

Where: Escoba, 624 - 8 Avenue SW

Admission: VIPs and Albert Ayler patrons

The complete 2008 CIFF line-up, as well as festival tickets and passes, are available online at www.calgaryfilm.com from August 25, 2008. The Fido Box Office opens at Eau Claire Market and the CIFF Souvenir Program Guide goes on sale at all Calgary Starbucks locations on September 5, 2008.

About CIFF

Founded in 1998, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization based in Alberta, Canada. Inspired by the pioneering spirit and maverick ideals of the community, CIFF showcases films that break traditional boundaries and forge new cinematic ground. CIFF celebrates an unparalleled breadth and depth of cultural diversity through the meaningful, accessible, and artistic medium of film and engages thousands of artists to showcase the best films from filmmakers in over 100 countries around the world. CIFF is held annually at the end of September, screening over 200 films and hosting several gala events, awards, and special presentations. For more information visit www.calgaryfilm.com.

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This Year CIFF Takes it to the Streets with Festival Central


Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival presents Festival Central, opening Thursday September 18th. Inspired by film festivals from around the world, CIFF presents a series of special activities around the downtown core to enable all Calgarians to take part in this year's festival. From VW car displays, to filmmaker interviews, Festival Central features a diverse range of interactive experiences!

WHERE: STEPHEN AVENUE, BETWEEN 1ST AND 2ND STREET SW
WHEN: 11:00 AM TO 2:00 PM, SEPTEMBER 18 TO 19 & SEPTEMBER 22 TO 26, 2008

FREE EVENT!

FESTIVAL CENTRAL HIGHLIGHTS AND ACTIVITIES

Festival Greenroom
Join celebrity film reviewer Louis B. Hobson as he spends the lunch hour interviewing filmmakers from around the world. Join us as these artists let us in on the creative process and share their inspirations. You don't want to miss this great opportunity to hear the stories behind the festival's most anticipated films.

Greenroom Schedule

*interviews scheduled from 12:00 NOON 1:00 PM each weekday of the festival

Thursday, September 18: Ragnar Bragason (Children & Parents), Shirley Vercruysse (Secret of the Nutcracker)

Friday, September 19: ChrisScheuerman & Greg Horvath (Hope for the Broken Contender), David Schultz

(45 RPM), Grant Harvey & Dave Lawrence (Freezer Burn)

Monday, September 22: Shane Belcourt (Tkaronto), Kent Tessman (Bull), Ismael Alejos (Greedy as a

Pig),

Tuesday, September 23: Noah & Logan Miller (Touching Home), Cam Christiansen (The Real

Place), Corey Lee (In Translation)

Wednesday, September 24: Duncan Christie (Confessions of a Porn Addict), Denny Tedesco (The Wrecking Crew), Taylor Greeson (Meadowlark)

Thursday, September 25: Carl Bessai (Mothers&Daughters), Steve Rose (Hi My Name Is Ryan), Jonathan Joffe (Boiler Room), Devon Bolton (Promise)

Friday, September 26: Juan F. Villa (Alondra Smiles), Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City), Ryan Mains (Of Golf & God), Brian Hecker (Bart Got A Room)

American Express Fido Ticket Wicket
American Express enjoy the benefit of mobility at a special mobile box office. Avoid missing your favourite film and purchase advance tickets today! Not a cardholder? The American Express Ticket Wicket also accepts cash and debit. Get the latest information and pick-up advance tickets right downtown.

Festival Information

Looking for more information about the festival? Our friendly and knowledgeable volunteers are on-hand to answer any questions you may have. Whether you need a recommendation for a great film to see, directions to a festival venue or updates on the latest celebrity sightings, our Festival Central team is there to help keep you up-to-date on the latest developments.

Can't get enough? Our entire collection of filmmaker interviews, plus some special bonus clips, will be available on the website. Visit www.calgaryfilm.com to see the latest updates.

WANT TO WIN TICKETS? COME ON DOWN!
Visit Festival Central for the chance to win some fabulous prizes. From complimentary tickets, to an American Express VIP pass for the 2009 festival, you never know what our street team has in store for a lucky winner. Prepare your movie trivia and CIFF knowledge, because one of our street team volunteers may just ask you.


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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What's New at Les Grands ballets Canadiens ?

Les Grands Ballets website gets a makeover

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montral has new Web presence! Visit our new site, created by Cyber Gnration. In just a few clicks, you'll discover our Behind the Scenes section highlighting the day-by-day offstage life of the company, in Montral and on tour, at rehearsal and on stage.

Find out more at www.grandsballets.com.


Memories of an unforgettable summer

Dancer Gabrielle Lamb is also a talented videomaker. With her camera, she followed day-by-day the unfogettable stay of the Company at the ts de la danse festival in Paris.

Click or copy and paste this link

http://www.grandsballets.com/fr/arriere-scene.php?i=21&t=video


Promotions and new arrivals:

Company welcomes 10 new dancers and promotes several artists

It's exciting times at Les Grands Ballets! This autumn the company will welcome 10 new dancers from the four corners of the world and several current dancers have also won well-earned promotions.



REMINDERS


Looking for angels, sheep, rats, reindeer, mice, matriochkas and Orientals

Auditions for The Nutcracker are just around the corner!


Auditions for Nutcracker will be held at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montral studios, 4816 Rivard Street (Laurier mtro) on September 18 and 19 and at the YMCA du Parc, 5550 Park Ave. on September 20. Children chosen for the various roles will perform in The Nutcracker ballet from December 13 to 30, 2008, in Salle Wilfred-Pelletier of Place des Arts. A unique opportunity!


First steps by four winners of Les Grands Ballets' first choreography

competition to be seen at Agora de la danse on September 25, 26 and 27

To kick off the new season, you are invited to witness the first steps of four young Canadian choreographers, winners of the choreography competition organized by Les Grands Ballets. Under the tireless mentoring of the company's Artistic Director, Gradimir Pankov, these young talents have been working in our studios creating new works for the company's dancers. A bold, original, vigorous wind is sweeping through the season! Be part of the excitement for only $15 on September 25, 26 and 27 at the Agora de la danse.


COMING THIS OCTOBER

one of the most lavish Grand Ballets productions yet: The Queen of Spades, from Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup

Hit the jackpot in October with The Queen of Spades (based on Alexander Pushkin's story), from Danish filmmaker/choreographer Kim Brandstrup. This magnificent full-length ballet featuring some 30 dancers boldly combines classical dance on pointe with virtual sets and will amaze you. And as a bonus, the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montral Orchestra will play Gabriel Thibaudeau's Tchaikovsky-inspired score.


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Baltimore Chamber Orch. vs Fauxharmonic Orch. | Live Vs. Digital


AN EXPERIMENT IN MUSIC-MAKING:

BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND FAUXHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PRESENT A COMPARISON OF LIVE SOUND

VERSUS DIGITAL ORCHESTRA,

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008, 4 P.M., AT BARGEMUSIC


FAUXHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TO USE BANG & OLUFSEN'S

BEOLAB 5 SYSTEM


Live versus digital: Can audiences tell the difference? Can a performance created by computer-based sound technology deliver the kind of aesthetic experience that we can expect from a traditional orchestra? These are questions for our time.


On Sunday, November 2, 2008, at 4 p.m., the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Markand Thakar, and The Fauxharmonic Orchestra under the Wii-mote of Paul Henry Smith, will allow audiences to answer the questions for themselves. In the bold experiment of a side-by-side comparison, Mr. Smith's digital orchestra will perform composer Mathew Quayle's Gridley Paige Road first, followed by the live performance by the twenty-one strings of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. This performance will take the digital orchestra out of the studio and into the concert hall.


Bang & Olufsen, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-end audio and video equipment, has generously agreed to supply Paul Henry Smith and the Fauxharmonic Orchestra with their BeoLab 5 loudspeaker system. Picked by Time Magazine as one of 2003's coolest inventions, the BeoLab 5 system will be the "instruments" of the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. The BeoLab 5's adaptive Bass Control system, coupled with Acoustic Lens Technology, ensures optimum sound experience regardless of the position of the loudspeaker.


Tickets for the November 2 event are available through Bargemusic. For reservations, call 718/624-2083 or 718/624-4061, or email: info@bargemusic.org. Tickets: $50; student: $25.


Markand Thakar, Music Director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, commented, "The BCO is committed to providing audiences with moving musical experiences, in highly diverse repertory -- from Mozart to Leshnoff, from violins to pipas to computers. Technology is advancing with extraordinary speed, to the point that digitally produced sound can approximate acoustic sound to a startling degree. We don't expect to ever be replaced by a computer, but we find this musical experiment fascinating."


According to Paul Henry Smith, "The BeoLab 5 speakers were the missing element to this live performance. They are the instruments of the digital orchestra. The B & O technology lets me concentrate on performing the music knowing that the sound quality will be great all around the hall."


The Program:

Matthew Quayle: Gridley Paige Road

Performed sequentially by The Fauxharmonic Orchestra and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

Jonathan Leshnoff: Trombone Concerto (World Premiere)

Christopher Dudley, soloist

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, K. 546

Bruckner: Adagio from the String Quintet in F major

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge (for string orchestra)


Tickets for the November 2 event are available through Bargemusic. For reservations, call 718/624-2083 or 718/624-4061, or email: info@bargemusic.org. Tickets: $50; student: $25.


What is a Digital Orchestra?

A digital orchestra, as explained by Paul Henry Smith, is the use of digital technology by musicians to approximate the sound of live orchestral performance. Simply put, digital orchestra music is produced on a computer. Like the production of any recorded music, the computer is involved in the mastering and mixing process. But unlike other recordings, the computer is also the instrument on which the music is played. Sound source material is housed on disks (or generated by the computer) and is organized by performance software. Sequencer software is then used to pull in the right sounds for the particular musical elements called for by the score (or by the musical keyboard or other instrument). Computing power is now great enough that the real-time selection of a single note from among hundreds of gigabytes of data is performed in milliseconds.


Conducting a Digital Orchestra

Live digital orchestral music is performed by incorporating real-time performance control into the mix. The conductor is on stage with a wireless controller, known as a Wii-mote, modified from the controller used with Nintendo's Wii gaming console, which acts as a baton. With that, the conductor can modify tempo, loudness, balance, timbre, brightness, and darkness -- many things that a conductor might alter in a given performance.


About Paul Henry Smith
Paul Henry Smith began his conducting studies with Gustav Meier and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood and continued with Sergiu Celibidache at the Curtis Institute and in Munich. He studied orchestration and composition with Richard Hoffmann, Lukas Foss, and Steven Scott Smalley. After stints as a conservatory professor and as an Internet entrepreneur he is now devoted to his work with digital instruments to widen the expressive possibilities of orchestral music performance.



In the 1980s, as a visiting researcher at MIT's Media Lab, Mr. Smith worked on early digital orchestra systems. Since then he has been pushing them to approach the facility, simplicity, quality, and responsiveness of acoustic instruments. Recently, these endeavors have begun to flower, due in part to recent advances in computer technology in general, as well as to a surge in the development of software specifically for orchestral music performance.



Mr. Smith is the founder of the Digital Orchestra League, a worldwide non-profit organization that brings together researchers, composers, and theorists, all working on digital orchestral music. He also oversees an annual international composition contest that promotes new orchestral music and encourages composers and performers to explore the artistic possibilities of digital instruments.



An amateur cellist, Mr. Smith lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.


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English Montral premire of Carole Frchette's JOHN & BATRICE


Infinithtre Opens 2008 09 Season with

Montral English Language Premire of


John & Batrice

By Carole Frchette

Translated by John Murrell

Directed by Guy Sprung


October 14 November 9, 2008


Infinithtre's highlights another Qubecois writer, introducing Anglophones to the award-winning Carole Frchettte in the Montral English language premire of John and Batrice at the Bain St-Michel, running from October 16 through November 9, with previews on October 14 and 15.


Love, that little, four-letter word, mysterious and elusive, evoking a myriad of complex and confusing emotions, with as many definitions as there are people. We want it, crave it, seek it yet also shun it, hide from it or run as far from it as possible. With a season focussing on three themes, Love, Hope and Faith, Infinitheatre's production of John & Batrice will be taking a look at love from an unusual vantage: a vacant room on the 33rd floor of a city skyscraper!


"Well-to-do young heiress, intelligent and perceptive, who has never loved anyone

is seeking a man who will interest, move and seduce her.

Substantial reward offered."


Batrice has circulated (widely) a "want ad" poster. Now she waits up in her tower for the perfect man to arrive. John answers the call and using simple, unsophisticated language, this enterprising young man stirs emotions in Batrice almost before she is aware of his effect. Through John's character, Frchette masterfully elicits in her audience all the emotions that Batrice yearns to experience. But what then? A cross between Greek myth and fairytale, John and Batrice asks the eternal questions of male and female archetypes in their relation to one another. Will the protected female open herself to experience the release and freedom of love? Will the macho male find the grit to become vulnerable enough to gain love's lasting, inner rewards?


The two-hander features Tania Kontoyanni and Frank Schorpion, two Canadian actors who successfully work in both official languages. Director, Guy Sprung, was drawn to the blend of myth and humour that Frchette uses to explore the tenets of love in this piece. "Frchette is one of our major playwrights and it's time Anglophone Qubec gets to enjoy her sublime writing. Working with bilingual actors who bring a depth of insight from having read both the French and English scripts enriches the whole process."


Frchette had her own demons to contend with when she wrote this play ten years ago. "The monsters that lived in me at the time, incarnated in this woman, arrogant and controlling, and in this man, the calculator, enclosed in himself, make me want to run and hide today." The two characters personify the duality of love. "Batrice seeks love sublime, transcendent, love suspended in an apartment between sky and ground. The love of which young girls dream, of which I still perhaps dreamed, secretly, writing this funny duet. And then there is the love that John runs from, choking love, threatening, love that takes you to seventh heaven all the better to let you crash to the floor, love which shakes your will and your identity, misleading love that never completely tells the truth. Love that the boys fear, the love-prison that I still feared, undoubtedly, at the time of writing this funny duel."


The set is designed by NTS graduate and alumnus of l'cole Nationale d'Art Appliques et des Mtiers d'Art, Perrine Biette, with costumes by Ariane Genet, also a NTS graduate, lighting by Eric Mongerson and his assistant, Audrey-Anne Bouchard, with sound by one of Montral's busiest sound designers, Troy Slocum. Tom Fennario captains the video contributions to this production, (he last worked with Inifnithtre on Gas, projecting horrific scenes of the Iraq war onto the walls of the Bain) with stage management by Sarah-Marie Langlois.


Of special interest to note is that the same set for Jean and Batrice will be used for the subsequent Infinithtre offering, Plucked, Hammered and Strung, to run concurrently at the Bain the last two weekends in October. It is the quirky semi-autobiographical cabaret of Seventeen [Anonymous] Women playwright, Carolyn Guillet. Information about that play will be circulated presently in a separate release.


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Daniel Hope delivers the Classics Keynote for the Popkomm Conference


The violinist and author is the keynote speaker for the Classics section of this year's Popkomm Conference

He is an internationally renowned violin virtuoso, a celebrated author and one of the stars of the world of classical music: Daniel Hope. Popkomm has been able to acquire the prominent South African violinist as one of the main speakers on the Classics Panel of this years Popkomm Conference.

Hope is recognised as an outstanding interpreter of Berg, Britten and Shostakovich, as well as of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Vivaldi.

For many years he was the musical partner of the legendary Yehudi Menuhin. As Daniel Hope explains: Classical music is an important part of our society, and must remain so. At a meeting such as this we, as classical musicians, must show an understanding and a willingness to communicate in order to ensure a discerning and dynamic platform for the 21st century. These efforts are also being supported by Popkomm. The importance of the classics at Popkomm is underlined by the involvement of the Association of Classical Independents in Germany e.V., known by the acronym CLASS, for the first time, according to the General Manager of Popkomm, Dr. Ralf Kleinhenz.

Daniel Hopes active life began in 1974 in Durban, South Africa, although the family emigrated only six months later. His father Christopher, a writer, was an opponent of apartheid. In London the mother of Daniel Hope, Eleanor, became Yehudi Menuhins secretary and later his manager. Hope had his first violin lessons at the age of four, made his first television appearance at ten, and at eleven he played Bartk with Menuhin on German television. This was the first of over 60 concerts given by the two violinists. In 2001 the London Evening Standard named Hope as Classical Performer of the Year, and one year later he became the newest member of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio the pinnacle of achievement for a chamber musician. In 2004 he was appointed deputy artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival, was named Young Artist of the Year at the Classical Brit Awards in London, and received the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the first of a total of three Classics Echos. One year later he played in Dachau to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp, and was also nominated for two Grammys. Since 2006 he has been collaborating with Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police. In 2007 his first book was published, entitled Familienstcke: Eine Spurensuche (Family Album: Following the Trail), a complex investigation of the history of his Jewish family, who were expelled from Germany by the Nazis.

Dr. Ralf Kleinhenz, General Manager of Popkomm: With Daniel Hope an outstanding musician has been acquired as a keynote speaker at Popkomm, but he is also a person who thinks outside the box, who is at home in different areas of music and has also experienced success as a writer.

Popkomm

As an international platform for the music and entertainment industry Popkomm attracts thousands of trade visitors from all over the world. What makes Popkomm so unique is the integrated concept of this event. Popkomm is the only industry meeting place in the world that combines a trade show with a conference and a festival. Consequently Popkomm is a major attraction not only for its core business of music but also because it brings the representatives of other sectors such as concerts, the movies, mobile entertainment and advertising to the exhibition halls in Berlin. The fifth Popkomm is taking place in Berlin in 2008, from 8 to 10 October. It is organised by Popkomm GmbH, Berlin. This year the partner country at Popkomm is Turkey.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

ECM devient ECM+

C'est la rentre culturelle et l'automne nous rserve une pluie de nouveauts!

Un nouveau nom...
PLUS QU'UN ENSEMBLE, l'Ensemble contemporain de Montral est heureux de vous annoncer qu'il s'appelle dsormais l'ECM+ (Ensemble contemporain de Montral+), un lger changement qui reflte les multiples aspects de notre organisme. ECM+live, ECM+prsente, ECM+dbuts, ECM+film... cette anne encore, diverses sries mettront de l'avant la cration musicale d'ici.

... une nouvelle saison...
Sur le thme La cration sons naturels, l'ECM+ vous dvoile sa programmation 2008-2009, 100% crative! Sans produits chimiques ni agents de conservation, l'ECM+ a cueilli avec soin chaque uvre musicale pour la sant de vos oreilles.
Ci-joint notre communiqu de saison. (Vous pourrez trs prochainement consulter notre tout nouveau site Web et tlcharger le dpliant de saison pour de plus amples renseignements.)

... et un ralliement festif!
Nous profitons galement de ce message pour vous inviter au lancement collectif du Groupe Le Vivier (voir invitation ci-jointe). L'ECM+ est fier de participer ce groupe qui a pour but de fonder un lieu ddi aux musiques nouvelles. Le percussionniste Olivier Maranda, jeune soliste qui a brill lors de notre concert ECM+dbuts en dcembre dernier, reprendra un extrait de la pice Rebond de Xenakis. Offrez-vous nouveau le plaisir de l'entendre et venez nous rencontrer pour appuyer le projet du Vivier!

Lancement du groupe Le Vivier
Jeudi 18 sept., 17 h
Socit des arts technologiques (SAT)
1195, boul. Saint-Laurent

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A shower of fresh news for the fall!

A new name...
An ensemble and more, Ensemble contemporain de Montral is pleased to announce its new name: ECM+ (Ensemble contemporain de Montral +), a small modification to reflect the multiple aspects of our company. This year again, our different series ECM+live, ECM+presents, ECM+debut, ECM+film... give center stage to Canadian music creation.

...a new season...
With its "Creating sounds naturally" theme, ECM+ unveils a 100% creative 2008-2009 season! Each musical work was harvested with care by ECM+ for the health of your ears. See our attached season flyer. (Our new website will be up very shortly and you can download our season's brochure for more information).

... and a collective launch!
This is also an invitation to Groupe Le Vivier's collective launch. ECM+ is proud to be part of a group working to establish a venue dedicated to new music. Olivier Maranda, percussionist, who mesmerized the public in last season's ECM+debut concert, will perform an excerpt of Xenakis' Rebond. We hope to see you Thursday for the pleasure of hearing him again and meeting with us to support our Vivier project!

Groupe Le Vivier launch
Thursday September 18, 5PM

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Angela Cheng with the Victoria Symphony


One of Canada's brightest stars, pianist Angela Cheng opens the 2008/2009 Victoria Symphony Legacy Series

Victoria, BC On September 29, Canada's own Angela Cheng will open the Victoria Symphony's innovative and inspiring Legacy Series. Conducted by Tania Miller, Ms Cheng will perform Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1. Pieces also on the program are Dvok Symphony No.6 and Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla composed by Glinka. There will be only one performance at the Royal Theatre, September 29 at 8:00pm.

Consistently cited for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship, Angela Cheng is one of Canada's brightest stars. She has appeared as a soloist with virtually every orchestra in Canada as well as many across the United States. Ms Cheng has received rave reviews from major newspapers and media across the country: "Ķmore important is the musical evidence that [Cheng] is now speaking not with the voice of generic virtuosity and conventional received wisdom, but with her own voice, about individual works in which she is passionately and artistically involved...It was enthralling." The Globe and Mail.

Cheng will be performing Brahms' Piano Concerto no.1, a piece that overflows with vibrancy and colour. The second movement features beautiful passages highlighting the oboes and clarinets and the last movement is brought home with heroic themes and spectacular flourishes.

The Legacy Series presents performances of past and present legacies, honouring musical works that have endured the test of time and also introducing future classics. In 2008/2009 glorious symphonies such as Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 1 and Schubert's Symphony

no. 9 "The Great" will be performed as well as the world premiere of Estacio's Symphony no. 2. Concertmaster Terence Tam makes his solo debut with the orchestra and three extraordinary pianists, Angela Cheng, Anton Kuerti and Katherine Chi will make guest appearances. The finale of the Legacy Series is an impressive performance of Carmina Burana led by Music Director Tania Miller.

Angela Cheng appears regularly on recital series throughout the U.S. and Canada and has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including the Takcs, Colorado and Vogler quartets. Her many festival appearances include Chautauqua, Colorado, Houston, Vancouver and the Festival International de Lanaudire in Quebec. This summer Ms Cheng performed with Pinchas Zuckerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra and with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

Ms Cheng was the 1986 Gold Medal winner at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition as well as the first Canadian to win the prestigious Montreal International Piano Competition in 1988. In the same year, the Canada Council awarded Ms Cheng its coveted Career Development Grant. For her outstanding interpretations of Mozart, she received the Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1991.

The 2008-2009 season marks Tania Miller's sixth as music director of the Victoria Symphony, an appointment that made her the first woman to hold such a significant position in Canada. Her vibrancy and dynamic approach to music making have inspired many innovations with the Victoria Symphony and a new era of artistic growth for the orchestra.

The Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Island's largest and most active arts organization offering its audiences 68 years of tradition, a commitment to fostering new music and a dedication to community involvement through music education. Showcasing the outstanding talents of its musicians and guest artists the Victoria Symphony's 2008-2009 season offers a diverse and exciting line-up of over 50 concerts led by its vibrant Music Director Tania Miller.

The Victoria Symphony's Legacy 1 concert with Angela Cheng takes place at the Royal Theatre on Monday, September 29 at 8:00pm.

Tickets from $28.50 to $67.50. Student tickets from $16 to $25.50.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 250.385.6515 or 250.386.6121 or online at www.victoriasymphony.ca

Support for this concert provided by Neville and Jill Gibson.

For complete programming details of the 2008-2009 season please visit www.victoriasymphony.ca.


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Hold the dates: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Hold the Dates!

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre
and Ernst & Young Present
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Greg Kramer

Mark these dates in your fall calendar
Sunday, October 26- Sunday, November 16, 2008

88.5 CBC Radio One presents the Sunday-@-the-Segal lecture for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Sunday, October 26, 11am with acclaimed director Diana Leblanc.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre
At The Segal Centre for the Performing Arts at the Saidye
5170 Cote St. Catherine Rd.
Monday to Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at 7:00 p.m.
Matines: Wednesdays, 1:00pm and Sundays, 2:00 pm

Reservations: (514) 739-7944

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French flair launches Sundays at 3 season

French flair launches Sundays at 3 season


A prince among performers is set to tackle the king of instruments when French virtuoso Vincent Dubois performs on the renowned Davis Concert Organ at the Winspear Centre for Music (99 St. & 102 Ave.) Sunday, October 5 at 3 p.m. Dubois' Winspear appearance is the focus of Edmonton's first annual Winona and Stuart Davis Memorial Organ Recital, which also launches the Sundays at 3 Organ Recital Series 2008/2009 season.


Dubois hasn't even reached the age of 30 and already he's been hailed as "one of the world's leading young concert organists" by trade publication The American Organist. He's also won the Recital Gold Medal at the 2002 Calgary International Organ Competition and the Grand Prize at the 2002 International Competition of Toulouse, France, which resulted in a performance itinerary that has since stretched around the globe. He's appeared solo and with such world-renowned ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong-Kong Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France. Dubois also has an expanding discography that includes interpretations of the work of Franz Liszt on the Vox label as well as two releases recorded in France on the Jav label.


Born in 1980, Dubois started on organ when he was 11 at the Cathedral of St. Brieux, before furthering his studies at the National Conservatory of Angers and the Conservatoire National Supriour de Musique de Paris, studying with Olivier Latry, who performed in Edmonton at Windspiration in 2007. Dubois is currently the Assistant Director of the Conservatoire National of Angers, where he previously was an instructor, and has been the titular organist at the Cathedral of Soissons since 2001.


Dubois will perform an all-French program that begins with a transcription by Marcel Dupr of a Bach cantata orchestral overture. Following some of the most colourful works by Csar Franck, Louise Vierne and Maurice Durufl, Dubois will improvise on submitted themes showcasing his virtuosity and creating on the spot a new and dazzling work. His improvisations have enthralled audiences and critics worldwide.


Tickets for the Winona and Stuart Davis Memorial Organ Recital are $20 and available at the Winspear box office or Tix on the Square; Jan, Feb. concerts $15 at Tix on the Square or at the door. Season subscriptions are $45 and available by calling (780) 454-3882 or Tix on the Square at (780) 420-1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca. For more information, contact the Sundays at 3 Organ Concert Series at (780) 429-1655 or visit their website at www.rcco.edmonton.ab.ca.

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Portland Symphony Orchestra opens Music Director Robert Moody's Inaugural Season



PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OPENS MUSIC DIRECTOR ROBERT MOODY'S INAUGURAL SEASON OCTOBER 7

PORTLAND, Maine Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is celebrating Music Director Robert Moody's dynamic new vision for the PSO at the opening concert of his inaugural season on Tuesday, October 7 at Merrill Auditorium. Moody will open the evening with Dvok's exuberant Carnival Overture followed by Liquid Interface by Mason Bates, commissioned and recently premiered by the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The celebratory program concludes with the always-popular Pictures at an Exhibition, composed by Mussorgsky and arranged by Maurice Ravel.

Limited seating is available for this exciting opening of PSO's 2008-2009 season. The concert, which is sponsored by Fairpoint Communications, begins at 7:30 p.m. with a Concert Conversation at 6:15 and a post-concert After Party.

Other Inaugural Events:

  • PSO @ SPACE: Sunday, October 5
    Robert Moody will host this unique first-time collaboration between the PSO and Portland's SPACE Gallery. In addition to his show with the PSO on Tuesday, Mason Bates, who is also known as DJ Masonic, will perform with the Improvisational String Quartet (Yasmin Craig Vitalius, PSO violinist; Nathan Kolosko, classical guitar; Al Giusto, resonator guitar; and Catherine Stambach, acoustic bass). For details, call (207) 828-5600 or visit www.space538.org.
  • PSO Pops: "Tribute to John Williams" October 11-12
    Moody opens the PSO Pops! series joined by members of the Choral Art Society, USM Chamber Singers, and Saco Bay Children's Choir, along with special guests from the 501st Legion, a worldwide Star Wars fan club. Patrons will hear John Williams' most memorable classics from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and more. Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Sponsored by L.L. Bean.
  • Masked Inaugural Ball Saturday, October 25
    This elegant, black-tie evening to honor Moody's inaugural season will be held at the Portland Country Club. For details and reservations, call (207) 773-6128 or email events@portlandsymphony.com.

All Portland Symphony Orchestra tickets are sold through PortTix at (207) 842-0800 or www.porttix.com, and new this year, the website offers real-time online seat selection. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office at 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. For complete season information, including artist biographies and program notes, visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

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York's Petrowska Quilico premieres Ann Southam cycle

Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico launches York U Faculty Concert Series

Toronto, September 16, 2008: Christina Petrowska Quilico, renowned pianist and champion of Canadian music, launches the 2008-09 Faculty Concert Series of York Universitys Music Department on October 7 in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall at York. Her concert, titled Pond Life, will feature the Toronto premiere of Creeks and Rivers, a new cycle of 17 solo piano movements written especially for her by noted Canadian composer Ann Southam.

Building on the success of an earlier collaboration titled Rivers, which Petrowska Quilico has performed internationally and released on a three-CD set by Centrediscs in 2005, Creeks and Rivers marks several decades of musical partnership as well as a longstanding friendship.

Ann and I met 25 years ago, said Petrowska Quilico. She asked if I would record some of her repertoire, and thats how it started. We had a good working relationship from the beginning. She is very open and I am flexible, and together were all about the music.

Since then, weve lived parallel lives, with various traumas and a lot of good times too, and weve become very good friends. The security of our friendship and our mutual trust encourages experimentation in our work together. That freedom is part of the reason I love playing her music.

On this project I think we had the most fun coming up with the titles for the pieces, Petrowska Quilico said. Anns music is deeply inspired by nature, and the names in this cycle describe the pieces so well. There are three creeks, Commotion Creek, Fidget Creek and Fiddle Creek, and there is a Noisy River. I will book-end the recital with Spatial View of Pond 1 and Pond 2.

Petrowska Quilico describes Creeks and Rivers as 90 minutes of virtuosic, introspective music. She gave the world premiere performance of the work this summer at the Sound Symposium in St. Johns NL.

People looked really happy and blissed-out when they left," she said. Its that kind of program its spiritual.

Petrowska Quilico has premiered and recorded numerous Southam compositions.

Southams Glass Houses is one of the Petrowska Quilicos signature pieces, and she has included selections from that suite on three other solo albums: Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Own Time (1992), Northern Sirens (1998) and most recently, Ings, her 20th recording, released this spring by Centrediscs. Reviewers hailed her rendition of Southams music on Ings as hypnotically beautiful (David Olds, Wholenote) and Ķgiven loving treatmentĶ. the intelligence informing the performances [is] generous and warm (J.H. Stape, Review Vancouver).

Prior to her 2005 recording of the entire Rivers series for Centrediscs Ann Southam - Canadian Composers Portrait, Petrowska Quilico featured excerpts of the work on her 1996 CD Mystic Streams.


"Ķ when Christina performed it, I loved the sound and what was happening as her hands interacted, Southam said of her Rivers performance. And I loved the little tunes and motifs that could be heard in the interaction between the hands. It takes a whiz-bang pianist to make those heard. I don't how she does it!"

One of Canadas foremost pianists, Petrowska Quilico is widely recognized as an innovative and adventurous artist and a leading ambassador of the music of our time. She has appeared in solo recitals, chamber settings and with orchestras on four continents. Much in demand as an interpreter of contemporary music, she has premiered more than 100 works by eminent national and international composers. She has been a professor of piano performance and musicology at York since 1987.

Petrowska Quilicos Pond Life is the first of five performances in the Faculty Concert Series spotlighting faculty artists in the Department of Music at York University. Upcoming concerts will feature drummer Trichy Sankaran (Oct. 27), jazz bassist Al Henderson (Jan. 13), violinist Jacques Israelievitch (Jan. 27) and pianist Dorothy de Val (Feb. 10).

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What: Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano: Pond Life
When: Tues. October 7 at 7:30pm
Where: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. [Map]
Admission: single tickets $15, students & seniors $5 | series tickets: three-concert package for $30
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | www.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice

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Le Chur de la montagne

Le Chur de la montagne convie le grand public

partager une inoubliable exprience chorale !


Beloeil, le 17 septembre 2008 - Dans le cadre de la 12e dition des JOURNES DE LA CULTURE, le Choeur de la montagne invite le grand public se familiariser avec le chant choral. Venez vivre une passionnante exprience chorale : apprivoisez la lecture vue et participez l'une des premires rptitions du Gloria de Vivaldi qui sera prsent en concert les 13 et 14 dcembre Beloeil. En aprs-midi, trois ateliers musicaux vous sont proposs.


Date Samedi, 27 septembre 2008, de 09h00 16h30

Lieu Centre de formation artistique du Choeur de la montagne, 620, rue Richelieu, Beloeil (entre arrire du Centre culturel)


Programme

9h00 9h15 Arrive et accueil

9h15 9h45 Rchauffement et technique vocale

9h45 11h45 Lecture des mouvements churs du Gloria de Vivaldi

11h45 12h45 Dner

13h00 13h40 Choix d'ateliers musicaux avec reprise de 13h45 14h30 pour permettre chacun de faire 2 des 3 activits

1) Lecture de Madrigaux, dirige par Robert Ingari

2) Technique vocale, dirige par Julie Dufresne

3) Lecture de notes et de rythmes, dirige par Francine Lacroix

14h30 15h00 Pause

15h00 Enchanement des mouvements "choeurs' avec les musiciens prsents.

Bienvenue tous !


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Monday, September 15, 2008

Nathaniel Dett Chorale's 10th anniversary


A NEW HOME, NEW TOURS, MORE CONCERTS, MORE OUTREACH!
THE NATHANIEL DETT CHORALE'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Founder, Artistic Director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor

The 2008-2009 season gives Canada's acclaimed Nathaniel Dett Chorale more reason than ever to sing! The Chorale presents its 10th anniversary season from a new home in downtown Toronto with more concerts, old friends, two tours, and a new program to cultivate the next generation of Chorale vocalists.

Through a partnership with the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale moves to the acoustically dazzling Glenn Gould Studio in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre. The ever-popular concerts will once again be centred around the themes of "An Indigo Christmas" as the holiday offering; "Voices of the Diaspora" will be performed in February, and "And Still We Sing" in May. The February concert will also feature famous Chorale alumni. Throughout the season, the Chorale will give two performances of each program, with concerts on Wednesday and Saturday evenings.

Two major tours also highlight the 2008-2009 season. From the end of September through October, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale tours the United States with stops in Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. In February 2009, the Chorale heads out west for concerts in Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon.

This season, the Chorale also launches its first training choir for senior high school students. Working in cooperation with the Toronto District School Board, the Chorale will select talented students of African Heritage from across the Greater Toronto Area to participate in this initiative, which includes vocal coaching, sight singing and ear training instruction, mentoring in choral technique, and immersion in Afrocentric repertoire, history, and philosophy. Participating students will be given the opportunity to interact and perform with the professional singers of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and will be encouraged to demonstrate leadership and mentorship in their home schools. This pilot project is made possible through the generous support of The Bennett Family Foundation (Toronto) and the RBC Foundation.

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is Canada's first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues. These 21 classically-trained, outstanding vocalists have shared the stage with internationally recognized artists such as Juno Award-winning jazz pianist Joe Sealy, opera star Kathleen Battle, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale's vision is to build bridges of understanding, appreciation, and acceptance between communities of people, both Afrocentric and other, through the medium of music. They seek to dissolve the barriers of stereotype, to empower humans in general, and those of African descent in particular.

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale's 2008.09 Concert Season in Toronto
An Indigo Christmas Great Joy!: Wednesday, December 17, and Saturday, December 20, 2008, at 8pm
Voices of the Diaspora Dett to Africa: Wednesday, February 25, and Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 8pm
And Still We Sing All o' We Is One: Wednesday, May 27, and Saturday, May 30, 2009, at 8pm
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West, Toronto
Subscribe to all 3 concerts for $99; individual tickets $39.50, students/seniors $35
Tickets available in person at the Roy Thomson Hall box office, 60 Simcoe St.,
by calling 416.872.4255 or online at www.roythomson.com
www.nathanieldettchroale.org

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2 Gemeaux pour Toc Toc Toc

DEUX PRIX GMEAUX
POUR LA SRIE JEUNESSE TOC TOC TOC !


Montral, le lundi 15 septembre 2008 Aprs seulement une anne de diffusion, Toc Toc Toc a rcolt deux trophes hier au gala des Prix Gmeaux dans les catgories Meilleur site web pour une mission ou srie jeunesse (Carmen Bourassa et Lucie Veillet) et Meilleur rle de soutien : jeunesse pour le comdien Denis Houle (M. Craquepoutte). Produite par Tlfiction (Pin-Pon, Cornemuse), Toc Toc Toc, la srie prfre des 3 8 ans, tait en nomination dans quatre autres catgories.

Depuis le 8 septembre, les tout-petits peuvent retrouver You, Alia, Kao, Zala, Rabou, Musette, Azim, Babiouche, la Grubule et le grognon M. Craquepoutte tous les matins de la semaine 7h30 Radio-Canada. Ds le 22 septembre, Tl-Qubec diffusera aussi les 65 nouvelles aventures, en semaine 17h30.

Toc Toc Toc est une srie tl qui stimule limaginaire des enfants. Laction se droule dans un village mystrieux nich dans une valle entoure dimmenses rochers. Cest ainsi que la tte pleine dides et propulss par leur curiosit, You, Alia, Kao et Zala explorent leur univers, exercent leur imagination, inventent des jeux, des chansons, des aventures qui leur permettent de samuser tout en apprenant.

Les DVD de Toc Toc Toc volumes 1 et 2, regroupant chacun 5 pisodes tirs de la premire saison, sont disponibles en magasin. La peluche de la Grubule est galement offerte la boutique de Radio-Canada et chez Archambault.
www.radio-canada.ca/toctoctoc

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Mozart Brahms Festival includes Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, and more!

The NAC Orchestra launches its 08-09 season with a Mozart Brahms Festival led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, including special guests Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Janina Fialkowska, the Tokyo Quartet and more, Sept. 23-Oct 2

Ottawa, Canada Pinchas Zukerman opens his tenth season as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra on Tuesday, September 23 with a Mozart Brahms Festival that runs until Thursday, October 2. For ten magnificent days these two classical titans meet face to face in concerts featuring such superstars as violinist Itzhak Perlman, conductor Zubin Mehta, pianist Janina Fialkowska, the Tokyo and Escher String Quartets and Pinchas Zukerman as conductor, violinist and violist. Audiences will hear how each composer illuminates the other through orchestral, vocal, chamber and family concerts including pre- and post-concert talks given by media and musical celebrities. There are five orchestral concerts on September 23, 24 and 27, and October 1 and 2 in Southam Hall at 8 p.m.; four chamber music concerts at the National Gallery of Canada on September 26 and 28 and October 1 and 2 (at various times); and two separate daytime family events on September 27. (A chronological listing of concerts follows.)

The Festival includes pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. prior to each of the five orchestral concerts, in English on Sept. 23, 27 and Oct. 2, and in French on Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. Speakers include CBC Radio personalities Eric Friesen, Alan Neal and Jill LaForty, and music critics Richard Todd, Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer and Franois Tousignant. In addition, on Sept. 27 principal bassoon Christopher Millard will record a podcast with Pinchas Zukerman and his daughter Arianna Zukerman in front of a live audience for the Orchestras renowned NACOcast series.

The musical content of the Festival includes all four Brahms symphonies, with Nos. 1, 3 and 4 conducted by Pinchas Zukerman and No. 2 conducted by Zubin Mehta in his NAC Orchestra debut. Mehta will also lead Pinchas Zukerman in the Brahms Violin Concerto; violinist Itzhak Perlman will join violist Zukerman for Mozarts Duo for Violin and Viola in G major and Sinfonia Concertante; pianist Janina Fialkowska will perform Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 24; and Pinchas Zukerman will conduct Mozarts Requiem with his daughter soprano Arianna Zukerman, mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson, tenor Wesley Rogers and bass John Fanning, with the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, the Ottawa Choral Society and the Ottawa Festival Chorus under chorus master Duain Wolfe. The concerts on Sept. 23 and 24 are also the opening concerts of the Mark Motors Audi Signature Series, and the concerts on Oct. 1 and 2 are the opening concerts of the Ovation Series.

CBC Radio 2 (103.3) is the official broadcast partner of the Festival. All four Brahms Symphonies plus the Violin Concerto are being recorded by CBC Radio 2 for broadcast on Tempo hosted by Julie Nesrallah and Sunday Afternoon in Concert hosted by Bill Richardson.

The world-famous Tokyo String Quartet will perform two different programmes combining Mozart, Brahms, Haydn and Webern on September 26 at 8 p.m. and on September 28 at 2 p.m. (the latter doubling as the opening chamber music concert of the Music for a Sunday Afternoon series). The rising star Escher Quartet, made up of four of Pinchas Zukermans students from the NAC Summer Music Institute and the Manhattan School of Music, will perform Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven in two different programmes in the Rideau Chapel of the National Gallery at 12 noon on October 1 and 2.

There are two family events on Saturday, September 27. The Shoestring Opera will present a show for children aged 5 to 8 based on Mozarts Magic Flute in the Panorama Room at 11 a.m. At 3 p.m. there will be an interactive workshop exploring the NACs Flentrop Organ for ages 8 to 15 given by organist Thomas Annand and Ian MacKay of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

COMPLETE MOZART BRAHMS FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING

ITZHAK AND PINCHAS

Tuesday, September 23 at 8 p.m.

Mark Motors Audi Signature Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, viola

Itzhak Perlman, violin

MOZART Duo for violin and viola in G major

MOZART Sinfonia concertante

BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

The Mozart/Brahms Connection

with CBC Radio Network Host Eric Friesen

ITZHAK AND PINCHAS ENCORE

Wednesday, September 24 at 8 p.m.

Mark Motors Audi Signature Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, viola

Itzhak Perlman, violin

MOZART Duo for violin and viola in G major

MOZART Sinfonia concertante

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in French)

Aimez-vous Brahms? Et Mozart?

with music critic Jean Jacques Van Vlasselaer

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Friday, September 26 at 8 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Auditorium

Tokyo String Quartet

HAYDN String Quartet No. 60 in G major, Op. 76, No. 1

MOZART String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, Prussian 2

BRAHMS String Quartet No. 1 in C minor

SHOESTRING MAGIC FLUTE

Saturday, September 27 at 11:00 (in English)

Mozart Brahms Festival

Panorama Room: mats for children and chairs for grown-ups (for ages 5-8)

Based on Mozarts famous opera, Shoestring Opera presents the story of Allegra, lost in a dark forest on her way home from school. Enter Papageno, a feathered birdcatcher pursued by a Dragon and the fun, adventure and glorious singing begin! Featuring two singer-actors, a cellist, a pianist and Mozarts beautiful music this is an ideal childs introduction to the joy of opera.

EXPLORE THE FLENTROP ORGAN

Saturday, September 27 at 3 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

For ages 8-15

Southam Hall backstage

Thomas Annand, organ

Ian MacKay, Royal Canadian College of Organists

Ever wonder why the organ is called the king of instruments? Find out in this exciting interactive workshop especially for families held backstage in Southam Hall. Hear the music of Mozart and Brahms as your children explore the massive Flentrop organ, a thank-you gift to the NAC from the Dutch community in Canada.

MOZARTS TRANSCENDENT REQUIEM

Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

Arianna Zukerman, soprano

Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano

Wesley Rogers, tenor

John Fanning, bass-baritone

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Ottawa Choral Society

Ottawa Festival Chorus

Duain Wolfe, chorus master

MOZART Requiem

Musically Speaking Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

Eyeing Eternity

CBC Radio host Alan Neal leads a discussion with CBC Radio Music Producer Jill LaForty

Musically Speaking Post-Concert Talkback (in English)

NACOcast host and principal bassoon Christopher Millard hosts a podcast with Pinchas Zukerman and his daughter Arianna Zukerman.

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Sunday, September 28

Music for a Sunday Afternoon and Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Auditorium at 2 p.m.

Tokyo String Quartet

Pinchas Zukerman, viola

Amanda Forsyth, cello

WEBERN String Quartet, Op. 28

HAYDN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50, No. 1
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

Wednesday, October 1 at 12 noon

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Rideau Chapel

Escher String Quartet

MOZART Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387
BEETHOVEN Quartet Op. 59, No. 3

MEHTA, ZUKERMAN AND BRAHMS

Wednesday, October 1 at 8 p.m.

Ovation Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Pinchas Zukerman, violin

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in French)

Aprs lart pour lart, voici la musique pour la musique

with Montreal music critic and composer Franois Tousignant

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

Thursday, October 2 at 12 noon

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Rideau Chapel

Escher String Quartet

MOZART Quartet No. 17, B-flat major, K. 458, "The Hunt"
BRAHMS Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major

THE PASSION OF MOZART AND BRAHMS

Thursday, October 2 at 8 p.m.

Ovation Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

Janina Fialkowska, piano

MOZART Overture to Cos fan tutte

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24

BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

What Mozart forgot to tell Brahms

with Ottawa Citizen music critic Richard Todd

Tickets are on sale now at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NACs website at www.nac-cna.ca.

Tickets for the NAC Orchestra concerts in Southam Hall at 8 p.m. (if available) are $39 to $115 on Sept. 23 and 24; $25 to $89 on Sept. 27 and Oct. 1; and $19 to $86 on Oct. 2 (5% GST and Facility Fee included). The Tokyo Quartet concerts in the Auditorium of the National Gallery are $29 and the Escher Quartet concerts in the Rideau Chapel are $ 20. The Shoestring Magic Flute and Explore the Flentrop Organ, both on Sept. 27, are $8 for children and $14 for adults.

Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid student ID card. Live Rush tickets at $11 (subject to availability) are available for full-time students aged 13 to 29 between 2 p.m the day before a performance until 6 p.m the day of the performance, upon presentation of a valid Live Rush card. Groups of 10 and more save 15% to 20% off the regular price of tickets to NAC Music, Theatre and Dance performances. To reserve your seats call 613-947-7000 ext. 384 or email grp@nac-cna.ca. Subscriptions are also still available by calling the Subscription Office at 613-947-7000, ext. 620.

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Un grand dossier sur la Webradio Espace Classique le chef Yannick Nzet-Sguin Rotterdam

COMMUNIQU
Diffusion immdiate

Montral, lundi 15 septembre 2008 - partir d'aujourd'hui, Radio-Canada.ca/espaceclassique, les internautes ont accs un dossier complet sur les dbuts de Yannick Nzet-Sguin en tant que nouveau directeur musical de l'Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam.

UN SITE VIVANT ET INTERACTIF!
Le public y trouvera plusieurs entrevues, un album photos, des concerts en ligne et des informations sur l'adaptation de Yannick sa nouvelle vie aux Pays-Bas. De plus, le chef invite les internautes traverser le centre de Rotterdam avec lui, lors d'une balade virtuelle vlo, o il propose une visite de quelques grands monuments et de ses petits coins prfrs!

D'autre part, les mlomanes pourront entendre sur demande, pendant trois semaines, la Symphonie no 5 de Chostakovitch enregistre lors du concert d'intronisation qui s'est tenu dans la grande salle du De Doelen le 14 juin dernier.

CONCOURS JOUEZ AU CHEF AVEC YANNICK
Pour souligner l'vnement, du 15 septembre au 3 octobre, Espace musique invite chaleureusement le public participer au concours Jouez au chef avec Yannick en rpondant aux questions poses lors des SOIRES CLASSIQUES animes par Michel Keable du lundi au jeudi 20 h. Les rponses sont dissimules sur le site Radio-Canada.ca/espaceclassique. Les prix : cinq chanceux recevront une vritable baguette de chef autographie par Yannick Nzet-Sguin, accompagne du plus rcent enregistrement de l'Orchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral, dont il est galement le chef attitr.

Nous vous invitons naviguer ds maintenant sur ce site particulirement original au Radio-Canada.ca/espaceclassique et profiter des plus belles heures de musique classique sur Internet.


dimestres : Franoise Davoine et Julien Cayer

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COC December Listings


December 2 to December 18, 2008

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

145 Queen St. W. (at University Avenue)

The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre includes concerts, performances and presentations by young artists, Canadian and international opera stars and COC staff. This is an exciting opportunity for Torontonians to experience the artistic excellence and cultural diversity of the city. All performances are free to the public.

Date

Series

Artist

December 2, 2008

12 1 p.m.

World Music Series

University of Torontos 20-piece Balinese Gamelan Dharma Santi with I Wayan Sinti, playing the Balinese suling, presents Music from the Temples and Palaces of Bali. I Wayan Sinti is one of Balis most distinguished artists, who specializes in the Balinese flute known as suling.

December 3, 2008

5:30 6:30 p.m.

December 9, 2008

5:30 6:30 p.m.

Jazz Series

Jazz Series

Sultans of String features Chris McKhool, violin, and Kevin Lalibert, guitar, performing Songs of Canada and Beyond. This unique mix of global rhythms and sounds comes together to tell stories like only the Sultans of String can. The Sultans of String have made their mark on the Canadian music scene, receiving two Ontario Independent Music Awards as well as being finalists in the 2008 International, Canadian and Toronto Independent Music Awards.

The Humber Vocal Jazz Ensemble featuring director, Trish Colter, perform Vocalise and All That Jazz. Imaginative director, Trish Colter and an exciting eight-voice ensemble with jazz rhythm section, explore the sounds of Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices, Vocalise and All That Jazz.

December 10, 2008

12 1 p.m.

Vocal Series

The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble led by conductor

Brian Current presents composer Dean Burrys Pandoras Locker.

This new urban-inspired opera tells the story of the Greek myth, Pandoras Box. The opera places the myth of Pandora in the contemporary setting of an inner-city high school. Modern themes like gender issues, sexuality, and gun violence along with the musical ensemble of modern and urban inspired electronics help achieve the setting of Pandoras Locker.

December 11, 2008

12 1 p.m.

Vocal Series

The Artists of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio perform Seasonal Songs. The young artists of the COC Ensemble Studio brighten up the holiday season with a lively performance. Enjoy a varied selection of music celebrating the festive season.

December 16, 2008

12 1 p.m.

World Music Series

Jeng Yi and the JM Dance Collective present Korean Dances and Korean Drums. This program delivers a captivating mix of original and traditional Korean percussion and dance pieces. The Toronto-based JM Dance Collective is a contemporary Korean dance ensemble presenting a combination of traditional and modern work.

December 18, 2008

12 1 p.m.

Piano Virtuoso Series

Pianist Li Wang performs Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6

War Sonata 1. An acclaimed pianist and Glenn Gould School Alumnus, Li Wang, presents the first of Prokofievs three powerful war sonatas. The largest and most turbulent of Prokofievs spectacular sonatas, Piano Sonata No. 6 has become one of the cornerstones of 20th-century piano repertoire. The program will also feature excerpts from Tchaikovskys Seasons and the Dumka, Op. 59.

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Waterloo Region Composers Choral Song Circle

The Waterloo Region Composers Choral Song Circle will feature the choral music of Glenn Buhr, Barrie Cabena, Leonard Enns, Jeff Enns, Michael Purves-Smith and Carol Ann Weaver.


Where: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda, 200 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008

Time: 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Information: 519 894-5308, or www.chestnuthallmusic.com/choral


Overview

A unique event patterned on the popular singer songwriter circles, the Waterloo Region Composers Choral Song Circle features the choral music of Glenn Buhr, Barrie Cabena, Leonard Enns, Jeff Enns, Michael Purves-Smith and Carol Ann Weaver.


The Event

The Waterloo Region Composers Choral Song Circle is a unique concert event, patterned after the Songwriter Circles that have become popular in the pop world. Audiences attend the events and have an opportunity to interact with the songwriters, who often introduce works that are new or unique, and perform them by themselves or with participation from other songwriters who are all present on stage.


The Choral Song Circle will be similar to this pattern, except choral classical composers are not obviously able to accompany themselves SATB on stage. With the help of a Waterloo Region Arts Fund grant, we have formed a professional core choir reinforced with the best singers from the region's two university music schools.


The choir conducted by Wilfrid Laurier University's Dr Lee Willingham will perform choral music of the composers who make their homes or places of work in the Waterloo region, with the six composers present on stage.


Hosted by Jurgen Petrenko, there will be opportunities to hear the composers talk about their music, and for audiences to meet with them and become familiar with who they are and to develop awareness of their craft and their sound, and how they are a vital part of the cultural fabric of the Waterloo region, Canada and abroad. Jurgen will moderate interaction between the composers and the audience as we talk about the music and the compositional process.


The Participants

  • Six Waterloo region composers, including Glenn Buhr, Barrie Cabena, Leonard Enns, Jeff Enns, Michael Purves-Smith and Carol Ann Weaver.
  • A newly formed professional choir joined by the Laurier Singers will be conducted by Dr Lee Willingham, who is an Associate Professor at WLU where he leads the Laurier Singers and is Director for the new Laurier Centre for Music in the Community.
  • Jurgen Petrenko, former producer of CBC's Music and Company, will be acting as host for the event.

The Venue

The event is being held at the city of Kitchener's unique Rotunda, situated on ground floor of the building. The hall is very open and accessible to the public, and the choir, composers and audience will be arranged so that there is a close sense of interaction and community. The acoustics are amazing and the hall is four stories high, with a circular floor layout... perfect for a choral song circle.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Award-Winning American Poet David Mason on Art & Fine Living with Jona

Press Release

September 5, 2008-

Award-Winning American Poet David Mason on Art & Fine Living with Jona


One of Americas most decorated poets, David Mason, will be the guest of producer and host Jona Rapoport, on her weekly radio show, Art & Fine Living with Jona on Radio Shalom in Montreal this September. David Mason has recently completed his first opera libretto, based on Nathaniel Hawthornes literary masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, to music by acclaimed American art song and opera composer Lori Laitman. The opera, commissioned by the University of Arkansas, will see its world premiere November 6, 2008 in Conway, Arkansas.


David Masons 2007 publication, verse novel Ludlow, was named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Several collections of his poetry, The Country I Remember (Story Line Press, 1996) and The Buried Houses (Story Line Press, 1991), have earned him honours such as the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. He is also a formidable critic, contributing to such journals as The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The New Criterion. Mason has collected his essays in The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry (Story Line Press, 2000), and co-edited the influential anthology Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (Story Line Press, 1996). His poetry, prose and translations have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, The Irish Times, and The Southern Review. A former Fulbright Fellow to Greece, David teaches at Colorado College.


The interview can be heard on Art & Fine Living with Jona on CJRS 1650 in Montreal on Sunday, September 14 and again on Wednesday, September 17, 2008. The show can be accessed live stream on the radio's website at www.radio-shalom.ca. All shows are archived shortly on the radio website for downloading and/or listening.


Art & Fine Living with Jona is a veritable showcase of some of the world's renowned and emerging talents in music, theatre, cinema, dance, literature, visual and performing arts. The show has been lauded as a unique platform which supports the arts through insightful interviews, cultural news, coverage of upscale lifestyle trends and presentation of new releases in classical music and jazz. Guests who appeared on Art & Fine Living with Jona include, among many others, the prolific piano virtuoso Lang Lang; Playwright Vittorio Rossi; Singer Sean Lennon; Violinist Gil Shaham; Soprano Natalie Dessay; Film director Mike Newell; Cellist/Conductor Yuli Turovsky; Poet David Mason; Soprano Measha Brueggergosman; Antique Specialist Terry Kovel; Actress Caroline Cave; Jazz Musician Walter Blanding; Choreographer Peter Quanz, Conductor Jacques Lacombe; Composer Lori Laitman; Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Playwright Daniel Lillford; Bass Denis Sedov; Soprano Suzie Leblanc; Dancer Callie Robinson; Violinist James Ehnes; Tenor Richard Margison; Director Roy Surette; Tenor Marc Hervieux; Composer Ofer Ben-Amots; Cellist Denise Djokic; Dancer/Choreographer Margie Gillis; Conductor Bernard Labadie; Jazz Vocalist Sophie Milman; Artist Boaz Kaizman and Tenor Ben Heppner.



Jona Rapoport also represents the extraordinary talent of American art song and opera composer Lori Laitman.




For more information:
www.jonarapoport.com
www.radio-shalom.ca

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California Suite


ĶNeil Simon in top formĶ New York Times

Stage Centre Productions presents

California Suite

Neil Simons California Suite

Directed and Designed by L. Garth Allen

Featuring Heather Goodall, Robin Phillips, Lawrence Stevenson, Alan Washbrook and Cynthia Pereira

September 25 October 11, 2008

"Im going to take some Librium. If Im not up by nine, Ive overdosed." Sidney

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TORONTO, ONĶ The laughs are abundant in this hilarious play by one of the masters of American comedy. California Suite is a classic Neil Simon comedy which takes place at the renowned Beverly Hills Hotel. The play follows the misadventures of four groups of guests including: a divorced couple battling over the custody of their daughter, a husband who gets caught by his wife with a hooker in his room, a British actress nominated for an Oscar and her straying gay husband, and two competing doctors and their wives forced to share a hotel room.

Joining director/designer L. Garth Allen are repertory company members Heather Goodall as Hannah/Diana/Gert, Robin Phillips as Millie/Beth, Lawrence Stevenson as William/Sidney/Stu, Alan Washbrook as Marvin/Mort and Cynthia Pereira as Bunny.

Stage Centre Productions, under the founding artistic leadership of L. Garth Allen, is a 60-person strong repertory company of Toronto area artists committed to presenting the classics from the world theatrical canon.

Details

DATES: September 25- 28, October 2- 5 & 8-11, 2008


TIMES: Shows begin at 8:00 p.m., excepting September 28th & October 5th which begin at 2:00 p.m.

TICKETS: Adults $25, Senior $20, Students $15

To order tickets call or click 416.299.5557 or http://www.stagecentreproductions.com/SCP_SingleTickets.htm

Subscription packages are available from $60. You save up to 25%.

LOCATION: Fairview Public Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive, North York, Ontario. Steps away from the Don Mills Subway Station on the Sheppard Line. Lots of free parking. Wheelchair access and hearing devices available.


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Friday, September 12, 2008

Dvoilement des finalistes au Prix de la bande Mbius 2008

Montral, le 12 septembre 2008. Le jury du Prix de la bande Moebius, compos cette anne de Pierre Gobeil, Rachel Laverdure et Suzanne Myre, a retenu comme finalistes les auteurs suivants :

Mathieu Arsenault pour Le petit castor (Moebius 115), Hlne Lpine pour Lettre Dany Laferrire (Moebius 115), Robert Lvesque pour Le code Paillasson (Moebius 115).

Le jury a galement dcid d'accorder une mention spciale Bertrand Laverdure pour Voici la recette d'une marche satisfaisante (Moebius 116).

Le prix sera remis au Salon du livre de Montral, en novembre prochain. cette occasion, le laurat fera lecture de son texte. Le Prix de la bande Moebius rcompense l'auteur du meilleur texte paru durant l'anne dans la revue Moebius. Le laurat recevra la somme de 300 $. Les trois finalistes se mritent un abonnement d'un an la revue Moebius.

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Vu d'ici de Mathieu Arsenault au Thtre La Chapelle

LA CHAPELLE
Scnes contemporaines


Vu dici de Mathieu Arsenault
Thtre Pril / Christian Lapointe
23 septembre au 4 octobre, du mardi au samedi 20 h.

Comment peut-on continuer de vivre au quotidien devant le spectacle rpt chaque soir du chaos mondial aux nouvelles tlvises? Voil la question que se pose le Thtre Pril avec Vu dici adapte du roman de Mathieu Arsenault (Triptyque) et mise en scne par Christian Lapointe.

Violent pamphlet contre la tlvision, la pice agit comme un cri dalerte qui nous permet de prendre conscience des effets pernicieux et dvastateurs de cet cran omniscient braqu sur nos vies. Cette pice audacieuse fera, sans aucun doute, place de nombreuses discussions et rflexions.

Texte : Mathieu Arsenault
Adaptation : Mathieu Arsenault, Christian Lapointe et Jocelyn Pelletier
Mise en scne : Christian Lapointe
Interprte : Jocelyn Pelletier
Scnographie : Jeff Labb
Musique et environnement sonore : Mathieu Campagna
Lumire : Martin Sirois
Assistance la mise en scne : Adle St-Amand

Billetterie en ligne : www.lachapelle.org ou par tlphone: (514) 843-7738
La Chapelle, 3700 rue Saint-Dominique, Montral (Qc), H2X 2X7

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NACO, Sept. 23-Oct 2: Mozart Brahms Festival includes Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, and more!


The NAC Orchestra launches its 08-09 season with a Mozart Brahms Festival led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, including special guests Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Janina Fialkowska, the Tokyo Quartet and more, Sept. 23-Oct 2

Ottawa, Canada Pinchas Zukerman opens his tenth season as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra on Tuesday, September 23 with a Mozart Brahms Festival that runs until Thursday, October 2. For ten magnificent days these two classical titans meet face to face in concerts featuring such superstars as violinist Itzhak Perlman, conductor Zubin Mehta, pianist Janina Fialkowska, the Tokyo and Escher String Quartets and Pinchas Zukerman as conductor, violinist and violist. Audiences will hear how each composer illuminates the other through orchestral, vocal, chamber and family concerts including pre- and post-concert talks given by media and musical celebrities. There are five orchestral concerts on September 23, 24 and 27, and October 1 and 2 in Southam Hall at 8 p.m.; four chamber music concerts at the National Gallery of Canada on September 26 and 28 and October 1 and 2 (at various times); and two separate daytime family events on September 27. (A chronological listing of concerts follows.)

The Festival includes pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. prior to each of the five orchestral concerts, in English on Sept. 23, 27 and Oct. 2, and in French on Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. Speakers include CBC Radio personalities Eric Friesen, Alan Neal and Jill LaForty, and music critics Richard Todd, Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer and Franois Tousignant. In addition, on Sept. 27 principal bassoon Christopher Millard will record a podcast with Pinchas Zukerman and his daughter Arianna Zukerman in front of a live audience for the Orchestras renowned NACOcast series.

The musical content of the Festival includes all four Brahms symphonies, with Nos. 1, 3 and 4 conducted by Pinchas Zukerman and No. 2 conducted by Zubin Mehta in his NAC Orchestra debut. Mehta will also lead Pinchas Zukerman in the Brahms Violin Concerto; violinist Itzhak Perlman will join violist Zukerman for Mozarts Duo for Violin and Viola in G major and Sinfonia Concertante; pianist Janina Fialkowska will perform Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 24; and Pinchas Zukerman will conduct Mozarts Requiem with his daughter soprano Arianna Zukerman, mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson, tenor Wesley Rogers and bass John Fanning, with the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, the Ottawa Choral Society and the Ottawa Festival Chorus under chorus master Duain Wolfe. The concerts on Sept. 23 and 24 are also the opening concerts of the Mark Motors Audi Signature Series, and the concerts on Oct. 1 and 2 are the opening concerts of the Ovation Series.

The world-famous Tokyo String Quartet will perform two different programmes combining Mozart, Brahms, Haydn and Webern on September 26 at 8 p.m. and on September 28 at 2 p.m. (the latter doubling as the opening chamber music concert of the Music for a Sunday Afternoon series). The rising star Escher Quartet, made up of four of Pinchas Zukermans students from the NAC Summer Music Institute and the Manhattan School of Music, will perform Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven in two different programmes in the Rideau Chapel of the National Gallery at 12 noon on October 1 and 2.

There are two family events on Saturday, September 27. The Shoestring Opera will present a show for children aged 5 to 8 based on Mozarts Magic Flute in the Panorama Room at 11 a.m. At 3 p.m. there will be an interactive workshop exploring the NACs Flentrop Organ for ages 8 to 15 given by organist Thomas Annand and Ian MacKay of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

COMPLETE MOZART BRAHMS FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING

ITZHAK AND PINCHAS

Tuesday, September 23 at 8 p.m.

Mark Motors Audi Signature Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, viola

Itzhak Perlman, violin

MOZART Duo for violin and viola in G major

MOZART Sinfonia concertante

BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

The Mozart/Brahms Connection

with CBC Radio Network Host Eric Friesen

ITZHAK AND PINCHAS ENCORE

Wednesday, September 24 at 8 p.m.

Mark Motors Audi Signature Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, viola

Itzhak Perlman, violin

MOZART Duo for violin and viola in G major

MOZART Sinfonia concertante

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in French)

Aimez-vous Brahms? Et Mozart?

with music critic Jean Jacques Van Vlasselaer

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Friday, September 26 at 8 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Auditorium

Tokyo String Quartet

HAYDN String Quartet No. 60 in G major, Op. 76, No. 1

MOZART String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, Prussian 2

BRAHMS String Quartet No. 1 in C minor

SHOESTRING MAGIC FLUTE

Saturday, September 27 at 11:00 (in English)

Mozart Brahms Festival

Panorama Room: mats for children and chairs for grown-ups (for ages 5-8)

Based on Mozarts famous opera, Shoestring Opera presents the story of Allegra, lost in a dark forest on her way home from school. Enter Papageno, a feathered birdcatcher pursued by a Dragon and the fun, adventure and glorious singing begin! Featuring two singer-actors, a cellist, a pianist and Mozarts beautiful music this is an ideal childs introduction to the joy of opera.

EXPLORE THE FLENTROP ORGAN

Saturday, September 27 at 3 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

For ages 8-15

Southam Hall backstage

Thomas Annand, organ

Ian MacKay, Royal Canadian College of Organists

Ever wonder why the organ is called the king of instruments? Find out in this exciting interactive workshop especially for families held backstage in Southam Hall. Hear the music of Mozart and Brahms as your children explore the massive Flentrop organ, a thank-you gift to the NAC from the Dutch community in Canada.

MOZARTS TRANSCENDENT REQUIEM

Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m.

Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

Arianna Zukerman, soprano

Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano

Wesley Rogers, tenor

John Fanning, bass-baritone

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Ottawa Choral Society

Ottawa Festival Chorus

Duain Wolfe, chorus master

MOZART Requiem

Musically Speaking Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

Eyeing Eternity

CBC Radio host Alan Neal leads a discussion with CBC Radio Music Producer Jill LaForty

Musically Speaking Post-Concert Talkback (in English)

NACOcast host and principal bassoon Christopher Millard hosts a podcast with Pinchas Zukerman and his daughter Arianna Zukerman.

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Sunday, September 28

Music for a Sunday Afternoon and Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Auditorium at 2 p.m.

Tokyo String Quartet

Pinchas Zukerman, viola

Amanda Forsyth, cello

WEBERN String Quartet, Op. 28

HAYDN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50, No. 1
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

Wednesday, October 1 at 12 noon

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Rideau Chapel

Escher String Quartet

MOZART Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387
BEETHOVEN Quartet Op. 59, No. 3

MEHTA, ZUKERMAN AND BRAHMS

Wednesday, October 1 at 8 p.m.

Ovation Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Pinchas Zukerman, violin

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in French)

Aprs lart pour lart, voici la musique pour la musique

with Montreal music critic and composer Franois Tousignant

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

Thursday, October 2 at 12 noon

Mozart Brahms Festival

National Gallery of Canada Rideau Chapel

Escher String Quartet

MOZART Quartet No. 17, B-flat major, K. 458, "The Hunt"
BRAHMS Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major

THE PASSION OF MOZART AND BRAHMS

Thursday, October 2 at 8 p.m.

Ovation Series and Mozart Brahms Festival

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

Janina Fialkowska, piano

MOZART Overture to Cos fan tutte

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24

BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Pre-Concert Chat at 19:00 (in English)

What Mozart forgot to tell Brahms

with Ottawa Citizen music critic Richard Todd

Tickets are on sale now at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NACs website at www.nac-cna.ca.

Tickets for the NAC Orchestra concerts in Southam Hall at 8 p.m. (if available) are $39 to $115 on Sept. 23 and 24; $25 to $89 on Sept. 27 and Oct. 1; and $19 to $86 on Oct. 2 (5% GST and Facility Fee included). The Tokyo Quartet concerts in the Auditorium of the National Gallery are $29 and the Escher Quartet concerts in the Rideau Chapel are $ 20. The Shoestring Magic Flute and Explore the Flentrop Organ, both on Sept. 27, are $8 for children and $14 for adults.

Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid student ID card. Live Rush tickets at $11 (subject to availability) are available for full-time students aged 13 to 29 between 2 p.m the day before a performance until 6 p.m the day of the performance, upon presentation of a valid Live Rush card. Groups of 10 and more save 15% to 20% off the regular price of tickets to NAC Music, Theatre and Dance performances. To reserve your seats call 613-947-7000 ext. 384 or email grp@nac-cna.ca. Subscriptions are also still available by calling the Subscription Office at 613-947-7000, ext. 620.

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Jonathan Plowright London recital 15 November

Jonathan Plowright

"one of the finest living pianists" GRAMOPHONE

"a colossal musical mind" INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Rare London Recital by British Pianist Jonathan Plowright

British concert pianist Jonathan Plowright is to give his first solo recital in London for 20 years at the Wigmore Hall on Saturday 15 November 2008 at 7.30pm

Despite many years of successful recording and concert activity around the world, and the enthusiastic public response to his interpretations of neglected Polish Romantic composers*, Jonathan Plowright has not been heard in his own capital city since the late 1980's.

Plowright is now recognised globally as one of the UK's truly exceptional pianists, and this recital is presented in response to the overwhelming demand to hear him playing Romantic repertoire in a live London performance.

Plowright will play three pieces with which he feels a particular empathy: Brahms's Sonata no.3 in F minor, Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' and the "beautiful 12 minutes of heart-rending devotion" (Musicweb-International) that is Rummel's transcription of Bach's aria "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Hnden" from Cantata 127**. This will be a rare treat for piano enthusiasts and one not to be missed.

Booking opens from 1st September, on line at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk, or by calling the Wigmore booking office at +44 20 7935 2141.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

La jeune fille et la mort par Les Violons du Roy - 3 octobre 10h30 et 20h

La jeune fille et la mort
Srie Grands Rendez-vous

Jean-Marie Zeitouni, chef dorchestre


Vendredi 3 octobre, 20 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qubec)

Srie chefs-duvre du matin
Vendredi 3 octobre, 10 h 30
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qubec)

B. Britten Prlude et fugue pour 18 cordes, opus 29
 B. Britten Variations sur un thme de Frank Bridge, opus 10
 F. Schubert Quatuor en r mineur La jeune fille et la mort , D. 810
 (Arrangement pour orchestre cordes de G. Mahler)


Qubec, le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 La saison 2008-2009 des Violons du Roy souvrira avec le premier concert de la srie Grands Rendez-vous, le vendredi 3 octobre, 20 h, la Salle Raoul-Jobin du Palais Montcalm. Pour loccasion, Jean-Marie Zeitouni dirigera des uvres de Benjamin Britten et lun des chefs-duvre du rpertoire romantique, le Quatuor La jeune fille et la mort de Franz Schubert dans larrangement pour orchestre cordes de Gustav Mahler. Cette dernire uvre sera aussi donne en matine, 10 h 30, dans le cadre de la srie de concerts comments Chefs-duvre du matin.

La premire partie sera consacre deux uvres pour orchestre cordes de Benjamin Britten, toutes deux composes pour un ensemble londonien rput, lOrchestre cordes Boyd Neel. Le concert souvrira avec le Prlude et fugue, opus 29, une uvre qui met bien en lumire la virtuosit de chacun des musiciens, tous tant traits en soliste. Suivront les Variations sur un thme de Frank Bridge, opus 10 cres au Festival de Salzbourg en 1937. Dans cette srie de variations, Britten rend hommage son matre, Frank Bridge, mais surtout, il prend un plaisir vident voquer le style de nombreux prdcesseurs et contemporains, notamment Beethoven, Verdi, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel, Bach et Bartk. Cette uvre destine faire briller lorchestre contribua grandement la clbrit du compositeur alors g de 24 ans.

En deuxime partie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni dirigera larrangement pour orchestre cordes du Quatuor en r mineur La jeune fille et la mort de Schubert, ralis par Gustav Mahler dans le but de rendre plus accessible ce magnifique chef-duvre. Mis en musique par Schubert en 1817, le court pome de Matthias Claudius, Der Tod und das Mdchen (la mort et la jeune fille) relate le dialogue entre une jeune fille effraye et la Mort. Sept ans plus tard, le compositeur, alors confront sa mort prochaine, reprend son lied et sen inspire pour crer son quatorzime et avant-dernier quatuor. Cette uvre en quatre mouvements, porte par un souffle dramatique puissant, constitue sans contredit lun des sommets de tout le rpertoire romantique.

La Caisse de dpt et de placement du Qubec est le partenaire prsentateur de ce concert. Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada, est le diffuseur officiel des Violons du Roy. La saison 2008-2009 Qubec est prsente par Hydro-Qubec, partenaire de saison Qubec.


Srie Grands Rendez-vous : Cinq concerts denvergure
Pour ceux qui aiment la diversit, la srie Grands Rendez-vous propose cinq grands concerts o lon pourra entendre des uvres magnifiques telles La jeune fille et la mort de Schubert, La nuit transfigure de Schoenberg, La messe de minuit de Charpentier et mme de la musique klezmer. Truls Mork, Karina Gauvin, lensemble Kleztory et La Chapelle de Qubec figurent parmi les invits de marque de cette srie aux saveurs varies !


Srie Chefs-duvre du matin
La srie Chefs-duvre du matin est de retour, cette fois avec une offre de cinq concerts. Ces concerts comments par les chefs et ponctus de dmonstrations des musiciens permettent aux mlomanes denrichir leur exprience du concert. Dune dure denviron 70 minutes sans entracte, ces concerts ont lieu en matine 10 h 30.


Labonnement

Abonnez-vous lune des sries de la Saison 2007-2008 et profiter dun rabais sur le tarif rgulier et de nombreux privilges. En vous abonnant avant le 3 octobre, vous courez la chance de gagner lun des trois prix du concours Trois chances plutt quune . Tous les dtails sont disponibles dans la brochure de saison ou sur le site : violonsduroy.com.
Nouveaut : la formule Trio Dcouverte permet de crer votre srie de 3 concerts parmi 14 grands concerts du soir et de dcouvrir ainsi la gamme varie du rpertoire des Violons du Roy. Vous pouvez mme choisir autant de trios que vous le dsirezĶ
Le tarif 29 ans et moins de retour !
Un concert de haut niveau au mme prix quun film, soit seulement 12,50 $.


Information et Rservation


Billetterie du Palais Montcalm
(418) 641-6040, poste 0
(418) 692-3026
ou
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Concerts venir au Palais Montcalm :
Mardi 4 novembre 10 h 30 : Flte alors !
 Concert comment par Bernard Labadie,
Srie Chefs-duvre du matin
Mardi 4 novembre, 20 h Flte alors !
Avec Bernard Labadie, chef; et Maurice Steger, flte bec
srie Bach avant-tout

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Programmation du Festival des musiques sacres de Qubec

12e saison du Festival des musiques sacres de Qubec
Du 23 octobre au 2 novembre


Qubec, le 11 septembre 2008 Le nouveau directeur de la programmation, David Jacques, et le prsident du Festival, Marcel Dallaire, ont dvoil aujourdhui les dtails de la 12e saison du Festival des musiques sacres de Qubec qui aura lieu du 23 octobre au 2 novembre lglise Saint-Roch et au Palais Montcalm. Sajoutera, les 17 et 19 octobre, un vnement grandiose, la cration en premire mondiale de la Grand-messe de Gilles Vigneault. La soire du 17 octobre servira de Concert gala au profit du Festival. Regroupant au total 12 concerts, la programmation propose de fascinantes rencontres musicales entre les styles, les ides, les croyances et les cultures.

Du 17 au 22 octobre, en guise de Prlude au Festival, les mlomanes pourront dj partir la dcouverte de musiques sacres grce deux concerts comments donns gratuitement, trois fois chacun, dans divers lieux publics de la ville. Ce Prlude est rendu possible grce au soutien de lEntente sur le dveloppement culturel intervenue entre le ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine et la Ville de Qubec. Aussi, du 23 octobre au 2 novembre, des clbrations spciales lglise Saint-Roch sajouteront aux concerts et des vnements gratuits seront prsents la Bibliothque Gabrielle-Roy, soit lexposition Art sacr, actes crateurs et une projection du film Folle de Dieu de Jean-Daniel Lafond.


Le Festival en un coup dil
Cette 12e dition du Festival souvrira avec une soire alliant la musique, le chant et la danse offerte par le merveilleux contre-tnor Daniel Taylor, le Theatre of Early Music et la Compagnie de danse Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie. LEnsemble Caprice et la pianiste jazz Lorraine Desmarais proposeront aussi un mlange de genres, cette fois un tonnant mariage du baroque et du jazz avec comme toile de fond des thmes de musiques sacres. La Bande de hautbois de Qubec, sous la direction du hautboste virtuose Philippe Magnan, partagera la scne avec le prestigieux Ensemble Arundonax de Bordeaux pour interprter des uvres de J.S Bach, Gabrieli et Monteverdi. Quant la compagnie musicale La Nef, elle offrira une soire cleste mettant en vedette les instruments cordes pinces.

Fidle la tradition, la programmation permettra la dcouverte de musiques sacres de diverses cultures, notamment la musique sacre mdivale provenant du Moyen Orient et de lEurope avec la chanteuse Karen Young et loudiste Ismail Fencioglu, la musique classique de lInde du Nord avec lEnsemble Catherine Potter, et la polyphonie corse avec Barbara Furtuna, un ensemble qui fera une premire apparition au Canada.

Le Festival saura aussi combler les amateurs de musique chorale. Afin de clbrer ses 40 ans, le Chur de Qubec, sous la direction de Guy Blanger, prsentera le colossal Requiem de Verdi. Le chur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montral se joindra aux Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse pour faire dcouvrir toute la splendeur de la musique polychorale vnitienne. Enfin, lorchestre, le chur et les solistes du Conservatoire de musique de Qubec, sous la directionde Gilles Auger, offriront la Grand-messe de Gilles Vigneault dans le cadre de la messe du dimanche.


Le Festival au jour le jour

Vendredi 17 octobre, 20 h : Concert gala
75$ - 150$
Dimanche 19 octobre, 14 h
50$
Salle Raoul-Jobin du Palais Montcalm
Prsentation en premire mondiale de la
Grand-messe de Gilles Vigneault
De Gilles Vigneault et Bruno Fecteau
avec lOrchestre symphonique de Qubec, le Chur de lOSQ (sous la direction de David Rompr)
et les solistes Daniel Taylor, Suzie LeBlanc, Olivier Laquerre et Antoine Blanger
Direction : Richard Lee
En prsence de monsieur Gilles Vigneault
Prsent en collaboration avec le ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la
Condition fminine et la Socit du 400e anniversaire de Qubec


En premire partie, des chansons de Gilles Vigneault seront interprtes par les artistes de Qubec Paule-Andre Cassidy, Stphane Ct et Claude Vallires, accompagns par lOSQ.


Concert douverture
Jeudi 23 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Path to Paradise
Daniel Taylor, le Theatre of Early Music
et la compagnie de danse Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
Une rencontre indite entre la musique, le chant et la danse
35 $
Une prsentation de la Caisse Populaire Desjardins du Centre-ville de Qubec

Pour lever le voile sur le Festival 2008, Daniel Taylor, lun des contre-tnors les plus en demande au monde et directeur artistique du Theatre of Early Music, propose un plerinage hors du commun o musique, chant et danse sunissent pour entraner le public sur le sentier du paradis. Pour loccasion, Daniel Taylor et le Theatre of Early Music partageront la scne avec les danseurs de la jeune compagnie de danse contemporaine Coleman, Lemieux & Compagnie, dirige par le rput Bill Coleman, pour offrir des moments de pure beaut et donner vie des uvres de Palestrina, Purcell, Barber, Tallis et Allegri.

Vendredi 24 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Oud, la route sacre
Karen Young, Rebecca Bain et Catherine Herrmann, voix; Ismail Fencioglu, oud
Musique sacre du Moyen ge pour petit ensemble vocal fminin et oud, percussions et violon mdival
27,50 $
Une prsentation de la Cooprative funraire de la Falaise


La chanteuse Karen Young nous entrane dans sa nouvelle aventure au cur de la musique sacre du Moyen ge, un priple cr spcialement pour le Festival avec le concours du oudiste Ismail Fencioglu, spcialiste de la tradition musicale turque ottomane. De la Turquie lEspagne en passant par lItalie, ce voyage fera dcouvrir les plus belles uvres monacales, laques et plerines. Il se terminera en point d'orgue en Castille, la cour du Roi Alphonse, dit Le Sage, berceau de la convivencia , une priode marque par les changes culturels et la coexistence paisible entre les peuples juif, musulman et catholique.


Samedi 25 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Musique du ciel et de lenfer : Quand le baroque rencontre le jazz
LEnsemble Caprice et la pianiste Lorraine Desmarais
27,50 $
Une prsentation de Hydro-Qubec


Fidle son dsir dexplorer des concepts hors des sentiers battus, lEnsemble Caprice convie les mlomanes une rencontre surprenante entre deux styles musicaux bien distincts, mais pourtant apparents : le baroque et le jazz. Les directeurs artistiques Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivire ont

lanc le dfi la grande pianiste de jazz Lorraine Desmarais qui sest empresse daccepter linvitation. Les musiciens prendront comme point de dpart des thmes de musiques sacres et de pices instrumentales du 17e sicle avant de se lancer dans des improvisations inspires et contemplatives.


Dimanche 26 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Musique classique de lInde du Nord
Catherine Potter et Jagjit Singh
27,50 $

la demande du public, un ensemble mettant en vedette Catherine Potter au bansouri (flte indienne), rvlera la complexit et la profondeur des rgas sur lesquels repose la musique classique de lInde du Nord. Entirement ddie lexpression des tats dme, la tradition des rgas est transmise oralement depuis des sicles. La grande place accorde la cration spontane fait de chaque performance une exprience unique au cours de laquelle un lien troit se tisse entre les musiciens et lauditoire.

Ce concert runit Catherine Potter au bansuri, longue flte de bambou au timbre chaud et sensuel, Jagjit Singh au tabla, et Ranjushree Matilal au tanpura, grand instrument cordes servant de bourdon.


Lundi 27 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Le hautbois sans frontire
La Bande de hautbois de Qubec et lEnsemble Arundonax de Bordeaux
En premire partie : Ara Bartikian, doudouk solo (Armnie)
27,50 $
Prsent en collaboration avec le Conservatoire de musique de Qubec

loccasion du 400e anniversaire de Qubec, le prestigieux Ensemble Arundonax de Bordeaux partagera la scne avec son cousin qubcois, La Bande de hautbois de Qubec, sous la direction de Philippe Magnan, pour offrir un grand concert compos duvres sacres de Jean-Sbastien Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli et Claudio Monteverdi. LEnsemble Arundonax, cr linitiative de professeurs du Conservatoire National de Rgion et de solistes de lOrchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, est ici jumel La Bande de hautbois, tout comme lest la Ville de Qubec la Ville de Bordeaux.



En premire partie, Ara Bartikian (Armnie) proposera des pices transposes de la liturgie ou dinspiration mystique qui conviennent tout particulirement au jeu du doudouk.





Mardi 28 octobre, 20 h Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm
Splendeurs de Venise
Chur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montral
et Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse
27,50 $
En co-diffusion avec le Palais Montcalm

Lexcellent chur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montral (SMAM) et Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse recreront lambiance de la basilique Saint-Marc de Venise au milieu du 16e sicle et dvoileront la splendeur de la musique polychorale, vritable signature de la musique vnitienne. Cette fois, ce seront les possibilits exceptionnelles de la Salle Raoul-Jobin du Palais Montcalm qui seront mises au service de cette majestueuse musique, caractrise par des changes entre les diffrents ensembles vocaux ou instrumentaux et surtout par de saisissants effets spciaux.

Jeudi 30 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Requiem de Verdi
Le Chur de Qubec et le Chur du Vallon (sous la direction de Gisle Pettigrew)
Un orchestre de 55 musiciens et 4 solistes : Manon Feubel, soprano; Sonia Racine, alto;
Antoine Blanger, tnor; et Alexander Savtchenko, basse
Direction musicale et artistique : Guy Blanger
Une production spciale du Chur de Qubec dans le cadre de son 40e anniversaire
50 $

Afin de souligner ses 40 annes de prsence au sein de la vie culturelle de la Vieille Capitale, le Chur de Qubec prsente le Requiem de Giuseppe Verdi. Prsente dans sa version intgrale, cette uvre grandiose se veut un hommage aux dcouvreurs, fondateurs et anctres qui ont habit et investi leur vie humble ou glorieuse sur cette terre de rencontre au cours des quatre sicles de notre histoire. Giuseppe Verdi a compos la Messa da Requiem en 1873 <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873> comme si ctait sa dernire uvre. Ce chef-duvre est rempli de contrastes et sa musique atteint de remarquables sommets dexpression.

Vendredi 31 octobre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Cordes du ciel
Compagnie musicale La Nef
27,50 $
Prsent en collaboration avec la Socit de guitare de Qubec

Fonde en 1991 et toujours codirige par Sylvain Bergeron, Claire Gignac et Viviane LeBlanc, La Nef fait preuve d'un talent rare pour runir autour de projets innovateurs des artistes polyvalents et inventifs, issus des horizons les plus divers. Avec Cordes sur ciel, La Nef dmontrera toute la grce des cordes pinces, notamment le luth, le thorbe et la guitare baroque, dans des pices issues du rpertoire sacr et profane, de lpoque de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Des danses espagnoles viendront clore cette soire, tmoignant ainsi de limportance de la musique profane dans les offices religieux de lpoque, notamment pour susciter lintrt des fidles et sassurer de leur assiduit !


Samedi 1er novembre, 20 h glise Saint-Roch
Adasgiu : Polyphonies corses
Barbara Furtuna
27,50 $

Barbara Furtuna est un quatuor vocal corse form en 2001 qui runit des hommes entirement dvous la polyphonie corse, une tradition vieille de plusieurs sicles. Tour tour intimiste, puissant, sensuel et viril, son rpertoire est la fois bien encr dans la tradition et tourn vers lavenir. Ce concert sappuie sur le Sacr, indissociable de la polyphonie corse, dont le dnuement et la sincrit touchent ce que nous avons de plus intime pour atteindre au fil des chants une lgret et une fracheur indites. Une exprience remplie dmotions do jaillira une agrable sensation de bonheur !

Dimanche 2 novembre, 10 h 30 glise Saint-Roch
La Grand-messe de Gilles Vigneault
Avec lorchestre et le chur du Conservatoire de musique de Qubec
Direction : Gilles Auger
Louise DeLisle Bouchard, chef de chur; et les solistes Valrie Blanger, soprano;
Andranne Moreau, mezzo soprano; Guillaume Boulay, tnor; et Emmanuel Lebel, baryton
Gratuit Laissez-passer obligatoire*

Prsent en collaboration avec le Conservatoire de musique de Qubec
Clbration eucharistique de la Messe de la Toussaint conclbre par Ral Grenier, cur de la paroisse Saint-Roch, et labb Mario Dufour, fondateur du Festival.

* Pour vous procurer vos laissez-passer, composez le 418 525-9777 ou le 1 866 525-9777, ou rendez-vous la billetterie du Festival au
160, rue St-Joseph Est, Qubec (utilisez lentre situe sur la rue St-Franois Est, coin Caron).


Clbrations spciales lglise Saint-Roch

Pendant la dure du Festival, la paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Saint-Roch offrira, dans le cadre de ses services religieux, un programme musical sous la direction artistique de lorganiste titulaire Esther Clment.

Samedi 25 octobre, 16 h Ensemble Mozak, sous la direction de Luc Ltourneau
Messe gagnante ex-aequo au concours Fidart pour le 400e de Qubec
dith Beaulieu, organiste

Dimanche 26 octobre, 10 h 30 Chorale de Saint-Roch, sous la direction de Jacqueline Brochu
Esther Clment, organiste titulaire

Dimanche 26 octobre, 17 h Marie-Andr Par et Linda Boutet, sopranos
Franois Grenier, organiste

Samedi 1er novembre, 16 h Simon Tremblay, trompettiste
Esther Clment, organiste titulaire




Activits gratuites la Bibliothque Gabrielle-Roy

Mercredi 29 octobre, 18 h 30
Salle polyvalente du 3e taqe
LONF prsente Folle de Dieu, un film de Jean-Daniel Lafond
Marie Tifo devient Marie de lIncarnation mre, veuve et mystique et affronte les crits troublants de celle qui a fond les Ursulines de Qubec en 1639. Construit comme un thriller spirituel, ce film trace un tonnant portrait de cette folle de Dieu .

Du 23 octobre au 2 novembre 2008
Lundi au vendredi, 8 h 30 21 h
Samedis et dimanches, 10 h 17 h
Art sacr, actes crateurs
Exposition regroupant quelques-unes des photographies du livre publi aux ditions Sylvain Harvey.
Cette exposition sadresse aux gens intresss par le patrimoine religieux, larchitecture, lhistoire de lart ou la photographie. Sa simplicit rejoint le public apprciant tant les belles images que les beaux livres.

Une collaboration de lInstitut Canadien de Qubec


Cours de matres

Conservatoire de musique de Qubec
Samedi 25 octobre, 14 h 30 16 h Dominique Descamps (hautbois)
Jean-Marie Lamothe (basson)
Dimanche 26 octobre, 10 h 13 h Dominique Descamps (musique de chambre)
Mercredi 29 octobre, 10 h 11 h Jean-Yves Gicquel (cor anglais)
Une collaboration du Conservatoire de musique de Qubec

Pavillon Casault de lUniversit Laval, local 1531
Vendredi 1er novembre, 10 h midi Sylvain Bergeron (luth)
Une collaboration de la Socit de guitare de Qubec

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SMCQ: Abonnement et autres nouvelles

Virage virtuel pour la SMCQ

Une nouvelle lettre de nouvelles pour la nouvelle saison
Pour mieux vous informer de ses activits et de celles de ses membres et partenaires, la SMCQ lance cette anne une lettre de nouvelles. Nous profitons de ce premier envoi pour vous inviter vous abonner notre saison (formulaire ci-joint). Nhsitez pas nous faire part de vos commentaires sur ce premier numro en nous crivant ladresse smcq@smcq.qc.ca. Bonne lecture!

Facebook
La SMCQ est maintenant prsente sur Facebook! Un complment son site Web et un outil supplmentaire pour rejoindre son public. Vous y trouverez des photos, des vidos, des promotions exclusives, et pourrez bien sr y laisser vos commentaires.
Visitez la SMCQ sur Facebook.

Toujours des nouvelles fraches
Vous avez peut-tre remarqu que la page d'accueil du site web de la SMCQ comporte depuis quelques mois une section d'actualits ("Quoi de neuf la SMCQ?"), qui est rgulirement mise jour. Il est dsormais possible de s'abonner au fil RSS de ces nouvelles et d'tre ainsi inform ds qu'un ajout est fait.
Visitez notre page d'accueil pour vous abonner.


Dune saison lautre

Une saison sest termineĶ
La SMCQ est fire dannoncer que grce son initiative, plus de 20 000 personnes travers le Qubec ont dcouvert ou redcouvert Claude Vivier en 2007-2008. La premire dition de la Srie hommage, consacre Vivier, a t un vritable succs. Les milieux culturels, de lducation et politique ont tous contribu cette grande russite. Nous vous invitons lire le bilan de cette anne Vivier sur notre site Internet.
Le site Web de la SMCQ

Et une autre commence!
La SMCQ lance ce mois-ci sa 43e saison qui, en 4 concerts, rend hommage aux lgendes de la musique du 20e sicles de Messiaen Stockhausen, en passant par Cage, Xenakis et Vivier.
Dtails en ligne

Une anne Festival
Lquipe de la SMCQ travaille cet automne la prparation de la quatrime dition du festival international Montral / Nouvelles Musiques (MNM). Attendez-vous bien des surprises dans cet vnement construit autour du thme Mythes et lgendes , du 19 fvrier au 1er mars 2009! En plus de nos fidles partenaires montralais, mentionnons entre autres la participation des Jeunes Solistes, de Grame et de Ren Bosc (France), de Barbara Hannigan et du Ives Ensemble (Pays-Bas), de lensemble Onix (Mexique) et finalement, de Queen of Puddings (Toronto).


Appel tous

Devenez membre de la SMCQ
Abonnez-vous notre saison, et bnficiez dun rabais de 20% sur tous nos concerts! Dtails dans le formulaire d'abonnement ci-joint.

Bnvoles recherchs
Le bnvolat est un lment essentiel au succs de la SMCQ. Que ce soit au niveau de laccueil lors des concerts, du soutien administratif, des communications ou des activits bnfices, vos comptences peuvent nous tre utiles. Si lexprience vous intresse, veuillez rejoindre Isabelle Picard, ipicard@smcq.qc.ca.


vnements venir

Un premier lancement collectif pour les membres du groupe Le Vivier
18 septembre, 17h, Socit des arts technologiques [SAT] / Entre libre
La SMCQ se joint 21 autres organismes spcialiss en musique de cration pour le premier grand lancement de saison collectif du groupe Le Vivier ! Des projections vido et performances live donnent le coup denvoi cette nouvelle association: une belle rencontre ne pas manquer.
Site Web de la [SAT]
Site Web du groupe Le Vivier

Loeuvre de Claude Vivier par Martine Rhaume au Club dcoute de BAnQ
18 septembre, 19 h, Grande Bibliothque (Auditorium, rez-de-chausse) / Entre libre
Dans la foule des activits de notre srie Hommage autour de Claude Vivier, Bibliothque et Archives nationales du Qubec vous invite dcouvrir loeuvre du compositeur avec Martine Rhaume, musicologue spcialiste de son oeuvre. Informations: jocelyne.daze@banq.qc.ca


Des nouvelles de la grande famille SMCQ

Un premier roman pour Nicolas Gilbert
Le compositeur Nicolas Gilbert, membre du comit artistique de la SMCQ, fait paratre son premier roman, intitul Le rcital, aux ditions Lemac. Dcrit dans le communiqu de lditeur comme une oeuvre pour plusieurs voix, une succession de solos parfois amusants, parfois dchirants, mais toujours justes, sans fausse note , le roman se drouleĶ durant un concert de la SMCQ ! (en librairie)

Ren Lussier signe la musique du Moulin images de Robert Lepage
Ren Lussier, membre du comit artistique de la SMCQ, a compos la musique du Moulin images. Cette mgaprojection de Robert Lepage a attir entre 4000 et 8000 personnes chaque soir du 20 juin au 7 septembre au Bassin Louise du Port de Qubec.
Entrevue avec Ren Lussier, dans La Presse et Le Soleil

Farangis Nurulla reoit le Prix Joseph-S.-Stauffer du Conseil des arts du Canada
Ce prix lui est dcern en tant que meilleur compositeur canadien en mi-carrire pour lanne 2008. Rappelons que Farangis Nurulla-Khoja a t choisie par la SMCQ pour participer au concours international de composition tenu en Chine sur trois ans orchestr par le Shanghai Media Group et Radio France.
Pour en savoir plus sur ce prix

Me Bob H. Sotiriadis (Lger Robic Richard) identifi comme faisant partie des meilleurs avocats au Canada
Cette reconnaissance, base sur un sondage indpendant men dans la communaut juridique au Canada, lui a t attribue par Lexpert. Me Bob H. Sotiriadis est membre du conseil d'administration de la SMCQ.
Site Web de Lger Robic Richard

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Songstress Jill Barber takes "Chances" with New Album and Canadian Tour!

Toronto, ON 2008 continues to be a very busy year for the fabulous double Juno Award nominee Jill Barber, who is set to release her highly anticipated new album Chances. The album is available online and in stores October 14th, 2008. Drawing on the classic orchestral style from the 50's Chances invokes Barber's life and career and will be showcased to her adoring audiences throughout Canada this October.
This January at the Banff Centre Barber collaborated with Ron Sexsmith and producer-arranger-guitarist Les Cooper in the writing her new album. "This was the first time that I had opened myself up to the idea of a musical collaboration. It was amazing experience and forced me to stretch my own songwriting muscles", exclaims Barber. From Banff to Toronto, Chances was recorded at Blue Rodeo's Woodshed Studios, which features string and horn arrangements that were separately recorded at the famed Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Barber's album still delivers her distinctive sultry vocals, in an album of ten original, fully orchestrated songs that strongly evoke and could themselves become - classics. Exquisite guest vocals by the Good Lovelies, The Sojourners and a special appearance by Ron Sexsmith complete this timeless album.
Barber has proven to be one of Canada's leading singer-songwriters, having been nominated for over 20 awards and winner of the East Coast Music Awards for FACTOR Recording of the Year and Female Solo Recording of the Year. Barber has previously toured with acts such as Wintersleep, Joel Plaskett, Josh Ritter and Ron Sexsmith.

Canadian Tour Dates:

October 4 Vancouver, BC Chan Centre for Performing Arts (w/ Ron Sexsmith)

October 24 Sackville, NB Sackville United Church

October 26 Fredericton, NB Playhouse Theatre

October 29 Summerside, PEI Harbourfront Jubilee Theatre

October 30 Halifax, NS Rebecca Cohn Auditorium

October 31 Antigonish, NS Bauer Theater

November 1 Antigonish, NS Bauer Theatre

November 2 Chester, NS Chester Playhouse

November 4 Margaretsville, NS Evergreen Theatre

November 5 Liverpool, NS Astor Theatre

November 6 Shelburne, NS Osprey Arts Centre

November 7 Wolfville, NS Festival Theatre

November 8 Port Hawksbury, NS SAERC

November 9 Glace Bay, NS Savoy Theatre

November 14 Calgary, AB Knox United Church

November 15 St. Albert, AB Arden Theatre

November 18 Regina, SK The Exchange

November 19 Winnipeg, MB Park Theatre


Weblinks: www.jillbarber.com and www.myspace.com/jillbarbermusic

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary


VISIONARY Concert & Book Launch

Celebrating 30th Anniversary Season

Sunday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church

Toronto, September 10, 2008: The Elmer Iseler Singers and conductor Lydia Adams launch their 30th anniversary season with a performance featuring the glorious music of Canadian composers John Beckwith, Ruth Watson Henderson and Imant Raminsh. The evening also includes the moving mystical works of Maurice Durufl, Henryk Gorecki and Eric Whitacre. This concert is the perfect occasion to launch Walter Pitmans new book, Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary, a biography that outlines the spectacular career (spanning five decades) of the legendary Elmer Iseler. The event takes place on Sunday, September 21 at 7PM at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church (78 Clifton Road) in Toronto.

In addition to celebrating the Elmer Iseler Singers 30th anniversary season, this concert marks the 10th anniversary of Lydia Adams as Artistic Director and Conductor. Special guest Walter Pitman (O. C., O. On.) joins Canadas foremost vocal ensemble to introduce Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary (Dundurn Press 2008) - the first-ever biography of the choirs founder. With a personalized forward written by Jessie Iseler and over 50 black & white photos, the Iseler story belongs to the thousands of singers and hundreds of conductors that have ever sung and worked with Elmer Iseler. All proceeds of sales through the Elmer Iseler Singers go towards the work of the Elmer Iseler Singers.

Elmer Iseler was pivotal to the development of choral music in Canada. Though he passed away on April 3, 1998, his impact will continue undiminished through his many recordings, the work of the Elmer Iseler Singers, through The Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting, the Elmer Iseler National Graduate Fellowships in Choral Conducting at the University of Toronto and through this biography.

The September 21 performance features John Beckwiths Sharon Fragments; Imant Raminshs Ave Verum Corpus; Ruth Watson Hendersons Missa Brevis; Maurice Durufls Quatre Motets (Ubi caritas, Tota pulchra es, Tu es Petrus and Tantum ergo); Henryk Mikoaj Greckis Totus Tuus, Op. 60; and Eric Whitacres When David Heard.

The Elmer Iseler Singers Board of Directors is pleased to announce that this 2008/2009 Toronto 30th Anniversary Series is very generously sponsored by Hooey Remus LLP a premier law firm based in Toronto.

VISIONARY Concert and Book Launch: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church 78 Clifton Road at St. Clair, Toronto (West of Mt. Pleasant)

Special Guest: WALTER PITMAN, O.C., O. On.

Author of Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary (Dundurn Press)

Tickets: $35/ regular - $30/Seniors - $10/Students (with valid student i.d.)

Please call Janet Johnson at 416-217-0537 for tickets and information.


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Harbourfront Centre

Free family concert series returns to Harbourfront Centre on Thanksgiving Weekend, Sunday, October 12, as part of HarbourKIDS!


TORONTO, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The 2008/09 Music with Bite concert series presents four spectacular concerts for families with three of the performances as part of HarbourKIDS, Harbourfront Centre's new ongoing family program. The popular Music with Bite series kicks off on Sunday, October 12 with an entertaining bilingual (English/French) opera performance of Annabelle Canto. On Sunday, December 7, families are invited to Fiestango!, a lively bilingual (English/French) performance on the history of tango. As part of Harbourfront Centre's Kuumba Black History Month celebrations, Ach Brasil, an Afro-Brazilian music and dance group performs on Sunday, February 15. The concert season closes on Sunday, May 17 with a thrilling taiko drumming performance from the Nagata Shachu (formerly (formerly Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble).



Music with Bite is a refreshing experience where children can pull up a comfy cushion and sit in front of the stage for an enjoyable, interactive music performance tailored for the youngest audience members. After the concert, children can enjoy a complimentary Natrel milk beverage and cookies. Concerts take place on select Sundays at 1 p.m., at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. Admission is free. For information, the public can call 416-973-4000 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com.



Music with Bite is a co-production with Jeunesses Musicales Ontario, which is affiliated with Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, who since 1949 has dedicated its work to musical excellence and the promotion of young artists and music for young people. Jeunesses Musicales of Canada is a member of Jeunesses Musicales International.



SEASON LINE UP:

Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 1 p.m. Annabelle Canto (bilingual performance)

From Montreal, soprano Christina Tannous becomes Annabelle Canto, the young opera singer who loses both her voice and memory on the morning of an important concert. Annabelle and her pianist, played by Dominic Boulianne, set out on a quest for this magical voice. Along their musical route, they discover magnificent opera characters. This bilingual Music with Bite performance is part of HarbourKIDS: Geek Out (October 12-13), a family weekend celebrating geeks are cool with two jam-packed days of music, creativity and fun. Annabelle Canto is also part of Qubec Now!, a Toronto-wide celebration of contemporary Qubec arts and culture.



Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 1 p.m. Fiestango! (bilingual performance)

From Quebec, Amlie Lamontagne (violin), Janie Caron, (piano) and Genevive Bigonnesse (bass) explore the history of the tango. Young audiences hear the story of three mischievous cousins who receive a large trunk in the mail. Inside, they find all kinds of amazing objects, including an old diary. belonging to the young and mysterious Mercedes. Just for fun, they decide to act out the story of Mercedes, who spent her life travelling with this trunk in tow, filling it with souvenirs. Immersing themselves in the narrative, the three cousins rediscover and invent their own fantastic adventures that lead them to learn about the history of the tango, a style of music and dance they adore. But a question remains unanswered: Just how did this mysterious trunk make its way into their hands? Fiestango! is part of HarbourKIDS: SK8Culture (December 5-7), a family weekend celebrating all things skating with activities, exhibitions and performances. Fiestango! is also part of Qubec Now!



Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 1 p.m.

Ach Brasil

Founded in 1990 in Vancouver by Mestre Eclilson de Jesus, Ach Brasil is a performance group that fuses music, dance, capoeira (martial arts and acrobatics) into a dynamic, colourful, high energy performance. The dancers, musicians and performers of Ach Brasil exhibit a rare combination of authenticity and excellence in their work, which is presently unmatched in North America. Experienced and professional, Ach Brasil is committed to presenting high quality performances which best exemplify Brazil's rich cultural heritage. This performance is part of Harbourfront Centre's Kuumba.



Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 1 p.m.

Nagata Shachu (formerly Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble)

Based in Toronto, Nagata Shachu has enthralled audiences with its mesmerizing and thrilling performances on the Japanese drum (taiko) since its formation in 1998. Under the direction of Kiyoshi Nagata, the ensemble combines thunderous, primal drumbeats with subtle, intricate rhythms to produce a wide spectrum of sound. With their vast array of Japanese taiko, gongs, bells, wooden clappers, shakers and bamboo flutes, the ensemble takes audiences on a musical journey beyond all borders This Music with Bite performance is part of the HarbourKIDS weekend, May 16-18, 2009.



Music with Bite is produced with the support of the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and Desjardins.



FOCUS: Pause

Harbourfront Centre wants you. to. slow. down. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and images, what happens when someone really takes the time to reflect? From September to May, Harbourfront Centre wants you to pause and make a connection to art, technology, the world. Find time for yourself by taking one of our Courses and Workshops; reflect while you wait for the World Stage curtain to rise; indulge in a great book during the 2008 International Festival of Authors. Harbourfront Centretime well spent.

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Canadian Art Gallery Hop

Jessica Morgan, Curator of Contemporary Art at London's Tate Modern, and Jens Hoffman, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, express their high regard for Canada's contemporary art scene.

"I have had the privilege of working with many artists from Canada," says Ms. Morgan. "Among them are some of the leading figures in the art worldtheir work has contributed significantly to current concerns in contemporary art." Of the younger generation of Canadian artists, Ms. Morgan says, "They are working at an international level that is recognized by museums and institutions globally."

"There is fantastic work being created north of the border", says Jens Hoffmann, who has worked with Canadian artists such as Brian Jungen, Tim Lee and Gareth Moore. "It's easy to become centered on work being made in New York, Berlin or London, without looking elsewhere," he says. "But Canada has vibrant art scenes that are worth exploring."
The 13th annual Canadian Art Gallery Hop Gala and Auction, to be held on Thursday, September 18, 2008, is a perfect opportunity for guests to bid on works by Canada's hottest contemporary artists.
The auction, to be conducted by Maarten ten Holder of Sotheby's North America, will feature work by Vancouver's Tim Lee; Kenojuak Ashevak, winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts; Arabella Campbell, winner of the 2007 RBC Painting Competition; Michel de Broin, winner of the 2007 Sobey Art Award; Sarah Anne Johnson, winner of the 2008 Grange Prize for Photography, and Toronto artists Ed Pien and Scott McFarland.
Ms. Morgan continues, "The Canadian Art Foundation's programming provides a great service to the public by promoting the country's visual arts. I'm certain that their fundraiser is worthy of support."

Vancouver artist Gareth Moore will be part of a group of panellists speaking on the topic "Delicate: Art and Post-Millennial Culture" at the Ontario College of Art and Design on September 20, 2008. He will be joined by Montreal curator John Zeppetelli (DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art) and Toronto curator Helena Reckitt (The Power Plant).

This free event is moderated by Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art. The day continues with a series of free talks at galleries around the city.

Please check canadianart.ca/galleryhop for a speaker schedule and list of participating galleries.

Media interview opportunities are available with Ann Webb, Executive Director, Canadian Art Foundation, and Richard Rhodes, Editor, Canadian Art magazine. Photo/video opportunities are available at the gala, panel discussion and gallery talks.

About the Canadian Art Foundation
The Canadian Art Foundation is a charitable organization that fosters and supports the visual arts in Canada. The foundation celebrates artists and their creativity with a nationwide educational program of events, lectures, competitions, publications and other initiatives. The Gallery Hop is just one program through which the Canadian Art Foundation provides access and points of entry for the public into the visual arts. www.canadianart.ca/foundation
Canadian Art GALLERY HOP
Thursday, September 18, and Saturday, September 20
www.canadianart.ca/galleryhop

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Beethoven concert de dbut de saison Orchestre Symphonique de Laval


LOSL ouvre sa nouvelle saison de faon magistrale avec les 5e et 6e symphonies de Beethoven et la cration dune uvre de Tim Brady


Laval, 9 septembre 2008 Pour ce premier rendez-vous de la saison, lOrchestre symphonique de Laval et Alain Trudel ont choisi de rendre hommage au gnie de Beethoven en offrant aux mlomanes la Symphonie pastorale et la clbre Symphonie no5, une des uvres les plus aimes et les plus joues de tout le rpertoire symphonique. Entam la saison dernire, le grand cycle Beethoven de lOSL se poursuivra la saison prochaine. Ce concert sera aussi loccasion pour le public de faire connaissance avec Tim Brady, premier compositeur en rsidence de lOSL. Pour loccasion, lorchestre interprtera en grande premire Running, un scherzo sign Tim Brady qui mettra en lumire les qualits rythmiques de lorchestre et en valeur la section des cuivres. Ce premier GRAND CONCERT de lOSL sera dirig par Alain Trudel et prsent, le mercredi 17 septembre 20 h, la salle Andr-Mathieu. Cette nouvelle saison verra galement le retour des trs populaires confrences davant-concert, prsentes ds 19 h 15.

Beethoven

Composes presque simultanment, les 5e et 6e symphonies de Beethoven ont t cres pour la premire fois lors dun concert prsent le 22 dcembre 1808. Bien quelles aient t composes pendant les mmes annes, elles voquent des thmes bien diffrents. Alors que la Symphonie no 5 nous ramne nos combats intrieurs et la joie dun dnouement heureux, la Pastorale, en contraste, souvre sur le monde et transpose de faon spectaculaire lamour que le compositeur portait la nature.

Tim Brady

Lnergie et quelques petites ides musicales lorigine de Running ont t empruntes au travail de dconstruction radicale que Tim Brady a men lors de la rcriture des arrangements de la chanson rock des annes 60 Runnin Back to Saskatoon , du groupe The Guess Who, pour le compte de CBC Radio Orchestra, au dbut de 2008. La nouvelle pice a t compltement repense et recompose dans une forme proche de celle dun mini concerto pour orchestre , et il ne reste que deux petits fragments mlodiques de la chanson originale.

Reconnu pour ses orchestrations clatantes, Tim Brady a t commandit et jou par de nombreux ensembles et orchestres travers le monde, et ses oeuvres ont t enregistres de nombreuses reprises. Guitariste lectrique mrite, Tim Brady a fait valoir son talent sur les plus grandes scnes et avec les plus prestigieux orchestres, et il tourne rgulirement avec son ensemble, le Bradyworks. Soulignons que Tim Brady a gagn le prix OPUS "Compositeur de l'anne" du Conseil qubcois de la musique, en 2004, et le prix Jan V. Matejcek de la SOCAN, en 2006.

Au programme

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie no 6 en fa majeur, op. 68 (Pastorale)

Tim Brady

Running

Entracte

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie no 5 en ut mineur, op. 67

En rsum :

Concert : le mercredi 17 septembre 20 h, la salle Andr-Mathieu

Confrence davant-concert avec Alain Trudel et Tim Brady : ds 19 h 15 la salle Andr-Mathieu

Ce concert fait parti des Grandes Soires Hydro Qubec.

Les billets pour ce concert sont disponibles :

En ligne : www.salleandremathieu.com

Au guichet de la salle Andr-Mathieu : 475, boul. de lAvenir, Laval

Par tlphone, billetterie de la salle Andr-Mathieu : (450) 667-2040

Via le Rseau admission : (514) 790-1245

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Richard Stoltzman's 2008-09 Season


TWO NEW RECORDINGS, TWO NEW YORK CITY PERFORMANCES,

A BIG BAND TOUR, AND COLLABORATIONS WITH OLD FRIENDS MARK RICHARD STOLTZMAN'S 2008-2009 SEASON

After a highly-acclaimed reunion-tour to mark the 35th anniversary of Tashi, Richard Stoltzman returns for the 2008-2009 season with two new recordings and two New York City performances: at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with pianist Menahem Pressler and the Peoples' Symphony Concerts with the Orion String Quartet.

Richard Stoltzman, the first clarinetist ever to be given a solo recital at Carnegie Hall, and who is one of today's most sought-after and versatile artists, will perform concerts across the United States and Canada during the 2008-2009 season. Stoltzman joins some of the world's finest musicians including Menahem Pressler, Yehudi Wyner and the Takcs Quartet, in a wide variety of repertoire.

In addition to his recital and chamber music engagements, Richard Stoltzman will tour in Florida with the Florida State University Jazz Band paying tribute to a true 20th century icon of swing, the legendary Benny Goodman. Stoltzman will also continue his big band swing with a residency and performance at the University of Iowa.

TWO NEW CD RELEASES

PHOENIX IN FLIGHT

This September, Navona Records, the label imprint of audio production house PARMA Recordings LLC, releases Phoenix in Flight, which spotlights Richard Stoltzman in a collection of repertoire masterworks by Debussy, Weber and Tchaikovsky, recorded with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor. Phoenix in Flight features enhanced content with select scans of the clarinet parts, including Toru Takemitsu's arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Herbstlied," created for and dedicated to Stoltzman, as well as footage from the recording sessions.

Expected in 2009, Marquis Classics will release the first-ever commercial recording of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra (Ohio). Richard Stoltzman joins conductor Gary Sheldon in recordings of three works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom including his Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra and two other short works that have never been recorded before, plus Clare Fischer's The Duke, Swee'pea and Me written for Richard Stoltzman.

TWO NEW YORK CITY CONCERTS AND AN INTERVIEW

October finds Richard Stoltzman in New York City for two concert appearances and an interview. On October 10, Richard is joined by pianist Menahem Pressler in a performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring works by Schubert, Berg, Brahms and Kurtg. According to Stoltzman, who refers to his colleague as "the indefatigable octogenarian," Pressler is "the ultimate chamber music player. Our choice of music reflects our love of lyricism, our worship of Brahms and our fascination with the challenging."

On October 20, Richard Stoltzman will be the first in a series of stellar interview guests on the Music For All Seasons Conversations Series. This is a rare opportunity to get to know Richard Stoltzman outside of a concert setting as he is interviewed by host Nancy Shear at Steinway Hall at 6:30 p.m.

Richard will join Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society's resident quartet, the Orion String Quartet, on Sunday, November 1, in a performance featuring the famous Brahms Quintet for the Peoples' Symphony Concert Series at Washington Irving High School.

New York Dates:

What: Menahem Pressler, piano Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue

Program: Schubert Sonatina in D; Schubert - "The Shepherd on the Rock;" Berg- Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano; Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor; Kurtg Hommage Schumann

When: Friday, October 10, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $50 and available at The Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org/tickets or (212) 570-3949

What: The Peoples' Symphony Concerts: The Orion String Quartet with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

Where: Washington Irving High School, 16th Street and Irving Place (one block east of the Union Square subway station at 14th Street)

Program: Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor; Gershwin Selections

When: Saturday, November 1, 8 p.m.

Tickets are $12 and available at www.pscny.org/tickets.htm

What: Music For All Seasons Conversations Series

Who: Richard Stoltzman interviewed by Nancy Shear

When: Monday, October 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: Steinway Hall 109 W. 57th St. (Between 6th and 7th Aves)

Tickets are available at www.musicforallseasons.org

BIG BAND TOUR

In March, 2009, one clarinet master honors another while treating audiences to some of the most popular music ever written. Richard Stoltzman will do a mini-tour with the Florida State University Jazz Band followed by a residency at the University of Iowa, paying tribute to legendary clarinetist, Benny Goodman. These appearances afford Richard the opportunity to join forces with the high-energy young jazz generation while paying tribute to a true clarinet icon.

According to Stoltzman, "I played duets with Benny at his penthouse apartment and he honored me by coming to my first clarinet recital in Carnegie Hall.

"It will be such a blast to launch into 'Sing, Sing, Sing' with these 21st century whiz kids who weren't even alive when Benny and his band shook the classical walls of Carnegie Hall."

RICHARD STOLTZMAN, CLARINETIST

2008-09 Season Schedule

October 2, 2008

Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music

Menahem Pressler, piano

Program: Schubert: Sonatina in D; Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor

October 4, 2008

Los Angeles, California

Da Camera Society

Menahem Pressler, piano

Program: Schubert: Sonatina in D; Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano; Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor

October 7, 2008

Vancouver, British Colombia

Vancouver Friends of Chamber Music

Menahem Pressler, piano

Program: Schubert: Sonatina in D; Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano; Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor

October 10, 2008

New York, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Menahem Pressler, piano; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano

Program: Schubert Sonatina in D; Schubert - "The Shepherd on the Rock"; Berg- Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano; Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor; Kurtg Hommage Schumann

October 20, 2008

New York, New York

Music For All Seasons Conversations Series

Nancy Shear, host

October 23, 2008

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard University's Houghton Library

Yehudi Wyner, piano

Program: Wyner: Commedia for Clarinet and Piano; Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor; Bach: Sonata in D Major; Schubert: Sonatina in D

November 1, 2008

New York, New York

Peoples' Symphony Concerts at Washington Irving High School

Orion String Quartet

Program: Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor

November 7, 8, 2008

Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

Edwin Outwater, conductor

Program: Copland: Concerto for Clarinet; Gershwin: Three Preludes; Jenkins: Goodbye "In Memory of Benny" and other jazz selections

January 25, 2009

Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

Markand Thakar, conductor

Program: Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet in A Major

February 15, 2009

Berkeley, California

Cal Performances

Takcs Quartet

Program: Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major K. 581

February 19, 2009

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe Concert Association

Peter John Stoltzman, piano

Program: TBA

March 4, 2009

Palm Beach, Florida

Florida State University Jazz Band

Program: Salute to Benny Goodman

March 8, 2009

Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Florida State University Jazz Band

Program: Salute to Benny Goodman

April 3, 2009

Iowa City, Iowa

University of Iowa

Johnson County Landmark Jazz Band

Residency and Performance: Salute to Benny Goodman

April 25, 2009

Syracuse, New York

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Eliot Fisk, guitar

Program: Schubert: Sonatina; Bartk: Romanian Folk Dance; Bach; Rossini

May 2, 2009

New Bedford, Massachusetts

New Bedford Symphony Orchestra

David MacKenzie, conductor

Program: Copland: Concerto for Clarinet; Jenkins: Goodbye "In Memory of Benny"

Note: All programs are subject to change.

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Dancemakers Announces 2008/2009 Season


[Michael] Trent is blessedĶ. His dancers are strong individuals, and displayĶdominant traits that add to the mystique of their interactions. Paula Citron, Globe and Mail

Other (brutal) responses:

Dancemakers announces its 2008/2009 season

September 8, 2008 Ķ Dancemakers and The Centre for Creations 2008/2009 season -- under the leadership of artistic director Michael Trent -- focuses on brutality in the world and our responses to it. The season includes the indispensable series Dancemakers Presents, the Home Season with guest choreographer Tony Chong and the annual Choreographic Lab with choreographer Valerie Calam. Dancemakers main-stage presentation, 60 dances in 60 minutes (working title) by Michael Trent, is part of Harbourfronts NextSteps Series. The coming season also reunites the 2007/2008 dance ensemble of: Kate Hilliard, Kate Holden, Benjamin Kamino and Steeve Paquet and introduces new ensemble member Robert Abubo to form the 2008/2009 Dancemakers company. Also, Alanna Kraaijeveld will be joining the company as guest artist on several projects. The season also includes master classes with the iconic Peggy Baker and renowned Toronto dance artist Susie Burpee.

Subscription packages are available for the season; visit dancemakers.org for more information.

2008/2009 marks Michael Trents third year as Artistic Director of Dancemakers. Trent says, I insist on surrounding myself with people who inspire me because simply, it makes the work better. In thinking about the seasons programming, he adds, Chong will challenge the collaborative team to go as deeply as possible in the creation of bold new work. The Dancemakers Presents artists are inspired and inspiring and I am proud to present them to our public.

Resident Dramaturge and Animateur Jacob Zimmer adds, The world can be a brutal place. And so too our responses. Even in the privilege of a wealthy city in a wealthy and reportedly polite country, the daily grinding and banal cruelty wears its way into our bodies. Emotionally and physically we feel the impact, even when the source is almost too subtle to name.

How then might we respond? Road rage, trips out of the city, anonymous online rants, good food and good wine could be included in list of responses to such everyday brutality. And we would also add dance to any such list.

In the 2008/09 season, Dancemakers brings five other (brutal) responses from five Canadian choreographers to the Toronto public. All five reply explicitly and with great force to the world around them. Personal and particular, these five works offer a reflection and a re-imagining of how we might respond.

The 2008/2009 season will include two world premieres created with the Dancemakers company: The Home Season: Bloodletting and Other Pleasant Things (October 22, 23, 24, 25, October 28, 29, 30, 31, November 1, 2008 at 8 p.m., October 26 and November 2 at 4 p.m.) choreographed by Tony Chong and with a soundscape by Kevin Young. Invited to create a new work for the coveted Dancemakers Home Season -- a rare opportunity for contemporary dance to deepen over an extended two-week run -- Ottawa choreographer and Artistic Director of Le Groupe Dance Lab, Chong returns with his unique physical and imagistic language. Inspired by powerful images of anger and violence, so readily seen in our popular culture, Chong was initially struck by the malicious and often decisively negative intent of online forums and postings.

The second world premiere will be 60 dances in 60 minutes (working title) (February 11, 12, 13, 14, 2009 at 8 p.m. and February 14 at 3 p.m.). This new work from Michael Trent continues the drive towards bold contemporary, collaborative and cross-disciplinary work. Following the success of 2007-2008's things in between and Double Bill #1, Artistic Director Michael Trent and five extraordinary performers unveil a world premiere specifically created for the Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront Centre.

Trent wonders, If time is neither slow nor fast just slower or faster, how long is a minute? What makes it go by in a flash or last forever? Building from 60 things lasting precisely one minute, Trent is curious about how they overlap, interrelate and run-up against each other. About how we respect or defy our limitations.

Go to dancemakers.org to follow the work's development.

In September, Artistic Director Michael Trent participates in one of two residencies through Rural Retreats. He is one of seven aspiring leaders of dance from around the world who have been selected for international placements with Rural Retreats, a think tank for current and future leaders of the dance world.

The successful candidates were identified, selected and funded by DanceEast (danceeast.co.uk) Each participant will spend up to three months shadowing a leading dance director with unprecedented access to meetings and rehearsals, learning about all aspects of running a top international dance organization and experiencing the work of various departments such as sponsorship, marketing, public relations, production, programming and touring.

The Centre for Creations Dancemakers Presents series has become one of Torontos most important platforms for revealing contemporary Canadian choreography. The series is aimed at providing opportunities for Canadian choreographers with little or no access to the Toronto public.

Dancemakers Presents Series opens with Montreal choreographer George Stamos reservoir-pneumatic (September 25, 26, 27, 2008 at 8 p.m.). The Dancemakers Presents series continues to build its tradition of bringing in contemporary choreographers, including George Stamos, an artist known for creating bold, sophisticated dances developed around ideas of sexuality, gender and class politics. Exploring the importance of connections in the face of brutal circumstances, reservoir-pneumatic stars some of Montreals finest performances.

Next in the series will be Toronto artist Sasha Ivanochkos world premiere of her new solo (December 11, 12, 13, 2008 at 8 p.m.) with her long time composer Katherine Thompson. An intense and intuitive performer, she has charmed audiences and critics with her explosive physicality and dramatic presence. "Sasha Ivanochko is so damned expressive; you could sell tickets to watch her cross the street." NOW Magazine - June, 2005.

The series concludes with Antonija Livingstone (February 26, 27, 28, 2009 at 8 p.m.). In The Part choreographer and performer Livingstone examines social roles and performative roles and the many similar traits they share and fascinations they hold. There are ways you behave at work and ways you behave at a party, just as there are ways you behave in ballet and ways you behave in conceptual dance. After success in Vancouver, Montreal and Europe, this marks the first Toronto presentation of this important and iconoclastic artist.

Each performance series will once again be accompanied by Dancemakers pre-show conversation series, Thinking Out Loud: a conversation about art and ideas. Resident Dramaturge/Animateur Jacob Zimmer and Artistic Director Michael Trent invite the public to join them in an open discussion about an idea or curiosity the choreographer of the work has identified as integral to their work or processes. These conversations are less about the particular work and more about issues that surround, or come through, their practice.

The 2009 Choreographic Lab (public showings: March 21, 22, 2009) welcomes one choreographer to spend three luxurious weeks with the company dancers on research devoted to curiosities and new ideas in art making.

Applauded across Canada and Europe for her phenomenally articulate and witty performances with Toronto Dance Theatre, Valerie Calam is bursting onto the choreographic scene with a potent mix of extreme physical daring and irrefutable relevance. Her 2007 work Parliament was recognized with a Dora Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography.

And in the final preparation for the world premiere of Accidents for Every Occasion, Toronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin takes over the Centre for Creation as artist-in-residence. This project provides her with 24/7 access to our fully equipped and state of the art theatre as she finesses all the creative elements before DanceWorks premieres the work from April 30 to May 2, 2009 as part of Harbourfront Centres NextSteps series.

And in its continued commitment to bringing contemporary dance to young people, Dancemakers will undertake two youth initiatives. The Company will deliver a series of workshops with students from performing arts high schools (Cawthra, Etobicoke, Unionville and Rosedale High Schools) that provide insights into Dancemakers creative process. The day starts with a class with the Company performers. Following the performance, students are led through a workshop to deepen their experience of the form and content of the show they have just witnessed.

Dancemakers 2008/2009 season in chronological order:

Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at Dancemakers Centre for

Creation, The Distillery Historic District, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery, Bldg. 58, Suite 313.

Call/Click: 416.367.1800 or info@dancemakers.org; dancemakers.org

A limited number of tickets for students with valid ID will be made available through hipTIX throughout the season. Visit totix.ca for updates. Save from 10% to 15% with subscription packages ranging from $48 to $61 for all performances at the Centre for Creation.

Sept. 8-19 Michael Trent in residency in France, with choreographer Maguy Marin at the Centre chorgraphique national in Lyon

Sept 8 - 12 Skinner Release Technique with Toronto-based artist and former Assistant Artistic Director of Dancemakers Julia Sasso Sold-out!

Sept. 25 - 27, 8 p.m. Dancemakers Presents: George Stamos

reservoir-pneumatic (please note: intended to be in lower case)

Sept. 26, 7 p.m. Thinking Out Loud: a conversation about art and ideas

Tickets: Regular $22; Students/Seniors/CADA $18

Oct. 22-25, The Home Season: Bloodletting and Other Pleasant Things

Oct. 28 Nov. 1, 8 p.m. by Tony Chong

Oct. 26 & Nov. 2, 4 p.m. Tickets: Regular $22; Students/Seniors/CADA $18

Nov. 10 - 14, 1-5 p.m. Improvisation with Toronto-based teacher Misha Glouberman

Dec. 11 - 13, 8 p.m. Dancemakers Presents: Sasha Ivanochko

untitled (a world premiere)

Dec. 12, 7 p.m. Thinking Out Loud: a conversation about art and ideas

Tickets: Regular $22; Students/Seniors/CADA $18

Dec. 1 - 5 Master Teacher Series with Peggy Baker

Pre-registration required. Please contact Dancemakers for more information about the Master Teacher Series.

Feb. 11 - 14, 8 p.m. Dancemakers @ Harbourfront: 60 dances in 60 minutes (working title)

Feb. 14, 3 p.m. NextSteps Series

All performances at the Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay West Tickets: Regular: $22-$38; Students/Seniors/CADA:$20-$33

Call/Click: 416.973.4000 or www.harbourfrontcentre.com

Feb. 26 - 28, 8 p.m. Dancemakers Presents: Antonija Livingstone

The Part

Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Thinking out Loud: a conversation about art and ideas

Mar. 9 - 13 Master Teacher Series with Susie Burpee

Please contact Dancemakers for more information about the Master Teacher Series.

Mar 21 & 22 at 8 p.m. Choreographic Lab Public Presentation

Invited Choreographer: Valerie Calam,

Lab monitor: Michael Trent

Tickets: Regular $10; Students/Seniors/CADA $8

Spring 2009 Michael Trent in residency in France with Mathilde Monnier at the Centre chorgraphique national in Montpellier

April 20 - 26 Centre for Creation Production Residency

Choreographer: Jenn Goodwin

April 24, 7 p.m. Thinking Out Loud: a conversation about art and ideas

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Jack la lanterne : l'Halloween Pointe--Callire

Le Muse darchologie et dhistoire de Montral prsente

Jack la lanterne : lHalloween Pointe--Callire
Les samedis et dimanches 18-19 et 25-26 octobre 2008
Entre 12 h 30 et 16 h 30

Montral, le 6 aot 2008 Pointe--Callire invite petits et grands dcouvrir les origines culturelles et les croyances rattaches lHalloween grce sa populaire activit familiale Jack la lanterne. Les enfants suivent un parcours thtral dbordant dhumour et de fantaisie. Tout en parcourant un site archologique authentique, ils dcouvrent des personnages attachants qui leur dvoilent la magie et lenchantement de cette grande fte automnale.

Mais qui est Jack?
Jack la lanterne est un jeune Irlandais errant dans le monde des morts la recherche de la lumire qui clairera son chemin. Connaissant merveilleusement bien lunivers des esprits, il apprend aux enfants comment discuter avec les fantmes. Il leur donne galement des conseils pour djouer les personnages tranges rencontrs tout au long de leur visite au Muse. Fantmes, sorcires et magiciens se donnent rendez-vous pour clbrer lHalloween, ce moment de lanne o le monde mystrieux des fantmes communique avec le monde des vivants.

Des rencontres pouvantablement enrichissantes!
Les enfants explorent les vestiges archologiques du Muse et font la rencontre de Jack et des jumeaux Rucht et Friucht qui leur donne la recette de la lumire. Madame Chipie, une sorcire-chat trs ruse leur explique, ensuite, des astuces pour faire fuir les monstres et les fantmes les plus affolants qui animent les cauchemars des enfants. Enfin, les enfants partagent leurs dcouvertes et expriences avec Gwened, un druide magicien, qui leur fait connatre le secret de la lumire et du courage, deux atouts qui font dfaut Jack la lanterne.

Lactivit se droule les samedis et les dimanches 18-19 et 25-26 octobre entre 12 h 30 et 16 h 30. Il faut prvoir environ 45 minutes pour faire le parcours en compagnie dun guide-animateur. Le dernier dpart se fait 15 h en anglais et 15 h 45 en franais.

Cette activit familiale est incluse dans le prix dentre du Muse.

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Handel and Haydn Society Announces Celebration 2009




Handel and Haydn Society OBSERVES ANNIVERSARIES OF NAMESAKe COMPOSERS IN 2008-2009 Season with Celebration 2009

Premier chorus and period-instrument orchestra presents Celebration 2009, commemorating 250th and 200th anniversaries of deaths of Handel and Haydn. Musical offerings include all-Handel program conducted by Harry Christophers; the Societys 155th annual performance of Handels Messiah, led by Paul Daniel; and two Haydn programs conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, including concert performance of the seldom heard Haydn opera Lanima del filosofo.

Celebration 2009 culminates in free, outdoor performance of Haydns masterwork, The Creation, on Bostons Esplanade, on May 31, 2009, conducted by Grant Llewellyn.

Celebratory season demonstrates renewed community commitment with the launch of cultural and educational partnerships throughout the greater Boston area.

July 16, 2008 (Updated: September 9, 2008) (Boston, MA)The Handel and Haydn Society, Americas oldest continuously-performing arts organization, marks an important musical anniversary year with Celebration 2009, in observance of anniversaries of the deaths of George Friderick Handel (1685April 14, 1759) and Franz Joseph Haydn (1732May 31, 1809), as well as the births of Henry Purcell (16591695) and Felix Mendelssohn (18091847). The Handel and Haydn Societys celebratory season features music of these four composers, as well as of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. In addition to Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington and Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn, the Society welcomes back regular guest conductor Harry Christophers, and the Societys Associate Conductor and Chorusmaster, John Finney. Celebration 2009 will culminate on May 31, 2009, with a free concert of Haydns masterwork The Creation on Bostons Esplanade.

During the 2008-2009 season, the Handel and Haydn Society bolsters its tradition of community outreach, presenting performances, forums, and educational programs through newly developed partnerships with leading area universities and colleges, and unprecedented collaborations with some of Bostons finest cultural institutions. The Celebration 2009 project is intended to generate civic dialogue around the role of great music, past and present. When the Handel and Haydn Society was founded in 1815, its stated purpose was to perform the best of the old and the newrepresented by Handel (considered at the time a composer of an earlier age) and Haydn (a relatively new composer who had passed away just a few years earlier). The 2009 anniversary year enables the Society to commemorate its namesake composers in a relevant and entertaining way; it also presents an important opportunity to translate the Societys historical charter to the 21st century, and to develop a performing arts model for engaging audiences in the role of classical musicpast, present, and futurein their lives and their communities.

Celebratory season of both well-known and rarely-heard repertoire features renowned conductors along with established and emerging soloists

The 2008-2009 season features important works of the past and the present, from Haydns rarely heard opera Lanima del filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice) and his authoritative The Creation, to music for the theater by Purcell, to a new work by Boston composer Thomas Vignieri that reflects on the influence of Handel. The Society has engaged conductors of international renown to lead energetic programs throughout the season; in addition to Artistic Advisor Norrington and Principal Conductor Llewellyn, and Harry Christophers (Music Director of The Sixteen) with whom Handel and Haydn has enjoyed an acclaimed partnership over the past three years, the Society welcomes to the podium period specialists Richard Egarr, Paul Daniel, Paul Goodwin, and Jean-Marie Zeitouni in their debuts with Handel and Haydn. Soloists include distinguished singers Sarah Coburn, Nathalie Paulin, Kendra Colton, and Andrew Kennedy, cellist Phoebe Carrai and Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts in his Boston debut, as well as rising young performers such as mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy, who began her solo career with the Handel and Haydn Society.

Free community concert on Boston Esplanade on May 31, 2009, features Haydns Creation

The Society will perform a free, outdoor concert for the City of Boston, featuring Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn conducting the Handel and Haydn period-instrument ensemble and chorus in Haydns masterwork The Creation. Held on Bostons famed Esplanade, which has a capacity for more than 16,000 people, this community event is planned for broadcast with the potential of reaching several hundred thousand more people throughout the United States. This marks the third time the Society has performed on the Esplanade, the last time in 1990. A pre-concert performance will showcase the Handel and Haydn Youth Choruses, now in their 24th year.

This event holds significance for two reasons: Handel and Haydn Society performed the American premiere of The Creation in 1819; additionally, while preparation for celebrations of the 2009 musical anniversaries has been underway in Great Britain and Europe for some time, Handel and Haydn is uniquely positioned to take the lead on an American observance. The Society is one of the only music organizations in the United States to take part in an international observance of the 200th anniversary of Haydns death on May 31, 2009, when The Creation will be performed on the same day around the world by other renowned ensembles.

Society expands Educational and Community Outreach Programs

In the 2008-2009 season, Handel and Haydn will invigorate its educational and community outreach programs with expanded programs, venues, and access for children and adults. As part of Celebration 2009, Handel and Haydn will offer the children and schools it currently serves even greater access to music and music education, and will also reach new people in the community, by giving free performances and musical demonstrations in public spaces, such as the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum, and other collaborating venues. Celebration 2009 will also build on the Societys use of electronic media in recent seasons by using podcasts; music, conductors insights, and lectures on the Societys website; and video broadcasts as an important educational and audience-development tool. Handel and Haydn Society will make a live recording of Lanima del filosofo under Sir Roger Norrington on the Signum Records label for release in May 2009, commemorating the anniversary of the composers death.

In Celebration 2009, the Society also explores new and enhanced partnerships with New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University to train the players and singers of the future in Baroque and Classical performance styles and techniques through masterclasses, symposia, interaction with professional conductors and musicians, access to rehearsals and performances, and collaborations between musicians and music faculty. These partnerships are the first step toward the Handel and Haydn Academy, a pre-professional period-performance training program that the Society plans to launch in the 2009-2010 season.

This expanded outreach draws on the Societys longstanding tradition in the community, dating back to the 19th century when the Society organized large-scale charity events and made great music available to the people of Boston. Over the past 24 years, Handel and Haydns award-winning Educational Outreach Program, founded in 1984 to address the lack of music education in public school systems due to funding cuts, has grown significantly and won accolades for bringing vocal training and performance opportunities to thousands of children in some of Greater Bostons most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Interdisciplinary collaborations with American and international music organizations

In addition to its cultural and educational partners in Boston, Handel and Haydn will also partner in 2008-2009 with the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, at which Handel and Haydn performed in September 2006, and which is organizing the worldwide performances of The Creation on May 31, 2009; the Haydn Society of North America, dedicated to promoting the legacy of Haydn; and Handel House Museum in London, with whom the Society has a longstanding relationship. Handel and Haydn Society has named the president of the Haydn Society of North America, Dr. Michael Ruhling, its 2008-2009 HIP Fellow (program annotator and scholarly contributor to Handel and Haydns musical programs); Handel and Haydn also partners with Longy School of Music to host the Haydn Society of North Americas 2009 conference, which takes place in Cambridge and Boston, MA, the week of May 25, 2009, and will close with the outdoor performance of The Creation.

HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY 2008-2009 SEASON CALENDAR

1. Masterclass with Harry Christophers

Monday, September 29 at 4.30pm

Tufts University

Harry Christophers coaches the Tufts University Choir on the Faur Requiem.

2. Celebrate Handel! Sponsored by Sasso Restaurant & Bar

Friday, October 3 at 8pm

Sunday, October 5 at 3pm

Symphony Hall

Harry Christophers, conductor

Gillian Keith, soprano

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Handel: Coronation Anthems; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon); Selections from Jephtha and Semele

3. Community Performance: Rose Kennedy Greenway Inaugural Celebration

Saturday, October 4 (Time: TBA)

Handel and Haydn Young Womens Chorus

Handel and Haydn Young Womens Chorusone of the Societys four youth chorusesperforms at the Mothers Walk Dedication Ceremony for the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

4. Reception at Somerset Club

Saturday, October 4 from 6.30-8pm

Somerset Club, 42 Beacon Street

Hosted by Nick Gleysteen, Wat Tyler, and Robert Scott

5. Community Event: Opening Our Doors

Monday, October 13 from 10am-4pm

Handel and Haydn Society Performance at 2pm

Mary Baker Eddy Library/First Church of Christ, Scientist Plaza

The Fenway Alliance hosts a full day of open events and short performances for Huntington Avenue- and Fenway-area academic, cultural, and arts organizations. Experience a live performance on period-instruments, with a demonstration on the differences between modern and historical instruments. Discover the breadth of vocal training programs offered by the Society to Boston-area youth, and meet some of our promising young vocal talent.

6. Handel and Haydn at Boston Public Library

Friday, October 31 at 6pm

Boston Public Library

Members of Handel and Haydn and guests discuss Handels Messiah and compare recordings, while discovering the treasures hidden in the rare books collection of the Boston Public Library.

7. Haydns Legacy: Mozart and Beethoven

Friday, November 7 at 8pm

Sunday, November 9 at 3pm

Symphony Hall

Richard Egarr, conductor & fortepiano

Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major, K. 16; Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488

Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture; Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93

8. Messiah

Friday, December 5 at 7.30pm

Saturday, December 6 at 3pm

Sunday, December 7 at 3pm

Symphony Hall

Paul Daniel, conductor

Kendra Colton, soprano

Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano

Brian Stucki, tenor

Brett Polegato, baritone

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

9. A Bach Christmas Sponsored by Boston Private Bank & Trust Company

Thursday, December 18 at 8pm

Sunday, December 21 at 3pm

New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall

John Finney, conductor

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243; Cantata No. 151, Ser Trost, mein Jesus kmmt; Cantata No. 191, Gloria in excelsis Deo

10. Haydns Orfeo

Friday, January 23 at 8pm

Sunday, January 25 at 3pm

Symphony Hall

Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

Sarah Coburn, Euridice

Andrew Kennedy, Orfeo

Christopher Maltman, Creonte

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Haydn: Lanima del filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice)

11. The Haydn Experience Symposium

Saturday, January 24 at 1.30pm (time subject to change)

New England Conservatory

Sir Roger Norrington and Haydn scholars discuss the myth of Orfeo and Lanima del filosofo. Members of the Handel and Haydn Society join in a chamber music performance of Haydns works.

12. Handel and Haydn at Boston Public Library

Friday, February 20 at 6pm

Boston Public Library

Members of Handel and Haydn and guests discuss Handels Messiah and compare recordings, while discovering the treasures hidden in the media collection of the Boston Public Library.

13. Baroque Grand Tour

Friday, February 27 at 8pm

Sunday, March 1 at 3pm

New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall

Paul Goodwin, conductor

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Couperin: Concert dans le got thtral

Purcell: Funeral Sentences; The Masque from Dioclesian

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3

14. Noon Concert at the Boston Athenaeum

Thursday, March 5 at 12.15pm

Boston Athenaeum

Musicians from Handel and Haydn play Haydn Trios and discuss the legacy of the great composer.

15. Romantic Brahms

March 20 at 8pm

March 22 at 8pm

Symphony Hall

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Ilya Gringolts, violin

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor

Vignieri: Fanfare for Voices (Tribute to Handel; World Premiere)

16. Music at Fever Pitch

Friday, April 3 at 8pm at Old South Church

Sunday, April 5 at 3pm at New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall

Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor

Phoebe Carrai, cello

Telemann: Burlesque de Don Quixote

C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major

Handel: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6

Rebel: Les Elmens

17. Haydn in London

Friday, April 24 at 8pm

Sunday, April 26 at 3pm

Symphony Hall

Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

Nathalie Paulin, soprano

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major; Scena di Berenice, cantata for soprano and orchestra; March for the Prince of Wales; Adagio from Divertimento for nine instruments in F Major; English Songs: Sailor's Song, Sympathy, She Never Told Her Love, Fidelity; Symphony No. 92 in G Major, Oxford

18. Haydn Symposium

Saturday, April 25 at 1.30pm (time subject to change)

Location: TBA

Sir Roger Norrington and Haydn scholars discuss Haydns London period and its influence on his later work. Members of the Handel and Haydn Society join in a chamber music performance of Haydns works.

19. Gala Benefit: The Society Ball

Saturday, April 25 at 6.30pm

Mandarin Oriental Hotel

The Society Ball features music, dance and auction to benefit the artistic and educational initiatives of Handel and Haydn Society.

20. Haydn: The Creation

Sunday, May 31 at 3pm

The Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, Boston (Rain Location: Symphony Hall)

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Elizabeth Watts, soprano

Stanford Olsen, tenor

Eric Owens, bass

Handel and Haydn Society Chorus

Pre-concert performance by the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses

All programs and artists are subject to change.

20082009 Season Subscription Information

Now on sale, subscriptions ($45-$527) may be purchased through the Handel and Haydn Box Office 1) by phone at 617 266 3605, 2) online at www.handelandhaydn.org, or 3) in person at the Handel and Haydn office, Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston (M-F 10.00 am - 6.00 pm). Single tickets go on sale September 2, 2008.

The Handel and Haydn Society is a professional chorus and period-instrument orchestra and an internationally recognized leader in the field of historically-informed performance. Founded in Boston in 1815, the Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, with a long history of innovation: it gave the American premieres of Handels Messiah (1818), Haydns The Creation (1819), Verdis Requiem (1878), Bachs Mass in B Minor (1887), and Bachs St. Matthew Passion (1889). The Society today, under the leadership of Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington, Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn, and Conductor Laureate Christopher Hogwood, is committed to its mission to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible. The Massachusetts Cultural Council has lauded the organization for its willingness to take risks and explore new musical horizons.

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L'amour est un opra muet


la demande gnrale
Pentadre, en collaboration avec OMNIBUS, le corps du thtre
Prsentent

L'amour est un opra muet
Daprs lopra Cosi fan tutte de Mozart
Arrangement pour quintette vent de Ulf-Guido Schfer

Mercredi 1er octobre 2008, 20 h

Une histoire damour et de trahison joue et mime
au cours de vingt-deux extraits du clbre opra.

 Direction musicale Normand Forget
Matrise doeuvre Jean Asselin

Salle Pollack, 555, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
25 $ - 15 $ (tudiants/ans) 514-398-4547
www.pentaedre.com


Montral, 4 septembre 2008 Fort du succs remport auprs du public et de la critique au printemps 2007, Pentadre et OMNIBUS sont fiers de prsenter, la demande gnrale et dans le cadre de la Journe internationale de la musique, Lamour est un opra muet, daprs lopra Cosi fan tutte de Mozart, le mercredi 1er octobre 2008, 20 h, la salle Pollack.

En 2001, le Centre dart dOrford commandait aux mimes dOmnibus un divertissement visuel accompagnant un concert de Pentadre, qui a donn le spectacle Ce que fait la musique. Dans Lamour est un opra muet, elles saventurent dans un domaine o le poids des corps dramatise la musique impondrable.

Depuis ses dbuts en 1985, Pentadre se consacre la dcouverte d'un rpertoire de musique de chambre vari, original et souvent moins connu. Compos de cinq musiciens talentueux, dont la technique et la prcision de jeu sont unanimement reconnues, Pentadre effectue des tournes au Qubec, au Canada, aux tats-Unis et en Europe. Rcipiendaire du Prix OPUS 2002 du Meilleur concert de lanne, musique actuelle, contemporaine, lectroacoustique, Pentadre collabore avec des artistes de renom et participe des crations audacieuses, dont rcemment lopra comique A Chair in Love ou LAmour est un opra muet avec les mimes Omnibus. Son enregistrement rcent du Winterreise de Schubert (version de chambre de Normand Forget), avec le tnor Christoph Prgardien, sest attir des loges de la critique internationale.

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Dans le cadre des journes de la culture, le 26 septembre de 17 h 18 h 30 : Un opra, deux visions , prsentation de deux versions dextraits de Cosi fan tutte de Mozart par Pentadre, lun avec Omnibus, le corps du thtre, lautre avec les chanteurs de lAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral, suivies de discussions avec les concepteurs et les artistes. Espace Libre, 1945, rue Fullum gratuit

Le spectacle sera galement prsent dans le cadre des Rencontres internationales du mime de Montral du 23 au 27 septembre 2008, 20 h 30, lEspace Libre, 1945, rue Fullum - Informations 514.521.4191

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American Public Media Presents Live Broadcast of "The Last Night of the Proms"


American Public Media Presents Live Broadcast of The Last Night of the Proms from the BBC Proms on September 13


(St. Paul, Minn.) September 9, 2008American Public MediaѢ, creator of distinctive, signature programs for public radio and one of medias most active champions of classical music, today announced a special live broadcast of The Last Night of the Proms from the BBC Proms on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at 2 p.m. CT 3 p.m. ET. The BBC Proms is the worlds largest and best known classical music festival, drawing exceptional orchestras and soloists for performances in Londons historic Royal Albert Hall.


THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS HIGHLIGHTS:

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Singers
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
Helene Grimaud, piano
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone

BEETHOVEN: Creatures of Prometheus (Overture)


WAGNER: O du, mein holder Abendstern from Tannhauser


PUCCINI: Tre sbirrii, un carozza from Tosca


BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasy (for piano, choir and orchestra)


VERDI: Ehi! Paggio! from Falstaff


DENZA: Funiculi, funicula"


ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1


HENRY WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs


PARRY: Jerusalem


HENRY WOOD: National Anthem (UK)


Brian Newhouse, host of American Public Medias SymphonyCastѢ and a renowned classical music producer, will be in London to present "The Last Night of the Proms and provide context for the performances.


Since 2003, American Public Media has been proud to bring concerts from the BBC Proms to classical music listeners worldwide, said Newhouse. The Proms is one of classical music's magnificent international events. We are delighted once again to share these grand performances.


TUNE IN: "The Last Night of the Proms" will broadcast on public radio stations nationwide on Saturday, September 13 at 2 p.m. CT 3 p.m. ET. Check local listings for availability.


This year, other concerts from the BBC Proms are featured on broadcasts of SymphonyCast, American Public Medias two-hour weekly radio program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra. To hear these performances, visit www.symphonycast.org. The BBC Proms has also been integrated into broadcasts of Performance Today, American Public Medias two-hour daily radio program featuring performances recorded in American Public Media studios and at sites across the nation and around the world. Performance Today is on the Web at www.performancetoday.org.


Through global partnerships with leading music organizations, the European Broadcasting Union, the BBC, orchestras, festivals, vocal ensembles, and artists, American Public Medias classical music service delivers performances from around the world to its listeners. With the largest broadcast audience reach of any classical music radio producer in the United States and streaming audiences around the globe, American Public Media sets the standard for connecting audiences with the best in classical music.


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Monday, September 8, 2008

VSO Appoints New Composer In Residence

Vancouver BC Maestro Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra are very proud to announce the appointment of Scott Good as VSO Composer-In-Residence. Dr. Good is a Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been successfully performed in North America, Europe and Asia.

Scott Goods unique pieces will be featured in the Vancouver Sun Symphony at the Roundhouse series. Scotts piece, Variations for Chamber Orchestra, will be presented on February 9th, in a concert that also features his former teacher, Ka Nin Chans work Par-ci, Par-la. In addition, Babbitt-Concerto for Saxophone(s) and ĶBlood which flowed will be performed on March 20th and May 17th respectively.

In commenting on his appointment, Dr. Good said: "I am very excited to be working with the renowned Vancouver Symphony under the direction of Bramwell Tovey. My family and I are thrilled to be living in this beautiful city! I hope to play an important role in the musical life of Vancouver, and to be a part of bringing the best from the world of contemporary music to the community."

Dr. Good is a prolific and diverse composer whose works have been heard across Canada and internationally. At 36, his 11 orchestral works, 4 string quartets, and numerous chamber pieces have been performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, the Concours International de Montral, and Orchestra London. As an accomplished instrumentalist, he has performed with numerous orchestras and new music ensembles.

Scott studied at the Eastman School of music and the University of Toronto. His teachers have included Samuel Adler, Gary Kulesha, Christos Hatzis, Ka Nin Chan, Joseph Schwantner, David Liptak, Christopher Rousse (orchestration), Robert Gauldin (16th century counterpoint), Edward Laufer (schenkerian analysis), as well as trombonists John Marcellus and Alain Trudel. He has twice attended the Banff summer music festival, the festival of the Sound, Scotia Fest, the Winnipeg Jazz festival, the Guelph jazz festival, and the Schlossfestpiel in Heidelburg. He has received numerous awards for his music, including the Howard Hanson Prize (1995) and First Prize at the Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Competition (1996); more recently, he has received the John Weinzweig Prize (1999) and three prizes in the SOCAN Competition for Young Composers (2000-01).

A lover of all things musical, Scott also works in genres of jazz, rock, modern dance, and improvisation where he brings his conducting and dynamic performance skills to his own creative compositions. Recent projects include a tribute show to Kurt Vonnegut, a rave setting of techno dance music for jazz band, and a musical theatre setting of "The Bacchae".

Scott lives in New Westminster with his wife Jennifer, and sons Alexander and Nicholas.

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Jazz.FM91's 2008/2009 Sound of Jazz Concert Series

JAZZ.FM91 ANNOUNCES 2008/2009 SOUND OF JAZZ CONCERT SERIES
HONOURING THE PAST WITH A LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Toronto, Ontario JAZZ.FM91's popular Sound of Jazz Concert Series returns this Fall for a 33rd season with an all-star cast of jazz musicians and performers. As in years past, this year's nine concert line-up will be held at The Old Mill Inn and will feature an eclectic mix of master musicians and the brightest newcomers on the scene today.

The 2008/2009 Sound of Jazz Concert Series kicks-off Monday, October 6th with one of JAZZ.FM91's most ambitious concerts to date a Big Band tribute to the legendary Swing Era bandleader Tommy Dorsey. Accomplished trombonist and composer Russ Little leads a 16-piece supergroup of players through the work of one of history's best Big Band.

Tickets for the Sound of Jazz Concert Series season opener are $35, with special discounts for students and JAZZ.FM91 members. To purchase tickets visit www.jazz.fm or call 416-595-0404.

"Our 33rd season explores the work of the jazz legends who helped define the "Sound of Jazz" and the artists who are working to redefine and expand that definition today," Ross Porter, JAZZ.FM91 President and Chief Executive Officer explained. "Jazz has always been about creating new boundaries. This year's Sound of Jazz Concert Series is a reflection of the station's commitment to furthering the future of jazz."

Highlights of the 2008/2009 concert line-up include: JAZZ LIVES 2008 headliner and 2007 BBC Jazz Awards Best Vocalist Ian Shaw; internationally renowned jazz pianist and award-winning broadcaster Ben Sidran; legendary composer Bob Dorough; and a special double bill concert from critically-acclaimed piano vocalists Elizabeth Shepherd and Laila Biali. In addition to the Big Band tribute to Tommy Dorsey, homage will also be paid this season to the music of Art Tatum, one of the great jazz improvisers; and Hoagy Carmichael, the prolific composer who wrote many of history's great jazz standards. Two special holiday concerts are also planned including a Seasonal Favourites show featuring Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite from Jim Galloway and his Wee Big Band; and a just before Valentine's Day concert of the "Greatest Love Songs" selected and performed by the great Canadian fugelhornist Guido Basso, with special guest Marc Jordan.

JAZZ.FM91's Sound of Jazz Concert Series is presented by Investment Dealer Raymond James under the direction of Executive Producer Ross Porter and Producers Brad Barker and Jaymz Bee. The series is also generously supported by Don Valley North Lexus, Woodbridge Wines by Robert Mondavi, Bulloch Tailors and Laywine's Pens and Organizers.

Sound of Jazz concerts can be heard throughout the year, on Sunday mornings between 11:00AM and 12:00PM on JAZZ.FM91's Sound of Jazz program.


2008/2009 SOUND OF JAZZ CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULE:

RUSS LITTLE'S BIG BAND TRIBUTE TO TOMMY DORSEY
Monday, October 6th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn General Admission Tickets: $35 Adults, $32 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members Trombonist Russ Little and a 16-piece, all-star big band salute the work of the legendary Swing Era bandleader Tommy Dorsey.

BOB DOROUGH
Monday, October 27th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members Music from the legendary composer of the jazz standard Devil May Care and TV's Schoolhouse Rock, Bob Dorough.

IAN SHAW
Tuesday, November 18th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
Back by popular demand, JAZZ LIVES 2008 headliner and 2007 BBC Jazz Awards Best Vocalist, Ian Shaw returns to Toronto.

SEASONAL FAVOURITES FROM THE JIM GALLOWAY WEE BIG BAND
Monday, December 8th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $35 Adults, $32 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band celebrates the season with some of your holiday favourites and a special performance of Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite.

BEN SIDRAN
Monday, January 12th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
Internationally renowned jazz pianist, award-winning broadcaster, author and lyricist, Ben Sidran is a major force in modern jazz music.

GUIDO BASSO'S THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS
Monday, February 9th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
Celebrate Valentine's Day with someone you love and the "Greatest Love Songs" selected and performed by master of the fugelhorn Guido Basso with special guest Marc Jordan.

ELIZABETH SHEPHERD TRIO/LAILA BIALI TRIO
Monday, February 23rd at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
Two fresh new voices on the jazz scene - both audience favourites and critically acclaimed. Piano vocalists Elizabeth Shepherd and Laila Biali are setting the standard for a new jazz generation.

THE MUSIC OF ART TATUM
Monday, March 16th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
One of the great jazz improvisers, a pianist with an exuberant style and amazing dexterity, piano heavyweights Adam Makowicz and Robi Botos celebrate the music of Art Tatum.

JOE SEALY CELEBRATES HOAGY CARMICHAEL
Monday, March 30th at 8:00PM, The Old Mill Inn
General Admission Tickets: $30 Adults, $27 Students and JAZZ.FM91 Members
JAZZ.FM91's own Joe Sealy pays tribute to Hoagy Carmichael, the prolific composer who wrote many of history's great jazz standards including Stardust, Skylark, Heart and Soul and Georgia On My Mind.


ABOUT JAZZ.FM91
JAZZ.FM91 is Canada's Premier Jazz Radio Station, broadcasting the best in jazz music, interviews, documentaries, news, and events 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week across Southern Ontario and Western New York at FM91.1, and around the world on cable, satellite, and the Internet at www.jazz.fm. JAZZ.FM91 is an independent, listener-supported, registered Canadian charity committed to enhancing the greater jazz community through concerts, educational programs, and community partnerships.

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Lafayette Quartet Performs at Bartok Symposium

LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET PERFORMS AT INTERNATIONAL BARTK SYMPOSIUM

"Bartk's String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy"
University of Victoria
September 19 & 20, 2008

Attention string quartet enthusiasts: In these two upcoming concerts, the Lafayette String Quartet is performing two distinctly different programs showing how the music of Bartk was so strongly influenced by the music of Beethoven and how, in turn, Bartk's music influenced the next generation of the great Hungarian composers Gyrgy Kurtg and Zoltn Jeney. This will be one of the rare opportunities to hear the diversity of these giants back to back.

These concerts are taking place in conjunction with the international symposium "Bartk's String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy." All symposium events are free and open to the public.

The Lafayette String Quartet has performed the Beethoven Cycle to critical acclaim across Canada. Their "thought-provoking interpretations" and "technically perfect ensemble" are not to be missed. "SplendidĶ powerful and riveting in every way." (New York Times)

Open Rehearsal Lafayette String Quartet with Judit Frigyesi (Bar Ilan University)
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Friday September 19, 1:30-2:30 pm (free event)

Concert #1:
Lafayette String Quartet
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Works by Beethoven, Jeney, Bartk and Kurtg
Friday September 19, 8:00 pm

Concert #2:
Lafayette String Quartet
University Centre Farquhar Auditorium
Works by Beethoven, Jeney, and Bartk
Saturday, September 20, 8:00 pm

Concert Tickets:
$23 & $19 for each concert
Box Office: 250.721.8480, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday

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Les Brandebourgeois

Communiqu - Press release

LES BRANDEBOURGEOIS
Jeudi 11 et vendredi 12 septembre 2008
11 h et 17 h 45
Salle Tudor du magasin Ogilvy

Montral, le 4 septembre 2008 Pour le coup denvoi de leur 25e saison, LOrchestre I Musici propose les trois premiers Concertos Brandebourgeois de Johann Sebastien Bach, considrs comme de vritables joyaux du rpertoire baroque. Quoi de mieux que les Brandebourgeois, pour dmontrer la remarquable virtuosit dI Musici. Aux 15 brillants musiciens membres de lOrchestre se joindront, sous la direction de Yuli Turovsky, les instrumentistes Jol Thiffault (clavecin), Kirsten Zander, Jose Marchand, Camille Gendreau (hautbois), Lise Millet (basson), Jocelyn Veilleux, Jean-Jules Poirier (cors), Stphane Beaulac (trompette), Luo Di (violoncelle) et Heather Howes (flte). Accompagns de ces solistes mrites, les musiciens dI Musici, galement rputs pour leur qualit de solistes, dmontreront, sous la baguette du maestro, la magnificence du contrepoint de Bach.

Bach et le margrave de Brandebourg
En 1718, Bach rencontra Christian Ludwig, margrave de Brandebourg. Ce mlomane qui rsidait au Palais Royal de Berlin lui commande alors quelques uvres pour son orchestre de chambre. Trois ans plus tard, Bach lui a offert ses six Concerts avec plusieurs Instruments accompagns dune ddicace flatteuse et priant son Altesse Royale de ne vouloir pas juger leur Imperfection . Aprs la mort du margrave, les partitions ont t vendues pour presque rien. Les Concertos Brandebourgeois nont t publis quen 1850, soit prs dun sicle aprs leur composition.

De retour dune tourne sud-amricaine, I Musici a t reconnu comme lorchestre de chambre le plus important au Canada . Acclam et chaleureusement applaudi en Argentine et en Colombie, I Musici a fait un passage fort remarqu notamment au 14e Rencontres internationales du violoncelle Rio de Janeiro. Au Brsil, lOrchestre a interprt, lors de ses concerts, des uvres issues du rpertoire national.

Les Brandebourgeois, les jeudi 11 et vendredi 12 septembre 11 h et 17 h 45. Un intermde musical savourer avant dner ou pour dbuter merveilleusement une soire en compagnie de maestro Turovsky et dI Musici. Salle Tudor du magasin Ogilvy. 1307, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, 5e tage.

Pour la billetterie ou pour de plus amples renseignements, communiquez au 514 982-6038, ou info@imusici.com ou encore visitez-nous au imusici.com

THE BRANDENBURGS
Thursday and Friday, September 11 and 12, 2008
11 am and 5:45 pm
Ogilvy Tudor Hall

Montral, September 4, 2008 To launch its 25th season, I Musici will present the first three Brandenburg Concertos by J. S. Bach veritable jewels of the baroque repertoire. What better way than the Brandenburgs to exploit the fabulous virtuosity of I Musici. Under the direction of Yuli Turovsky, the core ensemble of 15 musicians will be joined by Jol Thiffault (harpsichord), Kirsten Zander, Jose Marchand, Camille Gendreau (oboes), Lise Millet (bassoon), Jocelyn Veilleux, Jean-Jules Poirier (horns), Stphane Beaulac (trumpet), Luo Di (cello) and Heather Howes (flute). Along with these great soloists and also soloists from its own ranks, I Musici and Yuli Turovsky will explore Bachs magnificent contrapuntal excursions.

Bach and the Margrave of Brandenburg
Sometime during 1718, Bach met Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg, who resided in the Royal Palace in Berlin. The music-loving Margrave requested from Bach some works for his court orchestra. Three years later, Bach presented him with six Concerts avec plusieurs Instruments along with an effusive, obsequious dedication and begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection. After the Margrave's death, the Concertos were auctioned off in a miscellaneous job lot of seventy-seven pieces. The music was not published until 1850, well over a century after its composition.

I Musici recently returned from a South American tour in which the ensemble was celebrated as Canadas most important chamber orchestra. They performed at the Rio International Cello Encounter and received ovations in Argentina and Columbia as well. In Brazil they featured great repertoire from that country in many of their concerts.

The Brandenburgs on Thursday and Friday, September 11 and 12, 2008 at 11 am and 5:45 pm. Before a gourmet lunch or as a start to a marvellous evening join Maestro Turovsky and I Musici in the Ogilvy Tudor Hall, 1307 Sainte-Catherine West, 5th floor.

For further information please contact us by phone at 514 982.6038, by email at info@imusici.com or visit us at imusici.com.
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Tourisme culturel : tendances et stratgies

Tourisme culturel : tendances et stratgies
Du lundi 29 septembre au vendredi 3 octobre 2008

Organis par Pointe--Callire, muse darchologie et dhistoire de Montral et le Centre des sciences de Montral, cette confrence internationale prsente les tendances et les grands enjeux du tourisme culturel.

l'ordre du jour : une quarantaine de confrences en plus d'une vingtaine de prsentations de travaux de recherche et dides novatrices.

Des invits prestigieux : Andr Vallerand, Prsident du Conseil des destinations de lOrganisation mondiale du tourisme et prsident du Centre Mondial dExcellence des Destinations, Glenn D. Lowry, directeur du Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York, Felipe Solis, directeur du Muse national danthropologie du Mexique, Jan Dolak, titulaire de la Chaire UNESCO en Musologie et patrimoine mondial et Catherine Guillou, directrice des Publics, Muse du Louvre, et plusieurs autres invits.

Les pays participants : lAllemagne, lAngleterre, lArgentine, lAustralie, la Belgique, le Brsil, le Canada, le Chili, lEspagne, les tats-Unis, la Finlande, la France, lIslande, lItalie, le Mexique, le Nigria, la Norvge, la Pologne, Taiwan et plusieurs autres.

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Sunday, September 7, 2008

New Works Calgary presents the Gryphon Trio Sept. 22, 8 pm


CALGARY - New Works Calgary presents Canada's premier chamber ensemble the GYPHON TRIO (Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; Roman Borys, cello; Jamie Parker, piano) on Monday, September 22, 8 pm at the Eckhardt-Grammatt Hall, Rosza Centre.

The Gryphon Trio returns to Calgary in a unique multi-media program that pushes the boundaries of chamber music. After an inspiring tour of the Pacific Northwest, the Gryphon Trio sought out renowned composer Chan Ka-Nin to create a work that would attempt to capture the spirit and majesty of the remote areas of British Columbia and the Gwaii Haanas also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Described as enigmatic, stunning and mysterious, the work fuses the aboriginal culture with Chan's own musical language, influenced by his upbringing in Hong Kong. In concert, huge images of dramatic contemporary masks created by First Nations artists are projected above the Trio while they perform the music in virtual darkness. Developed by producer Robert Dewey, the visual component of this work compliments and intensifies the music resulting in an experience that is hauntingly beautiful, immersive and mesmerizing.

The Gryphon Trio have been called one of Canada's "premier chamber groups" by The Washington Post, and saluted for their "beautiful sound, superb ensemble and the highest order of musical sensitivity" by the Ottawa Citizen, which said, "there is not...a better chamber ensemble in Canada."

The cross-cultural exploration continues with the new music of Ukraine, with works by Valentin Silvestrov and Bohdana Frolyak. The program also features "Owl Song" by Calgary composer William Jordan, Kelly-Marie Murphy's "Memory, Distance and No Time for Dances" and "Lunar Reflections" by Heather Schmidt.

Tickets are available in advance at Campus Tickets 220 7202 or at the door: adults $20, seniors and students $15. www.newworkscalgary.ca

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Milwaukee Musician Acquires Legendary Stradivarius

MILWAUKEE MUSICIAN ACQUIRES LEGENDARY VIOLIN

Lipinski Stradivarius back on stage after almost twenty years

MILWAUKEE, WIS. The famous Lipinski Stradivarius, out of the public eye for almost 20 years, was recently uncovered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and will now be played by Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Frank Almond. This violin is one of less than 700 surviving instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). Stradivari's instruments are highly prized due to their craftsmanship, historic significance, and acoustic power and clarity.

The Lipinski Stradivarius was constructed in 1715 in Cremona, Italy, during Stradivari's "golden period" between 1700 and 1720. It is named after the celebrated 19th century violinist Karol Lipinski (a student of Nicolo Paganini) who owned the instrument until his death in 1861. The earlier history of the Lipinski is unclear, but Italian violinist/composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) was the first known owner. In 1962, the Lipinski Stradivarius was sold to Richard Anschuetz, a pianist in New York who had spent summers in Milwaukee as a child. Anschuetz purchased it for his wife, the Estonian violinist and child prodigy Evi Liivak, with whom he had performed since the 1940s. The two performed around the world as a duo until the late 1980s, and the violin has not been heard in public since.

"1715 is the absolute epicenter of the best output from the Stradivari atelier," says Stefan Hersh, President of Darnton and Hersh. "While all of Antonio Stradivari's instruments are magnificent, violins built on the master's large pattern like the Lipinski are generally accepted to be among the most heroic sounding of all violins. The Lipinski violin is typical of the most desirable Strads. It is visually striking and tonally exceptional with an absolutely enormous tone combined with elasticity and range of color one only meets with in a great Strad."

In late April 2008, the current owner of the Lipinski Stradivarius (who wishes to remain anonymous) contacted Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Frank Almond via e-mail to advise in an estate appraisal and possible sale. Almond was curious, cognizant that this instrument had "disappeared" quite some time ago, and contacted Hersh. In the meantime, Almond accompanied the owner to a local storage locker to look through documents associated with the instrument, Mr. Anschuetz, and Ms. Liivak. He then met the owner at the M&I Bank vault in Milwaukee to examine the violin, and with the help of Hersh confirmed its authenticity and condition.

"It's impossible to express the gratitude I feel at being able to play this extraordinary violin, especially considering its pedigree," says Almond.
"I'm still astonished at how this story unfolded; a real Red Violin tale, except that it's all true."

After some minor adjustments, the instrument is performance ready, and the owner of the Lipinski Stradivarius has generously loaned the instrument to Almond. It will be premiered during the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary season. Almond will perform for the first time with instrument during the MSO's Itzhak Perlman Gala September 18, 2008. In addition, he will perform the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor May 1 & 2, 2009 with conductor Andreas Delfs and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Almond will also be using the instrument for the opening concerts of his Frankly Music Series at the intimate Bader Hall of the Wisconsin Conservatory on September 29 and 30, 2008. That program will feature Beethoven Piano Trios with pianist William Wolfram and cellist Darrett Adkins.

In addition to his work with the MSO, Almond will also appear as a chamber musician and soloist in 08-09 in various locations around the US, as well as a Guest Concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

Clavecin en Concert Saison 2008-09

Programmation

(1) Vendredi 3 octobre 2008
BACH : CONCERTOS 3 ET 4 CLAVECINS, MCKINLEY : SORCIERS MANGA
Avec les clavecinistes Thomas Annand, Luc Beausjour, Vincent Boucher, Nicolas-Alexandre Marcotte
et un ensemble cordes.
Au programme : Concerto 3 clavecins en do majeur, BWV 1064,
Concerto 3 clavecins en r mineur, BWV 1063,
Sorciers manga (pour 4 clavecins et cordes - cration),
Concerto 4 clavecins en la mineur, BWV 1065.

(2) Vendredi 28 novembre 2008
CONCERT POUR LA NATIVIT (Espace Musique- Radio-Canada)
Ensembles vocal et instrumental dirigs par Luc Beausjour.
Au programme : oeuvres de Bach, Balbastre, Byrd, du Caurroy, Praetorius, Scheidt, Zipoli, etc.

(3) Vendredi 6 fvrier 2009
RINALDO ALESSANDRINI
Le brillant claveciniste italien de rputation internationale prsente un rcital de divers compositeurs baroques.
Au programme : Storace: Ciaccona, Frescobaldi: Cento Partite, Louis Couperin, Fischer, Buxtehude et Handel.

(4) Vendredi 17 avril 2009
LES GRANDS MATRES DE LA MUSIQUE FRANAISE (Espace Musique- Radio-Canada)
Avec le rput gambiste argentin Juan Manuel Quintana, le fltiste Grgoire Jeay et le claveciniste Luc Beausjour.
Au programme : oeuvres de Franois Couperin, Antoine Forqueray, Marin Marais et Jean-Philippe Rameau.

(5) Vendredi 15 mai 2009
BACH : BRANDEBOURGEOIS nos 4 et 5 ET AUTRES CONCERTOS
Adrian Butterfield, violon, Luc Beausjour et Martin Robidoux, clavecin, Grgoire Jeay, flte baroque, Matthew Jennejohn et Mlsande Corriveau, flte bec, et un ensemble cordes.
Au programme : Concerto pour clavecin en r mineur, BWV 1052, Concerto pour violon en mi majeur, BWV 1042, Concerto brandebourgeois no 4, BWV 1049, Concerto brandebourgeois no 5, BWV 1050.

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
400, rue Saint-Paul Est, Vieux-Montral, 20 h

Abonnement : 5 concerts : 110 $ / 3 concerts : 70 $
www.clavecinenconcert.org
Renseignements : Gisle Pelletier, tlphone 514-748-8625.

Clavecin en concert remercie le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec et le Conseil des Arts de Montral pour leur aide financire.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

Festival du Domaine Forget


Festival International 2008 :
Un 30me anniversaire russi!

Saint-Irne Le 6 septembre 2008 Le Festival International du Domaine Forget, qui sest droul du 21 juin au 31 aot dernier, a accueilli cette anne plus de 16 000 personnes. Ce nombre comprend lassistance tous les vnements de la programmation du 30e anniversaire : 22 concerts de musique classique, 4 soires jazz, 2 soires de danse, 1 vnement bnfice, 12 brunches-musique, 23 concerts et cours de matre de lAcadmie de musique et de danse, sans oublier la fte champtre.

Le Festival se dit trs fier davoir atteint ses objectifs dautant plus que cet t, de multiples vnements et activits taient offerts au public, notamment dans le cadre des clbrations du 400e anniversaire de la Ville de Qubec. Au total, le Festival a prsent 64 vnements musicaux et ainsi fait vivre aux mlomanes de nombreux moments mmorables.

Deux concerts ont t donns guichet ferm : dabord la soire douverture (21 juin) avec les Violons du Roy et Alexandre Tharaud, puis le concert Handel (2 aot) qui runissait La Chapelle de Qubec, Les Violons du Roy et Bernard Labadie. Cinq soires ont enregistr des ventes record : les deux concerts de lOrchestre symphonique de Qubec (12 et 19 juillet), le Concert de musique de chambre avec Rgis Pasquier et Oliver Jones (26 juillet), le rcital du pianiste Marc-Andr Hamelin (1er aot) et le concert du Theatre of Early Music sous la direction de Daniel Taylor (16 aot).

Parmi les faits saillants de ce 30e anniversaire, mentionnons les dbuts de la pianiste Gabriela Montero (28 juin), la rencontre autour de Jean-Sbastien Bach entre le pianiste Alexandre Tharaud, Les Violons du Roy et Bernard Labadie (21 juin), le duo form des guitaristes Lorenzo Micheli et Matteo Mela (9 juillet), les deux soires avec lOrchestre symphonique de Qubec (12 et 19 juillet) et le rcital du pianiste Marc-Andr Hamelin (1er aot).

Concert bnfice
Le 18 juillet, la chanteuse Nikki Yanofsky a su charmer le public loccasion du concert-bnfice pour le Fonds de bourse Jacqueline et Paul Desmarais. loccasion de ses dbuts au Festival, la jeune sensation, ge de 14 ans seulement, a rendu hommage son idole, Ella Fitzgerald. Rappelons que chaque anne, les fonds recueillis dans le cadre de cet vnement permettent plusieurs jeunes talents de recevoir une bourse et de prendre part un stage de leur choix lAcadmie de musique et de danse du Domaine Forget.



Brunches-musique
La populaire srie des brunches-musique du dimanche a connu un franc succs avec 10 des 12 brunches ayant affich complet. Pour la premire fois, deux services distincts taient offerts, le premier 10h30 et le second 12h30, ce qui a contribu laugmentation de 20 % de la clientle. Au total, un peu plus de 3300 personnes ont pris place au nouveau pavillon Joseph-Rouleau

Rappelons que cest en lhonneur de ce grand chanteur qubcois ayant men une carrire internationale et ayant t trs impliqu dans la campagne de financement Un fleuve de talents que le pavillon a t nomm.

Fte champtre
Le dimanche 20 juillet, loccasion de la Fte champtre annuelle, plus de 700 personnes ont pique-niqu sur le vaste site du Domaine Forget et profit des nombreuses activits circassiennes et musicales gratuites pour toute la famille. De plus, le public a pu assister lenregistrement de la populaire mission radiophonique du porte-parole du Festival, Franois Dompierre, diffuse en direct sur les ondes dEspace musique de Radio-Canada.


Acadmie de musique et de danse du Domaine Forget
LAcadmie de musique et de danse du Domaine Forget a accueilli cette saison plus de 540 stagiaires dont 47% provenant du Qubec, 23 % des autres provinces canadiennes et 30 % de ltranger. Plusieurs jeunes musiciens se sont mrits une bourse suite la slection des stagiaires pour lAcadmie 2008, dont le montant total des bourses slve
85 000 $. De plus, tout au long de lt, des bourses ont t remises au terme de diffrents stages.

La Saison du Domaine : Un automne faste !
Les activits du Domaine Forget se poursuivent cet automne avec 13 vnements prsents de septembre dcembre. Au nombre des artistes qui se succderont sur les scnes de la Salle Franoys-Bernier et du pavillon Joseph-Rouleau, mentionnons Sylvain Cossette, Catherine Major, Les Batinses et le Pascale Picard Band.

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The Pointer Sisters, Canadian Jazz Greats, Ryders in the Sky and The Music of Billy Joel join the ESO's 08.09 Season!


The Pointer Sisters,

Denzal Sinclaire, Tommy Banks & PJ Perry,

Riders in the Sky and The Music of Billy Joel

join the stellar line up of Special ESO performances!

Tickets on-sale now!

Edmonton, ABĶ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) is pleased to announce four additions to the already spectacular line-up of special ESO performances. Throughout the 08.09 season the ESO offers a selection of special concerts in addition to the subscription series performances that appeal to a wide-range of audiences. Joining Rajaton Sings Queen (October 13), Ian Tysons 75th Birthday Celebration (November 5), George Canyon: Home For Christmas (December 2), A Flicker of Night on a Christmas Night (December 16) and Handels Messiah (December 19, 20) are four stellar performances added to what is already going to be an exciting season!

On Tuesday November 11th four Canadian Jazz greats come together for a night of Jazz Generations. Crooner Denzal Sinclaire, Senator Tommy Banks, and Edmonton Saxophonist PJ Perry join newcomer, 14-year-old Montreal native Nikki Yanofsky for a fabulous night of Jazz favourites and standards. Conducted by Bill Eddins - Tickets for this performance range from $20-$65 (agency fees apply).

On March 16, 2009- Don't miss the fun as the legendary Riders In the Sky gallop into Edmonton with guest conductor Steven Reineke to make some music The Cowboy Way. This wacky harmonizing quartet (featured in Toy Story 2) joins the ESO for an evening of rib ticklin, knee slappin hijinks and hilarity. Dont miss this chance to leave behind the frenzied pace of today's living and lose yourself in the romantic, comical and whimsical world of the singing cowboy. Riders in the Sky will keep you in stitches and provide a quick-paced evening of wholesome, family friendly entertainment. Tickets for this performance range from $20-$65 (agency fees apply)

The music continues that week when Michael Cavanaugh joins the ESO and Music Director Bill Eddins for The Music of Billy Joel on March 18. Michael Cavanaugh, who was personally selected by Billy Joel to star in the Broadway sensation Movin Out, belts out your Piano Man favorites like "Uptown Girl," "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," "Only the Good Die Young" and "New York State of Mind." Michael also rolls out the hits of other rock legends like Elton John, The Who, and others. A little rock, a little romance, and a night to remember. Tickets for this performance range from $20-$65 (agency fees apply).

Last but definitely not least - the Grammy-award winning vocal trio the Pointer Sisters prove they still have plenty of soul as they bring their chart-topping hits including The Neutron Dance, Jump (For My Love) and the ubiquitous Im So Excited to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Bill Eddins conducts the May 22nd & 23rd performances that will be sure to get audiences movin and shakin. Ticket prices for this performance range from $24-$79 (agency fees apply)

For a full listing of ESO concerts and for more information on ESO specials please visit www.edmontonsymphony.com

Tickets for all ESO performances are available now through the Winspear Centre Box Office.

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Wexford Opera House Opens Tonight

Taoiseach opens Irelands First Custom Built Opera House in Wexford

(Wexford, Ireland: Friday September 5, 2008) Irelands cultural landscape has been magnificently transformed now that An Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen T.D., has officially opened the countrys first custom-built Opera House in Wexford.

Nestled amongst the narrow streets of Wexford Town in the South East of Ireland on the former site of the Theatre Royal, the Wexford Opera House is a state-of-the-art, multi-purpose performing arts institution, which blends organically into its surroundings and boasts panoramic views of Wexford town and far beyond, including Mount Leinster and Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.

Home to the annual Wexford Festival Opera (this year celebrating its 57th anniversary), the Wexford Opera House will run year-round as a cultural institution with a full programme of events on a local, national and international scale. As well as providing a first-class home for proposed resident dance and theatre companies, the Wexford Opera House will also house the Opera Festivals administration; an unprecedented level of artistic activity in one building.

Speaking at the official opening An Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen T.D. said This is a wonderful occasion in the history of the town and Wexford Festival Opera. The Wexford Festival is one of Irelands most important cultural events and this landmark structure provides a state-of-the-art opera house and a centre of cultural and artistic activity, worthy of the Festival.

The impressive, skyline-enhancing building was designed and project-managed by the Office of Public Works, in association with UK-based Keith Williams Architects. Over four times larger than the previous Theatre Royal, the Wexford Opera House comprises a main auditorium the OReilly Theatre which can seat up to 780 people for opera and orchestral performances and up to 864 people for non-orchestral events. A second, highly flexible space - the Jerome Hynes Theatre - has a retractable seating capacity of 175.

The Ǩ26 million Government investment in the Wexford Opera House by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism augmented by a further Ǩ7m being raised by the Wexford Festival Foundation from the private sector will ensure a legacy in opera for generations to come.

Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism added: "The ambition and achievement of this new Opera House with its magnificent main auditorium, is a matter of both local and national significance. The new venue incorporates a wonderful design, which will attract an increasing number of visitors to Wexford far into the future to enjoy the annual opera festival and also the range of other planned artistic activity."

Dramatically skimming the Wexford skyline, the Wexford Opera House brings a new standard of theatre design to Ireland in its attention to detail and high quality in every aspect of development and construction. A focus on sustainability and environmentally friendly design from the outset means that minimal waste, efficient use of energy and renewable materials are standard throughout this spectacularly re-developed, re-imagined site.

Dr Martin Mansergh, Minister of State at the Department of Finance with Special Responsibility for the Office of Public Works and the Arts said, "The new Wexford Opera House, the first to be purpose-built on this island, is a wonderful architectural achievement, a recognition of the long-standing success and importance of the Festival, and an immense addition to our cultural infrastructure, which will give huge pleasure to music lovers."

To ensure the highest possible quality of sound throughout the auditorium, international acoustic experts from Arup were contracted to produce a well-balanced and clear reverberation, perfectly complementing voice and orchestra performance. Arup has designed the acoustics in such establishments as the Royal Opera House, London and Copenhagen Opera House; their skills enable Wexford Opera House to enter this premier and exclusive Opera House league at perfect pitch.

Chair of Wexford Festival Trust, Paul Hennessy said: The opening of Wexford Opera House signals a bright and exciting new chapter in the history of our organisation and is a watershed for Opera in Ireland. We are delighted to finally have a world-class facility appropriate to the international reputation of our Festival. We can now raise our artistic ambitions to further enhance the renown of our Festival and to distinguish this venue as a place of excellence for the performing arts in Ireland.

Following the opening ceremony, RT will broadcast the first programme in the new season of The Late Late Show from the OReilly Theatre, allowing a live audience as well as thousands of TV viewers a sneak preview of the beautiful space.

A free, ticketed open day on September 7th (which booked out in a few hours) will give the local residents an opportunity to explore the Wexford Opera House before the casts and crew move in to commence rehearsals on September 15th. The first full opera performance will take place on the Festivals gala opening on October 16th. Ticket sales are already exceeding previous years with many punters eagerly anticipating not only the opera experience but also the chance to be among the first enjoying the state of the art facilities in this exquisite, walnut lined auditorium.

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Le 91,3 FM donne le coup d'envoi de sa programmation

Radio Ville-Marie (CIRA-FM) a dvoil, ce mercredi 3 septembre, sa programmation automnale dans une atmosphre de fte et de retrouvailles sous le thme : Un automneĶ tout en couleur! C'est la 14e rentre pour ce mdia spcialis qui ne cesse de grandir et de s'affirmer. Avec ses 200 professionnels, ses 4 frquences et ses 306 000 auditeurs/semaine, la station a le vent dans les voiles. Il y a de quoi rjouir Jean-Guy Roy, directeur gnral : Notre mdia offre un contenu unique, qui touche la vie et le cur des gens. Nous abordons des sujets pertinents et nous offrons une programmation culturelle exceptionnelle.

La programmation sera en ondes compter du 8 septembre et rservera de belles surprises. La saison automnale fera une grande place la culture, ce qui fait du 91,3 FM l'une des radios les plus culturelles du Qubec. La musique qui compte 50% de la programmation prsente un rpertoire musical sans gal. La station aborde aussi les grandes questions de fond sur les plans social, humanitaire et spirituel. Une dizaine de nouvelles missions seront au programme. Une place de choix est rserve aux livres, au cinma, au thtre, l'histoire et au monde des arts en gnral. La programmation comptera pas moins de cinq missions littraires: Carnet littraire, Arts et lettres, Contes et lgendes, Des plumes et des mots, livre ouvert.

Dans le 6h 9h, vous y retrouverez Musique sacre, Clbrations et Rythmes du matin. Une nouvelle quipe compose de Michel Gailloux et Philippe Vaillancourt seront la barre de l'mission matinale. Ds 11h le magazine C'est la vie, avec une quipe dynamique, proposera d'excellents sujets: socit, citoyennet, conomie, nutrition, sant. Nous y retrouverons Jean Carrette, Michel Rioux, Jean Campeau, Claude Bland, Dr Suzanne Lamarre et les autres. Le Midi-Actualits maintient sa formule gagnante : Nouvelles internationales, Le rgional et Les grands dossiers.

Les aprs-midis dbutent Sur deux notes en compagnie d'Andr Daris, une rencontre avec la chanson francophone. La srie Destination Bonheur (13h30) offrira la rencontre avec des gens magnifiques avec des tmoignages percutants. Offrande musicale (14h30), anime par Madeleine Lemaire, vous prsentera la plus belle musique classique. Le magazine culturel Temps libre (16h30), anim par Jean-Alexandre D'Etcheverry, vous ouvre sur les beauts du milieu culturel d'ici et d'ailleurs avec des chroniqueurs expriments qui vous feront dcouvrir des artistes varis.

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Calgary International Film Festival Announces 2008 Line-Up


The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF)

Announces its 2008 Line-up

featuring 200 plus films from local, national, and international filmmakers

Calgary, AB The Calgary International Film Festival announced its 2008 film schedule and film series line-up at the official launch in Calgary yesterday. More than 220 films will be screened over the 10-day festival, happening from Friday, September 19 through Sunday, September 28, 2008. This year's venues include: the Plaza Theatre, the Uptown Stage & Screen, the Globe Cinema, Eau Claire Market Cineplex Odeon, and a new addition of Westhills Cineplex Odeon.


The launch was held at the Marriott Hotel, the official delegate home-base of the 2008 festival, where media, festival programmers and staff, and members of the public gathered to hear the breaking news of the festival's slate of films. Festival executive director Jacqueline Dupuis started the afternoon off with a bang, announcing Fernando Meirelles and Don McKellar's Blindness (based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago) as the Opening Gala of the 2008 festival. This was followed by confirmation of director Brian Hecker's Bart got a Room (starring William H. Macy) as the closing film of the festival.


Another notable announcement was the introduction of the inaugural Life in Focus: Fashion in Film section of the festival program, featuring films following fashion and lifestyle trends, including: the critically acclaimed Eleven Minutes (following the trials and tribulations of Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll); and a remastered, new print of the classic iconic fashion film Breakfast at Tiffany's.


This year, the festival is reaching out to the community and Calgary filmgoers, introducing Festival Central on Stephen Avenue Mall (between 1st and 2nd Street SW) the spot will be the hub of festival activity over the 10 day event, featuring festival information, interactive experiences, prize giveaways, and filmmaker interviews by celebrity film reviewer Louis B. Hobson. The afternoon wrapped up with presentations from all of the festival programmers introducing the highlights of each film section from Contemporary World Cinema, to Documentaries, Shorts, Canadian, and American Independent as well as the announcement of this year's world focus Spotlight on Iceland


CIFF Sections & Series


Galas

CIFF's American Express Opening Gala and the Volkswagen Closing Gala bring together marquee films and gala parties to celebrate the accomplishments of the best the industry has to offer. Gala films showcase well-known, household name talent, giving audiences a preview of potential Oscar and other prestigious award nominees and winners. Attending a gala party is an opportunity to mingle with industry insiders, festival delegates and those in the know. The gala red carpets are where the stars come to shine.


American Express Opening Gala and Red Carpet Fashion Show

Blindness

September 18, 2008


Volkswagen Closing Gala

Bart got a Room

September 27, 2008


Aboriginal Voices

This spotlight will showcase emerging Canadian Aboriginal filmmakers who are using their talents to create relevant, contemporary and innovative work. Audiences will have an opportunity to see both short and feature films by the newest voices in Canadian Aboriginal cinema. As well, audiences will get an up-close and personal look at the creative process of the featured filmmakers through question and answer sessions with visiting talent.


American Independent

Welcome to American Independent, home of the DIY outsiders who have maxed-out their credit cards, sold their blood, participated in medical experiments and done whatever they can to scrape together the sums needed to share their visions. These are the films outside of the Hollywood system.


Canadian Perspectives

Our national cinema is made to define our culture and our place in the world for our own understanding, as well as to clarify our values, visions and goals to the rest of the world. CIFF places high premium on celebrating and bringing to Calgary the best Canadian films each year, sending a clear message: Canadian cinema is worth seeing now.


Contemporary World Cinema

The Contemporary World Cinema series showcases new foreign films produced outside of North America, celebrating cultures and movie-making styles from over 30 countries. Every country has its own unique and compelling way of telling its stories, and each film shown here presents new and exciting landscapes for the audience to discover.


Documentary Showcase

Documentary Showcase is dedicated to finding the best and most inspiring films of the festival season, giving its audiences a chance to rub shoulders with complex truths and realities. With a mix of both local and international perspectives, this program includes a diverse and challenging range of cinematic experiences.


Hump Night

Bringing sexy to the festival in a big way, Hump Night seeks to entertain with a series of films to titillate, stimulate, and woo. The series is one of our most popular and well-established program sections. The films within it raise the bar year-after-year in quality, content and sheer entertainment value.


Spotlight on Iceland

See the hottest films from this secret haven of filmmaking. Featuring a diverse range of films this special series is sure to educate audiences with the stories from Iceland.


Films 4 Families

The Films 4 Families series presents feature films, documentaries and short films selected for quality and originality, with the ultimate goal of bringing outstanding, often award-winning, children's films to Calgary audiences. Many of the films seen here would never be screened at the local Cineplex or found at Blockbuster.


Late Shows

Late Shows presents films unlike any others. Here you will find a variety of feature films that stretch cinematic boundaries and the limits of your imagination, in subject, theme, genre and content. These are simply the scariest, goriest and most over-the-top-films of the festival season.


Life in Focus: Fashion in Film

This year, CIFF introduces the Life in Focus: Fashion in Film series - a section of our program designed to explore the fashion industry and expose Calgarians to this element of culture through the filmic art form. See you on the runway.


Music on Film

Music on Film explores the diversity of the industry and the art of music the business, the creative process, the celebrity, and the soul. Whether you are musician, an ardent fan or a casual listener, the Music on Film series will engage and entertain.


Shorts

From live action to narrative animation, documentaries to experimental art films, drama to comedy, the range of short films is endless. Running from one minute to 40 minutes long, shorts appear in different guises, cross genres and take on a myriad of subjects. Whether it is an artistic representation of emotion, a quirky storyline, a caricature, a glimpse into an alternate reality or artist's mind, anything goes when it comes to short films.


Special Presentations

In addition to galas, CIFF is committed to highlighting work that emerges in each year's programming cycle as deserving of distinguished attention and art-house accolades. Special Presentations is the section of the program where the audience will find not-to-be-missed offerings that invite recognition and are obvious highlights of the festival.


Youth by Youth Cinema (YYC)

An open competition for young Alberta filmmakers from grades four through 12. The YYC Competition takes the film-watching experience one step further through its celebration of local talent.


Full festival schedule can be found online at www.calgaryfilm.com.


FESTIVAL PASSES AND TICKET INFORMATION


BOX OFFICE

Fido Box Office Eau Claire Market opens September 5, 2008


IN PERSON: FIDO BOX OFFICE

Eau Claire Market

200 Barclay Parade

(corner of 2nd Street & 2nd Avenue SW)

Open September 5 through 30, 2008

Monday to Wednesday, 10 AM 6 PM

Thursdays and Fridays, 10 AM 8 PM

Saturdays, 10 PM 6 PM

Sundays, 11 AM 5 PM


NEW THIS YEAR!

MOBILE FIDO BOX OFFICE

Fido Store Chinook Centre

6455 Macleod Trail SW

(corner of Glenmore Trail & Macleod Trail SW)

Open September 13, 14, 20, and 21, 2008

Saturdays, 10 AM 6 PM

Sundays 11 AM 6 PM

*Bring your festival ticket to Cellular Baby in Market Mall to get an exclusive Fido Offer.


AMERICAN EXPRESS TICKET WICKET

Festival Central

Stephen Avenue Mall

(corner of 8th Avenue & 2nd Street SW)

September 19, 23 to 26, 2008

Monday to Friday 11 AM 2 PM

*American Express, debit, and cash only!

ONL INE: CIFF WEBSITE

www.calgaryfilm.com

Open 24-hours a day!


TICKETS


ADULT GENERAL ADMISSION $12

SENIORS/STUDENTS/CIFF MEMBERS $10

CHILDREN UNDER 12 $6

PARTIES: ICELAND, BLACK CARPET, FASHION $25

*Includes film, party entrance and one specialty drink


AMERICAN EXPRESS OPENING GALA & VW CLOSING GALA $75 (EACH)


AMERICAN EXPRESS FRONT OF THE LINE ENTERTAINMENT ACCESS

AMERICAN EXPRESS OPENING GALA $75

Purchase your Opening Gala ticket with your American Express Card and as a bonus receive access to the American Express VIP Lounge, Pass for the American Express Opening Gala After Party, plus a complimentary ticket to use at a regular screening of your choice.

*Limited quantities available, available to American Express Cardmembers only.


VW CLOSING GALA $75

Purchase your Closing Gala ticket with your American Express Card and as a bonus receive a complimentary ticket to use at a regular screening of your choice.

*Limited quantities available, available to American Express Cardmembers only.


PASSES

MOVIE LOVER 10-PACK $100 (20% DISCOUNT)

Contains 10 Adult General Admission Tickets

*Limited quantities available.


FILM BUFF 20-PACK $180 (25% DISCOUNT)

Contains 20 Adult General Admission Tickets

*Limited quantities available.


DOC SOUP SUBSCRIPTION $99

Contains 6 Adult General Admission Tickets to the new Doc Soup Film

Series (November '08 April '09) plus 6 Adult General Admission Tickets

to the 2008 or 2009 festival.

*Limited quantities available


AMERICAN EXPRESS VIP PASS $390 ($490 VALUE)

Admits Passholder to: All Films, All Galas, All Parties and Post Screening

Events, Access to Industry Events

*Limited quantities available, available to American Express Cardmembers only.


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Art & Fine Living with Jona

Composer Paul Desenne on Art & Fine Living with Jona Sept 7, 10, 2008

Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne's new work, Dragoncello for 6 cellos and orchestra, will see its world premiere in Montreal on September 17, 2007. The work was created as a tribute to cellist/conductor Yuli Turovsky, founder and conductor of I Musici de Montreal,one of Canada's most prestigious chamber orchestras. Turovosky is also a one of the cello's greatest pedagogues.

The interview and excerpts of the work can be heard on Art & Fine Living with Jona on CJRS 1650 in Montreal on Sunday, September 7 and again on Wednesday, September 10, 2008. The show can be accessed live stream on the radio's website at www.radio-shalom.ca. All shows are archived shortly on the radio website for downloading and/or listening.

Art & Fine Living with Jona is a veritable showcase of some of the world's renowned and emerging talents in music, theatre, cinema, dance, visual arts and more, and has been lauded as a unique platform combining insightful interviews, cultural news and coverage of new releases in classical music and jazz. The show also focuses on education and promotion of the arts in general and devotes a space for exploring upscale lifestyle trends. Guests who appeared on Art & Fine Living with Jona include, among many others, the prolific Lang Lang; Violinist Gil Shaham; Soprano Natalie Dessay; Film director Mike Newell; Cellist/Conductor Yuli Turovsky; Soprano Measha Brueggergosman; Choreographer Peter Quanz Compser Lori Laitman; Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Playwright Daniel Lillford; Violinist James Ehnes and Tenor Ben Heppner.


Jona Rapoport also represents the extraordinary talent of American art song and opera composer Lori Laitman.

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Sinfonia Toronto Opens 10th Anniversary Season


Sinfonia Toronto and Conductor Nurhan Arman will open the orchestra's 10th Anniversary season on Friday, October 17, 8 p.m. at Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road). The concert, titled 'Mozart in Love,' will feature the brilliant Canadian pianist Angela Park in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9.


Pianist Angela Park has established herself as one of Canada's leading young musicians. Equally accomplished in both the solo repertoire and chamber music, Angela's versatility has led to performances across Canada as well as in United States, Europe, and Mexico.

Born in London, Ontario, Angela began her musical studies at the age of three. With the guidance of James Anagnoson, she went on to become the youngest Gold Medal winner in history of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, as well as a consistent recipient of numerous awards and prizes at Ontario Provincial Festivals, the Canadian National Music Festival and the Canadian Music Competition.

Angela won the Grand Prize at the 2001 Grace Welsh Prize for Piano in Chicago, and Fifth Prize in the 2003 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. In 2006 Angela was the only Canadian representative and prize winner at the Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary; and most recently, she obtained a medal at the 2007 Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona.

Angela has performed as soloist with Orchestra London Canada, Sinfonia Toronto, the Canadian Sinfonietta, the UWO Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her live performances have been recorded and broadcast on CBC National Radio and on National Public Radio in the US.

The 'Mozart in Love' program will also include Elgar's beloved Serenade and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence.

There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, conductor and soloist.


Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 416-499-0403 or at the door.

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VSO's New Season Is Coming Up Fast


The Vancouver Symphony Orchestras 2008/2009 Season begins September 27th

Vancouver, BC The 2008/2009 Season is just around the corner, and this year, the orchestra is getting tuned up not only for a long and exciting concert season with over one-hundred and forty performances, but also a major international tour to China, Korea and Macau. This Asia-Pacific Tour will include internationally-renowned violinist Hilary Hahn performing Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto on all six tour stops (Ms. Hahn also performs the Tchaikovsky in the Masterworks Diamond and Beltone Symphony Sundays series at the Orpheum October 4th through the 6th, the weekend before the tour begins). VSO Music Director Bramwell Tovey will of course conduct all tour performances.

This season, Maestro Bramwell Tovey has programmed a strong line-up of guest artists for Lower Mainland audiences, mixing the next generation of stars with long-established superstars and local favourites (a VSO programming hallmark), great classical repertoire both new and old, sizzling Symphony Pops, matinees, and a range of concerts for children and families. And the VSO once again takes its show in the road, with concerts performed in fourteen different venues throughout the Lower Mainland.

With many highlights sprinkled throughout, this will truly be a season to remember. The Asia-Pacific Tour represents a nice booked to a year of unprecedented success for the VSO, beginning with a GRAMMY Award, continuing with the JUNO Award, and building to a crescendo with record fundraising and ticket revenue in the 2007/2008 Season, with audiences increasing for the fourth consecutive year. Subscriptions are on track to increase again, something that bodes well for another exciting season for Vancouvers Symphony Orchestra and audiences throughout the Lower Mainland.

A few of the many Season repertoire highlights include:

Mahler Symphony No.6

Rachmaninoff Symphony No.3

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Schumann Symphony No.1

Prokofiev Symphony No.5

Orff Carmina Burana

Britten War Requiem

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody

Shostakovich The Age of Gold Suite

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2

Alexina Louie Infinite Sky with Birds

Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet

Bernstein Halil for Flute and Orchestra

Liszt Fantasy of Motives from Beethovens Ruins of Athens

Stravinsky Petrouchka

Mozart Piano Concertos No.9 and No.12

Bramwell Tovey Urban Runway (co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and LA Philharmonic)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3

Elgar Violin Concerto

Jeffrey Ryan The Linearity of Light

Mozart Symphony No.31 Paris and No.36 Linz

Brahms all four Symphonies and all Concertos

The exciting line-up of classical guest artists includes many established stars and young up and comers:

Frederica von Stade soprano

Pinchas Zukerman violin

Hilary Hahn violin

Isabel Bayrakdarian soprano

Lynn Harrell cello

Louis Lortie piano

Joshua Bell violin

Duncan Riddell violin/conductor

Ingrid Fliter piano

Corey Cerovsek violin

Samuel Ramey bass-baritone

Kyoko Takezawa violin

Angela Cheng piano

Andrew Litton conductor

James Ehnes violin

Julia Fischer violin

Peter Donohoe piano

Avan Yu piano

Kenneth Slowik conductor/harpsichord

Benjamin Hochman piano

Nancy Argenta soprano

Mikhail Simonyon violin

Alexander Gavryluk piano

Ian Parker piano

Raphael Wallfisch cello

Bugs Bunny carrots

In addition to spectacular guest artists and conductors, the VSO is very proud to welcome three visiting orchestras in the upcoming season. Canadas National Arts Centre Orchestra travels from Ottawa with their legendary Music Director, Pinchas Zukerman; the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra accompanies Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian; and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields celebrates their 50th anniversary on tour, with a stop on the Orpheum stage in Vancouver that includes violinist/leader Julia Fischer.

The 2008/2009 VSO Pops series is an outstanding one. The series features extraordinary Latin band Tiempo Libre; larger than life trumpet player/vocalist Byron Stripling; Three Broadway Divas and a salute to the great White Way; superstar trumpet player Allen Vizzutti; a tribute to the golden era of television with Five By Design; and a Gershwin Celebration. Of course, the VSO is very happy to continue its association with Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik, one of the most in-demand Pops conductors and arrangers in North America.

Matinee traditions continue to see audience growth every year: Symphony Sundays presents classical concerts in the afternoon, drawn from the main series classical series; and Tea & Trumpets, featuring VSO Assistant Conductor Evan Mitchell and narrator Christopher Gaze with tea and cookies served in the lobby one hour before each concert includes light classics mixed with narration.

Concerts for kids and families are always popular, with Tiny Tots for the little ones from toddlers to age four or five at both the Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver and the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam, and Kids Koncerts, featuring the full orchestra and aimed at children from four/five to ten/eleven years of age.

And of course, a Symphony Season would not be complete without presentations of great Special Concerts and this upcoming Season contains a very Special line-up:

  • The Brahms Festival: all four Brahms symphonies and all of his concertos, performed over four concerts in January of 2009. This festival also features extraordinary guest artists James Ehnes (the VSOs GRAMMY partner), cellist Jan Vogler, and pianist Peter Donohoe. Maestro Tovey conducts all concerts

  • Joshua Bell in a concert of Latin music he will perform Lalos Symphonie Espagnole

  • Isabel Bayrakdarian and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

  • Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, with violinist/leader Julia Fischer

  • Frederic von Stade and Samuel Ramey together with the orchestra in a concert featuring music by Gounod, Berlioz, Offenbach, Copland and Gershwin (a once-in-a-lifetime in Vancouver event, to be sure)

  • A Traditional Christmas in many venues around the Lower Mainland with Assistant Conductor Evan Mitchell and narrator Christopher Gaze of Bard on the Beach fame

  • Classical Mystery Tour the Music of the Beatles, with the VSO and original members of the Broadway hit Beatlemania

  • And now for something completely different: the VSO and Live Nation present a performance of Video Games Live, featuring the Vancouver Symphony and choir performing music and exclusive synchronized video clips of the most popular games from the past and present

  • And a brand new concert, on sale October 3rd at 10am: Bugs Bunny on Broadway! This sensational hit show sees the orchestra performing arrangements of the real classical music that formed the backbone of these extraordinary and groundbreaking cartoons, as they are shown on the big screen above the orchestra. See and hear Bugs and friends like youve never experienced them before!

Ticket Availability:

New Subscriptions can be ordered at any time through VSO Customer Service at 604.876.3434

Single concert tickets are on sale now through VSO Customer Service and online at www.vancouversymphony.ca.

There are fifteen different subscription packages available, including a Make Your Own package option. Subscribing saves customers up to 30% over purchasing the same concerts individually, and gives customers guaranteed seating throughout the Season

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Nightwood Theatre


"A perspective on love and loss [that] will haunt you for days." Entertainment Weekly

Love is like... wild dogs. If it hunts you down, it will not let you go. Wild Dogs

NIGHTWOOD THEATRE

LAUNCHES THEIR 2008-2009 SEASON WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HELEN HUMPHREYS WILD DOGS

From the novel by Helen Humphreys / Arranged for the stage by Anne Hardcastle

Directed by Kelly Thornton / Starring: Tamara Podemski, Les Carlson, Steve Cumyn, Raven Dauda,

Stephen Joffe, Tony Nappo and Taylor Trowbridge

October 4 to November 8, 2008 - Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs

Produced by Nightwood Theatre in association with The Canadian Stage Company

Toronto, ONĶ Nightwood Theatre opens its 29th season with the world premiere of Helen Humphreys beloved novel Wild Dogs, arranged for the stage by Anne Hardcastle. Winner of the 2005 Lambda Award for fiction; Wild Dogs was voted one of NOW Magazines Top 10 Books of 2004 and has been optioned for film. This world premiere stars Tamara Podemski as Alice. Podemski was the winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2007 Special Jury Prize for Acting the first Canadian and first aboriginal in history to win this prize -- and an IFC nomination for her work in Four Sheets to the Wind.

Wild Dogs is an unforgettable story about the wild in all of us. Each evening at dusk, six people gather at the edge of the woods, calling their dogs back dogs that have turned wild. Theres Lily, simple and considered irresponsible; Jamie, a teen with an attraction to bad company; old Walter who knows his family only tolerates him; Malcolm, an artist with a secret; Rachel, a wildlife biologist; and Alice, on the run from a bad relationship. Drawn together by need, this unlikely group forms a community until violence strikes unexpectedly.

Humphreys subject is the despair that torments the inhabitants of an economically depressed town. A volatile romance between two of the characters and a climactic act of violence loom largest in setting the mood for this beautiful novel, and Hardcastles stage adaptation does not disappoint. It is a powerful script universal in its exploration of human nature, bold in its dynamic expression of theatrical form and profound as it probes the dichotomy between ourselves as lone wolves and our desire to run with the pack. On Humphreys novel Hardcastle says, I loved the way the quiet, elegant prose carries an underground stream of raw emotion and rather scary action. I loved the characters, I hated the characters, I believed in them, I mistrusted them, I took sides and changed sides. And I can't shake myself free from it.

Director Kelly Thornton goes on to explain, One of the most interesting things about this script is that it exists on multiple narrative planes. In one breath it speaks to the audience in monologue, the next it slips into dialogue and then suddenly, an internal moment. She goes on to ponder the essence of Wild Dogs emotional pull, Wild Dogs is essentially about nature versus man-made constructs; wild versus domestic. And it is beautifully human how it weaves a story around these disparate souls. How they find each other and lose each other as well. It is ultimately about belonging, and place.

Thornton has assembled an impressive creative team for this world premiere including set and costume designer Teresa Przybylski, lighting designer Kimberly Purtell, sound designer Jennifer Gillmor, assistant director Alex Rambusch, stage manager Kristen Kitcher and assistant stage manager Sandi Becker.

Joining Tamara Podemski, the acting ensemble for Wild Dogs includes Canadian film, television and theatre luminaries as Les Carlson as Walter (renowned actor who has appeared on every major stage across the country including six seasons at Stratford Festival), Steve Cumyn as Malcolm (Dora Award-winning lead actor from Angels in America), Tony Nappo as Spencer (Alias Godot, Da Vincis Inquest), Raven Dauda as Rachel (Intimate Apparel, Da Kink in my Hair) and introduces, in their Toronto stage debuts, Taylor Trowbridge as Lily and Stephen Joffe as Jamie.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Dracula


FALLEN ANGEL ENCOUNTERS DRACULA


Fallen Angel Productions presents the play Dracula by Steven Dietz. This critically acclaimed adaptation is based on the novel by Bram Stoker.

Would you drink and become immortal given the chance?

The Count's powers of seduction and magnetic charm will no doubt make you re-think your answer.

Dracula investigates the timeless battle between good and evil. The play heeds a warning to its audience depicting the inevitable penalty, given the exclusion of truth, trust and vital information.

Frances Balenzano will direct an exceptional cast including: Shawn Baichoo, Stphanie Bernard, Amy Blackmore, Brad Carmichael, Samuel Chan, Timothy Diamond, Christopher Hicks, Dan Jeannotte, Alison Louder, Melissa Paulson, Eric Savory, Paul Van Dyck and Chris Wilding.

"Don't believe for a moment that he is killing the young. He is costuming angels."

-- Jean Cocteau

Dracula

Preview October 29th

Thursday October 30th to Sunday November 2nd

and Wednesday November 5th to Saturday November 8th at 8:30 p.m.

With a Saturday matinee November 8th at 2:00 p.m.

Studio Hydro Quebec Monument National

1182 St. Laurent Blvd. Montreal

Tickets are $20.00 /Adults $15.00/Students $13.00/Groups of ten

Recommended Audience: 16 years and older

For tickets call:

The Monument National Box Office at (514) 871-2224 Or

Admission (514) 790-1245 or visit www.admission.com

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Partnering with Bach Academie for David Fray Recital


Art & Fine Living with Jona Joins Bach-Acadmie de Montral as Media Partner in David Fray Recital


Jona Rapoport, producer and host of Art & Fine Living with Jona on Radio Shalom Montreal is pleased to announce her media partnership with the Bach-Acadmie de Montral, in the presentation of acclaimed French pianist David Fray, on Wednesday, October 22 at Pollack Hall in Montreal.


Founded by Dr. Alexandra Scheibler in 2002, Bach-Acadmie de Montral is dedicated to the promotion of the extraordinary body of musical work of Johann Sebastian Bach, through research, education and a performance series. The Bach-Acadmie, which presented two editions in 2005 and 2007, will focus its efforts on fundraising this year, with performances by soprano Natalie Choquette and pianist David Fray, and will present its third edition in 2009.


Jona Rapoport, producer and host of Art & Fine Living with Jona, is proud to be associated with the Bach-Acadmie de Montral as media partner for David Fray's recital. Her radio show is a veritable showcase of some of the world's renowned and emerging talents in music, theatre, cinema, dance, visual arts and more, and has been lauded as a unique platform combining insightful interviews, cultural news and coverage of new releases in classical music and jazz. The show also focuses on education and promotion of the arts in general and devotes a space for exploring upscale lifestyle trends. Guests who appeared on Art & Fine Living with Jona include, among many others, the prolific Lang Lang; Violinist Gil Shaham; Soprano Natalie Dessay; Film director Mike Newell; Cellist/Conductor Yuli Turovsky; Soprano Measha Brueggergosman; Choreographer Peter Quanz Compser Lori Laitman; Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Playwright Daniel Lillford; Violinist James Ehnes and Tenor Ben Heppner. In addition to her radio work, Jona represents acclaimed American composer, Lori Laitman, whose exciting new opera, The Scarlet Letter, will premiere this year.


Art & Fine Living with Jona can be heard on 1650 AM in Montreal and live stream on Radio Shalom's website at www.radio-shalom.ca. The show can also be accessed on the host's archived page and through a link on her website at www.jonarapoport.com.


Jona Rapoport is also the artist manager and publicist of acclaimed American composer Lori Laitman.


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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Galerie Wilder & Davis: Exposition Dessins de Donald Andrus

Galerie Wilder & Davis

Dessiner dans une langue trangre

Dessins

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Donald Andrus

Vernissage: vendredi 12 septembre 2008 ds 18 h

Du 12 septembre au 30 novembre 2008


La galerie Wilder & Davis a l'honneur de prsenter une slection de rcents dessins de Donald Andrus, du 12 septembre au 30 novembre 2008. Aprs une interruption de quarante ans, l'artiste est retourn sa table dessin le 25 dcembre 2006, et a depuis produit une srie de travaux surprenants de cohrence.

Les uvres exposes rvlent un processus volutif qui commence un moment o le dessin a quelque chose d'une langue trangre pour l'artiste ; puis l'volution du travail continue servir de journal visuel de la redcouverte son mdium. On retrouve dans les premiers travaux des lments calligraphiques forts, mis en valeur travers la srie par des changements constants de mdiums et d'chelles. L'uvre produite depuis les deux dernires annes semble avoir t accomplie dans un effort conscient de dessiner propos du dessin.

Le dessin a toujours t une pratique fondamentale dans de nombreux processus artistiques. Donald Andrus semble ici vouloir nous montrer que mme si le dessin reste aujourd'hui souvent dans l'ombre de l'uvre, il reste une forme d'art part entire qui n'a pas encore disparu.

Le grand public et les mdias sont cordialement invits rencontrer l'artiste l'occasion du vernissage le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 partir de 18 h.

N en cosse, Dingwall, Donald Andrus a tudi l'histoire de l'art et les arts visuels l'Universit de Toronto o il obtient une matrise en histoire de l'art. Il devient professeur en histoire de l'art l'Universit Concordia o il enseigne jusqu'en 1996. Il prend ensuite prmaturment sa retraite pour travailler plein temps dans son atelier. Donald Andrus expose rgulirement depuis 1988 et a rcemment eu une exposition rtrospective de son travail des quinze dernires annes au Confederation Centre Art Gallery de Charlottetown, sur l'le-du-Prince-douard. On retrouve son travail dans les collections du Confederation Centre Art Gallery de Charlottetown, de la Beaverbrook Art Gallery, de la PEI Art Bank et dans les collections d'entreprises tels que la firme d'avocats MacIness, Stewart Halifax en Nouvelle-cosse.

Pour plus d'informations , veuillez contacter Elizabeth Barbosa , responsable de la galerie (514) 289-0849

Heures d'ouverture: du lundi au samedi de 9 h 30 18 h 00.

Lieu :

Wilder & Davis , 257 rue Rachel Est (entre Henri-Julien et Laval , metro Mont-Royal)

wilder_davis@yahoo.com


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North York Concert Orchestra Volunteers

North York Concert Orchestra welcomes volunteers

The North York Concert Orchestra welcomes volunteers to assist at concerts
at its new location, Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road and on the
board of directors during its 2008/09 season. The North York Concert
Orchestra is a busy community orchestra with a four concert subscription
series as well as a number of community concerts and family concert.
Volunteers are invited to participate in this group.

For further information, please call 416-628-9195 or visit our website
www.nyco.on.ca

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New Jazz with a Classical Twist: Every raindrop tells a story

Every raindrop tells a story
 Introducing 'Raindrops', the third album from inimitable Newfoundland guitarist, Duane Andrews

Listen: www.duaneandrews.ca

Duane Andrews' music is born of an adventurous spirit and a love of music that transcends category. Uniting the Gypsy Jazz of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt with traditional Newfoundland music, classical training and contemporary composition, Duane's music soars.

From this multiple award-winning guitarist, composer, producer and international touring artist comes a new album 'Raindrops'. This is the best evidence yet of a truly unique musical vision.

The title track of the album, 'Raindrops' represents the three key elements that are most important to Duane. It is a waltz learned from Art Stoyles, a Newfoundland accordionist whose repertoire reflects music passed on by Portuguese sailors who frequented the port of St. John's (Duane's hometown) years ago. The accordion style is closely related to the French musette music Django Reinhardt played in his early years. Duane's new arrangement brings a modern edge to the tune with influences from Anton Webern, a pioneer of atonal music.

Listening to Duane's first two award-winning albums ('Duane Andrews' 2004; 'Crocus' 2006) one can hear the refinement of his blend of Django Reinhardt's influence with a traditional Newfoundland sound. 'Raindrops' is the next step in the artist's musical progression and it introduces a new element the contemporary classical composition that was the focus of Duane's studies in conservatories in France in the late 90s.

"It's like there are three sides to me as a musician," says Duane. "Newfoundland music, Django and this contemporary compositional element which is somewhat abstract and not really a genre. With the new album I have been able to bring in a realm of music I've spent a lot of time exploring but haven't really integrated into my own style, until 'Raindrops'."

In addition to the clear, melodic trumpet of Patrick Boyle a hallmark of Duane's music and the rhythm guitar and bass that round out his quartet, Duane invited additional strings into the recording studio for the first time. There are three tracks featuring the renowned Atlantic String Quartet including a rousing rendition of Reinhardt's 'Blue Drag', as well as a cello-guitar duet.

"The first album was a trio - two guitars and a bass, then I expanded to a quartet by bringing in Patrick Boyle on trumpet. This time we've got a quintet including vibraphone plus a string quartet," says Duane. "I'm really emphasizing the forms and textures to a greater degree than I ever have. I can't wait for people to hear it I'm very proud of this music."

Recorded this past March, the self-produced album is a breakthrough in Duane's musical journey. His playing on tracks like 'Bees and Flowers/Joe Smallwood's Reel' is blissful and astounding in its technical brilliance. On 'DD's Blues' Django's influence is clear, but this original composition is far more than homage it is filled with original joyfulness, and resonates with Duane's inimitable style.

Five of the 11 tracks on the album are Duane's compositions. The remaining six comprise original arrangements of a classic French musette waltz, traditional Newfoundland tunes and reels from two of the "Fathers of the Newfoundland Fiddle" Rufus Guinchard and Emile Benoit, and a new take on Charles Mingus' 'Fable of Faubus'.

The compositions are technically complex, yet they are presented with such zest, potent skill and flair for storytelling that the music will hold listeners enthralled in the sheer pleasure of emotional communication. Not only will the technically savvy get it, the mainstream music lover will also fall in love with the music that pours from 'Raindrops'.

The album received a Newfoundland release earlier this year. Over the summer of 2008 Duane completed a Canadian Jazz and Folk festival tour, introducing 'Raindrops' to audiences across the country. Next steps include performing at the Deep Roots Festival in Wolfville, NS on September 26th, a touring show featuring a string quartet collaboration, a November 1st appearance in St. John's with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and a mid-November central-Canadian tour.

'Raindrops' is now available in stores across Canada and online around the world.

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