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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Pink Martini - Concours video / Video contest

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Dpoussirez vos camras, trouvez un preneur de son, montez une quipe de tournage et auditionnez vos amis PINK MARTINI lance un appel aux cinastes de lAmrique du Nord afin de raliser son prochain vidoclip! Tous sont invits prendre part ce grand concours en soumettant un vidoclip ralis pour lune des six chansons du plus rcent album du groupe, Splendor in the Grass : Ninna nanna, Ohayoo Ohio, Splendor in the Grass, O est ma tte?, And Then Youre Gone ou Over the Valley.

Premier prix : Deux billets aller-retour pour Nice, France (dpart dun aroport majeur de lAmrique du Nord), trois nuites pour deux lhtel et deux billets pour assister au concert de Pink Martini au Festival de jazz de Nice le 24 juillet 2010. Le gagnant recevra de plus un montant de 500 Ǩ (ECU) en argent comptant pour dpenses personnelles ainsi quun paquet-cadeau contenant de la marchandise de Pink Martini.
Deuxime prix : Deux billets pour lun des concerts de Pink Martini aux tats-Unis ou au Canada en 2010, 250 $ (CAD) en argent comptant ainsi que de la marchandise de Pink Martini.

Troisime prix : Deux billets pour lun des concerts de Pink Martini aux tats-Unis ou au Canada en 2010, ainsi que de la marchandise de Pink Martini.

La vido doit inclure la version originale et complte de lune des six pices proposes. Les paroles sont accessibles ici.

Les vidoclips comportant des images violentes ou obscnes seront refuss demble.

Les participants doivent tre des rsidents des tats-Unis, du Canada ou du Mexique. Le concours prend fin le 31 mai 2010.

Pour connatre les rglements et les informations du concours, visitez le http://pinkmartini.com/video-contest/north-america/.

Les chansons peuvent tre coutes ici.
Dust off your video cameras, call your boom guy, bring in the best boy and cast your comradeswe want you, filmmakers of North America, to direct our next music video as part of our first ever Music Video Contest! We invite our fans to create a clever, inspired music video for the band for one of six songs from the new CD Splendor in the Grass: Ninna nanna, Ohayoo Ohio, Splendor in the Grass, Ou est ma tete?, And Then Youre Gone, or Over the Valley.

First, Second and Third place winners will receive the following prizes:
First Prize: Two round trip plane tickets to Nice, France (from a major North American airport), three nights for two at a hotel, and two tickets to see Pink Martini perform at the Nice Jazz Festival on July 24, 2010. In addition, the winner will receive 500 euros cash, and a package of special Pink Martini paraphernalia. Instead of above first prize, winner may, alternately, choose a $2500 cash prize.

Second Prize: Two tickets to any Pink Martini show in the US or Canada in 2010, $250 cash, and a package of Pink Martini paraphernalia.

Third Prize: Two tickets to any Pink Martini show in the US or Canada in 2010, and a package of Pink Martini paraphernalia.

The video should include the complete song for whichever song you choose. Lyrics for the songs are available here; songs can be streamed here. Please do not include violent images in the videos.
You must be a resident of the United States, Canada or Mexico to enter this contest. Contest deadline is May 31, 2010.

For a complete list of contest rules and information please visit
http://pinkmartini.com/video-contest/north-america/.

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Patrice L'Ecuyer anime La Soire des Jutra

Toutes les informations au : www.lesjutra.ca
Patrice LEcuyer anime
La soire des Jutra en direct
de La Tohu de Montral
la Tlvision de Radio-Canada
Montral, 17 mars 2010 La Soire des Jutra, anime par Patrice LEcuyer, propose un gala blouissant dans lespace grandiose de La Tohu. Cest une premire pour un gala de cette nature et nul doute que le dfi doccuper ce lieu exceptionnel aura un effet lectrisant sur les spectateurs et offrira un cadre particulier la ralisation tlvisuelle. Cette soire magique sera donc diffuse en direct de La Tohu, le dimanche 28 mars 19 h 30 la Tlvision de Radio-Canada.

Couronnant les meilleurs artistes, artisans, techniciens et producteurs du cinma dici, La Soire des Jutra est le moment privilgi de lanne pour les clbrer. Patrice LEcuyer sera entour de prsentateurs bien connus, dont Danielle Proulx, Pascale Bussires, Normand DAmour, Jean-Carl Boucher, Bndicte Dcary, Maxim Gaudette,Sandrine Brisson, Karine Vanasse, Fanny Mallette, Michel Ct ainsi que dautres personnalits surprises. Le gala des Jutra veut aussi tre la vitrine prestigieuse de tous les talents des crateurs du cinma qubcois 2009 et rendre hommage avec classe aux artisans dici. Un gala hors dondes couronnera compter de 19 h La Tohu mme, les laurats dans les catgories Maquillage, Coiffure, Son, Costumes, Direction artistique, Film stant le plus illustr lextrieur du Qubec. Un bref montage des meilleurs moments de ce gala sera diffus pendant La Soire des Jutra o on partagera aussi un moment dmotion en rappelant le souvenir de grands disparus du 7e Art.

Le prix hommage sera dcern Ren Malo, dont la carrire bien remplie comme producteur et distributeur, sera illustre le soir du gala. Sylvain Larocque et Pascal Mailloux apporteront un soin particulier cet hommage afin de tmoigner de la place singulire que M. Malo a occupe durant plus de 30 ans dans le paysage cinmatographique.

Comdien et cinaste de grand talent et reconnu depuis plus de vingt ans comme un de nos metteurs en scne les plus inspirs, Yves Desgagns signe la direction artistique et la mise en scne. Jocelyn Barnab, qui on doit une multitude de productions substantielles, galas, concerts et missions concepts, ralise La Soire deS Jutra, une coproduction de La Grande Nuit du cinma et de Radio-Canada. Mgo assure la direction musicale.
 
Sur ARTV :
La rtrospective NOTRE CINMA et LA FIVRE DES JUTRA
ARTV donnera le coup denvoi de la 12e Soire des Jutra le 28 mars 19 h avec lmission spciale Notre Cinma, anime par Rebecca Makonnen, qui fera un survol des nominations La Soire des Jutra de cette anne.

Puis, vers 22 h, immdiatement aprs le gala diffus Radio-Canada, Ren Homier-Roy et Anne-Marie Withenshaw rencontreront en direct les principaux gagnants de la soire, dont les laurats des prix dinterprtation, dans le cadre de La Fivre des Jutra.
Cette mission sera rediffuse le lendemain, le lundi 29 mars 22 h 30 en direct sur radio-Canada.ca.

Les internautes pourront suivre la Soire des Jutra en direct sur le site radio-Canada.ca/jutra et participer au clavardage tout au long de la soire. Pour ceux qui ne pourront voir le gala en direct, les meilleurs moments seront offerts sur le site aprs la diffusion pendant un mois. Dici l, on peut consulter lalbum photos et la liste des finalistes, ainsi que la bande-annonce des films en nomination dans la catgorie MEILLEUR FILM, et le dfi cinma pour dcouvrir son profil de cinphile.

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The Cleveland Orchestra announces Fall 2010 Tokyo Residency and Asian Tour

The Orchestra returns to Tokyo in a four-concert Residency at Suntory Hall

Music Director Franz Welser-Mst leads four programs in Japan and South Korea

Mitsuko Uchida is pianist and conductor for Mozart programs and featured soloist in Beethoven program in Japan

Tour includes first Cleveland Orchestra appearances at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya, Japan, and at Goyang Arts Center and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea

CLEVELAND, March 15, 2010 Music Director Franz Welser-Mst and The Cleveland Orchestra will embark on their tenth international tour together this fall, performing in Japan and South Korea.  Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will join the Orchestra in Japan.  The eight-concert, four-city tour begins with a performance in Sapporo, Japan, on November 10 and ends with a program at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea on November 21.  The centerpiece of the tour is a Cleveland Orchestra Residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with four concerts at the acclaimed venue.

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will conduct from the keyboard in all-Mozart programs at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo (November 10), at Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya (November 12), and in concerts at Suntory Hall in Tokyo (November 14 and 16).  Ms. Uchida will also be featured as soloist with Franz Welser-Mst conducting an all-Beethoven program consisting of the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Opus 58, and the Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) in E-flat major, Opus 55, at Suntory Hall on November 18.
 
Franz Welser-Mst will conduct a second program at Suntory Hall consisting of Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Takemitsus Dream/Window, and Bruckners Symphony No. 7 in E major on November 17.  
         
The tour concludes with Mr. Welser-Mst conducting two programs in South Korea. On Saturday, November 20, he leads Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Divertimento in D major, K. 136; and Beethovens Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) at the Goyang Arts Center. On Sunday, November 21, Mr. Welser-Mst conducts Bruckners Symphony No. 7 in E major and two works excerpted from Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes the Four Sea Interludes and the Passacaglia at the Seoul Arts Center.

The Cleveland Orchestra in Asia
The Orchestra first performed in Japan in 1970 and most recently appeared there in 1998, during a tour of Japan and China.  The Cleveland Orchestra performed in Seoul, South Korea, for the first time in 1970, and most recently appeared there in 1978.  

TOUR FACTS AND HISTORY:
       Kitara Concert Hall:  The Orchestra has previously played in Sapporo in 1970.  This is the Orchestras first performance in Kitara Concert Hall.
       This will be the Orchestras first performance in the city of Nishinomiya, at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center.
       The Cleveland Orchestra has performed 12 times at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, including concerts for a Beethoven series with Christoph von Dohnnyi, the Orchestras former Music Director, in 1993, during which Mitsuko Uchida appeared as piano soloist.  The Orchestra most recently performed at the hall in 1998.
       The Orchestra has previously performed in Seoul in 1970 and 1978. 
       This will be its first time performing at the Goyang Arts Center in Goyang, South Korea, which opened in 2004, and the Seoul Arts Center, in Seoul, which opened in 1988.

International tours of The Cleveland Orchestra are supported by the Frances Elizabeth Wilkinson International Touring Fund.

(A detailed tour schedule, brief Orchestra history,
and biographies of Franz Welser-Mst and Mitsuko Uchida follow.)
 
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
TOKYO RESIDENCY AND ASIAN TOUR
NOVEMBER 10-21, 2010

SAPPORO, JAPAN
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Kitara Concert Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
         
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595

Nishinomiya, JAPAN
Friday, November 12, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Hyogo Performing Arts Center
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano

MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

TOKYO, JAPAN
Sunday, November 14, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano

MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

TOKYO, JAPAN
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano

MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595

TOKYO, JAPAN
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
TAKEMITSU: Dream/Window
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 

TOKYO, JAPAN
Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

GOYANG, SOUTH KOREA
Saturday, November 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Goyang Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Sunday, November 21, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Seoul Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BRITTEN: Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7

A Brief History of The Cleveland Orchestra
Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Mst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world.  In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summers Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement.

The Cleveland Orchestras educational programs, a cornerstone of the Orchestras original mission, have introduced nearly four million Cleveland-area schoolchildren to symphonic music since 1921.  During the 2009-10 season, the Orchestra launched a Community Music Initiative that began with orchestral performances led by Franz Welser-Mst in Cleveland Metropolitan School District public schools.  Designed to provide greater access to orchestral music for more of Northeast Ohios citizens than ever before, the Community Music Initiative introduces new programs throughout the year for students from preschool through high school.  The season closes in June 2010 with a free retrospective concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer fellowships, featuring new works created through this ongoing program.

The partnership with Franz Welser-Mst, now in its eighth season, has earned The Cleveland Orchestra unprecedented residencies in the United States and in Europe, including one at the Musikverein in Vienna the first of its kind by an American orchestra.  The Orchestra returned to Vienna during the 2009-10 season for its fourth Musikverein Residency as part of a nine-concert tour.  The Orchestra regularly appears at European festivals, including an ongoing series of biennial residencies at the Lucerne Festival (featuring Roche Commissions, a project involving the Orchestra, the Festival, and Carnegie Hall).  In the United States, Mr. Welser-Mst and the Orchestra have toured from coast to coast, including regular appearances at Carnegie Hall, and in January 2007 began an unprecedented long-term residency project in Miami, Florida, where they perform annually at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and provide a wide array of community and educational activities.  In addition, the 2009-10 season marks the announcement of a residency at New Yorks Lincoln Center Festival that starts in 2011 and will feature The Cleveland Orchestra in Vienna State Opera productions.

 The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens.  It has been led by seven music directors (Nikolai Sokoloff 1918-33, Artur Rodzinski 1933-43, Erich Leinsdorf 1943-46, George Szell 1946-70, Lorin Maazel 1972-82, Christoph von Dohnnyi 1984-2002, and Franz Welser-Mst 2002-present), and one musical advisor (Pierre Boulez 1970-72).  Expansion to a year-round schedule was made possible in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, an outdoor facility in nearby Cuyahoga Falls that is home to the Orchestras Blossom Festival.  Today, touring, residencies, radio broadcasts, and recordings available by internet download and on DVD and CD provide access to the Orchestras music-making to a broad and loyal constituency around the world.
For additional information, please visit clevelandorchestra.com.

Franz Welser-Mst
Music Director
Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair
The Cleveland Orchestra

Franz Welser-Mst is in his eighth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra.  His long-term commitment extends to the Orchestras centennial in 2018.  Under his direction, the Orchestra holds residencies in the United States and Europe, champions living composers, partners with Northeast Ohio public schools and conservatories, and has re-established itself as an operatic ensemble.  Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Mst becomes General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2010.

Under Mr. Welser-Msts leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra holds ongoing residencies at Viennas famed Musikverein hall and Switzerlands Lucerne Festival, along with an annual Miami Residency.  In 2011, Mr. Welser-Mst and the Orchestra launch a biennial residency at New Yorks Lincoln Center Festival, which will feature The Cleveland Orchestra in Vienna State Opera productions.

Under Franz Welser-Mst, The Cleveland Orchestra has presented eleven world and fourteen United States premieres.  In 2009, Mr. Welser-Mst led a Zurich Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro at Severance Hall.  He and The Cleveland Orchestra continue the Mozart/Da Ponte operas in Cleveland with Mozarts Cos fan tutte in 2009-10 and Don Giovanni in 2010-11.
 
Recent and upcoming international engagements include a new production of Wagners Ring cycle with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf at the Vienna State Opera.  During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Welser-Mst leads additional Ring performances, as well as Wagners Tannhuser and Parsifal, with the Vienna State Opera.  In the summer of 2009, Franz Welser-Mst appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Lucerne Festival.  He also conducted the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2009 Salzburg Easter Festival.

Following his 1989 American debut and prior to his appointment in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Mst regularly guest-conducted the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia.  Mr. Welser-Mst was music director of the London Philharmonic from 1990 to 1996.  Across his decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera, culminating in three seasons as General Music Director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Mst led more than 40 new productions.  In the spring of 2010, he leads Strausss Die Frau ohne Schatten and Mozarts Cos fan tutte in Zurich.
            
Mr. Welser-Msts recordings and videos have won the Gramophone Award, Diapason dOr, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations.  Mr. Welser-Mst has led The Cleveland Orchestra in video recordings of live performances of the Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 9.  Mr. Welser-Mst and The Cleveland Orchestra released a recording of Beethovens Ninth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon in 2007.
            
Mr. Welser-Mst has been recognized by the Western Law Center for Disability Rights and is an honorary member of the Vienna Singverein.  Musical America named him the 2003 Conductor of the Year.
 
Mitsuko Uchida

Mitsuko Uchidas interpretations of a wide range of repertoire have gained her a formidable reputation as a pianist who brings intellectual acuity and musical insight to her performances.   She is particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert, both in the concert hall and on CD, but also has illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, and Beethoven for a new generation of listeners.
 
Ms. Uchida made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in February 1990, and since that time has performed with the Orchestra at Severance Hall, at the Blossom Festival, and on tour to Europe and Japan.  Between 2002 and 2007, she played and conducted from the keyboard an acclaimed series of Mozart piano concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra.  Her most recent appearances with the Orchestra included performances of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 at Severance Hall and during the Orchestras fall 2009 European tour and Vienna Musikverein Residency. 

Mitsuko Uchidas latest recording with the Cleveland Orchestra features her conducting the ensemble from the keyboard in performances of the Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 (K.488) and 24 (K.491).  The recording was a bestseller in the United Kingdom, ranked Top Ten Exceptional Recordings of 2009 by New Yorker Magazine, and Editors Choice by Gramophone Magazine.
 
Mitsuko Uchida performs throughout the world with many different partners.  She was the focus of a Carnegie Hall Perspectives series titled Mitsuko Uchida: Vienna Revisited and took part in Mozart 250th birthday celebrations in Salzburg.  She has been artist-in-residence at The Cleveland Orchestra as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, with the Konzerthaus Vienna, and at Salzburg Mozartwoche.
 
Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca.  In April 2008, BBC Music Magazine presented its Instrumentalist of the Year and Disc of the Year awards to Ms. Uchida.  Her recording of Schoenbergs Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra won four awards in 2001, including one from Gramophone for best concerto recording.
 
Mitsuko Uchida has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to aiding the development of young musicians and is a trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.  She is also co-director, with Richard Goode, of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. 

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The Cleveland Orchestras 2010-11 season includes wide-ranging programs and initiatives

Community programming, staged opera, alternate concert formats, and traditional orchestral concerts combine to sustain audience growth and support in Northeast Ohio

Mozarts Don Giovanni, starring Simon Keenlyside, concludes the Orchestras Mozart/Da Ponte cycle of fully staged opera

Music Director Franz Welser-Mst opens the season with a public-school performance for the second consecutive year

National and international appearances include annual Miami Residency in its fifth season, new Tokyo Residency, and first academic residency at Indiana University
 
CLEVELAND, March 15, 2010 The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2010-11 season. Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Mst, the Orchestra continues its local programming diversification with numerous initiatives to attract new audiences and support.  Within a full schedule of traditional subscription concerts, the season will feature the new series introduced in 2009 including Fridays@7, Musically Speaking, and the Celebrity Series, alongside fully staged opera.  Also in the coming season, the Orchestra will inaugurate a two week Baroque Festival in Severance Hall. 

Orchestra performances in public schools are an important part of The Cleveland Orchestras history.  Franz Welser-Mst restored that tradition in the 2009-10 season when he conducted the Orchestra in two high schools in Cleveland and one in Miami.  Hundreds of students who had never heard live orchestral music before were able to experience it for the first time.  The Orchestras traditional Education Concerts at Severance Hall for more than 16,000 students annually will continue, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra Family Concert series.
            
The innovative variety of concert programs and formats presents audiences in Northeast Ohio with multiple ways to partake of symphonic music.  Fridays@7 offers a social experience, Musically Speaking brings new audiences and long-time fans closer to the music, and the Celebrity Series spotlights different genres of music. 

Music Director Franz Welser-Msts Programming
Franz Welser-Mst opens his ninth season with The Cleveland Orchestra with a program including Stravinskys The Rite of Spring, in two subscription concerts at Severance Hall and at a Cleveland Metropolitan School District high school.  Also during the 2010-11 season, Mr. Welser-Mst will conduct John Adamss Doctor Atomic Symphony; Bachs Mass in F major (BWV 233); Bartks Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Bartks Second Piano Concerto and Schumanns Piano Concerto with Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Beethovens Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8; Dvoks Te Deum, Mahlers Symphony No. 4; a fully staged production of Mozarts Don Giovanni; Rossinis Stabat Mater; and Strausss Ein Heldenleben, among 39 performances at Severance Hall, the Miami Residency, and on tour.  Mr. Welser-Mst will lead the fifth Roche Commission, an American premiere of Woven Dreams, by Toshio Hosokawa, in January.  At the end of the season, Mr. Welser-Mst conducts the world premiere of Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow Jrg Widmanns Flute Concerto and the Cleveland Orchestra premiere of On a Wire, a concerto for eighth blackbird by Jennifer Higdon that is a co-commission by six orchestras.

Franz Welser-Mst will conduct Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 in the 2010-11 season.  He has led the Orchestra in three DVD productions of Bruckner symphonies in three historic venues the Abbey of St. Florian in Linz, Austria, the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, and in Cleveland at Severance Hall which have been telecast in Europe and the United States.  In 2011, during the Orchestras residency at the Lincoln Center Festival, Mr. Welser-Mst will conduct four Bruckner symphonies.  Mr. Welser-Mst is a native of Linz, Austria, where Bruckner spent the formative years of his career.

Mozarts Don Giovanni
The Mozart/Da Ponte cycle of operas fully staged at Severance Hall concludes as Franz Welser-Mst conducts Don Giovanni on March 19, 22, 24, and 27, 2011.  The production of Don Giovanni will be based on the Zurich Opera production directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf.  The Orchestras three-season cycle of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas began in 2009, with four performances of Le nozze di Figaro.  The same number of performances of Cos fan tutte were presented in March 2010.

Baritone Simon Keenlyside will perform the title role of Don Giovanni, in his first performances of the role in the United States.  He can switch from genteel seductiveness to physical threat in a moment, registering all the gradations in his wonderfully vital and well-focused singing, wrote the Guardian of London, reviewing a performance by Mr. Keenlyside in Don Giovanni at Covent Garden.  In a review of a 2008 production at the Royal Opera House, the Guardian described Mr. Keenlyside as a tour de force.  Mr. Keenlyside most recently appeared with the Orchestra during a Cleveland Orchestra Musikverein Residency in Vienna in the fall of 2009. 

  The cast for Don Giovanni includes soprano Eva Mei (Donna Anna) in her Cleveland Orchestra debut, soprano Malin Hartelius (Donna Elvira), baritone Ruben Drole (Leporello), tenor Shawn Mathey (Don Ottavio) in his Cleveland Orchestra debut, soprano Martina Jankov (Zerlina), baritone Reinhard Mayr (Masetto) in his Cleveland Orchestra debut, bass-baritone Alfred Muff (Commendatore), and the Cleveland Orchestra Opera Chorus.  The opera will be performed in Italian, with English supertitles.

Orchestras Baroque Festival Features Artist-in-Residence Ton Koopman
Ton Koopman will lead a two-week Baroque Festival with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall in April and May, including works by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Handel.  Mr. Koopman will become the Orchestras Artist-in-Residence with the 2010-11 season.  He is the founder and conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, artistic director of the French Festival Itinraire Baroque, Professor at the University of Leiden, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.  He was named as Artist-in-Residence for The Cleveland Orchestra in June 2008, following his debut with the Orchestra in February 2008.  The three-year Artist-in-Residence position is supported by the Malcolm E. Kenney Artist-in-Residence Fund. 
 
Jrg Widmann, Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow
Franz Welser-Mst will conduct the world premiere of Jrg Widmanns Flute Concerto, featuring Cleveland Orchestra Principal Flute Joshua Smith, at Severance Hall in May 2011.  German composer Jrg Widmann is the Orchestras sixth Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow.  In his second season with the Orchestra, Mr. Widmann will continue to participate in rehearsals, masterclasses, and educational activities.
Mr. Widmann is a winner of the Claudio Abbado Composition Award of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy, and most recently the winner of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centers Elise L. Stoeger Prize. The Flute Concerto was commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra through the Young Composers Fund, established in 1997 by a $1 million gift from Jan R. and Daniel R. Lewis, who reside in Florida.  Mr. Lewis is the Chair of the Musical Arts Association of Miami.  
 
Conductor and Soloist Debuts
Guest conductors making their Cleveland Orchestra debuts in 2010-11 are Ji Blohlvek, Andrey Boreyko, Thomas Dausgaard, and Vladimir Jurowski.  Other artists debuting this season are tenor Shawn Mathey, baritone Reinhard Mayr, soprano Eva Mei, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Jessica Rivera, and the ensemble eighth blackbird.  Mitsuko Uchida appears this season with the Orchestra in Japan, and will perform a solo recital at Severance Hall in February.  Violinist Julia Fischer, cellist Alban Gerhardt, and pianists David Fray and Kirill Gerstein will mark their Severance Hall debuts they have performed with the Orchestra in prior seasons at Blossom Music Center.
 
Returning Artists
            Several conductors make return visits this season: Semyon Bychkov, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrew Davis, Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnnyi, Hans Graf, Ton Koopman, Kurt Masur, Matthias Pintscher, and Pinchas Steinberg.  Returning soloists include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emanuel Ax, Anna Bonitatibus, Laura Claycomb, Ruben Drole, Andrew Foster-Williams, Horacio Gutirrez, Malin Hartelius, Steven Isserlis, Martina Jankov, Leonidas Kavakos, Simon Keenlyside, Radu Lupu, Christopher Maltman, Martin Mitterrutzner, Alfred Muff, Kelley OConnor, Garrick Ohlsson, and Frank Peter Zimmermann. 
The season features five members of the Orchestra as soloists.  Franklin Cohen, Principal Clarinet, will perform Nielsens Clarinet Concerto; Richard King, Principal Horn, will perform in programs led by Christoph von Dohnnyi; William Preucil, Concertmaster, will perform Mozarts Violin Concerto No. 5; Joshua Smith, Principal Flute, premieres Widmanns Flute Concerto; and Robert Walters, Solo English Horn, will perform Vaskss English Horn Concerto.

Miami Residency
The Cleveland Orchestras annual Miami Residency continues in its fifth season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.  The Orchestras Miami Residency includes a series of subscription concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center as well as education and family concerts, and a broad spectrum of music education and outreach activities in the Miami-Dade community. 

In 2010, Cleveland Orchestra collaborations include New World Symphony fellows and the University of Miamis Frost School of Music students, with masterclasses led by members of The Cleveland Orchestra, reading sessions of new music, access to Cleveland Orchestra working rehearsals, and an upcoming event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami.  In partnership with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the Orchestra continues to provide Education Concerts for fifth-grade students, Musical Rainbows for younger school children, and high-school coachings for older students, plus a Cleveland Orchestra Family Concert. 

The Orchestras residency activities in Miami are conceived and made possible with the leadership of the Musical Arts Association of Miami, the Miami-based board governing the Orchestras Miami Residency.
Details of The Cleveland Orchestra 2011 Miami Residency will be announced at a later date.
 
Tokyo Residency and Asian Tour
Music Director Franz Welser-Mst and The Cleveland Orchestra will embark on their tenth international tour together this fall, performing in Japan and South Korea.  Mitsuko Uchida will join the Orchestra in Japan.  The eight-concert, four-city tour begins with a performance in Sapporo, Japan, on November 10 and ends with a program at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea on November 21.  The centerpiece of the tour is a Cleveland Orchestra Residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with four concerts at the acclaimed venue.  More tour details are available in a separate release.

Indiana University Residency
In January 2011, The Cleveland Orchestra will participate in an intensive residency at Indiana University.  The IU Jacobs School of Music and IU Auditorium have partnered to present a concert during IU Auditoriums season of events and to broaden the orchestras visit to bring additional learning opportunities to students on campus and in the community.  The IU Residency will include masterclasses, coachings, arts administration seminars, and other community and educational activities.  Plans call for every principal musician in The Cleveland Orchestra to teach a class for IU students; students will also have an opportunity to take part in side-by-side rehearsals with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Carnegie Hall and United States Tour
The Orchestra will tour in February to Hill Auditorium, on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on February 1, and to Symphony Center in Chicago on February 2.  The Orchestra will appear in two programs at Carnegie Hall in New York, on February 4 and 5. At the end of the tour, the Orchestra performs at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on February 6.  Franz Welser-Mst will lead all performances, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard will appear as soloist in four of the five programs on the tour.

Alternate Concert Formats Welcome Audiences Seeking New and Different Experiences
The Fridays@7 concert series continues with five programs in 2010-11, following its success in attracting new audiences in 2009-10.  More than 800 new ticket buyers have attended the new series thus far in the 2009-10 season.  The format is an hour-long Orchestra concert at the early start time, followed by entertaining and diverse styles of world music featuring international musicians, along with food and drink in a casual atmosphere. In the 2010-11 season, Franz Welser-Mst, Pinchas Steinberg, and Ji Blohlvek will conduct concerts in the Fridays@7 series.

 As part of the popular Musically Speaking series, an HD presentation of Holsts The Planets will feature breathtaking NASA images projected on a giant screen during the performance.  The complete work includes Women of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.  The series also includes a Chicago Symphony Orchestras Beyond the Score program of Prokofievs Symphony No. 5 and a full performance of baroque and classical works led by Ton Koopman, featuring cellist Steven Isserlis, with a preview discussion prior to the performance. 

The Celebrity Series will continue in 2010-11, spotlighting diverse artists and repertoire, embracing many genres.  Guest artists and repertoire for the series will be announced in August.  More people will attend the Celebrity Series per concert than any other series offered by the Orchestra in 2009-10.
 
Subscription and Ticket Information
A variety of subscription options will be available for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday concerts.  Subscriptions will go on sale March 22.  Tickets to individual performances go on sale in August.  For more information, call the Ticket Office at (216) 231-1111 or (800) 686-1141 or visit us online at www.clevelandorchestra.com. 

The Severance Hall Ticket Office and Subscription Office are located on street level in the Smith Lobby.  The entrance and 15-minute Ticket Service parking are along the west side of the building, on East Boulevard.  Severance Hall Ticket Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (closed Sundays and holidays except for those days with performances, when the Ticket Office will be open three hours prior to each performance).  Severance Hall Subscription Office Hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Contact: Ana Papakhian, (216) 231-7476 / Email: anap@clevelandorchestra.com
Jennifer Schlosser, (216) 231-7518 / Email: jschlosser@clevelandorchestra.com

2010-11 Season at Severance Hall  

Thursday, SEPTEMBER 23 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 25 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Laura Claycomb, soprano
Kelley OConnor, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone
Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus

TAKEMITSU  Dream/Window FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
BACH  Mass in F major, BWV 233 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
DEBUSSY  Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
STRAVINSKY  The Rite of Spring 

Thursday, SEPTEMBER 30 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, OCTOBER 2 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

BRITTEN  Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BRITTEN  Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
BRUCKNER   Symphony No. 7

Friday, OCTOBER 1 at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

Fridays@7

TAKEMITSU  Dream/Window
BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

Thursday, OCTOBER 7 at 8 p.m.
Friday, OCTOBER 8 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, OCTOBER 9 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, OCTOBER 10 at 3 p.m.
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano Severance Hall debut
 
BRAHMS  Symphony No. 3
RACHMANINOFF  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RAVEL  La Valse

Thursday, OCTOBER 21 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, OCTOBER 23 at 8 p.m.
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

BRAHMS  Academic Festival Overture
HINDEMITH   Symphony, Mathis der Maler
BEETHOVEN   Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)

Friday, OCTOBER 22 at 11 a.m.
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

HINDEMITH   Symphony, Mathis der Maler
BEETHOVEN   Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)

Thursday, OCTOBER 28 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, OCTOBER 30 at 8 p.m.
Andrew Davis, conductor
William Preucil, violin
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

HAYDN   Symphony No. 22 (The Philosopher) FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS   Five Mystical Songs
MOZART   Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS   Toward the Unknown Region FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES

Thursday, NOVEMBER 4 at 8 p.m.
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello Severance Hall debut

RAVEL  Alborada del gracioso
PINTSCHER  Reflections on Narcissus, for cello and orchestra FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
RAVEL  Ma Mre lOye (Mother Goose)
DUKAS  The Sorcerers Apprentice

November 10 21, 2010
The Cleveland Orchestra
Tokyo Residency and Asian Tour
Details are provided in a separate news release.

Saturday, NOVEMBER 27 at 8 p.m.
Hans Graf, conductor
Women of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

SAARIAHO  Asteroid 4179: Toutatis FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
MOZART  Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter), K. 551
HOLST  The Planets An HD Odyssey

Sunday, NOVEMBER 28 at 3 p.m.
Hans Graf, conductor
Women of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Musically Speaking

SAARIAHO  Asteroid 4179: Toutatis FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
MOZART  Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter), K. 551
HOLST  The Planets An HD Odyssey

Thursday, DECEMBER 2 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, DECEMBER 4 at 8 p.m.
Pinchas Steinberg, conductor
Franklin Cohen, clarinet

NICOLAI   Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
NIELSEN   Clarinet Concerto
MAHLER   Symphony No. 1

Friday, DECEMBER 3 at 7 p.m.
Pinchas Steinberg, conductor

Fridays@7
 NICOLAI   Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
MAHLER   Symphony No. 1

Thursday, JANUARY 6 at 8 p.m.
Friday, JANUARY 7 at 11 a.m.
Saturday, JANUARY 8 at 8 p.m.
Christoph von Dohnnyi, conductor
Richard King, horn

Program to be announced
Thursday, JANUARY 13 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, JANUARY 15 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Radu Lupu, piano

WAGNER   Overture to Tannhuser
SCHUMANN   Piano Concerto
R. STRAUSS   Ein Heldenleben

Friday, JANUARY 14 at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor

Fridays@7 

WAGNER   Overture to Tannhuser
R. STRAUSS   Ein Heldenleben

Thursday, JANUARY 20 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, JANUARY 22 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

R. STRAUSS:  Trumerei am Kamin from Intermezzo
FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
HOSOKAWA  Woven Dreams U.S. PREMIERE
BARTK   Piano Concerto No. 2
BARTK   Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Friday, JANUARY 21 at 11 a.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

HOSOKAWA  Woven Dreams U.S. PREMIERE
BARTK   Piano Concerto No. 2
R. STRAUSS:  Trumerei am Kamin from Intermezzo
FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES

Friday, FEBRUARY 11 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 12 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, FEBRUARY 13 at 3 p.m.
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

MUSSORGSKY  Prelude to Khovanshchina
SIBELIUS  Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY  Manfred Symphony

Thursday, FEBRUARY 17 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 19 at 8 p.m.
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

SIBELIUS  Symphony No. 7
SZYMANOWSKI  Violin Concerto No. 1
NIELSEN  Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Friday, FEBRUARY 18 at 11 a.m.
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

SZYMANOWSKI  Violin Concerto No. 1
NIELSEN  Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Thursday, FEBRUARY 24 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 26 at 8 p.m.
Andrey Boreyko, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Robert Walters, english horn

BARTK  Suite from The Wooden Prince
VASKS  English Horn Concerto FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
PROKOFIEV  Symphony No. 5

Sunday, FEBRUARY 27 at 3 p.m.
Andrey Boreyko, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut

Musically Speaking Beyond the Score

PROKOFIEV  Symphony No. 5

Thursday, MARCH 10 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MARCH 12 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Jessica Rivera, soprano Cleveland Orchestra debut
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

DVOK  Te Deum FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
MAHLER  Symphony No. 4

Saturday, MARCH 19 at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, MARCH 22 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, MARCH 24 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, MARCH 27 at 3 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone (Don Giovanni)
Eva Mei, soprano (Donna Anna) Cleveland Orchestra debut
Malin Hartelius, soprano (Donna Elvira)
Ruben Drole, baritone (Leporello)
Shawn Mathey, tenor (Don Ottavio) Cleveland Orchestra debut
Martina Jankov, soprano (Zerlina)
Reinhard Mayr, baritone (Masetto) Cleveland Orchestra debut
Alfred Muff, bass-baritone (Commendatore)
Cleveland Orchestra Opera Chorus

MOZART   Don Giovanni, K. 527 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
                    (Sung in Italian with English supertitles)

Thursday, MARCH 31 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, APRIL 2 at 8 p.m.
Ji Blohlvek, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Horacio Gutirrez, piano

HAYDN  Symphony No. 96 (Miracle)
RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOK  Symphony No. 7

Friday, APRIL 1 at 7 p.m.
Ji Blohlvek, conductor Cleveland Orchestra debut
Horacio Gutirrez, piano

Fridays@7

RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOK  Symphony No. 7

Thursday, APRIL 21 at 8 p.m.
Friday, APRIL 22 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, APRIL 23 at 8 p.m.
Kurt Masur, conductor
David Fray, piano Severance Hall debut

MENDELSSOHN  Overture, The Hebrides (Fingals Cave)
BEETHOVEN  Piano Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS  Symphony No. 4

Thursday, APRIL 28 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, APRIL 30 at 8 p.m.
Ton Koopman, conductor

BACH  Suite No. 1 for Orchestra, BWV 1066
BACH  Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046
HANDEL  Suite from Music for the Royal Fireworks
MOZART  Symphony No. 25, K. 183

Friday, MAY 6 at 11 a.m.
Ton Koopman, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello

C.P.E. BACH  Sinfonia in D major, Wq. 183, No. 1 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
C.P.E. BACH  Cello Concerto in A major, Wq. 172 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
HAYDN  Symphony No. 98

Sunday, MAY 8 at 3 p.m.
Ton Koopman, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello

Musically Speaking 

C.P.E. BACH  Sinfonia in D major, Wq. 183, No. 1 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
C.P.E. BACH  Cello Concerto in A major, Wq. 172 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
C.P.E. BACH  Sinfonia in G major, Wq. 183, No. 4 FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
HAYDN  Symphony No. 98

Thursday, MAY 12 at 8 p.m.
Friday, MAY 13 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MAY 14 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Julia Fischer, violin Severance Hall debut

BERG  Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER  Symphony No. 5

Thursday, MAY 19 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MAY 21 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

ADAMS  Guide to Strange Places
HAYDN  Piano Concerto in D major
STRAVINSKY  Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 8

Friday, MAY 20 at 11 a.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

ADAMS  Guide to Strange Places
HAYDN  Piano Concerto in D major
BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 8

Thursday, MAY 26 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MAY 28 at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Joshua Smith, flute
Malin Hartelius, soprano
Anna Bonitatibus, mezzo-soprano
Martin Mitterrutzner, tenor
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone Cleveland Orchestra debut
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

WIDMANN  Flute Concerto WORLD PREMIERE
ROSSINI  Stabat Mater

Friday, MAY 27 at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Joshua Smith, flute
eighth blackbird Cleveland Orchestra debut

Fridays@7

ADAMS  Doctor Atomic Symphony
WIDMANN  Flute Concerto WORLD PREMIERE
HIGDON  On a Wire Concerto for eighth blackbird and Orchestra
FIRST CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE

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New Centrediscs CD: 3 Concerti Just Released

PIANIST CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO PLAYS

CONCERTI BY THREE CANADIAN WOMEN COMPOSERS 

Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, long a champion of the music of contemporary composers, particularly those of her native Canada, performs works by three Canadian women composers for piano and orchestra, in 3 Concerti, a new Centrediscs release from the Canadian Music Centre.

The new CD (CMCCD 15610) features compositions by Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko and Violet Archer (1913-2000).  They were recorded for broadcast by CBC Radio over the past two decades.  

3 Concerti marks Petrowska Quilicos 23rd CD, and seventh on the Centrediscs label.   

The CD features the following, all with Petrowska Quilico as piano soloist:

Alexina Louie: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1984) with the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Alex Pauk.

Violet Archer: Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra (1956) with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Larysa Kuzmenko: Piano Concerto (1995, rev. 1996) with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste.  

CDs can be ordered through the Canadian Music Centre, www.musiccentre.ca or via www.petrowskaquilico.com.  

The 3 Concerti project came as result of the Gender and Performance graduate course that Petrowska Quilico teaches at Torontos York University. I wanted the students to hear the brilliance of Canadian women composers, especially in live performance, she said. Thanks to CBC producer David Jaeger, I had recordings of several concerts in which I had premiered womens concerti. From those recordings we chose works that are very different in their compositional styles, yet in which each features a virtuoso piano part. 

Since playing her first concerto Haydns D Major at age 10, Christina Petrowska Quilico has performed an impressive range of repertoire for piano and orchestra, from Bach and Beethoven to Bartok, Gershwin, and Canadians Glenn Buhr, the three women on the new CD, and more.   

The Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers honored Petrowska Quilico with The 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award.  A national jury recognized her for her dedication to Canadian contemporary classical music as well as her unwavering support of this countrys composing community. Throughout her exceptional performing and recording career, Christina Petrowska Quilico has had a profound impact on Canadas classical music community from coast to coast.  She was also among Canadian artists honored by the CMC on its 50th anniversary in November 2009 at the National Arts Centre, and performed Glass Houses by Ann Southam at the special concert celebrating the occasion.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM OF THE FEATURED CONCERTI AND PERFORMANCES:

Violet Archer Concerto:

In his essay on Violet Archer for the book Contemporary Canadian Composers (Oxford University Press), critic Kenneth Winters calls the Archer concerto, a masterpiece and a genuine concerto in terms of display and dynamics. He refers to the ease and virtuosity of both piano and orchestra in the propulsive opening movement, the pensive and lyrical middle movement, and the vigorous finale, which leaves the listener mildly appalled that a work of this calibre should be played so seldom.

Larysa Kuzmenko Concerto:

The concerto, a CBC commission, drew standing ovations when Petrowska Quilico performed it with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey at the Winnipeg New Music Festival, and again with the Toronto Symphony under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.  Elissa Poole wrote in the Globe and Mail of the classically virtuoso performance by soloist Christina Petrowska Quilico. Kuzmenko returned to the grandiose gestures of the romantic piano concerto.  The Toronto Stars William Littler described the concertos broad, sweeping gestures and strong melodic profile of a concerto in the romantic tradition. With the considerable help of its soloist, the nimble-fingered Christina Petrowska Quilico, it was the undoubted hit of the evening.

Alexina Louie Concerto:

Petrowska Quilico twice performed this work with Alex Pauk conducting first with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and again with the Esprit Orchestra.  William Littler of the Toronto Star noted that able champion of the contemporary keyboard literature, Christina Petrowska Quilico, applied the proverbial hammer and tongs to a piano part full of cluster chords, glissandos and runs, surrounded by enough orchestral goings-on in rapidly changing metres to keep conductor Alex Pauk working overtimeĶ.  The concerto in its deliberately big-boned, splashily and often exotically (complete with lions roar and Chinese gongs) scored...it has life, color and drama enough to keep the ear wondering what is going to happen next.

The Globe and Mails Robert Everett-Green called it, a large-scale exercise in grand-manner composition, a piece that nearly bursts the bounds of the chamber-sized orchestra for which it was written, while reflecting the composers project of bringing into the mainstream of progressive music the sounds of her Chinese heritageĶ.  The pianist, Christina Petrowska Quilico, gave a committed reading of the virtuoso solo part, which makes some fairly athletic demands of the performer.  



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Thursday, March 25, 2010

La SCENA Spring 2010 - La Scena Musicale April 2010 Issue


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The Music Scene Winter 2010
Hello!

La SCENA is pleased to feature on its Spring 2010 cover the musical comedy staging of Belles-Surs by Daniel Blanger and Ren Richard Cyr, based on the theatrical classic by Michel Tremblay. The Arthur LeBlanc Quartet will be the feature of our April La Scena Musicale issue, which readers will find within the La SCENA. Paying subscribers will also receive an exclusive free CD of the Arthur LeBlanc Quartet's recordings of Shostakovich quartets.

Our jazz section will be featuring a sneak peak at the upcoming Miles Davis exhibit at the Muse des beaux-arts in Montreal. In our arts pages, readers will find La SCENA in conversation with Maurice Forget, Wajdi Mouawad, Gabor Szilasi, and many more.

To help plan your summer months, we will also be offering our annual international arts festivals guide. In La SCENA, you will also find a comprehensive arts calendar as well as detailed previews on all the dance, theatre, visual arts, and cinema events you won't want to miss.

There is much more in store for you this issue, including of course our monthly world music section, our musical events and concert calendars, and our reviews.

The deadline for advertising for this issue is March 26 with artwork due on March 29.

Yours sincerely,

Wah Keung Chan
Founding Publisher and Editor
La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
The Music Scene

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La Scena Musicale April 2010

/ La SCENA Spring 2010
  • On the Cover (La SCENA): Daniel Blanger, Ren Richard Cyr, and Michel Tremblay
  • On the Cover (La Scena Musicale): Arthur LeBlanc Quartet
  • Deluxe Look: Perfect Binding
  • Guide: International Festivals
  • Distribution: April 1
  • Deadline for ad reservations: March 26
  • Deadline for artwork: March 29
  • Total 25,000 copies, 50,000 readers
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  • Target Readership: professional and amateur artists, music and art lovers
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

La SCENA numro de printemps 2010 / La Scena Musicale avril 2010



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LSM Sept 2009

The Music Scene Hiver 2010
Bonjour !

La SCENA est heureuse de mettre en couverture de son numro de printemps 2010 le spectacle musical Belles-Surs de Daniel Blanger et Ren Richard Cyr, bas sur la pice classique de Michel Tremblay. Le Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc sera en vedette dans le numro davril de La Scena Musicale, que les lecteurs trouveront lintrieur de La SCENA. Les abonns payants recevront galement un CD exclusif gratuit de lenregistrement par le Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc de quatuors de Chostakovitch.

Notre section jazz jettera un premier regard sur lexposition Miles Davis venir au Muse des beaux-arts de Montral. Dans nos pages sur les arts, les lecteurs trouveront des entrevues avec Maurice Forget, Wajdi Mouawad, Gabor Szilasi et beaucoup dautres.

Pour vous aider planifier votre t, nous incluons notre guide international annuel des festivals dart. Dans La SCENA, vous trouverez aussi un calendrier des arts complet ainsi que des aperus dtaills des vnements en danse, en thtre, en arts visuels et en cinma que vous ne voudrez pas rater.

Ce numro regorge dautres bonnes choses, dont bien sr notre section mensuelle sur la musique du monde, nos calendriers des vnements musicaux et concerts et nos critiques de disques et de livres.

La date de tombe pour les annonces est le 26 mars, les maquettes devant nous parvenir au plus tard le 29 mars.


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La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
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La Scena Musicale avril 2010 / La SCENA printemps 2010
  • En couverture (La SCENA) : Daniel Blanger, Ren Richard Cyr et Michel Tremblay
  • En couverture (La Scena Musicale) : Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc
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The First Chicago Early Music Festival

CHICAGO EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

April 20 25, 2010

 
Inaugural six-day celebration of music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras
at multiple Chicago music venues

The Chicago Early Music Festival debuts as the Citys first festival celebrating music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras.  The six-day festival, presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Office of Tourism, represents an unprecedented collaboration amongst the City of Chicago and some of Chicagos leading ensembles and organizations, including Chicago Opera Theater, University of Chicago Presents, Baroque Band, International Music Foundation, and the Newberry Consort. 

The Chicago Early Music Festival features free and ticketed performances, workshops, and master classes by internationally renowned musicians in venues throughout the city. 

Chicago ensembles have been presenting Early Music for some time, but this exciting new festival takes it to a new level, showcasing our citys Early Music community and bringing in top international performers, said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg.  We hope that residents and tourists alike will enjoy this historic and truly wonderful music.

The Chicago Early Music Festival will present music spanning five centuries- from the 14th until the mid-18th century.  Early Music is a term commonly used to describe Western classical music before the time of Mozart, encompassing Medieval chant, the late Baroque masterworks of Handel and Bach, and everything in between.  Pioneers like Wanda Landowska and Arnold Dolmetsch paved the way for a resurgence of interest in Early Music in the mid-20th century, with the rediscovery of historical instruments and long-lost techniques of playing them.  Now, sixty years later, Early Music has finally entered the musical mainstream, with ensembles all over the world playing and singing this music.

For updates to the schedule and more information, visit www.ChicagoEarlyMusicFest.org or call the hotline at 312.742.1938.

SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS

The English Nightingale: Virtuoso Recorder Music from Renaissance to Romantic
Piers Adams, Recorders; Howard Beach, Harpsichord
Tuesday, April 20, 12:15 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
A self-styled modern Pied Piper, British recorder virtuoso Piers Adams performs music spanning four centuries with duo-partner, harpsichordist Howard Beach.  The incredibly diverse program includes renaissance selections by Bassano and Van Eyck, tracing the development of the sonata through Castello, Corelli, and J.S. Bach before arriving at the 19th century with a set of variations by Ernst Kraehmer.

Being Dufay
Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St

Admission: Free

The hauntingly beautiful Being Dufay combines early music with some of todays most cutting-edge digital techniques in a lush, harmonic sound world. Sound artist Ambrose Field realizes his own score, a mesmerizing series of electronic soundscapes, with former Hilliard Ensemble tenor John Potters expressive rendition of vocal fragments by 15th century composer Guillaume Dufay. 

Dame Myra Hess Concert: A Musical Voyage: Baroque Music from Italy, Germany & France
Brandi Berry, baroque violin; Anna Steinhoff, baroque cello; Jason Moy, harpsichord
Wednesday, April 21, 12:15 pm

Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St

Admission: Free
Embark on a journey through 18th century Italy, Germany, and France with violinist Brandi Berry, cellist Anna Steinhoff, and harpsichordist Jason Moy, in this program of violin sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli and J.S. Bach, and an exquisite but rarely-heard chaconne of Jacques Morel.  Dame Myra Hess Concerts are a celebrated series of weekly concerts featuring solo and ensemble classical music performed by young musicians. Produced by the International Music Foundation and supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the concerts are broadcast live on WFMT (98.7 FM). 

Baroque Band: Vivaldis LEstro Armonico
Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 pm
St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron St
Admission: $35; seniors $30; students $15 at 312.235.2368
Chicagos period instrument orchestra, Baroque Band, presents Vivaldis LEstro Armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration) in the exquisite sanctuary of St. James Cathedral.  Violinist Garry Clarke leads the ensemble in scintillating performances of eight concerti from Vivaldis popular and influential collection that features solo cello, and at times, up to four solo violins. 

Ensemble Lipzodes: Shakespeare & the Bassano Family
Thursday, April 22, 12:15 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
Ensemble Lipzodes presents a program inspired by the relationship between Shakespeare and the Bassano family, and their trip to Venice together at the end of 1593.  Famous as performers and instrument makers for the royal courts and churches of English and Italy, the Bassanos are thought to have invented the dulcian family of instruments featured in this concert. The program includes sonnets about the Emilia Bassano, the Dark Lady, and quotations from The Merchant of Venice inspired by the Bassano family.

Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord
Thursday, April 22, 7:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St
Admission: Free
Harpsichordist and fortepianist Mitzi Meyerson returns to her native Chicago to present a recital of solo harpsichord music.  Meyerson is one of the worlds most highly regarded early keyboard specialists, with over 50 internationally-acclaimed recordings; a busy teaching schedule at the esteemed Universitt der Knste in Berlin, where she is Professor of Harpsichord; and numerous concert engagements both as a solo artist and with her ensemble, The Bottom Line, which is dedicated to the performance of repertoire for bass and continuo instruments. 

Baroque Dance Performance: Paige Whitley-Bauguess with the Bach and Beethoven Ensemble
Friday, April 23, 12:15 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
Baroque dancer Paige Whitley-Bauguess interprets, recreates, and performs baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world.  She is accompanied in this performance by the Bach and Beethoven Ensemble, one of Chicagos newest, rising-star period instrument ensembles founded by violinist Brandi Berry and oboist Curtis Foster.

Liber Ensemble: Crowned with Laurels presented by University of Chicago Presents
Friday, April 23, 7:30 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave
Admission: $32; $5 students with valid ID at 773.702.8068
Founded in 1996, vocal ensemble Liber (formerly Liber unUsualis) has soared to prominence for its warm, compelling, and assured performances of medieval and early-renaissance music. The ensemble's mastery of medieval vocal technique and inventive programming have drawn enthusiastic audiences throughout the United States and Europe. This 4-voice program explores the extraordinary repertoire of 14th century Italy and France in settings of poetry by Petrarch, Sacchetti, Boccaccio, and others.

Fair Orianna: Early Movie with Early Music presented by The Newberry Consort
Saturday, April 24, 12 pm
Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave
Admission: $25 at 312.255.3610
Sarah Bernhardts 1912 silent movie, Elizabeth I, is accompanied by music performed by The Newberry Consort, one of the Chicago areas longest running and most successful early music ensembles.  Soprano Ellen Hargis joins the ensemble of viols and violin in an original soundtrack of Elizabethan music compiled by the Consorts director, David Douglass.

Overtures
Saturday, April 24, 12:15 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St

Admission: Free

A concert showcasing the next generation of early music stars including performers from Northwestern University, DePaul University, Midwest Young Artists, and the Music Institute of Chicago.

Chicago Opera Theater: Giasone
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 pm
Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph St
Admission: $30 - $120 at 312.704.8414
Francesco Cavallis at-times bawdy adaptation of the myth of Jason and his Argonauts made Giasone one of the 17th centurys most popular operas.  Led by critically acclaimed early music conductor and harpsichordist Christian Curnyn and the gifted young Australian director Justin Way, this production marks the premiere performance of Giasone by a professional opera company in Chicago.  Giasone kicks off Chicago Opera Theaters trilogy of Baroque operas exploring the tragic character of Jasons wife, Medea, in its next three seasons

Sunday Salon Series: Ftes Galantes
Trio Settecento
Sunday, April 25, 3 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St

Admission: Free

Period instrument ensemble Trio Settecento combines the virtuosic talents of  Rachel Barton Pine (violin), John Mark Rozendaal (viola da gamba/cello), and David Schrader (harpsichord/organ)in "... some of the most refreshing, life-enhancing Baroque playing heard in years" (Chicago Tribune).  Their French Baroque program includes festive music by Marais and Forqueray, virtuoso sonatas of Leclair and Rebel, one of Rameaus Pieces de Clavecin en Concert, and a suite from Francois Couperins Concert Royaux.

By a Celestial Fountain: Music of William Byrd presented by The Newberry Consort
Sunday, April 25, 7 pm
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 126 E. Chestnut St
Admission: $25; students $5 at 312.255.3610
Presented by the Newberry Consort
The Newberry Consorts viols and singers are joined by keyboardist David Schrader in music by the foremost Elizabethan composer, William Byrd. This concert honors the late musicologist, Howard Mayer Brown, whose scores and instruments were bequeathed to the Newberry Library, and includes his favorite works performed on instruments from his collection.

 

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS & LECTURES

In addition to the events listed below, several of the concerts will be accompanied by a pre-concert lecture.  Visit www.chicagoearlymusicfest.org for more information.

Ensemble Lipzodes: Performing Medieval Song
Thursday, April 22, 2:30 5 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free, reservations required to participate in class 312.742.TIXS (8497)
The musicians of Ensemble Lipzodes present a workshop on the performance of vocal repertoire from the Middle Ages.  All are welcome, and no prior experience is necessary!

Paige Whitley-Bauguess: Early Dance Class
Friday, April 23, 2 4:15 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free, reservations required to participate in class 312.742.TIXS (8497)
Come experience the intricacies of this popular 17th and 18th century art form in a class given by Baroque dance specialist Paige Whitley-Bauguess.  The musicians of the Bach and Beethoven Ensemble provide the musical accompaniment.  All are welcome, and no prior experience is necessary!

Performance Practice Panel
Presented by Chicago Opera Theater
Thursday, April 22, 1:15 2:15pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
An esteemed panel including Giasone conductor Christian Curnyn, University of Chicago Professor Robert Kendrick, Chicago Opera Theater stage director Andrew Eggert, and Baroque violinist Nadja Zwiener discuss early music performance practice.    

 

SCHEDULE OF MASTER CLASSES

 

To participate in any of the master classes, check the festivals website at www.chicagoearlymusicfest.org for application information.  All are welcome to listen and enjoy the music.

Piers Adams, recorder

Tuesday, April 20, 2 4:30 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St

Admission: Free

Come hear some talented, up-and-coming recorder players!  British recorder virtuoso Piers Adams gives a free master class at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. 
This event is supported in part by the American Recorder Society, Chicago Chapter.

Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord
Wednesday, April 21, 2 3:30pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson, a Chicago native, is a world-renowned early keyboard specialist based in Germany, where she is Professor of Harpsichord and Fortepiano at the Universitt der Knste in Berlin. 

Nadja Zwiener, violin
Presented by Chicago Opera Theater
Wednesday, April 21, 3:30 5 pm
Enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Michigan Ave at Washington St
Admission: Free
German-born violinist Nadja Zwiener is a frequent soloist and concertmaster with some of the leading orchestras and period instrument ensembles in Europe, like the English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants and others.

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Le Fonds Essor: une premire au Qube

Un nouveau fonds de 455 000 $ ddi aux mtiers dart

Qubec, le 12 mars 2010 linitiative de la table des mtiers dart du Conseil de la culture, six partenaires sentendent pour crer un fonds de 455 000 $ sur 3 ans, venant en aide aux artistes et artisans des mtiers dart de la rgion de la Capitale-Nationale. Cette initiative de partenariat permettant la mise en place dun fonds de microcrdit pour supporter les artisans est une premire au Qubec. Le nouveau Fonds ESSOR donne accs du crdit, de laccompagnement et des services adapts.

Ce Fonds vise notamment amliorer les conditions de pratique, susciter des occasions daffaires, permettre la ralisation de prestations publiques et obtenir une formation de matre dans une spcialit donne. Concrtement, le Fonds ESSOR propose des prts pouvant atteindre 20 000 $, remboursables sur un maximum de trois ans, ainsi quun accompagnement soutenu et adapt la ralit des artistes et des artisans.

Les signataires de lentente sont le Centre local de dveloppement (CLD) de Qubec, la Socit de dveloppement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), le Fonds demprunt Qubec, le Conseil de la culture de la rgion de Qubec, lcole de joaillerie de Qubec et la Maison des mtiers dart de Qubec. La Caisse dconomie solidaire est partenaire commanditaire. Ce fonds sera administr par le Fonds demprunt Qubec.

La communaut sest mobilise afin dapporter une solution concrte aux besoins et aux problmes de financement des artistes et artisans des mtiers dart. Le prsident de la table des mtiers dart du Conseil de la culture, M. Gilles Pelletier, a soulign : Nous sommes fiers que les partenaires aient rpondu notre appel permettant ainsi lamlioration des conditions dexercice des mtiers dart .

Pour plus dinformation, veuillez consulter : www.culture-quebec.qc.ca

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Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio Sells Out - SAT. March 27 @ 8pm

Rosenwinkels music represents the sound of the future-just as bebop once did. - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
 
Toronto, ON March 12, 2010 The innovative and iconic, 39-year-old guitarist and Verve recording artist Kurt Rosenwinkel is performing in the fourth stunning installment of the Jazz Education and Performance Centre (JPEC) concert series - www.jazzcentre.ca.  On Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8 pm, The Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio will take the stage at Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West. One of the most widely admired jazz artists of his generation, Rosenwinkel will be accompanied by Eric Revis (bass) and Rodney Green (drums) in what promises to be a soul-stirring performance.
Tickets are $35 Regular and $20 for Student/Rush (available by phone or in person with student ID; a limited number of rush seats available 30 minutes before performance time). Tickets are available at the Roy Thomson Hall box office (416) 872-4255 or www.jazzcentre.ca
Kurt is rightfully taking his place alongside significant contemporary figures like Pat Metheny, John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell. While his body of work as a leader is only beginning to develop, he has worked with a cross-generational who's who of players including drummer Paul Motian, vibraphonist Gary Burton, drummer Brian Blade and saxophonists Joe Henderson and Joshua Redman.
Rosenwinkel, who grew up in the U.S. and now lives in Berlin, cultivates his following by bucking tradition and has earned respect for his inventive, original tunes. His last album, Reflections by his Standards Trio, received excellent reviews and his encompassing musical vision has won him a mantel full of superlatives from fellow jazz artists like tenor sax star Joshua Redman, who declared that Rosenwinkel ''is without question one of the greatest artists of our generation."

''He somehow manages to write music that is incredibly sophisticated and complex, but so excruciatingly beautiful," Redman said in a recent conversation. ''He's created his own harmonic world, which in and of itself is a huge accomplishment in jazz. He has this incredible sense of melodic clarity and lyricism. His sound is so personal."

The Jazz Performance and Education Centre, officially founded in 2008, is a registered charity dedicated to the preservation and development of jazz in Canada. The result of a collaboration between business people, musicians and arts professionals who are passionate about jazz in Toronto, JPECs ultimate goal is to create a full-time jazz venue in the city: this first-class, multi-purpose facility will feature performances by top local, national and international jazz talent; educational programming through which fans of all ages can learn about jazz; recording facilities; and a Hall of Fame and Archives which will encompass and preserve Canadas outstanding jazz heritage and tradition. The facility will enhance Torontos reputation as one of the best cities in North America in which to experience live jazz.

"We are delighted to bring this exciting evening of Jazz to Toronto and look forward to supporting years of more great jazz performances, engaging presentations and creative collaboration with Toronto 's jazz community," says JPEC Chair Ray Koskie.

JPECs inaugural season features a variety of exciting programming including concerts at Glenn Gould Studio and the Bluma Appel Theatre, featuring the Oliver Jones Trio, Dianne Reeves, the Ingrid Jensen Quintet, the Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio and the Bill Charlap/Renee Rosnes Duo. The season also celebrates a series of lectures, hosted by the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, led by local jazz musicians and writers including Heather Bambrick, Mark Barnes, Jack Chambers and Andrew Scott; and a series of jazz programs for children hosted by Casa Loma.

For more information on the Jazz Performance and Education Centre, visit www.jazzcentre.ca -
JPECs 2009-2010 season is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Koskie Minsky LLP and Media Partner Jazz.FM91 and National Post.

Jazz to me is a must for everyone. Its exciting, it makes you want to dance and its very cool.
- The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander 

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Symphony Nova Scotia announces its 2010/11 season

Halifax, NS Symphony Nova Scotia is delighted to announce its 2010/11 concert season! This season the orchestra brings you more great music more classical heavyweights, more Canadian and Maritime content, and more of Nova Scotias best artists and bands.

Theres something for everyone in the new Symphony Nova Scotia season, says Music Director Bernhard Gueller.

We are proud to present concerts such as The Music of the Beatles, Mozarts Requiem, The Nutcracker, Howard Cables Holiday Spectacular, and our annual collaboration with the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra. Amongst the wealth of leading guest artists are Basia Bulat, Erin Costelo, Meaghan Smith, Jan Lisiecki, and Jon Kimura Parker.

Season ticket packages are now available now for 2010/11. Highlights include:

CELEBRITY CLASSICS SERIES: ten inspiring classical music concerts
  • Halifaxs own Denise Djokic opens the season with Saint-Sans beloved Cello Concerto.
  • The orchestra performs some of the greatest works of the symphonic repertoire: Beethovens Fifth, Brahms Violin Concerto, Schuberts Unfinished symphony, Mozarts Jupiter symphony and moreĶ
  • Young Canadian pianists Jan Lisiecki and Avan Yu join the Symphony to perform two exuberant concertos.
  • The Symphony presents Mozarts stunning Requiem for the first time in a decade.
  • And then, the Scandinavian Festival, with an augmented orchestra to bring you Griegs Peer Gynt Suite and his Piano Concerto with Jon Kimura Parker. Youll also hear Sibelius Symphony no. 2, as well as his unparalleled Violin Concerto.

POPS SERIES: eight lively Maritime and popular music concerts
  • The annual tribute concert takes on the greatest hits of the Beatles!
  • Comedian Steve Smith (a.k.a. Red Green) joins the orchestra for a hilarious symphonic take on everything handy. (And yes, there will be duct tape!)
  • The Symphony brings in more of Cape Bretons best this time, the Barra MacNeils for a foot-stomping Celtic music concert.
  • In a throwback to the hugely successful and sold-out 2007 Motown concert, Dutch Robinson joins the orchestra for Symphonic Soul.
  • Local stars like Meaghan Smith, Erin Costelo, and Sons of Maxwell bring the music home in the Maritime series.
  • Howard Cable conducts the orchestra in a massive holiday pops extravaganza.

BAROQUE SERIES: three exquisite concerts in an intimate venue, plus Handels Messiah
  • Tafelmusiks incomparable Jeanne Lamon returns once again, this time to perform the best of English baroque music.
  • Alexander Weimann, one of the worlds best harpsichordists, performs the baroque music of his home country, Germany.
  • Baroque specialist Noel Edison, director of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, comes to Halifax with his authentic, lively interpretation of Handels majestic Messiah.

AND MOREĶ
  • Family concerts include the 20th-anniversary production of the holiday hit The Nutcracker, along with Spooky Chills and Musical Thrills, a very special in-costume Halloween concert complete with costume contest, face painting, and a musical instrument petting zoo!
  • The Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra joins Symphony Nova Scotia for a performance of one of the worlds favourite symphonic works: Mahlers Fifth Symphony.

A brochure outlining Symphony Nova Scotias 2010/11 season is available by calling the box office at 494.3820 or 1.800.874.1669, or by visiting the Symphony Nova Scotia website at www.symphonynovascotia.ca.

Single tickets for Symphony Nova Scotias 2010/11 season go on sale August 3, 2010, and ticket packages are available now.

Ticket package holders receive a host of rewards, including savings of up to 30%, the best available seats in the house, a free open rehearsal pass, free e-programs, and an exclusive subscriber rewards card. And if you're under 30, you can save even more up to 60% with the Under-30 U-Pick package.

To purchase a season ticket package, call 494.3820 or 1.800.874.1669 today!

About Symphony Nova Scotia
Symphony Nova Scotia is Nova Scotias orchestra. Each year more than 50,000 audience members (including 16,000 young music lovers) join us in communities across Nova Scotia for performances of the music they love from baroque and classical to pop and rock and folk. Under the inspirational leadership of Music Director Bernhard Gueller, Symphony Nova Scotia is recognized as one of the finest orchestras in the country. Visit www.SymphonyNovaScotia.ca to learn more, listen online, or subscribe today!

Symphony Nova Scotia is grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, and the Halifax Regional Municipality for their continued support.

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Opera Lyra Ottawa Opera Studio Competition

Preparing the next generation of Canadas opera stars!
March 11, 2010 NAC Fourth Stage

March 12, 2010...Opera Lyra Ottawa celebrated a grand evening of opera on March 11, 2010 at the NAC Fourth Stage which showcased the next generation of Canadian opera stars.  The evening was hosted by Opera Lyra Ottawas own Tyrone Paterson and OLO Chorus member, Chris Mallory.  The judges for the evening were Brenda Harris (who will perform Lady Macbeth in OLOs upcoming production of Macbeth), Greer Grimsley (in the title role of Macbeth) and Joseph Bascetta (Director of Macbeth).   

Opera Lyra Ottawa Opera Studio members each performed two opera arias and were judged based on the quality of their voices, their presentation, diction, musicality, their tone, as well as choice of repertoire. 

Mark Ellis Gough, Baritone, performed Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo from Mozarts Cosi fan tutte as well as through the port comes the moonshine astray from Benjamin Brittens Billy Budd!  Soprano, Christina Tannous followed her first aria Monicas Waltz from Menottis The Medium by Je suis encor tout tourdie from Massenets Manon.  Graham Thomson, Tenor, who performed in this years Black & White Opera Soiree, sang Ich baue ganz from Mozarts Abduction from the Seraglio and Ah! Mes amis from Donizettis La fille du regiment. Sara Christina Steinert, Mezzo-Soprano performed Una voce poca faĄ from  Rossinis Il Barbiere di Siviglia as well as Sein wir wieder gut from Strausss Ariadne auf Naxos.  And, last but not least, the Opera Lyra Ottawas Opera Studio Award winner and audience-choice winner, Bass, Brian Wehrle impressed the judges and audience with his choice of repertoire singing Sorge infausta una procell from Handels Orlando, and Wie schn ist doch die Musik Strausss Die Schweigsame Frau. 

The OLO Opera Studio Award         $2,500           Brian Wehrle
The Spotlight Award                     $1,500          Sara Christina Steinert
The New Sun Award                    $1,000          Mark Ellis Gough
The Emerging Artist Award             $500             Graham Thomson
The Emerging Artist Award             $500             Christina Tannous
Audience Choice Award                 $200             Brian Wehrle

Support from our sponsors and donors allows Opera Lyra Ottawa to present internationally renowned Canadian artists, fund our Opera Studio, and develop special initiatives to bring opera to young audiences, such as Young Peoples Opera Matinee and school performances and tours.

The OLO Opera Studio provides professional training that prepares the next generation of Canadian singers, stage directors, conductors / repetiteurs and stage managers for professional operatic careers.  Members have the opportunity to perform on stage and take master classes from renowned opera singers.

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Robert Walters to Lead the Oboe Studio at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music

OBERLIN, OHIO (March 11, 2010)Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music David H. Stull has announced the appointment of Robert Walters to the position of professor of oboe and English horn at the conservatory, effective July 1, 2010.

"Robert Walters is a phenomenal artist and teacher who will continue to serve as a brilliant mentor to our students," says Stull. "His extraordinary success in preparing world-class artists will benefit generations of musicians at Oberlin, and we are exceedingly fortunate to have him as a member of our faculty."

Walters assumes leadership of an oboe and English horn studio that has seen a great deal of success, with recent Oberlin graduates being offered principal positions in the Shanghai, Kansas City, and Pacific symphonies and the Santiago Philharmonic. Others have been finalists for principal positions with San Francisco Opera and the Seattle Symphony.

The culture of wind playing and teaching at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a long and distinguished one, says Walters. I am thrilled to be part of a faculty that is so deeply committed to shaping and guiding successive generations of young musicians. I love the sense of shared mission that animates absolutely everyone who teaches here.

Walters plays oboe and solo English horn with the Cleveland Orchestra, a position he also held with the Metropolitan Opera and Cincinnati Symphony. He has taught at Bard, Swarthmore, Haverford, and at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches at the Aspen Music Festival, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and the New World Symphony.

A fourth-generation music professor and a graduate of both the Curtis Institute of Music and Columbia University, Walters believes that his educational experiences and background instilled in him a strong commitment to teachingespecially at the undergraduate level. The ideals of intensive musical training coupled with a broad education have profoundly shaped my own life, says Walters. It is a great joy for me to help undergraduates forge a similar path for themselves at such a rich and vital time in their lives.

The principles that I share with my students at Oberlin are ones that I constantly refer to while performing with the Cleveland Orchestra, says Walters. My Oberlin students recognize that for me, teaching and playing are, as the poet William Mathews suggests, two parts of a single and seamless investigation.

Throughout his teaching career, Walters has helped students of both instruments attain positions with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Rochester, Seattle, and San Francisco.

The level of playing keeps getting higher and higher, says Walters. Im convinced that our good fortune is a direct result of a teaching style that seeks to mirror that of the Oberlin Conservatory itself. We offer a world-class musical education that places self-discovery on equal footing with instrumental mastery.

Robert Walters
Robert Walters joined the Cleveland Orchestra as solo English horn and oboe at the beginning of the 2004-05 season. He previously held the same positions with the Metropolitan Opera and the Cincinnati Symphony. From 1990 to 1996, he performed and recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among other ensembles. He also was a frequent performer with James Levine and the MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.

Walters has appeared as guest soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Other solo engagements include performances with the Beijing Radio Symphony and Curtis Symphony Orchestra. He has been a faculty member of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival since 2003 and the Aspen Music Festival since 2005. He became a member of the oboe faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in February 2006. Previously, he has taught oboe at Bard, Haverford, and the University of Pennsylvania.

A native of Los Angeles, Walters earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Columbia University, Graduate Writing Division. He spent five summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and toured as a member of Musicians from Marlboro. He also participated in the National Repertory Orchestra, the Bard and Spoleto festivals, and the Kent/Blossom Music program. Walters studied with Richard Woodhams, principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the late John Mack, former principal oboe of the Cleveland Orchestra.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music Į
Awarded the 2009 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music is renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber. Praised as a national treasure by the Washington Post, the conservatory, founded in 1865 and situated amid the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Oberlins alumni enjoy illustrious careers in all aspects of the music world. They have achieved prominence as solo performers; chamber, orchestral, and jazz musicians; composers; conductors; and music educators, scholars, and administrators.ĮĮ

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Dance Immersion Celebrates 15th Year

dance Immersion
presents its
2010 SHOWCASE
and
CELEBRATES 15TH YEAR
OF
NURTURING CANADIAN DANCE AND DANCERS FROM
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Thursday May 27-Saturday May 29, 2010 at 8:00PM
Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre
207 Queens Quay West, 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario.

Tickets; $25-$30 (Student/Seniors $20-25)
For tickets and information, Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000.

dance Immersion celebrates its 15th Annual Showcase Presentation with a special array of Canadian talent from some of the country's foremost up-and-coming dance artists whose background hails from the African diaspora.

The 2010 Showcase Presentation is a display of expressive and revealing dance from a talented spectrum of today's African-Canadian dance community.

Companies and individuals performing include:
Montreal's Ghislaine Dote,
Edmonton's Movements,
Toronto's Sharon Harvey, Kashedance, Aya Dance Collective, and Mafa Makhubalo.

 A Talk-Back follows the performance on opening night (Thursday May 27), giving audience members a chance to interact with the dancers and get a glimpse behind the process of dance creation.

dance Immersion Program Director, Vivine Scarlett, notes, "Our 15th anniversary Showcase Presentation offers a rare opportunity for Toronto to experience and learn from Canada's leading up -and-coming dance artists who will be a part of the Canadian-African dance milieu for years to come."

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La Socit Philharmonique de Montral annonce son prochain concert

Grand Concert Vendredi Saint


Montral, le 11 mars 2010 La Socit philharmonique de Montral (www.philharmontreal.com) est heureuse de prsenter le Grand Concert Vendredi Saint auquel se joindront au Chur de lUQM, le Chur de lcole Joseph-Franois-Perrault et la Mancanterie Harmonia Mundi, le 2 avril 2010, 20 h, lglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (309, rue Rachel Est, Montral, mtro Mont-Royal) sous la direction de maestro Mikls Takcs.

Le maestro Takcs a labor un imposant programme o les mlomanes pourront entendre le Requiem de Faur, lOde la joie de Beethoven ainsi que le Te Deum de Kodly. En slectionnant ces oeuvres, maestro Takcs explique quil a voulu crer un lien entre la vie et la mort : part le sujet de l'amour, deux thmes majeurs ont toujours inspir les potes et les compositeurs; le mystre de la mort et l'nigme de la vie. Le Requiem de Faur, tel un chant du cygne, cherche consoler les humains faisant face la mort. L'Ode la joie, ce testament exaltant de Beethoven et de Schiller, nous rappelle la grandeur de la joie, ce cadeau divin qui ennoblit notre vie phmre ici-bas. Enfin, le Te Deum de Kodly nous fait esprer la prennit de la vie : Christ, pour sauver l'homme, brisant l'aiguillon de la mort, vous avez ouvert le Ciel.

Les solistes invits ce concert sont Michle Bolduc, soprano, Johanne Patry, mezzo-soprano, Franco Tenelli, tnor et Marc Boucher, baryton. Le violon solo sera excut par Eugne Husaruk. Sous sa baguette, au-del de 400 choristes chanteront sur scne. Les voix du Chur de lcole Joseph-Franois-Perrault, dirig par Pascal Ct et celles de la Mancanterie Harmonia Mundi, dirige par Margo Valade-Beaudet tmoigneront de lardeur de la jeunesse lors de cette grande excution.  Je suis trs heureux que la tradition du grand concert du Vendredi saint, que jai cre il y a dj 20 ans, se perptue Montral. Le programme musical de ces grands concerts annuels est loccasion pour nous de prsenter, entre autres, les grands requiem du rpertoire classique, mentionnait maestro Mikls Takcs, directeur gnral et artistique de la Socit philharmonique de Montral. Cette anne, nous avons voulu nous associer de jeunes choristes. Nous sommes persuads que la runion de ces churs offrira une excellente complmentarit en combinant la longue exprience du chur de lUQM avec llan enthousiaste des jeunes., ajoutait-il.
Le public peut se procurer des billets lentre de lglise, une heure avant le concert, au Rseau Admission (514.790.1245) et la Place des Arts (514.842.2112).

Maestro Mikls Takcs

Originaire de Hongrie, Maestro Mikls Takcs demeure une figure marquante du milieu musical montralais, dont la rputation dpasse les frontires du Qubec et du Canada. Maintenant la retraire, il a t professeur associ au Dpartement de musique de lUniversit du Qubec Montral (UQM), o il a enseign pendant 35 ans. Depuis 1978, il dirige le Chur de lUQM. Il est aussi directeur gnral et artistique de la Socit philharmonique de Montral depuis 1982. Maestro Mikls Takcs est le rcipiendaire de plusieurs Prix, Mentions et Mdailles dont celle du Gouverneur gnral du Canada quil recevait en 1992.

La Socit philharmonique de Montral

Maestro Mikls Takcs a redonn vie la Socit philharmonique de Montral (SPM) en 1982; il en est depuis le directeur. Cet organisme fond en 1875 par Arthur Perkins avait mis fin ses activits en 1899. Maestro Takcs a raviv lesprit de croisade pour la vulgarisation du grand rpertoire, demeurant ainsi fidle lorientation que Guillaume Couture avait donne ce regroupement culturel dont laction a t dterminante dans lexistence musicale des Montralais du sicle dernier. La SPM est le partenaire principal et le diffuseur officiel du Chur de lUQM.

Le Chur de lUQM

Dirig depuis 32 ans par maestro Mikls Takcs, ce chur mixte regroupant des personnes de toutes provenances s'inscrit dans la tradition des ensembles musicaux attachs un tablissement d'enseignement. Il se situe galement dans la mission de l'Universit auprs de la collectivit et se rvle de ce fait un organisme de culture et d'ducation : formation musicale des participants; source de dcouvertes artistiques pour le public qui assiste aux concerts.
Sous la direction de son chef attitr, le Chur de lUQM a atteint une notorit internationale et a reu des invitations prestigieuses pour se produire au Carnegie Hall de New York cinq reprises et aussi en Autriche, en France, en Hongrie.

Le Chur de lcole Joseph-Franois-Perrault

Cr en 1978, le dpartement de musique de l'cole accueille annuellement 750 tudiants qui y reoivent un enseignement de qualit suprieure dispens par des ducateurs renomms. En 1981, la CECM et le Conservatoire de musique du Qubec Montral signaient un protocole d'entente visant une collaboration troite pour largir le rayonnement de la musique au sein de la communaut montralaise. Au fil des ans, des concerts conjoints se sont organiss. De plus, les tudiants du Conservatoire ont apport une assistance technique soutenue pour les lves de l'cole o ils ont instaur des interventions individuelles et du travail en sous-groupes.

Mancanterie Harmonia Mundi

 Ce nest pas grand-chose quand nous chantons pour nous-mmes, il est plus beau de chanter deux. Et puis toujours plus, cent, mille, jusqu ce que rsonne la grande Harmonie dans laquelle tous peuvent se sentir unis. Alors seulement nous pourrons dire en ralit : que le monde entier connaisse la joie! (Zoltn Kodly)

Zoltn Kodly (1882-1967) musicien, compositeur et pdagogue hongrois, ne cessa de lutter pour un idal : prserver la jeunesse de la dsolation dune vie sans musique parce que la vie mrite dtre vcue avec plnitude.
Cest la mission de la Mancanterie Harmonia Mundi de Saint-Bruno.

Requiem de Gabriel Faur (1848-1924)
Requiem opus 48

Gabriel Faur sinitie trs tt la musique. C'est 9 ans quil est envoy Paris par ses parents pour suivre les cours de lcole Niedermeyer, cole de musique classique et religieuse. Au cours de ses tudes, il rencontre Camille Saint-Sans, de qui il deviendra un disciple. Lors dun voyage en Allemagne, Faur rencontre galement Wagner et Liszt, qui exercent une influence musicale sur lui.
Luvre la plus clbre du compositeur est sans doute son Requiem; cette uvre a russi presque elle seule forger la popularit du compositeur. crit en 1888, ce Requiem a t compos peu aprs la mort du pre de Faur. Il prsente les pages les plus russies des uvres religieuses du compositeur. Difficile de croire quil se disait athe, lcoute de cette musique dbordante dun sentiment religieux sincre et vridique, mis en vidence par une orchestration originale : lutilisation continue des altos et des violoncelles confre un tat mditatif et contemplatif luvre, les violons tant sollicits rarement dans cette version pour grand orchestre. Dabord destin un effectif instrumental rduit, le Requiem stoffa par la suite pour aboutir la version pour grand orchestre ici prsente.
Une berceuse de la mort, a-t-on dit de cette Messe des Morts; en effet, lide de la mort est vcue non pas comme une souffrance, mais comme une
dlivrance. La paix et la srnit dgages par luvre prouvent que le thme de la mort est exploit de faon lumineuse et nous donne une image paisible de la fin de la vie. (note Par Sarah Ouellet)

Ode la joie de Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphonie No 9  avec un chur final sur lOde la Joie de Schiller , en r mineur, op. 125

Cest le 7 mai 1824, trois ans avant la mort du compositeur, que fut cre, Vienne, la Neuvime Symphonie de Beethoven. uvre mythique, symbole de la spiritualit humaine cristallise dans le geste artistique, cette dernire symphonie complte par le gant du classicisme viennois apparat comme lapothose de sa musique dorchestre. Prodigieux paradoxe pourtant, car son sommet, dans le quatrime mouvement, la musique instrumentale se mtamorphose en voix humaine. Aprs cette symphonie rvolutionnaire, la musique savante dOccident sest retrouve face des problmes de dfinition qui ont directement conduit lide wagnrienne de fusionner la musique et le drame. Commentant  ce passage brusque de la musique instrumentale la musique vocale , Richard Wagner y peroit une  surabondance de force, un violent besoin de dcharge lextrieur, absolument comparable la ncessit du rveil dun rve qui nous angoisse au plus profond de nous-mmes; et, poursuit-il, ce quil y a de significatif pour le gnie artistique de lhumanit, cest que ce besoin a produit ici un acte artistique par lequel ce gnie a reu un pouvoir nouveau : la capacit dengendrer luvre dart suprme . (Beethoven, Aubier-Montaigne, p. 189). Cette symphonie avec chur, sur lOde la joie de Schiller, est bien  uvre dart suprme  puisquelle met en abme la posie par une posie encore plus englobante, plus essentielle, la musique. (note par Claude Dauphin)

Te Deum de Kodly (1882-1967)
Te Deum du Chteau de Buda

Le Te Deum fut command Kodly dans la foule des prparatifs visant clbrer, en 1936, le deux cent cinquantime anniversaire de la fin de loccupation turque de la Hongrie. Aussi, est-ce par une fanfare incisive de trois trompettes, immdiatement approuve par un tutti des churs, que souvre cette uvre au souffle pique. Toutefois, la vigueur du triomphe ne voile aucunement la profonde mditation quentreprend le compositeur dans cette fresque sacre. Aprs les sonneries de la victoire et de la souverainet retrouve, merge le souvenir dramatique des ravages de la guerre passe. Il y palpite linquitude devant la monte du fascisme et lexacerbation du nationalisme la veille dune nouvelle conflagration des peuples. Du point de vue de lesthtique musicale aussi ce Te Deum simpose comme une uvre dialectique. Dans son creuset no-classique, Kodly compose un heureux mlange de styles o le dpouillement des homophonies grgoriennes se mtamorphose en des dploiements polyphoniques renaissants. La fugue du dbut dont le sujet intervalles inverss et en miroir (Pleni sunt coeli et terra), repris comme second sujet de la double fugue de la fin (In te Domine speravi), en plus de contribuer fortement lunit architecturale de louvrage, y rcupre les procds dun Baroque trs savant. uvre romantique par son orchestration, postromantique par rapport ses audaces harmoniques, elle se termine par une vocation impressionniste qui surprend la soprano solo entre deux cieux, dans un In aeternum hors-temps, le plus convaincant de toute la littrature sacre. (note par Claude Dauphin)

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Symphony Nova Scotia launches 2010/11 season with free noon-hour concert

Halifax, NS Join Symphony Nova Scotia for its 2010/11 season launch on Friday, March 12 at 12:30 pm at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax.

This free-of-charge launch event will include an hour-long performance by Symphony Nova Scotia, along with some surprise guest appearances! Symphony sponsors have also donated more than 20 door prizes for the event, including a grand prize of an overnight getaway for two in a luxury car (courtesy of ORegans).

Following the launch, attendees are invited to join Symphony Nova Scotias musicians, staff, and board members outside the auditorium in the Sculpture Court for a Scanway lunch reception and Trius wine tasting. Patrons will also be able to purchase season tickets for the 2010/11 concert season for the first time.

All are welcome to attend. Thank you for supporting Symphony Nova Scotia!

About Symphony Nova Scotia
Symphony Nova Scotia is Nova Scotias orchestra. Each year more than 50,000 audience members (including 16,000 young music lovers) join us in communities across Nova Scotia for performances of the music they love from baroque and classical to pop and rock and folk. Under the inspirational leadership of Music Director Bernhard Gueller, Symphony Nova Scotia is recognized as one of the finest orchestras in the country. Visit www.SymphonyNovaScotia.ca to learn more, listen online, or subscribe today!

Symphony Nova Scotia is grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, and the Halifax Regional Municipality for their continued support.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Egypts Adam Henein and Irans Parviz Tanavoli unite in a joint exhibition for the first time in the UAE

Egypts Adam Henein and Irans Parviz Tanavoli unite in a joint exhibition for the first time in the UAE



Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10 March 2010: The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) today announced details of the visual arts exhibition at the Abu Dhabi Festival 2010. Throughout the whole festival, The Middle East Modern Masters exhibition will be held at the Emirates Palace. The exhibition will feature a joint collection of works by two of the greatest living masters of Middle Eastern art - sculptors Parviz Tanavoli and Adam Henein. The Abu Dhabi Festival takes place from 20 March to 7 April.

HE Hoda I. Al Khamis-Kanoo, Founder of the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, commented: The Abu Dhabi Festival is committed to the visual arts. Messages and ideas embodied in this exhibition promise to provoke widespread debate and intrigue as these two masters come together for the first time in Abu Dhabi.

As in previous years the visual arts play an important part in the Abu Dhabi Festival and ADMAF is honored to be able to welcome two of the most prominent Middle Eastern artists, Parviz Tanavoli and Adam Henein. These two esteemed artists will come together with a striking joint collection, which will be a highlight of this years Festival. It is of great significance that such an important collection of modern Middle Eastern art will be shown here in Abu Dhabi, a place which is fast becoming the regional capital for the arts and culture, she pointed out.

According to Kanoo, the Middle East Modern Masters exhibition will explore the distinct styles of these great sculptors, whilst encouraging viewers to pose questions about the progression of Middle Eastern sculpture and its role in the global art world. Each sculptor explores his own unique heritage, with each work calling on its own references, both historical and modern. It is these avenues that audiences to the exhibition are invited to explore and reflect to the works in their own way, she added.


With this Exhibition, we hope to develop further strands of discussion and dialogue about some of the leaders in Middle Eastern sculpture, and the themes that their works explore both individually and together, she said.


The three-week manifestation features more than 90 world-class performances across traditional, classical and jazz music, drama, fine arts, and ballet. Strong educational elements are woven throughout the program with the aim of supporting ADMAFs dedication to furthering education in culture and the arts throughout the UAE. The education program supporting the Middle East Modern Masters exhibition will include opportunities for students and the public to interact with the two internationally acclaimed artists.
 
The schedule includes a walk-through with Adam Henein at the Emirates Palace, which will be open to the public at 11.30am on Sunday 21 March; a Tanavoli Lecture at Al Mamoura Lecture Theatre, open to the public between 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Tuesday 30 March; a Tanavoli workshop at The Ghaf Gallery, which will be held exclusively for students and by invitation only on Wednesday 31 March, and a walk-through with Parviz Tanavoli at the Emirates Palace, which will be open to the public at 11.30am on Saturday 3rd of April 2010.
 
The Abu Dhabi Festival 2010 tickets are available at Virgin Megastores and http://www.timeouttickets.com/ with part of the proceeds going to the Ewaa Shelter for Women and Children. Education and community programs will be hosted across Abu Dhabi and the rest of the UAE.

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Sondage PPM d'hiver - La radio de Radio-Canada rejoint plus d'un million de personnes dans le grand Montral

Montral, jeudi 11 mars 2010 la lumire des rsultats PPM parus aujourdhui, la Radio de Radio-Canada rejoint 1 094 000 auditeurs dans le grand Montral (porte minute/semaine).



En rayonnement total, la Premire Chane (95,1 FM Montral) demeure la station francophone qui enregistre la plus forte dure dcoute parmi les stations de Montral, avec 6,7 heures dcoute par semaine par auditeur. Dautre part, avec 12,3 % de part dcoute francophone, elle arrive en 2e position, toutes stations confondues dans le march central de Montral. Cette part dcoute reflte les bons rsultats de la priode des ftes, de la couverture du sisme en Hati et de la couverture radio des Jeux olympiques dhiver Vancouver.


Les matins du week-end conservent leur 1re place toutes stations confondues, et ce, ds 4 h le samedi et 5 h le dimanche avec les missions de Radio Canada International (Tam-tam Canada et Pomme et mandarine), suivies de La semaine verte et des rendez-vous anims par Jol Le Bigot. Dautre part, Cest bien meilleur le matin, en hausse de 1 point et demi par rapport au dernier trimestre, consolide sa 2e position les matins en semaine (devanc de peu par le 98,5 FM).


Dans le march central de Montral, Espace musique (100,7 FM Montral) occupe 2,2 % de part dcoute francophone, une lgre augmentation par rapport au premier trimestre. En rayonnement total dans le grand Montral, la radio musicale enregistre une hausse de volume dcoute (16 %) par rapport au dernier trimestre et, avec 485 000 auditeurs, elle a augment sa porte minute/semaine de 8 %.


On note une augmentation dauditoire notable toute la semaine en matine : du lundi au vendredi la Premire Chane avec Christiane Charette et, le week-end, avec les missions de Jol Le Bigot et la semaine prochaine ; le week-end sur Espace musique avec les rendez-vous classiques dEdgar Fruitier (samedi) et dAlain Lefvre (dimanche), et aussi au moment du multigenre avec Franois Dompierre et du jazz avec Dorothe Berryman le dimanche. On remarque galement une augmentation dauditoire pour les Radiojournaux le matin, tant la semaine que le week-end la Premire Chane.


Les PPM sont des audimtres lectroniques qui sont utiliss par un panel de foyers slectionns au hasard pour reprsenter une communaut. Ces donnes PPM portent sur 13 semaines, soit du 30 novembre au 28 fvrier 2010.

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Rvlations Radio-Canada Musique - vidos indits sur le web

ET UN STUDIO 12 COLLECTIF LA RADIO, LA TL ET SUR LE WEB
Montral, jeudi 10 mars 2010 Ds aujourdhui, les internautes peuvent visionner le premier des clips des Rvlations Radio-Canada Musique, en ligne au Radio-Canada.ca/musique. Tout le mois de mars, de mme quen avril et en mai, le public pourra voir des vidos de 30 minutes issues dun spectacle donn par chacune des Rvlations dans la saison 2009-2010.


Cest MARIE-PIERRE ARTHUR qui ouvre le bal avec des extraits dun concert enregistr au Thtre Petit Champlain Qubec. Les amateurs peuvent y entendre entre autres Dposer les armes, Droit devant, Pourquoi et plusieurs autres crations de la talentueuse musicienne.


Ds demain, 11 mars, cest le groupe CHIC GAMINE qui proposera les meilleurs moments de son spectacle donn au Lion dOr Montral, suivi de GUILLAUME ARSENAULT capt lui aussi au Lion dOr partir du 18 mars. En ligne le 25 mars, les internautes pourront voir WESLI dans un montage dentrevues et de prestations enregistres lors de sa participation au Babel Med Marseille, un vnement international majeur dans le milieu des musiques du monde.


Plus tard en saison (avril et mai) seront mis en ligne le clip de la contrebassiste jazz BRANDI DISTERHEFT et ses musiciens enregistrs au Upstairs Montral, ensuite celui du groupe CHINATOWN enregistr au Cabaret du Muse Juste pour rire et celui de la harpiste VALRIE MILOT capte dans les studios de Radio-Canada.


GRAND STUDIO 12 COLLECTIF


Cette srie de vidos musicales indites sera entrecoupe la fin mars par la diffusion dun Studio 12 anim par Rebecca Makonnen qui runira toutes les Rvlations Radio-Canada Musique 2009-2010 sur le mme plateau. Ce spcial Rvlations sera diffus le 26 mars 22 h sur Espace musique (100,7 FM Montral) et rediffus le 28 mars 16 h 30. Le public pourra galement lentendre sur les ondes de la Premire Chane (95,1 FM Montral) le 27 mars minuit, la Tlvision de Radio-Canada le 28 mars 23 h ainsi que sur ARTV le 31 mars 20 h.


Pour assister lenregistrement, le 23 mars, rservez votre place marie-eve.pigeon@radio-canada.ca ou au 514-509-5579.


Ralisation-coordination : Diane Maheux


Les Rvlations Radio-Canada Musique sont une initiative de Radio-Canada ddie la relve musicale au pays, cre pour faire connatre de nouveaux artistes et soutenir les jeunes talents montants, tous genres confondus. Radio-Canada est fire du chemin parcouru par ces groupes et artistes depuis leur nomination en septembre 2009. Ne manquez pas, sur le Web, leurs nouveaux clips musicaux et, lantenne, le grand spcial de Studio 12 pour les dcouvrir, les redcouvrir et encore mieux les apprcier.


Radio-Canada.ca/musique

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MARVIN HAMLISCH EVENING | MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS | MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010

from Belarus to Broadway Celebrating MUSIC!

MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS PRESENTS GALA EVENING AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMMAY 10, 2010, 6 TO 10:30 P.M.FAMED COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, PIANISTMARVIN HAMLISCH TO BE HONORED IN EVENT FEATURING APPEARANCES BY JAZZ/CABARET SINGER JACQUI DANKWORTHAND GYPSY-KLEZMER-ROCK BAND GOLEM.



Oscar-Grammy-Emmy-Tony- award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist Marvin Hamlisch, the renowned young British jazz/cabaret singer Jacqui Dankworth, and the popular gypsy-klezmer-rock band Golem are celebrating music and the human spirit on Monday, May 10, 2010; 6 to 10:30 p.m. The event at New Yorks legendary Russian Tea Room, 150 W. 57th Street, from Belarus to Broadway Celebrating MUSIC! is a benefit for Music For All Seasons (MFAS). The evening will feature Marvin Hamlisch speaking about his life and music with interviewer/MC Nancy Shear. Jacqui Dankworth will perform her interpretations of Hamlischs music, and the music of Golem will begin and end the evening.

Proceeds from the evenings event will benefit MFAS, an organization devoted to the healing power of music. The funds raised will be used specifically for interactive musical programs for children living in shelters for victims of domestic violence in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California. These life-changing programs for children have won national recognition by, among others, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.


The evening will include a pre-dinner cocktail reception, multi-course dinner, silent auction, the discussion with Marvin Hamlisch and performances by Ms. Dankworth and Golem. Discounted tickets are available now through April 15, by calling toll-free 1.866.524.MFAS (6327) or via online purchase at http://www.musicforallseasons.org/.


Marvin Hamlischs life in music is notable for its great versatility as well as substance. As composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards; his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, received the Pulitzer Prize.He is the composer of many motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplins music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar. His prolific output of scores for films include original compositions and/or musical adaptations for Sophies Choice, Ordinary People, The Swimmer, Three Men and a Baby, Ice Castles, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Save the Tiger, and his latest effort The Informant, (Sept. 2009) starring Matt Damon, and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Marvin Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops conductor for the National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and San Diego Symphony. Mr. Hamlisch was Musical Director and arranger of Barbra Streisands 1994 concert tour of the U.S. and England as well as of the television special, Barbra Streisand: The Concert (for which he received two of his Emmys). Hamlisch is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Queens College (where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree). He believes in the power of music to bring people together. Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.


Jacqui Dankworth began her professional career as an actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She began working in musicals and quickly developed a career as a singing and recording artist in her own right. Her performances have taken her worldwide, singing jazz, the music of Gershwin, and collaborating with leading composers. Jacqui is frequently heard on BBC radio as well as hosting the BBC show Jazz Sirens with her mother, Dame Cleo Laine. Jacqui is the daughter of Dame Cleo and the late Sir John Dankworth. Dankworth will be making her only New York appearance this season at the May 10 event.


Golem is a New York City-based gypsy-klezmer-rock band performing in Yiddish, English and Slavic languages. Annette Ezekiel Kogan fronts the group with members Aaron Diskin, Alicia Jo Rabins, Curtis Hasselbring, Taylor Bergren-Chrisman, and Tim Monaghan. The band has performed to great critical acclaim throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland and Sweden.


Nancy Shear is a well-known writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. She has hosted broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, and the Frick Collection, and had her own interview program on WNYC. Her writing has appeared in major publications such as Musical America, the New York Times and Lincoln Center Stagebill, and she has authored a book on the cultural phenomenon of The Three Tenors. Her background includes positions as orchestra librarian for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Institute, and privately for Leopold Stokowski, among other major musicians of our time. She is the interviewer on the successful Conversations series presented by MFAS.


Music For All Seasons, now celebrating its 19th season, was founded in New Jersey and is now active in five states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and California. By bringing live musical performances to a wide range of institutions including childrens hospitals, retirement facilities, shelters for victims of domestic violence, juvenile detention centers, nursing homes, medical centers, halfway houses and hospices, MFAS aids the physical, mental and spiritual healing processes.


MFAS gained national recognition in its first decade partly through the advocacy of the late actor-musician Dudley Moore, founding president of MFAS Board of Advisors. The celebrated international recording artist, cellist Steven Isserlis, is active in support of the organization as current president of the MFAS Board of Advisors.


MFAS is active in the international community of Arts and Health, while conducting its own research on the beneficial effects of music in the healthcare environment. The organization brings together a wide variety of people and styles of music, provides opportunities for professional artists to serve special audiences, and creates volunteer opportunities that serve local communities.


MFAS programs are supported by The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Council, The National Endowment for the Arts, as well as numerous foundations, corporations and individual donors.

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L'lite musicale de l'UdeM au Centre Segal du 22 au 25 mars

Le Centre Segal prsente la srie

Musique UdeM Music

Airs dopra, piano, instruments cordes et combos jazzĶ



Les meilleurs tudiants de la Facult de musique de lUdeM
vous attendent au Centre Segal
du 22 au 25 mars !

Inaugure lautomne 2009, la srie Musique UdeM Musicse poursuit de plus belle au Studio du Centre Segal des arts de la scne,
du 22 au 25 mars prochains.



Tour tour, des concerts dairs dopra, de piano, dinstruments cordes et de combos jazz
enchanteront le public avide de dcouvrir les forces vives de notre relve musicale.

Du lundi 22 au jeudi 25 mars, quatre concerts classiques et jazz, prsents 20 heures,
sont au programme de cette srie de prestige.

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Daniel Turp, Martine St-Clair et Gilles Proulx prsideront le 15e RadioDon de Radio Ville-Marie les 30 avril, 1er et 2 mai prochain

Montral, 8 mars 2010 - L'animateur radio Gilles Proulx, la chanteuse Martine St-Clair et l'homme politique Daniel Turp prsideront le 15e Radio-Don de Radio Ville Marie qui se droulera les 30 avril, 1er et 2 mai prochain.



RVM, 15 ans de rendez vous

Pour son 15e anniversaire, Radio Ville Marie (CIRA-FM) organise un radio-don plac sous le signe de la gnrosit et du partage : 50 heures d'missions, 200 invits spciaux et plus de 100 bnvoles qui se relayeront pour recueillir la gnrosit des auditeurs. Pour clbrer cet anniversaire trs spcial, la station a dcid de remettre un prix hommage un grand artiste en reconnaissance pour sa contribution la culture qubcoise, son nom sera dvoil en fin d'vnement, le 1er mai. RVM joue un rle primordial sur le plan culturel. Nous tenons souligner des gens de chez nous qui nous font dcouvrir d'une manire exceptionnelle la beaut et la richesse de notre patrimoine culturel. prcise Jean-Guy Roy, le directeur gnral.

Chaque anne ce grand moment de fte permet la station radiophonique, proprit d'une socit but non lucratif, d'assurer une part importante de son dveloppement. Cette anne, sous le thme : Pour vousĶ depuis 15 ans , l'objectif est de recueillir 140 000 $.

Radio Ville Marie a russi s'imposer en tant que media spcialis et ouvert sur le monde. Avec 150 missions par semaine, une programmation contenu diversifi et une large couverture de la province, le rseau rassemble aujourd'hui 506 000 auditeurs d'aprs un sondage Lger Marketing 2010. Radio Ville-Marie dispose de 6 frquences : Montral (91.3 FM), Sherbrooke (100.3 FM), Trois-Rivires (89.9 FM), Rimouski (104.1 FM), Victoriaville (89.3 FM) et Gatineau (1350 AM) et d'une diffusion travers le monde via son site internet : http://www.radiovm.com/.

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Symphony Nova Ame Henderson, Artistic Director of Public Recordings, Brings the World Premiere of relay to Harbourfront Centres World Stage 2009-10

TORONTO, ON (Mar. 11, 2010) Harbourfront Centres World Stage 2009-10 performing arts series is thrilled to host the world premiere of Public Recordings relay at Harbourfront Centres Enwave Theatre, April 7 through April 10.

Public Recordings' Artistic Director Ame Hendersons latest piece, relay, is a collaborative choreographic experiment for seven performers and two musicians that crosses disciplines and continents. Henderson is joined by dance artists Chad Dembski, Katie Ewald, Claudia Fancello, Matija Ferlin, Mairad Filgate, Marie Claire Fort, Brendan Jensen, Barbara Pallomina; designers Trevor Schwellnus and Cathia Pagotto; and composers Eric Chenaux and Eric Craven. These exceptional artists come together to make a performance that asks important questions about the politics and possibility of togetherness. Borrowing from memories of dances past, relay recreates the concept of unison, asking how we maintain our sense of self while working together.

Hendersons unorthodox approach to dance making and movement invention confront the very traditions of dance by activating unison as an extreme gesture of togetherness, allowing for the emergence of sensational difference, connection and participation. A formal element in dance for as long as people have been dancing, she wants to confront the taboos and pleasures of watching and making movement in unison. Each evening before the performance, Henderson will be joined by a special guest for a formal discussion about her work and process.

*Media images and resources: http://media.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage/

New for World Stage 2009-10: Visit harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage to learn about Harbourfront Centres commitment to developing artists and audiences through World Stage initiatives and programmes, such as special events, artist talks and more.

relay


Ame Henderson
Public Recordings
Apr. 7 10, 8 p.m.
Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Tickets: $30

Creative Team:


Choreography: Ame Henderson
Created with and performed by: Katie Ewald, Matija Ferlin, Claudia Fancello, Marie Claire Fort, Mairad Filgate, Barbara Pallomina, Brendan Jensen, Chad Dembski
Dramaturgy: Jacob Zimmer
Music made and performed by: Eric Chenaux, Eric Craven
Set and Light: Trevor Schwellnus
Costumes: Cathia Pagotto


Complete information about performance times, single tickets, packages and the Performance Card ($15 tickets for arts workers and students, Tues. Thurs. performances only) is available through the Harbourfront Centre box office by phone at 416-973-4000, or harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage.


relay is a co-production of The CanDance Network Creation Fund, Harbourfront Centre, Recontres chorographiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Canada Dance Festival, Agora de la danse and Vancouver East Cultural Centre, and supported by Dance Sections of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.


Harbourfront Centres World Stage 2009-10 gratefully acknowledges the support of Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Westin Harbour Castle, the official hotel of World Stage.

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Musicians take to the streets to raise funds for LearnAsOne

11 March 2010: LearnAsOne,a UK-based charity dedicated to funding schools in Africa, today announces the launch of its first annual BuskAsOne, a week of busking events around the world from 19-25 April 2010. The charity is hoping to raise 22,800 to help build schools in rural Zambia.


The busk is open to any musician, singer or instrumentalist, and anyone interested in joining in with the BuskAsOne should register at www.learnasone.org/busk where they will find all the tips and guidance they need for a safe, hassle-free busk. In July, the LearnAsOne team will return to Zambia and share stories, photos and videos from the schools to show it supporters exactly how the funds they raised are spent.


The communities that LearnAsOne work with are extremely dedicated. They are happy to make tens of thousands of bricks by hand and contribute labour for free to give their children the opportunity to go to school. But they cant afford raw materials such as cement, roofing sheets and windows.

This is where the busking money comes in. 22,800 will allow LearnAsOne to fund four new buildings - two new classrooms and two teachers houses. This will secure the education of 60 children every year.


LearnAsOne have also published a step-by-step guide to help buskers join in with the event:


Choose a location and pick a date during our busk week

If its not on private land ask your local council for permission

Email busk@learnasone.organd tell us when and where you are playing

Tell the local press so you can get your photo in the paper. And try to get it filmed and upload onto YouTube too (tag it LearnAsOne)

Busk!

Once youve finished collect up the money and pay the money in online at www.justgiving.com/buskasone


Steve Heyes, Founder of LearnAsOne, says: BuskAsOne promises to not only be a vital fundraising event for these much needed projects in Zambia, but also a fun and inspiring week of musical performances. It costs 5,700 to buy the raw materials to build a classroom or a teachers house. For every new school building funded through BuskAsOne, we will offer the busker who the raises the most money the opportunity to have a school building named in their honour, which we're hoping will be music to the ears of our supporters. So what are you waiting for? Come together and BuskAsOne for a fantastic cause!


The LearnAsOne team, led by founder Steve Heyes, uses social media such as Twitter and Youtube to take its supporters on a virtual journey and meet the rural community in Zambia which needs the school, and show them exactly how they can help facilitate education in this particular community. Using its website (http://www.learnasone.org/) and Twitter, LearnAsOne regularly posts stories and photos from the community, along with a breakdown of the costs to build, equip and run the school. They also offer visitors to the website the chance to ask questions to members of the community, and let them answer in their own words.

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Viva Voce - L'vangile en musique la Renaissance

La chorale de chambre acclame de Montral fait renatre les vangiles en musique


Vendredi 26 mars, 2010


19 h 30


Salle Redpath

3461, rue McTavish, Montral - Mtro McGill
Billets disponibles la billetterie de lcole de musique Schulich au 514-398-4547

ou au rseau ADMISSION au 514-790-1245 ou en ligne au http://www.admission.com/

Rgulier : 30 $; ge dor : 25 $; tudiant : 10 $ des tarifs de groupe sont disponibles.

http://www.vivavoce-montreal.com/


Montral, 8 mars 2010 Des corps sortant de leur tombeau, des pressentiments sinistres, des confessions qui changent le cours dune vie bien que ces thmes semblent tirs tout droit dun roman de Dan Brown, ils ont captiv les pratiquants de la Renaissance. Mises en musique, ces histoires peuvent encore ensorceler un auditoire. Au dbut du XVIe sicle, le motet vanglique tait une faon importante de raconter les rcits bibliques, et les motets les plus spectaculaires comprennent des uvres de Jachet de Mantoue, Adrian Willaert, Josquin des Prez, Pierre de Manchicourt et Nicolas Gombert, les compositeurs mis en vedette lors dun spectacle donn la salle de concert Redpath Hall le vendredi 26 mars 19 h 30. Sous la direction de Peter Schubert, les douze chanteurs de VivaVoce dpeindront Jsus marchant sur leau, la Crucifixion ainsi que la rsurrection de Lazare de faon aussi vivante que les tableaux de lpoque.

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Au sujet de VivaVoce

VivaVoce se dmarque dautres chorales professionnelles canadiennes par son rpertoire vari et souvent audacieux. Sous la direction artistique de Peter Schubert, VivaVoce offre des concerts comments amusants et ducatifs dans divers genres musicaux, depuis le chant grgorien jusqu la musique du XXIe sicle. Lapproche originale adopte par ce chur lui a valu la fidlit de son auditoire ainsi quune reconnaissance dans le milieu de la musique classique. En effet, VivaVoce a reu neuf nominations dans six catgories diffrentes des Prix Opus et a remport un premier prix en 2004. De plus, son coffret de tous les Magnificats de Pierre de la Rue a remport le prix Choc du mois du journal Le Monde de la musique.

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The Shaw Festival and IATSE, Local 461 Facilities Bargaining Unit

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, March 10, 2010 Ķ The Shaw Festival announced today that it is implementing a lockout of the employees represented by IATSE, Local 461 in the Shaws Facilities Department. These are the 16 employees that provide maintenance, grounds crew and housekeeping services. The lockout is effective at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 and is limited to the Facilities Department. The employees of the Production and Audience Sales and Services departments, whose contracts expired November 30, 2008, are not included in this lockout.



The Shaw Festival applied for conciliation with the Ontario Labour Relations Board and a mediator was appointed. With the assistance of the mediator, the two parties were able to resolve outstanding issues around wages and benefits; however the unions outstanding issue concerning contracting out of work in the Facilities Department remains unresolved. The Shaw had already committed that there would be no contracting out of any work during the life of the collective agreement and provided additional protection for employees who were impacted by any layoffs in the future. This was not acceptable to the members of the bargaining unit and IATSE, Local 461.

The Shaw Festival has advised IATSE, Local 461 that it is prepared to return to the bargaining table immediately to negotiate the Production and Audience Services collective agreements. The Shaw Festival has not taken any action to lock out employees in those departments. IATSE, Local 461 continues to maintain its position that it will not negotiate the Production and Audience Sales and Services contracts until the parties have reached agreement on the Facilities Department contract.

Executive Director Colleen Blake noted: We wish this issue could be resolved at the bargaining table. To date, we have not been able to do that. Reluctantly, we have made this difficult decision.

Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell went on to say:"To be at this juncture is shocking and heartbreaking but we have no choice. We are an extraordinary theatre company because of the shared belief in the work we do and the immense spirit of collaboration with which we do it. We must hold on to this and look forward to when we come together once more, galvanized and focused on the great theatre that means so much to us all.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

EMI Classics Signs Chinese Pianist Yundi

First Release is the Complete Chopin Nocturnes
International Release: March 2010
5099960839121 (2CDs); 5099960839152 (Digital)





Yundi Li, the brilliant young Chinese pianist Ķ has proved a technically astounding pianist who is
by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white hot. (The New York Times)



EMI Classics has signed the superlative young Chinese pianist* Yundi, formerly known as Yundi Li, winner of the 14th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Appropriately, Yundis first EMI release will be the complete Chopin Nocturnes, released to commemorate the composers 200th birthday in 2010. Yundi and EMI Classics together plan to record the complete works for solo piano by Chopin.


Stephen Johns, Vice President, A&R, EMI Classics, said, "We are extremely pleased to be welcoming Yundi to the EMI Classics label. Yundi's musicianship and artistry has already captivated audiences around the world, and his desire continually to seek new challenges mirrors our own ambitions to bring great music in new and innovative ways to a wide public. We are particularly excited by Yundi's championing of the music of Chopin and in this, his anniversary year."


Since the competition that catapulted Yundi onto the international stage, his recitals and appearances with orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States have been hailed by critics extolling his precise, crystalline technique, keyboard fluidity and boundless enthusiasm. His personality and artistry appeal to audiences of all ages and he is an icon in his native China, where he has inspired millions of young people, who refer to him as the Prince of the Piano. He is equally the toast of national leaders and has been invited to perform for the Chinese Ambassador in Washington, D.C. and for the President of China, Hu Jin Tao at Government House in a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China.


Following a recital at the Salle Pleyel in 2009, the critic Grard Mannoni said, With Yundi Li, the sound is Ķ deep, radiant, warm, spacious, highlighted by a perfect use of silence, the element of language so often overlooked by musicians. An exceptional pianistic artĶ. And reviewing an earlier Liszt/Chopin recording, The Times wrote, You can tell [he] has something beyond the dazzle of any new star. The secret? Partly Ķ its his sense of flow. ĶThe other key component is the mastery won over his own finger power. ĶYundi Li already knows how to be subtle even when loud. And when hes restrained he glows with banked fires. Ķ Yundi Li is never reckless; theres always an artist in firm control, sculpting both tone and phrasing.


Yundi hails from Chongqing in the Peoples Republic of China, where he first learned to play the accordion and won first prize in a competition at the age of five. He switched to the piano at seven and subsequently studied with Dan Zhao Yi, one of Chinas most renowned piano teachers.


Yundi has performed with most of the major orchestras in North America, Europe, Russia, Israel and the Far East with conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Riccardo Chailly and Yuri Temirkanov. He has received particular distinction for his interpretations of concertos by Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. His recitals throughout North America, including New Yorks Carnegie Hall; England, including Londons Queen Elizabeth Hall; France, including Pariss Thtre du Chtelet and Salle Pleyel; the Salzburg Festival; Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg and across Asia, have touched audiences and critics alike.


Yundis association with EMI Classics and a move to new management are expressions of his ongoing commitment to performing at the top of his profession, using all means at his disposal to reach new audiences.


During 2010, his concerts include a Chopin Birthday Concert in Warsaw on March 1, recitals in Hong Kong, Beirut, Eindhoven, London (Royal Festival Hall), Dortmund, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Porto, Abu Dhabi, New York (Carnegie Hall), Paris, Frankfurt, Munich and Milan. Concerto engagements include dates with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra / Yannick Nzet-Sguin, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.


A video clip of Yundi performing Chopins Nocturne No. 2 from the new album is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLzYwT9YT-c



Deeply thoughtful and formidably virtuosic, he makes light work of [the concertos]
nightmarish technical demands. Ķ The colossal first movements combined development and cadenza is played with an authority that will make lesser mortals pale with envy and admiration.



(* Gramophone)


'Li's performances are characterized by a striking degree of finesse and tonal shading,
demonstrating a poetic sensibility rare in so youthful a musician. His bravura is equally imposing (Miami Herald)



YUNDI


Chopin: Complete Nocturnes
Release date: March 30, 2010
Order cut off: March 11, 2010


50999 6 08391 2 1
F233 08391 $14.99
2 CDs full price


CROSSOVER CLASSICS (domestic release)
EMI Classics


Yundi Li, the brilliant young Chinese pianist Ķ has proved a technically astounding pianist who is by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white hot. (The New York Times)


Label debut of 25-year old Chinese pianist Yundi (formerly known as Yundi Li) who is devoting his career almost exclusively to Chopin. Yundis first EMI release is the complete Chopin Nocturnes, released to commemorate the composers 200th birthday this year.


In 2000, Yundi was the youngest-ever winner of the 14th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.


His next EMI Classics CD release is being planned for September 2010 and there are plans to record all of the composers solo works for piano with Yundi.


Yundi is performing with Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the TSO on June 10th & 12th

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Montral Prem1re : Lancement d'une Campagne Clbrant le Talent Innovateur Montralais

English to follow.

Montral, le 10 mars 2010 - La Chambre de commerce du Montral mtropolitain et ses cinq commanditaires piliers - Astral Media, Bell Canada, Hydro-Qubec, le Mouvement des caisses Desjardins et Rio Tinto Alcan - sont fiers de lancer aujourd'hui une nouvelle campagne pour reconnatre le talent innovateur montralais.

Sous le thme MONTRAL PREM1RE, cette campagne met en vedette des innovations nes dans la mtropole. Les messages - qui font entre autres rfrence au simulateur de vol de CAE, au vlo en libre-service BIXI et au Biodme - seront affichs au cours des prochains mois sur des colonnes de rue et des superpanneaux de l'le de Montral ainsi qu' l'intrieur de l'Aroport Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau. La campagne comprend galement un microsite de mme qu'une offensive radio prvue ce printemps.

  La campagne MONTRAL PREM1RE rend hommage l'innovation et la crativit de nos entreprises. Toutes sont des exemples concrets de russite qui, grce leur gnie et leur talent, contribuent au rayonnement et au succs de notre mtropole. Nous voulons exprimer notre fiert en clbrant nos crateurs d'affaires et notre mtropole, terreau propice la naissance de ces innovations , a dclar le prsident et chef de la direction de la Chambre de commerce du Montral mtropolitain, Michel Leblanc.

  Nous saluons la collaboration de nos commanditaires piliers, ces entreprises phares de notre conomie qui ont coeur le rayonnement de Montral. Elles se sont toutes engages avec la Chambre faire une diffrence en suscitant un grand mouvement de fiert associ au dynamisme de la mtropole. La campagne MONTRAL PREM1RE est le fruit de cette association , a conclu Michel Leblanc.

 Les six excutions qui pourront tre aperues travers l'le de Montral et sur le microsite de la campagne :



-Prem1re mtropole o l'on cre un simulateur de vol pour le plus gros avion au monde
-Prem1re mtropole o les stations de vlos en libre-service fonctionnent l'nergie solaire
-Prem1re mtropole o un muse vivant runit 4 climats sous un mme toit
-Prem1re mtropole o l'on multiplie les cellules souches en laboratoire
-Prem1re mtropole o l'on fait voyager un microdispositif dans les vaisseaux sanguins
-Prem1re mtropole o l'on prsente un film immersif dans une sphre gante


  propos de la Chambre de commerce du Montral mtropolitain
 

La Chambre de commerce du Montral mtropolitain compte quelque 7 000 membres. Sa mission est de reprsenter les intrts de la communaut des affaires de l'agglomration urbaine de Montral et d'offrir une gamme intgre de services spcialiss aux individus, aux commerants et aux entreprises de toutes tailles de faon les appuyer dans la ralisation de leur plein potentiel en matire d'innovation, de productivit et de comptitivit. La Chambre est le plus important organisme priv au Qubec vou au dveloppement conomique.



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MONTRAL F1RST:

A new campaign celebrates Montral's innovative talent

Montral, March 10, 2010 - The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and its five pillar sponsors-Astral Media, Bell Canada, Hydro-Qubec, Desjardins Group, and Rio Tinto Alcan-are proud to launch a new campaign today to recognize Montral's innovative talent.

With the theme MONTRAL F1RST, this campaign shines a spotlight on innovations born in our metropolis. The messages-which make reference to a CAE flight simulator, the BIXI self-service bike system, and the Biodme, among others-will appear over the coming months on street columns and superboards on the Island of Montral, as well as in Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Airport. The campaign also includes a microsite as well as radio spots scheduled to air this spring.


"The MONTRAL F1RST campaign pays tribute to the innovation and creativity of our businesses. All are concrete examples of success, which-through their talent-contribute to the reputation and success of our metropolis. We want to express our pride by honouring those that have mastered the art of business, and by celebrating our metropolis, a fertile breeding ground for these innovations," stated the President and CEO of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, Michel Leblanc.
"We welcome the collaboration of our pillar sponsors, leading companies in our economy that care deeply about Montral's reach and reputation. They are all committed, along with the Board of Trade, to making a difference by giving rise to a great movement of pride associated with the city's vitality. The MONTRAL F1RST campaign is the result of this association," concluded Michel Leblanc.



The six accomplishments to be featured across the Island of Montral and on the campaign microsite:



-F1rst metropolis to develop a flight simulator for the world's largest airplane
-F1rst metropolis to have solar-powered self-service bike stations
-F1rst metropolis to have a living museum that brings together 4 climates under one roof
-F1rst metropolis to multiply stem cells in the laboratory
-F1rst metropolis to send a micro-device through the blood vessels
-F1rst metropolis to present an immersive film in a giant sphere



About the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal



The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal has some 7,000 members. Its mission is to represent the interests of the business community of Greater Montreal and to provide individuals, merchants, and local businesses of all sizes with a variety of specialized services to help them achieve their full potential in terms of innovation, productivity and competitiveness. The Board of Trade is Qubec's leading private economic development organization.


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Stowe Welcomes Alondra de la Parra, Music Director, and Philharmonic Orchestra Of The Americas To Summer Home

International Award-Winning Classical Guitarist
Pablo Sinz Villegas Headlines
Music Festival of the Americas at Stowe

Stowe, VT (March 3, 2010) --- The Music Festival of the Americas at Stowe returns in August with a schedule of outstanding events and dynamic guests from the world of opera and classical music. Twenty-nine year old conductor Alondra de la Parra returns to direct the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas in their summer home and will be joined by award-winning Spanish classical guitarist Pablo Sinz Villegas, opera stars from Placido Domingos Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program and Ben Capps, the orchestras principal cellist.

Ms. de la Parra, founder of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, and her New York City-based orchestra recently finished their second international tour, and over the past year have shared stages with Patti Labelle, Jose Feliciano, Carlos Santana, Gloria Estefan, John Legend and actor Geoffrey Rush. Ms. de la Parra and the POA recently completed a Sony Classical 2-CD recording celebrating Mexicos Bicentennial and featuring master works by Mexican composers.

The Music Festival of the Americas will expand to four days, August 18-21, and performances take place at 8:00 pm at Symphony Court, Topnotch Resort & Spa in Stowe, Vermont. Tickets are available by calling 802.760.6797 or online.

On Wednesday, August 18, Ms. de la Parra will conduct the POA Chamber Orchestra and delight the audience with Conducting 101.

Thursday, August 19th, she will conduct the full orchestra and be joined by opera stars from Placido Domingos Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. Jennifer Lynn Waters, who moved audiences last year with exceptional arias and duets from Puccini, Verdi and Bizet, will be joined this summer by Ukrainian baritone Oleksandr Pushniak.

 
On Friday, August 20th, the orchestra will accompany Spanish classical guitarist Pablo Sinz Villegas as he performs Mexican composer Manuel Ponces Concierto del Sur. Mr. Sinz Villegas is renowned as The Soul of the Spanish Guitar and the recipient of more than thirty international awards, including the Andrs Segovia Award. Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas own principal cellist, Ben Capps, will be featured soloist for Schumanns Cello Concerto. The evening will end with Dvoraks Symphony No. 8.

 The grand finale on Saturday, August 21st heats up the rhythms as Anything Goes! a night of diverse musical styles, dancing and festivities. Rum and tequila, caipirinhas and mojitos! Finally, a chance to kick off your shoes and samba, cha-cha, salsa, merengue - you name it. The orchestra membersall under the age of 35, and from twenty different countriesabandon their classical chops and go to the dark side of Latin, rock, Rhythm & Bluesanything goes! With special guest appearance by Latin recording star Mane de la Parra. As part of its mission to cultivate a life-long love of music, the Music Festival of the Americas at Stowe will donate twenty-five percent of the admission revenue from Saturdays Anything Goes! to the Stowe schools music programs.

The Music Festival of the Americas at Stowe is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation, presenting premier international virtuosos and rising young talent from both the classical and world-music genres, and celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Americas Stowe is the summer home of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, which, under the baton of music director and orchestra founder Alondra de la Parra, brings unsurpassed music to the Green Mountains of Vermont.

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Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc. releases Juno Awards 2010 nominee compilation album

In Stores March 30, 2010



TORONTO, March 10 /CNW/ - SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT CANADA INC. is honoured to release the JUNO Awards 2010 nominee compilation album, in stores on March 30, 2010. The project is a joint venture between Canada's four major labels (EMI Music Canada Inc., Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., Universal Canada and Warner Music Canada) and The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS).


The JUNO Awards 2010 nominee compilation album is a non-profit package with proceeds going to MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with CARAS. MusiCounts is dedicated to keeping music alive in schools through Band Aid musical instrument grants, scholarships and by honouring extraordinary music teachers. Since 2003 the annual JUNO Awards nominee compilation albums have sold close to a quarter of a million copies in Canada.


SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT CANADA INC President Shane Carter commented: "We are delighted to be releasing the JUNO Awards 2010 compilation album reflecting the great spectrum of Canadian talent, particularly the new crop of artists showcased beside internationally renowned names. The selections on the CD celebrate some of the most diverse music of the past year, honouring our established musicians, while encouraging the next generation of stars to shine."


Track Listing -------------
1 Michael Bubl Haven't Met You Yet
2 K'Naan Wavin' Flag
3 Nickelback Burn It To The Ground
4 Three Days Grace Break
5 Billy Talent Rusted From The Rain
6 Arkells Oh, The Boss Is Coming!
7 Metric Gimme Sympathy
8 The New Cities Dead End Countdown
9 Hedley Cha-Ching
10 Classified Anybody Listening
11 Justin Bieber One Time
12 Down With Webster Rich Girl$
13 Drake Best I Ever Had
14 Stereos Summer Girl
15 Shiloh Operator (A Girl Like Me)
16 The Tragically Hip Love Is A First
17 Jann Arden A Million Miles Away
18 Blue Rodeo Arizona Dust
19 Johnny Reid A Woman Like You
20 Diana Krall Walk On By

Since CTV joined forces with CARAS in 2002, THE JUNO AWARDS has been broadcast from St. John's (2002), Ottawa (2003), Edmonton (2004), Winnipeg (2005), Halifax (2006), Saskatoon (2007), Calgary (2008) and Vancouver (2009). In March 2009, 1.23 million Canadians watched Russell Peters host for the second time for THE 2009 JUNO AWARDS from Vancouver on CTV. Peters first hosted in 2008. Previous hosts of THE JUNO AWARDS include Nelly Furtado (2007), Pamela Anderson (2006), Brent Butt (2005), Alanis Morissette (2004), Shania Twain (2003) and Barenaked Ladies (2002).


Sponsors of the 2010 JUNO Awards include FACTOR, Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters and the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage's "Canada Music Fund", with commitments from The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the City of St. John's and Radio Starmaker Fund.


Sponsors of THE 2010 JUNO AWARDS broadcast on CTV are Chevrolet, Garnier, Pepsi and Rogers


About CARAS:


The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences/L'acadmie 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 39th Annual JUNO Awards or The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), please visit our websites at http://www.carasonline.ca/ and http://www.junoawards.ca/.


About CTV:


CTV, Canada's Olympic Network, is also Canada's largest private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV is Canada's most-watched television network. CTV Inc. also owns radio stations across the country and owns or has interests in leading national specialty channels, featuring news, sports, factual, arts, entertainment, music, youth and fashion programming. CTV Inc. is owned by CTVglobemedia Inc. Canada's premier multi-media company, which also owns Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. CTV is the official broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and London 2012 Games of the Olympiad. More information about CTV may be found on the network's website at http://www.ctv.ca./


About MusiCounts


MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, is helping to keep music alive in schools across Canada. MusiCounts' mission is to ensure that children in Canada have access to a comprehensive music program through their school. MusiCounts includes Band Aid musical instrument grants, the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award, Scholarships and other music education initiatives. MusiCounts is supported by various initiatives such as the JUNO Award nominee compilation CD; annual contributions by CTVglobemedia; EMI Music Canada Inc.; Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.; Universal Music Canada and Warner Music Canada Ltd.; as well as Songwriters' Circle sponsored by CMPA and SOCAN; Juno Cup sponsored by The Keg Steakhouse and Bar; and individual and corporate contributions, including Astral Media, The Keg Spirit Foundation, Rogers Broadcasting Ltd., and SIRIUS Canada Inc. Since the Program's establishment in 1997, over 3.5 million dollars has been donated impacting 214 post secondary music program graduates and over 250,000 individual students, their schools and communities, from coast to coast. MusiCounts has also honoured five extraordinary music teachers through the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award. For more information, please visit: http://www.musicounts.ca/


About Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.


Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc. a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. It is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre, including American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Aware, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, Black Seal, BNA Records, Cinematic, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, Fo-Yo Soul, GospoCentric, Hitz Committee Entertainment, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, Masterworks, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Slightly Dangerous, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Records, and Volcano Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.


Web Links:


The JUNO Awards: http://www.junoawards.ca/


MusiCounts: http://www.musicounts.ca/ /http://www.musicompte.ca/


CD Artwork: http://filevault.sbmg.ca/filevault.cgi?key=JfAXpdyq

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Prix Jean-Marie-Benoit : un premier laurat !

Flicitations Benjamin Martinez !

La premire attribution du Prix Jean-Marie-Benot,
qui sest droule la Cinmathque qubcoise, le vendredi 5 mars,
a permis de remettre une bourse de 2 000 $ au laurat Benjamin Martinez,
tudiant au programme de matrise en composition de la
Facult de musique de lUniversit de Montral.

Lanc en septembre 2009, par la Socit professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Qubec (SPACQ)
et la Succession Jean-Marie-Benot, le Prix JeanMarie-Benot
rcompense la qualit du travail accompli par un tudiant inscrit au
programme de composition Musiques de film et multimdia offert la Facult de musique.

Vous trouverez, en pice jointe,
le communiqu de presse dtaill
consacr la remise de ce prix.

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Marie-Jose Poulin Big Band

Le Marie-Jose Poulin Big Band jouera en concert le :
 
        Date :  Samedi 10 avril 2010 
        Lieu :  Auditorium de la Polyvalente C.A.Racicot
                    940 Boul. Normandie
                    St-Jean-sur-Richelieu  
** Ouverture des portes et rptition 13h.  Concert 15h30.
 
Admission adulte :   15 $
Enfants 12 ans et moins :  6 $
 
Des billets seront en vente  la porte le jour de lactivit, tant quil y en aura. 
Bienvenue  tous!
 
Marie-Jose Poulin
Directrice artistique
450. 515. 1676
info@mariejoseepoulin.ca

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Effendi - Nouvel album pour Joe Sullivan

SORTIE EN MAGASIN DU NOUVEL ALBUM DE
JOE SULLIVAN SEXTET  VOICES ds le 16 mars

 Montral, 10 mars 2010 Le label montralais Effendi Records est fier de prsenter le nouvel album du trompettiste Joe Sullivan, intitul  Voices .

Disponible en magasin, sur les plateformes de tlchargement (Itunes, Zik.ca, Emuzic), et sur le site internet www.effendirecords.com ds le mardi 16 mars 2010 (Distribution Select).

Joe Sullivan prsente son troisime album en sextet, une runion entre vieux amis habitus jouer ensemble depuis de longues annes. Avec ses complices musicaux dans lme, Andr Leroux et Jean Frchette, qui apportent leur touche personnelle, enrichissant encore les compositions du trompettiste, Joe Sullivan nous propose un mlange de pices composes ces dernires annes, sans prtentions, visant tout simplement le plaisir de jouer et dcouter un bon jazz dici qui ravira les habitus.

 VOICES (FND098)
Joe Sullivan trompette
Andr Leroux saxophone
Jean Frchette -  saxophone
Andr White piano
Alec Walkington contrebasse
Dave Laing batterie

Info lancement
Vendredi 12 mars
5@7 au Diable A 4 (Quatre)
1871 rue Centre (coin Shearer)
Montreal, QC, H3K 1J1
(514) 933-4313

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Edmonton Opera 10-11: Paris - Rome - Barrhead

Edmonton is a city that inspires opera, and, in celebration of this, Edmonton Opera launches a season to delight and thrill Edmontonians in 2010-2011. The mystery and romance of Paris come alive with Puccinis La Bohme; sharp silliness abounds with shipwrecks, sultans and stranded sopranos in Mozarts Abduction from the Seraglio; love and revenge mingle with power and beauty in Puccinis Tosca; and Rossini is revised and relocated to the Alberta Klondike with Barber of Barrhead.
Edmonton Opera 2010-2011 season subscriptions are on sale now via the companys box office, call 780-429-1000 or visit www.edmontonopera.com for details. The deadline to renew current subscriptions is May 15, 2010. Single tickets for 2010-2011 performances go on sale September 15, 2010.
Puccini - La Bohme
October 23, 26, 28, 2010 7:30pm
The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Everyone has experienced the hope and loss of first love, and Puccini takes this universal experience to new heights with the perennial favourite, La Bohme. In the gritty world of Parisian ghettos, Rodolfo, a young poet, has his life turned upside-down by his passionate love for the fragile and doomed seamstress, Mimi.
Mimi Laura Whalen
Rodolfo Eric Fennell
Musetta Alison Angelo
Marcello tienne Dupuis
Colline Jon-Paul Dcosse
Schaunard Benjamin Covey
Benoit / Alcindoro Doug MacNaughton
Conductor Steven Osgood
Director Brian Deedrick

Edmonton Opera Chorus
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio
February 5, 8, 10, 2011 7:30pm
The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sung in German with English supertitles
Edmontonians know a little laughter lights up a cold, dark February night, and Mozarts musical wit warms opera audiences with the comic romance The Abduction from the Seraglio. Young Belmonte journeys to the exotic East to rescue his beloved Konstanze, whos been imprisoned by an amorous Pasha, and madness ensues as the lovers battle to outwit a bumbling and jealous vizier.
Kostanze -- Charlotte Corwin
Belmonte Colin Ainsworth
Blonde Carla Huhtanen
Pedrillo -- Lawrence Wiliford
Osmin Dean Elzinga
Pasha Selim David McNally

Conductor Peter Dala
Director Michael Cavanagh

Edmonton Opera Chorus
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Rossini revised! The Barber of Barrhead
February 15 - 26, 2011 - various times
The TransAlta Arts Barns Westbury Theatre
Sung in English with English dialogue
A collaboration between Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures takes family fun from Seville, Spain and into the Alberta Klondike for The Barber of Barrhead. Prospectors seek and lose their fortunes during the Gold Rush, as Figaro, a barber and jack-of-all-trades, endeavours to unite the young Al with his love Rosie, despite the dastardly innkeeper Barts devious dealings.
Rosie Dionne Sellinger
Al Rob Clark
Figaro John Conlon
Bart Joel Klein
Director/ Adapter Ann Hodges

Puccini Tosca
April 9, 12, 14 2011 7:30pm
The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
A tale of desperate choices embroiled in art and politics concludes the 2010-2011 season with Tosca, Puccinis darkest and most powerful masterpiece. Tosca, a fiery and passionate diva, struggles over whether to surrender to Romes brutal Chief of Police to save the man she loves.
Tosca Yannick-Muriel Noah
Cavaradossi Robert Breault
Scarpia Nathan Berg
Angelotti/Sciaronne Tom Goerz
Sacristan/ Jailer Alexandre Sylvestre
Spoletta Keith Klassen
Conductor Robert Tweten
Director Robert Herriot

Edmonton Opera Chorus
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
For more information about Edmonton Operas productions and programs, to view its season launch video featuring Artistic Director Brian Deedrick or to download a subscription form, please visit www.edmontonopera.com.  

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NUĶ un spectacle qui dvoile sans dvtir!

la Maison des arts dans le cadre du Mois de la danse 2010
 
Laval, le 9 mars 2010 NU est prsent en ouverture du 4e Mois de la danse de la Maison des arts de Laval le 25 mars prochain. En effet, du 25 mars au 24 avril, la danse reprend possession de la scne de ce lieu culturel en prsentant une programmation exceptionnelle regroupant les forces vives de la danse dici et dailleurs. 
NU
Malgr ce que peut voquer le titre de ce spectacle, cest lme des personnages qui est ici mise nu. En effet, la trame chorgraphique sattarde la sensibilit qui se cache sous la faade de chaque individu. Le chorgraphe, Harold Rhaume de la compagnie Le fils dAdrien danse, russit djouer le mythe de limpntrabilit de la danse contemporaine. Il le fait dailleurs avec brio, sans pour autant lsiner sur la complexit du mouvement par une gestuelle qui respire la sensibilit. Avec Nu, il arrive ainsi nous en mettre plein la vue et plein le cur! 
Le Mois de la danse
Instaur en avril 2007, le Mois de la danse propose des rencontres et des spectacles qui mettent en valeur cette discipline artistique qui transcende les frontires des cultures et des langues. Dcouvrez la programmation complte du Mois de la danse de la Maison des arts en vous procurant le dpliant promotionnel ou en visitant le portail Internet de la Ville de Laval au www.ville.laval.qc.ca, sous longlet Culture.
 
NU :  25 mars 2010 20 h, la Maison des arts de Laval
    Tarif : 24 $ (prix tudiants ou de groupes disponibles)
     Rservation :
   450 667-2040 
Your browser may not support display of this image.  450 662-4440 www.ville.laval.qc.ca 

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Portland Symphony Orchestra Unveils 2010-11 Season

Great Works, Familiar and Contemporary Composers, Guest Artists and Collaborations

PORTLAND, Maine The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its 86-year tradition of presenting the best in live orchestral music in Maine with a 2010-11 season focused on programming that is attractive and engaging for audiences of all ages. The PSOs commitment to internationally renowned artists, great composers, familiar works and the classics of the future is evident through Moodys selection of works for the 2010-11 season, which includes two PSO-commissioned premieres, six works by living composers, and collaborations with local organizations including the Choral Art Society, Suzuki Institute of Maine, and the University of Southern Maine, among others.

The season opens with two performances of a Season Opening Celebration on Sunday, October 3 and Tuesday, October 5 with a riveting program of Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and bassist Edgar Meyer performing concertos by Bottesini and of his own composition. The PSO Pops! season is a series of tributes, two to distinctive genres (Celtic fiddler Eileen Ivers with Immigrant Soul, The Golden Age of Motown), and two to iconic artists (Simply Sinatra and Elvis Lives!). The season will conclude with two performances of Daphnis and Chlo on Sunday, May 1 and Tuesday, May 3. 

For the 2010-11 subscription season, the Sunday Classical series expands to five concerts, featuring a mix of chamber orchestra and full orchestral works, with two of the programs performed on Tuesdays as well. The Tuesday Classical series comprises six concerts, while PSO Pops! has two performances each of four programs, for a season total of 19 performances of 13 programs (not including Magic of Christmas, 11 performances December 10-19). A Classical Complete subscription package includes all six Tuesday concerts plus the three additional Sunday Classical concerts.

Premieres include the commissioned works Travels in Time for Three (PSO co-commission, Maine premiere) and local composer Elliott Schwartzs Diamond Jubilee (PSO commission, world premiere), as well as the Maine premiere of Beatleset by Peter Schickele (also known as his alter ego P.D.Q. Bach). Among the many guest artists joining the PSO for the upcoming season are bassist Edgar Meyer, Celtic fiddle sensation Eileen Ivers, the category-shattering ensemble Time for Three, pianist Andrew von Oeyen, and tenor John McVeigh. Featured orchestral works in the 2010-11 season include Gustav Holsts monumental The Planets, Leonard Bernsteins Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, The Passion According to St. John by J.S. Bach, and the impressionist masterpiece La Mer by Claude Debussy.

Music Director Robert Moody, who recently extended his agreement with the PSO through the 2015-16 season, continues to champion great music and artists while blurring the lines between classical, popular music, the classics of the future and other genres. This season will feature an expansion of ways for audience members to connect with Maestro Moody and the PSOs musicians directly through Concert Conversations, post-performance gatherings and social media. 

Board of Trustees President Gordon Gayer said, With Maestro Moody signed on for another five years, and having regained our financial footing, the PSO is ready to move into new territory.  We will always give great performances of classical works from the repertoire.  But our audiences can also look forward to new programming that is inter-disciplinary and collaborative, and always rewarding.

Moody spoke with excitement of the upcoming season: I am so very proud of the artistic accomplishments we've made in my first two seasons as Music Director.  The 2010-11 season, the orchestra's 86th and my third, contains incredibly exciting programming, tremendous guest artists, celebrations of new music and living composers, and an orchestra playing masterworks at the highest possible level, in addition to the continued surprises we have in store for our audiences.  These will be 'not-to-miss' concerts!

Executive Director Ari Solotoff added, The Portland Symphony continues to explore innovations which improve both the bottom line and artistic quality.  Building an additional Sunday Classical program into the season satisfies the need to be fiscally responsible, while giving Robert and our outstanding musicians additional opportunities to share the music.

The PSOs 2010-11  season is sponsored by IDEXX Laboratories and (new sponsor) Wright Express.

Pricing and ticket information is available through portlandsymphony.com or by calling PortTIX at 207-842-0800. Special pricing may be available for subscribers, students, seniors and groups of 10 or more.

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The Portland Symphony Orchestra 2010-11  Season at a Glance
Programs and artists subject to change.

Season Opening Celebration
Tuesday Classical: October 3, 2010 at 7:30pm
Sunday Classical: October 5, 2010 at 2:30pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Edgar Meyer, bass
Ģ    Richard Strauss - Don Juan
Ģ    Giovanni Bottesini - Concerto No. 2
Ģ    Edgar Meyer -  Concerto No. 1
Ģ    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -   Symphony No. 4 Į
Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Bla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Alison Krauss

PSO Pops! Eileen Ivers with Immigrant Soul
Saturday October 9, 2010 7:30 pm
Sunday October 10, 2010 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Eileen Ivers, guest artist

Eileen Ivers is a major presence on both the traditional Irish and contemporary world music scenes. The Celtic fiddle sensation joins the PSO for a show thats full of energy and inspiration. Sponsored by LL Bean.

Tuesday Classical The Planets
Tuesday November 9, 2010 7:30 pmĮ
Robert Moody, conductor
USM Chamber Choir
Ģ    John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Ģ    John Williams Suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Ģ    Gustav Holst The Planets

PSO Pops! Simply Sinatra
Saturday November 13, 2010 7:30 pm
Sunday November 14, 2010 2:30 pm
Steve Lippia, guest artist

Steve Lippias interpretations of the Sinatra songbook have been acclaimed from coast to coast. This powerful show celebrates the timeless talent of Ol Blue Eyes. Sponsored by Holiday Inn and New England Coffee.

Sunday Classical Time for Three
Sunday November 21, 2010 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Time for Three, guest ensemble
Ģ    Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses
Ģ    Chris Brubeck Travels in Time for Three (PSO co-commission, Maine premiere)
Ģ    Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own.

Magic of Christmas
December 10-19, 2010
Robert Moody, conductor
Joe Cassidy, guest artist
Portland Community Chorus
Figures of Speech Puppet Theater

The family holiday tradition returns with last years acclaimed rendition of Christmas Carol with the addition of new puppets, and beloved traditions both old and new. Sponsored by Hannaford Supermarkets, IDEXX Laboratories, Northeast Delta Dental.

Tuesday Classical From Russia With Love
Tuesday January 25, 2011 7:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Andrew von Oeyen, piano
Ģ    Elliott Schwartz Diamond Jubilee (PSO commission in honor of the composers 75th birthday, world premiere)
Ģ    Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Ģ    Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Since his debut at age 16 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mr. von Oeyen has performed to critical acclaim in recital and orchestral appearances around the world.

Sunday Classical Bachs St. John PassionĮ
Sunday January 31, 2011 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Choral Art Society, Robert Russell, director
Kendra Smith, soprano; Mezzo-soprano to be announced; John Aler, tenor; Laurence Albert, bass
Ģ       Johann Sebastian Bach Passion According to St. John

One of the most vivid and important works of the Baroque era, this work is extravagant and as dramatic as the most dynamic operas of the period.

PSO Pops! The Golden Age of Motown
Saturday February 12, 2011 7:30 pm
Sunday February 13, 2011 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Joy Lynn Matthews, Tituss Burgess, guest vocalists

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Motown record label, this musical celebration is steeped in good old-fashioned soul and rhythm & blues.

Tuesday Classical Preu Conducts Bruckner
Tuesday March 8, 2011 7:30 pm
Eckart Preu, guest conductor
Ģ    Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Ģ    Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Romantic

Eckart Preu is the Music director of the Spokane and Stamford (CT) Symphonies. Born in East Germany, The New York Times has called him a fiery conductor with a kinetic style.

Sunday Classical The Three Bs: Brahms, Britten and The Beatles
Sunday March 20, 2011 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
John McVeigh, tenor
Ģ    Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Ģ    Benjamin Britten Nocturne Op. 60
Ģ    Peter Schickele Beatleset
Ģ    Benjamin Britten Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra

A fresh new take on three Bs, composers who have had impact on their eras as Bach Beethoven and Brahms (the original three Bs) did on theirs.

Tuesday Classical Seasons and the Sea
Tuesday April 5, 2011 7:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Corine Brouwer, violin
Ģ    Felix Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Ģ    Astor Piazzola Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Ģ    Claude Debussy La Mer

Corine Brouwer is the concertmistress of Roberts other orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony.

PSO Pops! Elvis Lives!
Saturday, April 9, 2011 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 10, 2011 2:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Elvis Wade, guest artist

A tribute to The King of Rock and Roll, Nashvilles Elvis Wade is not just another impersonator, hes as close to the real thing as it gets.

Daphnis and Chlo
Sunday Classical: May 1 2:30 pm
Tuesday Classical: May 3 7:30 pm
Robert Moody, conductor
Janet Polk, bassoon (PSO principal)
Ģ    Richard Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Ģ    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bassoon Concerto
Ģ    Maurice Ravel Daphnis and Chlo Į Į Į ĮĮĮĮ

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

L'ONF lance le documentaire web cologie sonore - une balade multimdia unique!!!

Un documentaire Web sur la pollution sonore et notre incapacit soutenir le silence
ECOLOGIESONORE.ONF.CA

Montral, le 10 mars 2010 cologie sonore est le nouveau projet de documentaire Web conu et produit lOffice national du film du Canada (ONF) par Hugues Sweeney, avec Nicolas Saint-Cyr la ralisation et la direction artistique en collaboration avec lagence Toxa. Lanc en primeur la Socit des arts technologiques (SAT) le mercredi 10 mars 18 h, ce documentaire innovateur propose de naviguer travers quatre paysages sonores : VILLE ds le 11 mars, BANLIEUE le 15 avril, NATURE le 15 mai et ERMITAGE le 15 juin. Ce projet interactif est une nouvelle illustration du virage numrique de lONF.

Le bruit excessif, la densification des milieux urbains, les environnements sonores personnaliss et transportablesĶ nous vivons dans un monde de plus en plus bruyant. cologie sonore est une investigation interactive de notre environnement sonore menant une sensibilisation et une prise de conscience de celui-ci. Ce projet stimule limaginaire et met profit les plus rcentes technologies de production numrique pour mettre le son de lavant sur le Web. Elle offre ainsi un mdia indit pour souligner limportance de la pollution sonore et la met en perspective, dans une rflexion plus large sur notre rapport aux sons et au silence.

Les quatre paysages sonores terme du compositeur et environnementaliste canadien R. Murray Schafer constituent une exprience immersive unique, une balade multimdia ludique. Ils comprennent une quinzaine de portraits vido dAlexandra Guit prsentant divers protagonistes dans leur rapport aux sons, des environnements sonores crs par le multi-instrumentiste Freeworm (Vincent Letellier) et des pistes de rflexion labores par Mathieu Rgnier, recherchiste et consultant en environnement. Le tout cre de vritables parcours voluant et se modifiant au gr des choix de linternaute, formant une exprience en soi, un vritable change entre luvre et le public.

Quatre paysages sonores lancs en quatre temps

La ville en ligne le jeudi 11 mars

Cest le territoire sonore la fois le plus polluant posant la question de la sant publique et le plus vivant, grce toute la diversit des activits humaines. La ville est entendue partir de la musique dascenseur, des tlphones cellulaires, de la circulation, des chantiers de construction, des parcs et des systmes dalarme de voitures. Quatre courts mtrages prsentent des personnes fascinantes : laudiologiste Tony Leroux est passionn par les rpercussions du bruit sur les gens. Son travail peut lamener dans une mme journe vivre les extrmes, de la pollution sonore au silence le plus profond dune chambre anchoque. Nathalie Chartrand, prsidente de lAssociation sportive des aveugles du Qubec, est non voyante. Les sons lui sont essentiels et la portent travers ses parcours dans la ville. Max Stein, tudiant en musique lectroacoustique, est un amoureux de la trame sonore urbaine. Il organise des promenades sonores pour simprgner des ambiances afin de mieux entendre son environnement Ķ et sa ville. La colore Lili Jett na pas la langue dans sa poche. Elle vit sous lchangeur Turcot. Pour elle, le bruit a un sens tout fait singulier : O y a pas de bruit y a pas de vie!

La banlieue en ligne le 15 avril

Entre la campagne et la ville, la banlieue est un territoire sonore qui nous en dit beaucoup sur ceux que lon ctoie, posant la question de la cohabitation. Elle est entendue partir des thermopompes, des corridors ariens, des voitures modifies et des outils moteur domestiques. Les courts mtrages nous font rencontrer un preneur de son, un col bleu sourd ainsi quun fanatique de voitures modifies.

La nature en ligne le 15 mai

Mme en pleine nature, il est de plus en plus rare de se sentir seul, et cette sollicitation sonore a impact direct sur les cosystmes. La nature est entendue partir des ours, des arbres qui tombent dans la fort, de la reproduction des grenouilles, des motoneiges, des feux de camp et du bruit de la pluie sur les toitures daluminium. Des courts mtrages nous font faire connaissance avec un gardien de parc, des fermiers ainsi que des rsidents qui subissent un festival de motoneigistes.

Un ermitage en ligne le 15 juin

Lespace sonore, cest aussi lespace mental, et certains choisissent le retrait volontaire du tumulte de la socit. Do vient cette incapacit croissante soutenir le silence, tre seul, composer avec le vide? Comment lier cette ncessit de se sentir libres et ce dsir dtre toujours sollicits? Lermitage est entendu partir du vent, dun cur qui bat, de murmures, de pas dans un clotre et dun crayon qui glisse sur une feuille de papier. Des vidos prsentent une massothrapeute et un frre trappiste.

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Opera Lyra Ottawa Ottawa presents MACBETH

March 27, 29, 31, April 3, 2010
Southam Hall, National Arts Centre

March 8, 2010...Opera Lyra Ottawa (OLO) presents Macbeth, Verdis great opera about power, love and treachery.

Artistic Director of Opera Lyra Ottawa and Conductor, Tyrone Paterson, has brought together a stellar cast led by Greer Grimsley "...the glory of his Macbeth is in the rich, robust voice and vital presence." (Vancouver Sun) Brenda Harris, whose voice has been described as ... drop-dead gorgeous singing, soaring on high, glowing with mezzo-ish warmth in lower registers, nearly every phrase elegantly turned (Dallas Morning News) takes on the role of Lady Macbeth, and Andrew Funks wonderful vocal presence (Santa Barbara Independent) will incarnate Banquo, Macbeths friend and tragic victim. Canadian Luc Robert will bring his remarkable tenor voice to the role of MacDuff and Rene Lapointe, whose extremely seductive voice (Toronto Star) is the Lady-in-Waiting. Rene was last seen as the Third Lady in OLOs 2009 season-opening production of The Magic Flute.

International Director Joseph Bascetta and acclaimed lighting designer Henry Frehner will recreate the mystery and drama of Macbeth.

Macbeth will be sung in Italian, with English and French Surtitles. Performances begin at 8:00 pm. Pre-opera chats are presented free of charge to all patrons one-hour prior to each performance in the lobby. These offer an opportunity to learn more about the composer, context and historical significance of the opera.

The Story
Scottish army leaders Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and tell Banquo that he will be the father of kings. The first part of the witches prediction comes true almost immediately when Duncan, the King of Scotland names Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, thereby sealing his doom. This announcement unleashes Lady Macbeths ambition and she convinces Macbeth that Duncan must die by his hand.

Macbeth becomes King but, consumed by the prophecy that Banquos children will rule Scotland, he and Lady Macbeth plot to have Banquo and his son, Fleance, assassinated. Banquo is killed and Fleance escapes. Lady Macbeth welcomes the court to the banquet hall when Macbeth hears the news. Macduff vows to leave the country.

Beset by guilt, Macbeth seeks out the witches demanding more prohecies. Apparitions warn him to beware of Macduff and assure him that he will come to no harm by man of woman born and that he will be invincible until Birnam Wood marches on his castle. In another vision, he sees a procession of future kings, followed by Banquo. Horrified, Macbeth collapses. He and Lady Macbeth resolve to kill Macduff and his family as well as Banquos son. On the English border, Macduff, his wife and children murdered, has joined the Scottish refugees Malcolm appears with British troops and leads them to invade Scotland.

Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, haunted by the horrors of what she and her husband have done, while Macbeth awaits the arrival of his enemies. Messengers bring news that Lady Macbeth has died, and that Birnam Wood appears to be moving. Macduff confronts Macbeth and tells him that he was not born naturally but had a Caesarean birth. He kills Macbeth and proclaims Malcolm king of Scotland.

Ticket Information:
Single tickets, from $40 to $169, are available from the NAC box office and all Ticketmaster locations (service fees will be applied). Visit Ticketmaster online or call 613-755-1111. DISCOUNTS: For groups of 10 or more please call Opera Lyra Ottawa at 613-233-9200 and ask about our group rates. Students with a valid Live RushѢ membership card may buy up to 2 tickets per performance at a discounted price. Tickets may be purchased online or in person at the NAC Box Office on the day of the performance from 2 to 6 pm. More information is available at www.liverush.ca.

About Opera Lyra Ottawa
Opera Lyra Ottawa is a not-for-profit organization with the mandate to produce and present opera in the National Capital Region of the highest quality and to promote opera as an art form, making it accessible to as large a segment of the population as possible through community outreach and education. Wherever possible, Opera Lyra Ottawa is committed to encourage, nurture and support Canadian artists. For more information please visit www.operalyra.ca.

Opera Lyra Ottawa gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our sponsors who make the 2009-2010 season possible. We thank Bell, Season Sponsor, as well as our other Principal Sponsors: Sun Life Financial, and Ottawa Citizen; Major Sponsors: Extended Suites Ottawa, Custom Printers, Kolegram and Handa Travel. Opera Lyra would also like to thank the following agencies for their support: the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa.

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DanceWorks presents acclaimed Vancouver company - Wen Wei Dance with Cock-Pit

Toronto, March 9, 2010- DanceWorks, this city's longest running contemporary dance series, presents the Toronto premiere of Cock-Pit performed by Vancouver's acclaimed Wen Wei Dance. A revealing, and ravishing quintet for four men and one woman that touches on adolescent sexual awakening, Cock-Pit runs Friday April 9 and Saturday April 10 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre, after which the company tours to Quebec City, Montreal, Regina, Victoria and Salt Spring Island in B.C.

Cock-Pit is inspired by Wen Wei Wang's memories of his student days in China at a boarding school run by the People's Liberation Army. "I shared a room with four boys for more than five years," he states. "We were at the age when we became concerned about sexuality without having any advice from our parents or teachers. We were not allowed to have girl friends, so we only thought about them in our dreams and imaginations. These memories contribute subconsciously to the scenario for this work."

In close quarters, four men play games that threaten to spiral into violence or desire. Inextricably bound together, they are alternately seduced, entranced and thwarted by an elusive female figure that moves easily between dreams and physical reality.

Incorporating anthropomorphic elements, four-foot long pheasant feathers that extend limbs and a heated sexuality that alternates between open combat and tender intimacy, Cock-Pit is infused with all the volatility and pressure of youth trapped in a closed-off world. As secret yearnings and open plays for dominance threaten to erupt, the possibility of escape, like a distant woman, moves into an unknown future.

Cock-Pit premiered in Vancouver in February of 2009 at which time Paula Citron of the Globe and Mail commented, "Wen Wei Wang is a master of imagery. His use of symbolism in dance is superb. So not surprisingly, his new work, Cock-Pit is a visual triumph."


Wen Wei Dance tours Cock-Pit as follows:
5 and 6 March - EDMONTON: Brian Webb Dance Company
9 and 10 April - TORONTO: Danceworks
15, 16 and 17 April - QUEBEC CITY: La Rotonde
21, 22, 23 and 24 April - MONTREAL: L'Agora de la danse
27 and 28 April - REGINA: New Dance Horizons
1 May - VICTORIA: Dance Victoria
4 May - SALT SPRING ISLAND: Arts Spring


Wen Wei Wang - choreographer
Wen Wei Wang began dancing at an early age in China, where he was born and raised. He trained and danced professionally with the Langzhou Song and Dance Company. In 1991, he came to Canada and joined the Judith Marcuse Dance Company after which he danced with Ballet British Columbia for seven years. In 2000, he received the Clifford E. Lee Choreographic Award and since then has choreographed for the Alberta Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, and Dancers Dancing. Since 2003, he has served as Artistic Director of Wen Wei Dance. The company has performed at major venues across Canada, the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, the Canada Dance Festival, and the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Colombia, South America. Wen Wei is the recipient of the 2006 Isadora Award for Excellence in Choreography.


DanceWorks presents Vancouver's acclaimed
Wen Wei Dance with Cock-Pit
Co-produced by L'Agora de la danse and the National Arts Centre
Choreographed by Wen Wei Wang
Original score by Giorgio Magnanensi, Lighting design by James Proudfoot
Part of Harbourfront Centre's NextSteps
Friday April 9, and Saturday April 10, 2010 8PM
Fleck Dance Theatre
207 Queens Quay West
Tickets: $28 (Discounts for students, seniors, CADA, SCDS, groups,)
                       Box Office: 416-973-4000 or online at www.danceworks.ca

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Les Mlodines de la Place des Arts clbrent la venue du printemps

LAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral et un spectacle de clavecin

Montral, le mardi 9 mars 2010 Pro Musica et la Place des Arts poursuivent leur harmonieuse collaboration en prsentant la 7e saison des Mlodnes jusquau 8 avril 2010. Prsentes la Place des Arts tous les jeudis de 12 h 10 12 h 50, les Mlodnes vous permettent dapprcier dexcellents concerts sur lheure du dner. Apportez votre lunch ! Au programme pour clbrer la venue du printemps rien de moins que lAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral sous la direction de Chantal Lambert et un spectacle de clavecin avec le grand matre Luc Beausjour.

LATELIER LYRIQUE DE LOPRA DE MONTRAL 18 mars au Piano Nobile

Sous la direction de Chantal Lambert, latelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral avec sa jeunesse, sa fracheur et ses belles voix vous offre de grands airs qui vous sduiront assurment. De plus, pour ce spectacle, lAtelier lyrique de lOpra de Montral est fier daccueillir 4 jeunes artistes du Canadian Opera Company Ensemble de Toronto.

Au programme : Mozart, Gounod, Delibes, Massenet, Saint-Sans, Donizetti, Offenbach

LUC BEAUSJOUR, clavecin 25 mars au Studio-Thtre

Grce la virtuosit, llgance et lexpressivit de son jeu, le claveciniste et organiste Luc Beausjour a suscit tant lenthousiasme du public que les loges des critiques. Consacr interprte de lanne 2003 par le Conseil qubcois de la musique, il vous offre un programme haut en couleurs des plus grands matres du clavecin.

Au programme : Couperin, Rameau, Handel, Bach, Marcello, Domenico Scarlatti

Une coproduction de la Socit Pro Musica et de la Place des Arts, la 7e saison des Mlodnes est prsente jusquau 8 avril 2010.

Entre : 8 $ (taxes incluses) Apportez votre lunch !
Rservations : Billetterie de la Place des Arts 514-842-2112 ou 1 866-842-2112  ou laplacedesarts.com

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Alexisonfire, Robert Charlebois, Les Claypool to perform at the 6th annual Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala on March 28

TORONTO, March 9 /CNW/ - The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame/Le Panthon des auteurs et compositeurs canadiens (CSHF/PACC) announced today that Alexisonfire, Robert Charlebois, former Primus frontman Les Claypool, Pierre Flynn and Dumas are among the artists who will perform at the 6th annual Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala, taking place on March 28 at The Toronto Centre for the Arts. This outstanding roster of talent, along with host Gregory Charles, will pay tribute to this year's CSHF inductees including Rush and Robert Charlebois. Tickets for the CSHF Gala, starting at $110.00, are on sale and available through Ticketmaster at 416-870-8000 or on-line at www.ticketmaster.ca, www.cansong.ca, www.tocentre.com or in person at the TCA box office.

The 6th annual CSHF gala welcomes a diverse line-up of talent who will perform renditions of this year's inducted songs. Alexisonfire will perform 'Closer to the Heart' (Rush); Les Claypool performs 'Spirit of Radio' (Rush), YouTube phenom Jacob Moon presents his rendition of 'Subdivisions' (Rush) and Quebec superstar Robert Charlebois will perform his classic song 'Ordinaire' (Robert Charlebois, Mouffe, Pierre Nadeau).

As in past years, the CSHF gala will also include some inspired collaborations of inducted songs: Lily Frost and Sean Cullen will perform 'Come Josephine in My Flying Machine' (Alfred Bryan, Fred Fisher); Dumas along with Catherine Durand will perform 'Lindberg' (Robert Charlebois, Claude Ploquin); and Pierre Flynn will be joined by Mara Tremblay in a performance of 'Fu Man Chu' (Robert Charlebois, Claude Gagnon, Marcel Sabourin);

Also confirmed to appear at this year's Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala are: DJ Champion ('J'entends frapper' by Michel Pagliaro), Le Vent du Nord ('Des mitaines pas de pouce' by Ovila Lgar) and Marie-Jo Thrio ('Deux enfants du meme age' by Germaine Dugas).

The 2010 CSHF inductees include 11 influential songwriters, 16 timeless songs and two Legacy Award recipients. The CSHF will bestow the Frank Davies Legacy Award, named after the founder of the CSHF/PACC, to recorded-sound archivist Edward B. Moogk. The CMPA (Canadian Music Publishers Association) Legacy award will be given to Quebec impresario, producer and agent Guy Latraverse.

The 6th annual CSHF Gala, hosted by Gregory Charles, will once again be broadcast by broadcast partner CBC on Radio 2 on Monday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. across the country as a special presentation of Canada Live and Espace Musique at 4:00 p.m.

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) /Le panthon des auteurs et compositeurs canadiens (PACC) is a bilingual, a-political, non-profit organization, which is a partnership of the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA) and the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) with the assistance of the Socit professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Qubec (SPACQ). The CSHF's generous core-funding partners are: the CMPA, the SAC, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR), SOCAN, Astral Media, and the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. The CSHF acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada's private radio broadcasters.

For further information, bios and photos, please visit www.cansong.ca.

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Symphony Nova Scotia partners with local artists for "Musical Chairs: Art You Can Sit On!"

Halifax, NS Symphony Nova Scotia is proud to partner with local artists to present its third annual Symphonic Art fundraiser on Saturday, March 27 at 7 pm at McInnes Coopers law offices (13th floor of Purdys Wharf Tower II, Halifax).

In past years, this unique event has transformed old musical instruments into works of art. This year, its taken a new twist with Musical Chairs: Art You Can Sit On! Old chairs have been donated, recycled, and transformed by local artists into striking, innovative, and fully functional works of art.

Participating artists this year include Bradford Naugler, Mark Brennan, Anna Horsenell Wade, Claude Ferland, Barry Colpitts, Lori L. Fancey, Jenny Bedal, Lori Nason, Tina Parelius, and more. Combined, these generous artists have contributed more than 50 chairs to be auctioned. Some of the chairs have been on display in the storefront windows of Mills on Spring Garden Road, and photos of the full collection to date are available online at www.facebook.com/symphonynovascotia.

As well as a silent and live auction, the March 27 event will include entertainment by Rhapsody Quintet and urban chameleon, plus a wine and hors doeuvres reception. Tickets are $25 each, HST included, and are available at 421.1300, ext. 234 or fundraising@symphonyns.ca.

Watch an artist create his chair online! Mark Brennan paints a beautiful winter scene on a chair rescued from the garbage at www.youtube.com/hillcrestart.

About Symphony Nova Scotia

Symphony Nova Scotia is Nova Scotias orchestra. Each year more than 50,000 audience members (including 16,000 young music lovers) join us in communities across Nova Scotia for performances of the music they love from baroque and classical to pop and rock and folk. Under the inspirational leadership of Music Director Bernhard Gueller, Symphony Nova Scotia is recognized as one of the finest orchestras in the country. Visit www.SymphonyNovaScotia.ca to learn more, listen online, or subscribe today!

Symphony Nova Scotia is grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, and the Halifax Regional Municipality for their continued support.

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Le dimanche des finissants du Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau

Le dimanche 21 mars 2010, VENEZ COUTER les quatre finissants du Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau en rcital, au cours dun mme aprs-midi, dans la salle Jean-Desprz frachement rnove !

La percussionniste Krystina Marcoux, la pianiste Ruth Kwan, le saxophoniste Christian Morasse et le violoniste Benoit Constant vous offriront leurs plus belles interprtations dun rpertoire vari.

11 h : Krystina Marcoux, percussionniste

12 h 15 : Ruth Kwan, pianiste
13 h 30 : Christian Morasse, saxophoniste
15 h : Benoit Constant, violoniste

Au piano : Pierre-Richard Aubin et Martin Caron

Entre libre

Salle Jean-Desprz

Maison du citoyen
25, rue Laurier
Gatineau
Renseignements : 819 772-3283

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York U Music's $40,000 Oscar Peterson Scholarship

Toronto, March 8, 2010: A major new scholarship program endowed by the Ontario government to commemorate legendary Canadian jazz musician Oscar Peterson will be inaugurated this year at York University.

The Oscar Peterson Scholarships will be launched this fall with an entrance award valued at $40,000 and up to four $10,000 scholarships for current undergraduate music students.

These scholarships are a remarkable tribute to the Oscar Peterson legacy, said Professor Ron Westray, who holds the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance in Yorks Department of Music. They reflect the importance of music education, in particular jazz education, and help open the doors to students who might not otherwise be able to pursue their passion and take their studies to that next level.

The prestigious entrance scholarship will provide $40,000 over four years to one first-year music student in 2010 and up to five incoming students annually once the program is fully in place. If the recipient maintains high academic standing the scholarship may be renewed for three additional years. The 2010 application deadline is April 4.

In the first three years as the scholarship program is phased in, current music majors will also have the opportunity to apply for an annual $10,000 in-course scholarship in the fall.

To be eligible for these scholarships, candidates must demonstrate exceptional musical ability (especially in the field of jazz performance) and must be facing social, economic or personal barriers that could inhibit their ability to pursue a university degree. Applicants must be Ontario residents and hold Canadian citizenship, permanent residency or protected person status.

"As the Oscar Peterson Chair at York, my mandate includes community outreach and encouraging the next generation of artists, and in particular, young jazz talent," said Westray. "One of the ways Im doing that is by bringing high school students in the GTA to campus to experience live jazz performance. They will also be given a chance to hear about Oscar Petersons legacy.

For the Oscar Peterson Scholarships we are specifically targeting students in underprivileged areas, Westray said. Reaching out to talented youth who are in financial need is a key aspect of the terms of the endowment and my own work here at York.

Potential candidates for the entrance award can find detailed information on Yorks future students scholarship website.

The Oscar Peterson Scholarships are supported by a $1-million endowment from the Government of Ontario. Westrays position as Oscar Peterson Chair was created by an additional $4-million endowment from the provincial government.

As an adjunct professor in York's Department of Music from 1984 to the late 1990s, Peterson gave workshops and established several student awards in the jazz program. The recipient of an honorary degree from York in 1982, Peterson was installed as the universitys eighth chancellor in September 1991, serving with great distinction until February 1994. He was made an honorary governor of York the following year. The internationally celebrated jazz pianist and composer died at his Mississauga home in December 2007 at the age of 82.

Its such an honour to be here at the university where Oscar Peterson taught, in a position founded in his name, said Westray, who came to York last summer from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a legend at the level of Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. I learned so much by reading about his life and studying his recordings.

Even though he was proudly Canadian, Oscar Peterson is regarded by many in the US as an American jazz legend because of the huge mark he left on the music, Westray said. In a way my appointment complements or completes this circle, with my own standing as an American artist offering Canadian students a perspective that might not be found in Canadian culture.

As a performer, Westray is best known for his work as lead trombonist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis and his collaborations with Wycliffe Gordon. He has appeared in concert with such luminaries as Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Benny Carter, Dewey Redman, Roy Haynes, Randy Brecker and a host of other pre-eminent artists.

Westray teaches performance, composition, history and theory in Yorks renowned jazz program, and co-directs the York U Jazz Orchestra with Al Henderson. He was recently appointed music director of a jazz series launching next month at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York. His latest CD as leader, Medical Cures for the Chromatic Commands of the Inner City (Blue Canoe Records 2008), will receive its Canadian release as part of that series on April 9.

York University is the leading interdisciplinary research and teaching university in Canada. York offers a modern, academic experience at the undergraduate and graduate level in Toronto, Canadas most international city. The third largest university in the country, York is host to a dynamic academic community of 50,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, as well as 200,000 alumni worldwide. Yorks 10 Faculties and 28 research centres conduct ambitious, groundbreaking research that is interdisciplinary, cutting across traditional academic boundaries. This distinctive and collaborative approach is preparing students for the future and bringing fresh insights and solutions to real-world challenges. York University is an autonomous, not-for-profit corporation.

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Le Quatuor selon Schnittke avec le Quatuor Molinari

Le Conservatoire de musique de Montral, en collaboration avec le Quatuor Molinari, ensemble en rsidence au Conservatoire, prsente Le Quatuor selon Schnittke, du 17 au 20 mars 2010, un vnement de quatre jours autour de la musique de chambre dAlfred Schnittke (1934-1998). Deux Dialogues, une confrence de Jean Lesage, une table ronde anime par Nicolas Gilbert, deux rcitals de musique de chambre et un concert marathon de lintgrale des quatuors dAlfred Schnittke permettront de dcouvrir ce compositeur fascinant.

Un des reprsentants les plus jous de la musique sovitique moderne, Alfred Schnittke fusionne la tradition et le modernisme dune faon tout fait unique, expressive et dramatique. Sa musique de chambre est trs riche et le Quatuor Molinari veut partager son engouement pour ce compositeur avec le public montralais.

Il faut tmoigner que le pass existe pour y plonger ses racines. Je m'appuie sur la tradition pour la dpasser. J'appelle cela technique des styles multiples . - Alfred Schnittke

Le Quatuor Molinari et ses invites, les pianistes Louise Bessette, Janelle Fung et Natsuki Hiratsuka, interprteront pas moins de 14 uvres de musique de chambre du clbre compositeur russe Alfred Schnittke.

Toutes les activits auront lieu au Conservatoire de musique de Montral, situ au 4750, avenue Henri-Julien (mtro Mont-Royal).

Quatuor Molinari
Quatuor en rsidence au Conservatoire de musique de Montral

Olga Ranzenhofer, violon
Frdric Bednarz, violon
Frdric Lambert, alto
Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, violoncelle

Programme :
Le Quatuor selon Schnittke
du 17 au 20 mars 2010
avec la participation des pianistes : Louise Bessette, Natsuki Hiratsuka et Janelle Fung

Mercredi 17 mars 2010
17h : Confrence de Jean Lesage
20h : Rcital de musique de chambre
Quatuor avec piano
Sonate pour violon et piano no 3 (1994)
Cinq aphorismes pour piano (1990)
Trio cordes

Jeudi 18 mars 2010
17h : Dialogue I
20h : Rcital de musique de chambre
Sonate no 1 pour violon et piano (1968)
A Paganini pour violon solo
Stille Musik pour violon et violoncelle
Sonate no 1 pour violoncelle et piano (1978)

Vendredi 19 mars 2010
17h : Autour d'Alfred Schnittke. Table ronde anime par Nicolas Gilbert
20h : Dialogue II

Samedi 20 mars 2010
20h : Concert marathon
Quatuors nos 1-4
In memoriam Igor Stravinsky
Quintette avec piano (Louise Bessette, pianiste)

Les billets sont disponibles la billetterie du Conservatoire (514 873-4283, poste 313), du mardi au vendredi, entre 13 h 30 et 17 h 30, ou une heure avant le concert ainsi que sur le rseau Admission : www.admission.com (514 790-1245)

Billets : Dialogues, Confrence et table ronde : entre libre
Rcitals de musique de chambre : 5$
Concert marathon : 25$, 20$ et 10$

Pour obtenir plus d'information, vous pouvez nous joindre au 514 873-4031.Nous vous invitons aussi consulter le site Web du Conservatoire pour connatre toutes nos activits venir : www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca. Ce site vous offre de vous abonner un fil RSS, une faon simple et pratique dtre inform sur nos activits (www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca/rss).

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CIBC Steps Up to Help Mixed Company Theatre

Toronto, March 8, 2010 CIBC has provided $6,000 for a lead sponsorship of DISS, Mixed Company Theatres newest interactive play. Developed through a collaborative creative partnership with youth, the Toronto Police Service and support from the Toronto District School Board, this project focuses on gang presence in our neighbourhoods and the pressures youth face finding social connection and identity.

At CIBC, helping young people achieve their full potential is an important part of our community investment program, said Bill Whyte, CIBCs Vice-President of Retail Markets for GTA Central. We are pleased to sponsor this very innovative approach that will help local youth cope with the issues that challenge them so they can lead happy and healthy lives.


CIBC is committed to supporting causes that matter to our clients, employees and our communities. We aim to make a difference in communities through corporate donations, sponsorships and the volunteer spirit of employees. With a strategic focus on youth, education and health, and employee commitment to causes including the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, the CIBC Childrens Foundation and United Way, we are investing in the social and economic development of communities across the country. In 2009, $26.8 million was contributed through the CIBC group of companies to charitable and non-profit initiatives in Canada, supporting a wide variety of national, regional and local organizations. To learn more, visit www.communitymatters.cibc.com.
With CIBCs support, Mixed Company will deliver DISS to 12 schools this spring, said Daniel Booth, General Manager of Mixed Company Theatre. The interactive nature of this Forum Theatre play engages young audiences, creating practical solutions for them to overcome social and personal issues in their lives. Through this unique tool, Mixed Company stimulates critical thinking by annually engaging over 20,000 students across the GTA.

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Budget fdral et culture : trois constats dfavorables au Qubec

(Montral, le 5 mars 2010) - Au nom de milliers d'artistes professionnels, crivains et travailleurs culturels, le Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres du Qubec (M.A.L.) formule trois constats dfavorables l'conomie qubcoise partir des orientations du gouvernement fdral en matire de culture dans son budget 2010-2011.

Premier constat, le gouvernement ne reconnat pas la culture comme une composante de l'conomie innovante du Canada. En effet, le thme de la culture est absent du chapitre 3.3, section Favoriser la croissance conomique et l'emploi par l'innovation , dont l'objectif est d'assurer la croissance long terme de l'conomie canadienne et de crer les emplois du futur. Cette omission dfavorise le Qubec, o l'conomie culturelle est un important secteur d'innovation et d'emplois.

Deuxime constat : le gouvernement refuse, pour une troisime anne conscutive, de rtablir les programmes fdraux de soutien au rayonnement des artistes qubcois et canadiens l'tranger. L'abolition des programmes PromArt et Routes commerciales, en 2008, continuera d'affecter au premier plan le Qubec, o ces programmes taient particulirement importants pour les artistes et les travailleurs culturels. Cette dcision continue de placer le gouvernement du Qubec dans l'obligation de compenser ce manque gagner en injectant des fonds sans compensation du palier fdral.

Troisime constat, nous ne pouvons que demeurer inquiets des choix guids par l'idologie conservatrice du gouvernement canadien en matire de culture, alors qu'il raffecte rgulirement les fonds en fonction de ses propres valeurs, particulirement loignes de celles des Qubcois. On a pu, encore une fois, l'observer rcemment lors de l'abolition des programmes de subvention des musiques spcialises, l'automne 2009. Toutes les dcisions de coupures prises par ce gouvernement vont d'ailleurs l'encontre des recommandations formules par le Comit permanent du Patrimoine en dcembre dernier. Il faudra donc au cours des prochaines semaines tre attentifs l'allocation des crdits budgtaires aux diffrents programmes lis la culture au Canada.

Enfin, bien qu'il ne rduise pas les crdits accords au Conseil des Arts du Canada (CAC), le budget d'hier nous loigne une fois de plus de l'objectif d'un financement hauteur de 300 millions de dollars pour le CAC, objectif formul depuis plusieurs annes dj et auquel tous les autres partis politiques fdraux ont souscrit.

Le Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres regroupe sept organisations nationales et treize conseils rgionaux de la culture du secteur des arts et des lettres, qui reprsentent des milliers d'artistes professionnels, crivains et travailleurs culturels. Le Mouvement est constitu du Conseil qubcois de la musique, du Conseil des mtiers d'art du Qubec, du Conseil qubcois des arts mdiatiques, du Regroupement qubcois de la danse, de l'Union des crivaines et crivains qubcois, du Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogrs du Qubec, de En piste - le regroupement national des arts du cirque - ainsi que des conseils rgionaux de la culture de l'Estrie, de l'Abitibi-Tmiscamingue, de la Montrgie, du Saguenay, de la Mauricie, du Centre du Qubec, de l'Outaouais, des Laurentides, de Lanaudire, du Bas-Saint-Laurent, de la Cte-Nord, de la Gaspsie et de la rgion de Qubec-Chaudires-Appalaches. La mission des conseils rgionaux de la culture est d'appuyer le dveloppement des arts et de la culture dans leur rgion.

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Vancouver Arts Organizations Congratulate Moh and Yulanda Faris

Recipients of 2010 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts

Vancouver, BC ~ Vancouver Opera, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver International Writers Festival, The Dance Centre and Judith Marcuse Projects congratulate Moh and Yulanda Faris on their recently-awarded 2010 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, one of the eight Governor Generals Performing Arts Awards.

Active in the Vancouver arts community for close to 40 years, Mr. and Mrs. Faris have generously donated time and financial support to several organizations, including Vancouver Opera and its Foundation, the Scotiabank Dance Centre and the Dance Foundation, Judith Marcuse Projects, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Children's Festival, and many others.

There are no two people in our community more deserving of this award than Moh and Yulanda Faris, says James Wright, General Director of Vancouver Opera. Their work in establishing the Judith Forst Fund for Young Artist Training is a testament to their commitment to the future of the arts in Canada. They truly believe in the lasting value of the arts to our lives, and that passion is evident in all they have done for VO and other arts organizations in Vancouver.

Yulanda Faris is past chair of Vancouver Opera and current chair of the Vancouver Opera Foundation, and with Mr. Faris founded the Judith Forst Fund for Young Artist Training, a fund that supports young singers in the early stages of their careers.

Christopher Gaze, Artistic Director of Bard on the Beach acknowledges their ongoing contribution to the annual Shakespeare Festival and beyond: This prestigious award to Mr. and Mrs. Faris is so well deserved. They are endlessly interested in and wonderfully supportive of the arts in our city. Bravo Moh and Yulanda. Canada thanks you.

How wonderfully appropriate that Moh and Yulanda are being recognized for their remarkable contributions to the arts in our city for over 30 years, says Judith Marcuse, Artistic Producer, Judith Marcuse Projects and Co-Director of The International Centre of Art for Social Change. Their support has taken many forms, always both visionary and pragmatic. Their belief in art and artists has endowed individuals and organizations with courage, hope and strength to keep producing the best that we can.

Mohammed Faris was instrumental in establishing the Scotiabank Dance Centre, an $11-million facility that provides Vancouver's diverse dance community with a home of its own. Opened in 2001, the centre includes the 150 seat Faris Family Studio.

This award is well deserved and comes to two people who have shown and continue to show huge generosity of spirit and heart, says Mirna Zagar, Executive Director of The Dance Centre. Without Mohs heartfelt tenacity and true belief that the art of dance deserves a home, it is doubtful we would now have Scotiabank Dance Centre, a building which has become Canadas flagship dance facility and has in turn nurtured an everlasting sense of pride in our community. Both Moh and Yulanda have shown not only their passion for the arts but a true commitment to seeing the BC arts and culture scene flourish.

Vancouver International Writers Festival Artistic Director Hal Wake says, We thank Moh and Yulanda for the extraordinary amount of time and energy they have committed, and for their financial support of the Writers Festival. For many years Yulanda was on the VIWF board and chaired our gala fundraiser. But what truly sets them apart is their active participation in our Festival and in Vancouvers cultural scene, their attendance at events, and their advocacy. I know that I will see Yulanda at every Festival, at a half dozen events or more. And she always has something insightful and incisive to say about what she has witnessed and the books she has read.

The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) are Canada's foremost distinction for excellence in the performing arts. The awards recognize a stellar array of artists and arts volunteers for their outstanding lifetime contribution to Canada's cultural life.

The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards were created in 1992 under the patronage of the Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn (1934-2002), then Governor General of Canada. Today, we are honoured to have Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michalle Jean as patron. For more information, visit www.ggpaa.ca.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Your Edmonton Symphony Orchestra announces their 2010-2011 Season

Edmonton, AB Ķ Your Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) and Music Director William Eddins have announced exciting details of the upcoming 2010-2011 performance season.  Leading the ESO into their 59th season, and his sixth as Music Director, Bill Eddins will conduct concerts in every series including the Masters, Sunday Showcase, Midweek Classics, Robbins Lighter Classics, Robbins Pops, ESSO Symphony for Kids, Late Night with Bill Eddins, The ESO Presents, and Symphony Specials.  Edmontons orchestra cooks up over 80 superb concerts for all palates, entertaining a wide array of audiences with classical and popular music, family and educational programs.  So next season, if you havent already, join us at our beautiful home, the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, for one or many symphony concerts that will truly nourish your soul.

"It is with great joy that I look forward to our 2010-2011 season.  Only the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra can travel from one side of the artistic spectrum - with Cirque de la Symphonie - right through to Mozart, Zappa, Brahms, and beyond.  This season promises to be as exciting as live music can possibly be."
~ Bill Eddins

Conductors and Guest Artists

Internationally renowned artists Chantal Kreviazuk, Jens Lindemann, Michael Kaeshammer, Corey Cerovsek, Pieter Wispelwey, Sasha Cooke, and Elmar Oliveira are just a few of the very special guests who will grace the ESO with their presence during the 2010-2011 performance season.

Bill Eddins will conduct nearly 30 concert events.  When he is not leading, the ESO will have guest conductors and audience favourites Robert Bernhardt, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Bruce Pullan, Bruce Hangen, Anu Tali, Gregory Vajda, Richard Kaufman, Jack Everly, and Steven Reineke return to the podium.  Making their conducting debuts with the ESO are Mei-Ann Chen, Jean-Franois Rivest, Jamie Sommerville, and George Daugherty.  

Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin continues his tenure with the ESO under the mentorship of Bill Eddins.  This two-year appointment, which began at the start of the 2009-2010 season, is funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts and supports the ESOs vision and focus on music education at all levels.  It is an elite training opportunity for a young conductor to be involved in both artistic leadership and administrative organization, while providing the necessary resources and guidance to engage and educate new generations and communities with the importance of music in their daily lives.

Gala and Specials

Be amazed, be awed, be stunned!  Extraordinary feats of artistry bring a magically musical experience to our annual Gala.  On Tuesday, October 5th, Cirque de la Symphonie will present an astounding, jaw-dropping production, unlike anything they have previously presented in North America.  Bill Eddins conducts the orchestra through beloved masterpieces by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Sans, and more as an amazing troupe of aerial flyers, contortionists, and strongmen perform high above and on the Winspear stage.

The upcoming line-up of Symphony Specials are sure to appeal to music lovers of all ages and genres.  Fresh from the 2010 Lilith Fair festival tour celebrating women in music, Juno Award-winning singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk makes her debut with Edmontons orchestra and conductor Lucas Waldin.  Everybodys favourite Looney Tunes and characters from Warner Bros. Studios will appear on-screen at the Winspear Centre for three performances of Bugs Bunny At The Symphony.  Crown jewels such as Whats Opera, Doc?, The Rabbit of Seville, and A Corny Concerto will be performed under the direction of conductor and creator George Daugherty.  Paying homage to a composer that was one of the first to break down barriers between rock, jazz, and classical music, the ESO and Bill Eddins present music of the legendary Frank Zappa in Dont Eat the Yellow Snow. 

Free Summer Music

Summer music will be free at the Winspear Centre as the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, made up of the most talented members of youth orchestras across the country, share music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, and Shostakovich with Canadian conductor Jacques Lacombe.  On two noon-hour occasions in August, the ESO in conjunction with Winspear Centre Presents, invites you to cool off from the afternoon sun to the stunning sounds of the Davis Concert Organ, and a showcase of ESO musicians performing their favourite pieces.

Masters Series

The ESOs flagship Masters series is the core of the 2010-2011 season, as the orchestra perfoms masterful classics by distinguished composers.  Mozarts exotic Fifth Violin Concerto and Sibelius intricate Fifth Symphony opens the series, while Ravels vivacious Rapsodie espagnole and Daphnis et Chlo brings the series to a close.  Chopins First Piano Concerto will be heard in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composers birth, as well as Beethovens breathtakingly powerful Eroica Symphony, Durufls poignant Requiem, Rachmaninoffs beloved Second Piano Concerto, and Brahms affectionate Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.  Other orchestral masterworks by Bach, Mendelssohn, Boulanger, Shostakovich, Schumann, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and so much more round out this series.

Our guest artists in the Masters series are some of the most dynamic and virtuosic musicians in the classical scene today.  Next season, the ESO is thrilled to have Anu Tali, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Mei-Ann Chen, Gregory Vajda, and Jean-Franois Rivest all take the helm of the orchestra, along with Bill Eddins and Lucas Waldin.  Taking the spotlight as soloists are pianists Janina Fialkowska, Dubravka Tomi, and Bill Eddins, violinists Elmar Oliveira, Corey Cerovsek, and Mark Fewer, cellist Pieter Wispelwey, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Bonaventura Bottone, Joseph Macerollo on accordion, plus blind pianist and Cliburn Gold Medalist Nobuyuki Tsujii.

Late Night with Bill Eddins and The ESO Presents

Following the successful launch of our Late Night with Bill Eddins series in our 2009-2010 season, these uniquely interactive 9:30 pm concerts return to feature music of the masters plus conversation about the ingenuity of the music.  Late Night Percussion welcomes Colin Currie for the lyrical, yet urgently rhythmic Rough Music percussion concerto by the impressive H.K. Gruber.  With the 20th century being a time of exciting innovation, the ESO brings Late Night 1900s to a whole new level with the bright and heroic Fifth Symphony by Prokofiev and Honnegers Pacific 231, a work inspired by the mechanical marvel of a train engine.  The music wont end with the concert either.  Guests can mingle in the lobby afterwards while sipping on a cocktail and listening to live music performed by talented local musicians.

Brilliant soloists on the international classical scene perform in concert with the orchestra, followed by solo recitals after intermission in one of our newest series, The ESO Presents.  Polish pianist Rafa Blechacz, having unanimously won the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, performs the masterful music of his countryman and showcases his technical brilliance in doing so.  His performance will be presented in special partnership with the Chopin 2010 Celebration Committee and the Polish Culture Society of Edmonton.  Audiences have the special opportunity to experience Pieter Wispelweys versatility, phenomenal technique, and remarkable interpretation of cello repertoire, and see the renown cellist accompanied by Bill Eddins on piano in the programs second half.

Sunday Showcase Series

In four matine concerts that feature symphonic favourites with bright melodies, Bill Eddins leads the full Sunday Showcase series that features select ESO musicians as soloists alongside rising young musicians.  This series is especially well suited for the young and old alike.  Families of all generations can come together to enjoy a weekend afternoon of timeless masterpieces.  Edmonton violinist Ewald Cheung will perform Vivaldis delightful Four Seasons in the series opener, while Principal Clarinet Julianne Scott plays a charming set of variations on a popular Mozart tune.  Laureate of Canadas Honens International Piano Competition, Swiss pianist Gilles Vonsattel makes his ESO debut and Principal Bass Trombone Christopher Taylor performs a tuneful Ballade by Ewazen.  David Eggert, also from Edmonton and winner of the prestigious Eckhardt-Gramatt Prize presents Saint-Sans beloved First Cello Concerto and Principal Tuba Scott Whetham takes on a lighthearted heavyweight Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto.  At only 15 years of age, Calgary pianist Jan Lisiecki has amassed an impressive collection of accolades and he makes his ESO debut playing a tempestuous work by Mozart.  Interim Concertmaster Eric Buchmann is also featured in the closing concert of this series, bringing Kabalevskys fiery Violin Concerto to the stage.  Our post-concert Coffee Shop continues next season, inviting all concert guests to engage in an informal Q&A session with our guest artists in the main lobby.

Midweek Classics Series

Interspersed throughout the season,