LSM launches 2010 Endowment Fund Campaign

Every $1 Donated Will be Matched by $1.50 From Quebec Government

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Montreal, QC – December 8, 2009 – La Scène musicale / The Music Scene (LSM), the non-profit organization that publishes the arts magazines La Scena Musicale / The Music Scene / La SCENA is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a spot in the matching program, Placements Culture, by the Quebec government. For every $1 donated to LSM by November 30, 2010, the Quebec government will contribute $1.50.


Placements Culture is designed to create endowment funds for charitable arts organizations. LSM plans to raise $100,000 over the next 12 months, which, combined with the government contribution, will create a $250,000 endowment. This is highly important for the longevity of the Canada National Magazine Awards-honoured La Scena Musicale, La SCENA and The Music Scene magazines, the multiple award-winning website SCENA.org, and LSM’s other arts promotion activities.


Now celebrating its 14th year, LSM is a registered non-profit charity promoting music and the arts through three magazines, a website, and other outreach activities. It connects musicians/artists, the arts community and music/art lovers together through education and information. Help us continue our work with a donation (cash and goods are helpful) and by volunteering.


In light of the new Placements Culture subsidy, LSM is launching its 2010 Endowment Fund campaign and hopes that during this holiday season of giving, arts lovers everywhere will donate generously. All contributions made by December 31 will qualify for a 2009 tax receipt. Every donor will play an active part in promoting classical music and the arts by supporting LSM.

Donations Requested:

For more information, please contact 514-948-2520 or info@lascena.org

Donate at CanadaHelps.org or through Paypal

Charitable tax no. 14199 6579 RR0001

La SCENA Green Card Launched For Arts Lovers

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Environmentally-Friendly Membership Offers Cheaper Alternative

Montreal, QC – December 8, 2009 – Environmentally conscious arts lovers can now enjoy Canada’s most comprehensive classical music and jazz magazines from the comfort of their computers. La Scena Musicale / The Music Scene / La SCENA (LSM) proudly launches the new La SCENA Green Card for Arts Lovers this winter. Green Card club members will save $15 off the traditional subscription fee and over 65% off newsstand prices.

For only $25 a year, members will receive high-resolution electronic versions of all 10 issues of La Scena Musicale (the latest in classical, jazz, and world music), 4 issues of La SCENA (specializing in visual arts, dance, theatre, cinema), and 2 issues of The Music Scene (focus on music in English-language Canada): that’s 16 magazines every year. Not only are subscribers the first to know about upcoming concerts and recordings but they gain exclusive access to the extensive Naxos Music Library , where they can listen to over 39,000 CDs (that’s almost 3,000 non-stop days of music!), as well as receive a new Discovery CD monthly (in partnership with XXI Records) featuring Canada’s top musicians of the past and future for download. Green Card members can also download the entire past Discovery CD Collection (10 CDs already). And that’s not all: the Green Card gives you access to special subscriber-only discounts from other retailers and institutions including Archambault, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Opéra de Montréal. What’s more, we give away CDs and tickets each month to a lucky subscriber, and as a special club member you will always receive select invitations to conferences, launches, and other special arts industry events.

Treat yourself this season and join the club. While you are at it, what can be better than offering your friends and family the gift of music and the arts at their doorstep with a LSM subscription? As the holidays approach, this is the perfect time to give LSM. Every subscriber plays an active part in promoting classical music and the arts by supporting LSM, a registered non-profit charity. And with the new Green Card as well as our traditional subscription package to choose from, you are sure to please any arts lover on your shopping list.

Info:

• La SCENA Green Card web page
• Phone: 514-948-2520
• Email: SUB@scena.org

Concert bénéfice pour La Scena Musicale

Concert de la Saint-Valentin par trois grands choeurs montréalais en appui à La Scena Musicale

Montréal, le dimanche 8 février 2009- Le milieu choral de Montréal salue Wah Keung Chan, fondateur et éditeur de la revue de musique classique La Scena Musicale, par un concert bénéfice donné au profit de la publication. L'événement aura lieu le 14 février à 20 h à la salle Pollack de la faculté de musique de l'Université McGill. Il réunira trois des meilleurs chœurs de la métropole: Concerto Della Donna, Musica Orbium et le Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, dirigés respectivement par les piliers de la musique chorale à Montréal que sont Iwan Edwards, Patrick Wedd and Christopher Jackson. Au programme, des chants d'amour de toutes les époques, depuis Gabrieli et Palestrina jusqu'à Copland et Gershwin. Ayant exécuté chacun une portion du programme, les trois ensembles uniront leurs voix pour le grand finale.

Iwan Edwards, directeur artistique de la soirée et membre de l'Ordre du Canada (1995), explique: «Patrick Wedd, Christopher Jackson et moi avons réuni nos choeurs deux fois déjà, pour des concerts du matin de Pâques à la radio de CBC. Je suis ravi que mes éminents collègues acceptent de renouveler l'expérience. Ce concert de gala est une occasion pour nous d'exprimer la profonde admiration que nous portons à Wah Keung Chan pour l'incomparable apport à la vie musicale qu'est La Scena Musicale.»

L'aventure de La Scena Musicale commençait en 1996, lorsque Wah Keung Chan publiait un calendrier musical sur deux pages des concerts présentés à Montréal; avec le temps, le petit bulletin s'est transformé en revue nationale des arts de la scène et de la musique avec articles de fond, critiques de disques et guides de l'enseignement de la musique ; plus récemment, La Scena Musicale s'est portée à la défense de la musique et des arts. « En assistant à cette soirée, dit l'éditeur, les amateurs de musique feront plus que s'offrir un magnifique concert, ils participeront avec La Scena Musicale à la promotion de la belle et grande musique partout au pays. »

Billets:

30 $ - réguliers

20 $ - étudiants et aînés (se les procurer à La Scena Musicale, au guichet de la faculté de musique de McGill ou aux points de vente Admission).

130 $ - les meilleurs sièges et réception pré-concert en compagnie des trois chefs de chœur (s'adresser directement à La Scena Musicale)

La Scena Musicale
Tél. : 514-948-2520
Courriel : gala2009@scena.org
(cartes VISA, MasterCard et AMEX)

Guichet de McGill:
Tél. : 514-398-4547.
(cartes VISA et MasterCard)

Points de vente Admission. Frais de service.

514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595

Info: Dawna Coleman, 514-948-2520, dawnacoleman@scena.org

Programme :

Le programme

Concerto Della Donna
Directeur: Iwan Edwards
directrice ajointe: Amy Henderson

Minnelied (Op. 4 Heft 1) ………………………….......Johannes Brahms

Embraceable you...……….....Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Arne Dagsvik

Autumn of love (Seasons of love, No. 3) ……………......Eleanor Daley

Dacw 'nghariad I lawr yn y berllan …………............. arr. Grace Williams

Bonjour, mon cœur.....……...........Orlando di Lasso, arr. Norman Greyson

It was a lover and his lass........……..…..………………..........Ward Swingle

Musica Orbium

Patrick Wedd, directeur artistique

Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare .................................George Shearing

Live with me and be my love
When daffodils begin to peer
It was a lover and his lass
Spring
Who is Sylvia?
Fie on sinful fantasy
Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

----------------------------------------------------- Entracte -----------------------------------------------------------

Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
Directeur artistique: Christopher Jackson

Cantique des cantiques.......................................Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Introduxit me rex

Vox dilecti mei

Surge, propera, amica mea

Vidi speciosam…………………………………Tomas Luis de Victoria

Trois chœurs

Tous unis en chanson …………………………………......Paul Halley
Lieto godea sedendo ………………………….......Giovanni Gabrieli
Las agachadas ………………………………................Aaron Copland

Community Update Event Submission

La Scena Musicale Valentine's Day Choral Love Songs Benefit Concert

February 14, 2009 at 8 PM, Pollack Hall
555 Sherbrooke West, Montreal

Musicians:

Iwan Edwards, Concerto Della Donna,
Christopher Jackson, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal,

Patrick Wedd, Musica Orbium

Choral Love Songs by Palestrina, Gabrieli, Copland and Gershwin

Concept:

Montreal's choral community is expressing their support for the classical music magazine La Scena Musicale and its founder Wah Keung Chan by collaborating in a benefit concert supporting the publication. The event, scheduled for 8 p.m. on February 14, 2009, features three of Montreal's top choirs: Concerto Della Donna, Musica Orbium, and the Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, conducted by stalwarts of the Montreal choral scene Iwan Edwards, Patrick Wedd and Christopher Jackson, respectively. The ensembles will perform choral love songs from Gabrieli and Palestrina to Copland and Gershwin, with each choir singing their own segment and then joining forces for the finale.

Read the entire press release at http://www.scena.org/blog/newswire/2009/01/three-of-montreals-top-choirs-support.html

VIP Tickets: $130 (including pre-concert reception and a $100 tax receipt)

Concert Tickets:
30 $ (regular);
20 $ (seniors);
20 $ (students)

514-948-2520 * gala2009@scena.org

www.scena.org

Info: Dawna Coleman, 514-948-2520, dawnacoleman@scena.org

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Concert Program


Concerto Della Donna
Director: Iwan Edwards
Assistant director: Amy Henderson

Minnelied (Op. 4 Heft 1) ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ.......Johannes Brahms

Embraceable you...ŠŠŠ.....Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Arne Dagsvik

Autumn of love (Seasons of love, No. 3) ŠŠŠŠŠ......Eleanor Daley

Dacw 'nghariad I lawr yn y berllan ŠŠŠŠ............. arr. Grace Williams

Bonjour, mon c¦ur.....ŠŠ...........Orlando di Lasso, arr. Norman Greyson

It was a lover and his lass........ŠŠ..Š..ŠŠŠŠŠŠ..........Ward Swingle

Musica Orbium
Patrick Wedd, directeur artistique

Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare .................................George Shearing

Live with me and be my love
When daffodils begin to peer
It was a lover and his lass
Spring
Who is Sylvia?
Fie on sinful fantasy
Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

-----------------------------------------------------Intermission---- -------------------------------------------------------

Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
Direction artistique: Christopher Jackson

Cantique des cantiques.......................................Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Introduxit me rex
Vox dilecti mei

Surge, propera, amica mea

Vidi speciosamŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠTomas Luis de Victoria

Combined Choirs
Tous unis en chanson ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ......Paul Halley
Lieto godea sedendo ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ.......Giovanni Gabrieli
Las agachadas ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ................Aaron Copland

Concert de la Saint-Valentin par trois grands choeurs montrèalais en appui La Scena

Concert de la Saint-Valentin par trois grands choeurs montréalais en appui à La Scena Musicale

Montréal, 19 janvier 2009- Le milieu choral de Montréal salue Wah Keung Chan, fondateur et éditeur de la revue de musique classique La Scena Musicale, par un concert bénéfice donné au profit de la publication le 14 février à 20 h à la salle Pollack de la faculté de musique de l'Université McGill ?. L'événement réunira trois des meilleurs chœurs de la métropole: Concerto Della Donna, Musica Orbium et le Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, dirigés respectivement par les piliers de la musique chorale à Montréal que sont Iwan Edwards, Patrick Wedd and Christopher Jackson. Au programme, des chants d'amour de toutes les époques, depuis Gabrieli et Palestrina jusqu'à Copland et Gershwin. Ayant exécuté chacun une portion du programme, les trois ensembles uniront leurs voix pour le grand finale.

Iwan Edwards, directeur artistique de la soirée et membre de l'Ordre du Canada (1995), explique: «Patrick Wedd, Christopher Jackson et moi avons réuni nos choeurs deux fois déjà, pour des concerts du matin de Pâques à la radio de CBC. Je suis ravi que mes éminents collègues acceptent de renouveler l'expérience. Ce concert de gala est une occasion pour nous d'exprimer la profonde admiration que nous portons à Wah Keung Chan pour l'incomparable apport à la vie musicale qu'est La Scena Musicale.»

L'aventure de La Scena Musicale commençait en 1996, lorsque Wah Keung Chan publiait un calendrier musical sur deux pages des concerts présentés à Montréal; avec le temps, le petit bulletin s'est transformé en revue nationale des arts de la scène et de la musique avec articles de fond, critiques de disques et guides de l'enseignement de la musique ; plus récemment, La Scena Musicale s'est portée à la défense de la musique et des arts. « En assistant à cette soirée, dit l'éditeur, les amateurs de musique feront plus que s'offrir un magnifique concert, ils participeront avec La Scena Musicale à la promotion de la belle et grande musique partout au pays. »

Billets:

30 $ - réguliers

20 $ - étudiants et aînés (se les procurer à La Scena Musicale, au guichet de la faculté de musique de McGill ou aux points de vente Admission).

130 $ - les meilleurs sièges et réception pré-concert en compagnie des trois chefs de chœur (s'adresser directement à La Scena Musicale)

Pour voir le programme.

La Scena Musicale
Tél. : 514-948-2520
Courriel : gala2009@scena.org
(cartes VISA, MasterCard et AMEX)

Guichet de McGill:
Tél. : 514-398-4547.
(cartes VISA et MasterCard)

Points de vente Admission. Frais de service.

Three of Montreal's top choirs support La Scena Musicale in Valentine's Benefit Con

Three of Montreal's top choirs support La Scena Musicale in Valentine's Benefit Concert

Montreal--January 19, 2009-- Montreal's choral community is expressing their support for Wah Keung Chan, founding editor and publisher of the classical music magazine La Scena Musicale, by collaborating in a benefit concert supporting the publication. The event, scheduled for 8 p.m. on February 14, 2009, features three of Montreal's top choirs: Concerto Della Donna, Musica Orbium, and the Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, conducted by stalwarts of the Montreal choral scene Iwan Edwards, Patrick Wedd and Christopher Jackson, respectively. The ensembles will perform choral love songs from Gabrieli and Palestrina to Copland and Gershwin, with each choir singing their own segment and then joining forces for the finale.

Edwards, a Member of the Order of Canada since 1995 and the concert's artistic director, says, "Christopher, Patrick and I had worked together on the CBC Radio Easter Morning Sunrise Service from Montreal on two separate occasions, so I was delighted when these outstanding directors and their ensembles agreed to collaborate once again, particularly since it gave us the opportunity to express our admiration for Wah Keung Chan and the tremendous contribution he has made to classical music through La Scena Musicale."

Chan started the publication in 1996, as a 2-page newsletter focusing on Montreal concert listings; it soon grew to a full-fledged magazine covering arts and music nationwide, including articles, CD reviews, music education guides, and recently, it has come to the defense of music and the arts. Chan says, "by attending this concert, music lovers will not only be treated to a great evening of choral love songs, they will be partnering with La Scena Musicale in promoting high quality music-making across the country."

Tickets are $30 (regular price) and $20 (student/senior), available at La Scena Musicale, the McGill Box Office, and local Admission outlets. VIP seating and the chance to meet the conductors at a pre-concert reception are available for $130.

For more info about the concert and the programme, click here.

La Scena Musicale
Tel: (514) 948-2520
E-mail: gala2009@scena.org
(VISA, MasterCard, or AMEX accepted, VIP admission only available directly through LSM)

McGill box office:
514-398-4547.
(VISA or MasterCard accepted)

Admission outlets. Service charges apply.

514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595

Info: Dawna Coleman, 514-948-2520, dawnacoleman@scena.org