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Par Arthur Kaptainis le 22 octobre 2022
Not all prizes devoted to music composition yield prizeworthy results. Happily, one of three scores performed at the Azrieli Music Prizes gala Thursday night at the Maison symphonique handily won the all-important I Want To Hear It Again award while another took Big Hit With The Audience honours.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 23 mars 2022
Questioning the shaky logic behind cancelling musicians amid geopolitical tensions.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 14 juillet 2019
Notre critique Arthur Kaptainis s'est laissé charmer par la voix du ténor américain Michael Spyres au Festival de Lanaudière hier soir.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 14 mars 2019
Montreal, city of orchestras. We hear about the professional ensembles but must not forget the schools that supply them, including the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, which on Wednesday night assembled 100 instrumentalists and 350 choristers in the Maison symphonique for a concert intended to extend the celebration last year of the 75th anniversary of the institution.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 24 février 2019
What to do on a Saturday night? For many Montrealers, the answer appears to be: hear the OSM under Kent Nagano.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 22 février 2019
Say this for Walter Boudreau: the longtime artistic director of SMCQ keeps the society true to its modernist principles. The Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques festival opened Thursday in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste with a fiercely experimental concert. Crossover sissies need not apply.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 12 février 2019
OK, je le prends. Despite my initial skepticism over the concept driving the OSM’s four-day “Brahms and the Art of Film” (Le 7e Art et Brahms) cycle at the Maison symphonique, I could accept the final instalment as a pleasant sampler on a Sunday afternoon. Tenuous connections are connections just the same.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 8 février 2019
Take it or leave it: these are the possible ways of reacting to the philosophy behind the “Brahms and the Art of Film” (Le 7e Art et Brahms) series presented in the Maison symphonique by the OSM under Kent Nagano.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 22 décembre 2018
Add this to the list of honours earned lately by the Orchestre Métropolitain: The Ebenezer Scrooge Award for the least Christmassy concert ever given by a symphony orchestra four days before Christmas.
(Continuer)Par Arthur Kaptainis le 5 août 2018
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein is compulsory in the United States, optional elsewhere. I confess to approaching the penultimate concert of the 2018 Lanaudière Festival on Saturday night with a touch of oh-please-not-him-again skepticism. I left with my respect for Bernstein the composer renewed.
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