"From Russia With Love", Classical Benefit Concert for Philippine Soldiers for the Environment

"From Russia With Love"

Benefit Concert for Philippine Soldiers

Cultural Center of the Philippines, 19 Nov 2008 @ 8:00 P.M.

Featuring

Katya Grineva (Russia), Steinway Artist & Carnegie Hall Performer

Accompanied by

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Conducted by David Harutyunyan (Armenia), Lead Conductor of the Orchestra Symph��nica de Guyaquile, Ecuador

With Special Guest Performance by

Joanna Ong Go (Philippines), Soprano, Clarion Chamber Ensemble

30 October 2008, Manila. "From Russia With Love" celebrates a first-time performance bringing together world-class talents Katya Grineva, Russian Steinway Artist and Carnegie Hall regular (romantic & classical piano); our very own Joanna Ong Go (opera); and David Harutyunyan (world conductor) - each of whom rank top in their fields - for a magical evening of romantics, classics and opera this November 19^th at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

Benefit Concert Dedicated to Environmental, Social & Community Development Projects in the Philippines

Katya has delighted her audiences at concerts from New York to Moscow , Guam and Kenya , for presidents and royalties to governments and charities across the globe. Despite her demanding concert schedule, she finds time to perform for non-profit communities to help raise awareness for specific causes. In November 2006, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo presented Katya Grineva with the Gusi Peace Prize, awarded to "distinguished individuals or groups worldwide with exemplary contributions to peace and human rights".

"I am so pleased that my friends Joanna Ong Go and David Harutyunyan have agreed to join me to support environmental and civic work here in the Philippines , the results of which I am sure will surely go a long way in helping local communities develop livelihoods," says Katya.

Mdme Amelita "Ming Ramos", former First Lady of the Philippines and Russian Ambassador to the Philippines, H.E. Vitaly Y. Vorobiev, will make the opening remarks.

Tickets can be obtained from the following:

• CCP Box Offie at telephone: +63 2 8323704;
• Tickets on line: www.ticketworld.com.ph (ref: "From Russia With Love");
• Ticketworld: +63 2 8919999
• National Bookstore Outlets, The Philippines.
  

About the Artistes

Katya Grineva (Russia), Steinway Artist & Carnegie Hall Performer. Born in Moscow , Ms. Grineva began piano studies at age six with the Moscow Music School . She continued under the aegis of the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, at which point she started giving recitals and experiencing the "special and spontaneous" interaction between artist and audience, which is now the hallmark of her performances. Ms. Grineva has been a soloist with the Acadiana Symphony, the ARS Nova Musicians Chamber Orchestra, the Manhattan Virtuosi Orchestra and the European Philharmonic Orchestra in France. Her recitals have captivated audiences at the Laurier Society in Paris and in one of the most prestigious concert halls in Paris, Salle Gaveau. Since April 1998 Steinway and Sons has awarded Katya the honorable title of Steinway Artist. Ms. Grineva has made a specialty of the romantic piano music and recorded three CDs: "From Katya with Love", "Katya From the Heart" and "Katya...Inspiration Bleu". Visit: www.katyagrineva.com

Joanna Ong Go (Philippines), Soprano, Clarion Chamber Ensemble.

Renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes to give Master Class

Opera superstar Sherrill Milnes to visit faculty of music for master classes

"Milnes knows exactly how to clothe his voice with the unique mixture of lyricism and bravado that Verdi demands. It was vintage Verdi, sung by a master of this extremely difficult art." �� Detroit Free Press

TORONTO ��� Universally acclaimed as the foremost operatic baritone of his generation, American opera superstar Sherrill Milnes will visit the University of Toronto as the Faculty of Music���s John R. Stratton Visiting Artist for two voice master classes. A superstar in every sense, Milnes���s remarkable voice, artistic integrity, commanding stage presence and rugged handsomeness have made him a favorite for all audiences. Details of the master classes are as follows:

Friday, November 7, 2008
7:30 ��� 10 pm. Walter Hall. Free

Saturday, November 8, 2008
2:30 ��� 5 pm. Walter Hall. Free

Sherrill Milnes has conquered all of the great opera capitals of the world: the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; La Scala, Milan; Berlin's Deutsche Oper; the Paris Opera; Buenos Aires' famed Teatro Colon; the Liceu in Barcelona; the Bavarian State Opera in Munich; the Salzburg Festival; the Hamburg Opera and Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. He has also appeared with the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the opera companies of Pittsburgh, San Diego, Miami and Denver, among others in the United States. At the Metropolitan Opera he has been honored with 16 new productions, seven opening nights, and ten national telecasts, and he also performed at the 25th anniversary gala honoring James Levine. In 2008 he is honored with the receipt of the Opera News Award for Distinguished Achievement.

In recent seasons, Sherrill Milnes expanded his vast operatic repertoire to include performances of new roles, including the title role in Falstaff (several productions including New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Baltimore Opera); Count Westmoreland in Wolf-Ferrari's Sly (Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, Washington Opera on tour in Japan); Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Ravinia Festival); the title role in Gianni Schicchi (Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, also with performances of Michele in Il Tabarro); and Ajax in Georges Antheil's Transatlantic (Minnesota Opera, United States premiere). However, Mr. Milnes continued to perform most of the roles which have brought him great acclaim, including Amonasro in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera; Scarpia in Tosca (Budapest and Torre del Lago); Iago in Otello (Budapest and Karlruhe); Mendelssohn's Elijah (performances throughout the United States); Gerard in Andrea Chenier (Pittsburgh Opera); Germont in La Traviata (L'Op��ra de Montr��al); and performances of Verdi and Puccini arias with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

Mr. Milnes was also in great demand as a recitalist and in concert, appearing on the world's major recital stages and with the great orchestras of North America and Europe. He had the honor of performing for every United States president since Gerald Ford, and has appeared in recital at the White House at the request of Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.

Conducting has become an integral part of Mr. Milnes' multi-faceted career. Two recent engagements include Elijah at Carnegie Hall (which marked his New York conducting debut), and Aida with Opera Memphis (his operatic conducting debut).

He has the distinction of being the most recorded American opera singer, with a discography encompassing his great opera roles, as well as lieder, oratorio, symphony and Broadway. His recordings of Cos�� fan tutte, Aida, and La boh��me had the distinction of receiving Grammy Awards, and his recordings of Brahms's Four Serious Songs (with Erich Leinsdorf at the piano) and the sacred recording Amazing Grace received Grammy Award nominations. In 1997, Video Arts International (VAI) released two of several live recital albums: There but for You Go I and Kingdom by the Sea. The baritone is also featured on three music videos: Homage to Verdi, Sherrill Milnes: All Star Gala, and Sherrill Milnes at Juilliard: An Opera Master Class, as well as on his Metropolitan Opera performances on current release. His autobiography, American Aria: From Farm Boy to Opera Star, was published by Schirmer Books.

Throughout his remarkable career, Mr. Milnes has shown an affinity for Verdi, whose works form the cornerstone of his repertoire which comprises some 70 roles, including the lead baritone roles in Otello, Don Carlo, Aida, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Luisa Miller, Ernani, and Un Ballo in Maschera, as well as the monumental title roles of Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, and Nabucco, all sung to overwhelming acclaim. He has also triumphed as Mozart's Don Giovanni, at the famed Salzburg Festival, as well as Bizet's Escamillo in Carmen, Rossini's Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini's Scarpia in Tosca, Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West, Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, Athanael in Massenet's Tha��s, and the title role of Henry VIII by Saint-Sa��ns, among many others.

Mr. Milnes grew up on a dairy farm in Downers Grove, Illinois. Despite a childhood devoted to daily chores, he, in addition to taking voice lessons, studied piano, violin, viola, double bass, clarinet and tuba. But when it came time for college, he could see no future in music and pursued pre-medical studies. After a year and a half, however, during which he had banished music from his life, he realized that it was his true calling and enrolled at Drake University where he studied with Andrew White, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in music in the hope of becoming a teacher. Additional graduate studies with Hermanus Baer followed at Northwestern University. During these years, the young baritone supported himself by playing in local jazz bands and singing wherever he could at women's clubs, with local opera groups, in churches and synagogues, and for television and radio commercials. A great opportunity came when the baritone won an audition with the Boris Goldovsky Opera Company, an event he has called the "luckiest possible beginning" for his career. He toured throughout the United States with the Goldovsky Opera Company - over 100,000 miles by bus - singing in over 300 performances of more than a dozen roles.

It is fitting that the career of this artist was launched in his native land, belying the notion that singers must work their way through the small European opera houses before earning the respect of American critics and audiences. In fact, it was at the quintessential American house, the New York City Opera, that Mr. Milnes made his first important debut, Valentin in Gounod's Faust. It was in this same role that Sherrill Milnes made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera to great public and critical acclaim. Sherrill Milnes was launched to stardom, however, when his riveting performance as Miller in Verdi's Luisa Miller literally stopped the show at the Met and immediately made him the dominant baritone of our time. His international career began with a triumphant Macbeth at the Vienna Staatsoper.

The baritone has received numerous honors during his distinguished career, including seven honorary doctoral degrees. He is particularly proud of being named as a Commendatore of the Italian Republic for his long commitment to Italian opera. In 1987 he received New York City's Seal of Recognition for his rich contribution to the city's cultural life. Mr. Milnes was also chosen by the American Bible Society to receive the 25 millionth copy of its Good News Bible, and in 1993 he organized a benefit concert in Vienna's famed St. Stephen's Cathedral for the victims of the Bosnia-Herzegovina War. In September 1996, Mr. Milnes was honored by the French government with the distinguished Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2003 he became a member of the Lincoln Academy, the highest honor awarded by the state of Illinois.

Sherrill Milnes has worked extensively with young singers throughout his career, including master classes and more extensive teaching during his concert and opera tours. He has led master classes at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools in New York, at major universities throughout the country, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. More extensive teaching has been done at the Yale University School of Music, Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, at the Northern Royal College of Music in Manchester, the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy. Mr. Milnes has judged several international competitions including the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He is currently the John Evans Distinguished Professor of Music at Northwestern University.

In 2000, Mr. Milnes with his wife Maria Zouves, founded VOICExperience, a not-for-profit organization. VOICExperience helps young singers develop and pursue their careers with programming throughout the country. They bring the best coaches and teachers, as well as the stars, from both the operatic and theatrical world to interact with the singers.

SHIFT Festival

SHIFT

Movement and meaning between Canada and the Netherlands

A Festival of Canadian and Dutch Music, Film and Literature

Muziekgebouw aan ���t IJ in Amsterdam: November 18 ��� 22, 2008

Harbourfront and the Music Gallery in Toronto: February 25 ��� March 3, 2009

http://www.shift-festival.ca/

For Immediate Release ��� Toronto, October 31, 2008: Continuum Contemporary Music is pleased to announce SHIFT, a festival of Canadian and Dutch music, film and literature, taking place November 18-22, 2008 in Amsterdam and February 25-March 3, 2009 in Toronto. Programmed by some of Canada���s top artistic voices ��� Continuum Contemporary Music, Authors at Harboufront Centre and The Images Festival, in collaboration with The Netherlands��� influential Muziek Centrum Nederland (formerly Gaudeamus) and the internationally acclaimed Asko|Sch��nberg and Ives ensembles -- in Amsterdam SHIFT is hosted by the architecturally stunning new Muziekgebouw aan ���t IJ while Canadian activities take place at Toronto���s jewel of the waterfront, Harbourfront Centre, as well as the Music Gallery.

Amsterdam events include concerts, pre-concert talks moderated by well-known Dutch cultural critics, a live VPRO Radio broadcast, film and live music collaborations, late night screenings of film and video, and panel discussions featuring authors from both countries, one of which will be recorded for later broadcast on CBC radio. With 36 Canadian artists represented, 29 of them present, SHIFT is the largest festival of Canadian art to take place in Europe in many years. Added to those numbers are 42 Dutch musicians, composers, filmmakers and writers, making SHIFT an exceptional cultural event.

SHIFT was conceived by Continuum���s Artistic Director Jennifer Waring during her Metcalf Foundation funded residency with Gaudeamus in 2005-06. At its root, the festival is an investigation of the bond between the two markedly different countries, created during the Second World War and through the subsequent wave of immigration to Canada, and provides a new perspective on the relationship. She writes, ���The Netherlands is small, rich in human history, and still comparatively uniform in makeup; Canada is large, young as a modern state, and diverse in its population. In these rather obvious factors the countries are diametrically opposed, and to an expatriate ��� a privilege I had on and off over seven years ��� the contrast is a head-swiveling, breathtaking experience that can provoke hyperactive theorizing. But a base of common outlook and perception prevents total disorientation and makes comparison possible. Beyond these is an ineffable but strong affinity.���

SHIFT���s musical highlights include:

• On November 18, a performance by the one of the world���s premiere new music ensembles, the ASKO|Sch��nberg Ensemble, with internationally acclaimed Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan and conductor Etienne Siebens. The programme features premieres funded by The Canada Council for the Arts by James Rolfe and Michael Oesterle, as well as the Dutch premiere of Lettura di Dante by the late Claude Vivier and a new work by the young Dutch composer Corrie van Binsbergen;
• On November 19, a performance by Quatuor Bozzini, twice winner of the Prix Opus from Conseil qu��b��cois de la musique featuring works by Canadian composers Martin Arnold and Michael Oesterle, and Dutch composers Richard Ayres, Hanna Kulenty and Martijn Voorvelt.
• On November 20, a joint concert by Continuum and the Ives Ensemble. Recognized as leaders in new music in their respective countries, IE and Continuum premiere music written for the combined ensembles ��� Linda Bouchard (CA) (funded by the Canada Council for the Arts) and Guus Janssen (NL) (funded by Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten NFPK+) and for the separate ensembles ��� Makye Nas (NL) for Continuum, and Gyula Csapo for IE. Continuum also performs raW (by James Rolfe), winner of the 2006 Jules-L��ger Prize. The concert will be broadcast live by VPRO Radio.

SHIFT features an ambitious programme of film and music collaboration in Notes on Composing: 5 collaborations in film and music, November 21. The result of a programming collaboration between Continuum Contemporary Music and The Images Festival, Notes on Composing features world premieres of five short films with live music performed by Continuum and violinist/composer Malcolm Goldstein. Most of the collaborating artists had never met or worked together ��� as Images Festival Artistic Director Pablo de Ocampo writes, ���these collaborations represent something of a leap in faith, or a dare on the part of all the parties involved.���

• Winnipeg-based Guy Maddin (a multiple award-winner at local and international film festivals including Best Canadian Feature at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival for My Winnipeg) working with the brilliant British/Dutch composer Richard Ayres;

• video artist Vera Frenkel (winner of the 2006 Governor General���s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Canada Council Molson Prize, the Bell Canada Award for Video Art, the 2006 Governor General���s Award and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts) working with acclaimed Toronto percussionist and composer Rick Sacks;
• Canadian filmmaker Da��chi Sa��to working with one of the originators of North American musical experimentalism, Montreal-based Malcolm Goldstein;
• environmental biologist turned filmmaker Christina Battle working with Toronto composer Martin Arnold;
• Toronto-based filmmaker and poet Clive Holden working with Rotterdam composer Oscar van Dillen.

The program will be repeated in Toronto on opening night of The Images Festival in April 2009.

SHIFT will also feature two nights of screenings of short films from Canada and The Netherlands, curated by The Images Festival and The Impakt Festival (Utrecht) respectively.

Programming for the literature component of SHIFT has been undertaken by Authors at Harbourfront Centre, with events in Amsterdam falling under the banner of the International Festival of Authors (IFOA). In its 35 year history, Authors at Harbourfront Centre has presented more than 5,000 authors from more than 100 countries. The world-renowned IFOA, now in its 29th year, annually presents more than 100 authors ��� established and emerging ��� from around the world as part of an 11-day festival each October. IFOA Amsterdam is the first time an element of the Festival has been presented overseas. Events in both Amsterdam and in Toronto feature panel discussions in which Canadian and Dutch authors at different stages in their career open up new debates around literature, culture, and shared international perspectives. The line-up for Amsterdam is: From Canada: Dionne Brand (What We All Long For, Inventory), Lewis DeSoto (A Blade of Grass), Helen Humphreys (Wild Dogs, Coventry), Andrew Pyper (Lost Girls, The Killing Circle), and, as event moderator, Eleanor Wachtel (host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company). From The Netherlands: Gerbrand Bakker (The Twin), Lieve Joris (The Rebels' Hour), Lucette ter Borg (The Gift from Berlin), Anja Sicking (The Silent Sin), and, as event moderator, Micha��l Zeeman (cultural correspondent for de Volkskrant). Canadian author Richard Clewes (Finding Lily) hosts all events. The discussion moderated by Eleanor Wachtel will be recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio. Continuum has worked with Authors at Harbourfront Centre Director Geoffrey Taylor to set up these author events.

Continuum Contemporary Music presents the work of emerging Canadian composers alongside works by established national and international composers in its concert series, at festivals, on tour, over the air waves and through recordings. The Chalmers Award-winning group has generated interdisciplinary projects with celebrated Vancouver choreographer Conrad Alexandrowicz; Montreal video artist Ramona Ramlochand; and John Oswald. For l'Oreille Fine, Continuum combined new music and philosophy in concerts and a symposium wherein philosophers, poets and critics dealt with the subject of new music. Formed in 1985, Continuum has a core ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion which is often varied and combined with electronics. The organization has commissioned and premiered over 100 new works from emerging and established Canadian composers; increasingly it commissions international composers. Continuum toured Canada in 1999 and Europe in 2003, and will be on tour again in the fall of 2008, with performances in Aberdeen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam and Huddersfield. It has released two CD's on its own label, recorded one for Centrediscs and has two CD projects in the works.

Established in 1987, The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. From Super-8 and hand-tinted celluloid to the latest video art, Images has presented thousands of films and media based projects in our 21+ year history. Images is committed to an expanded concept of film and video practice: alongside film and video screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in local galleries and new media projects by many renowned Canadian and international artists. We go out of our way and over the edge to provide Toronto with an annual extravaganza of image making. Attended by more than 30,000 people each year, Toronto���s 2nd oldest film festival is a critical forum for the independent media arts in Canada and around the world and provides artists with a supportive and professional forum in which to present their projects. Many influential media artists have been nurtured by Images��� willingness to embrace new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field. The Images Festival exhibits and encourages the work of artists producing film and video outside of mainstream commercial production, distribution systems and aesthetic conventions. In addition to the international competition programs drawn from submissions to the festival, Images includes artists' retrospectives, national and regional cinema spotlights, publishing projects, touring programs and special guest-curated sections.

The world renowned Authors at Harbourfront Centre programme is home to a weekly reading series (September to June), the annual International Festival of Authors (IFOA) (October) and, for younger readers, YoungIFOA (October), ALOUD: a Celebration for Young Readers (May) and Forest of Reading�� Festival of Trees�Ѣ (May). Established in 1974, Authors at Harbourfront Centre's mandate is to present the world's most important and influential authors and distinctive new writers, Canadian and international, in a forum that celebrates books and writing. The programme provides Canadian authors with an internationally recognized platform on which to present their work, and fosters an awareness in its audiences of the variety and richness of writing from Canada and around the world. Since programming began, Authors at Harbourfront Centre has presented more than 5,000 authors, including 15 Nobel Laureates and countless other prize winners, on its stages. In 1980, the fledgling IFOA became the first international literary festival in North America. At that time it presented 18 poets over 6 days. Twenty-nine years later, IFOA continues to grow. The 2008 festival included nearly 70 public events, featuring writers of fiction, non-fiction, travel writing, poetry, graphic novels, and books for younger readers in a series of readings, interviews, and panel discussions. Annual special events include readings by the authors shortlisted for the three major Canadian fiction awards, the awarding of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize, and a gala benefit to support of PEN Canada.

Continuum is supported through grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the city of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council; the Metcalf Foundation's Strategic Initiatives programme; the SOCAN, Emerald and McLean foundations; by patrons Aurora Tewksbury Reford, Ann Southam and Christopher Des Brisay; by the accounting firm Newman & Sversky; and as well, through the generosity of many private donors.

SHIFT is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Muziek Centrum Nederland, Muziekgebouw aan ���t IJ, the Consulate-General of The Netherlands, the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu��bec, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Charles Street Video and a variety of individual and corporate donors.

For more information on SHIFT please contact Festival Coordinator Josh Grossman at (416) 924-4945 or josh@continuumusic.org , or visit www.shift-festival.ca .

Ticket prices will be posted shortly.

La Coalition canadienne des arts souhaite la bienvenue au nouveau ministre du Patrimoine canadien

La Coalition canadienne des arts souhaite la bienvenue au nouveau ministre du Patrimoine canadien

Le 31 octobre 2008 - La Coalition canadienne des arts f��licite M. James Moore, le nouveau ministre du Patrimoine canadien et des Langues officielles, �� l'occasion de sa nomination au Cabinet.

�� Il nous tarde, a d��clar�� la copr��sidente du Comit�� directeur de la Coalition, Anne-Marie Jean, de travailler avec le ministre pour faire respecter la garantie donn��e par le Parti conservateur, �� savoir que "les arts sont essentiels �� notre pays et �� nos collectivit��s." ��

Durant la campagne ��lectorale, tous les partis ont confirm�� qu'ils attachaient une grande valeur au maintien d'une bonne qualit�� de vie pour les Canadiens et ils ont reconnu l'importance des arts et de la culture pour le Canada. �� Nous croyons que des exp��riences artistiques et culturelles exceptionnelles et accessibles constituent une composante essentielle de cette bonne qualit�� de vie qui fait la r��putation du Canada, a r��it��r�� Mme Jean. Nous sommes impatients de travailler avec le gouvernement pour renforcer les programmes, les politiques et les investissements au chapitre des arts et de la culture qui visent �� appuyer le secteur canadien des arts et de la culture, dont la contribution �� notre PIB atteint 46 milliards de dollars. ��

La Coalition canadienne des arts qui repr��sente le plus grand consortium appuyant les arts, la culture et le patrimoine, r��clame un financement accru au programme f��d��ral artistique et culturel. Une communaut�� des arts et de la culture florissante, soutenue par un financement ad��quat du gouvernement f��d��ral, placera le Canada dans le peloton de t��te des soci��t��s dont la strat��gie de d��veloppement marie brillamment innovation, excellence, coh��sion sociale et prosp��rit�� ��conomique.

Fr��d��rick De Grandpr�� au GEMU

IndigoSwingRumore
dates: samedi 8 novembre 2008, 20H00
endroit: Maison de la Culture Mercier
8105 Hochelaga Mtl. Qc.
Spectacles gratuits avec laissez-passer
informations: 514.872.8755

Suite �� une prestation enlevante au Festival 3e Art ce printemps dernier �� Mercier, Robert Pr��vost est de retour �� la demande g��n��rale et propose IndigoSwingRumore. Ce concert met en sc��ne 30 des meilleurs musiciens montr��alais et pr��sente des airs favoris arrang��s de fa��on nouvelle et rafra��chissante. Pour cette occasion, Robert Pr��vost re��oit des invit��s de marque : Fr��d��rick De Grandpr��, Victoria Doyon et Hugo St-Cyr.

Le charme crooner de Monsieur De Grandpr�� sera en effervescence alors qu'il interpr��tera avec le GEMU des succ��s popularis��s par Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin et Harry Connick jr.. Il faut entendre Victoria Doyon ��� reconnue entre autres pour son travail vocal avec Garou ��� colorer le swing de son empreinte tr��s personnelle et voir Hugo St-Cyr jouer de la batterie jazz avec une passion epoustouflante!

Le GEMU pr��sente un style �� la crois��e des musiques d'aujourd'hui ; le big-band est pr��sent�� ici en version moderne et ��clat��e, enti��rement revigor��. Le GEMU est reconnu comme ��tant un des ensembles les plus excitants de la sc��ne montr��alaise ; ce spectacle promet d'��tre excitant et exceptionnel... �� ne pas manquer!!!

Le nombre de places est limit�� et les laissez-passer pour ce spectacle gratuit sont pr��sentement disponibles �� la Maison de la Culture Mercier.

Trio Hochelaga en concert �� Montr��al le 10 novembre

De retour d���une tourn��e en Chine, le Trio Hochelaga est heureux de vous inviter �� son prochain concert
pr��sent�� �� Montr��al �� la Salle Redpath de l'Universit�� McGill, le lundi 10 novembre 2008, �� 20 h.

Au programme :

�Ģ Joseph Haydn - Trio no 15, en sol majeur, Hob. XV
�Ģ Th��odore Dubois - Trio no 1, en do mineur
�Ģ F��lix Mendelssohn - Trio no 1, en r�� mineur, opus 49

Co��t des billets : ��tudiants 5 $ - adultes 20 $ (taxe incluse) - Billets en vente �� la porte avant le concert.

Salle Redpath de l'Universit�� McGill, 3461 McTavish, Montr��al (M��tro McGill)
Ce concert sera aussi pr��sent�� �� Ottawa, le dimanche 9 novembre, �� 15 h, au Pavillon Tabaret de l'Universit�� d'Ottawa


Fond�� en 2000, le Trio Hochelaga s���est tr��s rapidement distingu�� sur la sc��ne musicale canadienne comme l���un des plus importants ensembles de musique de chambre au pays. La violoniste Anne Robert, le violoncelliste Paul Marleyn, et le pianiste St��phane Lemelin ont choisi de partager leur passion pour un r��pertoire de musique de chambre allant de l���poque classique �� la musique d���aujourd���hui. Interpr��tes des grandes ��uvres du r��pertoire, ils accordent une place particuli��re �� la musique fran��aise, dont ils se donnent le mandat d���explorer les richesses m��connues.

Le Trio Hochelaga a d��s ses d��buts ��t�� invit�� �� participer aux principaux festivals d���t�� de l���est du Canada, dont le Festival international de Lanaudi��re, le Festival international de musique de chambre d���Ottawa, le Festival of the Sound, et le Festival du Centre d���Arts d���Orford. En 2003, le Trio Hochelaga a cr���� le Triple Concerto de Jacques H��tu, avec l���Orchestre symphonique de Montr��al au Festival de Lanaudi��re. Parmi les faits saillants d���une tourn��e �� Taiwan et au Japon en 2004, notons l���invitation �� se produire avec le Tokyo New City Orchestra dans le Triple Concerto de Beethoven au Sumida Triphony Hall de Tokyo.

www.triohochelaga.com

Giorgia Fumanti en concerts au Qu��bec pour le temps des F��tes

Apr��s avoir fait un malheur aux Jeux olympiques de Beijing

Giorgia Fumanti

nous revient pour une

s��rie de concerts du temps des F��tes!

Montr��al, le 30 octobre 2008 ��� De retour �� la maison apr��s avoir ��lectris�� des millions de Chinois �� l���occasion de m��morables prestations livr��es aux Jeux olympiques de P��kin et au Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival, voil�� que l���envo��tante soprano qu��b��coise d���origine italienne Giorgia Fumanti est �� mettre au point les derniers pr��paratifs en vue d���une mini-tourn��e de concerts aux couleurs du temps des F��tes, qu���elle s���appr��te �� effectuer dans quelques salles et ��glises de la Belle province. Une occasion en or (et�Ķ en art!) de voir et, surtout, d���entendre de pr��s celle qui a d��sormais l���habitude de briller devant plusieurs milliers de spectateurs, sur les sc��nes comptant parmi les plus prestigieuses au monde.

Si elle est des plus fi��res d���offrir prochainement aux Qu��b��cois un tout premier album de langue fran��aise (Je Suis, en magasin le 18 novembre), reste que son ultime plaisir r��side dans ce partage d���motions qu���elle vit avec son premier public, le public d���ici, lorsqu���elle ne fait qu���un avec la sc��ne. Pour l���heure, les dates et les endroits suivants de cette �� rentr��e �� qu��b��coise ont ��t�� confirm��s :

Le samedi 29 novembre | 20 h ��� ��glise de la Purification

445, rue Notre-Dame, �� Repentigny
Infos : Isba Music, ��dith Provost 450.669.4088

Le dimanche 30 novembre | 15 h ��� ��glise Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly

164, rue Martel , �� Chambly
Infos : 450.658.1568 ou 819.679.0313

Le samedi 6 d��cembre | 20 h ��� Chapelle Saint-��douard

364, Chemin Knowlton, au Lac Brome
Infos : 450.242.2870 ��� Sans frais : 1.877.242.2870

Le dimanche 7 d��cembre | 15 h 30 ��� ��glise de Val-Morin

6149 rue Morin, �� Val-Morin

Infos : Isba Music, ��dith Provost 450.669.4088

Le dimanche 21 d��cembre | 19 h ��� Th����tre du Vieux-Terrebonne

866, rue Saint-Pierre, �� Terrebonne

www.theatreduvieuxterrebonne.com

Billets en vente : �� la billetterie du Th����tre du Vieux-Terrebonne
450.492.4777 ��� Sans frais : 1.866.404.4777

Par internet : www.admission.com, ou au 514.790.1245

CCA applauds CRTC's decision to support Canada's cultural sector / La Conf��rence canadienne des arts se r��jouit de la d��cision du CRTC d'appuyer la programmation canadienne

CCA applauds CRTC���s decision to support Canada���s cultural sector

The CRTC���s decision to support local Canadian programming clearly meets the requirements of Canada���s broadcasting legislation and Canadians��� desire, for more and better-funded Canadian programming, says Canada���s oldest and largest arts advocacy and cultural policy development organization, the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA).

���By strengthening cable and satellite companies��� financial commitments to Canadian content and enabling broadcasters in all but five locations to improve the local service they provide to Canadian audiences, the CRTC has acted to ensure that most Canadians will be able to hear and watch more high-quality programming made about Canadians, by Canadians and for Canadians,��� said CCA���s National Director, Alain Pineau. ���We are delighted that after so many years of deregulatory policies whose perverse result was to encourage increased spending on foreign imports at the detriment of programs made in Canada, the Commission is now acting to support and strengthen Canada���s cultural sector.���

Pineau also welcomed the CRTC���s clear desire for enforceable and enforced programming objectives. ���Setting out measurable local programming targets in the CRTC spring 2009 TV licence renewal hearings is the most effective and efficient way to ensure that Parliament���s objectives for our broadcasting system are being met,��� said Pineau. ���CCA welcomes the Commission���s decision to act in light of the benefits its policy will bring to the economy through increased employment and opportunities for investment.���

CCA���s written and oral presentation to the CRTC focussed on the need for effective and efficient regulation in the public interest, and emphasized the importance of the cultural sector to the economy as a whole. According to a Conference Board of Canada report published in August 2008, every dollar of real value-added GDP produced by Canada���s culture industries, generates roughly $1.84 to Canada���s overall real GDP.

CCA���s mandate is to be the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada; to provide research, analysis and consultations on public policies affecting the arts and the Canadian cultural institutions and industries; to foster informed public debates on policy issues; and to seek to advance the cultural rights of Canadians.

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La Conf��rence canadienne des arts se r��jouit de la d��cision du CRTC d���appuyer la programmation canadienne

La Conf��rence canadienne des arts (CCA) estime que la d��cision du CRTC d���appuyer la production d���missions locales canadiennes est conforme aux objectifs de la Loi sur la radiodiffusion et au d��sir des citoyens d���avoir acc��s �� des programmes de qualit�� qui r��fl��tent leur r��alit�� proche.

Selon le directeur g��n��ral de la CCA, Alain Pineau, �� En refor��ant les obligations financi��res des compagnies de c��ble et de satellite et en donnant aux diffuseurs partout sauf dans cinq localit��s les moyens d���am��liorer leurs services locaux, le Conseil a fait en sorte que la majorit�� des citoyens pourront voir davantage de programmes de meilleure qualit��, faits pour eux et pr��s de chez eux. �� M. Pineau a ajout��: �� Nous sommes ravis qu���apr��s tant d���ann��es de d��reglementation dont l���effet principal aura ��t�� d���augmenter l���achat d���missions ��trang��res aux d��pens de la production domestique, le CRTC agit maintenant de fa��on �� renforcer notre culture nationale. ��

La CCA se r��jouit ��galement de voir le CRTC adopter des mesures pour que les objectifs de programmation fix��s soient effectivement respect��s. �� En ��tablissant des cibles quantifi��es de programmation lorsqu���il proc��dera au printemps 2009 au renouvellement des licences des diffuseurs priv��s, le CRTC a choisi la fa��on la plus efficace et efficiente de mesurer comment sont atteints les objectifs culturels que le Parlement canadien a fix��s pour notre syst��me de radiodiffusion ��, d��clare Alain Pineau. �� La CCA accueille avec satisfaction cette d��cision du Conseil qui entra��nera de plus des b��n��fices ��conomiques en cr��ant de l���emploi et des possibilit��s d���investissement. ��

Les pr��sentations de la CCA devant le CRTC ��taient centr��es sur le besoin d���une r��glementation effective et efficace, visant l���int��r��t public en g��n��ral et reconnaissant l���importance du secteur culturel dans la soci��t�� et l���conomie canadienne. Selon une ��tude r��cente du Conference Board du Canada, chaque dollar de valeur ajout��e par les activit��s culturelles au pays contribue ultimement l���quivalent de 1,84 $ au produit national brut.

Le mandat de la Conf��rence canadienne des arts (CCA) est d���tre le forum national de la communaut�� artistique et culturelle au Canada. Elle effectue des recherches, produit des analyses et fournit des expertises sur les politiques publiques concernant les arts, les institutions et les industries culturelles canadiennes. La CCA favorise et ��claire le d��bat public entourant les enjeux politiques et travaille �� la promotion des droits des Canadiens en mati��re de culture.

Canadian Arts Coalition Welcomes New Minister of Canadian Heritage

Canadian Arts Coalition Welcomes New Minister of Canadian Heritage

October 31, 2008 - The Canadian Arts Coalition congratulates Mr. James Moore, the new Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages on his appointment to Cabinet.

"We are eager to begin working with the new Minister to fulfill the Conservative Party's assurance that 'the arts are essential to our country and our communities,'" says Anne-Marie Jean, co-chair of the Coalition's Steering Committee.

During the election campaign, all parties affirmed the value they place in continuing to provide a high quality of life for Canadians, and recognized the importance of arts and culture for Canada. "We believe that outstanding, accessible arts and culture experiences are an essential component of that high quality of life for which Canada is known," reinforced Jean. "We look forward to working with the government to strengthen arts and culture programs, policies, and investments to support the Canadian arts and culture sector, one that contributes $46 billion to our GDP."

The Canadian Arts Coalition is Canada's largest consortium of arts, culture and heritage supporters advocating for increased federal investment in arts and culture. We believe that a thriving arts and culture sector, supported by adequate investment by the federal government, will place Canada at the forefront of a global society that values innovation, excellence, social cohesion and economic prosperity.

NAC Orchestra to perform for 1,400 students and teachers

NAC Orchestra to perform for 1,400 students and teachers at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton on November 4^th

First concert ever by a major Canadian orchestra at CFB Edmonton

Edmonton, Alberta ��� Canada���s National Arts Centre Orchestra will perform a student matinee at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton Field House on Tuesday, November 4^th, 2008, at 1:15 p.m. This will be the first time a major Canadian orchestra has performed at CFB Edmonton.

Media are asked to report to the front lobby of the Edmonton Garrison Military Fitness Centre on the corner of Range Road 244 and Mons Avenue at CFB Edmonton.

This event is part of the Ottawa-based Orchestra���s three-week Western Canada Tour featuring 13 concerts in 10 cities, as well as 135 education events in 27 communities from Victoria, to the Yukon, to Winnipeg.

During Tuesday���s concert, the NAC Orchestra will perform a program called Bravo Beethoven! for 1,400 students and teachers from the base���s Guthrie Elementary School as well as from other area schools. During the performance, students will be invited to sing and play along on recorders with the NAC Orchestra to Beethoven���s Ode to Joy.

This special concert will be led by the NAC Orchestra���s Principal Youth and Family Conductor Boris Brott, and will feature young Victoria-born violinist Nikki Chooi, as well as actor Peter Duschenes in the role of Ludwig van Beethoven.

While at CFB Edmonton, selected NAC Orchestra musicians will lead instrumental clinics from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for musicians of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band.

En route vers le 1er Gala de la musique �� Qu��bec

En route vers le 1^er Gala de la musique de Qu��bec�Ķ

Qu��bec, le 30 octobre 2008 ��� La premi��re rencontre d���information tenue par les producteurs du Gala de la musique de Qu��bec (GMQ) s���est tenue le 19 octobre dernier �� l���Imp��rial de Qu��bec. Les membres pr��sents ont pu prendre connaissance en d��tail du projet de gala pour la grande r��gion de Qu��bec et ont vot�� �� l���unanimit�� pour la tenue du premier Gala de la musique ainsi que pour la mise sur pied d���une association pour les repr��senter. L���Association des professionnels en musique de la grande r��gion de Qu��bec (APMGRQ) vise �� structurer le milieu de la musique �� Qu��bec et �� rassembler ses artisans. Mme Annie Poulain, auteure-compositrice-interpr��te et musicienne professionnelle, est d��s maintenant nomm��e pr��sidente de l���APMGRQ.

Mme Poulain se fixe deux mandats principaux, soit de constituer un ex��cutif et de stimuler l���adh��sion des membres �� l���APMGRQ. �� Il me fait plaisir de m���impliquer dans l���organisation de l���APMGRQ et du Gala. Le travail d��j�� fait est colossal et les id��es qu���il contient sont porteuses pour le milieu de la musique de Qu��bec. J���invite tout le monde �� s���inscrire �� l���APMGRQ et �� mettre leur production en nomination. ��

Une opportunit�� pour les musiciens et artisans de Qu��bec�Ķ

L���APMGRQ, comptant 58 membres, invite les artistes, artisans, techniciens et groupes de musique �� profiter du Gala de la musique de Qu��bec pour se faire entendre en mettant leur travail, leur musique, leur album, leur clip et leur site Web en candidature. Pour participer �� une des plus grandes r��unions artistiques de Qu��bec, les artisans int��ress��s ont maintenant jusqu���au 31 d��cembre 2008 pour s���inscrire au : www.galadelamusique.com

www.galadelamusique.com

www.myspace.com/galadelamusique

Welcome Back Alice! Lincoln Center���s Alice Tully Hall Re-opens With Two Weeks of Concerts & Events February 22-March 8, 2009

Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, one of New York's premier concert venues, has been closed since May 2007 for major renovations. It will reopen in mid-February 2009 with two weeks of performances designed to showcase the dramatically transformed space. Performances in a wide range of genres���chamber music, orchestral, opera, early music, world music, lieder and popular song, along with film and a site-specific sound installation���by world-renowned artists, are scheduled from February 22 through March 8, 2009. A total of 18 events, a number of them free, and the remainder with a $25 ticket price, will take place during the "Opening Nights" festival. Among the highlights are:

���"First Look," on February 22 with the Emerson String Quartet, Jordi Savall and Hesp��rion XXI, pianist Leon Fleisher, Artist Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Juilliard Orchestra, David Robertson conductor in a program of works of Sephardic traditional music, Bach, Stravinsky, Bart��k and Osvaldo Golijov

���Lieder recital by Mark Padmore, tenor singing an all-Schubert program (February 25)

���U.S. premiere of Vladimir Martynov's opera Vita Nuova, featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, conductor (February 28)

���Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo J��rvi, conductor, with two all-Beethoven evenings (March 1 and March 2)

���A new music concert by Alarm Will Sound, Bang On a Can All-Stars and Steve Reich & Musicians featuring four New York premieres and two world premieres���Lincoln Center commissions--by Caleb Burhans and Michael Gordon (March 3)

���Innovative American string quartet ETHEL in a site-specific composition by Phil Kline and sound artist Jody Elff (March 3)

���Opening night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series (March 5)

���An evening with popular songwriter/singer Stew, creator and star of the 2007 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Passing Strange. (March 6)

��� "Night of World Music" featuring sitar virtuoso Ustad Shujaat Khan, multi-instrumentalist/ composer Karsh Kale, pianist Vijay Iyer, and bassist Jonathan Maron (March 7)

RCM Pandora's Locker

World Premiere of

PANDORA'S LOCKER

At The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory

The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory has commissioned a new opera, PANDORA'S LOCKER, from the multi-talented young Canadian composer and librettist Dean Burry, to be premiered at the new TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning in early December.

The contemporary youth opera, PANDORA'S LOCKER, is inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora's Box in which a young woman's curiosity leads to the unleashing of all the world's evils. It is a simple, archetypal myth, which reflects humankind's own hunt for knowledge and the potential for disaster upon its discovery. This search for information - keys to the future and past - is never more tangible than in the "up-and-down" lives of the average high school teenager.

PANDORA'S LOCKER, the first major operatic commission by The Glenn Gould School, was written specifically for a high school audience. Through the use of themes such as gender issues, sexuality, and gun violence, and a musical ensemble including modern "urban music scratch electronica", the opera places the Pandora myth within a contemporary, inner-city high school setting. It reveals the many elements of people's lives they seek to keep locked up, but which demand, sometimes violently, to be released. The composer/librettist Dean Burry (who also teaches a contemporary Canadian music class at The GGS) did not shy away from any of the hardcore issues, nor gritty language, in order to make an impact and to have the work resonate with teenagers.

The performances will be conducted and directed by two other talented young Canadians, the award-winning composer Brian Current and director Jennifer Parr. Current is presently the artistic director of the New Music Ensemble at The GGS and received rave reviews for his latest CD, This Isn't Silence. Parr, an accomplished director, well known for choreographing the sword fights for Opera Atelier, will also direct The GGS spring production of Mozart's Cos�� fan tutte.

"Dean Burry is one of the most dynamic and relevant compositional voices in Canada and is writing, almost exclusively, for opera. His past works hold records for the greatest number of repeat performances for a Canadian opera and his work for the Canadian Opera Company's after-school outreach program has set the standard with its quality and power to engage young audiences. He writes in a style that is both relevant and accessible, and his original libretto for PANDORA'S LOCKER is powerful and uncompromising in its honesty and inspiration." David Visentin, Associate Dean of The Glenn Gould School

PANDORA'S LOCKER

WORLD PREMIERE!

Music & Libretto by Dean Burry

GGS New Music Ensemble and Glenn Gould School's Opera Division

Conductor: Brian Current

Director: Jennifer Parr

Friday, December 5, 2008, at 8:00pm

Thursday, December 11, 2008, at 11:00am

Saturday, December 13, 2008, at 2:00pm

FREE ADMISSION

Doors open 30 minutes prior to performance. General seating, first come first serve

At Mazzoleni Hall, The Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto

For more information call 416-408-2824 x321 or visit www.rcmusic.ca

York U World Music Fest Nov 6-7

Tour the Globe with York U���s World Music Festival Toronto: Take a sonic trip around the globe with York University���s World Music Festival, two full days of concerts November 6 and 7. Performances take place in the informal, club-like setting of the Martin Family Lounge and the Sterling Beckwith Studio in the Accolade East Building at York���s Keele campus. Admission is free and no passport is required! This whirlwind tour of musical cultures and traditions from five continents ranges from West African drums and classical Chinese orchestra to steelpan, flamenco and Klezmer music. The rotating concert schedule features performances by rising young artists, directed by leading lights of Toronto's world music scene. Produced by Matt Vander Woude and Rob Simms, the lineup highlights some of the 20+ international cultures represented in York's world music program. *** Event Details Locations: Martin Family Lounge (MFL), 219 Accolade East Building & Sterling Beckwith Studio (SBS), 235 Accolade East Building Admission: Free Info: 416.736.2100 x 22926 www.yorku.ca/finearts/music/events Performance Schedule: Thursday, November 6, 2008 10am - 8:30pm 10am SBS West African Drums (Mande) directed by Isaac Akrong 12noon MFL Klezmer Ensemble directed by Brian Katz 1pm SBS West African Drum& Dance (Ghana) dir. by Kwasi Dunyo, Larry Graves 2:30pm MFL Escola de Samba directed by Rick Lazar 4pm SBS Cuban Music dir. by Paul Ormandy, Ruben Esguerra, Steve Mancuso 5:30pm MFL West African Drums (Mande) directed by Anna Melnikoff 7pm SBS Middle Eastern Ensemble directed by Bassam Shahouk Friday, November 7, 2008 10am - 9:30pm 10am SBS Caribbean Ensemble directed by Gareth and Lindy Burgess 11:30am MFL African-American Piano directed by Catherine Wilson 12:45pm SBS Chinese Orchestra directed by Kim Chow-Morris 2pm MFL Korean Drums directed by Charles Hong 2:45pm SBS Japanese Music Ensemble directed by Linda Caplan 4:15pm MFL Flamenco Guitars directed by Roger Scannura 6pm SBS World Music Chorus directed by Judith Cohen 7pm MFL Balkan Music Ensemble directed by Irene Markoff

The Little Prince

The Little Prince lands on Geordie Productions' Mainstage!
The little things get the big treatment in Geordie's stage adaptation of a well-loved and timeless classic.
MONTREAL - Geordie Productions is proud to open its 2008-2009 Mainstage Series with Antoine de Saint-Exup��ry's classic, The Little Prince, playing at the D.B. Clarke Theatre from November 28 - December 7, 2008. The adaptation, written by Montrealer Luciana Burcheri is directed by Dean Patrick Fleming.

From the popular book that has delighted generations of readers with its simple story filled with profound messages, Geordie Productions follows in the tradition of last season's successful The Jungle Book to bring together some of the finest professional artists in Montreal to create innovative and entertaining theatre that is as relevant for adults as it is for children.

A crash-landed aviator meets a curious little Prince from a house-size asteroid while stranded in the desert. As the open-hearted Little Prince recounts tales of characters he has met in his intergalactic travels, the Aviator is gently reminded of the simple truths that people seem to forget as they grow older.

Award-winning designers Ana Cappelluto (set and lighting) and James Lavoie (costumes) interpret Exup��ry's iconic illustrations with large-scale set designs and ingenious costumes to transport the audience from the Sahara desert to far-off planets. Original music composed by Harry Standjofski provides a jazzy soundtrack played by the ensemble cast live onstage. Stage management is provided by Melanie St-Jacques.

The impressive cast includes experienced actors familiar to both adults and children: Danny Brochu (The Haunted Hillbilly, Sidemart Theatrical Grocery and the voice of Buster Baxter on PBS's hit show, Arthur) as the title character, Chip Chuipka (My Old Lady, Segal Centre and Shere Khan in Geordie Productions' The Jungle Book), Danielle Desormeaux (The Anger In Ernest and Ernestine, Hudson Village Theatre), Marcel Jeannin (The Odd Couple, Segal Centre and Relative Good, Centaur Theatre), and audience favourite, Harry Standjofski (The Jungle Book, Geordie Productions).

Since the first publication of the book in 1943, The Little Prince has sold over 80 million copies, been translated into more than 180 languages, and still continues to captivate new generations of young readers.

PERFORMANCES: November 28 - December 7, 2008 | Opening night: Nov. 28 at 7:00pm
Family Performances: Nov. 29 at 3:00pm; Nov. 30, Dec. 6 & Dec. 7 at 1:00pm, 3:00pm
School Matin��es: December 2 - December 5, 10am & 12pm (limited seats left)
VENUE: D.B. Clarke Theatre, Concordia University Hall Building | 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
TICKETS:(ON SALE NOW): $13.50 children, $16 adults; $15 seniors; all prices include tax
AGE RECOMMENDATION: Children age 5+ and adults of all ages | 60 minutes
BOX OFFICE and INFORMATION: (514) 845-9810 or www.geordie.ca

Rappel - Les Violons du Roy accueillent le virtuose de la fl��te Maurice Steger

Fl��tes alors !

Bernard Labadie, chef d���orchestre
Maurice Steger, fl��te �� bec

S��rie Baroque avant tout
Mardi 4 novembre, 20 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

S��rie chefs-d����uvre du matin
Mardi 4 novembre, 10 h 30
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

G.P. Telemann Ouverture en sol majeur �� des Nations anciens et modernes ��, TWV 55 :G4
Suite en la mineur pour fl��te �� bec alto, cordes et basse continue TWV 55a
G. Sammartini Concerto en fa majeur pour fl��te �� bec soprano, cordes et basse continue
C. Avison Concerto grosso no 1 en la majeur (d���apr��s D. Scarlatti)
A. Vivaldi Concerto en do majeur pour fl��te �� bec sopranino, cordes et basse continue, RV 443

Qu��bec, le 14 octobre ��� Le mardi 4 novembre, pour d��buter la s��rie Baroque avant tout, Bernard Labadie et Les Violons du Roy proposent une soir��e surprenante et ��lectrisante avec le Suisse Maurice Steger, l���un des plus influents virtuoses de la fl��te �� bec qui, pour l���occasion, jouera brillamment sur trois diff��rents instruments. Les ��uvres avec soliste seront aussi donn��es �� 10 h 30 dans le cadre de la s��rie de concerts comment��s Chefs-d����uvre du matin.

�� L���nergie qu���il d��ploie est tr��s contagieuse ��
L���un des solistes les plus populaires de sa g��n��ration, Maurice Steger est reconnu internationalement pour ses interpr��tations virtuoses et innovatrices de musiques baroques italiennes et anglaises. Le fl��tiste joue tant avec les orchestres symphoniques modernes qu���avec les orchestres aux instruments anciens r��put��s tels que l��� Akademie f��r Alte Musik de Berlin, la Musica Antiqua K��ln, l���orchestre baroque Europa Galante, les Accademia Bizantina ou I Barocchisti. Parmi ses enregistrements prim��s r��alis��s sous ��tiquette Claves Records figure Suites & Concerto pour fl��te �� bec et orchestre de Telemann un CD qui s���est m��rit�� des distinctions dans le monde entier dont un Diapason d'or, un Choc du Monde de la Musique, et 10 / 10 du Mois du magazine Classics today.

La fl��te �� bec : L���une des �� favorites �� de l���poque baroque
L���poque allant de 1690 �� 1750 constitue sans contredit l���apog��e de la fl��te �� bec en tant qu���instrument soliste et concertant. De la plume de plusieurs compositeurs naissent alors de nombreuses ��uvres mettant en lumi��re le caract��re tour �� tour brillant, chaleureux et volubile de la fl��te �� bec soprano, alto et sopranino. Le programme du concert propose d���abord la Suite en la mineur pour fl��te �� bec alto, cordes et basse continue de Telemann, une ��uvre c��l��brissime qui devint au cours des ann��es 1960 un v��ritable �� tube �� de la musique baroque. Puis, le public pourra d��couvrir le Concerto en fa majeur pour fl��te �� bec soprano, cordes et basse continue de Sammartini, lui-m��me virtuose de la fl��te �� bec et pour qui Vivaldi composa la derni��re ��uvre au programme, le Concerto en do majeur pour fl��te �� bec sopranino, un sommet de virtuosit�� qui soul��vera assur��ment le public.

En d��but de concert, Les Violons du Roy, sous la direction de Bernard Labadie, interpr��teront l���Ouverture en sol majeur �� des Nations anciens [sic] et modernes �� dans laquelle Telemann d��peint avec humour les principaux peuples faisant commerce �� Hambourg. Le programme sera compl��t�� par le Concerto grosso en la majeur no 1 de Charles Avison, une ��uvre refl��tant l���enthousiasme du compositeur anglais pour le recueil de 42 sonates pour clavecin de Domenico Scarlatti, qui renferme une musique originale et haute en couleurs.

La saison 2008-2009 �� Qu��bec est pr��sent��e par Hydro-Qu��bec, partenaire de saison. La S��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin est une pr��sentation du Mouvement des caisses Desjardins.

S��rie Baroque avant tout
Ann��e anniversaire pour Handel, Haydn et Purcell, ces compositeurs sont au c��ur de la s��rie Baroque avant tout. Cinq concerts qui pr��sentent notamment la c��l��bre Water Music et l���ode pastorale l���Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato de Handel avec l���orchestre baroque Arion et La Chapelle de Qu��bec, le Stabat Mater de Haydn ainsi que diverses musiques instrumentales de Purcell. Le violon endiabl�� d���Elizabeth Wallfisch fera aussi partie de la f��te !

S��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin
La s��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin est de retour, cette fois avec une offre de cinq concerts. Ces concerts comment��s par les chefs et ponctu��s de d��monstrations des musiciens permettent aux m��lomanes d���enrichir leur exp��rience du concert. D���une dur��e d���environ 70 minutes sans entracte, ces concerts ont lieu en matin��e �� 10 h 30.

L���abonnement

Abonnez-vous �� l���une des s��ries de la Saison 2008-2009 et profiter d���un rabais sur le tarif r��gulier et de nombreux privil��ges. En vous abonnant avant le 31 octobre, vous courez la chance de gagner l���un des trois prix du concours �� Trois chances plut��t qu���une ��. Tous les d��tails sont disponibles dans la brochure de saison ou sur le site : violonsduroy.com.

Nouveaut�� : la formule Trio D��couverte permet de cr��er votre s��rie de 3 concerts parmi 14 grands concerts du soir et de d��couvrir ainsi la gamme vari��e du r��pertoire des Violons du Roy. Vous pouvez choisir autant de trios que vous le d��sirez�Ķ

Le tarif 29 ans et moins de retour !
Un concert de haut niveau au m��me prix qu���un film, soit seulement 12,50 $.

Information et R��servation

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

Concerts �� venir au Palais Montcalm :
Mercredi 12 novembre, 14 h et 20 h :
Au son du cor !
Bernard Labadie, chef
S��ries Da Camera et Chefs-d����uvre du matin

www.violonsduroy.com

Quatuor Bozzini - Concert 7 Novembre

QU��BEC / PAYS-BAS

Quatre compositeurs, quatre voix, du th����tre et de l'��motion

Le vendredi 7 novembre 2008, 20h

Salle Tanna Schulich ��� Universit�� McGill

527, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Prix des billets : r��gulier 25 $ / a��n�� 15 $ / ��tudiant et artiste 8 $

Billets et renseignements : 514-845-4046

www.quatuorbozzini.ca

Montr��al, le 30 octobre 2008 ��� Le premier concert de la S��rie qb du Quatuor Bozzini se d��roulera �� la salle Tanna Schulich de l'universit�� McGill, le vendredi 7 novembre 2008, �� 20 h. La soir��e donnera l'occasion d'entendre des ��uvres marquantes de quatre compositeurs dont la r��putation n'est plus �� faire dans leur pays respectif : le Qu��b��cois Walter Boudreau, le N��erlandais Martijn Voorvelt, le Britannique naturalis�� n��erlandais Richard Ayres et la Polonaise Hanna Kulenty, qui partage son temps entre Amsterdam et Varsovie. Le but avou�� de cette rencontre est de mieux faire conna��tre, des deux c��t��s de l'Atlantique, ces musiques si diff��rentes, mais ��galement inspir��es par des images de l'actualit��, et livr��es avec un sens du th����tre ��vident. Ici, le quatuor �� cordes est utilis��, de fa��on traditionnelle ou non, pour raconter des histoires (Ayres, Voorvelt), pour r��fl��chir sur l'Histoire (Boudreau) ou le Temps (Kulenty). Dans tous les cas, l'��motion est au rendez-vous, ainsi qu'un humour finement distill��. Ce concert sera repris cette ann��e �� Amsterdam et �� Toronto, dans le cadre de SHIFT, un festival transatlantique des arts favorisant les ��changes culturels entre le Canada et les Pays-Bas.

NO.38 THREE SMALL PIECES FOR STRING QUARTET ��� Richard Ayres

Richard Ayres d��cide de devenir compositeur �� plein temps apr��s avoir suivi un cours d'��t��, en 1986, avec Morton Feldman, le ma��tre am��ricain du raffinement dans la simplicit��. Un passage de No38, ��voque le ma��tre dans blues �� feldmanesque �� ��tal�� sur 19 mesures, entre la repr��sentation d'une comtesse �� cheval et un final des plus lyriques. Le compositeur britannique Christopher Fox dit de la musique d'Ayres qu'elle fait rire, sursauter ou grimacer, mais que, dans tous les cas, elle est remarquablement construite. La vue autant que l'ou��e sont sollicit��es dans la musique de l'artiste, qui est interpr��t��e par de grands orchestres europ��ens. Ayres a re��u, en 2002, le prix de composition Vermeulen, le plus prestigieux des Pays-Bas. Il est ��galement un des rares compositeurs qui publie une biographie invent��e sur son site Web, o�� il se pr��sente comme une ex-vedette du criquet.

LE GRAND M��RIDIEN ��� Walter Boudreau

Cr����e en janvier 2006 par le Quatuor Bozzini, cette pi��ce de Walter Boudreau avait laiss�� une forte impression, notamment par sa �� remarquable efficacit�� �� (Christophe Huss, Le Devoir) et par l'interpr��tation lumineuse que le quatuor en avait donn��e. Tout en citant un r��pons �� quatre voix du compositeur Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Boudreau transforme son mat��riau de base pour faire voyager l'auditeur �� par-del�� le prisme kal��idoscopique des r��f��rences historiques ��, en route vers le Nirvana, selon un th��me cher �� l'auteur iconoclaste. Pour lui, le quatuor �� cordes est la formation �� hard-core/heavy-m��tal �� id��ale pour faire �� "bouillir" une riche mixture alchimique, o�� la forme et le contenu [�Ķ] fusionnent dans l'ivresse psych��d��lique de l'invention pure. ��

STRING QUARTET NO.3 - TELL ME ABOUT IT ��� Hanna Kulenty

La Polonaise Hanna Kulenty a ��tudi�� la composition avec Louis Andriessen aux Pays-Bas. Depuis 1989, elle a compos�� plus de 60 ��uvres, dont deux op��ras, r��pondant �� plusieurs commandes �� travers le monde. Elle a ��t�� compositrice en r��sidence (Het Gelders Orkest, Pays-Pas), conf��renci��re (Other Minds 10 festival, San Francisco), membre d'importants jurys (International Gaudeamus Music Week 2002), et professeur invit�� (Acad��mie de musique de Barcelone). La circularit�� du temps, qu'elle appelle �� polyphonie des dimensions du Temps ��, la fascine, tout comme la notion de simultan��it�� de divers ��v��nements en diff��rents endroits. Kulenty a trouv�� au th����tre un exutoire pour son penchant envers l'��motion et l'intensit�� dramatique de la musique. Elle re��oit en 2002 le prestigieux premier prix �� la Tribune internationale des compositeurs de l'UNESCO.

4/4 ��� Martijn Voorvelt

�� Magnifique ��. �� Irr��sistible ��. �� D��stabilisante ��. �� Radicale ��. Voil�� quelques-uns des termes accol��s �� la musique de ce compositeur, pour qui l'exp��rience musicale se doit d'��tre dramatique, dans le sens th����tral du mot. En 2002, une prestation de 4/4 �� l'ISCM World Music Day �� Hong Kong, lui vaut une commande de la Soci��t�� Internationale pour la Musique Contemporaine (ISCM). Inspir��e des images des victimes de la guerre du Kosovo, l'��uvre met en sc��ne le soliloque d'��corch��s de la vie cherchant �� se rejoindre au-del�� de leurs souffrances. En 1994, Voorvelt re��oit, �� sa grande surprise, le prix EOE Optiebeurs pour les jeunes compositeurs europ��ens. Il est maintenant jou�� partout dans le monde, et s'int��resse au th����tre, �� la danse, �� la po��sie et au cin��ma. Il est aussi chanteur-compositeur-interpr��te, et ornithologue amateur.

LE QUATUOR BOZZINI

Lou�� pour son �� intense musicalit�� et son immense sensibilit�� �� (Musicworks), le Quatuor Bozzini explore autant les possibilit��s du concert classique que celles d'��v��nements plus ��clat��s, tout en encourageant la collaboration entre cr��ateurs de tous horizons. Le groupe se distingue par un r��pertoire diversifi��, un style de jeu souple et un grand souci du d��tail. Il pr��sente annuellement une s��rie de concerts �� Montr��al, fait des tourn��es internationales, propose �� la rel��ve une semaine de laboratoire musical ��� le Composer's Kitchen ��� et enregistre r��guli��rement des disques sous sa propre ��tiquette, la collection qb, ou celle des autres (Atma classique, Wandelweiser Records, Wergo). On l'entend r��guli��rement sur les ondes de radios europ��ennes et canadiennes. Le quatuor a command�� �� ce jour une quarantaine d'��uvres, en a cr���� pr��s d'une centaine et compte plus d'une centaine de compositeurs �� son r��pertoire. En 2007, le Quatuor Bozzini recevait le prestigieux F��rderpreis de la Fondation Ernst Von Siemens (Allemagne) ainsi que le Prix Opus �� Rayonnement �� l'��tranger ��, d��cern�� par le Conseil qu��b��cois de la musique.

Distinguished pianist Alexander Tselyakov releases Sonata Album

Distinguished pianist and BU Professor Alexander Tselyakov releases Sonata Album

BRANDON, MB ��� Distinguished pianist and Brandon University professor Alexander Tselyakov has released a new CD titled Sonata Album through the Brandon-based Golomb Records. The release contains two discs, with selected pieces reflecting the historical development of the Sonata form and the various approaches and styles to sonatas, from the baroque, classic, romantic, post romantic and modern eras. Sonata Album represents a collection of timeless standards sure to please the most discerning classical piano classical fan. The album is being distributed by the Canadian Music Centre, an international distribution agency.

Included on the album is a fabulously performed selection of the following masterworks: Disc One includes Dominico's Scarlatti Sonatas in D minor, K.32/L.423, in E major, K.380/ L.23, Sonata in F minor, K.184/L.189 and in A major, K.39/L.39, as well as Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor. The sonata in B minor is possibly the best example of Liszt��s mastery in piano and in composition and represents a pinnacle in the history of piano and of music in general, not only for his improvements to the technique but also for the revolutionary conception of the piece itself. Disc Two includes Mozart's Piano Sonata in F major, K.332, the world premi��re recording of T. Patrick Carrabr��'s Sonata No.1 for Piano - Black Echoes (a composition dedicated to Alexander Tselyakov), and Sergei Rachmaninoff's meltingly affectionate Piano Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor, Op.36 (revised version, 1931).

Former Brandon University School of Music Dean Dr. Lawrence Jones wrote the program notes for the CD package.

Alexander Tselyakov "...represents the best aspect of Russian pianism and all its attributes...effectively synthesized the emotional balance of Arthur Rubinstein and the more highly-strung febrile quality of Horowitz." Harris Goldsmith, New York Concert Review

Recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding musicians, Alexander Tselyakov has distinguished himself as a guest soloist with great orchestras and as a recitalist in major concert halls, such as the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, England, the Centre de Doelen, in Rotterdam, and the Shostakovich Large Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and has won major prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the International Music Competition of Japan. Tselyakov has been described as "representing the best aspect of Russian pianism and all its attributes" by the New York Concert Review; and "amazing at the keyboard" by The Globe and Mail. A busy concert pianist, teacher and chamber musician, Tselyakov collaborates with many leading Canadian musicians. He is artistic director of two Chamber Music Festivals; at Clear Lake in Manitoba and Pender Harbour, British Columbia. Tselyakov resides in Manitoba, where he is Professor of Piano at Brandon University School of Music. This recording was made possible with the generous support of the Manitoba Film & Sound and Brandon University.

Tselyakov's Sonata Album can be purchased through the Canadian Music Centre, at the Brandon University School of Music, at Brandon University Campus Books or online at http://www.tselyakov.com, where one can also find more information on Professor Alexander Tselyakov, including previous recordings, recent appearances and concerts, and a long list of praise from classical music critics and experts.

Changement - Vitrines de la Francof��te en Acadie accessible au grand public

L���int��grale des vitrines de la 12^e ��dition
de la Francof��te en Acadie
accessible au grand public !

(Moncton, 29 octobre 2008) - De nombreuses vitrines mettront en vedette des artistes de l���heure lors de la 12^e ��dition de la FrancoF��te en Acadie qui se d��roulera du 5 au 9 novembre prochain �� Moncton. Musique, danse, th����tre, conte et spectacles pour enfants seront pr��sent��s sous forme de vitrines-spectacles. Contrairement aux autres ann��es, toutes les prestations seront ouvertes au grand public.

Le jeudi 6 novembre

La s��rie de vitrines d��butera de 10 h �� 11 h avec des performances de danse mettant en vedette Louise Moyes, r��put��e pour mettre en sc��ne des �� docu-danses ��, et le Ballet-th����tre Atlantique au Th����tre Capitol.

De 14 h 30 �� 17 h 15, du th����tre et du conte seront pr��sent��s au Pavillon Jeanne-de-Valois de l���Universit�� de Moncton. D��fileront sur sc��ne : Le noble th����tre des trous de siffleux, les Productions l���Entrep��t, le th����tre l���Escaouette, le conteur Dominique Breau, qui a toujours le tour pour faire rire, et l���auteur, musicien et com��dien St��phane Guertin. Les billets pour cette vitrine seront en vente �� la porte seulement au co��t de 5 $.

La derni��re vitrine de la journ��e aura lieu au Th����tre Capitol de 19 h 30 �� 22 h 45 avec le groupe de rap acadien Radio Radio, Caracol du regrett�� groupe Dobacaracol, l���artiste acadien Denis Richard qui pr��sentera de toutes nouvelles chansons, le slameur Ivy, le groupe country qu��b��cois Madame Moustache ainsi que le c��l��bre groupe de musique acadienne Grand D��rangement.

Le vendredi 7 novembre

Le vendredi ce sera au tour des petits et des adolescents de faire de nouvelles d��couvertes artistiques au Pavillon Jeanne-de-Valois de l���Universit�� de Moncton. De 10 h �� 11 h 30, les petits pourront d��couvrir le monde merveilleux du Th����tre Tout �� trac qui fera une pr��sentation d���Alice au pays des merveilles, Tante Caroline avec Des ailes et des racines et Daniel Pr��noveau et ses instruments du monde. De 13 h �� 14 h 30, les ados auront l���occasion d���entendre la musique de George Belliveau, de voir une prestation de Danse l���cole 2.0 en plus d���tre t��moins des prouesses du magicien Danys Hamel. Une contribution volontaire sera accept��e �� la porte pour les deux s��ries de vitrines.

De 15 h �� 17 h 45, ce sera l���occasion de d��couvrir ou red��couvrir des artistes d���ici et d���ailleurs tels que Mathieu D���Astous et Ginette, Michel Th��riault, Fredric Gary Comeau, Daniel Roa ainsi que la formation f��minine de jazz manouche Christine Tassan et les ImposteurEs. Tous ces artistes d��fileront sur sc��ne �� la Salle Empress du Th����tre Capitol.

En soir��e de 19 h 30 �� 22 h 45, six artistes et formations musicales seront sur sc��ne au Th����tre Capitol. Les gens pourront voir le ma��tre des rythmes br��siliens Celso Machado, le groupe de musique acadienne-fran��aise traditionnelle Gadelle, Rapha��l Torr qui offrira un hommage �� Joe Dassin, le Moncton Mingus Band qui r��unit huit des meilleurs musiciens de Jazz de Moncton, l���artiste acadien bien connu Jac Gautreau et finalement, Paul Kunigis qui pr��sentera des rythmes dignes d���un croisement de cultures unique.

Le samedi 8 novembre

La s��rie de vitrines de la FrancoF��te 2008 se terminera le samedi 8 novembre au Th����tre Capitol d��s 19 h 30 avec la Soir��e Alliances qui pr��sentera des artistes s��lectionn��s ou accueillis par RADARTS ou ses partenaires nationaux et internationaux. Le public aura la chance de voir la jeune sensation ontarienne Andrea Lindsay, le multi-instrumentiste surdou�� Alpha Yaya Diallo originaire de la Guin�� et gagnant de 3 prix JUNO, le gagnant de la 39^e ��dition du Festival de la chanson de Granby, Joce, ainsi qu�����ric Larochelle, r��cipiendaire du prix Acadie-ROSEQ.

Les billets pour les vitrines-spectacles sont en vente dans le r��seau de billetterie du Grand Moncton : Th����tre Capitol, Th����tre l���Escaouette, Centre ��tudiant de l���Universit�� de Moncton et Frank���s Music ou bien par t��l��phone au (506) 856-4379 ou 1-800-567-1922 et au www.admission.com. Les billets seront ��galement disponibles �� la porte les soirs de spectacle, lorsqu���il en reste. Les billets pour les vitrines de th����tre et de conte seront en vente �� la porte seulement.

Produite par le R��seau atlantique de diffusion des arts de la sc��ne (RADARTS), la FrancoF��te en Acadie propose une s��lection de vitrines et de spectacles de qualit��. RADARTS a pour mandat de bonifier, favoriser et d��velopper des strat��gies ainsi que coordonner des moyens de diffusion efficaces pour augmenter la circulation de spectacles et la cr��ation artistique dans les provinces de l���Atlantique.

Toute l���information sur la FrancoF��te en Acadie 2008 et ses activit��s au www.francofete.com.




Found Footage Festival in Calgary - 11/13 & 11/14

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL COMES TO CALGARY WITH ALL-NEW SHOW

New York, NY ��� The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will make a special two-night appearance in Calgary next month as part of its 2008 North American tour. Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, whose credits include the Late Show with David Letterman and The Onion, are excited to present their new lineup of video clips and live comedy at the Plaza Theatre (1133 Kensington Rd. NW) on Thursday, Nov. 13th and Fri., Nov. 14th (7 pm both nights). The event is being sponsored by the Calgary Underground Film Festival (calgaryundergroundfilm.org). Tickets are $15 ($12 for students) and are available in advance at Bird Dog Video (1333 16th Ave. SW).

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event compiles more than an hour's worth of footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Pickett and Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found.

Among the new clips to be featured in the 2008 show:

-17 workplace sexual harassment videos, edited down to three minutes of just the best reenactments
-A brand-new collection of exercise videos featuring Playgirl's 1985 Man of the Year, a scantily-clad Angela Lansbury, and a guru who calls himself "The Laughing Yogi."
-An instructional video on how to toilet train cats

The Found Footage Festival was founded in New York in 2004 and has gone on to sell out hundreds of shows across the U.S. and Canada, including the HBO Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. The festival has been featured on National Public Radio, ABC World News, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and G4 TV's Attack of the Show, and has been named a "Critic's Pick" in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Chicago Tribune.

To set up an interview with the curators, please contact Nick Prueher at 347-255-7350, or via email at foundfootagefestival@yahoo.com. Screeners and high-resolution images from the festival are also available upon request. Additional information can be found on the festival's website: www.foundfootagefest.com.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a training video entitled, "Inside and Outside Custodial Duties," at a McDonald's in their home state of Wisconsin. Since then, they have compiled an impressive collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos. Pickett, a former Minnesota film technician, and Prueher, a former segment producer at the Late Show with David Letterman, have written for The Onion and Entertainment Weekly and recently directed the feature-length documentary, "Dirty Country" (www.dirtycountrymovie.com), which won the Audience Award at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival.

ABOUT THE CUFF

The Calgary Underground Film Festival is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to programming films that defy convention. The CUFF elevates Calgary's cultural landscape with the best in local and international independent cinema, challenging and entertaining audiences with boundary breaking films, compelling artist showcases and engaging events. More information about the CUFF can be found at www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org.

ABOUT THE VENUE

Built in the late 1920s, the Plaza Theatre is Calgary's last operating neighborhood theatre, offering first run art house cinema since 1995. The venue is located at 1133 Kensington Rd. NW (between 10th & 14th Streets). For detailed directions to the theatre, visit www.theplaza.ca. Tickets to the Found Footage Festival are $15 ($12 for students) and are available at Bird Dog Video (1333 16th Ave. SW).

New Works Calgary Presents: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

New Works Calgary presents pianist Corey Hamm on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 8 pm at the Eckhardt-Gramatt�� Hall, Rozsa Centre.

"The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975) is a piano composition by the American composer Frederic Rzewski. It is a set of 36 variations based on the Chilean song "El pueblo unido james sere vencido!" by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayen. This song is one of many that emerged from the Unidad Popular in Chile between 1969 and 1973 prior to the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government. Rzewski composed the variations as a tribute to the struggle of the Chilean people against a newly imposed repressive regime.

Many pianists consider the technical demands of this work to be among the most severe of any well-known piece of the 20th Century. The pianist, in addition to needing a virtuoso technique, is required to whistle, slam the piano lid, and catch the after-vibrations of a loud attack as harmonics: all of these are "extended techniques" in 20th Century piano writing.

The concert will also include "Fickle" by Calgary composer George Fenwick, "kamelyin" by Gordon Fitzell, and Michel Gonneville's "Chute/Parachute".

Corey Hamm is Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia School of Music in Vancouver. Hamm is the pianist and a founding member of the prominent new music ensembles Hammerhead Consort and the Nu:BC Collective. He is regularly broadcast on CBC Radio as a soloist and chamber musician and is actively involved in the promotion and performance of contemporary music.

Tickets are available is advance at Campus Tickets at the University of Calgary (403-220-7202) or at the door: adults $20, seniors and students $15.

www.newworkscalgary.ca

La 12e ��dition de la FrancoF��te en Acadie arrive �� grands pas !

La 12^e ��dition de la FrancoF��te en Acadie

arrive �� grands pas !

(Moncton, 29 octobre 2008) ��� Un grand nombre d'artistes participeront �� la 12^e ��dition de la FrancoF��te en Acadie qui se d��roulera du mercredi 5 au dimanche 9 novembre prochain �� Moncton. Cet ��v��nement d'envergure pr��sente des vitrines et des spectacles de tous genres en plus du Cercle des auteurs-compositeurs SOCAN, un spectacle de Coup de c��ur francophone ainsi que de nombreux spectacles Artistes au menu dans les restos �� l'heure du souper ou encore, pour les couche-tard, la s��rie les Oiseaux de nuit. Une occasion unique pour tous et toutes de d��couvrir ce qui se fait de mieux sur la sc��ne musicale francophone !

Des spectacles hauts en couleur

Le Cercle SOCAN sera anim�� cette ann��e par l'artiste vedette du Qu��bec Michel Rivard et aura lieu le mercredi 5 novembre �� 20 h 30 au Th����tre Capitol de Moncton. Les artistes invit��s ��dith Butler, Danny Boudreau et Lisa LeBlanc interpr��teront, tour �� tour, quelques-unes de leurs compositions et discuteront de leur inspiration avec l'animateur de la soir��e.

Diff��rentes vitrines artistiques pr��senteront des artistes du milieu musical et de la danse du jeudi 6 au samedi 8 novembre au Th����tre Capitol et �� la salle Empress. Les artistes qui d��fileront sur sc��ne sont : Louise Moyes, le Ballet-th����tre Altantique, Radio Radio, Caracol, Denis Richard, Ivy, Madame Moustache, Grand D��rangement, Mathieu D'Astous et Ginette, Michel Th��riault, Fredric Gary Comeau, Daniel Roa, Christine Tassan et les ImposteurEs, Celso Machado, Gadelle, Rapha��l Torr, Moncton Mingus Band, Jac Gautreau, Paul Kunigis, Andr��a Lindsay, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Joce et les trois temps et ��ric Larochelle.

Une vitrine de th����tre et conte aura lieu au Pavillon Jeanne-de-Valois de l'Universit�� de Moncton le jeudi 6 novembre avec Le noble th����tre, les Productions l'Entrep��t, le th����tre l'Escaouette et les conteurs Dominique Breau et St��phane Guertin.

Des vitrines jeunesse sont aussi pr��vues pour les enfants et les adolescents le vendredi 7 novembre au Pavillon Jeanne-de-Valois de l'Universit�� de Moncton. Les petits pourront d��couvrir le Th����tre tout �� trac qui pr��sentera Alice au pays des merveilles, Tante Caroline et Daniel Pr��noveau et ses instruments du monde offriront une prestation en matin��e. George Belliveau, Danse l'��cole 2.0 et le magicien Danys Hamel offriront des prestations en apr��s-midi pour les adolescents du secondaire.

Des artistes dans les restos et dans les bars

Une nouveaut��, cette ann��e, des artistes offriront des prestations dans diff��rents restaurants de la r��gion dans le cadre de la s��rie Artistes au menu. Les artistes Samantha Robichaud, Natasha Richard, Khalid el Idrissi, Michel Cardin, Manon Charlebois, Mario LeBreton et le Moncton Mingus Band seront en spectacle dans diff��rents restaurants du centre-ville.

La s��rie les Oiseaux de nuit est de retour pour la troisi��me ann��e cons��cutive avec plus de spectacles que jamais. Anique Granger, Sage D��lire, Samantha Robichaud, Serge Monette, Mike Parker, La ligue du bonheur, Serge Brido, Joseph Edgar, Kevin McIntyre, Khalid el Idrissi, Isaac et Blewett, Claude Cormier, Kam��l��on, Les Pa��ens, Ian Levesque, Oumou Soumar��, Hert LeBlanc et la formation Corde �� Vent se produiront ainsi dans diff��rents bars de la r��gion de Moncton �� partir de 23 h, et ce, jusqu'au petit matin.

Un Coup de c��ur francophone en Acadie sera pr��sent�� le vendredi 7 novembre avec le groupe Ouanani, compos�� de musiciens originaires du S��n��gal, du Lac-Saint-Jean, de Cuba, d'Italibitibi et du Qu��bec. La premi��re partie de ce spectacle, pr��sent�� �� 23 h au Bar ��tudiant l'Osmose de l'Universit�� de Moncton, sera assur��e par la violoniste acadienne Dominique Dupuis.

Il est possible de se procurer les billets pour les diff��rents spectacles dans le r��seau de billetterie du Grand Moncton : Th����tre Capitol, th����tre l'Escaouette, Centre ��tudiant de l'Universit�� de Moncton et Frank's Music ou par t��l��phone au (506) 856-4379 ou 1-800-567-1922 ou bien sur Internet �� www.admission.com. Les billets seront ��galement disponibles �� la porte les soirs de spectacle, lorsqu'il en reste. Les billets pour les vitrines de th����tre et de conte seront en vente �� la porte seulement.

Depuis maintenant trois ans, la FrancoF��te en Acadie est mise en ��uvre par l'��quipe du R��seau atlantique de diffusion des arts de la sc��ne (RADARTS). Il s'agit de l'��v��nement culturel pluridisciplinaire le plus important du Canada atlantique consacr�� enti��rement �� la promotion, �� la diffusion et �� la mise en valeur du produit culturel francophone.

Toute l'information sur la FrancoF��te en Acadie 2008 et ses activit��s au www.francofete.com

Alberta Legend Ian Tyson Joins the ESO for a 75th Birthday Party!

The ESO wishes Happy Birthday to an Alberta legend!

Ian Tyson joins the orchestra for his 75^th Birthday Party

Wednesday, November 5^th ��� 7:30pm

Edmonton, AB �Ķ On November 5^th, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) says Happy Birthday to a true Canadian master. Ian Tyson joins the ESO for his 75^th birthday party complete with full orchestra, and many of his hits! A pioneer, a musical icon, an Alberta legend. Ian Tyson has proven himself to be one of a kind - authentic and durable.

The ESO honours the man who has inspired countless musicians, and who continues to make exceptional music. Joined by the ESO, guitarist Lee Worden, bassist Gordon Maxwell and conductor Claude Lapalme, ESO audiences will be treated to hits including MC Horses, Bill Kane, Land of the Shining Mountains, Summer���s Gone, La Primera and many many more!

This performance will be recorded by CBC Radio Two for subsequent national broadcast.

This performance is almost sold out! Choir loft seating has been opened for this event. Ticket prices for this performance range from $20 to $65 (agency fees apply). Tickets are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office.

Media Sponsor: CKUA Radio Network

Evenement theatrale en aglais OTHELLO de Productions Persephone au Musee McCord

Persephone Productions

pr��sentent

OTHELLO

par William Shakespeare

mise en sc��ne Gabrielle Soskin

La trag��die intemporelle de Shakespeare s'illustre la puissance d��vastatrice des mots de manoeuvrer, la persuade, et la d��truit finalement.

Othello, un noble amarrent, un h��ros militaire, est attrap�� en toile d'araign��e terrifiante de d��ception dans ce travail passionnant par Shakespeare. Ce jeu d��borde avec des ��motions inqui��tantes et contradictoires de l'amour et la haine, la jalousie et l'ambition, le d��sir sexuel et l'int��grit�� individuelle, car les caract��res luttent contre les forces qui les ma��trisent.

HORAIRES : Du 13 au 29 novembre 20H 00

Matin��es de la semaine : Le 14, 17, 19, 20, 24 & 26 nov. 13H 00
Matin��es de dimanche : Le 16 et 23 novembre 14H 00

co��t de billets :

Adultes 26$
Groupes (10 ou plus) 20$
��ge d'or/��tudiants 18$
Groupes d'��tudiants 17,50$
Members de QDF 18$

McCord Museum : 690, rue Sherbrooke ouest

Th����tre J. Armand Bombardier

BILLETTERIE : (514) 398 - 7100 poste 234

SITE WEB : www.persephoneproductions.org

Theatre Event OTHELLO at McCord Museum (Persephone Productions)

Persephone Productions

presents

OTHELLO

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Gabrielle Soskin

Shakespeare's timeless tragedy illustrates the devastating power of words to manipulate, persuade, and ultimately destroy.

Othello, a noble moor, a military hero, is caught in a terrifying web of deceit in Shakespeare's gripping masterpiece. Brimming with disturbing and conflicting emotions: love and hate, jealousy and ambition, sexual desire and individual integrity, as the characters struggle against the forces that overpower them.

DATES & TIMES: November 13 to 29 8:00 pm

Weekday matin��es: November 14, 17, 19, 20, 24 & 26 1:00 pm
Sunday matin��es: November 16 and 23 2:00 pm

TICKETS PRICES:

Adults $26
Groups (10 or more) $20
Students / seniors $18
School groups $17.50
QDF members $18

VENUE: McCord Museum

690 Sherbrooke Street West

J. Armand Bombardier Theatre

Box office: (514) 398 - 7100 ext. 234

WEB SITE: www.persephoneproductions.org

Shaw Festival Announces 2009 Principal Casting

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, October 29, 2008 �Ķ Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell today announced the principal casting and creative teams for the Shaw Festival���s 2009 season. The 2009 playbill includes full productions of each play in No��l Coward���s Tonight at 8:30, a celebrated collection of ten brilliant short plays brought to life on all three of the Festival���s stages. A world premiere, this marks the first time all ten plays have been presented together in repertory theatre history. On August 8, 29 and September 19 The Shaw presents all ten plays in one day, an event appropriately named ���Mad Dogs and Englishmen���. The season also includes Bernard Shaw���s The Devil���s Disciple and In Good King Charles���s Golden Days, a limited run of John Osborne���s The Entertainer in our new Studio Theatre, four additional full productions, and the popular reading series of contemporary Shavian writers. The season runs from April 1 to November 1 in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

The Shaw Festival welcomes back Company members Michael Ball, Neil Barclay, Donna Belleville, Andrew Bunker, Fiona Byrne, Benedict Campbell, Krista Colosimo, Nicol�� Correia-Damude, Sharry Flett, Patrick Galligan, Mary Haney, Deborah Hay, Patty Jamieson, David Jansen, Gabrielle Jones, Claire Jullien, Lorne Kennedy, Peter Krantz, Thom Marriott, Julie Martell, Marla McLean, Peter Millard, Moya O���Connell, Laurie Paton, Gray Powell, Ric Reid, David Schurmann, Goldie Semple, Graeme Somerville, Jay Turvey, Mark Uhre and Jenny L. Wright. In keeping with the Festival���s emphasis on nurturing the careers of emerging theatre artists, several new members of the Company return in featured roles in 2009, including Kawa Ada, Beryl Bain, Lisa Codrington, Billy Lake, Ali Momen, Ken James Stewart, Richard Stewart, Jonathan Widdifield and Robin Evan Willis.

Festival favourites Evan Buliung, Patricia Hamilton, Corrine Koslo, Jim Mezon, Steven Sutcliffe and Wendy Thatcher return after absences from The Shaw���s stages. Newcomers Kyle Blair, Saccha Dennis and Kelly Wong are warmly welcomed to The Shaw���s Ensemble.

In making the announcement, Jackie Maxwell noted: ���The creativity and multi-faceted character of our world renowned Ensemble of actors, directors and designers allows us to embark with great brio on an ambitious season. The staging of Tonight at 8:30, in particular, requires great versatility in the acting company and innovation and imagination from our directors and designers. I���m thrilled to welcome to The Shaw for the 2009 season ��� and to welcome back ��� many of Canada���s top theatre artists.���

The Festival is also pleased to announce that Blair Williams will direct the Tonight at 8:30 production Ways of the Heart, which will include The Astonished Heart, Family Album, and Ways and Means, in the Court House Theatre. A veteran Shaw actor, Mr. Williams made his directorial debut at The Shaw in 2008, to great critical and audience acclaim, with Ferenc Moln��r���s The President.

Creative teams and primary and secondary castings include the following:

FESTIVAL THEATRE

Tonight at 8:30:
Brief Encounters

(Still Life, We Were Dancing, Hands Across the Sea)

by No��l Coward

Previews ��� April 11 Opens ��� May 20 Closes ��� October 24

Sponsored by: CIBC World Markets

Directed by Jackie Maxwell, designed by William Schmuck, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte, original music and sound design by John Gzowski, video designed by Adam Larsen, choreography by Valerie Moore

Featuring Deborah Hay and Patrick Galligan, Corrine Koslo and Thom Marriott, with Krista Colosimo, Gray Powell and Goldie Semple.

Born Yesterday

by Garson Kanin

Previews ��� May 5 Opens ��� May 23 Closes ��� November 1

Sponsored by: Sun Life Financial

Directed by Neil Munro, designed by Sue LePage, lighting designed by Alan Brodie

Featuring Deborah Hay as Billie Dawn, Thom Marriott as Brock, and Gray Powell as Paul, with Donna Belleville, Patrick Galligan, Lorne Kennedy and Ali Momen.

The Devil���s Disciple

by Bernard Shaw

Previews ��� June 14 Opens ��� July 9 Closes ��� October 11

Directed by Tadeusz Bradecki, designed by Peter Hartwell, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte

Featuring Evan Buliung as Dick Dudgeon, Fiona Byrne as Judith Anderson, and Peter Krantz as Anthony Anderson, with Donna Belleville, Jim Mezon, Peter Millard, Richard Stewart and Jonathan Widdifield.

COURT HOUSE THEATRE

A Moon for the Misbegotten

by Eugene O���Neill

Previews ��� April 28 Opens ��� May 23 Closes ��� October 9

Sponsored by: Scotiabank Group

Directed by Joseph Ziegler, designed by Christina Poddubiuk, lighting designed by Louise Guinand

Featuring Moya O���Connell as Josie, David Jansen as James Tyrone, and Jim Mezon as Phil.

Albertine in Five Times

by Michel Tremblay, in a new translation by Linda Gaboriau

Previews ��� June 24 Opens ��� July 10 Closes ��� October 10

Directed by Micheline Chevrier, designed by Teresa Przybylski, lighting designed by Ereca Hassell, original music and sound design by Marc Desormeaux

Featuring Nicol�� Correia-Damude, Patricia Hamilton, Mary Haney, Marla McLean, Wendy Thatcher and Jenny L. Wright.

Tonight at 8:30:

Ways of the Heart

(The Astonished Heart, Family Album, Ways and Means)

by No��l Coward

Previews ��� July 21 Opens ��� August 1 Closes ��� October 11

Directed by Blair Williams, set designed by Sue LePage, costumes designed by Judith Bowden, lighting designed by Louise Guinand

Featuring Claire Jullien, Laurie Paton and David Jansen, with Michael Ball, Andrew Bunker and Lisa Codrington.

ROYAL GEORGE THEATRE

In Good King Charles���s Golden Days

by Bernard Shaw

Previews ��� April 17 Opens ��� May 21 Closes ��� October 9

Sponsored by Producers Circle

Directed by Eda Holmes, set designed by Camellia Koo, costumes designed by Michael Gianfrancesco, lighting designed by Bonnie Beecher

Featuring Benedict Campbell as Charles II, Graeme Somerville as Isaac Newton, Laurie Paton as Catherine of Braganza and Ric Reid as Fox, with Andrew Bunker, Lisa Codrington, Nicol�� Correia-Damude, Mary Haney and Claire Jullien.

Sunday in the Park with George

Book by James Lapine, Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Previews ��� April 1 Opens ��� May 22 Closes ��� November 1

Sponsored by: TD Canada Trust Music

Directed by Alisa Palmer, musical direction by Paul Sportelli, designed by Judith Bowden, lighting designed by Alan Brodie

Featuring Steven Sutcliffe as George/George and Julie Martell as Dot/Marie, with Sharry Flett, Jay Turvey and Mark Uhre.

Tonight at 8:30:

Play, Orchestra, Play

(Red Peppers, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play)

by No��l Coward

Previews ��� June 9 Opens ��� July 11 Closes ��� October 31

Directed by Christopher Newton, musical direction by Paul Sportelli, designed by Cameron Porteous, lighting designed by Louise Guinand

Featuring Patty Jamieson, Jay Turvey and Steven Sutcliffe, with Wendy Thatcher.

Lunchtime:
Tonight at 8:30:

Star Chamber

Previews ��� June 25 Opens ��� July 11 Closes ��� October 11

by No��l Coward

Directed by Kate Lynch, designed by William Schmuck, lighting designed by Kirsten Watt

Featuring Neil Barclay, Evan Buliung, Fiona Byrne, Sharry Flett, Gabrielle Jones, Marla McLean, Mark Uhre and Jenny L. Wright.

In the New STUDIO THEATRE:

The Entertainer

by John Osborne

Previews ��� July 31 Opens ��� August 15 Closes ��� September 20

Sponsored by Paradigm Capital Inc.

Directed by Jackie Maxwell, designed by Peter Hartwell, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte

Featuring Benedict Campbell as Archie, David Schurmann as Billy Rice, and Corrine Koslo as Phoebe, with Krista Colosimo and Ken James Stewart.

READING SERIES:

August 16 Ourselves Alone, by Anne Devlin, director TBA

August 30 Her Naked Skin, by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Eda Holmes

September 12 Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Philip Akin

September 27 Maria Severa, by Paul Sportelli and Jay Turvey, directed by Jackie Maxwell

Tickets for the 2009 season go on sale to Shaw Festival Members on November 8 and sales to the general public begin January 5 by mail, fax or online and on January 10 by phone or in person.

Tonight at 8:30 is generously supported by Lombard Insurance, Media Partners CTV and The Globe and Mail, and Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund.

Renowned Berkshire Choral Festival seeks Montreal singers for weeklong choral festival

Renowned Berkshire Choral Festival seeks Montreal singers for weeklong choral festival

Montreal, QC ��� The internationally renowned Berkshire Choral Festival is seeking applications from Montreal singers, ages 18 and up, for the prestigious weeklong singing festival, June 26 to July 4, 2009.

With a handful of spots set aside for local talent, successful applicants will join singers from around the world and be immersed in an intense learning experience under the direction of distinguished composer and conductor Julian Wachner, former music director for Bach-Academie de Montreal and current director for the Grammy award-winning Washington Chorus.

The weeklong choral festival will culminate with a performance of Mendelssohn���s oratorio Paulus (St. Paul) sung in German and accompanied by Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal at the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste on July 3.

���We are extremely excited for our inaugural visit to Montreal,��� says Trudy Weaver Miller, President and CEO, Berkshire Choral Festival. ���Montreal���s rich cultural heritage, old-world architectural charm, and world class amenities make it an ideal city in which to host the Berkshire Choral Festival. We look forward to an artistically stimulating summer.���

The 2009 season marks the Berkshire Choral Festival���s first visit to Montreal, which joins the internationally recognized list of Berkshire Choral Festival venues along with Sheffield, Massachusetts, and Prague, Czech Republic in providing choral singers from around the globe with the opportunity to rehearse and perform masterpieces of the choral repertoire in a weeklong singing intensive.

More than 180 singers will not only rehearse, but also live on the sprawling campus of McGill University for the entire week. It is a musically and physically demanding program designed for singers who want to reach more deeply into the choral music experience.

Berkshire Choral Festival will begin accepting on-line registrations October 29, 2008. For further information, or to apply online, visit the Berkshire Choral Festival website at: www.choralfest.org.


About Berkshire Choral Festival
The Berkshire Choral Festival was founded in 1982. It was a new idea about a unique way of learning and singing choral music in a rich and artistically stimulating setting.
Twenty-eight years later, the Berkshire Choral Festival still holds to this philosophy ��� that choral music is best when it is studied, absorbed, discussed and mulled over by choristers and conductors together ��� in total immersion ��� until it makes sense as a genuine revelation and expression of the human spirit.

Sinfonia Toronto to Tour Germany

SINFONIA TORONTO TO TOUR GERMANY

Toronto - Sinfonia Toronto will take off for Germany next month for a five-city concert tour in the central German state of Hesse. The 'Heart of Germany' tour includes performances in Kassel, Fulda, Bensheim, Warburg and Florsheim. The Hessischer Rundfunk radio network is a co-sponsor of the tour and will record the orchestra's performance in Fulda for broadcast.

Sinfonia Toronto's Music Director Nurhan Arman comments, "it will be a great honour to showcase Canadian music and culture in one of Europe's most historic and culturally significant regions." The tour repertoire includes compositions by Elgar, Janacek, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Canadian composer Sir Ernest MacMillan. The orchestra's concertmaster Mary-Elizabeth Brown will be the featured violin soloist in works by Schubert and Sarasate.

The 'Heart of Germany' tour is supported by an International Touring Assistance in Music Pilot Project Program grant from the Canada Council, the Hessischer Rundfunk radio network, Lufthansa, Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft e.V., the Canadian Embassy in Berlin and the Kasseler Bank.

During the 2008-2009 Sinfonia Toronto will celebrate its 10th Anniversary concert season. The orchestra presents a seven-concert Masterpiece Series in Toronto's Grace Church on-the-Hill each season and a number of community/outreach performances. Marquis Records has just issued Sinfonia Toronto's new CD, Flanders Fields Reflections.

Before leaving for Germany the orchestra will perform in Sarnia on November 5 and will present the 'Violin Magic' concert in Toronto on November 14.

For further information on 'Heart of Germany' concert dates, locations and programs please refer to www.sinfoniatoronto.com or contact the orchestra by phone at 416-499-0403.

In performance, Sat & Sun at 2:30 pm in Montreal

Award-winning pianist invites you on a memorable musical journey tinged with overwhelming joy, whether you are a newcomer to classical music or a connoisseur. This live performance features the emotional pathos of Beethoven and Schubert, the breathtaking musical landscapes of Edvard Grieg and the dazzling virtuosity of Franz Liszt.

This is what the poster below (or in attachment) states for my upcoming 6 recital, 3 masterclass and 1 radio recording & interview tour in November in Shaunavon, Leader, Kindersley & Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan), Thunder Bay (Ontario) and Marquette (Michingan, USA). Press Release in attachment as well.

Come hear a preview for FREE in Montreal! Feel free to invite friends!

Though Christmas is still far away, Nordic Passion CDs will be available for $15, all included. Two dates, one location, one programme:

��� Saturday, November 1 at 2:30 pm

��� Sunday, November 2 at 2:30 pm (NEW time!)

Studio de musique
Conseil des arts de Montr��al
3450, St-Urbain (just North of Sherbrooke) m��tro Place des arts or bus 24
FREE admission

Same programme on Saturday & Sunday

Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor, Opus 13 "Path��tique"
Erland von Koch: Variations on a Swedish Folk Tune (1981)
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, Opus 40 original piano version
(pause of 10 min.)
Franz Schubert: Three Piano Pieces, D. 946
Walter Boudreau: Asylum Waltz (2003)
Denis Gougeon: Piano Soleil (1996)
Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli

Info: 514 284-1219 or derekys@hotmail.com

http://www.yaple-schobert.com/
http://www.myspace.com/yapleschobert

Harmonia Choir of Ottawa

Harmonia Choir of Ottawa, directed by Kurt Ala-Kantti, Joanne Moorcroft accompanist, presents Canada Remembers, an all-Canadian programme of remembrance, with guests the Cross Town Youth Chorus, on Tuesday, November 11th, 7:30 pm at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, corner of Kent and James.

This concert will also premiere a new work by the choir's Composer-in-Residence, Christopher Askwith, In Beechwood Cemetery utilizing the text by Archibald Lampham, as well as one of the finalists from this year's Choral Competition, Anita Pari, also a member of the Cross Town Youth Chorus, who will accompany the piece.

With the choir's usual flair for a variety of styles of music, the concert will have something for everyone, from composers across the country, to right here at home with pieces by Gatineau's Pierrette Froment-Savoie, and Dr. James Wright, with accompaniment ranging from piano and violin, to Accordion and Bodhran.

The choir loves to have new pieces to premiere, says Harmonia's Director Kurt Ala-Kantti. It's an added bonus to give such a young composer an opportunity like this to have her work performed, and to have her perform it as well.

Tickets are $15, $10 students and seniors, (FREE to children and youth)
will be available at the door, or from The Leading Note, 370 Elgin St.

More information from the choir's website: www.harmoniachoir.com

Harmonia Choir of Ottawa
Canada Remembers
with Cross Town Youth Chorus
Tuesday, Nov. 11th, 7:30 pm
St Barnabas Anglican Church, corner Kent and James
Works by Mark Sirett, Stephen Hatfield, James Wright, and more!

Tickets: $15; seniors $10 (children and youth free)
Available at the door or in advance at: Leading Note: 370 Elgin near
Gladstone 569-7883

Dulcinea's Lament, Dulcinea Langfelder & Co./D.B. Clarke Theatre- Nov. 12-19

The D.B. Clarke Theatre presents

A Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. production

The Canadian premiere of

Dulcinea's Lament

A multidisciplinary creation by Dulcinea Langfelder & Co.
Directed by Alice Ronfard

One week only

Wednesday, November 12 ��� Wednesday, November 19, 2008

To see an inspiring excerpt of Dulcinea's Lament please go to:

Ducinea's Lament on YouTube (the show will be presented in English)

"No, I was not chaste�Ķbut I never made anyone pay!" ��� Dulcinea del Toboso

Montreal, October 2008- The D.B. Clarke Theatre presents Dulcinea Langfelder & Co.'s newest creation, Dulcinea's Lament. Written and performed by respected actor, singer, dancer Dulcinea Langfelder and directed by the ever-creative Alice Ronfard, this humourous, sensitive and critical look behind the cloak of Cervantes' muse, Dulcinea del Toboso, will entertain and enlighten. Dulcinea's Lament recently made its world premiere at the Spiral Hall Theatre in Tokyo. Isabelle Bouvier, Director of the D.B. Clarke Theatre, is honoured to present this exciting new work, "For years the D.B. Clarke Theatre has played an important role in helping make diverse cultural productions available to the Concordia and greater Montreal communities. By presenting Dulcinea's Lament, we hope to carry on this tradition."

Join us in this new adventure; an eclectic, eccentric and energetic frolic into past and present human foibles...

Inspired by Don Quixote's muse, Dulcinea del Toboso, multidisciplinary artist Dulcinea Langfelder takes on Cervantes' 'absent heroine'. Using her namesake from the novel, she expresses her vision of religious attitudes, the world and its history. In this multimedia theatre production, you don't need to have read the book to know intuitively who Dulcinea is. This impressive performance, creatively weaving song, puppetry, spoken word and dance, will spellbind you. Director Alice Ronfard is thrilled to be on board with this latest show, having worked with Dulcinea on some of her earlier productions, "I have always felt passionate about the themes Dulcinea engages in. It was important for me to follow through with her on this particular creation."

Don Quixote, the best selling book in the world after the Bible, speaks to the quest for righteousness against all odds. Langfelder addresses our divisions in this troubled, 'post 9/11' world, "I want the audience to leave the theatre more curious about the world and why we behave the way we do. I want them to feel more confident in themselves and less vulnerable to 'group think'." She continues, "I hope that people walk out ready to laugh at human foible rather than stress out over it!"

Directed by the wonderful Alice Ronfard, with the musical wisdom of Philippe Noireault and Danys Levasseur, the video prowess of Yves Labelle, the discerning designing eye of Ana Capellutto, the smoky lighting of Eric Gingras, the puppet and puppetry of Vincent Santes, the crazy choreography and concept of Dulcinea Langfelder, and championed by Honourable Colleagues: Erik Lapierre, Francis La Haye and Jean-Fran��ois Bernier.

Dulcinea's Lament ��� seven shows only

A presentation of the D.B. Clarke Theatre

1455 de Maisonneuve West, Guy metro

Admission (514) 790-1245 www.admission.com (for information: 514 848-2424, ext. 4742)

Dates: Wed. 12, Thurs. 13, Fri. 14, Sat. 15, Tues. 18, Wed. 19 November at 8:00pm

Matinee: Sunday, Nov. 16 at 3:00 pm

28$ regular, $24 seniors, $22 students (service charges apply).

Group rates available

www.dulci-langfelder.org

Dulcinea's Lament is a co-production of the Carlsen Center (Overland Park, KS, USA), and is sponsored in Montreal thanks to the participation of Manulife Financial. Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. acknowledges with thanks the support of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Qu��bec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Conseil des arts de Montr��al. The company benefited from creative residencies in Montreal at Hexagram, Usine C and la Place des Arts,

and in Bic at le Th����tre du Bic.

The VSO's First Concert Back From Its Asia-Pacific Tour

The VSO���s first classical concert in Vancouver after the Asia-Pacific Tour is this weekend ��� the concert features brilliant Classical pianist Angela Cheng, and a performance of Dvorak���s New World Symphony No.9

Vancouver BC ��� Angela Cheng, one of the world���s finest Classical pianists and a favourite of Vancouver audiences, performs Beethoven���s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor on November 1^st and 3^rd at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre. Guest conductor Yoav Talmi also leads the orchestra in Beethoven���s Leonore Overture No.3 and Dvorak���s epic Symphony No. 9 ���From the New World.���

Vancouver audiences welcome the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra back from the 2008 Asia-Pacific Tour in these performances, their first classical concert since their return.

����Ķnothing short of magic�Ķa pianist one could listen to for hours�Ķ���

- The Record (Waterloo, Ontario)

Born in Hong Kong to a musical family, Angela Cheng moved to Canada at age 8 and settled in Edmonton. The first concert she attended was Gina Bachauer playing Beethoven���s 3^rd Concerto with the Edmonton Symphony. She knew by then that she wanted to be a first-rate pianist and was well on her way. Cheng studied piano at the Alberta College from age 13 to 17 and the University of Alberta from age 17 to 19. She completed her Bachelors of Music at the Juilliard School in New York and her Masters of Music from Indiana State University.

Angela Cheng is the recipient of numerous awards. The gold medal winner of the 1986 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters competition, Ms. Cheng has earned her reputation as one of Canada���s brightest stars. In 1988, Ms. Cheng became the first Canadian to win the Grand Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition and in 1991 she received the Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg for her interpretations of Mozart.

Ms. Cheng has received international acclaim for her technical skill, tonal beauty, and musicianship. She has performed as a soloist with every major Canadian symphony orchestra as well as several American orchestras and the Israel Philharmonic. Ms. Cheng is busy this season touring across North America. She will be teaching a Masterclass at Florida State University before visiting Vancouver and then she is off to Indiana to perform in recital.

Well known and celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Yoav Talmi is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Quebec Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv. In the past, he has served as Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Music Director of the San Diego Symphony, Music Director of the Arnhem Philharmonic (Netherlands), and Music Director of both - the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the New Israeli Opera.

Both concerts on November 1^st and 3^rd will feature a pre-concert talk by Assistant Conductor Evan Mitchell, free to ticket holders, at 7:05pm in the auditorium.

CONCERT INFO

Masterworks Gold Series

New World Symphony

Yoav Talmi, conductor

Angela Cheng, piano

Beethoven Leonore Overture No.3

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

Dvorak Symphony No.9 From the New World

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

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

BIOGRAPHIES

Yoav Talmi

Maestro Talmi���s long and impressive guest conducting career spans several continents. His European engagements include all the major London orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam���s Concertgebouw, the Symphony Orchestras of Vienna and Prague, the Philharmonic Orchestras of St. Petersburg, Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw and Israel, the Orchestre National de France, Zurich���s Tonhalle, Rome���s Santa Cecilia, and numerous radio orchestras in Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Sweden. He has also made several appearances with the NHK Symphony and the New Philharmonic Orchestras in Japan. In North America, he has appeared with the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Rochester and Seattle, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) and the Orchestra of St. Luke���s at Carnegie Hall.

Yoav Talmi���s summer activities includes the Aspen Music Festival, Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Bergen Festival in Norway, Chautauqua Festival (NY), Helsinki Festival, Houston���s Mostly Mozart Festival, Jerusalem Festival, Montreal���s Lanaudi��re Festival and the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey.

Also a seasoned recording artist, Yoav Talmi has collaborated with Chandos, Decca, EMI, Naxos, Teldec. CBC Records (Toronto), Atma and Analekta (Montreal). His recording of Bruckner���s Ninth Symphony with the Oslo Philharmonic won the prestigious ���Grand Prix du Disque��� in Paris. Mr. Talmi���s recording of Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky with the Israel Chamber Orchestra for Teldec was chosen ���Record of the Month��� by Germany���s Fono-Forum magazine. The London Penguin Guide gave this same recording its highest rating. His recent recording French Showpieces with the Quebec Symphony and violinist James Ehnes was chosen ���Record of the Month��� by the French media magazine Repertoire, who gave this recording a perfect rating. Talmi���s Naxos recordings with the San Diego Symphony feature an all-Berlioz cycle that includes the Symphonie fantastique, the complete overtures, Rom��o et Juliette, Harold in Italy, R��verie et Caprice, excerpts from Les Troyens, and more. He has recorded also as pianist, accompanying his wife, flutist Er���ella Talmi.

Born in Israel, Yoav Talmi is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and The Juilliard School in New York, where he earned degrees in both composition and conducting with grants from the America Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF). He was a recipient of the Koussevitzky Memorial Conducting Prize at the Tanglewood Festival [1969] and the Rupert Conductor���s Competition in London [1973].

Last July 2008, Yoav Talmi was awarded the ���Frank Pelleg��� prize of the Israeli Cultural Ministry, for his high-level artistic achievements through many years of activity and in August 2008 he received the Quebec-City Medal, honoring his special contribution to the city���s 400 anniversary celebrations. Maestro Talmi holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Laval University in Quebec, Canada.

Angela Cheng

Consistently cited for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship, Angela Cheng is one of Canada's brightest stars. She has appeared as soloist with virtually every orchestra in Canada, as well as the Birmingham Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Utah Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, among others. The frequency with which she is re-engaged is remarkable.

Angela Cheng's debut recording of two Mozart concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra received glowing reviews. Other CDs include: for Koch International, Clara Schumann's Concerto in A Minor with JoAnn Falletta and the Women's Philharmonic; for CBC Records, selected works of Clara and Robert Schumann, four Spanish concerti with Hans Graf and the Calgary Philharmonic, and both Shostakovich concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Radio Orchestra. In the fall of 2006, an all- Chopin recital CD for Universal will be released.

Ms. Cheng appears regularly on recital series throughout the U.S. and Canada and has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including the Tak��cs, Colorado and Vogler quartets. Her many festival appearances include Chautauqua, Colorado, Houston, Vancouver and the Festival International de Lanaudi��re in Quebec

Angela Cheng was the 1986 Gold Medal winner at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition as well as the first Canadian to win the prestigious Montreal International Piano Competition (1988). In the same year, the Canada Council awarded Ms. Cheng its coveted Career Development Grant. For her outstanding interpretations of Mozart, she received the Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1991.

Charles Aznavour "Duos"

CHARLES AZNAVOUR

"DUOS,"

featuring French and English duets with some of the world's biggest names

to be released in North America on December 9, 2008

On December 9, legendary French singer Charles Aznavour will again be in the spotlight with the release of his new album Duos.

Duos is a collection of some of his greatest songs recorded as French and English duets with some of the biggest international stars, including Paul Anka, C��line Dion, Josh Groban, Sting, Elton John, Placido Domingo, Nana Mouskouri, Carole King, Bryan Ferry, Edith Piaf, Dean Martin, Herbert Gr��nemeyer, Johnny Hallyday, Liza Minnelli, Laura Pausini, Frank Sinatra and Julio Iglesias. In addition, a musical comedy based on his songs entitled "Je m���Voyais D��j��" (I Could Already See Myself) opened this month in Paris.

Earlier this year, Charles Aznavour was awarded with the prestigious Order of Canada and will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at MIDEM on January 19, 2009 in recognition of his outstanding career.

"Charles Aznavour is without doubt the most famous French singer throughout the world, and he is a living legend in the pantheon of chanson fran��aise. His songs have become standards covered by some of the greatest artists of successive generations, and the films in which he has starred are classics. It is a pleasure for MIDEM to be able to honour this incomparable personality," said Paul Zilk, Chief Executive Officer of Reed MIDEM.

Aznavour has written more than 800 songs, many of which have been interpreted by the world���s greatest artists (Fred Astaire, Shirley Bassey, Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Junior, Juliette Gr��co, Liza Minnelli, Edith Piaf and Nina Simone to name but a few).

He has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including over a million in Canada. His career as an actor, which he began in the theatre at the age of nine, includes more than 60 films, including "The Tin Drum," winner of the Palme d���Or at the Festival de Cannes in 1979. His last studio album "Colore ma Vie" was released in 2007 by EMI.

In 1988, following the terrible earthquake in Armenia, Aznavour started to use his international fame to help the land of his forebears by founding the humanitarian foundation "Aznavour pour l���Arm��nie" (Aznavour for Armenia) with L��von Sayan.

In 1993, the President of Armenia appointed him Ambassador-at-Large and Ambassador to Unesco.

In 1998, Charles Aznavour was voted Entertainer of the Century ��� ahead of Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan ��� in an online poll conducted by CNN and Time Magazine USA. Aznavour was named "Commandeur de la L��gion d���Honneur" (Commander of the L��gion d���Honneur) and "Commandeur dans l���Ordre National du M��rite" (Commander in the National Order of Merit) by President Jacques Chirac.

At 84, the lyricist and/or composer of such classics as "La Boh��me," "Je m���Voyais D��j��," "Hier encore," "La Mamma" continues to write new songs and to appear on some of the most prestigious international stages.

Charles Aznavour is the dazzling symbol of universal artistic talent coupled with unbounded energy.

"DUOS" TRACKLISTING:

CD 1
TOI ET MOI Charles Aznavour / C��line Dion
QUE C���EST TRISTE VENISE Charles Aznavour / Julio Iglesias
LES BATEAUX SONT PARTIS Charles Aznavour /Placido Domingo
PARIS AU MOIS D'AOUT Charles Aznavour / Laura Pausini
HIER ENCORE Charles Aznavour/ Elton John
IL FAUT SAVOIR Charles Aznavour / Johnny Hallyday
MOURIR D���AIMER Charles Aznavour / Nana Mouskouri
L���AMOUR C���EST COMME UN JOUR Charles Aznavour / Sting
LA BOH��ME Charles Aznavour / Josh Groban
TON NOM Charles Aznavour /Carole King
JE N���AI PAS VU LE TEMPS PASSER Charles Aznavour / Paul Anka
MES EMMERDES Charles Aznavour / Herbert Groenemeyer
C���EST UN GARS Charles Aznavour / Edith Piaf

CD 2
YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG Charles Aznavour/ Elton John
QUIET LOVE Charles Aznavour/ Liza Minnelli
LOVE IS NEW EVERYDAY Charles Aznavour/ Sting
YOUNG AT HEART Charles Aznavour/ Franck Sinatra
TO DIE OF LOVE Charles Aznavour/ Nana Mouskouri
SHE Charles Aznavour/ Bryan Ferry
I DIDN���T SEE THE TIME GO BY Charles Aznavour / Paul Anka
YOU AND ME Charles Aznavour/ C��line Dion
LA BOHEME Charles Aznavour/ Josh Groban
THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME Charles Aznavour/ Carole King
YOU���VE GOT TO LEARN Charles Aznavour/ Johnny Hallyday
PARIGI IN AGOSTO Charles Aznavour / Laura Pausini
EL BARCO YA SE FUE Charles Aznavour/ Placido Domingo
ALS ES MIR BESCHISSEN GING Charles Aznavour /Herbert Groenemeyer
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME Charles Aznavour/ Dean Martin

NEC Celebrates Elliott Carter 100th Birthday: all 5 String Quartets, Music from 8 Decades

NEC Celebrates Elliott Carter���s 100th Birthday with Collaborative Performances of the Five String Quartets, World Premiere of Percussion Commission

Centenary Festivities Also Include Performances of Music from Eight Decades of the Composer���s Career

���Our time is so much more awesome, frightening and, certainly, energetic. Therefore, its greatest music must be and is more powerful than the classical masterpieces.������Elliott Carter

New England Conservatory will celebrate the 100th birthday of the legendary���and still working���composer Elliott Carter with performances of his works from eight decades. The festival, which begins in November and extends throughout the fall, is curated by John Heiss. It will be highlighted by performances of all five String Quartets in an NEC-initiated collaboration between three Conservatory ensembles and the Pacifica and Chiara Quartets. Quartets No. 2 and 3 each won Pulitzer Prizes in 1960 and 1973 respectively.

NEC will also present the world premiere of Tintinnabulation, a new work for percussion ensemble that the Conservatory commissioned from Carter and which was completed last summer. In addition, double bassist Donald Palma will perform the solo work Figment III, written for him earlier this year and for which he remains the first and exclusive performer.

The Conservatory���s events will precede the Boston Symphony Orchestra���s December 4 premiere of Carter���s Interventions for Piano and Orchestra, with Daniel Barenboim as soloist. The 100-year old composer, who expects to be in Boston for the BSO final rehearsals and performances, has promised to attend one or more events at NEC, his health permitting.

Masterminded by NEC faculty cellist Paul Katz, a founding member of the Cleveland Quartet, the Carter quartet retrospective will take place in several venues���NEC, the Gardner Museum, Harvard University (where the Chiaras are Blodgett Artists-in-Residence) and the Longy School of Music (where the Pacifica is in residence). The Conservatory groups include the Borromeo String Quartet, the Ariel Quartet (currently in residence in NEC���s Professional String Quartet Training Program), and the Laurel Quartet (one of NEC���s Honors Ensembles).

Carter���s Tintinnabulation was inspired by the composer���s enthusiastic response to Gunther Schuller���s Grand Concerto for Percussion and Keyboards, a piece written as part of NEC���s Endicott percussion commissioning project. Tintinnabulation was commissioned for the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble and director Frank Epstein with support from Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser and the Shrieking Meadow Foundation.
All concerts at NEC are free and open to the public. See individual listings for concerts at other venues for details on ticketing. The complete listing of programs, dates, and venues follows:

November 17, 8 pm, The Longy School of Music,
One Follen St. Cambridge. $30/ $20 students
http://www.longy.edu/concerts/concerts_ticketinfo.htm

Pacifica Quartet performs Carter's String Quartet No. 3, Beethoven���s String Quartet, Op. 132, and George Crumb String Quartet No. 3

November 18, 8 pm, NEC���s Jordan Hall

Pianist David Holzman performs Carter's Piano Sonata.

November 30, 1:30 pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=303806

Laurel Quartet performs String Quartet No. 5, as part of an all-Carter program.

December 1, 8 pm, NEC

"First Monday" concert includes Carter's String Quartet No. 1 with the Borromeo String Quartet, NEC quartet-in-residence.

December 2, 4 pm, 7 pm, and 8pm, NEC

4 pm in NEC���s Williams Hall. Masterclass on Carter's Sonata for cello and piano with cellist Laurence Lesser and pianist Christopher Taylor.

7 pm in NEC���s Williams Hall. Panel discussion with Elliott Carter's assistant Virgil Blackwell; John Heiss of the NEC faculty, who has coordinated these performances; and Donald Palma of the NEC faculty.

8 pm in NEC���s Jordan Hall. Frank Epstein conducts NEC Percussion Ensemble in world premiere of Tintinnabulation; String Quartet No. 2 with the Ariel Quartet; Asko Concerto with the NEC Chamber Orchestra, Sonata for cello and piano, with cellist Laurence Lesser and pianist Christopher Taylor; Birthday Flourish and Woodwind Quintet, with the NEC Contemporary Ensemble; and Elegy for viola and piano, with students from NEC's Preparatory School.

December 3, 6 pm and 8 pm, NEC

6 pm in Brown Hall. Chiara String Quartet, Harvard University's Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2008���2011, performs Carter's String Quartet No. 4.

8 pm in NEC���s Jordan Hall. All-Carter program includes Double Concerto, Canonic Suite, Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harpsichord; Luimen, Figment III, Harmony of the Spheres, and Musicians Wrestle Everywhere.

December 4, 8 pm, Harvard University���s Houghton Library
For more information: http://140.247.118.196/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=8162

Chiara String Quartet, Harvard University's Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2008���2011, performs Carter's String Quartet No. 4. This concert is sold-out.

December 4���9, Symphony Hall

World premiere of Carter's Interventions with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine conducting; Daniel Barenboim, piano.

For further information, check the NEC Website at: http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/carter/ or call the NEC Concert Line at 617-585-1122. NEC���s Jordan Hall, Brown Hall, Williams Hall and the Keller Room are located at 30 Gainsborough St., corner of Huntington Ave. St. Botolph Hall is located at 241 St. Botolph St. between Gainsborough and Mass Ave.

ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY

Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.

The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes���thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.

NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC���s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.

NEC is co-founder and educational partner of ���From the Top,��� a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.

Parsons Dance presents World Premiere collaboration with EVOC - Jan 6-18

PARSONS DANCE

presents a World Premiere collaboration with

The Lead Vocalists of

EAST VILLAGE OPERA COMPANY

The Joyce Theater, January 6 ��� 18, 2009

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

Parsons Dance presents the World Premiere of an all-new, as-yet-untitled collaboration with the lead vocalists of East Village Opera Company (EVOC), featuring the music of the acclaimed rock opera band. Program A premieres the new evening-length work with EVOC���s two lead vocalists live onstage with Parsons Dance. Program B will feature Parsons Dance favorites, including Caught and Nascimento.

���Nearly two years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the members of East Village Opera Company. We realized that a great deal of artistic synchronicity existed between our companies and we began to discuss the possibility of creating a work together. Peter Kiesewalter���s brilliant arrangements have proven to be incredibly inspirational. Now we are about to present this World Premiere in January,��� said David Parsons, artistic director of Parsons Dance.

���David Parsons��� choreography marries tradition and renewal in a way that physically represents what we try to evoke as a band. It���s exciting to see our music take a three dimensional kinesthetic shape in his hands,��� said Tyley Ross, lead male vocalist and co-founder of EVOC.

David Parsons, Tyley Ross and AnnMarie Milazzo (lead female vocalist) have created a storyline that connects EVOC���s signature operatic arias with David Parsons��� original choreography.

EVOC���s signature works re-imagine opera arias as popular songs, including pieces by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Schubert. These classics collide with electric sounds from the golden era of rock and roll, pop, R&B, and soul, exploding into a mosaic of sound in a triumphant musical celebration. They have received commissions to pen new works from both the New York Public Theatre and New York City Opera, with whom they have also performed at Lincoln Center. EVOC alternately headlines in prestigious classical concert halls and rock clubs, and records exclusively for Decca/Universal records. They have released three CD���s, and are currently on tour supporting their newest release Olde School.

Parsons Dance creates American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences throughout the world. It is the goal of Parsons Dance to make contemporary dance accessible to the widest possible audiences. In addition to choreography and performance, Parsons Dance positively impacts children, students, and communities through student performances, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, post-show discussions and more. Parsons Dance has a company of eleven full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of more than 70 works choreographed by David Parsons, twenty of which feature originally commissioned scores by leading composers and musicians, including Dave Matthews, Michael Gordon and Milton Nascimento. Parsons Dance has collaborated with many other leading artists, including Julie Taymor, William Ivey Long, Annie Leibovitz, Donna Karan and Alex Katz (to name a few). The New York Times called David Parsons ���one of the great movers of modern dance.��� New York Magazine referred to him as ���one of modern dance���s great living dance-makers.���

Parsons Dance dancers are Julie Blume, Eric Bourne, Sarah Braverman, John Corsa, Kevin Fitzgerald Ferguson, Patty Foster, Zac Hammer, Natalie Lomonte, Miguel Quinones, Abby Silva, Billy Smith, and apprentice Steven Vaughn.

The two programs follow:

Program A:

Thu 1/ 8, Fri 1/9 and Sat 1/10 at 8pm; Sun 1/11 at 2pm and 7:30pm; Wed 1/14 at 7:30pm;

Thu 1/15, Fri 1/16 and Sat 1/17 at 8pm; Sun 1/18 at 7:30pm

as-yet-untitled World Premiere

Program B:

Tue 1/6 and Wed 1/7 at 7:30pm; Tue 1/13 at 7:30pm; Sat 1/17 and Sun 1/18 at 2pm

Fill the Woods with Light, Slow Dance, Swing Shift, an excerpt from the as-yet-untitled World Premiere collaboration with East Village Opera Company, Caught, and Nascimento

Parsons Dance will perform January 6 ��� 18, 2009 at The Joyce Theater, with performances Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday at 7:30pm; Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm; and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. There is a Family matinee performance on Saturday, January 10 at 2pm. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19^th Street), NYC. Tickets are $59, $35, and $19 (Joyce Members $44, $26) and are available by phone at 212-242-0800 or joyce.org.

Parsons Dance is committed to building new audiences for contemporary dance by creating American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences throughout the world. The company tours regionally, nationally and internationally. Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured an average of 32 weeks per year, to a total more than 235 cities, 30 countries, six continents and millions of audience members. Many others have seen Parsons Dance on PBS, Bravo, A&E Network, and the Discovery Channel. Millions watched Parsons Dance perform live in Times Square as part of the internationally broadcast, 24-hour Millennium New Year���s Eve celebration. In New York City, Parsons Dance has been featured at The Joyce Theater, City Center, New Victory Theater, Central Park Summerstage, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and The World Trade Center.

David Parsons (Artistic Director/Founder) has enjoyed a remarkable career as a performer, choreographer, teacher, director and producer of dance. Mr. Parsons was born in Chicago and raised in Kansas City. He was a leading dancer with The Paul Taylor Dance Company, where Mr. Taylor created many roles for him in works such as Arden Court, Last Look and Roses. He is a recipient of the 2000 Dance Magazine Award, as well as the 2001 American Choreography Award, for his work as a co-producer of AEROS, a production featuring the Romanian Gymnastic Federation that was featured on Bravo. Mr. Parsons has created more than 70 works for Parsons Dance. He has received commissions over the years from The American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Dance Festival, Jacob���s Pillow, the Spoleto Festival and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, to name a few. His work has been performed by Paris Opera Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Nederlands Danse Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Hubbard Street Dance and BatSheva Dance Company of Israel, among many others. In June 2007, Mr. Parsons was honored to be the very first contemporary choreographer ever to stage work at the centuries-old Arena di Verona, in Verona Italy, where he choreographed Verdi���s Aida. The Arena is one of Italy���s most respected operatic venues. In September 2007, he directed and choreographed Gotham Chamber Opera���s production of Mar��a de Buenos Aires, which made its world premiere at a sold-out engagement in New York, at NYU���s Skirball Center for the Arts.

East Village Opera Company was formed in New York City���s East Village in 2004 by Canadians Peter Kiesewalter and Tyley Ross. The East Village Opera Company turned the heads of New York���s music community with a series of electric genre defying shows at Joe���s Pub, the intimate venue housed by the Public Theatre. Initially meant as a one-off project, they were quickly signed to Decca/Universal records and met with universal praise from both classical and rock critics and fans. The Washington Post proclaimed that ���Opera crossover acts are becoming a veritable cottage industry, but the East Village Opera Co. is markedly different.��� They have toured the world with a unique live show, combining a seemingly incongruous classical string section with a powerhouse rock band. Time Out New York stated that the group ���electrifies the classics for a new generation.��� The Associated Press mused the band was ���dramatic��� and ���mesmerizing��� while the Wall Street Journal agreed, noting ���The band rocks hard, and deranges the opera stuff with savvy skill.��� In a rare feat not many artists can claim, EVOC headlines around the world in both eclectic rock clubs as well as some of the most prestigious classical concert halls. The band���s appeal is evident in both cases. The Chicago Tribune raved ���Nobody puts a fresher, friskier contemporary spin on opera���s greatest hits than the East Village Opera Company.��� The band has also performed at esteemed events such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Miss USA pageant (nationally televised on NBC), and the world-premiere of ���The Da Vinci Code��� in Hong Kong. EVOC has also been celebrated at the 2006 Emmy Awards with an award for their PBS Special ���EVOC LIVE.���

Tyley Ross (Male Vocalist / EVOC co-founder) A native of Ottawa Canada, Tyley started performing professionally in his early teens while still a student at Canterbury���s school of the Arts. In the years since then, has been a street busker, a cartoon and voice artist, acted for the small and large screen, written and recorded two solo albums (his composition You Take My Breath Away was featured in the film Woman Wanted directed by Kiefer Sutherland and starring Holly Hunter), and he has performed as a guest soloist with orchestras across Canada and in the USA. After being discovered by Pete Townshend of The Who in 1994, Tyley was cast in the title role of the Canadian premiere of the Who���s Tommy. For his work in that show, he was honored with the Dora Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical. He spent the next ten years on musical stages across North America, including starring roles at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, and on Broadway. In 2001, Tyley was introduced to Peter Kiesewalter and they began experimenting with recording opera arias in a variety of modern contexts. This project led to the release of the CD La Donna and the unveiling of the East Village Opera Company in 2004 with a series of acclaimed performances at New York���s Joe���s Pub. Within a year the band had signed a multi-record deal with Decca/Universal, and has since released two CD���s: East Village Opera Company (2005) and Olde School (2008). Tyley has his master���s degree in voice studies from London���s Central School of Speech and Drama.

AnnMarie Milazzo (Female Vocalist) is a singer, arranger, composer and lyricist living in NYC. She has done the vocal arrangements for Spring Awakening, the Broadway musical at the Eugene O���Neill Theater; Next To Normal, which premiered Off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre; Bright Lights, Big City at New York Theatre Workshop; and the Paramount feature film ���The Marc Pease Experience��� starring Ben Stiller. Some of her most recent work includes a new musical Pretty Dead Girl, which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and is now being produced by the Araca Group in New York City, book by David Henry Wang. Also currently in progress is the musical Sea Change based on the Lois Gould novel, book by Karen Hartman. AnnMarie is the lyricist for Franco Dragone���s Carmen, which premiered at The Jolla Playhouse and will open in Madrid, 2009. She is currently writing lyrics for Cirque du Soleil���s, Le Reve, at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. AnnMarie���s singing credits include working with artists such as Angelique Kidjo on her Black Ivory Soul Tour also singing with Carlos Santana. She also toured with Jonatha Brooke and performed on her DVD Back In The Circus, shot live in NYC.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, has proudly served the dance community and its audiences since 1982. The founders, Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld, acquired and renovated the Elgin Theater in Chelsea, which opened as The Joyce Theater in 1982. The Joyce is named in honor of Joyce Mertz, beloved daughter of LuEsther T. Mertz. It was LuEsther���s clear, undaunted vision and abundant generosity that made it imaginable and ultimately possible to establish the theater. One of the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has provided an intimate and elegant New York home for more than 290 domestic and international companies. The Joyce has also commissioned more than 130 new dances since 1992. In 1996, The Joyce created Joyce SoHo, a dance center providing highly subsidized rehearsal and performance space to hundreds of dance artists. New York City public school students and teachers annually benefit from The Joyce���s Dance Education Program, and adult audiences get closer to dance through pre-engagement Dance Talks and post-performance Humanities discussions. The Joyce Theater now features an annual season of approximately 48 weeks with over 340 performances for audiences in excess of 135,000. Additionally, for the last five years The Joyce has co-produced Evening Stars as part of the River To River Festival in Battery Park.

The World Premiere production is made possible by lead commissioning support from The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation; and Dr. and Mrs. Edward Prostic, in honor and memory of their daughter Elizabeth Anne Prostic.

For more information, visit parsonsdance.org and eastvillageoperacompany.com.

PARSONS DANCE

The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19^th Street), NYC

January 6-18, 2009

Tue, Wed and Sun at 7:30pm; Thu, Fri and Sat at 8pm; and Sat and Sun at 2pm

Family matinee performance on Saturday, January 10 at 2pm.

Tickets: $59, $35, $19 (Joyce Members $44, $26)

JoyceCharge: 212-242-0800

joyce.org

Natalie Choquette lance TERRA MIA

TERRA MIA
de NATALIE CHOQUETTE

Une odyss��e lyrique aux quatre coins du monde

Montr��al, le 27 novembre 2008 ��� Cela fait trois ans que Natalie Choquette explore les grands airs des r��pertoires sacr��s, baroques et classiques. Avec brio et succ��s d'ailleurs, puisque sa trilogie ��terna s'est vendue �� 100 000 exemplaires et a remport�� trois F��lix �� l'ADISQ. Aujourd'hui, la c��l��bre soprano se lance dans une nouvelle aventure et un nouveau registre avec un album plein d'amour et de rythmes du monde�Ķ Alors faites vos valises et embarquez avec �� La diva �� pour une belle et grande ��pop��e �� travers TERRA MIA.

En 10 langues et 16 chansons, Natalie Choquette c��l��bre l'amour avec des compositions ou des chants traditionnels issus des cultures portugaise, japonaise, fran��aise, qu��b��coise, gitane, russe, chinoise, arabe, p��ruvienne�Ķ En duo avec Marco Calliari puis avec le jeune Torontois Daniel Panetta (d��couvert �� l'��mission Canadian Idol), elle fait une escale romantique en Italie pour entonner Reginella et Non ti scordar di me. Sur les rivages ensoleill��s de Cuba, m��re et fille se retrouvent ensuite, m��lant leur voix et leurs ��motions dans une chanson sp��cialement ��crite par Florence K., Mamacita.

Tout au long du p��riple, la voix en or de Natalie Choquette est soutenue par un ��crin de musique finement cisel�� dans l'authenticit�� : violons tziganes, accord��on italien, uhru chinois, oud arabe, fl��tes p��ruviennes, irlandaises ou japonaises, guitare flamenco, tres cubain�Ķ Pour enregistrer El c��ndor pasa, un chant traditionnel des Andes, la chanteuse et son ��quipe sont m��me all��s en Am��rique du Sud pour s'entourer d'un vrai ch��ur d'enfants p��ruviens. Le r��sultat est touchant.

Au total et en plus de ce ch��ur, 20 musiciens et 8 choristes ont particip�� �� l'aventure de TERRA MIA, dont la r��alisation et les sublimes arrangements sont sign��s John Roney et ��ric Lagac��.

TERRA MIA de Natalie Choquette : le classique et la musique du monde sont enfin r��concili��s dans un album con��u comme une invitation �� s'��vader sur une autre plan��te : la n��tre. En vente partout d��s aujourd'hui sur ��tiquette Isba Music, distributionDEP|Universal.

Jazz @ The Playhouse - A New Jazz Series This Fall

A New Series Featuring Jason Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Marc Jordan, Nikki Yanofsky, Coco Montoya and more at the Diesel Playhouse
Tickets on sale now!

Toronto ��� Toronto Downtown Jazz (TDJ) and Diesel Playhouse are pleased to introduce a new series, JAZZ @ THE PLAYHOUSE. Featuring seven intimate concerts for the 2008 Fall / Winter Concert Season at the Diesel Playhouse, this series will feature Jason Marsalis Trio, Nikki Yanofsky, Coco Montoya, Jane Bunnett, Kurt Elling, Marc Jordan and Tuck & Patti. Tickets are on sale now at all Ticketmaster outlets and through the Diesel Playhouse box office.

Jason Marsalis Trio - Thursday, Nov. 6
Jason Marsalis hails from a truly gifted musical family. With brothers Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and father Ellis, the Marsalis' are the venerable first family of jazz. Having made his professional debut on drums at the age of 12, Jason has often been described as having perhaps the strongest voice on his instrument in his generation. An active and visible part of the New Orleans jazz scene for a number of years, Jason has two recordings under his own name as well as a number of recordings with other musicians including the Marcus Roberts Trio. Joining Jason will be Stephen Riley and Neal Caine.

Nikki Yanofsky - Saturday, Nov. 8
At just 14 years old, Nikki Yanofsky has accomplished more than most teens her age. This past February, Nikki performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra under the direction of Marvin Hamlisch. Her long anticipated debut album, Ella�ĶOf Thee I Swing, currently sits atop the jazz charts. A Toronto crowd favourite, do not miss this young vocalist as tickets will sell out quickly.

Coco Montoya - Sunday, Nov. 16
From his early days as a drummer to his current status as one of the top drawing guitarists and vocalists on the blues-rock scene, "Coco Montoya is the real McCoy" (Billboard Magazine). Known for his explosive guitar playing combined with soul driven vocals, Montoya honed his chops for 10 years with the legendary Bluesbreakers, proving to be a guitar master in one of the most renowned blues bands in existence.

Jane Bunnett - Friday, Nov. 21
Celebrating the music from her latest release, Embracing Voices, Toronto soprano saxophonist, flutist and bandleader Jane Bunnett, will take listeners on a musical journey with songs sung in English, Creole and Spanish. With special guest appearances on the album from vocalists such as Molly Johnson and Kellylee Evans, Embracing Voices is a departure from Jane's traditional mix of Cuban music and jazz.

Kurt Elling - Thursday, Dec. 4
Kurt Elling is the preeminent male jazz singer today. The New York Times describes him as "hugely talented." With a four-octave range and a rich baritone voice, Elling displays astonishing technical facility and emotional depth. Often regarded by many as the natural heir to jazz pioneer Jon Hendricks, Elling is the contemporary voice in vocalese ��� the art of putting words to improvised solos of jazz artists. Most recently, Elling was the recipient of Male Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll for the ninth straight year in a row.

Marc Jordan & Friends - Friday, Dec. 12
Best known for penning top-charting hits, Marc Jordan's resume reads like a list of who's who in music today having written for Rod Stewart, Cher, Natalie Cole, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt and Diana Ross. A Juno Award winner and the first recipient of Male Vocalist of the Year by the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards, Marc has also carved an impressive career as a singer-guitarist. Frequently praised for the emotional and poetic quality of his lyrics, Marc is back with another release, Live at El Mocambo +1. Join Marc and special guests for this performance.

Tuck & Patti - Friday, Dec. 19
For over 25 years, this husband and wife duo has relied on the textures of only guitar and vocals to create their sound. With more than ten albums to their credit, their blend of jazz, pop, R&B, gospel, folk, rock and Brazilian genres has contributed to their success. Join Tuck and Patti this December as they play music from their latest release, I Remember You, their first complete recording dedicated to the Great American Songbook.

JAZZ @ THE PLAYHOUSE
Jason Marsalis Trio ��� 11/06
Nikki Yanofsky ��� 11/08
Coco Montoya ��� 11/16
Jane Bunnett ��� 11/21
Kurt Elling ��� 12/04
Marc Jordan & Friends ��� 12/12
Tuck & Patti ��� 12/19
Diesel Playhouse, 56 Blue Jays Way
Tickets are on sale at:
Ticketmaster ��� 416.870.8000, www.ticketmaster.ca
Diesel Playhouse Box Office ��� 416.971.5656, www.dieselplayhouse.com
All performances begin at 9pm
**3 PACK SPECIAL: purchase tickets for any three shows and receive a 20% discount**

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OTHELLO au Mus��e McCord

Persephone Productions pr��sente OTHELLO au Mus��e McCord

13 au 29 novembre 2008

Persephone Productions pr��sente Othello, c��l��bre trag��die de Shakespeare, au Th����tre J. Armand Bombardier du Mus��e McCord, du 14 au 29 novembre, ainsi qu'une avant���premi��re le 13 novembre.

Othello, noble Maure et h��ros militaire, est pris dans une terrifiante trame de tromperies dans ce chef-d'��uvre captivant de Shakespeare. La pi��ce illustre de fa��on poignante le pouvoir des mots pour manipuler et, ultimement, d��truire, tout en r��v��lant notre propre vuln��rabilit�� face �� la persuasion. L'intrigue abonde en ��motions perturbantes et conflictuelles ��� amour et haine, jalousie et ambition, pulsions sexuelles et int��grit�� individuelle ��� alors que les personnages luttent contre les forces qui les accablent.

Entreprendre la production d'un imposant classique comme Othello constitue un d��fi ambitieux. �� propos des raisons qui l'ont incit��e �� choisir cette pi��ce particuli��re, Mme Soskin a d��clar�� : �� Ce qui est si merveilleux �� propos d'Othello, c'est sa nature intemporelle. Comme toutes les grandes trag��dies, il s'agit d'une trag��die humaine. Cette trag��die est centr��e sur des personnes, plut��t que de porter sp��cifiquement sur la trahison, la jalousie, le pouvoir ou le racisme. Je crois que c'est ce qui rend l'��uvre de Shakespeare si attrayante et formidable; il a ��crit �� propos de nous, tels que nous sommes r��ellement, avec toutes nos vuln��rabilit��s. Le d��fi sp��cial pr��sent�� par cette production consiste �� parler dans la langue riche et rehauss��e du texte tout en faisant en sorte que l'histoire soit claire et puisse facilement ��tre comprise. Je crois que le public pourra ainsi s'identifier avec ses v��rit��s universelles. ��

La compagnie pr��sentera cette production sur une sc��ne d��nud��e, avec des costumes refl��tant la p��riode de la Renaissance con��us par la nouvelle venue Raina-Clair Gillis, sous des ��clairages de Jody Burkholder et au son d'une musique originale de James Keenan Campbell, ��tudiant en premi��re ann��e du programme d'Arts �� l'Universit�� McGill, sous la direction de Mary Davidson, r��gisseuse.

Fond��e en 2000, Persephone Productions s'est donn�� comme mission de fournir une exp��rience de travail aux jeunes artistes professionnels du th����tre, dans tous leurs domaines d'expertise. En plus d'offrir de merveilleux r��les �� interpr��ter aux dipl��m��s professionnels d'��tudes th����trales, la compagnie compte deux autres formidables exemples de cet id��al.

Gabrielle Soskin a rencontr�� Raina-Clair Gillis �� l'occasion d'un vernissage �� Envers, populaire boutique de v��tements de Westmount appartenant au designer de mode qu��b��cois Yves Jean Lacasse. Elles ont bri��vement discut�� de th����tre et de haute couture et, �� la suite de cette conversation, Mme Soskin a invit�� Raina���Clair �� communiquer avec elle si elle ��tait int��ress��e �� explorer la conception de costumes. Un an plus tard, Raina���Clair lui a t��l��phon�� pour lui annoncer qu'elle avait lanc�� sa propre entreprise de design de mode et ��tabli un studio sur le Plateau, et qu'elle ��tait toujours tr��s intrigu��e par la possibilit�� de concevoir des costumes pour le th����tre. Ainsi, Raina���Clair a con��u tous les costumes pour Othello, en plus de les fabriquer elle���m��me.

James Keenan Campbell est un autre exemple de brillante r��ussite li��e au mandat de Persephone. Une abonn��e �� la liste de diffusion a communiqu�� avec Mme Soskin, car elle savait qu'un ��tudiant de Minneapolis allait venir �� Montr��al pour ��tudier �� l'Universit�� McGill. Il ��tait int��ress�� par le th����tre et avait mentionn�� son d��sir de participer �� la sc��ne locale. Gr��ce �� une connaissance mutuelle, James savait d��j�� que Persephone travaillait �� la production d'Othello, et il avait indiqu�� qu'il voulait composer la musique pour cette pi��ce depuis un certain temps. Il a envoy�� �� Mme Soskin la musique qu'il avait compos��e �� l'��cole secondaire pour sa production de The Crucible, ainsi que des ��chantillons de ses id��es pour la composition d'une musique originale pour Othello. Bien que son concept initial pour la pi��ce ne comprenait pas de musique originale, elle a aim�� ce qu'elle a entendu et elle a accept�� de lui donner la chance de relever ce d��fi particulier.

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Point m��diatique

Le jeudi 13 novembre �� 11 h

Mus��e McCord, Th����tre J. Armand Bombardier

(690, rue Sherbrooke Ouest)

Il s'agit d'une excellente occasion de prendre des photographies de plateau, de filmer une sc��ne de la pi��ce, d'enregistrer des extraits sonores pour la radio, ainsi que d'effectuer des entrevues avec les acteurs ou les concepteurs artistiques.

Veuillez confirmer votre pr��sence aupr��s de Barbara Ford

ygraine7@videotron.ca

514 342���7936

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DATES ET HEURES : Les 13 et 29 novembre 20 h

Matin��es en semaine : 14, 17, 19, 20, 24 et 26 novembre 13 h
Matin��es le dimanche : 16 et 23 novembre 14 h

PRIX DES BILLETS :

Adultes 26 $
Groupes (10 ou plus) 20 $
��tudiants / ��ge d'or 18 $
Groupes scolaires 17,50 $
Membres de la QDF 18 $

LIEU : Mus��e McCord

690, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Th����tre J. Armand Bombardier

BILLETTERIE : 514 398-7100, poste 234

SITE WEB : http://www.persephoneproductions.org/

Les (pires) autobiographies de nos vedettes lues sur sc��ne!

BIO D��GRADABLE : les ��crits restent�Ķ
De retour le lundi 3 novembre �� 20h

��Les miroirs ornent chaque petit bout de cloison. Il y en a tellement que je peux ais��ment affirmer que j���aurai du mal �� me regarder dans une glace apr��s Loft Story. Je comprends maintenant ce que les Am��rindiens ont ressenti lorsqu���on a voulu les prendre en photo.�� Julie Lemay, Un automne au Loft, Le journal de la gagnante de Loft Story.

Montr��al, le 27 octobre 2008 ��� Bio d��gradable, le cabaret litt��raire qui vous pr��sente les autobiographies de nos ��vedettes�� qu��b��coises sera de retour sur les planches du chic cabaret Cl��op��tre le lundi 3 novembre prochain !

Lundi prochain �� 20h00 les excellents com��diens Pierre-Luc Brillant, Genevi��ve Brouillette, Eve Duranceau, Karen Elkin, Marie-Lyse Laberge-Forest, Sylvain Larocque, Kim Lavack Paquin, R��mi Mont��sinos et R��mi-Pierre Paquin feront lecture de plusieurs autobiographies dont celles de Mario Pelchat, Rita Lafontaine, Andr�� Montmorency, ��lisabetta (ex-participante �� Loft Story), Danielle Ouimet, Ginette Ravel, Chantal Pary, Martin Stevens, Andr��e Boucher, Julie Lemay (la grande gagnante de Loft Story), et Anne L��tourneau. Rires (et ��tonnement) assur��s...

C'est au deuxi��me ��tage du Caf�� Cl��op��tre, haut lieu des spectacles de travestis montr��alais, qu'aura encore lieu cet ��v��nement qui allie humour et �Ķ litt��rature.

Un rendez-vous "culturel" �� ne pas manquer�Ķ

Une partie des profits est remise apr��s chaque repr��sentation �� la fondation Arbres Canada, qui encourage les Canadiens �� planter et �� entretenir les arbres.

Bio d��gradable : les ��crits restent�Ķ
Le lundi 3 novembre 2008, �� 20 h
au 2i��me ��tage du Caf�� Cl��op��tre,
1230 boul. St. Laurent
R��servations : 514-965-5559

Billets en vente �� la porte
Prix du billet : 20 $

EXTRAITS DE PRESSE

��Ce cabaret Bio D��gradable baigne dans le sarcasme, le mauvais go��t et le deuxi��me degr��. J���adore��
Hugo Dumas - La Presse ���

��J���ai pass�� une tr��s belle soir��e, je vous recommande ce spectacle��
Tanya Lapointe ��� Le T��l��journal de Radio-Canada -

��Un cabaret biod��gradable pour mieux lire notre ��poque��
Jean-Fran��ois Nadeau ��� Le Devoir ���

��Franchement hilarant��
Marie-Christine Blais ��� La Presse ���

��Un caf�� litt��raire d��capant��
Marc-Andr�� Lemieux ��� Journal M��tro ���

��La revanche du simple citoyen sur l'hyperpipolisation de nos m��dias��
Steve Proulx ��� Voir-

��Tout le monde ��tait cramp����
Steve Proulx ��� Voir ���

��L���auditoire croule �Ķ On est partag�� entre le fou rire et la consternation��
Myriam Gagnon ��� Elle Qu��bec ���

��Incontournable��
Sylvie St-Jacques ��� La Presse -

Theatre Listing NEW - English

TALISMAN THEATRE

Presents

DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD

by Michel Marc Bouchard

translation by Linda Gaboriau

November 6 - 15, 2008

MONTREAL - October 2008 ��� Talisman Theatre is proud to present the Montreal English premiere of the play DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD by award-winning Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Governor General award-winner LINDA GABORIAU.

In an eternal moment of d��ja-vu, DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD, three brothers attempt to trace the consequences of their father's death 13 years ago. The characters struggle for frankness in moments of extreme lucidity. This play, written in 1998, was produced by several theatres across Canada including Theatre Jean Duceppe in Montreal.

Lines from their father's last poem repeat over and over in their heads ��� the same poem that had spun round and round in a whirlpool when he drowned. Struggling to break the cycle, they repeat snatches of their conversation from that fateful day over and over.

Talisman Theatre is an exceptional group of professionals drawn from the Montreal community that has come together to collaborate on this production of DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD; a play that explores the complexities of the human experience; the poetry of tragedy and triumph. It is a story of the conquering human spirit that will touch an audience with its frankness. Talisman Theatre shares a belief that theatre can profoundly affect how we see ourselves and our world and that this story must be heard.

"The ''product'' that Michel Marc Bouchard has delivered can be qualified as a work of art, on every level.''

Raymond Bernatchez, La Presse, February 25, 1998

Actors: Marcelo Arroyo, Patrick Costello & Graham Cuthbertson

Director: Emma Tibaldo

Set/Costumes: Lyne Paquette,

Lighting: David Perreault Ninacs and Sarah Yaffe

Sound: Michael Leon

Photo/Video: Mireille Couture

Choreography: Rasili Botz

Stage Manager: Barbara Zsiegovics

Opening Night: Friday November 7 8:00 pm

Preview: November 6 8:00 pm

Tuesday to Saturday 8:00 pm

Saturday Matin��es 2:00 pm

Th����tre La Chapelle

3700 St-Dominique (Sherbrooke M��tro)

Box-office:

514-843-7738

billetterie@lachapelle.org

Photo credit: Yoliswa Gaertig / HFF Potsdam & ZDF

Adults Tickets: $25

Students & Seniors: $20

Groups (10 & more): $17

http://www.talisman-theatre.com/

The English Surgeon Lanches Calgary's Doc Soup Series

AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY THE ENGLISH SURGEON LAUNCHES CALGARY'S DOC SOUP SERIES

RENOWNED BRAIN SURGEON AND FILM'S SUBJECT DR. HENRY MARSH IN ATTENDANCE

Calgary, October 27, 2008 ��� The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival are pleased to announce THE ENGLISH SURGEON (D: Geoffrey Smith, UK) will launch Calgary's monthly Doc Soup screening series. Called "funny, frightening, and deeply moving" by the New York Times and "a gorgeous and utterly moving portrait" by Indiewire, THE ENGLISH SURGEON won Best International Feature Documentary awards at both the 2008 Hot Docs and Silver Docs festivals.

THE ENGLISH SURGEON screens on Wednesday, November 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cineplex Odeon Eau Claire Market, 200 Barclay Parade, S.W. Renowned brain surgeon and the subject of the film, Dr. Henry Marsh, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

About the Film

What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?

Driven by the need to help others where he can, Dr. Henry Marsh, one of London's foremost brain surgeons, has been going out to Kiev for over 15 years to help improve upon the medieval brain surgery he witnessed there during his first visit in 1992. Today, the patients see him as the great saviour from the West, desperate parents want him to save their child, and his Ukrainian colleague sees him as a guru and a benefactor. But for all this immediate satisfaction, Henry also sees grossly misdiagnosed patients, children who he can't save, and a lack of equipment and trained supporting staff. "It's like selling your soul to the devil, but what can you do? My son had a brain tumour as a baby and I was desperate for someone to help me. I simply can't walk away from that need in others".

It is this dilemma ��� one of his own making ��� that makes Henry so interesting. It lets his troubled and compassionate humanity through and reveals the universal theme at film's centre: the struggle to do good things in a selfish and flawed world.

With an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, THE ENGLISH SURGEON openly confronts moral and ethical issues which touch every one of us. And all in a country called the Ukraine which is struggling to do the same thing�Ķ.

The Screenings

The Doc Soup monthly screening series brings the latest Canadian and international documentaries to the big screen in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. Subscription packages for Calgary's Doc Soup are currently available at www.docsoup.ca for $99 (save $45). Each subscription guarantees a ticket to every Doc Soup selection and comes with free bonus tickets to the Calgary International Film Festival. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER: Purchase your Doc Soup Pass now and receive a bonus ticket to THE ENGLISH SURGEON - bring a friend for FREE! Single tickets for THE ENGLISH SURGEON are $12. Single tickets are not sold in advance and are only sold at the door, subject to availability.

Upcoming screening dates for Calgary's Doc Soup are January 7, February 4, March 4, April 1, and May 6. Doc Soup titles are announced at least one month prior to their screenings and, whenever possible, guest directors are in attendance.

Hot Docs is pleased to acknowledge Citytv as the Presenting Partner of the Doc Soup series.

OSM / November at the OSM

November at the OSM

FRANZ-PAUL DECKER,

former music director of the OSM, conducts three concerts

Pianist MARC-ANDR�� HAMELIN

in Strauss's breathtaking Burleske

After a triumphant European tour,

MARIE-NICOLE LEMIEUX sings Mahler

The Beethoven cycle continues

with pianist TILL FELLNER and KENT NAGANO

OSM Standard Life Competition: voice, woodwinds and brass

Children's Corner

Montreal, October 15, 2008 ��� Former OSM music director (1961 to 1967) Franz-Paul Decker will be revisiting the musicians of the Orchestra when he leads a program devoted exclusively to the works of Richard Strauss on November 4 and 6. These concerts will feature pianist Marc-Andr�� Hamelin, a special collaborator of the OSM for 20 years, in the highly virtuoso Burleske, a concerto work rarely performed.

On November 11 and 12, Maestro Decker will conduct well-known works by Johann Strauss father and son along with other great Viennese classics, resuming a much appreciated tradition of evenings dedicated to Viennese music.

The first shows in the Children's Corner series will take place on November 9 at 1:30 p.m. for the French-language version and at 3:30 p.m. for the bilingual version. Qu��bec actor Patrice Dubois, in the role of Octavio, will interact with OSM conductor in residence Jean-Fran��ois Rivest, playing the captain. Soprano Kyra Folk-Farber as well as a chorus and musicians from Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault High School will join the OSM for these exciting shows.

The celebrated contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, who is enjoying an extremely active international career, will be singing Mahler's R��ckert-Lieder on November 16, Mahler being a composer with whom she has often been associated. Also on the program: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Escenas de p��jaros, the work with which Barcelona composer Ramon Humet won the International Olivier Messiaen Prize at the OSM's 2007 composition competition as well as the 24th Queen Sofia Composition Prize in 2006.

On November 26 and 27, OSM music director Kent Nagano will lead the Orchestra and Austrian pianist Till Fellner in Beethoven's sublime Concerto No. 4.

Finally, the stages and activities of the 69th edition of the OSM Standard Life Competition, dedicated to voice, woodwinds and brass, are open to the public free of charge and will take place from November 26 to 30.

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

THE NOVEMBER CONCERTS:

November 4 and 6 at 8 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Grand Concerts: Decker and Strauss ��� a historic meeting. Franz-Paul Decker, conductor; Marc-Andr�� Hamelin, pianist.

November 9 at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. (Th����tre Maisonneuve) Children's Corner: Adventure at sea, The further travels of Octavio. Jean-Fran��ois Rivest, conductor; Marie-Lou Dion, scriptwriter and director; Patrice Dubois, actor; Kyra Folk-Farber, soprano. At 1:00 and at 3:00 p.m.: meeting with musicians from Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault High School.

November 11 at 8 p.m.(Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Air Canada Classical Escapes: Viennese Evening. Franz-Paul Decker, conductor; Ulrike Steinsky, soprano; Alois Haselbacher, tenor. At 7 p.m.: pre-concert discussion: Jean-Fran��ois Rivest, OSM conductor in residence, presents the concert program.

November 12 at 10:30 a.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Symphonic Matinees: Viennese Evening. Franz-Paul Decker, conductor; Ulrike Steinsky, soprano; Alois Haselbacher, tenor.

November 16 at 2:30 p.m. (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Musical Sundays: Marie-Nicole Lemieux Sings Mahler. Roberto Minczuk, conductor; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto.

November 26 and 27 at 8 p.m.(Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) Grand Concerts: Till Fellner and Beethoven's Fourth. Kent Nagano, conductor; Till Fellner, pianist.

November 26 to 29 (Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University) Semi-finals, finals and master classes of the OSM Standard Life Competition.

November 30 at 7 p.m. (Redpath Hall, McGill University) OSM Standard Life Competition chamber-music concert. Alain Trudel, trombone; Jens Lindemann, trumpet; James Campbell, clarinet; Andrew Wan, concertmaster with the OSM and Grand Prize winner at the OSM Standard Life Competition, 2007 edition.

Information on the month's concerts:

Grand Concerts:

Decker and Strauss: a historic meeting

Devoted exclusively to Richard Strauss, this concert includes the suite of waltzes for orchestra from Der Rosenkavalier, an evocation of imperial Vienna from his famous opera, as well as the Symphonia Domestica, an autobiographical work in which the composer sets to music the characters of his wife and son as well as himself. In four linked movements, the work abounds in motifs, some 40 of them, interwoven by Strauss in a masterful way.

German conductor Franz-Paul Decker has been a fervent champion of the works of his compatriot Richard Strauss, whom he had the honour of meeting in his youth. Music director of the OSM from 1967 to 1975, he took the Orchestra to new heights ��� and new horizons, to among other places the Osaka World's Fair in 1970, the first of numerous trips the Orchestra would take to Japan.

The musicality and virtuosity of Canadian pianist Marc-Andr�� Hamelin have earned him legendary status as a piano master. Long renowned for his explorations of unfamiliar works, he is now recognized around the world for his dazzling technique and the originality of his interpretations of the classical repertoire. "For 20 years now," the pianist has said, "I've had the privilege of collaborating regularly with the OSM, which always gives me great pleasure. Furthermore, it seems to me that each time the pleasure only increases, and with the OSM, I always feel as though I'm at home." He will play Burleske, a work of formidable technical difficulty, considered unperformable by Strauss's contemporary the pianist and conductor Hans von B��low.

Grand Concerts

November 4 and 6 at 8 p.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Franz-Paul Decker, conductor

Marc-Andr�� Hamelin, pianist

Richard Strauss Symphonia Domestica

Richard Strauss Burleske

Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Tickets from $24.75

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

Children's Corner:

Adventure at sea, The further travels of Octavio

Children and their parents are invited aboard the great musical vessel of the OSM, skillfully captained by Jean-Fran��ois Rivest. In the traces of the indefatigable voyager Octavio, this time acting as navigator, they will sail the seas with the best crew of musicians going! On the program: all the world's oceans, famous ships, tropical fish, marine monsters, whales, sirens and pirates�Ķ A thrilling adventure by way of great works of the symphonic repertoire, original compositions and movie music.

Taking part in a show scripted and directed by Marie-Lou Dion are actor Patrice Dubois (interacting with the conductor), soprano Kyra Folk-Farber, the OSM and a girls chorus as well as musicians from Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault High School, everyone under the direction of OSM conductor in residence Jean-Fran��ois Rivest.

Before the shows, in the Th����tre Maisonneuve lobbies, the audience is invited to meet some of the young students from the Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault school, who will be presenting the instruments they play.

Following the success of The Enchanted Orchestra (a concert in the 2005 Children's Corner series nominated for "Best young-audience concert" at the Prix Opus) and A Trip Around the World (a concert in the OSM Youth Concerts and Children's Corner presented in 2007), Marie-Lou Dion is back to offer the OSM's young audience a new script, one that she is directing as well. Ms. Dion, who at one point was known mostly as an actress on the small screen, has devoted more of her time over the past 10 years or so to directing, writing for the stage and teaching acting.

Since he left theatre school in Saint-Hyacinthe in 1993, Patrice Dubois has been seen in about 20 stage works in various theatres in Qu��bec, and in 2007 he became artistic co-director at Th����tre P��P. On television he has played a number of roles in some 15 series. For more than five years he played the character Victor Dub�� in Les Poup��es russes. He also appears on the series Les S��urs Elliott. Patrice Dubois has additionally been involved in the dubbing of about 100 films, of cartoon and of television series.

Canadian soprano Kyra Folk-Farber has appeared at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Concertgebouw and the Ignatius Huis in Amsterdam and at the Snape Maltings Hall in England. She completed her bachelor's degree in vocal performance at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Edward Zambara. She is currently doing doctoral studies in voice at the Universit�� de Montr��al with Rosemarie Landry and Catherine S��vigny.

Children's Corner

November 9 at 1:30 p.m.: French-language show

November 9 at 3:30 p.m.: bilingual show

November 9 at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.: get-together with musicians

Th����tre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Jean-Fran��ois Rivest, conductor

Marie-Lou Dion, scriptwriter and director

Patrice Dubois, actor

Kyra Folk-Farber, soprano

Orchestre symphonique de Montr��al

Girls choir from Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault High School

Musicians from Joseph-Fran��ois Perrault High School

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Sea and Sindbad's Ship, from Scheherazade, symphonic suite, Opus 35 (excerpt)

Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathoustra, symphonic poem, Opus 30 (excerpt)

Benjamain Britten Moonlight, Four Sea Interludes, from the opera Peter Grimes (excerpt)

Claude Debussy Jeux de vagues, from La Mer (excerpt)

Patrick Sobczak �� l'abordage, OSM commission

Claude Debussy Sir��nes, from Nocturne (excerpt)

Jean Sibelius Tapiola, symphonic poem, Opus 112 (excerpt)

Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Opus 65, "Adagio" (excerpt)

Bedrich Smetana The Moldau, from the symphonic cycle M�� Vlast (excerpt)

Claude Vivier Lonely Child (excerpt)

Bruno Coulais Caresse sur l'oc��an, from the soundtrack to the movie Les Choristes (excerpt)

John Williams Prologue, from the soundtrack to the movie Hook (excerpt)

Individual tickets:

Children: $13.75

Adults: $27.50

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

Air Canada Classical Escapes:

Viennese Evening

(this program is reprised in the Symphonic Matinees series)

Vienna stirs up romantic images of fairy tales with sparkling chandeliers, dazzling ballrooms and beautiful elegant women, in an atmosphere of infectious gaiety and excitement. Vienna is also the city par excellence for music.

The Viennese evenings were among the most loved and best attended when Franz-Paul Decker was music director of the OSM. For a rare occasion the conductor revisits that universe and invites us to an evening of waltzes, polkas, marches and operetta arias. Musical tipsiness and surprises are in store.

At 7 p.m., at a pre-concert discussion, Jean-Fran��ois Rivest, the OSM's conductor in residence, will present the concert program.

Air Canada Classical Escapes

November 11 at 8 p.m.

Symphonic Matinees

November 12 at 10:30 a.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Franz-Paul Decker, conductor

Ulrike Steinsky, soprano

Alois Haselbacher, tenor

Johann Strauss II Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Johann Strauss II Furioso Polka

Johann Strauss II On the Beautiful Blue Danube

Johann Strauss I Radetzky March

and other Viennese classics

Tickets from $24.75

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

Musical Sundays:

Marie-Nicole Lemieux sings Mahler

Marie-Nicole Lemieux is known for her dark, voluptuous voice, an ideal vehicle for the romantic vocal music of Gustav Mahler inspired by texts by the German poet and Orientalist Friedrich R��ckert. Mahler composted four of the five songs while staying at Villa Mahler in the summer of 1901. The last song is a poem that Mahler set to music in July 1902 for his wife, Alma Mahler. That evening in her diary she noted: "It almost made me cry. What profundity there is in such a man! And how I am lacking in soul! I am often made aware of just how little I am and how little I possess in comparison with his incommensurable wealth!" At its premi��re, Mahler enjoyed one of his great successes. Wrote Paul Stefan: "We exulted with [Mahler], we shared, successively, his affliction, his childish moods, joyful or dreamy. We took pleasure in marveling at his knowledge and at his mastery of the small forms, as though at a magnificent flowering of beautiful poems."

The program begins with Escenas de p��jaros by Ramon Humet, an orchestral synthesis of birdsongs that earned its author the International Olivier Messiaen grand prize at the OSM's 2007 composition competition and the 24th Queen Sofia Composition Prize in 2006. In the second part we will hear Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, the final movement of which is one of the most sensational and most thrilling in the repertoire. "Never before had one of my orchestral works cost me so much difficullty," wrote Tchaikovsky, "but neither have I ever felt so much love for any of my compositions.

This much anticipated concert will be under the direction of Brazilian conductor Roberto Minczuk, a prot��g�� of Kurt Masur, who is music director of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and artistic director of the Orquestra Sinf��nica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro.

Musical Sundays

November 16 at 2:30 p.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Roberto Minczuk, conductor

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

Ramon Humet Escenas de p��jaros

Gustav Mahler R��ckert-Lieder

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Tickets from $24.75

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

Grand Concerts:

Till Fellner and Beethoven's Fourth

Alfred Brendel evoked the intelligence, the sensitivity, the curiosity and the vast esthetic appetite of his disciple Till Fellner, born in Vienna in 1972, winner of the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1993 and one of the most interesting younger pianists on the international scene. He will be performing, under the direction of Kent Nagano, Beethoven's Fourth Concerto, a masterwork of the concerto literature devoid of all formal constraints and overflowing with lyricism and poetry. The piano seems to be in a perpetual state of grace and of improvisation here, supported by an orchestra of great richness. This concerto will appear on an upcoming recording by the OSM.

Kent Nagano will also conduct B��la Bart��k's The Miraculous Mandarin, a forebear of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in its orchestration and rhythms, and two Nocturnes by Claude Debussy, both the Bart��k and Debussy having been recorded by the OSM, the second honoured with a Juno Award in 1991. "The title Nocturnes is to be interpreted here in a general and, more particularly, in a decorative sense," noted Debussy. "Therefore, it is not meant to designate the usual form of the nocturne, but rather all the various impressions and the special effects of light that the word suggests."

Rounding off the program is Orchestral Theater 1: "Xun" by Tan Dun, author of the score to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. "Theatrical and ritualistic," wrote Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, "Tan Dun's music sculpts sound and transforms everything into a riveting experience that is hard to define but very easy to appreciate." In this work Tan Dun has written something that reflects his compositional concepts and his personal ideas. He evokes his childhood memories of shamanistic rituals and integrates them into the symphonic fabric. "Xun" is written for orchestra musicians and their voices.

Grand Concerts

November 26 and 27 at 8 p.m.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Kent Nagano, conductor

Till Fellner, pianist

Claude Debussy Nocturnes 1 and 2

Tan Dun Orchestral Theater 1: "Xun"

B��la Bart��k Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

Tickets from $24.75

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

Non-series concerts:

OSM Standard Life Competition

and chamber-music concert

The 69th edition of the OSM Standard Life Competition, devoted to woodwinds, brass and voice, will take place from November 26 to 30, under the presidency of Mr. Jean ��lie. We must point out the presence of two great ladies of the vocal arts on the jury: Madam Renata Scotto (judge for the finals, voice category), soprano and teacher at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Italy, and Madam Fran��oise Pollet (judge for the semi-finals and finals, voice category), soprano and teacher at the Conservatoire national sup��rieur de musique et de danse in Lyon, France. Mr. Jean-Pierre Brossmann, former executive director of Th����tre du Ch��telet, in Paris, as well as Maestro Kent Nagano, music director of the OSM, will join the jury for the finals. Mr. Welz Kauffman, president and CEO of Chicago's Ravinia Festival, will act as chairman of the jury. Master classes will be offered by oboist Louise Pellerin, trumpeter Jens Lindemann and by singers Fran��oise Pollet and Renata Scotto.

The Competition will conclude with a chamber-music concert on November 30 at 7 p.m., featuring trombonist Alain Trudel, trumpeter Jens Lindemann, clarinetist James Campbell and violinist Andrew Wan, concertmaster with the OSM and Grand Prize winner at the OSM Standard Life Competition, 2007 edition.

All Competition activities are free of charge and open to the public.

Title sponsor of the competition: Standard Life; principal partner: Espace musique; major partner: Schulich School of Music, McGill University.

Non-series concerts

November 26 to 29: OSM Standard Life Competition

Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich Music School, McGill University

November 25, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: master class given by oboist Louise Pellerin

November 26, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: woodwinds semi-finals

November 26, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: master class given by trumpeter Jens Lindemann

November 26, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.: master class given by soprano Fran��oise Pollet

November 27, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: brass semi-finals

November 28, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. voice semi-finals

November 28, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: master class given by soprano and director Renata Scotto

November 29, 9:30 a.m. to noon: woodwind finals

November 29, 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.: brass finals

November 29, 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.: voice finals

November 29, 9:00 to 10:30 p.m.: awarding of prizes

November 30 at 7 p.m.: gala chamber-music concert

Redpath Hall, McGill University

Alain Trudel, trombone

Jens Lindemann, trumpet

James Campbell, clarinet

Andrew Wan, OSM concertmaster

Grand Prize Winner at the OSM Standard Life Competition, 2007 edition

Free admission, open to the public

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

The Orchestre symphonique de Montr��al is presented by Hydro-Qu��bec

in association with National Bank

WSO Deconstructs the Planets

WSO Deconstructs Music, Science, Mythology in The Planets

OCTOBER 27, 2008 - Music is inspired by a variety of, sometimes opposing ideas. In 1914, composer Gutav Holst drew on his interests in astrology and astronomy to create The Planets, now one of the most popular classical works by any British composer. On Thursday, October 30 and Saturday, November 1, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra presents The Planets in a new way, exploring both the science and mythology behind Holt's famous piece. The science aspect will be represented through visuals of the solar system, displayed throughout the piece to enhance the musical imagery. Volunteers from the Manitoba Museum Planetarium and the Manitoba branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will also be available in the lobby prior to the performance to provide audience members an even more interactive experience. "We will have telescopes and other equipment on hand for people to try," said Scott Young, Planetarium Manager. "We hope to give people a better idea of what astronomy is all about and, in turn, get them excited about what we do."

The astrological origins of The Planets will be explored at Thursday's Musically Speaking concert, where conductor and host Alexander Mickelthwate will deconstruct each of the piece's seven movements. Each distinct movement represents the astrological perceptions of a planet: Mars (Bringer of War), Venus (Bringer of Peace), Mercury (the Winged Messenger), Jupiter (Bringer of Jollity), Saturn (Bringer of Old Age), Uranus (the Magician) and Neptune (the Mystic). Thursday night's concert also gives Manitobans a second opportunity to experience this season's new Musically Speaking format. Concertgoers are invited to an after-party on the Piano Nobile mezzanine featuring live entertainment, this week, from local rock/alternative band HundredFold.

For the Saturday Masterworks concert, The Planets will be paired with the world premiere of Red Zen, a new piece by WSO Composer in Residence Vincent Ho. According to Ho, like The Planets, his piece was also inspired by a fusion of ideas. "The creation of Red Zen was part of my ongoing creative and spiritual journey in discovering the confluence of Eastern and Western musical languages," said Ho. "So, my piece should match well with The Planets, a piece that combines music with science and mythology." The Planets Plugged In plays Thursday, October 30 at 8 p.m., followed by The Planets on Saturday, November 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $61 and are available through the WSO box office at 949-3999 on online at www.wso.mb.ca.

De l'amour et des Restes Humains- d��s le 26 novembre �� l'Espace Geordie

DE L'AMOUR ET DES RESTES HUMAINS

DU 26 NOVEMBRE AU 6 D��CEMBRE 2008 �� l'Espace Geordie

Montr��al, lundi le 27 octobre 2008 - Le Th����tre �� 4 pattes pr��sente sa toute premi��re production d��s le 26 novembre 2008 �� l'Espace Geordie : De l'Amour et des Restes Humains, un texte de Brad Fraser, traduit de l'anglais par Brigitte H��bert-Carle et mis en sc��ne par Danny Gilmore. Une distribution de sept personnages incarn��s par Michel-Maxime Legault, Brigitte H��bert-Carle, Benoit Finley, Julie Carrier-Pr��vost, Jean-Simon Traversy, Claude Montminy et Anne Trudel.

Le Th����tre �� 4 pattes relate les peurs et les envies de sa g��n��ration. La compagnie veut rappeler la vuln��rabilit�� de l'enfance, l'entr��e dans le monde adulte, la comp��tition, la banalit�� et la diversit�� des pratiques sexuelles d'aujourd'hui, la peur de l'engagement et le d��ni amoureux.

�� David rencontre plusieurs inconnus s��duisants en qu��te d'amour et de sexe, et passe de l'un �� l'autre sans difficult��, sans engagement. Montr��al est afflig��e d'un tueur en s��rie, s��vissant sur des jeunes femmes un peu partout dans la ville. Une ��tude sociale sur de jeunes adultes �� la recherche d'un sens �� leur vie dans un monde de d��sillusion. ��

En 1997, Danny Gilmore se fait conna��tre au petit ��cran dans le r��le d'un des enfants Pawlowski dans la s��rie Ces enfants d'ailleurs. Au cin��ma, sa carri��re commence en 1995 avec le film Lilies o�� le r��le de Vallier lui vaut une nomination aux prix G��nies dans la cat��gorie Meilleur acteur. Danny foule les planches du TNM en 1997 dans la pi��ce Tartuffe mise en sc��ne par Lorraine Pintal, puis il participe ensuite �� plusieurs autres productions th����trales, dont Rom��o et Juliette o�� il tient le r��le de Rom��o, John Smith dans 2025 et L'ann��e du serpent. Il a aujourd'hui �� son actif une dizaine de longs m��trages (Gaz bar blues, Bonza��on, Save by the Bells, Les fils de Marie, Cr��me glac��e, Chocolat et autres consolations, The Point) et pas moins d'une dizaine de s��ries t��l��vis��es dont Temps dur, Cover girl, et Minuit le soir, o�� il interpr��tait le r��le �� la fois touchant et ��nigmatique de Nino.

Michel-Maxime Legault (m.e.s Rhapsodie B��ton, Top Dogs), Brigitte H��bert-Carle (Sous le regard du H��ron, Portalaphrapon), Benoit Finley (Elsemeur), Julie Carrier-Pr��vost, Jean-Simon Traversy, Claude Montminy et Anne Trudel sont tous des jeunes com��diens actifs dans le milieu. Certains sont r��cemment dipl��m��s du conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montr��al et du Cegep St-Hyacinthe et la majorit�� travaillent depuis quelques ann��es, ��uvrant tant au th����tre qu'�� la t��l��vision.

De l'Amour et des Restes Humains

Du 26 novembre au 6 d��cembre 2008 �� l'Espace Geordie, 20h00

Et le dimanche 30 novembre �� 15h00

Vid��o promotionnel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENQtsVjY54

Billets disponibles au (514) 529-5806 ou r��servation par courriel : theatrea4pattes@hotmail.com

Billets r��guliers : 20$. ��tudiant et UDA : 18$ Carte Premi��res : 10$ (du 26 novembre au 3 d��cembre)

CCOC's A Dickens of a Christmas

Canadian Children's Opera Company presents

A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS

Watch out for the New Generation of Opera Divas and Divos!

The Canadian Children's Opera Company (CCOC) is presenting A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS in a show that is fast becoming a favourite holiday tradition in Toronto. The fully-staged production will include all 200 choristers from the CCOC at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre, this November.

A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, was commissioned in 2005 to provide the CCOC with an opera worthy of an annual holiday presentation. This classic story with a timeless message for all ages is a perfect vehicle for children, youth, and professional opera singers alike.

"It all came over with a delicious sense of fun, both in the piece itself and in the work of the young performers, who seemed to delight in making music." - Wayne Gooding, Opera Canada

This definitive children's Christmas opera, composed by Errol Gay with libretto and stage direction by Michael Patrick Albano, will see the return of baritone Mark Pedrotti as Ebenezer Scrooge and tenor Ryan Harper in the dual roles of Marley and Cratchit; both artists created these roles during the world premiere three years ago. The performances will be conducted by the CCOC Artistic Director Ann Cooper Gay, who has led the company since 2000, and who is known in the artistic community for her extraordinary enthusiasm, energy, and consistently high level of artistic achievement.

The CCOC was founded in 1968 and is the only permanent children's opera company in North America that regularly develops, commissions, and produces new operas for performance by children. The Principal Chorus performs regularly with the Canadian Opera Company, as well as collaborates with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and other prestigious Toronto arts groups. They have toured in Canada and Europe, been broadcast on CBC Radio 2, and recorded five albums.

Currently, the CCOC has six Divisions providing appropriate training and performance experience for young people age five to young adult. The Company is committed to fostering in children a lifelong enjoyment of the arts by introducing them to the magic of live opera, both as performers and as members of its audiences.

Canadian Children's Opera Company presents

A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS

SCHOOL PERFORMANCES

Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 10:00am and 1:00pm

Friday, November 28, 2008 at 1:00pm

Full Educational Experience Available

Call (416) 973-4000 and ask for the school rate.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

Friday, November 28, 2008 at 7:30pm

Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

Tickets are $35 adult and $15 student/senior

On-line: www.harbourfrontcentre.com - click on "What's On"; By phone: 416-973-4000

www.canadianchildrensopera.com

Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition

Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition

$15,000 in Cash Prizes

October 30 - November 1, 2008 - Mazzoleni Hall, Royal Conservatory

The Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition which honours the memory of Aaron Brock, a brilliant young classical guitarist, composer and Royal Conservatory instructor, who died tragically two years ago, will be held from October 30 to November 1, 2008.

The Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition is the first initiative of the Foundation created in Aaron's name. The Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the wishes that, as a result of Aaron's young life being cut tragically short, were left unfulfilled.

The Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition will take place in Mazzoleni Hall in conjunction with The Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor St. W. Access through the Philosopher's Walk entrance.

Aaron Robin Brock passed away suddenly at his home on August 3, 2006 at 31 years of age, when his good heart failed without warning, the result of an undiagnosed condition known as ARVC. Aaron was already an accomplished performer having given concerts across the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico. At the time of his death he was regarded as a great musician of exceptional talent, capable of evoking deep emotion, and sharing a warm, generous connection with his audiences. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2003, where he was chosen to be the inaugural recipient of the Andres Segovia Award. He had won top prizes at numerous international competitions such as the Schadt String Competition, Rantoucci Guitar Festival, Appalachian Guitarfest, Canadian Music Competition, Barnett Foundation Guitar Competition, Stotsenberg Guitar Competition, Guitar Foundation of America Competition and the Concert Artists Guild.

Aaron had collaborated as a guitar soloist with many distinguished musicians, ensembles and orchestras in Canada and abroad. His performances were broadcast on CBC radio and City-TV television. Aaron was also a dedicated teacher on the guitar faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, as well as an active composer. His first CD, Toccata was released May 2006.

An international panel of accomplished guitarists and judges from Canada, U.S.A. and Norway will adjudicate the Aaron Brock Memorial International Guitar Competition which is the largest prize guitar competition in Canada offering $15,000 in cash prizes, a three week music residency at the Banff School of Music, and engagements in Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico.

This year's qualifying competing guitarists are from Canada, Australia, U.S.A., Mexico and Greece. The Preliminary Round is Thursday, October 30th from 10am to 2pm. That night at 7:30pm three of the judges, Nicholas Goluses, Mark Delpriora and Randal Avers will play a short concert celebrating the guitar in Mazzoleni Hall.

The Semi-Final Round is Friday, October 31st 10am to 2pm. The Final Round (Concerto] is Saturday, November 1st at 7pm with results announced at the end of the evening. All events are open to the public and are FREE! For complete details and a schedule of events, visit www.aaronbrockcompetition.com.

The Victoria Symphony presents Viva el Flamenco! November 6,7 & 8

An unprecedented performance takes place when Halifax based El Viento Flamenco

makes its Westcoast debut with over 50 musicians from the Victoria Symphony!

Victoria, BC ��� On November 6, 7 and 8, the Halifax based El Viento Flamenco makes their first symphony appearance west of Quebec. In a performance with the Victoria Symphony and Principal Pops Conductor Brian Jackson, they bring their award winning and unique style of flamenco to the Royal Theatre in a passionate performance of song, dance and music titled Viva El Flamenco!

El Viento Flamenco brings its own, very distinct voice to the art of Flamenco. With a singer and guitarist who hail from rock and roll, a percussionist who is involved in everything from Newfoundland folk to African drumming and Punk rock, and dancers who have lived all over the world, the group stands subtly but resolutely outside of flamenco tradition. Having performed to rave reviews with Symphony Nova Scotia and Orchestre symphonique de Qu��bec, the Victoria Symphony is bring El Viento Flamenco to Victoria.

Dancer Evelyne Benais first encountered flamenco in 1993 at the Don Quixote, a flamenco tavern in Toronto, where she would later start her career under the direction of Carmen Romero. She then moved to Newfoundland where she convinced St. John's rock guitarist Bob Sutherby to plunge into the genre, and in 1996, El Viento Flamenco was born on the wind-swept shores of the Avalon Peninsula. The entire troupe, including singer Sean Harris and percussionist Tony Tucker, moved to Halifax in 2001, where they added dancers/singers Maral Perk and Megan Matheson. They have all pursued flamenco with a passion --traveling repeatedly to Seville to study with masters and steeping themselves in this rich cultural tradition.

In the last five years El Viento Flamenco has toured extensively throughout Atlantic Canada, including all the Atlantic Presenters and Arts and Culture Centres. They have performed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; made several regional and national appearances on CBC radio and television as well at Government House for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. They have had their music arranged for orchestra for two concerts with Symphony Nova Scotia, and they have been featured in a half-hour documentary on Bravo Television.

Following a performance with Orchestre symphonique de Qu��bec who reengaged El Viento Flamenco a second time after receiving audience accolades and rave reviews, Richard Boisvert for Le Soleil wrote:

"Carried by a somehow severe grace that is softened by stunning curves, Evelyne Benais, founder of the ensemble with guitarist Bob Sutherby, has developed a technique of dance that is absolutely astounding. Given the precision and quality of the sound of her feet, one can literally speak of music. Some of the pieces accompanied by the Orchestre symphonique de Qu��bec were like veritable concertos for heels and points.���

Flamenco is the traditional music and dance of the Roma gypsies of Southern Spain. It has developed over the last 250 years, with influences from various cultures, including Latin American and the Middle-East. Today, the vast spectrum of Flamenco styles is kept alive and vibrant in Spain as well as by artists of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds around the world.

Maestro Brian Jackson is the Principal Pops conductor of the Victoria Symphony, the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and Orchestra London Canada. At the age of 25 Jackson was the youngest Music Director in Canada (Peterborough Symphony) and since that time he has conducted all the major Canadian orchestras. He has also led orchestras in the UK, Europe, the United States and South America. Jackson has performed all major symphony and choral literature as well as being recognized as a champion of Canadian composers.

The Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Island���s largest and most active arts organization offering its audiences 68 years of tradition, a commitment to fostering new music and a dedication to community involvement through music education. Showcasing the outstanding talents of its musicians and guest artists the Victoria Symphony���s 2008-2009 season offers a diverse and exciting line-up of over 50 concerts led by its vibrant Music Director Tania Miller.

Viva El Flamenco! featuring El Viento Flamenco, Maestro Brian Jackson and the Victoria Symphony takes place at the Royal Theatre on Thursday, November 6 at 2:00pm and again on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8 at 8:00pm. Come early on Friday November 7^th and join in on a Flamenco dance lesson with members of Alma de Espana dance studio beginning at 7:15pm. Tickets from $26.50 to $68.50. Students save 50%. Call 250.385.6515 or 250.386.6121 or online at www.victoriasymphony.ca

The Victoria Symphony wishes to acknowledge the generous support of Beltone Better Hearing Centre for these performances.

For complete programming details of the 2008-2009 season please visit www.victoriasymphony.ca.

Orchestre Symphonique de Laval

Une soir��e sous le signe des grands ma��tres du baroque allemand et italien

Bach et Vivaldi sont �� l'honneur �� l'OSL!

Laval, 27 octobre 2008 ��� L'Orchestre symphonique de Laval vous propose une f��te baroque haute en couleur pour c��l��brer le g��nie de J.-S. Bach, l'effervescence des Quatre Saisons de Vivaldi et la beaut�� du Concerto pour hautbois et cordes de Marcello. L'orchestre est tr��s heureux d'accueillir �� son pupitre pour ce fabuleux concert Mark Fewer, qui se fera ��galement violon solo le temps des Quatre saisons de Vivaldi et du Concerto pour violon, hautbois et cordes en r�� mineur de Bach. Chambriste extr��mement pris�� en Am��rique du Nord, Mark Fewer ��tait, jusqu'�� tout r��cemment, violon solo de l'Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver. Ce concert mettra ��galement de l'avant le talent de Lise Beauchamp, la superbe hautbois solo de l'OSL, qui sera �� l'honneur lors des concertos de J.-S. Bach et Marcello. Offerte dans le cadre de la s��rie LES CLASSIQUES DE L'OSL, cette grande f��te baroque sera pr��sent��e, le mercredi 5 novembre �� 20 h, �� la salle Andr��-Mathieu. Mark Fewer et Lise Beauchamp vous invitent �� la conf��rence d'avant-concert, d��s 19 h 15.

Mark Fewer, violon

Originaire de Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve, o�� son p��re s'est taill�� une r��putation enviable en tant que chanteur et musicien, Mark Fewer joue du piano �� quatre ans, du violon �� six et du saxophone �� dix. Ayant arr��t�� son choix sur le violon, il a ��tudi�� �� Toronto, Londres et Budapest, notamment aupr��s de David Zafer, Jose-Luis Garcia et Ferenc Rados.

Musicien polyvalent, Mark Fewer a occup�� jusqu'en 2008 le poste de violon solo �� l'Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver. Il est directeur artistique du Scotia Festival of Music d'Halifax et du SweetWater Music Weekend �� Owen Sound (Ontario). Comme chambriste, il est membre fondateur du Trio Duke et membre du quatuor �� cordes SuperNova. Il s'est r��cemment illustr�� dans l'int��grale des sonates et partitas pour violon seul de Bach. En plus de sa carri��re de musicien, il enseigne le violon et la musique de chambre �� titre de professeur adjoint au d��partement de musique de l'Universit�� McGill.

Lise Beauchamp, hautbois

N��e �� Montr��al, Lise Beauchamp a d��couvert la musique �� l'��ge de neuf ans. ��tudiante au Conservatoire de musique de Montr��al, sous la direction de Bernard Jean, elle obtient en 1985 son dipl��me d'��tudes sup��rieures et un premier prix. Elle s'est ensuite perfectionn��e avec Elaine Douvas �� la c��l��bre Juilliard School of Music de New York, y terminant sa ma��trise en 1990. Hautbois solo �� l'Orchestre M��tropolitain du Grand Montr��al et �� l'Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Lise Beauchamp est reconnue comme une excellente hautbo��ste.

Depuis 1985, Lise Beauchamp a jou�� au sein des ensembles les plus r��put��s du Qu��bec : l'Orchestre M��tropolitain du Grand Montr��al, les Violons du Roy, I Musici de Montr��al, l'Orchestre Baroque de Montr��al et plusieurs autres. Elle fut hautbois solo de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Mexico en 1988 et elle a repr��sent�� le Canada au sein de l'Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales �� trois reprises. Elle enseigne �� la Facult�� de musique de l'Universit�� de Montr��al et au Conservatoire de musique de Montr��al.

AU PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Concerto Brandebourgeois en sol majeur, BWV 1048

Les six Concertos Brandebourgeois tirent leur appellation de l'oncle du roi de Prusse, le Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandeburg, une d��dicace de la main de Bach, accompagnant la partition, lui ��tant adress��e. Le troisi��me Concerto Brandebourgeois en sol majeur, BWV 1048, a ��t�� compos�� selon le sch��ma traditionnel des concertos italiens (vif-lent-vif). Les cordes sont divis��es en trois groupes qui dialoguent (violons, altos et violoncelles), accompagn��s et soutenus par la basse continue. L'adagio, le deuxi��me mouvement, est form�� d'une courte succession d'accords, qui sert traditionnellement de support �� une cadence pour le clavecin.

Allessandro Marcello (1684-1750)

Concerto pour hautbois et cordes en do mineur

Compositeur assez m��connu, et surtout moins c��l��bre que son fr��re Benedetto, Allessandro Marcello consacra sa vie tant �� la musique qu'aux math��matiques, �� la peinture et �� la philosophie. Son Concerto pour hautbois est sa plus grande ��uvre; elle fut attribu��e �� quelques autres compositeurs, dont son fr��re, et m��me �� Vivaldi. Bach en fit une traduction pour clavecin solo (BWV 974). L'��uvre vous sera interpr��t��e dans sa tonalit�� originale, mais elle est aujourd'hui plus souvent jou��e en r�� mineur. Le premier mouvement est un andante d'un style un peu aust��re. Le deuxi��me mouvement laisse toute la place �� la soliste, dans une cantil��ne d'une grande beaut��. Le finale est un ��change endiabl�� et tr��s vivant entre la soliste et l'orchestre.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Concerto pour violon, hautbois et cordes en r�� mineur, BWV 1060

Bach a ��crit une version de ce concerto pour deux clavecins. Le style d'��criture nous laisse cependant croire qu'il a d'abord ��t�� ��crit pour deux instruments diff��rents et m��lodiques, ce qui appuie l'hypoth��se que l'��uvre originale a ��t�� ��crite pour violon et hautbois. On retrouve comme dans le Concerto Brandebourgeois la forme vif-lent-vif. Les premiers et troisi��mes mouvements sont �� la fois ��nergiques et dynamiques, mettant en valeur la virtuosit�� des deux solistes. Le mouvement lent leur permet, quant �� lui, un dialogue d'une grande beaut��.

ENTRACTE

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Les Quatre Saisons

Consid��r��e par plusieurs comme une des premi��res ��uvres de musique �� �� programme��, illustrant des ��v��nements ou sentiments, Les Quatre Saisons Opus 8, no 1 �� 4, ouvrent le recueil de �� La bataille entre l'harmonie et l'invention ��. L'��uvre est accompagn��e de quatre sonnets attribu��s �� Vivaldi d��crivant le d��roulement des saisons. Sur la partition, le compositeur note avec exactitude certains d��tails du texte (noms d'oiseaux : coucou, tourterelle et pinson dans les partitions de trois violons solistes, au 1^er mouvement du printemps ; aboiements de chien dans la partie d'alto au 2^e mouvement du printemps). Ces quatre concertos pour violons et orchestre �� cordes sont parmi les ��uvres les plus aim��es et jou��es du r��pertoire.

En r��sum��

Concert : le mercredi 5 novembre �� 20 h, �� la salle Andr��-Mathieu

Conf��rence d'avant-concert avec Mark Fewer et Lise Beauchamp : d��s 19 h 15 �� la salle Andr��-Mathieu. Ce concert fait partie des Grandes Soir��es Hydro Qu��bec.

Les billets pour ce concert sont disponibles

En ligne : www.salleandremathieu.com

Au guichet de la salle Andr��-Mathieu : 475, boul. de l'Avenir, Laval

Par t��l��phone, billetterie de la salle Andr��-Mathieu : (450) 667-2040

Via le R��seau admission : (514) 790-1245

Le Festival des musiques sacr��es

12e saison du Festival des musiques sacr��es de Qu��bec
Du 23 octobre au 2 novembre

Deuxi��me semaine

Lundi 27 octobre, 20 h ��� ��glise Saint-Roch
Le hautbois sans fronti��re
La Bande de hautbois de Qu��bec et l���Ensemble Arundonax de Bordeaux
En premi��re partie : Ara Bartikian, doudouk solo (Arm��nie)
27,50 $
Pr��sent�� en collaboration avec le Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec

�� l���occasion du 400e anniversaire de Qu��bec, le prestigieux Ensemble Arundonax de Bordeaux partagera la sc��ne avec son �� cousin �� qu��b��cois, La Bande de hautbois de Qu��bec, sous la direction de Philippe Magnan, pour offrir un grand concert compos�� d����uvres sacr��es de Jean-S��bastien Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli et Claudio Monteverdi. L���Ensemble Arundonax, cr���� �� l���initiative de professeurs du Conservatoire National de R��gion et de solistes de l���Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, est ici jumel�� �� La Bande de hautbois, tout comme l���est la Ville de Qu��bec �� la Ville de Bordeaux.

En premi��re partie, Ara Bartikian (Arm��nie) proposera des pi��ces transpos��es de la liturgie ou d���inspiration mystique qui conviennent tout particuli��rement au jeu du doudouk.

Mardi 28 octobre, 20 h ��� Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm
Splendeurs de Venise
Ch��ur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montr��al
et Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse
27,50 $
En co-diffusion avec le Palais Montcalm

L���excellent ch��ur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montr��al (SMAM) et Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse recr��eront l���ambiance de la basilique Saint-Marc de Venise au milieu du 16e si��cle et d��voileront la splendeur de la musique polychorale, v��ritable �� signature �� de la musique v��nitienne. Cette fois, ce seront les possibilit��s exceptionnelles de la Salle Raoul-Jobin du Palais Montcalm qui seront mises au service de cette majestueuse musique, caract��ris��e par des ��changes entre les diff��rents ensembles vocaux ou instrumentaux et surtout par de saisissants effets sp��ciaux.

Jeudi 30 octobre, 20 h ��� ��glise Saint-Roch
Requiem de Verdi
Le Ch��ur de Qu��bec et le Ch��ur du Vallon (sous la direction de Gis��le Pettigrew)
Un orchestre de 55 musiciens et 4 solistes : Manon Feubel, soprano; Sonia Racine, alto;
Antoine B��langer, t��nor; et Alexander Savtchenko, basse
Direction musicale et artistique : Guy B��langer
Une production sp��ciale du Ch��ur de Qu��bec dans le cadre de son 40e anniversaire
50 $

Afin de souligner ses 40 ann��es de pr��sence au sein de la vie culturelle de la Vieille Capitale, le Ch��ur de Qu��bec pr��sente le Requiem de Giuseppe Verdi. Pr��sent��e dans sa version int��grale, cette ��uvre grandiose se veut un hommage aux d��couvreurs, fondateurs et anc��tres qui ont habit�� et investi leur vie humble ou glorieuse sur cette terre de rencontre au cours des quatre si��cles de notre histoire. Giuseppe Verdi a compos�� la Messa da Requiem en 1873 <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873> comme si c���tait sa derni��re ��uvre. Ce chef-d����uvre est rempli de contrastes et sa musique atteint de remarquables sommets d���expression.

Vendredi 31 octobre, 20 h ��� ��glise Saint-Roch
Cordes du ciel
Compagnie musicale La Nef
27,50 $
Pr��sent�� en collaboration avec la Soci��t�� de guitare de Qu��bec

Fond��e en 1991 et toujours codirig��e par Sylvain Bergeron, Claire Gignac et Viviane LeBlanc, La Nef fait preuve d'un talent rare pour r��unir autour de projets innovateurs des artistes polyvalents et inventifs, issus des horizons les plus divers. Avec Cordes sur ciel, La Nef d��montrera toute la gr��ce des cordes pinc��es, notamment le luth, le th��orbe et la guitare baroque, dans des pi��ces issues du r��pertoire sacr�� et profane, de l���poque de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Des danses espagnoles viendront clore cette soir��e, t��moignant ainsi de l���importance de la musique profane dans les offices religieux de l���poque, notamment pour susciter l���int��r��t des fid��les et s���assurer de leur assiduit�� !

Samedi 1er novembre, 20 h ��� ��glise Saint-Roch
Adasgiu : Polyphonies corses
Barbara Furtuna
27,50 $

Barbara Furtuna est un quatuor vocal corse form�� en 2001 qui r��unit des hommes enti��rement d��vou��s �� la polyphonie corse, une tradition vieille de plusieurs si��cles. Tour �� tour intimiste, puissant, sensuel et viril, son r��pertoire est �� la fois bien encr�� dans la tradition et tourn�� vers l���avenir. Ce concert s���appuie sur le Sacr��, indissociable de la polyphonie corse, dont le d��nuement et la sinc��rit�� touchent �� ce que nous avons de plus intime pour atteindre au fil des chants une l��g��ret�� et une fra��cheur in��dites. Une exp��rience remplie d���motions d���o�� jaillira une agr��able sensation de bonheur !

Dimanche 2 novembre, 10 h 30��� ��glise Saint-Roch
La Grand-messe de Gilles Vigneault
Avec l���orchestre et le ch��ur du Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec
Direction : Gilles Auger
Louise DeLisle Bouchard, chef de ch��ur; et les solistes Val��rie B��langer, soprano;
Andr��anne Moreau, mezzo soprano; Guillaume Boulay, t��nor; et Emmanuel Lebel, baryton
** Complet **

Pr��sent�� en collaboration avec le Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec
C��l��bration eucharistique de la Messe de la Toussaint conc��l��br��e par R��al Grenier, cur�� de la paroisse Saint-Roch, et l���abb�� Mario Dufour, fondateur du Festival.

C��l��brations sp��ciales �� l����glise Saint-Roch

Pendant la dur��e du Festival, la paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Saint-Roch offrira, dans le cadre de ses services religieux, un programme musical sous la direction artistique de l���organiste titulaire Esther Cl��ment.

Samedi 1er novembre, 16 h
Simon Tremblay, trompettiste
Esther Cl��ment, organiste titulaire

Activit��s gratuites �� la Biblioth��que Gabrielle-Roy

Mercredi 29 octobre, 18 h 30
Salle polyvalente du 3e ��taqe
L���ONF pr��sente Folle de Dieu, un film de Jean-Daniel Lafond
Marie Tifo devient Marie de l���Incarnation ��� m��re, veuve et mystique ��� et affronte les ��crits troublants de celle qui a fond�� les Ursulines de Qu��bec en 1639. Construit comme un thriller spirituel, ce film trace un ��tonnant portrait de cette �� folle de Dieu ��.

Du 23 octobre au 2 novembre 2008
Lundi au vendredi, 8 h 30 �� 21 h
Samedis et dimanches, 10 h �� 17 h
Art sacr��, actes cr��ateurs
Exposition regroupant quelques-unes des photographies du livre publi�� aux ��ditions Sylvain Harvey.
Cette exposition s���adresse aux gens int��ress��s par le patrimoine religieux, l���architecture, l���histoire de l���art ou la photographie. Sa simplicit�� rejoint le public appr��ciant tant les belles images que les beaux livres.

Une collaboration de l���Institut Canadien de Qu��bec

Cours de ma��tres

Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec
Mercredi 29 octobre, 10 h �� 11 h
Jean-Yves Gicquel (cor anglais)
Une collaboration du Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec

Pavillon Casault de l���Universit�� Laval, local 1531
Vendredi 1er novembre, 10 h midi
Sylvain Bergeron (luth)
Une collaboration de la Soci��t�� de guitare de Qu��bec

Lori Laitman CD

KUDOS FOR LAITMAN'S 'THE SEED OF DREAM' ON NAXOS RELEASE

"Lori Laitman has a great gift for song-writing and these songs skillfully employ a variety of styles to convey the pathos of the Holocaust."

American Record Guide, 2008

"This cycle is indeed a masterpiece that should not be missed!"

Journal of Singing, 2008

Critical acclaim for a Naxos recording of American composer Lori Laitman's 'The Seed of Dream' has recently been noted by American Record Guide and Opera News. The CD, titled 'For a Look or a Touch' includes works by Jake Heggie, Gerard Schwarz and Lori Laitman. All three compositions were commissioned by Music of Remembrance, and each piece commemorates the extraordinary musical and artistic gifts of musicians who perished or survived the Holocaust.

Laitman's song cycle for baritone, cello and piano is based on five poems penned in Nazi-occupied Lithuania by the pre-eminent Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever. Sutzkever's poetry, written in the Vilna Ghetto during the war, stands witness to the transcendent power of art in the face of unimaginable cruelty and brutality. The cycle saw its world premiere in Seattle, Washington in 2005 to glowing reviews, and was performed for the first time in Europe at The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum in Vilna, Lithuania in 2007. It has also generated excitement and interest among some of the world's most prestigious vocalists, among them the famed Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, who will perform the cycle in his native land in February 2009.

High praise is also accorded to Jake Heggie's song cycle 'For a Look or a Touch', and 'In Memoriam', a work for solo cello and strings by Gerard Schwarz.

In their October 2008 review of the album, Opera News writes: "Composer Lori Laitman has set [the songs] with warmth and variety for baritone, cello and piano." Of her treatment of one song in the cycle, Opera News adds: "It is hard to resist the harsh irony of 'A Load of Shoes,' Laitman's fast, klezmer-tinted waltz to the poet's observation of piles of ownerless shoes "transported from Vilna to Berlin."

American Record Guide expresses deep appreciation of Lori's work in its Sept/Oct 2008 issue: "Lori Laitman has a great gift for song-writing and these songs skillfully employ a variety of styles to convey the pathos of the Holocaust. 'I Lie in This Coffin'' describes the poet's experience of hiding in a coffin to elude the Nazis. Beginning with low tones from the piano suggesting the buried spirit of those persecuted in the Holocaust, the song rises to a note of encouragement as the poet remembers the spirit of his dead sister but then returns to the reality of life that is like being buried alive. 'A Load of Shoes' is a sort of danse macabre as the poet happens to see his own mother's shoes among others being carried on a cart after she had been murdered. The tender and lyrical 'To My Child' is a lament on the murder of the poet's son. 'Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars' combines and alternates a pizzicato habanera rhythm by the cello with a melody written in the Vilna Ghetto by Abraham Brudno as it contrasts the natural beauty of the world with human suffering. 'No Sad Songs, Please' ends the cycle on a note of hope with the loveliest of melodies. This is very fine song-writing and one must hope that Laitman's songs will continue to receive the recognition they deserve"."

CD Details:

Naxos 559379, 61 minutes

HEGGIE: For a Look or a Touch; SCHWARZ: In Memoriam; LAITMAN: The Seed of Dream

Bach Children's Chorus, December concert

Bach Children's Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir present Ring Bells Ring!���a family concert to celebrate the season

Get into the spirit of the season with the fresh young voices of the Bach Children's Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir. These award-winning choirs will present their annual seasonal concert on December 6th at 7:30 pm. in the Recital Hall of the Toronto Centre for the Arts, where they are a Company in Residence. Repertoire for this concert has been selected to carry
you to a carefree enjoyment of the pleasures of the season!The programme will include music to delight all tastes traditional and contemporary carol settings, a tender Chanukah song, and, of course, songs about winter! As the concert title suggests, several songs about bells will be sung, including an energetic version of "Ding Dong, Merrily on High" for two pianists with choir. The tongue-in-cheek "Good King Kong" by Professor Peter Schikele (also known as P.D.Q. Bach) will be sung by the young women and men of the Bach Chamber Youth Choir. Music by Canadian composers Eleanor Daley, Chris Dedrick, Edith Harhhy, Keith Bissell, Bruce Sled and Alan Bevan
will share the evening with American composers Johnny Marks, Anita Kerr and Jerry Herman. A highlight of the concert will be the very popular "Carol of the Drum" by Katherine D. Davis, sung by all four choirs with a guest choir of tenors and basses made up from the many singing dads in the organization. As is traditional in BCC concerts, the audience will be invited to assist in carols throughout the concert. Featured professional instrumentalists will add to the colourful musical presentation throughout the programme.The Bach Children's Chorus is made up of singers aged 6 through 23, selected by audition from throughout the Greater Toronto area and surrounding areas. BCC choirs are known for their beautiful, musical sound, and are regular recipients of top awards from the Kiwanis Festival of Toronto and both the provincial and national levels of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals.Tickets are available for $20 and $24 at the box office of the Toronto Centre for the Arts or by phoning Ticketmaster at 416.870.8000.

World Premiere: The Scarlet Letter

THE SCARLET LETTER

Opera by Lori Laitman

WORLD PREMIERE

November 6, 2008

Donald W. Reynolds Theater

University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

Laitman's New Opera "The Scarlet Letter" in High Gear for November World Premiere

Acclaimed American composer Lori Laitman is busy putting the final touches on her new two-act opera, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary masterpiece, to premiere at the University of Central Arkansas on November 6, 2008.

"I am thrilled with the way everything is coming together", says Laitman. "We have brilliant conducting by Maestro Israel Getzov, superb stage direction by Diane Kesling, a fine set, great costumes and inventive lighting by William Henshaw, and a terrific group of musicians. I am grateful to all the wonderful people at UCA who have worked tirelessly to ensure a resounding success on opening night."

The opera, commissioned by The University of Central Arkansas through Robert Holden and The UCA Opera Program, provided the prolific American composer, renowned for her masterful compositions for voice, an opportunity to collaborate with the contemporary poet David Mason.

For poet David Mason, turning Hawthorne's tale into his first opera libretto was an immensely gratifying task. In a recent interview he mused: "The Scarlet Letter is better suited to opera than any novel I have ever read. To begin with, its dramatic structure has particular clarity and resonance �Ķ.This is an exciting story about duplicity and love, the tragic possibility of America. Hawthorne's prose has offered me several lines for adaptation, but my primary goal has been to use spare, often lyrical verse as a way of revealing character and heightening drama�ĶI was hearing a kind of music when I wrote which corresponds very closely to what Lori Laitman has been composing. This is one of the most natural collaborations I have ever engaged in. It's an opportunity for me to grow as a poet, and a profound honor to find words I have written taken up and transmuted by other artists".

For Lori Laitman, creating this opera has also been an experience of tremendous excitement and growth. "My collaboration with David Mason has been one of the greatest joys of my life. His talent awes me and his beautiful words gave me all of the inspiration I needed. Although this was my largest musical undertaking to date, the approach to the composition was the same one I always use: to compose dramatic music that underscores the emotional content of the words but that also creates musical lines of great beauty. From start to finish, there is a consistent universe of sound. Scored for three main leads and chamber orchestra, the opera is set in two acts, approximately 2 hours in length. Musical motives are used and reused, and combined in different ways, creating a psychological underpinning for each of the characters, and several major arias arise from the drama."

"The Scarlet Letter" is a production of The University of Central Arkansas Opera Theater. The Opera is in two acts, composed by Lori Laitman to a libretto by David Mason.

Cast:

Conductor: Israel Getzov

Stage Direction: Diane Kesling

Sets, Lighting and Costumes: William Henshaw

Hester Prynne: Christine Donahue

Arthur Dimmesdale: John Garst

Roger Chillingworth: Robert Holden

Mistress Hibbons: Martha Antolik

Performances:

November 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm (pre-performance talk at 6:45 pm)

November 9, 2008 at 3 pm (pre-performance talk at 2:15 pm)

Location:

The Donald W. Reynolds Theater, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

Tickets:

UCA Ticket Central Box Office, Tel: (501) 450-3265; Email: boxoffice@uca.edu

Distinguished pianist Alexander Tselyakov releases Sonata Album

Distinguished pianist and BU Professor Alexander Tselyakov releases Sonata Album

BRANDON, MB ��� Distinguished pianist and Brandon University professor Alexander Tselyakov has released a new CD titled Sonata Album through the Brandon-based Golomb Records. The release contains two discs, with selected pieces reflecting the historical development of the Sonata form and the various approaches and styles to sonatas, from the baroque, classic, romantic, post romantic and modern eras. Sonata Album represents a collection of timeless standards sure to please the most discerning classical piano classical fan. The album is being distributed by the Canadian Music Centre, an international distribution agency.

Included on the album is a fabulously performed selection of the following masterworks: Disc One includes Dominico's Scarlatti Sonatas in D minor, K.32/L.423, in E major, K.380/ L.23, Sonata in F minor, K.184/L.189 and in A major, K.39/L.39, as well as Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor. The sonata in B minor is possibly the best example of Liszt��s mastery in piano and in composition and represents a pinnacle in the history of piano and of music in general, not only for his improvements to the technique but also for the revolutionary conception of the piece itself. Disc Two includes Mozart's Piano Sonata in F major, K.332, the world premi��re recording of T. Patrick Carrabr��'s Sonata No.1 for Piano - Black Echoes (a composition dedicated to Alexander Tselyakov), and Sergei Rachmaninoff's meltingly affectionate Piano Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor, Op.36 (revised version, 1931).

Former Brandon University School of Music Dean Dr. Lawrence Jones wrote the program notes for the CD package.

Alexander Tselyakov "...represents the best aspect of Russian pianism and all its attributes...effectively synthesized the emotional balance of Arthur Rubinstein and the more highly-strung febrile quality of Horowitz." Harris Goldsmith, New York Concert Review

Recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding musicians, Alexander Tselyakov has distinguished himself as a guest soloist with great orchestras and as a recitalist in major concert halls, such as the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, England, the Centre de Doelen, in Rotterdam, and the Shostakovich Large Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and has won major prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the International Music Competition of Japan. Tselyakov has been described as "representing the best aspect of Russian pianism and all its attributes" by the New York Concert Review; and "amazing at the keyboard" by The Globe and Mail. A busy concert pianist, teacher and chamber musician, Tselyakov collaborates with many leading Canadian musicians. He is artistic director of two Chamber Music Festivals; at Clear Lake in Manitoba and Pender Harbour, British Columbia. Tselyakov resides in Manitoba, where he is Professor of Piano at Brandon University School of Music. This recording was made possible with the generous support of the Manitoba Film & Sound and Brandon University.

Tselyakov's Sonata Album can be purchased through the Canadian Music Centre, at the Brandon University School of Music, at Brandon University Campus Books or online at http://www.tselyakov.com, where one can also find more information on Professor Alexander Tselyakov, including previous recordings, recent appearances and concerts, and a long list of praise from classical music critics and experts.

Concert Orchestre 21 - 8 nov. 2008 au Gesu

Dans le cadre de �� l'Automne Messiaen ��

Concert de l'Orchestre 21

Dirig�� par Maestro Paolo Bellomia

Samedi 8 novembre 2008 20heures

Amphith����tre du Ges�� ��� Centre de cr��ativit��

1200, rue de Bleury, Montr��al (Qu��bec) H3B 3J3 T��l : (514) 861-4378

Billets : adultes 30 $, ��tudiants et 60 ans (et plus) 20 $

Montr��al, vendredi 24 octobre 2008 - �� l'occasion de son premier concert de la saison 2008-2009, dans le cadre de l'Automne Messiaen, l'Orchestre du 21e si��cle, dirig�� par le maestro Paolo Bellomia, est heureux de pr��senter trois ��uvres de Messiaen et deux premi��res mondiales des compositeurs Norbert Paley et Eric de Villiers. Le soliste invit�� est le pianiste Jimmy Bri��re. Le concert aura lieu le samedi 8 novembre, �� 20 heures, �� l'Amphith����tre du Ges�� ��� Centre de cr��ativit��, situ�� au 1200, rue de Bleury.

Samedi 8 Novembre 2008 �� 20heures dans le cadre �� l'Automne Messiaen ��

Olivier Messiaen, Un vitrail et des Oiseaux

Olivier Messiaen, La ville d'en haut

Olivier Messiaen, Les couleurs de la cit�� c��leste

Norbert Palej, Un souffle de lumi��re ���en hommage �� Messiaen**

Eric de Villiers, Intermedio**

Artiste invit�� : Jimmy Bri��re, pianiste.

** premi��re mondiale

L'Orchestre 21, qui compte 40 jeunes musiciens de grand talent du Qu��bec, est un organisme �� but non lucratif qui collabore avec le Ges�� - Centre de cr��ativit��, situ�� au c��ur de la ville de Montr��al. Le chef d'orchestre, Maestro Paolo Bellomia, est professeur de direction d'orchestre aux cycles sup��rieurs �� la facult�� de musique de l'universit�� de Montr��al et responsable des classes de direction. Il poss��de un vaste r��pertoire depuis les symphonies de Mozart jusqu'aux ��uvres de Boulez. Ses prestations, en tant que chef invit��, l'ont emmen�� tour �� tour en Autriche, au Br��sil, en Bulgarie, en ��quateur, en Espagne, en France, en Italie, au Mexique, en R��publique Tch��que, en Russie, aux ��tats-Unis et au Canada.

Lieu historique, reconnu bien culturel depuis 1975, l'amphith����tre du Ges�� est une salle de concert o�� la modernit�� rencontre la tradition. Dot��e d'une jauge de 427 si��ges, cet espace unique est serti de colonnes de pierres t��moins des 145 ans d'h��ritage artistique et acad��mique. Le Ges�� collabore �� la diffusion de ce 1er concert de l'Orchestre 21 dans le cadre de la 15e ��dition de la s��rie art sacr�� qui porte la th��matique de parcours contemporain - contraires et compl��mentaires

Concert - Matt Haimovitz et DJ Olive

MATT HAIMOVITZ, GEOFFREY BURLESON and DJ OLIVE

Odd Couple: Duos pour Violoncelle & Piano ET

Violoncelle et Platines

Montr��al, le vendredi 24 octobre 2008 - La 30e saison de la s��rie des concerts CBC/McGill se poursuit avec un concert mettant en vedette le professeur de McGill et violoncelliste de r��putation internationale Matt Haimovitz, avec Geoffrey Burleson au piano et DJ Olive. Le concert aura lieu �� 19 h 30 le jeudi 6 novembre �� la salle Pollack (555, rue Sherbrooke Ouest). Les billets sont en vente �� la billetterie de la salle Pollack au prix de 15 $, 10 $ pour les ��tudiants et a��n��s.

C'est donc au tour de Montr��al d'accueillir le projet Odd Couple propos�� par Haimovitz, Burleson et DJ Olive, qui offre des duos pour violoncelle et piano de Beethoven et d'Elliot Carter ainsi que des duos pour violoncelle et tables tournantes de Tod Machover et de la Montr��alaise Nicole Liz��e. Mettant l'accent sur la farouche individualit�� de chaque instrument, Haimovitz affirme : �� Il est aussi inusit�� pour un violoncelliste de s'associer �� un pianiste qu'�� un platiniste.�� Le duo Burleson-Haimovitz a choisi la sonate opus 102, no 2 dans l'��uvre de Beethoven, typique du style qu'avait adopt�� le compositeur �� la fin de sa vie, tandis que DJ Olive et Haimovitz, fr��quents collaborateurs, s'appliquent �� cr��er une musique de chambre pour violoncelle et tables tournantes. Les trois musiciens donneront libre cours �� leur cr��ativit�� en improvisant des liens entre les diff��rents styles des ��uvres interpr��t��es pour jeter un nouvel ��clairage sur le r��pertoire ��tabli et briser la parfois trop grande pr��visibilit�� des concerts. Apr��s Montr��al, les musiciens sont attendus sur la sc��ne du Black Sheep Inn �� Wakefield (Qu��bec), ainsi qu'au Poisson Rouge de New York le 13 novembre.

��galement au programme du concert, la premi��re mondiale de Bookburners, une ��uvre pour violoncelle et tables tournantes command��e par CBC �� la Montr��alaise Nicole Liz��e, ��toile montante des compositions pour instruments classiques et tables tournantes. Les ��uvres de Nicole Liz��e ont ��t�� interpr��t��es par de nombreux ensembles, dont l'Orchestre M��tropolitain et le Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Compos��e en 2007, sa pi��ce pour ensemble de musique de chambre et tables tournantes intitul��e This Will Not Be Televised s'est class��e parmi les finalistes du prix Jules-L��ger et est la seule ��uvre canadienne recommand��e par l'International Music Council �� Paris cette ann��e.

Le concert Odd Couple a ravi les critiques. Le Washington Post a ��crit : �� Haimovitz alterne entre la sensibilit�� et le dramatique, tandis que Burleson marie parfaitement la vivacit�� et la po��sie dans son jeu. �� Quant au Boston Phoenix, il a d��crit VinylCello de Tod Machover (2007) �� d'��mouvante et d'une grande beaut�� ��. Le disque Odd Couple de Haimovitz et Burleson sera ��galement lanc�� �� Montr��al �� l'occasion du concert, le lancement �� l'��chelle canadienne sur l'��tiquette Oxingale Records devant avoir lieu le 4 novembre.

Pour de plus amples renseignements sur ce concert ainsi que sur l'ensemble de la saison, nous vous invitons �� composer le 514-398-4547 ou �� visiter le site www.cbc.ca/montreal. Tous les billets peuvent ��tre achet��s �� la billetterie de la salle Pollack, tous les jours de 12 h �� 18 h en semaine ou une heure avant chaque concert ou encore, sur le r��seau Admission au 514-790-1245 ou sur le site www.admission.com. Pour de plus amples renseignements sur Matt Haimovitz et les autres musiciens, voir sur www.oxingale.com.

Le concert sera diffus�� sur CBC Radio 2 dans le cadre des ��missions Sunday Afternoon In Concert, anim��e par Bill Richardson (les dimanches de 13 h �� 17 h), Tempo, anim��e par Julie Nesrallah (du lundi au vendredi de 10 h �� 15 h), The Signal, anim��e par Laurie Brown et Pat Carrabr�� (tous les soirs de 22 h �� 24 h) ainsi que sur CBC Radio One �� l'��mission 5 �� 6 (les samedis de 13 h �� 17 h). �� Montr��al, CBC Radio One : 88,5 FM, et CBC Radio 2 : 93,5 FM. Les concerts CBC/McGill sont ��galement offerts sur Internet, au volet Concerts on Demand (www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/). Kelly Rice est le directeur artistique et premier r��alisateur de la s��rie CBC/McGill.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson | New CD On Wigmore Hall Live

LORRAINE HUNT LIEBERSON'S 1999 WIGMORE HALL CONCERT

IS RELEASED ON THE WIGMORE HALL LIVE LABEL

THE MUSIC OF SCHUMANN AND BRAHMS IS HEARD IN POWERFUL AND PROFOUND PERFORMANCES BY THE BELOVED AMERICAN MEZZO-SOPRANO WHO DIED IN 2006; JULIUS DRAKE IS THE PIANIST

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, the esteemed and beloved American mezzo-soprano who died in 2006, is heard in a new CD on the Wigmore Hall Live label (WHLIVE0024). This concert was recorded live in London's Wigmore Hall on October 4, 1999. Julius Drake is the pianist.

Ms. Hunt Lieberson's performances of works by Brahms and Schumann are soulful, powerful and profound -- a masterful technique completely in service to the music and its message.

This is the 25^th CD released on the Wigmore Hall Live label and the second by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, the first being the 30 November 1998 concert of works by Brahms, Handel, Lieberson (the singer's husband), Mahler, and a traditional spiritual, with Roger Vignoles, pianist (WHLive0013, released last year).

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, originally from Northern California, died at the age of 52. She brought an almost paradoxical combination of serenity and intensity to her performances, with her subtle but penetrating illumination of both text and music. Her recorded legacy is relatively small, making this release especially valuable.

Reviewing the live concert in 1999, Andrew Clements in The Guardian (London) wrote: "...With Julius Drake as the ever attentive pianist, she devoted her recital to Brahms and Schumann, and it was spell-binding. There is no artifice, no affectation and most of all no self-regarding ego about Hunt Lieberson; she is on the platform to communicate. It helps, of course, that she possesses a voice of such haunting beauty and that her musicality is so instinctive ... Each number of Frauenliebe und -leben ran through a whole spectrum of colour and emotional flux. The way in which Ich kann's nicht fassen grew from breathless wonder to untrammelled ecstasy was a microcosm of the emotional journey that the whole cycle charts. Magical."

The contents of the CD are as follows:

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-soprano

Julius Drake, Piano

Brahms ��� Eight Songs, Op. 57

Schumann ��� Four Lieder from Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Op. 98a

Schumann ��� Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42

(Encores: Debussy ��� Fantoches from Fetes galantes; and Handel ��� Angels, ever bright and fair, from Theodora)

John Gilhooly, Director of Wigmore Hall, who is responsible for all aspects of the Hall's activities and its recording label, stated: "We are particularly delighted to release a second Wigmore Hall Live archive recording of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson -- one of the world's most beautiful voices -- in repertoire by Schumann and Brahms.

"Wigmore Hall Live has grown into a flagship international label since its launch in 2005, and we're very excited that we have already reached our 25th disc, with many more exciting releases planned for the seasons ahead. The label is now distributed in 30 worldwide territories, bringing the unique Wigmore Hall experience to an even greater audience."

London's Wigmore Hall is generally regarded as the world's finest concert hall for chamber music and song, a reputation which has grown and flourished in the 107 years since its opening. Its generous acoustics, intimacy and warm hospitality has won great loyalty from the world's greatest artists. Being innovative as well as traditional, Wigmore Hall has consistently led the way for new types of song recital and chamber music programming. It is held in the highest esteem and affection by musicians and music lovers the world over.

Wigmore Hall Live's catalogue includes archival recordings of musicians of the highest calibre: Dame Margaret Price with Geoffrey Parsons, and Peter Schreier with Andr��s Schiff; contemporary Wigmore regulars Dame Felicity Lott with Graham Johnson and Sir Thomas Allen with Malcolm Martineau. Early music, with the Academy of Ancient Music, is heard in close proximity to contemporary music, advocated by the Arditti Quartet, while Wigmore Hall continues its commitment to nurturing Young Artists with exhilarating performance by Joyce DiDonato and Julius Drake. The label's newer releases include recent concerts from the Ysa��e Quartet, and the first appearance at the Hall by Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski and her recital partner, Marita Isokoski.

Releases scheduled for 2009 on Wigmore Hall Live include recitals by Swedish soprano Miah Persson and pianist Roger Vignoles; Polish mezzo-soprano Ewa Podle�� with pianist Garrick Ohlsson (a program that also features Musorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death); Russian-born pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja; and Hungarian pianist Andr��s Schiff playing at Wigmore Hall's 1988 Haydn Festival.

Evenement theatrale HELLAVATOR

HELLAVATOR

En bas ?�Ķ

Les PRODUCTIONS HELLAVATOR pr��sente une production endroit-sp��cifique d'une nouvelle com��die ��crit par le dramaturge laur��at Ned Cox. Ou ? �Ķ un ascenseur de fret des ann��es 30 situ�� dans le b��timent de Pharmaprix �� 3861, boul. Rue-Laurent.

Alain Goulem dirige �� l'��quipe r��veuse �� de Alex Haber, Neil Napier, et Michel Perron en tant que deux touristes et ouvrier d'entretien emprisonn�� dans un ascenseur en panne sur le 13��me ��tage d'un h��tel minable. L'obtiendront-ils jamais se d��pla��ant encore ? S'ils font, la seule direction qu'ils entrent est en baisse ��� vraiment ! Et l'ouvrier d'entretien vraiment qui il appara��t est-il pour ��tre ? Sentons-nous le soufre ?

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Du 20 octobre au 16 novembre

Du mercredis au samedis 21h00

Pr��vues : Le 29 et 30 octobre

Premi��re : Le 31 octobre

Pharmaprix Building

3861, boul. St-Laurent

Billetterie :

(514) 812 - 7722

Billets :

Admission r��gulier: 20$

Escomptes (industrie, ��tudiants et a��n��s) 15$ (Pour les deux pr��vues aussi)

Theatre Listing HELLAVATOR

HELLAVATOR

Going�Ķdown?

HELLAVATOR PRODUCTIONS presents a site-specific production of an insane new comedy by award-winning playwright Ned Cox. The site?�Ķ a 1930s freight elevator located in the Pharmaprix Building at 3861, boul. St-Laurent.

Alain Goulem directs 'Dream Team' Alex Haber, Neil Napier, and Michel Perron as two tourists and a maintenance worker trapped in a broken-down elevator on the 13^th floor of a has-been hotel. Will they ever get it moving again? One catch: if they do, the only way they're going is down ��� way, waaaaaaaay down! And is the janitor what he seems, or is that sulphur we smell?

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Run: October 29 ��� November 16

Wed. through Sat. 9 PM

Previews: October 29 & 30

Opening Night: October 31

Closing Night: November 16

Venue:

Pharmaprix Building

3861, boul. St-Laurent

Box Office:

(514) 812 - 7722

Tickets:

Regular Admission: $20

Concessions: $15 (And both Preview shows)

York U Music: Choral Concerts in November

York U's Classical Choirs Celebrate the Human Voice in Three November Concerts Toronto: York University���s Department of Music will celebrate the human voice in three choral concerts featuring four classical choirs, directed by Lisette Canton. The concerts take place in York���s Tribute Communities Recital Hall November 11, 15 and 24. The York U Chamber Choir, accompanied by pianist M��lisande Sinsoulier, will present a varied program spanning four historical periods and five languages on November 11 at 7:30pm. The repertoire will include works by Byrd, Faur��, Hensel, Haydn, Lauridsen, Palestrina, Willan and others. Canton will share the baton with graduate students Cheryl Bowen and Jacklin Falconer for this Master���s recital. The 74 young singers in the combined York U Concert and Chamber Choirs will lift their voices on November 15 at 7:30pm in a concert featuring guest organist Patricia Wright and faculty soloists, mezzo-soprano Catherine Robbin, baritone Michael Donovan and cellist Mark Chambers. On the program are works by Maurice Durufl�� (1902-1986), a French composer known for his perfectionism, whose organ and choral music is especially highly regarded. Durufl�����s Requiem, his largest and most important work, is one of the most beloved pieces in the choral repertoire. Written in 1947 in memory of his father, it is based on Gregorian chants from the Mass for the Dead and modeled on Faur�����s Requiem, using the identical Latin text. In his Requiem, Durufl�� adopted a restrained approach, concentrating on rest and peace. He scored the work for choir, mezzo-soprano and baritone, and composed three different instrumental settings for it: organ alone (with cello solo), organ and chamber orchestra, and full orchestra. The strength of Durufl�����s composition lies in his ability to fuse disparate elements: plainsong in cantus firmus style, liturgical modality, subtle counterpoint and sensuous harmonies. Durufl�����s Quatre Motets sur des th��mes gr��goriens (Ubi caritas, Tota pulchra es, Tu es Petrus and Tantum ergo) are short, intimate works of great beauty, likewise based on plainsong models composed in a polyphonic context. The choirs will reprise their Durufl�� concert downtown the following night, November 16 at 7:30pm at Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. East. York U Women���s Chorus and Men���s Choir unite November 24 for a concert of classical masterworks selected to showcase their talents separately and together. Accompanied by pianist M��lisande Sinsoulier, the choirs will perform works by Brahms, Certon, Faur��, Galuppi, Saint-Sa��ns, Susa, Raminsh, Schubert, Walker, Whalum and more. Concert time is 7:30pm. Based in York���s flourishing classical vocal performance program, these young singers come to Canton���s choirs from the studios of Catherine Robbin, Stephanie Bogle, Norma Burrowes, Michael Donovan, Janet Obermeyer and Karen Rymal. Canton joined the music faculty at York in 2004 as a professor of conducting and choral music. A celebrated choral and orchestral conductor and vocal coach, she has recorded for CBC radio and television, and has guest-conducted for numerous ensembles in Canada and the US. She is the founding artistic director of the internationally-acclaimed Ottawa Bach Choir, which she has led on two European tours (2005 and 2007). The choir won rave reviews with invitational concerts at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig as well as in Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Vienna, Prague and Salzburg, and is slated for return engagements next spring. The choir can be heard at Roy Thomson Hall in the Choir and Organ Series on November 20, 2008 at 12 pm. *** Event Details What: York U Chamber Choir When: Tuesday, November 11, 7:30pm Where: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. [Map] Admission: Free Info: 416.736.2100 ext. 22926 What: York U Concert & Chamber Choirs When: Saturday, November 15, 7:30pm Where: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. [Map] Admission: $15, students $5. Box Office: 416.736.5888 | www.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice What: York U Concert & Chamber Choirs concert reprise When: Sunday, November 16, 7:30pm Where: Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. East. www.metunited.org Admission: $15, students $5. Box Office: Tickets at the door What: York U Women���s Choir & Men���s Chorus When: Monday, November 24, 7:30pm Where: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. [Map] Admission: Free Info: 416.736.2100 ext. 22926

Violons du Roy - Au son du cor, le 12 novembre �� 14 h et 20 h au Palais Montcalm

Au son du cor

Bernard Labadie, chef d���orchestre
Louis-Philippe Marsolais, cor

S��rie Da camera
Mercredi 12 novembre, 20 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

S��rie Plaisirs d���apr��s-midi
Mercredi 12 novembre, 14 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

G.P. Telemann Concerto pour 4 violons sans basse continue, TWV 40 :204
G. F. Handel Sonate en trio en si b��mol majeur, opus 5 no 7, HWV 402
W.A. Mozart Quintette en mi b��mol majeur K. 407 (K. 386c)*
H. Purcell Chaconne en sol mineur, Z. 730
Chaconne tir��e de King Arthur, Z. 628
Musique de sc��ne tir��e de Abdelazer, Z. 570*
J. Haydn Concerto pour cor no 2 en r�� majeur, Hob VII :4*

* Ces ��uvres figurent au programme du concert de 14 h.

Qu��bec, le 22 octobre ��� Le mercredi 12 novembre, le premier concert de la s��rie Da camera se d��roulera au son du cor plut��t qu���au son des trompettes tel qu���annonc�� dans la brochure de saison. Ce changement au programme permettra au public d���applaudir un brillant soliste qu��b��cois, le corniste Louis-Philippe Marsolais, qui se joindra aux Violons du Roy, sous la direction de Bernard Labadie, pour interpr��ter des ��uvres de Mozart et Haydn. Alliant musique de chambre et musique orchestrale, le concert comprend aussi des ��uvres de Telemann, Handel et Purcell. En plus d���appr��cier le talent des membres des Violons du Roy, les m��lomanes pourront ��changer avec les musiciens sur la sc��ne du Palais Montcalm apr��s le concert.

Louis-Philippe Marsolais : Un soliste d���exception !
Apr��s avoir occup�� les postes de cor solo �� l���Orchestre symphonique de
Kitchener-Waterloo et cor solo associ�� �� l���Orchestre symphonique de Qu��bec, Louis-Philippe Marsolais se consacre maintenant �� la musique de chambre et au solo. Gagnant de trois prix au prestigieux Concours de Munich en septembre 2005, il est aussi laur��at du Concours de Gen��ve (2004), du Concours Mozart de Rovereto (2004), en Italie et du Concours international de cor de Tr��voux (2001), en France. Il a ��t�� soliste �� plusieurs reprises avec les orchestres symphoniques de Montr��al, Qu��bec, Trois-Rivi��res, Longueuil, l���Orchestre de la Radio Bavaroise, l���Orchestre de chambre de Munich, l���Orchestre de Chambre de Gen��ve, ainsi que l���Orchestre Haydn de Bolzano, en Italie.

Deux ��uvres avec cor figurent au programme de la soir��e. D���abord, Louis-Philippe Marsolais se joindra �� la violoniste Maud Langlois, aux altistes Annie Morrier et Fr��d��ric Lambert et au violoncelliste Raphael Dub�� pour interpr��ter le Quintette en mi b��mol majeur, K. 407 de Mozart, une ��uvre virtuose dans laquelle le cor est trait�� en soliste, faisant ainsi honneur au talent exceptionnel de son destinataire et grand ami de Mozart, Ignatz Leitgeb. Le corniste sera de retour pour faire d��couvrir le Deuxi��me concerto pour cor en r�� majeur de J. Haydn

En d��but de concert, les violonistes Nicole Trotier, Ang��lique Duguay, No��lla Bouchard et Pascale Gagnon seront les solistes du Concerto pour 4 violons de G.P. Telemann. Par la suite, les violonistes Nicole Trotier et No��lla Bouchard, le violoncelliste Beno��t Loiselle et le claveciniste Thomas Annand interpr��teront la Sonate en trio opus 5 no 7 de Handel.


Bernard Labadie montera aussi sur le podium pour diriger des ��uvres d���Henry Purcell, notamment la musique de sc��ne tir��e de Abdelazer, Z. 570 dont l���une des pi��ces, le Rondeau, fut popularis��e par Benjamin Britten dans ses c��l��bres Variations et fugue sur un th��me de Purcell, opus 34 (1946), mieux connues sous le titre de Young Person���s Guide to the Orchestra.

Ce concert est une pr��sentation de Langlois Kronstr��m Desjardins. La saison 2008-2009 �� Qu��bec est pr��sent��e par Hydro-Qu��bec, partenaire de saison �� Qu��bec.

Le tarif 29 ans et moins de retour !
Un concert de haut niveau au m��me prix qu���un film, soit seulement 12,50 $.

Information et R��servation

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

Concerts �� venir au Palais Montcalm :
Vendredi 21 novembre, 14 h et 20 h :
Un archet nordique : Truls Mork
Bernard Labadie, chef
S��ries Grands Rendez-vous et Plaisirs d���apr��s-midi

www.violonsduroy.com

PSO POPS! to Perform with Beatles Tribute Band, November 15-16

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA POPS! WELCOMES BEATLES TRIBUTE GROUP, NOVEMBER 15-16
Featuring original members of the Broadway sensation BEATLEMANIA performing live in concert with the Portland Symphony Orchestra

Imagine The Beatles playing in concert with a symphony orchestra. What would that have sounded like? Find out for yourself at Classical Mystery Tour - a tribute to The Beatles featuring original members of the Broadway sensation "BEATLEMANIA" performing live in concert with the Portland Symphony Orchestra at Merrill Auditorium on Saturday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 16 at 2:30 p.m.

The four musicians in Classical Mystery Tour look and sound just like The Beatles, but Classical Mystery Tour is more than just a rock concert. The show presents some 20 Beatles tunes sung, played, and performed exactly as they were written. Hear "Penny Lane" with a live trumpet section; experience the beauty of "Yesterday" with an acoustic guitar and string quartet; enjoy the rock/classical blend on the hard edged "I Am the Walrus." From early Beatles music on through the solo years, Classical Mystery Tour is the best of The Beatles like you've never heard them: totally live.

Classical Mystery Tour features Jim Owen (John Lennon) on rhythm guitar, piano, and vocals; Tony Kishman (Paul McCartney) on bass guitar, piano, and vocals; Tom Teeley (George Harrison) on lead guitar and vocals; and Chris Camilleri (Ringo Starr) on drums and vocals. Music Director Robert Moody conducts.

Classical Mystery Tour is sponsored by New England Coffee and Holiday Inn by the Bay. Ticket prices range from $17 to $62, with special pricing available for students, seniors and groups. All Portland Symphony Orchestra tickets are sold through PortTix at (207) 842-0800 or www.porttix.com, and new this year, the website offers real-time online seat selection. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office at 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. For complete season information, including artist biographies and program notes, visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

Worldwide search for aspiring new composers begins

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

October 23, 2008

Worldwide search for aspiring new composers begins

A worldwide search for 21^st century compositional talent will begin this Friday (October 24) with the call for scores for the 2009 University of Aberdeen Music Prize.

The Aberdeen Prize ��� as it has become known in musical circles ��� is a unique, biennial competition for aspiring new contemporary composers from around the globe.

Established in 2005, it represents a unique collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO), and will be judged by the pre-eminent Scottish composer James MacMillan.

Hundreds of scores from as far afield as Australia, China, India and Russia were submitted for the 2007 prize, with South Korea's Jun Lee eventually coming out on top.

He was awarded ��5,000 in the form of a commission to write a full piece for orchestra, which will be premiered by the BBC SSO at Aberdeen Music Hall this Friday (October 24), before being broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The event will also see the launch of the global call for scores for the 2009 prize. Five works will be selected by a panel of experts and the composers brought to Aberdeen in November 2009 for a series of workshops with the distinguished composer James MacMillan and members of the BBC SSO.

Under the patronage of Dame Evelyn Glennie, the University of Aberdeen Music Prize competition forms the centerpiece of a wider celebration of contemporary musical creativity in the form of a weekend of hands-on events, workshops and concerts in Aberdeen.

Dr Paul Mealor, Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of the University of Aberdeen Music Prize said: "Since it was first launched, this search for creative talent has helped to develop Aberdeen's role as one of the major cultural centres in the UK. Hundreds of composers from every corner of the globe embraced the 2007 competition, many of whom wrote to us to express their gratitude that such an event exists.

"We are also honoured to have such a well respected judge in James Macmillan, and in the BBC SSO we have a body of musicians that understands the techniques of modern music better than anyone. We're delighted to be able to open the call for scores for the 2009 competition."

Gavin Reid, Director of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, said: "The BBC SSO has an international reputation for promoting new music and developing the work of young composers, and so we're delighted to continue our partnership with the University of Aberdeen Music Prize."

Jun Lee will have his commission, Marea, premiered by the BBC SSO, under the baton of American conductor Andrew Litton, at Aberdeen Music Hall on Friday, October 24, 7.30pm. The concert will also include Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

The University of Aberdeen Music Prize is open to composers of any nationality, with no age limit or restrictions. Closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday, May 29, 2009.

For further information and application details for the Music Prize please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/aberdeenmusicprize, email musicprize@abdn.ac.uk or call + 44(0)1224 273 874. Alternatively, contact Aberdeen Music Prize, Office of External Affairs, University Office, King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom AB24 3FX.

The VSO's Festival of Remembrance

The VSO���s Festival of Remembrance, featuring cellist Raphael Wallfisch and Britten���s War Requiem

Vancouver BC ��� The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents a Festival of Remembrance: a series of performances surrounding Remembrance Day that commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I. The concerts take place on November 8^th, 15^th and 17^th at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre and November 10^th at 8pm at the Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey.

Outstanding cellist Raphael Wallfisch will be featured in the November 8^th and 10^th concerts that commemorate the 70^th anniversary of Krystallnacht, that horrific night of riots when the extreme racial policies of the Third Reich came harshly and suddenly to the world���s attention. He will perform Bloch���s beautiful, moving Schelomo (Solomon): Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra. Maestro Tovey leads the orchestra in a concert featuring repertoire and composers who were banned in Nazi Germany, including the Bloch piece, Meyerbeer���s Le Proph��te: Coronation March, Mendelssohn���s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Mahler���s Symphony No.5: Adagietto, Weill���s Threepenny Opera: Suite and Offenbach���s Gait�� Parisienne: Suite.

The epic concerts of November 15^th and 17^th present Benjamin Britten���s extraordinary War Requiem, one of the most important works of the twentieth century. This seminal work was commissioned for the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral in 1962. Britten took the commission for the War Requiem as a platform for expressing his anti-war sentiments and pacifist views, and did so stridently and profoundly. Shocked by the horrors of war, Britten created the War Requiem, truly one of the most important works of the twentieth century, as something timeless, and as a warning to future generations about the futility and evil of war; the work is as fresh and relevant and important in today���s world as it was in 1962. The orchestration for the War Requiem is unique as well, breaking down the orchestra and vocalists into three distinct groups that interact with each other throughout, though they each carry unique material, and finally all come together at the end. A full orchestra teams up with soprano and choir, handling the Latin Mass and personifying the suffering that war inflicts upon humanity, physically and spiritually; the male soloists pair with the chamber orchestra to provide readings of the Owen poetry; the boys choir and organ provide an eerie element of calm in the dramatic, sometimes raucous and disturbing, proceedings. Unique amongst Requiem masses, the War Requiem blends the traditional Latin Mass with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, foremost amongst Britain���s ���war poets.���

These concerts feature the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus, Soprano Joni Henson, Tenor James Taylor and Baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson. Also on the program are Leonard Bernstein���s Halil for Flute and Orchestra, and Barber���s renowned Adagio for Strings. Bramwell Tovey conducts.

The November 8^th and 10^th concerts also feature a short commissioned piece called Return and Run by Canadian composer Timothy Corlis. In the composer���s own words:

���For this commission, I was asked to write a composition that reflects both an Olympic related

inspiration and the subject matter associated with the horrific event known as Kristallnacht, a riot prior to World War II that brought the racism of the Third Reich into public view. What ties these themes together? I have no clear answer. But, while working on the piece, this phrase came to mind: ���and must we not return and run?��� It is a quotation from Nietzsche���s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It expresses the idea of eternal return; what we do in this moment echoes eternally both in our own lives and in the lives of others. Certainly, what happened on ���the night of broken glass��� left a deep mark on our modern world-view. Perhaps we might also remember the 1936 Olympic performance of Jesse Owens���an American black sprinter who shattered the idea of the ���Ubermensch��� (interpreted in Owen���s time as the ���superior race���) by winning four gold

medals in a single day. This is the starting point for the music in Return and Run ��� Olympic themes: themes of triumph and awesome human achievement alongside the sobering acknowledgement of a deeply rooted social injustice.���

CONCERT INFO

Musically Speaking Series

Festival of Remembrance

Saturday, November 8, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Meyerbeer Le prophete: Coronation March

Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody

Timothy Corlis Return and Run (World Premiere Commission)

Weill Threepenny Opera: Suite

Offenbach Gaite Parisienne: Suite

An inspiring concert that helps to commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I. Superb cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs Bloch���s beautiful, moving Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Video Screen Sponsor: TELUS

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

Surrey Nights Series

Festival of Remembrance

Monday, November 10, 8pm, Bell Performing Arts Centre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Meyerbeer Le prophete: Coronation March

Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody

Timothy Corlis Olympic Commission

Weill Threepenny Opera: Suite

Offenbach Gaite Parisienne: Suite

An inspiring concert that helps to commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I. Superb cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs Bloch���s beautiful, moving Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.

Tickets $37 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

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

Generously Supported By:

Series has been endowed by a generous gift from Werner and Helga H��ing

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver Series

Festival of Remembrance: Britten���s War Requiem

Saturday & Monday, November 15 & 17, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Christie Reside, flute*

Joni Henson, soprano**

James Taylor, tenor**

Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, baritone**

Vancouver Bach Choir**

Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus**

Barber Adagio for strings

Bernstein Halil for flute and orchestra*

Britten War Requiem, Op. 66**

Marking the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I, this epic concert features Benjamin Britten���s seminal work, War Requiem, a brilliant denunciation of the horrors of war.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Video Screen Sponsor: TELUS

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

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

BIOGRAPHIES

Bramwell Tovey

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

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

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

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

Raphael Wallfisch

Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most celebrated cellists performing on the international stage. He was born in London into a family of distinguished musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch.

At an early age, Raphael was greatly inspired by hearing Zara Nelsova play, and, guided by a succession of fine teachers including Amaryllis Fleming, Amadeo Baldovino and Derek Simpson, it became apparent that the cello was to be his life's work. While studying with the great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky in California, he was chosen to perform chamber music with Jascha Heifetz in the informal recitals that Piatigorsky held at his home.

At the age of twenty-four he won the Gaspar Cassad�� International Cello Competition in Florence. Since then he has enjoyed a world-wide career playing with such orchestras as the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Hall��, City of Birmingham Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berlin Symphony, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic and many others.

He is regularly invited to play at major festivals such as the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Spoleto, Prades, Oslo and Schleswig Holstein.

Teaching is one of Raphael Wallfisch's passions. He is in demand as a teacher all over the world holding the position of professor of cello in Switzerland at the Z��rich Winterthur Konservatorium and at the Royal College of Music in London.

Raphael has recorded nearly every major work for his instrument. His extensive discography on EMI, Chandos, Black Box, ASV, Naxos and Nimbus explores both the mainstream concerto repertoire and countless lesser-known works by Dohnanyi, Respighi, Barber, Hindemith and Martinu, as well as Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Kabalevsky and Khachaturian. He has recorded a wide range of British cello concertos, including works by MacMillan, Finzi, Delius, Bax, Bliss, Britten, Moeran and Kenneth Leighton. For the Chandos Walton Edition he was privileged to record the composer's Cello Concerto, originally written for his master, Piatigorsky.

Britain's leading composers have worked closely with Raphael Wallfisch, many having written works especially for him. These include Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, John Metcalf, Paul Patterson, Robert Simpson, Robert Saxton, Roger Smalley, Giles Swayne, John Tavener and Adrian Williams.

Raphael lives in London with his wife, the violinist Elizabeth, and has three children, Benjamin, Simon, and Joanna.

Joni Henson

Soprano Joni Henson is quickly becoming one of Canada���s most thrilling young performers. Recent successes on the opera stage include starring as Fiordiligi in Mozart���s COSI FAN TUTTE and Gutrune in Wagner���s G��TTERD��MMERUNG for the Canadian Opera Company���s inaugural season at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. For Toronto���s Opera in Concert she was Marietta / Marie in Korngold���s rarely heard DIE TOTE STADT.

Ms. Henson���s 2007-2008 includes Desdemona in Verdi���s OTELLO with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Elisabeth in Verdi���s DON CARLOS with the Canadian Opera Company and concerts with the Aldeburgh Connection and Off Centre Music Salon.

Ms. Henson earned her Bachelor in Vocal Performance from the University of Toronto. She also received her Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto���s Opera Division.

While at the Opera School she performed the roles of Fiordiligi in Mozart���s COSI FAN TUTTE and the title role in Handel���s ALCINA. Further roles include Nedda in Leoncavallo���s PAGLIACCI, Mrs. Ford in Nicolai���s MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and Female Chorus in Britten���s THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA.

In 2003, Ms. Henson was awarded the Opera Grand Prize at the XVth Concours International de Chant de Verviers Competition in Belgium. She also received the First Place Opera and French Melodie Awards at the Concours International de Chant de Marmande Competition in France. In 2006 Ms. Henson was a semi-finalist in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions.

Ms. Henson attended the esteemed Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where she studied with Marilyn Horne. In excerpts, she was seen there as Vitellia in Mozart���s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, Violetta in Verdi���s LA TRAVIATA and Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI. She was honoured to receive Encouragement Awards in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition.

Ms. Henson is a former member of the Canadian Opera Company���s Ensemble Studio. She debuted with the company as Alisa in Donizetti���s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR and other roles with the company include Lady Billows in ALBERT HERRING, Inez in IL TROVATORE, First Lady in THE MAGIC FLUTE and Gutrune in Wagner���s G��TTERD��MMERUNG. In June of 2007 she starred with other young Canadian opera singers in ���Luna���, a gala concert which highlighted the inaugural Luminato Festival in Toronto.

James Taylor

With a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, tenor James Taylor devotes much of his career to the oratorio and concert literature. One of the most sought after Bach Evangelists, Mr. Taylor has performed the role for his debut with the New York Philharmonic, throughout the United States, in South America, Japan, Israel, and in the great concert halls of Europe including Amsterdam���s Concertgebouw, Vienna���s Musikverein, and the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Highlights of Mr. Taylor���s 2008/09 season include performances of Haydn���s The Creation at Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke���s with Helmuth Rilling, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra led by Nicolas McGegan, and with the National Symphony, also with Maestro Rilling. He sings the Britten War Requiem with Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony, and Haydn���s Stabat Mater with Bernard Labadie and Les Violins du Roy in Quebec and Montreal. International performances include Bach Mass in B Minor in Bamberg with Sir Roger Norrington; Haydn���s Orlando Paladino with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Berlin Philharmonic; Handel���s Messiah with the State Orchestra of Brazil conducted by John Neshling, and with the Israel Philharmonic and Helmuth Rilling, et al.

Mr. Taylor began the 2007/08 season in performances of the Bach Mass in B Minor with the Akademie f��r Alte Musik Berlin, and touring the Britten War Requiem with Helmuth Rilling, appearing at the Rheingau Musikfestival, in Stuttgart, Leverkusen, and in Bonn at the Beethovenfest. Other engagements included Handel���s Messiah with the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Bach���s Mass in B Minor with the Los Angeles Chorale at Walt Disney Hall. Mr. Taylor sang an acclaimed Evangelist in the St. Matthew Passion with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, and Elijah with Mo. Rilling and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. He also made a return to the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for Britten���s Serenade for Tenor and Horn.

Other recent highlights include Mozart���s Betulia liberata with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Vienna and Dresden; Handel���s Messiah in Vienna with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and with Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart; Bach���s Christmas Oratorio in Hamburg; and a tour of Handel���s Solomon and Messiah with the RIAS Kammerchor in France and Portugal; The Creation with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall; Britten���s Horn Serenade in Linz and Ottawa; Bach���s Christmas Oratorio with the Beethovenhalle Orchestra in Bonn, Madrid and Barcelona; Mendelssohn���s Elijah with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt in Leipzig which was recorded for commercial release; Mozart's Requiem with the Detroit Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Bach���s Mass in B Minor with the Pittsburgh Symphony; a debut in Carnegie Hall in the world premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart���s Mass in C Minor and performances of Franz Schmidt's The Book of the Seven Seals with the Cleveland Orchestra.

A native of Houston, James Taylor attended Texas Christian University as a student of Arden Hopkin. A Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the Hochschule f��r Musik in Munich where he graduated in 1993 with a "Meisterklassendiplom." In May of 2005 The Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music announced the appointment of James Taylor in the Program in Early Music, Song, and Chamber Ensemble, as Associate Professor of Voice.

James Taylor can be heard on over 30 recordings. For H��nssler he has recorded Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St. John Passion and Handel���s Messiah with Helmuth Rilling. On the Harmonia Mundi label he has recorded Bach���s Easter Oratorio, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Mendelssohn's Paulus under Philippe Herreweghe. New releases include the Mozart Requiem with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra led by Andreas Delfs on Limestone Records, Beethoven���s Missa Solemnis with the Nashville Symphony on the Naxos label, and the rarely heard Baroque opera Ariadne by Johan Georg Conradi with the Boston Early Music Festival led by Paul O���Dette on ArkivMusik.

Aaron St. Clair Nicholson

Baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson has established himself as an artist of the first rank, winning praise for his superb vocal gifts and the dramatic integrity he brings to his performances. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman singled him out, noting that ����Ķas Ford, baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson gave a virtuosic display of vigorous full-throated singing and all out physical comedy.��� He made his Metropolitan Opera debut during the 2006-2007 season as Schaunard in LA BOHEME conducted by Domingo and followed those performances with Papageno in DIE ZAUBERFL��TE conducted by Levine. Further Met duties that season included his assignment as cover artist for the role of Clyde Griffeths in the world premiere of Tobias Picker���s AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. He was Figaro in IL BARBIERE DE SIVIGLIA for Florida Grand Opera and starred again as the wily barber in a new production of the Rossini masterpiece for Glimmerglass Opera. His 2006-2007 schedule also included the title role in DON GIOVANNI for L���Op��ra de Montr��al, Valentin in FAUST for Vancouver Opera, Mercutio in ROM��O ET JULIETTE for Opera Lyra, Ontario and Faur�����s REQUIEM for the Atlanta Symphony, a work he performed at Festival Lanaudiere in Qu��bec.

Nicholson opens his 2008-2009 season with Athana��l in THA��S for Pacific Opera Victoria and looks forward to Frederic in LAKM�� and the Count in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, both for Florida Grand Opera, and ILBARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA for Calgary Opera. On the concert circuit he will be heard in Britten���s WAR REQUIEM for Vancouver Symphony, MESSIAH with the Rochester Philharmonic and a concert performance of DIE LUSTIGE WITWE as Danilo for Kitchener���s Grand Philharmonic Choir.

The dashing baritone���s 2007-2008 season included Mozart���s roguish Don for New York City Opera, and later in the season he repeated the role for Ottawa���s Opera Lyra. He returned to l���Op��ra de Montr��al for IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Vancouver Opera for Marcello in LA BOHEME and was heard in Rochester in CARMINA BURANA and with the Vancouver Bach Choir in a new work commissioned from John Estacio.

An alumnus of the Glimmerglass and Merola programs for young artists, Nicholson starred in Glimmerglass Opera���s THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK as Lt. Lukash and was heard as Sonora in their production of LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST. Previous seasons have included Harlekin in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS and Ping in TURANDOT for L���Op��ra de Montr��al, Papageno in DIE ZAUBERFL��TE for Florida Grand Opera, and Charlie in Estacio���s FILUMENA at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He appeared with both Orchestra London and Brott Summer Music in CARMINA BURANA and with the Vancouver Bach Choir in MESSIAH and has been heard as Figaro in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA for Opera Ontario, Tarquinius in THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA for l���Op��ra de Montr��al, Mercutio in ROM��O ET JULIETTE for Florida Grand Opera and the Calgary Opera, and Escamillo in CARMEN for Pacific Opera Victoria.

The Abbotsford, British Columbia native is a graduate of the Resident Artist Training program at Tri-Cities Opera in New York where he appeared in a number of leading roles including Belcore in L���ELISIR D���AMORE, the title role in DON GIOVANNI, Dr. Falke in DIE FLEDERMAUS and Sharpless in MADAMA BUTTERFLY. Western Opera Theater chose him for the role of Guglielmo in Mozart���s COSI FAN TUTTE and he was also a member of Seattle Opera���s young artist program.

Orchestras in the United States and Canada have engaged Mr. Nicholson for major repertoire including ELIJAH, MESSIAH, and CARMINA BURANA as well as works by Faur�� and Vaughan Williams. The George London competition finalist has been heard with the Binghamton Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Bellevue Philharmonic, Victoria Capriccio, at the San Francisco Opera Center and with the Tri-Cities Opera Orchestra. Nicholson���s awards include the Richmond F. Gold Career Grant, the Karl Muller Performance Award, a career incentive grant from Seattle Opera and most recently, the Sullivan Foundation Award for role preparation assistance.

Vancouver Bach Choir

The Vancouver Bach Choir gave its first concert at the Orpheum in December 1930. During its long history, the choir has sung with such world-renowned conductors as Bruno Walter, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Zubin Mehta, Sir Arthur Bliss, Meredith Davies, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Simon Streatfeild, Andrew Davis and Simon Preston. Its present Music Director, Bruce Pullan, was appointed in 1983.

Since 1930, the Vancouver Bach Choir���s Canadian reputation has grown through numerous broadcasts by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, an Eastern Canadian tour in 1974 and the cross-Canada viewing of a television film of the Easter music from Handel���s Messiah.

During the seventies the Vancouver Bach Choir undertook two international tours, one to Holland and one to Poland and France. On both occasions the choir was awarded first place at international music festivals and gave numerous concerts including appearances at the Hague, Warsaw and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In 1978 the choir came first in the prestigious choral competition, Let the Peoples Sing, and was heard by a radio audience of 15 million people throughout the world.

In 1983 the choir took part in the Canadian Premiere of Mahler���s 8th Symphony with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Davis. Subsequently the choir sang ���Mahler���s 8th��� again with the TSO and gave the Western Canadian Premiere of the same piece with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Mario Bernardi. In 1986 the VBC���s Expo concert was made into a film ���Whalesong,��� for television, which has been shown all over the world and won a Gemini award.

In 1987 the choir toured England and Wales giving concerts in such prestigious venues as St. Martin in the Fields, St. Paul���s, Canterbury and Lincoln Cathedrals and the Llangollen International Festival where the concert with the BBC Welsh Orchestra was broadcast by the BBC.

In the Summer of 1989 the choir sang in the International Opera Festival���s production of Aida in both Vancouver and Tokyo and in the Summer of 1993 the Choir sang in both the 1993 International Choral Festival in Toronto and the World Symposium on Choral Music in Vancouver. In July 1997 the choir traveled to the UK for concerts in London and Oxford conducted by Bruce Pullan and a performance of Berlioz��� Damnation of Faust with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

In May 1997 the choir gave the world premiere of the oratorio Job by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at the opening of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC. The concert was recorded live and recently issued on CD by Collins Classics.

In Vancouver the Vancouver Bach Choir presents a series of concerts each Season and has been responsible for the British Columbia premiere of a number of major works including Rossini���s Stabat Mater, Fanshawe���s African Sanctus, Lloyd Webber���s Requiem, Mahler���s 8th Syrnphony, Paul McCartney���s Liverpool Oratorio, Berlioz��� Messe Solennelle and Penderecki���s Polish Requiem.

Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus

The Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus has been making beautiful music since 1984 under Music Director Bruce Pullan. As their program gradually expanded, Marisa Gaetanne joined the team and now conducts their youngest choirs. The VBCC encourages children to develop artistically and reap the many benefits of creative expression ��� from stronger academic performance to improved health and posture. The VBCC believes that encouraging children to sing in a choir teaches them how to demonstrate excellence as a group and provides them with the gift of music as a lifelong joy.

Holland America Line Launches New Employment Entertainment Website

HOLLAND AMERICA LINE LAUNCHES NEW ENTERTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT WEBSITE

Entertainment professionals can now access employment resources through new website

Seattle, WA, October 16, 2008 ��� Holland America Line announced today the launch of a new employee website for entertainment professionals interested in shipboard employment. The website provides in-depth job descriptions, requirements and links to application forms with an additional section for newly hired entertainment employees. Job listings are for performers, musicians, technicians and cruise staff.

���We designed this employee website to attract and retain skilled staff,��� said Bill Prince, director, entertainment for Holland America Line. ���This will appeal to more of the premium type of talent we want at our cruise line.���

Divided into five categories, the website provides a brief overview of each genre of entertainment with subdivisions for specific positions. Current job openings are listed under the application section while company and destination information are available through links at the bottom of the website.

With a creative team winning more Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar nominations than any other cruise line, Holland America Line���s entertainment department engages performers and other talent from two days to a renewing four-month contract. For more information, visit www.hollandamerica.com/entertainment.

Nov 25: Classical Recording Foundation 2008 Awards in New York at Carnegie Hall

Classical Recording Foundation Announces 2008 Award Winners

Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony & Benefit

Tuesday, November 25 at 8 pm

Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall

57th Street & 7th Avenue, NYC

Paul Chihara

CRF Composer of the Year

for Paul Chihara (Bridge 9267)

Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Classical Recording Foundation Award

for George Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra

(Bridge 9252) with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Justin Brown, conductor

Paula Robison, flute

Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award

for Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land (Picker Gallery ISBN: 1-879985-19-5)

Mikhail Simonyan, violin

CRF Young Artist of the Year

for Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Delos 3385)

What: Classical Recording Foundation 2008 Awards Ceremony & Benefit

Program: Performances by pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Paula Robinson,

violinist Mikhail Simonyan, and the Claremont Trio performing Paul Chihara's Ain't No Sunshine

When: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 8 pm

Where: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th Street & 7th Avenue, NYC)

Tickets & Information: $75 donation (Award Ceremony only) and $200+ donation (Award Ceremony and Reception). Call 914.738.8754 or visit www.classicalrecordingfoundation.org.

Praise for the Classical Recording Foundation:

"The Classical Recording Foundation (is) devoted to the proposition that posterity is despoiled when artists are

denied the chance to record their own interpretations of certain repertoire." ��� The New Yorker

October 22, 2008 ���New York, NY���The Classical Recording Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce the 2008 winners of its annual Classical Recording Foundation Awards ��� Paul Chihara, CRF Composer of the Year; pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, CRF Award; flutist Paula Robison, Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award; and Mikhail Simonyan, CRF Young Artist of the Year. The awards will be presented at the Foundation's Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall (57th Street & 7th Avenue, NYC). A benefit reception will follow.

The ceremony, for which the public may purchase tickets, will feature performances by the award winners, with the Claremont Trio (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, 'cello; Donna Kwong, piano) performing Paul Chihara's Ain't No Sunshine. Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott will play Gershwin's Piano Preludes. Flutist Paula Robison (collaborating with violinist Adam Abeshouse, pianist Steve Beck, and guitarist Fred Hand) will present a range of music from Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land. A trip to Jerusalem with painter Jim Schantz including Shall We Gather at the River, The King of Love My Shepherd Is, plus the New York premiere of Blue by Bruce Stark. Violinist Mikhail Simonyan will perform Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No 2.

Paul Chihara, the CRF Composer of the Year, will be honored for his self-titled Bridge Records release. The album features his trio Ain't No Sunshine (2006) for piano, violin and 'cello; Piano Quintet ("La Foce") (2007); Minidoka (1996) for clarinet, viola, harp and percussion; and his orchestral work An Afternoon on the Perfume River (2002). Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed writes: "It is almost easier to think of Paul Chihara as several different composers. There is the Chihara whose sensitivity to exquisite instrumental color has made him a favorite with such performers as conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Sequoia String Quartet. There is, however, a strong theatrical side to Chihara which expresses itself in works for dance, musical theater and film. And there is Chihara's love for American popular music of the 30s and 40s." Many of these traits are evident in this panoramic survey of Paul Chihara's recent chamber and orchestral music: The piano trio Ain't No Sunshine is based on a blues ballad; Piano Quintet is based on an Italian WWII diary; Minidoka is based on Chihara's memories of his childhood years spent at the American WWII camp for Japanese Americans, Minidoka; and An Afternoon on the Perfume River, commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, takes its title from a poem by a North Vietnamese poet.

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott will receive the CRF Award for her recent release, George Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra, a collaboration with conductor Justin Brown and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer writes that in the recording, "McDermott finds little worlds of meaning in every phrase," while All Music Guide notes that "McDermott is simply awesome," and that the album is "outstanding in every respect." The disc was chosen as an Editor's Choice by Gramophone, and in an October 2008 review, the magazine noted that the performances "fly off the page with verve and confidence, rhythmic precision and real style."

The recipient of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award is flutist Paula Robison. She receives the honor in support of her Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land. A trip to Jerusalem with painter Jim Schantz, a book of images and CD of music inspired by her spring 2005 journey. It was released by Boston's Pucker Gallery in April 2008. Ms. Robison is "a rare artist who can make the flute sound both sensuous and classically pure . . . an absolute wonder," according to The New York Times. One of her favorite continuing projects is With Art, collaborations with visual artists in unusual spaces.

The 2008 winner of the CRF Young Artist of the Year Award is violinist Mikhail Simonyan. He receives the award for his debut recording of the Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano, with Alexei Podkorytov, to be released by Delos in January 2009. The Miami Herald declared, "Mikhail Simonyan . . . played with the poise, perfection and inner burning fire of a master like David Oistrakh ��� in his prime on a good night." Performing and recording both Prokofiev Violin Sonatas is an undertaking near and dear to Mr. Simonyan's heart. He worked intensely on this repertoire with his mentor, violinist Victor Danchenko, a student of the great David Oistrakh for whom both sonatas were written.

The Classical Recording Foundation applies the universal model of philanthropically-supported live concerts to the recording of new classical performances. Since 2002, when it was founded by Grammy Award winning producer Adam Abeshouse, it has supported more than 20 new recordings. Each Award is tied to a fund administered by the Foundation and the participating record company, to accomplish the tasks of recording and promoting the awardee's recording project. The Award selection process begins with nominations by internationally renowned artists and scholars. Nominees are considered by an anonymous Grant Award Committee, which annually decides on the recipients and Award amounts. Criteria for Classical Recording Foundation Awards include artistic merit of the project, historic significance, strategic value to the artist's career, and breadth of interest.

2008 has been an exciting year for the Classical Recording Foundation and its award recipients from previous years. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who was honored in 2006 and 2007, recently received the prestigious Diapason D'or Award for her Bach Goldberg Variations recording. Cellist Zuill Bailey, also honored in 2006 and 2007, signed an exclusive record contract with Telarc, and will soon be releasing a recording of the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Cello Concerti, supported by CRF with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Last year's CRF Composer of the Year, Justin Dello Joio, has been commissioned to write a piano concerto for Garrick Ohlsson. CRF, in collaboration with Bridge records, received its first Latin Grammy Nomination for Best Contemporary Composition for Barcelonazo, music for orchestra by Jorge Liderman. The Foundation was fortunate to receive a Copland Grant that provided partial funding of this recording. In 2008, CRF was awarded three Aaron Copland Grants, an Argosy Grant, and received continued support from the National Endowment for the Arts for its work on a new DVD release about eminent American composer George Crumb.

Artists who have benefited from CRF's support in previous years include the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Kalish-Krosnick Duo, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Anne-Marie McDermott, Benita Valente, The Juilliard String Quartet, Andres D��az, Judith Gordon, George Crumb, the Harmonie Ensemble, Paul Moravec, Inon Barnatan, Stephen Jaffe, Benjamin Verdery, Giora Schmidt, Rohan De Silva, Simone Dinnerstein, Zuill Bailey, The Daedalus String Quartet, Michael Harrison, Vassily Primakov, Justin Dello Joio, and Richard Wernick.

CRF does not benefit from record sales or royalties, and depends entirely on support from generous individuals and corporations, as well as merit-based grants from public and private sources. The Classical Recording Foundation gives American classical artists means to record music about which they are passionate.

Classical Recording Foundation Board Members include Robert W. Jones; Dr. Julius H. Jacobson II, MD; Neil Yelsey,; Dimitri Sogoloff; and Adam Abeshouse, producer. The proceeds from the 2008 Classical Recording Foundation Award Ceremony and Benefit will go toward making the 2009 Awards possible.

November at The RCM

A NEW ERA FOR THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY

The Royal Concert Season 08.09

Features an Expanded Program of Spectacular Performances

This fall, The Royal Conservatory (RCM) returned home to the spectacular new TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning! With its beautifully restored Ihnatowycz Hall, gorgeous concert venues, state-of-the-art technology, and academic spaces, the new Centre will expand the global reach of the RCM's innovative programs and allow for Canada's greatest artists and emerging performers to be showcased in exciting new ways.

Designed as a musical celebration of the Conservatory's return home, The Royal Concert Season features a greatly expanded Great Artists Series, World Music Concerts, Royal Conservatory Orchestra series, Rising Stars Series, and the free Master Class Series, featuring performances of opera, orchestral and chamber music, and recitals.

"This concert season heralds a new era in our history, as we open our spectacular new home," said Dr. Peter Simon, President of The Royal Conservatory of Music. "It reflects our legacy of diversity, artistry and excellence, and is a terrific opportunity to experience performances by our accomplished students - the next generation of Canadian talent - as well as our extraordinary faculty and acclaimed guest artists."

In November, cross cultural borders and discover the RCM's World Music Concerts. George Gao, pioneer of new music for the erhu, often referred to as a "Chinese fiddle", will play on November 6, and Aditya Verma, a charismatic young sarod player, (the sarod is a stringed musical instrument, used mainly in Indian classical music) will appear on November 20.

The Great Artists Series, which opened in September with a sold out inaugural concert conducted by Maestro Mario Bernardi, continues with ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory) on November 7 with a very special concert, Music in Exile, featuring the music of composers who resisted the Nazi regime. Martin Beaver, First Violin of the Tokyo String Quartet, and pianist Li Wang will present a program of Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, and Prokofiev on November 14. And, Juno award-winner, harpist Judy Loman, and Principal Flute of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Nora Schulman, will charm audiences with a showcase of stunning works on November 23.

One of the best kept secrets at the RCM are the free concerts and events, and November is full of them! On November 12 students of the Vocal Department of the Glenn Gould School will be featured in a GGS Vocal Showcase. The Master Class Series, which offers audience members a unique opportunity to observe great artists in the process of teaching young musicians, as well as a glimpse into the personalities of these extraordinary musicians, is an experience not to be missed. The following internationally acclaimed artists will be conducting master classes: Martin Beaver (violin) on November 13, Michael Mermagen (cello) on November 14, Marc Durand (piano) on November 21, Mimi Zweig (violin) on November 28, and finally Stuart Hamilton (voice)

also on November 28.

November also sees the first of a free 5-part lecture series given by the internationally renowned Beethoven interpreter, pianist Anton Kuerti. Each of his 90-minute lecture-demonstrations will be dedicated to one of the five Beethoven Piano Concertos. The first lecture takes place on Friday, November 28 at 2pm.

Capping the music-filled month of November is the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, one of North America's finest training ensembles, who will perform on November 20, conducted by Yoav Talmi and featuring 2006 GGS Concerto Competition winner Sonia Sielaff (clarinet). The program will include Mahler, Strauss, and Neilsen's Clarinet Concerto.

Since it was founded in 1886, The Royal Conservatory has been a leader in music and arts education, and has played a central role in developing a uniquely Canadian culture. Today, the RCM continues to cultivate the next Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, and Teresa Stratas.

THE ROYAL CONCERT SEASON - November 2008

George Gao, erhu (World Music Concerts): Thursday, November 6 at 7:30pm

ARC Music in Exile (Great Artists Series): Friday, November 7 at 8pm

Students of the GGS Vocal Department (GGS Vocal Showcase): Wed, November 12 at 8pm*

Martin Beaver, violin (GGS Master Class Series): Thursday, November 13 at 6pm*

Michael Mermagen, cello (GGS Master Class Series): Friday, November 14 at 10am and 5pm*

Martin Beaver, violin, and Li Wang, piano (Great Artists Series): Friday, November 14 at 8pm

Aditya Verma, sarod (World Music Concerts): Thursday, November 20 at 7:30pm

Yoav Talmi, conductor, and Sonia Sielaff, clarinet (Royal Conservatory Orchestra):

Thursday, November 20 at 8pm

Marc Durand, piano (GGS Master Class Series): Friday, November 21 time TBA*

Judy Loman, harp, and Nora Schulman, flute (Great Artists Series): Sunday, November 23 at 2pm

Mimi Zweig, violin (GGS Master Class Series): Friday, November 28 time TBA*

Anton Kuerti, piano (GGS Lecture Series): Friday, November 28 2pm*

Stuart Hamilton, voice (GGS Master Class Series): Friday, November 28 time TBA*

Tickets $20.00 - $30.00, students $10

Tickets available online at www.rcmusic.ca, by calling 416-408-2824 X321,

or at the door at the RCM, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto

* Free event

All events, except for the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, will take place at the Conservatory's new home, the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West.

The Royal Conservatory Orchestra performs at the George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. For tickets visit www.ticketmaster.ca or call 416.872.1111.

More information about the 2008-2009 Concert Season is available on The Royal Conservatory website at www.rcmusic.ca.

Le Cin��ma Ex-Centris accueille Dominic Champagne et Adrian Willis!

LE CIN��MA EX-CENTRIS ACCUEILLE

DOMINIC CHAMPAGNE ET ADRIAN WILLS!

VENEZ LES RENCONTRER LE VENDREDI 24 OCTOBRE apr��s la s��ance de 19H30

BILLETS EN VENTE D��S MAINTENANT

Montr��al, le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 ��� Pour souligner la sortie en salle du documentaire ALL TOGETHER NOW, du r��alisateur canadien Adrian Wills, une rencontre exceptionnelle sera offerte au grand public le vendredi 24 octobre apr��s la s��ance de 19h30 au Cin��ma Ex-Centris (3536 boul. St-Laurent). Les cin��philes sont invit��s �� assister �� une rencontre unique. Au menu : la pr��sentation du film All Together Now suivi d'une discussion avec le r��alisateur Adrian Wills et Dominic Champagne, qui a con��u et mis en sc��ne �� Love ��, le plus r��cent spectacle permanent du Cirque du Soleil �� Las Vegas!

Les cin��philes sont invit��s �� acheter d��s maintenant leur billets pour assister �� cette activit�� pr��sent��e exclusivement le vendredi 24 octobre �� la s��ance de 19h30! En vente �� la billetterie d'Ex-Centris situ��e au 3536 boul. St-Laurent. Le film prend l'affiche au Cin��ma Ex-Centris d��s le 24 octobre en version originale anglaise avec sous-titres fran��ais.

Vibrez au rythme de All Together Now qui nous fait revivre la fascinante aventure de la rencontre entre les Beatles et le Cirque du Soleil autour de la cr��ation de �� LOVE ��, le spectacle toujours couru de l'h��tel The Mirage �� Las Vegas, et de l'album ��ponyme r��cipiendaire de deux Grammy. Ce jeune r��alisateur ayant d��j�� plusieurs making of du Cirque �� son actif, am��nera jusqu'�� vous l'histoire de cette collaboration mythique, avec tout ce qu'elle a de juteux et de croustillant. D��couvrez comment George Harrison et Guy Lalibert�� ont transform�� une simple id��e en une vaste entreprise artistique. Un voyage dans lequel on suit pas �� pas le spectacle, de sa cr��ation �� la grande premi��re. Il met en vedette Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, Yoko Ono et Olivia Harrison de m��me que George et Giles Martin et les cr��ateurs du Cirque.

Auteur, metteur en sc��ne et directeur artistique du Th����tre Il va sans dire, Dominic Champagne a ��crit et mis en sc��ne une dizaine de cr��ations, dont Vacarme, Cabaret perdu (collectif), La caverne, L'Asile, Don Quichotte (avec Wajdi Mouawad), Korsakov, Lolita et Cabaret neiges noires (en collaboration). Mentionnons ��galement son adaptation de L'Odyss��e, d'apr��s Hom��re, avec Alexis Martin, qu'il a remarquablement mis en sc��ne. Pour le Cirque du Soleil, il a mis en sc��ne le magnifique spectacle Varekai dont les repr��sentations en tourn��e nord-am��ricaine ravissent le public et recueillent les ��loges de la critique. Puis, en collaboration avec Ren�� Richard Cyr, il a fait la conception et la mise en sc��ne de Zumanity avant de travailler, seul cette fois, �� la conception et la mise en sc��ne de Love, le plus r��cent spectacle permanent du Cirque du Soleil �� Las Vegas. Il oeuvre pr��sentement �� la pr��paration de nouveaux spectacles dont Paradis perdu, en collaboration avec le biologiste et cin��aste, Jean Lemire.

Informations pour le grand public : (514) 847-2206 ou www.ex-centris.com

Prochains concerts en Novembre

Prochains concerts en novembre Montr��al, le 22 octobre 2008 ��� L���Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montr��al annonce un automne vibrant, une saison festive et comm��morative; une 25e saison concoct��e par Maestro Yuli Turovsky. Tout d���abord, pour le premier concert de novembre, Au commencement�Ķ une soir��e ��voquant les d��buts de l���orchestre. Puis, place aux d��couvertes avec ��toiles du futur, un concert regroupant de tr��s jeunes solistes du Qu��bec et de l���Ontario. Et pour le dernier concert du mois, la fabuleuse Kim Yaroshevskaya racontera Des b��tes pas si b��tes, des contes musicaux irr��sistibles pour les petits et grands. S��RIE CENTRE-VILLE AU COMMENCEMENT�Ķ Mercredi 5 novembre 2008, 20 h, salle Pollack Au commencement�Ķ en 1983. Retour aux sources, brin de nostalgie et clin d����il vers le pass��. Afin d���voquer les d��buts de l���ensemble, I Musici interpr��tera �� nouveau les premi��res ��uvres de son r��pertoire et les tr��s �� propos Variations sur Happy Birthday de Peter Heidrich. Au programme de la soir��e, entre autres, les Concerti grossi de H��ndel qui comptent parmi les ��uvres les plus r��ussies en mati��re de musique instrumentale. Rappelons que L���Orchestre I Musici a re��u une Rosette du Penguin Guide, en 1992, pour son enregistrement de ces Concerti grossi attribuant �� cette version la cote d���enregistrement de r��f��rence. Direction : Yuli Turovsky S��RIE OGILVY ��TOILES DU FUTUR Jeudi et vendredi 13 et 14 novembre 2008, 11 h et 17 h 45, salle Tudor du magasin Ogilvy Pour une troisi��me ann��e cons��cutive, Maestro Yuli Turovsky nous pr��sente quelques musiciens de la tr��s jeune rel��ve. Des solistes laur��ats de nombreux prix, ��g��s de quinze ans et moins, et qui assument d��j�� une jeune notori��t�� dans le paysage musical. Le moment fort du programme sera sans conteste la prestation de Juan Sebast��an Blanco, un jeune harpiste ��tudiant au Conservatorio de la Universidad Nacional en Colombie. Maestro Yuli Turovsky rencontra, en janvier dernier, le jeune virtuose �� l���occasion du Festival international de musique de Carthag��ne de 2008 lors des prestations de L���Orchestre I Musici. Solistes : Juan Sebast��an Blanco, harpe (15 ans) Kerson Leong, violon (11 ans) Stanley Leong, violoncelle (13 ans) Bryan Chen, violoncelle (11 ans) Direction : Yuli Turovsky et St��phane T��treault (15 ans) S��RIE PICCOLI �� Il existe une f��e au Qu��bec, �� la voix d���ange, Kim Yaroshevskaya (�Ķ) C���est notre matriochka nationale, celle qui nous offre sur fond de tradition russe, des ��ufs de P��ques finement cisel��s. Ce sont des bijoux d���invention racont��s par notre Comtesse de S��gur �� la beaut�� imp��riale, qui a su adapter nos r��ves aux siens, par la langue et par la sensibilit��. �� Jacques H��tu, ResMusica, 2006 DES B��TES PAS SI B��TES�Ķ Dimanche 16 novembre 2008, 14 h 30, salle Tudor du magasin Ogilvy ��labor��e selon une approche multidisciplinaire ��� chaque concert interpelle une discipline artistique diff��rente ��� la s��rie Piccoli suscite l���veil musical chez les enfants de cinq ans et plus. Pour ce second concert de la s��rie, la conteuse notoire Kim Yaroshevskaya racontera pour notre plus grand plaisir quelques histoires de b��tes. Ces derni��res ann��es, Kim Yaroshevskaya a particip�� �� divers projets musicaux. En plus d���avoir enregistr�� plusieurs histoires de b��tes que l���auteure d��signe de �� contes philosophiques ��, la com��dienne a collabor�� �� plusieurs cr��ations musicales des Musici. Direction : Airat Ichmouratov Animatrice et conceptrice de la s��rie : Suzanne De Serres 2008-2009 : 25e saison de l���Orchestre I Musici Pour conna��tre la programmation ou encore pour se procurer la brochure de saison, communiquez avec notre service �� la client��le, par t��l��phone au 514 982-6038 ou par courriel �� l���adresse info@imusi.com. Pour ��tre au fait des derni��res nouvelles de l���Orchestre, visitez notre site Internet : www.imusici.com Concerts in November Montr��al, October 22, 2008 ��� L���Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montr��al begins a vibrant autumn with a touch of festivities and memories ��� and a 25th anniversary season concocted by Maestro Yuli Turovsky. First of all, In the Beginning�Ķ an evening that will evoke memories of the orchestra���s first concerts. Then the spotlight turns on the Stars of the Future, a concert in which young soloists from Quebec and Ontario will be featured along with a special young guest from Columbia. And, as always, young people will not be overlooked with our popular Piccoli Series. �� I Musici de Montr��al propose another smashing season. �� Entertainment Spotlight, CTV, October, 2008 DOWNTOWN SERIES IN THE BEGINNING�Ķ Wednesday November 5, 2008, 8 pm in Pollack Hall In the beginning�Ķ in 1983. A return to the source, a touch of nostalgia and a nod to the past. To evoke the very beginnings of the ensemble, I Musici will perform the first works of its repertoire along with the very clever, amusing and �� propos Variations on Happy Birthday by Peter Heidrich. Included in the program are Handel���s Concerti grossi, some of the greatest instrumental works ever written for orchestra. I Musici received a Rosette from the Penguin Guide in 1992 and named the Concerti grossi on the recording as a reference for these works. Maestro Turovsky���s important connection to the world of Shostakovitch has also been a feature of I Musici���s repertoire from the very beginning. Conductor : Yuli Turovsky OGILVY SERIES STARS OF THE FUTURE Thursday and Friday, November 13 and 14, 11 am and 5:45 pm, Ogilvy Tudor Hall For the third consecutive year, Maestro Yuli Turovsky presents several up and coming but very young musicians. The soloists have already won many prizes and are all 15 years old or younger. Many are already making a mark in the musical world and, without a doubt, one of the highlights of the program will be Juan Sebast��an Blanco, a young harpist studying at the Conservatorio de la Universdad Nacional in Colombia. Last January, Maestro Yuli Turovsky met this young virtuoso during the Cartagena International Music Festival to which I Musici was invited in 2008. Soloist s: Juan Sebast��an Blanco, harp (15 years) Kerson Leong, violin (11 years) Stanley Leong, cello (13 years) Bryan Chen, cello (11 years) Conductors: Yuli Turovsky and St��phane T��treault (15 years) PICCOLI SERIES SOME PRETTY SMART ANIMALS�Ķ (IN FRENCH) Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 2:30 pm, Ogilvy Tudor Hall Created as a multidisciplinary approach (each concert calls upon a different artistic discipline) the Piccoli Series awakens the musical curiosity of children from five years old and up. For the second concert of the series, one of Quebec���s most beloved story tellers, Kim Yaroshevskaya will tell us delightful stories about various creatures. Over the last several years Kim Yaroshevskaya has participated in many musical projects. As well as recording numerous stories about animals, which the author has called ���philosophical stories���, she has also collaborated in several musical creations with I Musici. Conductor: Airat Ichmouratov Host and series concept: Suzanne De Serres 2008-2009: 25th Season of l���Orchestre I Musici To know our program or to receive a season brochure, telephone client services at 514 982-6038 or write by e-mail at info@imusi.com. To learn all the latest news on the orchestra, visit our web site at www.imusici.com .

Spectacles �� L'Intendant

Mardi 22 OCTOBRE 2008

R��servations:

418-692-6666

1-888-909-6666

www.intendant.net

Cette semAINE

ALIX RENAUD "D��sirs"
Po��mes et chansons en fran��ais, cr��ole, espagnol et italien

Samedi 25 octobre 20 hrs
18$

Avec la participation de Jeannot Turcotte (piano) et de Jean-Michel Borgeat (guitare)
Invit��e sp��ciale : Patricia Morasse (du groupe Melao)
Le voici de retour �� L'Intendant, celui que les critiques pr��sentent tour �� tour comme ��un po��te hypnotisant�� , ��une voix qui envo��te�� , ��l'homme qui a le don des mots�� !
Po��te et auteur d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages publi��s au Qu��bec et en France (po��sie, romans, nouvelles et dictionnaires sp��cialis��s), ALIX RENAUD figure dans plusieurs anthologies et ouvrages de r��f��rence tels que l'Anthologie Po��sie vivante, le Dictionnaire des ��crivains qu��b��cois, le Dictionnaire des ��uvres litt��raires, pour ne citer que ceux-l��. Diseur, il se produit sur sc��ne depuis de nombreuses ann��es, au pays comme �� l'��tranger (r��citals de po��mes et de chansons en fran��ais, cr��ole, espagnol et italien). Laur��at du prix Charles-Biddle 2007 (Prix qu��b��cois de la citoyennet��).
ALIX RENAUD vous convie une fois de plus �� l'un de ces petits tours du monde dont il a le secret. Son nouveau spectacle aborde sous tous les angles ce moteur affectif qu'on appelle le d��sir et se veut, comme les pr��c��dents, un hommage �� diff��rents auteurs d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, d'Europe et des Am��riques.

Site de l'artiste : http://www3.sympatico.ca/alix.renaud

�� VENIR

CONCERT
Gilles Roucaute et Fran��ois Verguet
Vendredi 7 novembre 20h
12$

Gilles Roucaute est n�� �� Montr��al. Il grandit �� Marseille.
A Brest, Poznan (Pologne), Marseille, Annecy ou Paris, il est successivement ing��nieur t��l��coms, intervenant en milieu carc��ral, animateur associatif et directeur de service ��ducatif. Il se d��cide �� proposer ses nombreuses chansons sur sc��ne en 2001.
Roucaute a donn�� plus de 200 concerts, tous spectacles confondus.

Pour plus d'infos sur Gilles Roucaute:
http://roucaut.club.fr/index.htm
http://www.myspace.com/roucaute

�� Fran��ois Verguet n'est pas un guitariste. Il est mieux que ��a : un musicien qui joue de la guitare et sert les projets auxquels il se d��die avec une virtuosit�� discr��te et une grande humilit��. Et voil�� que ces qualit��s se font chanson. Des chansons de d��butant-en-��criture ��tonnantes de maturit��, de justesse et de sensibilit��. Qui nous touchent �� coeur, comme le faisait d��j�� sa musique. Avec lui sur sc��ne, il a trouv�� mieux que des accompagnateurs ; des complices, des fr��res d'��tat-civil et de voyage, des amis de musique. Ca groove comme du rock, ��a nous ��meut comme de la chanson. C'est du Fran��ois Verguet. ��
Gilles Roucaute

Pour plus d'infos sur Fran��ois Verguet:
http://www.francoisverguet.com
http://www.myspace.com/francoisverguet

Marc Chabot GROUPE D'��CRITURE
Pour qui : Paroliers, Auteurs compositeurs.
Mercredi 12 novembre, Mercredi 10 d��cembre,
Mercredi 14 janvier 2009, Mercredi 11 f��vrier 2009
De 19h00 �� 22h00
Co��t : Membre de la SPACQ* Gratuit
Non-membre: 30$ pour les quatre ateliers
*Soci��t�� professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Qu��bec

Rencontres mensuelles abordant des approches vari��es en mati��re de processus cr��atif.
Tant��t bas��e sur l'exploration et les jeux d'��criture, tant��t sur les contraintes et la structure, chaque rencontre abordera un angle ou un th��me distinctif. L'animateur (ou un invit��) ouvrira la rencontre avec un bref expos�� sur un aspect du travail cr��atif, pour ensuite d��payser nos imaginaires au moyen d'exercices d��clencheurs.
Invit�� : Alain Mass�� (sera pr��sent �� l'une des quatre rencontres, date �� d��terminer)
LE PARTICIPANT S'INSCRIT POUR L'ENSEMBLE DE CES 4 RENCONTRES
Nombre d'ateliers: 4 soir��es - 1 par mois. Modalit�� d'inscription : Par courriel �� sthibault@spacq.qc.ca
Bien y indiquer le titre de la formation �� laquelle vous d��sirez participer.
Premier arriv��, premier servi. PLACES LIMIT��ES : 12 participants.
site internet de la SPACQ http://spacq.qc.ca

Alexandre Belliard Pi��ge �� con et Demain�Ķla peur
Vendredi 21 novembre 20 hrs
18$

Alexandre est de retour �� L'Intendant pour pr��senter les pi��ces de ses albums, ainsi que des textes de son recueil de po��sie ��Tu cours apr��s les pigeons�� paru en mars dernier.
En primeur�Ķ. Quelques chansons de son album �� venir!!!

Site officiel: http://www.alexandrebelliard.com
Son myspace: http://www.myspace.com/alexandrebelliard

Josianne Paradis
jeudi 27 novembre 20 h
vendredi 28 novembre 20 h
Prix des billets :
1 entr��e : 12$,
1 entr��e + 1 CD : 20$
1 entr��e + 2 CD : 30$

Le 3 septembre 2008, Josianne Paradis lan��ait son 1er album, ��ponyme, devant 300 journalistes, fans et amis au Lion d'or, �� Montr��al. Salu�� par la critique et le public, le CD se tient en palmar��s chez les disquaires et tourne de plus en plus. La premi��re montr��alaise du concert a lieu le 15 novembre dans le cadre de Coup de coeur francophone. Puis, deux soirs �� Qu��bec et ... bient��t chez vous !
En sc��ne, l'auteure-compositeure laur��ate de Petite-Vall��e propose une chanson pop sans fond de teint -- elle et son band forme un quartet du tonnerre ! L'invitation : paroles et musiques d'une fille allum��e et rieuse qui se colletaille avec la vie, sourire aux l��vres et c��ur dans la main. Josianne, c'est comme des feux de Bengale un soir de f��te : lumineux et p��tillant ! Les textes : tendresse et humour dans un style frais, vrai, qui fait du bien!
Avec ses musiciens: Benoit Paradis, trombone/trompette et percussions Yannick Parent, batterie Maxime Rouleau, guitares et basse

Une belle soir��e pour d��couvrir ou red��couvrir l'univers musical de Josianne Paradis.

site officiel: http://josianneparadis.com
son myspace: http://www.myspace.com/josianneparadis

Osmosa��c

Yume

Osmosa��c en premiere partie
Yume en deuxieme partie
samedi 29 novembre 20h
10$

La musique d'Osmosa��c se situe quelque part entre la chanson et le folk aux accents progressifs, celtiques et m��di��vaux. Le duo propose un univers o�� s'entrelacent guitares acoustiques et riches harmonies vocales.
Site officiel: http://www.osmosaic.com
Leur myspace : http://www.myspace.com/osmosaic

YUME
Yume nous ouvre la porte d'un r��ve qui puise son inspiration au coeur d'un quotidien v��cu au Qu��bec et au Japon. De Montr��al �� Kyoto, en passant par le toit de l'a��roport de Kobe, ils ont visit�� plusieurs sc��nes in��dites et toujours chaleureuses.
Cette fois, c'est �� Qu��bec que le duo renouvelle le plaisir en nous invitant �� venir
partager leur r��pertoire d'ici et d'ailleurs
Site officiel: http://www.yume.qc.ca

Cin��-Kid, de retour d��s le 2 novembre au Cin��ma Ex-Centris!

Cin��-Kid, le grand ��cran des petits et grands

De retour d��s le 2 novembre au cin��ma Ex-Centris

franz et le chef d'orchestre (uzi et lotta geffenblad)

la reine soleil (philippe leclerc)

la v��ritable histoire du p��re no�� l (juha wuolijoki)

le bal des lucioles et autres courts (dace riduze, marie brinkmanis, eval lacis)

la travers��e du temps (mamoru hosoda)

max minsky et moi (anna justice) - FIlm SURPRISE!

Montr��al, le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 ��� Initiation �� la d��couverte du 7^e Art, Cin��-Kid, le grand ��cran des petits et grands, pr��sent�� au Cin��ma Ex-Centris, est le rendez-vous des cin��philes en herbe. Ce rendez-vous cin��matographique jeune public et familiale est un ��v��nement incontournable pr��sent�� les dimanches d��s le 2 novembre. Pens�� et con��u pour les enfants et adolescents de 3 �� 15 ans, Cin��-Kid s'adresse bien s��r �� toutes les g��n��rations d'amateurs de cin��ma, se voulant avant tout un moment ludique, qui cr��e un contexte favorable �� la d��couverte et �� la sensibilisation �� un cin��ma diff��rent de l'offre commerciale habituelle. Pour l'ann��e 2008-2009, ce sont sept films qu'auront �� d��couvrir les cin��philes, petits et grands. Alertez les voisins, amenez grand-m��re chez le coiffeur, habillez les enfants, les dimanches en famille seront d��sormais le clou de la semaine! La saison 2008-2009 est pr��sent��e en collaboration avec le journal M��tro qui s'associe fi��rement �� Cin��-Kid pour une troisi��me ann��e cons��cutive.

UNE CARTE-FAMILLE EN VENTE D��S LE 31 OCTOBRE!

�� la demande g��n��rale, la Carte-famille permettant de profiter de trois (3) s��ances au choix de la programmation Cin��-Kid 2008-2009, valide pour trois (3) personnes �� la fois, sera mise en vente d��s le 31 octobre. Co��t exceptionnel de 50 $ taxes incluses, une ��conomie de plus de 20 % sur le prix des billets achet��s individuellement!

Franz et le chef d'orchestre (d��s 4 ans)

Les dimanches 2, 9 et 16 novembre �� 13h

Franz accompagne son p��re chef d'orchestre �� une colonie musicale d'��t��. Il aimerait jouer d'un instrument mais il est encore trop petit. C'est pourtant lui qui, pour sauver le concert, viendra au secours du soliste victime de la m��chancet�� des autres enfants. En musique, les histoires vont se nouer autour de ce trio en passant du rire aux larmes. Cette courte histoire de tol��rance, sans violence, sans trop d'action, mais fra��che et joliment touchante devrait ��mouvoir les ch��rubins les plus curieux. Un film d'animation de Uzi et Lotta Geffenblad. Pr��sent�� en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 46 minutes.

La Reine Soleil (d��s 8 ans)

Les dimanches 23, 30 novembre + 7 d��cembre �� 13h

La Reine Soleil est un long m��trage d'animation fran��ais librement inspir�� du roman de Christian Jacq. Le film met en sc��ne le voyage initiatique de la jeune Akhesa, ravissante princesse de 14 ans, fille du pharaon Akhenaton. L'adolescente est d��cid��e �� d��couvrir pourquoi sa m��re, la reine Nefertiti, est en exil sur l'��le El��phantine. Avec le jeune prince Thout, elle fuit et d��couvre un complot visant son p��re. Avec leur innocence comme seule arme, Akhesa et Thout surmonteront de nombreuses ��preuves et conna��tront ensemble un destin extraordinaire. Une aventure historique et pleine de dangers. Un film de Philippe Leclerc pr��sent�� en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 77 minutes.

La v��ritable histoire du P��re No��l (d��s 6 ans)

Le 14 d��cembre + 21 d��cembre au 4 janvier �� 13h

Qui n'a jamais r��v�� de vouloir conna��tre la vraie histoire du P��re No��l�Ķ La voici !

Il ��tait une fois en Laponie, un petit gar��on nomm�� Nikolas. �� la veille de No��l, il perd sa famille dans un tragique accident. Les villageois d��cident de s'occuper du petit orphelin �� tour de r��le. Pour les remercier, Nikolas fabrique des jouets pour les enfants du village. �� treize ans, il est envoy�� chez un vieux charpentier grincheux pour qui il travaille. Avec le temps, apporter des jouets le matin de No��l est devenu une tradition mais, un jour, ce beau projet est mis en p��ril. Heureusement, Nikolas trouve une id��e g��niale qui apportera la joie de No��l �� tous les enfants et ce, encore aujourd'hui�Ķ Un film de Juha Wuolijoki pr��sent�� en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 83 minutes.

Le bal des lucioles et autres courts (d��s 3 ans)

Les dimanches 11, 18 et 25 janvier �� 13h

Le bal des lucioles et autres courts est id��al pour faire ses premiers pas dans une salle de cin��ma et ��veillera les petits �� de nouvelles ��motions et d��couvertes. Ces quatre (4) courts-m��trages nous racontent, avec beaucoup de fantaisie, les aventures de toutes sortes d'insectes qui vivent un peu comme des ��tres humains. En effet, ils vont �� l'��cole ou se prom��nent en famille. Rien de bien extravagant. Mais leur vie est tout de m��me bien color��e ! Surtout lorsque des lucioles dansent au clair de lune. Et que dire d'une petite chenille qui joue du violon pour app��ter l'ennemi ou d'une mouche qui porte une perruque et se met du rouge �� l��vre ! Le bal des lucioles et autres courts sont de jolies variations sur la nature et le monde vivant qui s'y cache. Avec des inventions visuelles ��tonnantes, des marionnettes attachantes et beaucoup d'humour, la vie quotidienne de cette faune invisible est d��crite pour le plus grand plaisir des petits et des grands. Des films d'animation r��alis��s par Dace Riduze, Marie Brinkmanis, Evald Lacis et pr��sent��s en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 42 minutes.

Max Minsky et moi (d��s 11 ans)

Les dimanches 1^er, 8 et 15 f��vrier �� 13h

Ce long m��trage de fiction raconte l'histoire de Nelly, une petite �� bol��e �� qui adore les livres et idol��tre le prince du Luxembourg, qui partage sa passion pour l'espace. Lorsqu'elle apprend que l'��quipe de basket-ball de son ��cole se rendra au Luxembourg pour une comp��tition, elle d��cide de se joindre �� eux. Elle prend une entente avec Max, un as du basket de 16 ans : Nelly fait les devoirs de Max, qui, en ��change, lui montre comment jouer au basket-ball. Un film de Anna Justice pr��sent�� en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 94 minutes.

La travers��e du temps (d��s 10 ans)

Les dimanches 22 f��vrier + 8 et 15 mars �� 13h

Semaine de rel��che : du 1^er au 7 mars �� 13h

Tir�� du livre ��ponyme de Yasutaka TsuTsui, La Travers��e du temps a connu nombre d'adaptations au cin��ma ou �� la t��l��vision. Mamoru Hosoda (Digimon, the movie) situe son action dans l'��poque contemporaine et livre un film moins na��f qu'il n'y para��t. Makoto est une jeune lyc��enne comme les autres, absolument pas concern��e par le temps qui passe! Jusqu'au jour o�� elle re��oit un don particulier : celui de pouvoir traverser le temps. Am��liorer ses notes, aider des idylles naissantes, manger �� r��p��tition ses plats pr��f��r��s, tout devient alors possible pour Makoto. Jouer avec le temps est dangereux, un pouvoir qui permet de r��aliser tous les fantasmes, mais qui confronte �� un probl��me insoluble : peut-on r��ellement changer le pr��sent en modifiant le pass�� ? La Travers��e du temps est un film riche de sens, et cin��matographiquement pertinent. Un film de Mamoru Hosoda pr��sent�� en version fran��aise. Dur��e : 98 minutes.

Pour conclure la saison 2008-2009, l'��quipe de programmation r��serve aux jeunes cin��philes un film surprise qui sera d��voil�� en mars prochain. Gardez l'��il ouvert !

Les billets pour la programmation de Cin��-Kid sont disponibles le jour m��me des s��ances choisies �� la billetterie du Cin��ma Ex-Centris (3536 boul. St-Laurent). La programmation est disponible en format PDF au www.ex-centris.com ou �� la billetterie d'Ex-Centris.

Tarif enfant : 6 $

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Next La Scena Musicale (November) and The Music Scene (Winter 2009)

[Version fran��aise]

The deadline has been extended for advertising in La Scena Musicale's November issue (appearance: October 30). NEW DEADLINE: October 24 at noon. Upcoming in November we feature the Canadian countertenor Daniel Taylor and the winner of the International Organ Competition, plus many other featurs. This month's theme is Higher Education, which includes our 9th annual Guide, plus many related features.

Higher Education is also the theme of the Winter 2009 issue of The Music Scene Ontario, which will appear on November 12. The advertising deadline is October 31st.

Our 2008-2009 publishing schedule is now available: 4 issues of La SCENA and 6 issues of stand-alone La Scena Musicale (2 of these are national issues) plus 2 issues of The Music Scene Ontario. For more info on rates and production please visit http://ads.scena.org for our 2008-2009 schedule or contact our sales department directly at 514-948-0509 or sales@scena.org

Yours sincerely,

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La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
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Upcoming Issue:

La Scena Musicale November 2008

• Cover featuring Canadian countertenor Daniel Taylor
• Our Higher Education Guide featuring Raffi Armenian of the Montreal Conservatory, Denise Lupien of McGill University, University of Montr��al's innovative musicology program
• Contination of our Puccini and Messiaen series
• Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at the Montreal Opera: Interviews with Fr��d��ric Chaslin and Karina Gauvin
• An interview with the winner of the International Organ Competition (finals October 17th)
• A follow up of our election analysis and the reverberations in arts, culture and music
• and much more
  
  

GUIDE

• 9th Higher Education Guide: advertising info

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• * 5000 copies: controlled circulation at cultural venues, record stores, etc. in Montreal
  
• * 4000 copies: Music Schools targeting students and educators in Montreal and the province of Quebec.
  
• * 2000 copies: Quebec City
  
• * 2000 copies: newsstands in Quebec

Deadline for La Scena Musicale November 2008 Issue

• October 24 at noon: display ads (info : http://ads.scena.org)
• October 24: materials
  
• October 30: distribution

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The Music Scene Ontario: Winter 2009 Issue

Theme: Canadian and International Higher Education Guide

Circulation: 25,000 copies in Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa) and schools across Canada

• Toronto: 16,000
  
• Ottawa: 4,000
  
• Schools across Canada: 3000
  
• Mailing: 2,000

Appearance: November 12
Ad Deadline: October 31
Artwork deadline: November 3

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Special Feature in the next La SCENA: Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the Arts

The Winter 2009 issue of La SCENA (December 1, 2008) will include a look at the 100 most influential people in the Arts in Quebec (creators, performers, administrators, philantrophists, etc). Nominate your candidate by emailing editor@scena.org. Deadline: November 7, 2008

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Guides / Directories 2008-2009

La Scena Musicale has proven to be a leader in providing music and arts information. Visit http://guides.scena.org for our list of guides for 2008-2009

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Prochain La Scena Musicale (Novembre) et The Music Scene (Hiver)

Bonjour,

Le num��ro de novembre 2008 de La Scena Musicale (th��me : ��tudes sup��rieures) va sortir le 30 octobre. La nouvelle date de tomb��e (publicit��) est le 24 octobre �� midi.

Le num��ro d'hiver 2009 de The Music Scene Ontario (th��me : ��tudes sup��rieures) va sortir le 12 novembre. La date de tomb��e (publicit��) est le 31 octobre.

Pour plus d���information sur les tarifs et la production, voir notre calendrier 2008-2009 �� http://ads.scena.org ou communiquer directement avec notre service des ventes au 514-948-0509 ou �� sales@scena.org.

Salutations cordiales,

Wah Keung Chan

��diteur et r��dacteur en chef fondateur
La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
The Music Scene

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Dans le num��ro de novembre de La Scena Musicale :

• Article-vedette sur le contre-t��nor canadien Daniel Taylor
  
• Notre guide sur les ��tudes sup��rieures, avec Raffi Armenian, directeur du Conservatoire de musique de Montr��al, et Denise Lupien de l���Universit�� McGill, et un article sur le programme innovateur en musicologie de l���Universit�� de Montr��al
  
• Suites de nos s��ries sur Puccini et Messiaen
  
• Les p��cheurs de perles de Bizet �� l'Op��ra de Montr��al: Une entrevue avec Fr��d��ric Chaslin et Karina Gauvin
  
• Une entrevue avec le laur��at du Concours international d���orgue (finales le 17 octobre)
  
• La poursuite de notre analyse des ��lections et des r��percussions sur les arts, la culture et la musique
  

GUIDE

• ��tudes sup��rieures (musique) : info
  

Distribution au Qu��bec de La Scena Musicale (25 000 exemplaires ; 90 % distribu��e avant le 10 du mois)

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La Scena Musicale : Novembre 2008

• Th��mes : ��tudes sup��rieures
• Sortie : 30 octobre
• Date de tomb��e publicitaire : 23 octobre
• Maquettes : 24 octobre

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The Music Scene (Ontario) : Hiver 2009

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Guides 2008-2009

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Nos revues renomm��es La Scena Musicale, La SCENA et The Music Scene publient des articles et critiques qui font r��fl��chir. La Scena Musicale et La SCENA sont les seules publications bilingues �� Montr��al consacr��es �� la musique (classique, jazz et musiques du monde) et aux arts (danse, th����tre, cin��ma et arts visuels). En plus, notre calendrier culturel est le plus complet au Canada et assure des lectures r��p��t��es (plus de 225 000 par mois). Distribu��es gratuitement dans certains foyers ais��s (100 000 $ +), nos publications tiennent leur promesse. Nous sommes lus, et lus souvent.

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Opera Australia: Triumphant Farewell for John Pringle

On Friday 24 October 2008 John Pringle AM will give his final performance with Opera Australia. To mark the occasion and celebrate his remarkable career, the cast and chorus of The Makropulos Secret will gather on the Sydney Opera House stage after the performance to see him presented with the Opera Australia Trophy.

John Pringle is currently appearing in the role of Prus in Janacek's The Makropulos Secret, has been with Australia's national opera company for over forty years. He graduated from Melbourne University as a pharmacist but at the age of 28 music took over. His first appearance with the Australian Opera, as it was then, was in Die Fledermaus at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne in 1967, and in 1973 he was part of the Company's historic first season at the Sydney Opera House singing the role of Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.

Over the last four decades John Pringle has thrilled audiences on stages in Australia, Europe and the US. The great Mozart roles have dominated his career, with appearances as Figaro, Don Giovanni, Papageno, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso and, in his final Melbourne performances in November last year, Leporello.

Beyond Mozart, he has also made his mark singing the great baritone roles of Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini, Janacek, Shostakovich, Britten and Berg. On stage he has died, committed murders, cracked jokes and kissed countless divas from Dame Joan Sutherland and Sumi Jo to Emma Matthews. He has appeared with operatic heroes such as Tito Gobbi, and even spent eight months learning Russian to sing the title role of Eugene Onegin.

One of the many highlights of his career came just five years ago, when Simone Young asked him to take on the role of Doctor Schon / Jack the Ripper in Berg's Lulu. "It was the most difficult part I'd ever learned" says Pringle; "performing it was like walking a tightrope over a pit of venomous snakes. But the high you felt afterwards�Ķ Who needs drugs?"

In receiving the Opera Australia Trophy John Pringle joins an illustrious band of artists. The Trophy is a magnificent silver bowl, commissioned from master craftsman David Cruikshank, and past recipients include Dame Joan Sutherland, Moffatt Oxenbould, Donald Shanks and Joan Carden. Anson Austin, also a recipient of the trophy, will make the presentation with Adrian Collette, Chief Executive of Opera Australia.

Adrian Collette comments: "John Pringle is one of the artists on which our company has been built. He has been there almost from the beginning and has stuck with us through thick and thin, a great actor, a magnificent singer and, above all, a real ensemble player loved and admired by colleagues and audiences alike."

Showcase 2009

International Performing Arts for Youth presents the
31st International Showcase of Performing Arts for Young People, "Showcase 2009," January 21-24, 2009

PHILADELPHIA, PA - The International Showcase of Performing Arts for Young People (Showcase 2009), presented by International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), is returning to PlayhouseSquare in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, January 21-24. This annual event, held in a different city each year since 1979, attracts more than 400 artists, agents and presenters from across North America and the world. Showcase 2009 features 15 professional performing arts companies from around the world that create dance, music and theater specifically for young people. The companies are selected by an international committee comprised of experts in the field of performing arts for youth, including accomplished artists and artistic or programming directors, arts education directors, children's festival directors, and artist managers. This year's companies come from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Republic of the Congo, Scotland, The Netherlands, and The United States. Showcasing artists include Cas Public (Canada), Compagnie Punta Negra (Republic of the Congo), Corbian Visual Arts & Dance (USA), CORONA LA BALANCE - Danish National Ensemble for Children's Theatre (Denmark), Dream Jam Band (USA), Introdans Ensemble for Youth (The Netherlands), Jessica Wilson Productions (Australia), Nephesh Theatre (Israel), Nightswimming (Canada), Off Broadway Booking (USA), Puppet State Theatre Company (Scotland), Rennie Harris Puremovement (USA), Slingsby Theatre Company (Australia), Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (Australia), and Terrence Simien & The Zydeco Experience (USA.)

"The Arrival is such a special show... so warm and heartfelt... and it is a great privilege to get to present it at the IPAY Showcase," says Cathcart Weatherly, General Manager of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, one of Australia's leading producers of theatre for children and families. "Coming from Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated city on the planet, this is a great opportunity for [us] to show off our premier work at the Showcase and look to building a tour of North America"

Showcase features an exhibit area that provides display information and video material on touring productions. As an educational service to the field, the conference offers professional development learning communities which engage current issues and trends. Of particular significance this year, IPAY will present a plenary session led by Teresa Eyring, Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group.

"In hosting Showcase in 2005, 2007, and now 2009, I have had a unique perspective in watching the conference grow in size and scope," says Colleen Porter, Director of Arts Education at PlayhouseSquare. "With artists from more countries around the world applying and performing each year, the shows presented continue to reach new heights in artistic excellence. Furthermore, the professional development has grown from a one day event to a plethora of sessions and topics that run the length of Showcase. Our attendees' response to the performances is reflected in their dialogue during the learning communities, allowing for a truly integrated and thought-provoking conference experience."

Since 2001, International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) has created professional and educational opportunities supporting meaningful performing arts experiences for young audiences in North America. IPAY is proud to be the only service organization devoted exclusively to the entire performing arts for youth industry, including all forms of theatre, dance, and music. It exists to serve its membership consisting of presenters, artists, and agents/managers from throughout the world by providing meaningful engagement with, and support of, the presentation and creation of new and established work for young audiences in North America.

"We are both proud and excited to host our colleagues throughout North America and indeed from around the world, in this world-class facility at PlayhouseSquare", says IPAY Board President, Boomer Stacey. "This global community meeting place provides a spark to stimulate international dialogue and collaboration, a hub for artists, presenters, educators and promoters to connect and work together, as well as creating a portal to look at what and how we produce or program for young audiences here in North America - and it all stems from the work that is happening on-stage. "

Registration for Showcase 2009 or membership to IPAY is available at www.ipayweb.org. Register to exhibit before October 1 or register to attend Showcase before November 1 and save $50. Contact Daniel Student, Administrative Director, at 267-690-1325 or daniel@ipayweb.org for any questions regarding the conference.

Evenement theatrale PLUCKED, HAMMERED & STRUNG

PLUCKED, HAMMERED & STRUNG

Textes de Carolyn Guillet

Mise en sc��ne de Arianna Bardesono

Le 30 et 31 Octobre

Le 1, 6, 7 et 8 Novembre

Bain St-Michel Prix des billets :

5300, rue St-Dominique Adultes : 20$

(Coin McGuire) ��ge d'or / ��tudiants : 15$

Pr��vues & Groupes : 10$

Billetterie :

(514) 987 ��� 1774 poste 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

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Un femme, un piano, et cinq amoureux. Six chansons d'amour obs��dantes. Neuf p��res morts et un ou deux conjoint oubli��. Un ��v��nement d'ex��cution th����trale compl��tement de passion, de lamentation et de frivolit��. C'est une r��union de L'op��ra de quat'sous de Kurt Weill avec Electra d'Aeschylus. Un m��lange de Peggy Lee et de Mozart improvisant des �� variations sur le th��me de l'amour ��.

SEULEMENT du jeudi au samedi 22 h 00

Octobre 30 & 31

Novembre 1 et 6, 7 & 8

Theatre event PLUCKED, HAMMERED & STRUNG

Infinith����tre presents

PLUCKED HAMMERED & STRUNG

By Carolyn Guillet

Directed by Arianna Bardesono

Oct. 30, 31

Nov. 1, 6,7 & 8

Bain St-Michel

5300, rue St-Dominique

(Corner McGuire)

Box Office:

(514) 987 ��� 1774 ext. 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Ticket Prices:

Regular: $20

Seniors/Students: $15

Previews & Groups) $10

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

Thurs. ��� Sat. ONLY 10 PM

October 30 & 31

November 1 and 6,7 & 8

Persephone Productions: Othello

Persephone Productions Brings OTHELLO to the McCord Museum

November 13 ��� 29, 2008

Persephone Productions presents Shakespeare's great tragedy Othello at the McCord Museum's J. Armand Bombardier Theatre from November 14 ��� 29, with one preview November 13^th.

Othello, a noble moor and a military hero, is caught in a terrifying web of deceit in Shakespeare's gripping masterpiece. The play vividly illustrates the power of words to manipulate and ultimately destroy, revealing our own vulnerability against the forces of persuasion. The plot is brimming with disturbing and conflicting emotions of love and hate, jealousy and ambition, sexual desire and individual integrity, as the characters struggle against forces that overpower them.

Tackling a hefty classic such as Othello is an ambitious undertaking. When asked what in particular about this play attracted Ms Soskin, she explained, "What is so wonderful about Othello is its timelessness. Like all great tragedies, it is tragedy of character. It is a tragedy about human beings, not a play specifically about betrayal, jealousy, power or racism. I think that is the appeal and greatness of Shakespeare; he wrote about us as we really are in all our frailty. The special challenge of this production is to speak the heightened and rich language of the text so that the story is clear and can be understood. I think the audience will then be able to identify its universal truth."

The company will stage this production on a bare stage with costumes that reflect the period of the Renaissance, designed by newcomer Raina-Clair Gillis, with lighting by Jody Burkholder and an original musical score by first-year McGill Arts student, James Keenan Campbell, with Mary Davidson at the helm as stage manager.

Created in 2000, Persephone Productions is mandated to provide work experience for young professional theatre artists in all areas of their expertise. Besides giving wonderful acting roles to professional theatre graduates, there are two other shining examples of this ideal.

Gabrielle Soskin met Raina-Clair Gillis at a vernisage at Envers, the popular Westmount clothing boutique owned by Quebecois fashion designer, Yves Jean Lacasse. They briefly discussed theatre design versus haute couture after which Ms Soskin suggested that Raina-Clair contact her if she would like to try her hand at costume design. A year later, Raina-Clair called to announce that she had launched her own fashion design business with a studio on the Plateau and was still very intrigued with the idea of designing for theatre. Not only did Raina-Clair design all the costumes for Othello, but she constructed them as well.

James Keenan Campbell is another model of the Persephone mandate in action. A mailing list member contacted Ms Soskin, as she knew of a student coming to Montreal from Minneapolis to attend McGill University. He had a penchant for theatre and expressed a desire to get involved in the local scene. Through the mutual connection, James already knew that Persephone was producing Othello and let it be known that he had wanted to write music for the play for some time. A score he had created for his high school production of The Crucible, as well as musical samples of the direction he would like to take with an original Othello score, were sent to Ms Soskin. Although her initial concept of the play did not include original music, she liked what she heard and agreed to give him a chance to meet this special challenge.

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DATES & TIMES: November 13 to 29 8:00 pm

Weekday matin��es: November 14, 17, 19, 20, 24 & 26 1:00 pm
Sunday matin��es: November 16 and 23 2:00 pm

TICKETS PRICES:

Adults $26
Groups (10 or more) $20
Students / seniors $18
School groups $17.50
QDF members $18

VENUE: McCord Museum

690 Sherbrooke Street West

J. Armand Bombardier Theatre

Box office: (514) 398 - 7100 ext. 234

WEB SITE: http://www.persephoneproductions.org/

AGA-BOOM - An Explosion Of Surreal Silliness for the Holidays!

Show One presents

AGA-BOOM

An Explosion Of Surreal Silliness!

Bluma Appel Theatre, December 2008

"Aga-Boom, one of the most creative shows to heat Vegas in a while, is perfect for the entire clan."
Las Vegas Sun

Get ready for a big BOOM in fun! Show One is proud to announce that the critically acclaimed clown show AGA-BOOM will make its Canadian premiere in Ontario this holiday season. Created by veterans of Cirque du Soleil and rooted in the European style of clowning, AGA-BOOM is a riotous mix of bold physical comedy, sophisticated stunts and delicious disarray.

"Masterly clowning." New York Times

Clever, messy and outrageously fun, AGA-BOOM cuts through the barriers of language and culture to dazzle audiences of all ages.

Taking its name from a play on boomaga (the Russian word for paper), AGA-BOOM begins and ends with scenes about paper, starting with a small piece stuck to someone's hand and escalating into an huge paper fight. In between is joyful chaos that features inflated garbage bags, juggling suitcases, enormous rubber balloons and lots of audience participation.

"The kids in the audience were on cloud nine, but hardly more so than the adults." Los Angeles Times

AGA-BOOM combines physical comedy, mime, poetry, circus arts and experimental theatre to create a kooky, kinetic entertainment experience. AGA-BOOM is the brainchild of creator/director DIMITRI BOGATIREV who, together, with wife and co-star IRYNA IVANYTSKA, and cast mates PHILIP BRIGGS, ELENA NEKRASSOVA and ANTON BOGATIREV, are true masters of mayhem!

"Disorderly conduct is the order of the day�� in a show that is pure family fun." New York Times

Show One presents

AGA-BOOM

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009

Show Times: 1pm & 7pm (December 31 @ 1pm only, dark January 1)

Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

27 Front Street East, Toronto, ON

Tickets: $39/$49/$65 o Family Four Pack: $189 (plus applicable service charges)

Box Office: 416.366.7723/1.800.708.6754 or online at www.Ticketmaster.ca/ShowOne

Thanks to Alex Shnaider's generous contribution,

a portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Hospital for Sick Children

AGA-BOOM will also play in Hamilton at Hamilton Place, December 26 & 27, 2008
For more info visit www.showoneproductions.ca or www.agaboom.com

Colette Boky �� la Biblioth��que Georges Dor

Pour lancer sa saison litt��raire, L���Agence litt��raire Alin��a re��oit la chanteuse soprano Colette Boky qui parlera de sa carri��re, de sa vie et de ses contemporains avec sa biographe Mireille Bari��rre. Sa biographie Colette Boky, le chant d���une femme vient de para��tre aux ��ditions Triptyque. Les invit��s pourront ��changer avec Mme Boky.

Lieu : Biblioth��que George-Dor,
2760, chemin Chambly,
Longueuil

Date et heure : le dimanche 26 octobre entre 11h et 13h

Co��t : 7 $ pour les membres (on peut devenir membre sur place)

10 $ pour les non-membres

Caf��, jus et brioches

R��servations : par courriel : alinea06@videotron.ca tel : 450 616-6658 (avant le 24 octobre)

Cirque du Soleil returns to T.O. September 2009!

In the wake of its great success with KOOZA and Saltimbanco

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL RETURNS TO TORONTO IN SEPTEMBER 2009

An entirely new touring show will be premiering next fall

Montreal, October 20, 2008 - After its most recent successes in Toronto, KOOZA (2007) and Saltimbanco (Arena Tour 2008), Cirque du Soleil is delighted to announce it will return to the Port Lands at Cherry Street in Toronto with an entirely new touring show, beginning in September 2009. Toronto will mark the last stop of the Canadian leg of its journey before the troupe continues on to the United States. The tour will be sponsored by Desjardins Group.

As fate would have it, Cirque 2009 (working title) will be Cirque du Soleil's 25th show in 25 years, i.e. since the company came into being in 1984. The year 2009 is thus an important year for Cirque du Soleil, and this all-new performance will be one of the highlights of the celebrations.

Dates and tickets
Cirque 2009 will be playing at Toronto's Port Lands starting September 3. Tickets for all performances can be obtained from Cirque du Soleil's website at www.cirquedusoleil.com.

Price of tickets (taxes included):

$65 to $125 for adults;

$45.50 to $87.50 for children 2 to 12 years old, inclusively;

$58.50 to $112.50 for children 13 or older (with valid I.D.) and seniors on weekdays only.

There is also a TAPIS ROUGE Package available. This includes a seat in one of the best sections of the big top, a pass for the TAPIS ROUGE lounge an hour before the performance and during intermission, and an exclusive multimedia presentation in the TAPIS ROUGE lounge. The cost for this package (taxes included) is $250 for adults and $175 for children aged 2 to 12 inclusively.

For group reservations of 20 or more, call the Cirque du Soleil box office at 1-800-450-1480. You can also make reservations through the Cirque du Soleil website at cirquedusoleil.com/tapisrouge.

Sponsors
Cirque 2009 is a presentation of Desjardins Group. CGI, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Infiniti, Panasonic and Delta Air Lines are the official sponsors.

Cirque du Soleil
From a group of 20 street performers at its beginnings in 1984, Cirque du Soleil is now a major Quebec-based organization providing high-quality artistic entertainment. The company has close to 4,000 employees from over 40 different countries, including 1,000 artists.

Cirque du Soleil has brought wonder and delight to almost 80 million spectators in over 200 cities on five continents. In 2008, Cirque du Soleil will present 17 shows simultaneously throughout the world. The company has received such prestigious awards as the Emmy, Drama Desk, Bambi, ACE, G��meaux, F��lix, and Rose d'Or de Montreux. Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters are in Montreal, Canada.

For more information on Cirque du Soleil, visit www.cirquedusoleil.com.

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ONE DROP Foundation
The ONE DROP Foundation is a non-profit organization born from of the dream of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibert��, to fight poverty worldwide by ensuring that everyone across the planet has access to water, now and in the future. To find out more about the One Drop Foundation, visit www.onedrop.org.

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C'est un Champion qui remporte le Concours d'orgue!

C'est un Champion qui remporte le Concours d'orgue!

Le concurrent fran��ais Fr��d��ric Champion remporte le premier prix du nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada ��� ainsi que le prix du public

Montr��al, le 21 octobre 2008 ��� Le nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) s'est termin�� sur une bonne note dimanche soir alors que les trois laur��ats ont donn�� un r��cital d'au revoir devant un public de 1 000 personnes �� l'occasion du concert gala de cl��ture �� l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste. �� Il ��tait tout �� fait propice que le concert se tienne le 19 octobre puisque c'est la journ��e internationale Organ Spectacular, au cours duquel les orgues sont jou��es �� travers le monde ��, a dit Ren�� Fr��chette, directeur g��n��ral du Concours. Tout aussi opportun, le fait que le grand gagnant, celui du premier prix et du prix du public, s'appelle Champion ��� Fr��d��ric Champion.

Seul concours international d'orgue des Am��riques en 2008, le CIOC a tenu sa premi��re ��dition �� Montr��al du 8 au 19 octobre dans trois ��glises, soit Immacul��e-Conception, Saint-Jean-Baptiste et la basilique Notre-Dame. �� l'issue de deux ��preuves intenses, la finale ��tait tout �� fait spectaculaire. �� C'��tait incroyable! Les concurrents, la musique, les gens ��� il y avait au moins 1 000 personnes �� la basilique! ��, s'est exclam�� No��l Spinelli, pr��sident du conseil d'administration du Concours. �� Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada est un franc succ��s. C'est r��ellement le fruit d'un travail d'��quipe. ��

Lors de la finale, cinq concurrents de cinq pays ont chacun pr��sent�� un r��cital de 60 minutes avec un r��pertoire au choix. Les concurrents se sont disput��s des prix et bourses totalisant 72 000 $, avec le premier prix s'��levant �� 30 000 $. Ce prix a ��t�� d��cern�� �� Fr��d��ric Champion de France. Le concurrent fran��ais se m��rite ��galement un accord de gestion de carri��re de trois ans avec l'agence Karen McFarlane Artists, ainsi qu'un enregistrement CD avec ATMA Classique. Pour ce qui est du deuxi��me prix de 15 000 $, c'est Andrew Dewar du Royaume-Uni qui le remporte en plus du prix Messiaen de 5 000 $ attribu�� lors de la deuxi��me ��preuve. Quant au troisi��me prix de 10 000 $, le jury l'a attribu�� au concurrent allemand Jens Kornd��rfer. Els Biesemans de Belgique a remport�� le prix Bach de 5 000 $ lors de la premi��re ��preuve, tandis que Jonathan Oldengarm s'est m��rit�� le prix du Coll��ge royal canadien des organistes (CRCO) de 2 000 $ attribu�� au meilleur espoir canadien.

Le jury a attribu�� tous les prix sauf le prix du public Richard Bradshaw de 5 000 $, qui a ��t�� annonc�� dimanche soir lors du concert gala de cl��ture �� l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste. L'��v��nement comprenait une c��r��monie officielle de remise des prix ainsi que des r��citals d'au revoir des trois grands laur��ats du Concours. Jens Kornd��rfer a pr��sent�� une ��uvre de Louis Vierne, Symphonie n^o 3 op. 28 (extraits), (iv. Adagio ��� v. Final). Ensuite, Andrew Dewar a jou�� Fantaisie ��ber Halleluja! Gott zu loben bleibe meine Seelenfreund!, op. 52 n^o 3 de Max Reger. Et enfin, Fr��d��ric Champion a cl��tur�� l'��v��nement en interpr��tant deux pi��ces : Allegro de la Sixi��me Symphonie en sol mineur, op. 42 n^o 2 de Charles-Marie Widor et Sicilienne et Toccata, extraits de la Suite, op. 5 du compositeur Maurice Durufl��. Ce r��cital a non seulement confirm�� le choix du jury pour le premier prix, mais explique le vote du public qui a attribu�� le prix Richard Bradshaw �� Fr��d��ric Champion. �� Il arrive souvent dans les concours de musique que le choix du public ne corresponde pas avec celui du jury. Mais pour ce Concours, Fr��d��ric Champion ��tait le favori aupr��s du jury ET du public ��, a d��clar�� John Grew, directeur artistique du CIOC. M. Grew ��tait accompagn�� de Diana Bradshaw, veuve de Richard Bradshaw, pour annoncer et pr��senter le prix du public �� Champion. �� Ce prix honore la m��moire de notre ami et coll��gue, le regrett�� Richard Bradshaw, qui a introduit la premi��re maison d'op��ra au pays et a fortement encourag�� la tenue du Concours ��, a pr��cis�� M. Grew.

Des r��citals sont d��j�� planifi��s avec Fr��d��ric Champion pour 2009 et 2010, dont un r��cital dans le Bales Organ Recital Hall de l'Universit�� de Kansas, un concert au Festival Bach �� Montr��al et un autre r��cital �� Calgary en collaboration avec la Fondation Cantos.

�� propos du CIOC

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) accueille au pays de jeunes organistes recrut��s �� travers le monde. L'organisme effectue un travail annuel pour promouvoir l'orgue comme instrument majeur dans la culture musicale au pays en plus de contribuer au rayonnement de la musique d'orgue gr��ce au talent de jeunes organistes. Pr��sent�� sur des instruments de qualit�� dans des lieux d'une grande beaut�� architecturale, le CIOC jouera un r��le important dans la mise en valeur du patrimoine qui a fait de Montr��al une r��f��rence nord-am��ricaine dans le domaine de l'orgue. Pour tous les d��tails, visitez le site Web du CIOC au www.ciocm.org.

Walt Disney Concert Hall Curator Dedicates Local Church Organ

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL CURATOR DEDICATES LOCAL CHURCH ORGAN
Curator Manuel Rosales Restores 50-Year-Old Pipe Organ and Showcases at Recital on Nov. 2

(LOS ANGELES, CA)���Walt Disney Concert Hall curator and builder of its pipe organ, Manuel Rosales will dedicate St. Edmund���s Episcopal Church newly restored pipe organ on November 2. Fifty years ago, St. Edmund���s in San Marino invested in a world-class instrument known as Aeolian-Skinner Opus Number 1323, or a pipe organ. One of 1,400 instruments produced by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company and its predecessor, the Skinner Organ Company, in America, St. Edmund���s pipe organ is a significant historical instrument in need of restoration.

���St. Edmund���s has only been able to provide the maintenance necessary to slow the pipe organ���s disintegration,��� said The Reverend George F. Woodward III, rector of St. Edmund���s. ���The pipe organ was in need of restoration, revoicing, and tonal finishing to enhance and improve the instrument to the builder���s original intent.���

The San Marino church consulted with Thomas Harmon, PhD, Professor and University Organist, Emeritus, of UCLA, who established the potential for enhanced effectiveness of the organ through restoration and judicious additions of new pipework. ���The church with long and continued services from its fine Aeolian-Skinner instrument and has the potential, particularly if the organ is enlarged, of regaining its place as one of the important instruments in the greater Los Angeles area,��� according to Harmon.

To assist with the organ���s restoration, St. Edmund���s contracted Manuel Rosales of Rosales Organ Builders, who designed and supervised the construction of the organ at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall and is the Curator of that organ. With over 25 new instruments including large organs for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon and St. James Catholic Cathedral in Seattle Washington, Rosales is the fine artisan St. Edmund���s needed to revive its pipe organ���s stunning voice and tone. Examining fully the St. Edmund���s pipe organ, which is located in four chamber rooms, Rosales provided the church with a comprehensive description of its much-needed mechanical rebuilding.

The formal name of the completed instrument is ���The St. Edmund���s Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1323 / Rosales Opus 37 Organ.��� With over 700 new pipes, including the addition of exterior fa��ade pipes in the chancel, renovation of the console, and a total rebuilding of all wind chests, leather pouches, electronics and expression shutters, the San Marino pipe organ is among the finest church organs in Southern California, and is attracting national attention.
St. Edmund���s pipe organ has already garnered national attention with its guest organist for the dedication recital, world-renowned Stephen Tharp, who is hailed as ���the organist for the connoisseur��� (Organ magazine, Germany), ���the thinking person���s performer��� (Het Orgel), ���every bit the equal of any organist��� (The American Organist magazine) and ���the consummate creative artist��� (Michael Barone, Pipedreams). Tharp is recognized as one of the great concert organists of our age.

Having played 32 solo intercontinental tours and over 800 North American concerts, Tharp has built one of the most well-respected international careers in the world, earning him the reputation as the most traveled concert organist of his generation. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Grace Church (Episcopal), New York, and served as organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral from 1995-1997 and the Associate Organist at St. Bartholomew's, NYC, from 1998-2002.

Tharp���s recital will include the works of Bach, Widor, Demessieux, Drupr��, Hakim and Mendelssohn. The dedication will begin at 4:00 p.m. at St. Edmund���s Episcopal Church located at 1175 San Gabriel Blvd. in San Marino, CA 91108. Rosales will also offer a special presentation about the restoration project.
To learn more about St. Edmund���s Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1323 / Rosales Opus 37 Organ, contact the San Marino church at (626) 793-9167 and visit www.saintedmunds.org.

[Foreshadow]: Continnuum

Continuum Contemporary Music Presents

[Foreshadow]

Dutch and British works & some of the best of Continuum���s commissions in recent years

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 8 pm

The Music Gallery

Toronto, October 20, 2008: Continuum Contemporary Music launches the 2008/09 season with [Foreshadow] at The Music Gallery on Tuesday, November 11. With this programme, Continuum���s ensemble gears up for its second European tour. Works are a sampling of the touring repertoire: 9 through 99, by Dutch composer Peter Adriaansz and Underpaintings, by British composer Ian Vine. [Foreshadow] also features works by Canadian composers: Moonlight on the Bluff, by Martin Arnold; Marsh Chapel Experiment, by Nicole Liz��e and Liquid States by Linda Bouchard. Fast pieces can really move, or they can stand still ��� slow pieces can wash over the listener or create dynamic tension; [Foreshadow] balances movement and stasis through essays in time.

9 through 99, by Dutch composer Peter Adriaansz, reflects in its relentless, dizzying precariousness, the composer���s preoccupation with formalism, structure and audible mathematics. Underpaintings, by British composer Ian Vine, is a slow shadowy piece that moves mysteriously through a highly coloured landscape. Widely commissioned in the UK and abroad, Vine has worked extensively with London Sinfonietta and is artistic director of Radius (London) and first moon. Continuum performs his work at Sound Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Recent Continuum commissions are Moonlight on the Bluff (2005), by Martin Arnold, and Marsh Chapel Experiment (2007), by Nicole Liz��e. Arnold teaches at Trent University, plays guitar, banjo, hurdy-gurdy and melodica with a number of groups in Toronto, and in the summer works as a gardener. Moonlight (included on Continuum���s latest CD, Sea Change) is an intricate interlacing of lines that are calculated to lead nowhere. Continuum plays it on tour at November Music and in the UK at the prestigious Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF.) Marsh Chapel Experiment, by Nicole Liz��e, manipulates tempo and motion in a more programmatic sense, ala psilocybin experience, by making use of ghetto blaster as percussion ��� the ghetto blaster playing distorted karaoke tapes -- and through the video that accompanies the work. The work is played again at HCMF. Active as composer, rock musician and video artist, Liz��e exemplifies the mix of genre and media and musical overflow so much in evidence in Montreal.

A composer-in-residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra during the days of Trevor Pinnock, Linda Bouchard is represented in this concert by Liquid States. In Amsterdam Continuum joins with the acclaimed Ives Ensemble for the premiere of her new work as part of SHIFT, a festival of Canadian and Dutch arts.

Led by artistic director Jennifer Waring, Continuum has one of the finest new music ensembles in the country. Members are Anne Thompson (flute), Max Christie (clarinet), Benjamin Bowman (violin), Paul Widner (cello), Ryan Scott (percussion) and Laurent Philippe (piano) and regular guest conductor Gregory Oh. The upcoming European tour is organized around SHIFT, a festival of Canadian and Dutch music, film, literature and visual art that takes place in Amsterdam in November 2008 and is repeated in Toronto in February 2009. Continuum is the instigator and artistic and organizational lead; partners include the International Festival of Authors, Images Festival of Film and Video, Harbourfront, and in Amsterdam, the Muziekgebouw aan ���t IJ and Muziek Centrum Nederland.

Other concerts in Continuum���s 2008 -09 season are SHIFTed, February 28, 2009, and After Image, a co-production with Images Festival in April 2009.

Continuum is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation, the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation and many private donors.

Continuum Contemporary Music presents

[Foreshadow]

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 8 pm at The Music Gallery

197 John Street, north of Queen

Tickets ($25 regular/$15 member + senior/$5 student)

will be available at the door on the night of the concert.

For more information on this concert, Continuum���s European tour and SHIFT please visit www.continuummusic.org, email josh@continuummusic.org

or call (416) 924-4945.

PSO Presents a Concert for Peace, November 11

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS DONA NOBIS PACEM TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11

PORTLAND, Maine ��� The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) explores themes of peace and reconciliation on Tuesday, November 11. Music Director Robert Moody conducts Christian Zeal and Activity by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, followed by Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, "Reformation," inspired by Martin Luther. The evening concludes with Dona Nobis Pacem, a glorious plea for peace composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, featuring soprano Tracy Dahl, baritone Troy Cook, and the Choral Art Society.

Limited seating is still available for this concert which begins at 7:30 PM in Merrill Auditorium. A Concert Conversation with Robert Moody will be held at 6:15 PM in the Rehearsal Hall.

Canadian Soprano Tracy Dahl has sung at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Canadian Opera Company and more. She has "a voice filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light" according to Opera Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle finds her "bright, sparkling, and bouncing, accurate and winning."

Baritone Troy Cook has just performed with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Pacific, Opera Omaha, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkshire Opera and others. His voice has been called "supple" and "resonant with a warm tone and solid musicality."

The Choral Art Society, led by Robert Russell, was founded in 1972. Singers are selected by audition and perform in several concerts a year in Greater Portland.

This concert is sponsored by the Canadian Consulate General.

Ticket prices start $17 with special pricing available for students, seniors and groups. All Portland Symphony Orchestra tickets are sold through PortTix at (207) 842-0800 or www.porttix.com, and new this year, the website offers real-time online seat selection. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office at 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. For complete season information, including artist biographies and program notes, visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra will next perform on November 15 and 16 with Classical Mystery Tour, a tribute to the Beatles.

"Let's Find A Way" Song Brings Hope For Children With AIDS

Let's Find A Way is a labour of love or "kenoronhkwa" (in the Mohawk language of the Iroquois confederacy, it is the word for love medicine) that began with the hopes of bringing international attention and relief to children either affected or infected by the HIV virus. It's a concern that reaches across borders, religions and political beliefs; never before have so many performers come together in song, from around the world, to raise awareness of the need for help in fighting this deadly disease. For more information please visit letsfindaway.ca.

In 2006, Robin Tomlin (Chair of the Let's Find A Way Society), approached songwriters Phil Koochin and Kevan Ehman to write a song that would inspire hope all over the world and serve as an AIDS international anthem. He could not turn a blind eye to the fact that children worldwide are being orphaned, left homeless, hungry or dying due to this ravaging virus and that they desperately need our help and support.. Once the song was complete, Tomlin's dream really began to take shape when multi-talented Toronto artist Waleed Abdulhamid came on board as Musical Director of the project. He produced and recomposed the song and successfully recruited top-notch international musicians and performers to sing in their native languages. Highly acclaimed artists such as Blood Sweat and Tears frontman David Clayton Thomas, and Zaki Ibrahim as well as the dulcet tones of the Orpheus Choir of Toronto all added their enormous talent and good will to the project.

Over time many more people got involved, whether for religious or personal reasons, or just for the love of children. The result of these efforts are three unique versions of the song entitled "Let's Find A Way" - an English version, a multicultural version featuring 13 languages, and another with rap and spoken word featuring US artist Ursula Rucker and Toronto poet/activist Boona Mohammad. A documentary of the process, including interviews with performers and organizers is also set for release in October of this year.

The Let's Find A Way Society hopes that people of all walks of life will be moved to purchase the CD/DVD package and or/make a donation to this worthiest of causes, by visiting the Lets Find A Way Society website. The three versions of the song and a DVD are available now at iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, mTraks, and through letsfindaway.ca.

All proceeds will be disbursed internationally to marginal communities including Aboriginal youth populations that do not have direct access to HIV/AIDS support.

ARTISTS BIOS

PHIL KOOCHIN & KEVAN EHMAN - Songwriters
Both musicians grew up in British Columbia where they spent their youth forming and playing in many popular and successful bands. Over the years they have formed a bond of experience and creativity which has resulted in a diverse and unique repertoire of original music. Their songs bridge musical genres effortlessly and reach across all boundaries to share a passion for music that can make a difference.

KGOMOTSO (KG) TSATSI ��� English - myspace.com/musicbykg
Kgomotso Tsatsi was born in Johannesburg , South Africa where she began studying music as a young child. While only 21, she recently participated in the USA World Showcase where she made the top 20 out of over 40,000 auditions. She performs regularly in and around Southern Ontario as the lead singer of her own R&B-blues band, The Hip Kings, and has just released her first EP, The Art of Love.

ZAKI IBRAHIM ��� French - zakiibrahim.com
Born in Vancouver , BC and raised between South Africa and Canada 's West Coast, vocal sensation Zaki Ibrahim has performed at Capetown's historic Armchair Theatre, toured Canada with South Africa 's Tumi and the Volume, as well as with the Roots and Bedouin Soundclash.

FATIMA - Spanish and German - myspace.com/fatimanyc
Born to a European mother and an African father, Fatima studied classical music in Germany while pursuing her love of Arabic music. She is currently living in New York City where she has earned both a music and theatre degree.

RUTH MATHIANG - Swahili ��� myspace.com/ruthenfriends
Ruth Mathiang was born in Malakal-Sudan and is quickly becoming one of the rising stars of African music in Toronto. Growing up in Kenya , Ruth performed with local musicians in styles ranging from traditional music to hip hop. In 2006, she recorded her second album which is a mixture of hip hop, reggae, Afrobeat, and gospel.

YUI KIEWBORIBOON - Chinese
Born in Thailand , Yui is now the volunteer Executive Secretary at the Thai Society of Ontario in Toronto and is the co-host of Thai News Radio at AM1430, which entertains the local Thai community with music and news updates.

URSULA RUCKER ��� rap and spoken word - ursula-rucker.com
Ursula Rucker is a spoken word artist from the United States and is known for her diverse repertoire and performances with The Roots, Mos Def, and Nina Simone.

DAVID CLAYTON THOMAS - English - davidclaytonthomas.com
Best known as the frontman of Canadian band Blood, Sweat & Tears, David has sold over 40 milion records and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2007 was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame.

SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR - Hindi
Born in New Brunswick and raised in Guelph , Ontario , Samidha began her vocal training in western classical music at the age of ten and has since developed a deep appreciation for the Hindustani vocal music of her heritage.

ANTON MAMINE - Russian
Opera sensation Anton Mamine was born in Moscow and placed first in the Kiwanis Music Festival's Grand Opera category of Toronto in both 2007 and 2008. He performed at the opening of the Four Seasons Centre, and performed his solo debut at Roy Thomson Hall in 2007.

VALU DAVID - Portuguese - valudavid.com
At the age of twelve Valu began his musical career singing at youth festivals and church choirs in his home of Angola , Africa . After migrating to Canada , he studied music at Toronto 's Seneca College to become a sound engineer. Today the singer- songwriter, composer, and producer has brought his combination of mainstream jazz, soul / R&B and African beats from Angola to Toronto. He sings in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and in some Angolan dialects such as Kimbundo, Humbundo, and Kikongo.

BOONAA MOHAMMED - Rap - boonaa.com
As a youth activist, Boonaa Mohammed has taken leadership roles in organizations such as the Black Youth Coalition Against Violence, B.L.O.C.K. headz, and the Toronto Youth Cabinet. He has won numerous poetry slams around Toronto and he has been featured in the historical "When Brothers Speak" spoken word concert. Boonaa was a member of Team Toronto in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Words, and is currently touring high schools with the "Stolen From Africa" movement.

LIZZY MAHASHE - Zulu - myspace.com/mahashe
Lizzy Mahashe was born in Cape Town , South Africa and has been recognized with awards and nominations from the Black Label Artist Coalition Award - African Canadian Music, Toronto African Music Award - Best Female performer.

DENISE WHITCOMB - Thai
Denise Whitcomb is the assistant director of the Thai Dance Troupe of Ottawa. Studying at the University of Ottawa in Arts Administration, music and dance has always been an integral part of her life. She has dabbled in the traditional dances of Scotland , India , Indonesia and the diverse Canadian cultures, however Thai classical and folk dance are her forte.

DAVID MARACLE - Mohawk, Iroquoian - Celtic flutes - davidrmaracle.com
With no formal training in the arts or music, he believes his talents are a gift from the Creator. He is a six- time Canadian Aboriginal Music Award winner, has won the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Awards for Best Instrumental Album in 2007, has two gold records globally, and played to the Queen for her Jubilee.

THE ORPHEUS CHOIR OF TORONTO - orpheuschoirtoronto.com
The Orpheus Choir of Toronto has earned a reputation as one of Toronto 's most distinguished and important choirs. The sixty-voice group is now in its 43rd season and sings in French, Spanish, and English on this recording.

ROBERT COOPER ��� Orpheus Choir of Toronto Conductor - orpheuschoirtoronto.com/7.html
One of Canada 's leading conductors of choral music, Robert Cooper is currently also the Artistic Director of the Chorus Niagara, the Opera in Concert Chorus, and the Faculty of Music Women's Chorus, University of Toronto . He brings fine choral music to all of Canada as Executive Producer of Opera and Choral Music for CBC Radio Two. He was recently made a member of the Order of Canada .

WALEED ABDULHAMID ��� Arabic - Electric Bass & Acoustic Guitar - myspace.com/waleedabdulhamid
Waleed Abdulhamid is the project manager, music director and producer of the recording of "Let's Find A Way". He is also responsible for recomposing the original song to the version that is now heard on the recording. Originally from Sudan , the multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist and producer has been an active member of the Toronto music scene since his arrival in Canada in 1992. Waleed leads his African jazz band, Radio Nomad which won Band of the Year at the Toronto African Music Awards in 2000.

MARK KELSO - Drums - groovydrums.com
Originally hailing from Belfast , Northern Ireland , Kelso has made Toronto his home for quite some time. He has performed with Herbie Hancock, Paquito D'Rivera, Jane Bunnett & Spirits of Havana , and Montuno Police.

RICHARD GREENSPOON - Drums
Toronto-based Richard Greenspoon is an accomplished drummer and teacher whose credits include studio work, feature film recordings, touring and a large student base.

BRUCE CASSIDY - Trumpet - brucecassidymusic.com
Born in Fredericton and schooled in Nova Scotia , Bruce Cassidy is the musical director for David Clayton Thomas and is one of the most sought-after jazz musicians in Toronto .

RAVI NAIMPALLY - Tabla
Ravi Naimpally was born in Kanpur , India where his parents ran a classical music society. This gave Ravi the opportunity to listen to some of the legends of Hindustani music. Today Ravi has accompanied many of India 's finest artists including vocalist Lakshmi Shankar, sarod maestro Buddadev Das Gupta, and kathak dancer Pratap Pawar.

JOHN EBATA - Piano & Keyboard - myspace.com/johnebata
John Ebata's talents run deep in the music world as a musician, song writer, arranger, producer, musical director and recording engineer. As a recording engineer, his Time Warp album was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Music Awards. As a writer, his song, "Hit & Run Lover", won Rhythm & Blues Song of the year at the Black Music Awards of Canada.

DEREK THORNE ��� Congas & Percussion - myspace.com/riddum
Born in Trinidad, Derek performs regularly in the Toronto area with Kobo Town , Ballet Creole, and various other jazz artists.

LAURENCE STEVENSON - Violin - myspace.com/laurencestevenson
Laurence is a radio producer for CBC Radio One's "Outfront". Outside of work, he plays violin and electric mandolin in several bands utilizing a variety of styles including traditional folk, electric Celtic, flamenco, experimental electronica, prog rock, jazz-rock fusion and African music.

HENNIE BEKKER - Piano - henniebekker.com
Hennie Bekker is an award winning, multi-platinum selling musician whose eclectic career spans decades, continents, generations and genres.

JORDAN LIPSON

HELEN COXON

Let's Find A Way Society gratefully acknowledges the support from the Producers of the CTV's Corner Gas, David Livingstone and Empire New Media, TXN Installations, Arbor Records, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, mTraks, Robert Cooper and Helen Coxon.

Chelsea Chen Debut Nov 23 | Walt Disney Concert Hall

CHELSEA CHEN TO MAKE LOS ANGELES DEBUT ON THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL ORGAN RECITAL SERIES

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2008 AT 7:30 PM

24-YEAR-OLD VIRTUOSO WILL PERFORM WORKS BY DUPR��, VIERNE, CHEN, GJEILO, HINDEMITH, BACH, AND REGER

Chelsea Chen, the brilliant 24-year-old organ virtuoso, will make her Los Angeles debut on the Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ Series on Sunday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m. The program is a rich mix of works from four centuries, including a piece written by Ms. Chen:

Marcel Dupr�� ��� "Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur" from Symphonie-Passion

Louis Vierne ��� Naiades from "Pi��ces de fantaisie"

Chelsea Chen ��� Taiwan Tableaux

Ola Gjeilo ��� Sinfonietta

Paul Hindemith ��� Sonata No. 1

J.S. Bach ��� An Wasserfl��ssen Babylon, BWV 653

Max Reger ��� Chorale-fantasy on "Hallelujah! Gott zu loben, bleibe meine Seelenfreud!"

Ms. Chen will be playing from the detached, movable (electro-pneumatic) console on stage, which will allow her to hear the balance of the organ in the hall, and will give the audience a better sight line.

"I've always admired Disney Hall's scintillating architecture and organ design. There really is not a more 'hip' place to hear and play the organ! Originally, I thought of the organ only as a church instrument, and while I am passionate about that magnificent repertory, I am also dedicated to secular works that show off the organ's wide range of expression. I hope that the audience will enjoy both the traditional and the contemporary works on the program, such as my own "Taiwan Tableaux" and Ola Gjeilo's "Sinfonietta."

Tickets

Tickets for the performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall (111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles) are $24 to $49, on sale now online at LAPhil.com; at Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office; or via credit card phone order at 323/850-2000. A limited number of $10 rush tickets for seniors and full-time students may be available at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office two hours prior to the performance. Valid identification is required; one ticket per person; cash only. Groups of 10 or more may be eligible for special discounts for selected concerts and seating areas. For information, please call 323/850-2000.

About Chelsea Chen

With performances described as "electrifying" and "brilliant," Chelsea Chen elicits high praise for her exceptional command of the organ. She has already performed to great acclaim throughout the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. A Juilliard graduate and Fulbright scholar, she is broadening the classical organ repertoire with her own Asian-inspired compositions.

Ms. Chen recorded her debut CD and DVD, "Live at Heinz Chapel," on the Heinz Chapel organ in Pittsburgh, PA at the 2005 Convention of the American Institute of Organbuilders. Her playing has been broadcast on "Pipedreams" from American Public Media, Hawaii Public Radio, and Taiwan's Good News Radio.

In 2006, Ms. Chen was featured at both the American Guild of Organists Region IX Conclave in Las Vegas and the AGO National Convention in Chicago. In addition, she has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Percussion Orchestra in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra in Colorado. She premiered her own "Taiwanese Suite" (2003) and "Taiwan Tableaux" (2007) at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, and has premiered several works by Juilliard composers Teddy Niedermaier and Ola Gjeilo, all with great success. In collaboration with harpist Arielle, their organ and harp ensemble, Duo Mango, has championed new works by Paul Desenne, Yui Kitamura, and Roderick Gorby.

Ms. Chen has been the recipient of many awards including The Baker Prize for a top incoming organ student at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Charles Ives Prize for an outstanding organ major at the Yale School of Music, and The John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic distinction at The Juilliard School. In addition, she has taken first prizes in competitions including the 2005 Augustana/Reuter National Undergraduate Organ Competition, the 2003 Region IX AGO RCYO Competition, and the 2005 Musical Merit Foundation Competition. In 2006, she was an Aspen Music Festival full-scholarship recipient for piano.

Originally from San Diego, California, Ms. Chen studied piano from a young age with Jane Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers. At fifteen, she began organ lessons with Leslie Robb, and later with Monte Maxwell. She then went on to study with John Weaver and Paul Jacobs at Juilliard, receiving her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. From 2003-06, she was organist at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and was a leader of the Juilliard Christian Fellowship. In 2006-2007, she composed, lectured, and performed in Taiwan as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Currently, she is in the Artist Diploma program at Yale University studying with Thomas Murray.

The Unusual Works on the Program ��� Notes by Chelsea Chen

Chelsea Chen: Taiwan Tableaux (2007)

"Taiwan Tableaux" is a suite of six short movements based on Taiwanese folksongs dating from the 1930s. In recent years, these popular melodies have been heard in arrangements for orchestra, traditional Chinese instruments, and a variety of other ensembles. Five years ago, I wrote the three-movement "Taiwanese Suite" for a concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in San Diego. The original idea was to showcase the colorful sounds of that outdoor organ. Later, I expanded that work during my Fulbright residency in Taiwan. Renamed "Taiwan Tableaux," it is dedicated to my father, who grew up in Taiwan.

Ola Gjeilo: Sinfonietta (2002)

Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo was a classmate of mine at Juilliard. Now based in New York City, he is critically acclaimed for his film, choral and instrumental music, which meld classical and jazz styles. In 2005, he approached me to give the U.S. premiere of "Sinfonietta." As the title implies, this is a "little symphony" in one movement for organ. The opening features spirited passagework for the hands and a solo pedal cadenza for the feet, inspired by Bach's Toccata in C Major, BWV 564. A modal chorale emerges in a reflective, middle section, and is the basis for the climactic chordal ending.

Louis Vierne: Naiades from "Pieces de Fantaisie"

Born virtually blind, French organist and composer Louis Vierne was organist for 37 years at Notre Dame in Paris. One of the first organists to tour internationally, he composed his "Pieces de Fantaisie" for an immensely popular American concert tour in 1926-27. "Naiades" -- French for water-nymphs -- features a never-ending stream of sixteenth-note scales in the right and left hands. The lush string and flute pipes of the organ are highlighted in this piece.

Marcel Dupr��: "Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur" from Symphonie-Passion,

Op. 23

French virtuoso organist Dupr�� improvised a four-movement symphony at the world- famous Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia during his U.S. concert tour in 1921. Having been given four liturgical melodies on which to improvise, he recalled: "I played in a state of exaltation that I have rarely experienced." He returned to France and composed "Symphonie-Passion" based on his improvisation. The first movement, "The World Awaiting a Savior" (Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur), depicts a restless pre-Christian world with a series of hushed, rapid-fire chords growing in intensity. The middle section introduces Jesu redemptor omnium (Jesus, redeemer of the world), a traditional Christmas hymn. This melody is then combined with the agitated chords of the opening in a triumphant, fortissimo conclusion.

Max Reger: "Hallelujah! Gott zu loben, bleibe meine Seelenfreud!" Op. 52, No. 3

Reger wrote his three Op. 52 chorale-fantasias in 1900, angered by a review citing his "weakness of invention." "Hallelujah! Gott zu loben," the third and most victorious of the three fantasias, is a series of variations on a hymn based on Psalm 146. After five variations, he introduces a mammoth fugue in which the chorale returns in the pedal, triumphantly showcasing his compositional prowess while setting the text, "The Lord shall reign for ever, unto all generations."

FRANKENSTEIN creation

Op��ra/th����tre Voxpopuli
Op��ra de Montr��al ��� Maison de la culture Rosemont-Petite-Patrie

Au coeur de la noire for��t de la lointaine Allemagne se trouve une petite ville
o�� depuis des si��cles et des si��cles le temps s'��coule paisiblement.
En ce bourg vit, avec sa fille Marguerite et son serviteur Pantoufle,
un homme qui consacre son existence �� l'��tude, aux livres
et aux myst��res obscurs qui r��gissent ciel et terre.
Cet homme dont nous allons vous conter l'histoire
s'appelle Frankenstein.
Le docteur...
FRANKENSTEIN
Op��ra pour la famille

PATRICK MATHIEU musique et texte - MARC-ANDR�� COALLIER mise en sc��ne
R��GIS GUYONNET ��clairages - Cecilia Meza costumes

AVEC
BERNARD LEVASSEUR Docteur Frankenstein
SASHA DJIHANIAN Marguerite
GEOFFROY SALVAS Pantoufle et L'��v��que
PATRICK MATHIEU Le monstre
MARTIN DUB�� piano

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FESTIVAL COUPS DE TH���TRE
29 novembre 2008, 14h et 19h
30 novembre 2008, 11h et 15h
Salle Jean-Eudes, 3535, boul. Rosemont, Montr��al

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Op��ra/th����tre Voxpopuli
T. 514 524-4027
C. info@operavoxpopuli.com

Canadian Orchestra Websites Improve for 3rd Straight Year

Canadian Orchestra Websites Rank Higher Than US Counterparts

Annual Orchestra Website Review examines 14 professional Canadian orchestra websites

www.adaptistration.com - October 20th, 2008 - Between 10/13/08 and 10/17/08, Drew McManus, a Chicago based nonprofit consultant, examined 14 professional Canadian orchestra websites and ranked them by how well they presented their concert schedule, sold tickets, facilitated making donations, provided organizational information, utilized dynamic content, and on overall functionality.

In a series of articles, the review examines how the scores have changed over the past five years as well as compares specific website components between Canadian and Us offerings. The overall rankings along with detailed orchestra website scores (coming 10/21/08) are available at Adaptistration, one of several blogs featured at InsideTheArts.com; a cultural blogging collective.

Updated for 2008 with new and revised grading criteria, this one-of-a-kind comprehensive examination by industry insider, Drew McManus, shines an intense light on orchestra websites by peeling away the ���pretty face��� of a home page to examine the five critical components that will make or break an orchestra���s online effort to generate revenue, bring in a new audience, and generate awareness.

De la grande visite �� Montr��al

Directement d���Italie et
pour la premi��re fois au Canada

L���Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia
Avec artistes invit��s :
Francesca Ruospo, soprano
Claudio Marcotulli, guitare

10 novembre 2008, 20 h
��glise St.James United
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montr��al
M��tro Place-des-Arts

Billets : 25 $ r��gulier / 20 $ ��tudiant-A��n��
Billetterie et renseignements : 514.848.9696
www.cshow.ca

Montr��al, 3 octobre 2008 ��� De la grande visite s���am��ne �� Montr��al le 10 novembre prochain ! En effet, pour c��l��brer le 150e anniversaire de naissance du c��l��bre compositeur Giacomo Puccini, le r��put�� Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia, dirig�� par le chef d���orchestre canadien Kerry Stratton pr��sentera un concert �� l����glise Unie Saint-James dans le cadre de la toute premi��re tourn��e canadienne de l���orchestre.

Se joigneront �� l���orchestre le talentueux guitariste italien Claudio Marcotulli ainsi que la soprano Francesca Ruospo, pr��sent��e avec la permission de l���Accademia Teatro Alla Scala.

Au programme, quelques-uns des plus c��l��bres airs de Puccini, Rossini et Rodrigo, ainsi que deux ��uvres pr��sent��es en grande premi��re canadienne de deux compositeurs italiens, commandes de RAI trade. Une soir��e magique aux effluves d���Italie �� ne pas rater !

Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia
www.oidi.com
Fond�� en 1986, l���Orchestre international d���Italie (Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia) est une ��manation de l���Orchestre mondial des Jeunesses Musicales. Il s���est produit un peu partout en Europe, en Am��rique latine et an Asie, tant dans des festivals que dans les salles les plus prestigieuses. Il a donn�� �� ce jour plus de 900 concerts et particip�� �� de nombreuses productions lyriques. Il a ��t�� dirig�� par plusieurs chefs r��put��s et accompagn�� des solistes qui comptent parmi les plus c��l��bres de notre ��poque. En 1997, il a re��u le Prix europ��en de la culture pour les orchestres. Son port d���attache est l���antique et magnifique cit�� de Fermo situ��e dans les Marches au c��ur de l���Italie, tout pr��s de l���Adriatique. Depuis 2003, il est l���orchestre en r��sidence du Teatro Venditio Basso �� Ascoli Piceno. L���orchestre nous arrive tout droit d���Italie o�� il a donn�� des concerts sous la direction de Maestro Stratton les 24, 25 et 26 octobre.



Francesca Ruospo
Laur��ate de nombreux prix, la soprano Francesca Ruospo s���est form��e �� l���Acad��mie de la Scala de Milan. Elle a chant�� dans plusieurs villes italiennes, ainsi qu���� Londres, Chicago, Abou Dhabi, P��kin et au Parlement europ��en. Elle fait ses d��buts au Canada peu de temps apr��s avoir tenu le r��le de La Comtesse dans une production des Noces de Figaro pr��sent��e �� la Scala.

Claudio Marcotulli
www.claudiomarcotulli.it
Le guitariste italien Claudio Marcotulli, est consid��r�� comme l���un des guitaristes les plus exceptionnels de sa g��n��ration pour la qualit�� de ses ex��cutions et de son captivant choix de r��pertoire. En 1984, il fut laur��at du concours Ren�� Bartoli ainsi que le premier prix �� la comp��tition F. Tarrega d'Espagne. Claudio Marcotulli particip�� �� plusieurs tourn��es mondiales et compte plusieurs albums �� son actif sous ��tiquette Tres. Il a notamment donn�� plusieurs concerts avec l���Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia et le grand t��nor italien Luciano Pavarotti.

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Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia
Tourn��e canadienne :

2 novembre: Port Hope, Ontario
3 novembre: Toronto, Ontario
4 novembre: Welland, Ontario
5 novembre: Orillia, Ontario
6 novembre: Markham, Ontario
7 novembre: Milton, Ontario
8 novembre: Barrie, Ontario
9 novembre: Richmond Hill, Ontario
10 novembre: Montr��al, Qu��bec

La tourn��e canadienne de l���Orchestra Internazionale d���Italie est pr��sent��e par International Touring Productions et le International Resource Centre for Performing Arts.

Faites de l'air !

Innovations en concert
pr��sente

��volutions 2008 : Faites de l���air !
Une s��rie sur la fl��te du 21 au 25 octobre 2008, 20 h
Ch��teau Ramezay
280, rue Notre-Dame Est, Montr��al
M��tro Champ-de-Mars
Billets �� la porte: 15$ r��gulier / 8$ ��tudiant ��� a��n��
Informations: 514.252.8520

Montr��al, 3 octobre 2008 ��� Faites de l���air ! Voil�� ce que vous propose Innovations en concert dans le cadre de sa s��rie automnale ��volutions qui offrira cette ann��e quatre concerts autour de la fl��te. �� l���affiche, une fine s��lection de virtuoses qui interpr��teront des programmes vari��s, visitant la musique contemporaine ��crite, la musique assist��e par ordinateur et la musique improvis��e, tout cela pour un instrument privil��gi�� : la fl��te.

La s��rie ��volutions pr��sente depuis 1997 des s��ries th��matiques souvent articul��es autour d���un instrument ou d���une famille d���instruments. Cette ann��e, Michel Frigon, le directeur artistique de Innovations en concert, a choisi la fl��te, qui, de tous les bois, est certainement le plus agile et celui qui poss��de le son le plus a��rien.
La table est donc mise pour quatre concerts plus que prometteurs !

Mardi 21 octobre, 20 h ::: Robert Aitken
Pour ouvrir la s��rie, Robert Aitken nous pr��sentera entre autre, trois pi��ces de Toru Takemitsu, dont il ��tait un ami tr��s proche. C���est ��galement lors de ce concert que nous pourrons entendre les r��sultats de notre volet Direction Jeunesse dans le cadre duquel neuf ��tudiants de l���universit�� de Montr��al se joindront �� Robert Aitken pour interpr��ter Ghosts and Gargoyles de Henry Brant. Originaire de Montr��al, Brant a v��cu aux ��tats-Unis et est devenu un compositeur marquant de l���avant-garde, parmi les John Cage, Milton Babbitt et Conlon Nancarow.

Mercredi 22 octobre, 20 h ::: MariEve Lauzon / Cl��o Palacio-Quintin
Le concert de Cl��o Palacio-Quintin et de MariEve Lauzon nous fera entendre des instruments peu communs, dont l���hyper-fl��te basse, un instrument branch�� qui, gr��ce �� une multitude de senseurs, peut jouer divers effets sonores command��s par l���interpr��te au moyen d���une interface MIDI, acc��dant ainsi aux traitements ��lectroniques en direct. MariEve Lauzon cr��era Relax de Michel Frigon, ��crite pour fl��te en sol. Le point culminant de ce concert sera certainement le duo Palacio-Quintin/Lauzon qui interpr��tera Recombinant Landscape de Robert Dick, une premi��re canadienne.

Jeudi 23 octobre, 20 h ::: Jocelyne Roy / Marie-No��lle Choquette
Jocelyne Roy et Marie-No��lle Choquette sont quant �� elles deux fl��tistes de la rel��ve. Jocelyne Roy (Prix d���Europe 2005) interpr��tera entre autres Sequenza I de Luciano Berio, une des premi��res ��uvres �� laisser l���interpr��te libre de modifier la partition au moment de l���interpr��tation gr��ce �� un jeu de dur��es variables. Marie-No��lle Choquette pour sa part visitera la fl��te et le multim��dia, avec entre autre Dialogue du silence de Katia Makdissi-Warren, qui inclut une projection vid��o.

Vendredi 24 octobre, 20 h ::: Guy Pelletier / Jean Derome / Julien Gr��goire /
Nous conclurons cette excitante s��rie avec Guy Pelletier et Jean Derome, deux fl��tistes montr��alais qui n���ont plus besoin de pr��sentation. Ils seront accompagn��s pour l���occasion par le percussionniste Julien Gr��goire. Au programme, des musiques improvis��es, mais surtout, le plaisir de jouer, le bonheur de faire de la musique. Une soir��e joyeuse que nous partageons avec vous.

Matt Haimovitz with Geoff Burleson and DJ Olive - Nov 6 in Montreal!

CBC/McGill Presents

MATT HAIMOVITZ, GEOFFREY BURLESON and DJ OLIVE

A Celebration of an "Odd Couple": Duos for Cello & Piano by Beethoven and Elliot Carter and for Cello & Turntables by Tod Machover and Montreal composer Nicole Liz��e with the world premiere of "Bookburners" for Cello and DJ

Pollack Hall in Montreal, Thursday, November 6 @ 7:30pm

"Odd Couple" CD in stores November 4 on Oxingale Records

For Immediate Release, October 8, 2008 �Ķ With a cutting-edge program already lauded by the press in Washington DC, Boston and across the US on NPR's All Things Considered, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Geoffrey Burleson bring "Odd Couple" to Montreal's Pollack Hall on Thursday, November 6^th at 7:30pm, featuring special guest DJ Olive. The following night, November 7^th, Haimovitz, Burleson and DJ Olive take their Montreal set list to Wakefield, Quebec's Black Sheep Inn, then on to New York's downtown multi-media art cabaret space, Le Poisson Rouge, on November 13^th.

The Montreal concert also launches the "Odd Couple" CD, to be released in Canada on November 4^th on Oxingale Records. "Odd Couple" explores the defiant individuality between cello and piano. With the addition of DJ, Haimovitz says, "I'd like to experience and illustrate that it is just as odd for a cellist to be performing with a pianist as with a turntablist." "Odd Couple" includes David Sanford's funk-driven 22 Part I, Augusta Read Thomas's Cantos for Slava ��� both heard in their world premiere recordings - alongside Samuel Barber's neo-Romantic classic, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6 and Elliot Carter's landmark Sonata for Cello and Piano, in honour of the Carter centennial year.

"Haimovitz brought his prodigious technique and unsparing advocacy of the modern cello repertoire," said The Washington Post following an "Odd Couple" recital last month, "Haimovitz was emotive and dramatic by turns, with Burleson's piquancy and poetry blending beautifully." Following Boston's Ditson Music Festival, The Boston Phoenix called Tod Machover's VinylCello (2007), also planned for Pollack Hall, "exciting and very beautiful." Haimovitz and Burleson go back to the origin of genre with Beethoven's Sonata Op. 102 No. 2, a gateway into the composer's late style. DJ Olive and Haimovitz have collaborated a number of times over the last several years; in their attempt to establish the new genre of chamber music for cello and turntables, the concert will also feature a new work for cello and DJ by Montrealer Nicole Liz��e, commissioned especially for the occasion by the CBC.

The improvisation skills of all three musicians will also be on display as they create improvised interludes between the composed works bridging the various styles further giving new context to established works, and poking wholes in the predictable routine of the concert experience.

A professor at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, Haimovitz is heard frequently in Montreal this season, including the Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Ida Haendel and the McGill Symphony (Pollack Hall, October 18 & 19); Luna Pearl Woolf's Apr��s Moi Le Deluge with the McGill Chamber Singers (Pollack Hall, December 2) and Montreal's MusiMarch (Redpath Hall, March 5-7). The season culminates with a brand new cello concerto from Quebec composer Denis Bouliane for Haimovitz, the Montreal Symphony, and conducted by Kent Nagano in the final concert of the OSM season (May 26 & 28).

Matt Haimovitz has also recently released a new recording of J.S Bach's Goldberg Variations for String Trio (October 2 on Oxingale Records) with McGill colleagues, violinist Jonathan Crow and violist Douglas McNabney. For more information see: www.oxingale.com.

CBC/McGill presents Matt Haimovitz, Geoffrey Burleson & DJ Olive

Thursday, November 6 @ 7:30pm Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke Street West

$15 ($10 students and seniors) Information: 514-398-4547

Almost Blue, Altera Vitae at MainLine Theatre- Nov. 5-16

Almost Blue

By Keith Reddin

Directed by Carolyn Fe

Wednesday, November 5 - Sunday, November 16

"They couldn't put me away long enough. Not for a hundred years, it wouldn't be long enough."- Phil

Montreal, October 2008- Altera Vitae is thrilled to present their second production, Almost Blue, playing at MainLine Theatre from November 5 to 16. This marks Carolyn Fe's directorial debut. The able cast includes Rick Bel, Anisa Cameron, Vance De Waele and Patrick Goddard. Altera Vitae produces works of theatre that engage and service the community. With each new production, the company partners itself with a valuable organization whose mandate is similar to themes in the play. For Almost Blue, Altera Vitae supports NEO-DEP (New Departure���Nouveau D��part), born out of Correctional Services Canada. Says Carolyn Fe, Altera Vitae's artistic director, "We hope to spread the word about this pilot group helping former inmates reintegrate into society with the help of trained volunteers." Carolyn continues, "This play has forced me to look at the other side of any story and put prejudices aside."

In this 'stage noir', four people are stuck in a place they desperately need to get out of. We are slowly drawn into the lives of Phil- just out of prison; Blue- a lonely pornography ghostwriter; Steve- an ex-con needing to settle scores; and Liz- a beautiful woman in trouble, as they edge into a dirty web of lies and mind games. Written in a series of brutal, funny encounters, Almost Blue is a journey into the dark night, full of plot twists and sultry exchanges.

With arts and culture in the forefront these days, Carolyn hope the audience is as moved as she is by the play and the power of theatre in general, "If it wasn't for the arts, we'd remain unaware and numb about what goes on around us." She confides she has learned to ask, "How can I make this better for you? Or simply, what have you gone through?" Carolyn would like audiences to look at the other side of the coin and to take action by calling Father Ren�� an dvolunteering for NEO-DEP.

The creative team comprises stage manager and lighting designer Mindy Sirois and sound designer Dan Legault. The original theme song playing throughout is written and performed by Carolyn Fe, backed by veteran musicians Yves Jacquier, Dan Legault and Naveen Uttamchandani.

"Everybody needs somebody to talk to. Everybody. Please talk to me, Phil. Please." - Blue

Almost Blue

Altera Vitae Productions

Playing at MainLine Theatre

3997 Blvd. St. Laurent

Tuesday to Sunday, 8:00 pm

Matinees: Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 pm

18$ regular or Four Play Card: $48 for 4 tickets

Pay-what-you-can: Wed. Nov. 5 preview and Nov. 8 and 9 matin��es, to help spread word of mouth

Reservations: 514 849-3378 or www.mainlinetheatre.ca

www.alteravitae.com

Evenements theatrale

JOHN AND B��ATRICE

Textes de Carole Fr��chette

Traduction de John Murrell

Mise en sc��ne de Guy Sprung

Du 14 Octobre au 9 Novembre

Bain St-Michel

5300, rue St-Dominique

(Coin McGuire)

Billetterie :

(514) 987 ��� 1774 poste 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Prix des billets :

Adultes : 20$

��ge d'or / ��tudiants : 15$

Pr��vues & Groupes : 10$

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JOHN AND B��ATRICE

�� Jeune h��riti��re qui n'a jamais aim�� personne recherche un homme

qui pourra l'int��resser, l'��mouvoir et la s��duire. Dans l'ordre. R��compense substantielle. ��

B��atrice a affich�� une annonce un peu partout en ville. Elle attends maintenant dans sa tour �� bureau pour son prince charmant. John re��oit son appel et en utilisant un simple langage, il r��ussit �� provoquer ��motionnellement B��atrice avant m��me qu'elle s'en aper��oive. Un m��lange entre un mythe grecque et un conte de f��e.

Pr��vues 14 & 15 octobre

Premi��re 16 octobre

Fermeture 9 novembre

Du mardi au samedi 20 h 00

Dimanche 14 h 00

Lundi FERM��

Theatre Listing

JOHN AND B��ATRICE

By Carole Fr��chette

Translated by John Murrell

Directed by Guy Sprung

Oct. 14 ��� Nov. 9

Bain St-Michel

5300, rue St-Dominique

(Corner McGuire)

Box Office:

(514) 987 ��� 1774 ext. 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Ticket Prices:

Regular: $20

Seniors/Students: $15

Groups: $10

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JOHN AND B��ATRICE

Beatrice waits up her tower in her nearly empty room for the perfect man to arrive. John answers the call. He has to climb up all thirty-three flights because the elevator has broken down. Will the ever-longing-for-perfection eternal feminine, find love? Will the mythical macho adventurer, find insight and settle down? A cross between a Greek Myth and a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

A play by Carole Fr��chette, internationally acclaimed and Governor General Award-winning playwright, performed in Montr��al for the first time in English.

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Previews October 14 & 15

Opening October 16

Closing November 9

Tues. to Sat. 8 pm

Sunday 2 pm

Monday DARK

Giorgia Fumanti �� Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

LA STAR INTERNATIONALE GIORGIA FUMANTI

EN CONCERT �� LA SALLE ALBERT-DUMOUCHEL

Le dimanche 19 octobre, �� 20 h 00

Montr��al, le 17 octobre 2008 ��� La chanteuse qu��b��coise d���origine italienne Giorgia Fumanti nous convie �� un concert magique le dimanche 19 d��cembre, �� 20h00 �� la Salle Albert-Dumouchel de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.

La charismatique chanteuse, qui a ��lu domicile dans les Laurentides il y a quelques ann��es, nous invite donc pour ce concert s���annon��ant des plus m��morables, touchant et empreint d���authenticit��. Pour cette occasion toute sp��ciale l���artiste internationale interpr��tera les grands classiques, des chansons extraites du r��pertoire pop et classique de m��me que quelques pi��ces tir��es de c��l��bres musiques de film, sans oublier des chansons de son plus r��cent album (From My Heart) ainsi que des primeurs de Je Suis, son premier opus en fran��ais, dont la sortie est pr��vue le mardi 18 novembre prochain.

Mentionnons qu���au cours de la derni��re ann��e Giorgia Fumanti a brill�� sur certaines sc��nes comptant parmi les plus prestigieuses du monde, notamment aux ��.-U., au Mexique, en Italie, au Portugal, en Angleterre, en Gr��ce, en Chine, �� Taiwan, au Japon, en Cor��e du Sud, �� Hong Kong et en Inde. Elle a ��galement joint sa voix �� celles de stars internationales dont Jos�� Carreras, Lang Lang, Mario Frangoulis, Patrizio Buanne, Justin Hayward ��� Moody Blues, John McDermott, Zucchero et Lucio Dalla. En ao��t dernier, aux Jeux Olympiques de Beijing, elle a livr�� une magnifique prestation devant plusieurs millions de t��l��spectateurs.

Apr��s avoir ��t�� chaudement applaudie aux quatre coins du monde, voil�� que la belle Italienne est de retour �� la maison. Une occasion en or s���offre donc aux gens de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield et de la r��gion, alors qu���elle d��posera sa voix d���ange a la Salle Albert-Dumouchel au 169, rue Champlain, le dimanche 19 octobre �� 20h00.

Les billets sont en vente au co��t de 25 $. Ils sont en vente �� billetterie de la Salle Albert-Dumouchel (169, avenue Champlain, 450.373.1739) et sur www.ovation.qc.ca

Hold the dates: Dulcinea's Lament, DB Clarke Theatre

The D.B. Clarke Theatre presents

A Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. production

Dulcinea's Lament

By Dulcinea Langfelder

Directed by Alice Ronfard

Mark these dates in your autumn calendar

Wednesday, November 12 ��� Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Inspired by Don Quixote's muse, Dulcinea del Toboso, Dulcinea Langfelder takes on Cervantes' 'absent heroine'. Using her namesake from the novel, she expresses her vision of religious attitudes, the world and its history. In this multimedia theatre production, you don't need to have read the book

to know intuitively who Dulcinea is.

Dulcinea's Lament ��� seven shows only

A presentation of the D.B. Clarke Theatre

1455 de Maisonneuve West, Guy metro

Reservations: (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742 or Admission

Dulcinea Langfelder is an inspired, multidiscipline artist. www.dulci-langelder.org

NACO, Oct. 21-22: Pinchas Zukerman and Jon Kimura Parker give preview of Western Canada Tour repertoire

NAC Orchestra led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman with piano soloist Jon Kimura Parker gives Ottawa a preview of its Western Canada Tour repertoire on Oct. 21-22

Ottawa, Ontario ��� The National Arts Centre Orchestra will set off on October 24 on a 20-day Western Canada Tour across four provinces and to Whitehorse ��� the latter marking the ensemble���s first-ever trip to the Yukon. While on tour, Music Director Pinchas Zukerman and musicians will be involved in more than 130 activities in 26 communities, reaching some 8,000 participants. On Tuesday, October 21 and Wednesday, October 22 in Southam Hall, Pinchas Zukerman and guest pianist Jon Kimura Parker will give National Arts Centre audiences a preview of some of the repertoire they are taking on tour.

Jon Kimura Parker, one of Canada���s best known and most popular pianists, guarantees a definitive interpretation of Tchaikovsky���s iconic Concerto for Piano No. 1 in all its romantic ardour. Maestro Zukerman will also lead the Orchestra in the soaring melodies of Tchaikovsky���s Symphony No. 5.

There are free pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. both nights with William Littler, music columnist of the Toronto Star, hosted by Jill LaForty, Radio Music Producer of CBC Radio entitled ���Tchaikovsky, the Loved and Hated���.

The NAC Orchestra musicians are joined by the five participants in the 2008-09 NAC Institute of Orchestral Studies. These apprentices have been selected by audition to rehearse, perform and be mentored by the NAC Orchestra musicians during five separate weeks throughout the season. They will join the Orchestra on tour for performances in five of the cities where the NAC Orchestra performs.

Concertgoers are invited to remain in Southam Hall after the concerts on October 21 and 22 for a post-concert talkback during which Jon Kimura Parker will interview the IOS apprentices.

Follow the NAC Orchestra���s Western Canada Tour online at www.NACOtour.ca where there are tour blogs, audio clips, a photo gallery, and more.

The National Arts Centre Foundation gratefully acknowledges support for the Western Canada Tour from Presenting Partner EnCana, Signature Education Partner Agrium, and the NAC Friends, a generous group of supporters including True Energy Trust and SaskTel and a number of individual donors who have made the Western Canada Tour possible.

The extraordinary career of internationally acclaimed pianist Jon Kimura Parker has taken him from Carnegie Hall and London���s Royal Festival Hall to Baffin Island and Zimbabwe. In recent seasons, he has performed as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the NHK Tokyo Orchestra.

Jon Kimura Parker has a long history with the National Arts Centre Orchestra including a 1998 tour in Canada and a 1996 tour in the Eastern U.S. This season, he is the NAC Orchestra���s first artist-in-residence appearing in concert and in recital, and playing an integral role in education outreach. The Vancouver-born musician is an Officer of The Order of Canada, this country���s highest civilian honour.

Tickets for these Mark Motors Audi Signature Series concerts on Tuesday, October 21 and Wednesday, October 22 at 8 p.m. are on sale now at $19.00, $39.00, $49.00, $59.00, $69.00 with box seats at $86.00 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NAC���s website at www.nac-cna.ca.

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

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

November Concert Listings

The VSO���s November Concert Listings

Vancouver BC ��� November brings cold weather and miserable rainy grey days to Vancouver ��� but the VSO brings hot concerts and lots of joy and cheer to audiences around the Lower Mainland! There are several great concerts, beginning with Vancouver favourite Angela Cheng, who graces the Orpheum stage to perform Beethoven���s Piano Concerto No.3; a concert that also includes Dvorak���s New World Symphony. Another season highlight is The Festival of Remembrance ��� an inspiring series of concerts that commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of WWI. Cellist Raphael Wallfisch will be featured in the first two Festival of Remembrance concerts performing Bloch���s moving Hebraic Rhapsody at the Orpheum and in Surrey���s Bell Centre for the Performing Arts. The Festival concludes with one of the most important works of the twentieth century, Benjamin Britten���s epic War Requiem ��� featuring the Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus, and three outstanding vocal soloists.

The world of Ballet comes alive with dancers from Goh Ballet in the second Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets concert of the season. Byron Stripling, a true Jazz and Blues master, will bring his immense talent to Vancouver again in the London Drugs VSO Pops concert Nothin��� But The Blues. Concerts for kids include Teddy Bears Music Picnic with entertainers Let Your Music Shine with Lisa and Linda and Al Simmons bringing his one-man, multi-prop performance to children in Something���s Fishy�Ķwith Al Simmons. The month comes to a close with violin genius Corey Cerovsek, who returns home to perform the stunning Sibelius Violin Concerto.

CONCERT INFO

Tiny Tots Series:

Teddy Bears Music Picnic

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

Let Your Music Shine with Lisa and Linda, entertainers

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

Adult Tickets $15, Child Tickets $7

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

Premier Education Partner:

TELUS

Masterworks Gold Series:

New World Symphony

Saturday & Monday, November 1 & 3, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Yoav Talmi, conductor

Angela Cheng, piano

Beethoven Loenore Overture, No.3

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op. 37

Dvorak Symphony No.9 in E minor, New World

One of the top Classical pianists anywhere, Vancouver favourite Angela Cheng graces the Orpheum stage to perform Beethoven. And the orchestra performs Dvorak���s blockbuster New World Symphony, one of the most popular symphonies ever written.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Musically Speaking Series:

Festival of Remembrance

Saturday, November 8, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Meyerbeer Le prophete: Coronation March

Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody

Timothy Corlis Olympic Commission

Weill Threepenny Opera: Suite

Offenbach Gaite Parisienne: Suite

An inspiring concert that helps to commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I. Superb cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs Bloch���s beautiful, moving Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Video Screen Sponsor: TELUS

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

Surrey Nights Series:

Festival of Remembrance

Monday, November 10, 8pm, Bell Performing Arts Centre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Meyerbeer Le prophete: Coronation March

Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody

Timothy Corlis Olympic Commission

Weill Threepenny Opera: Suite

Offenbach Gaite Parisienne: Suite

An inspiring concert that helps to commemorate the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I. Superb cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs Bloch���s beautiful, moving Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.

Tickets $37 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

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

Generously Supported By:

Series has been endowed by a generous gift from Werner and Helga H��ing

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver Series:

Festival of Remembrance: Britten���s War Requiem

Saturday & Monday, November 15 & 17, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Christie Reside, flute*

Joni Henson, soprano**

James Taylor, tenor**

Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, baritone**

Vancouver Bach Choir**

Vancouver Bach Children���s Chorus**

Barber Adagio for strings

Bernstein Halil for flute and orchestra*

Britten War Requiem, Op. 66**

Marking the 90^th Anniversary of the end of World War I, this epic concert features Benjamin Britten���s seminal work, War Requiem, a brilliant denunciation of the horrors of war.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Video Screen Sponsor: TELUS

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

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets Series:

Beautiful Ballet

Thursday, November 20, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Evan Mitchell, conductor

Dancers from Goh Ballet

Christopher Gaze, host

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Spanish Dance

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Pas de Deux

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker: Grand Pas de Deux

Gounod Ballet Music (selections)

Rimsky-Korsakov Snow Maiden: IV: Dance of the Buffoons

Saint-Saens Samson and Dalila: Dance Bacchanale

Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Khachaturian Sabre Dance

The world of Ballet comes alive on the Orpheum stage, with VSO Assistant Conductor Evan Mitchell and dancers from Goh Ballet presenting favourite moments by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Khachaturian, Borodin and more.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Pacific Arbour

London Drugs VSO Pops Series:

Nothin��� But The Blues

Friday & Saturday, November 21 & 22, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Jeff Tyzik, conductor

Byron Stripling, trumpet/vocalist

Wycliffe Gordon, trombone

Dee Daniels, vocalist

Bobby Floyd, organ

TBA, drums

Byron Stripling has quickly become a favourite with Vancouver audiences, holding them in the palm of his hand with extraordinary talent, a larger-than-life stage presence, and an authenticity rarely found in any but the true Jazz/Blues masters. Hear him bring the real Blues alive on the Orpheum stage, then leap to your feet in for the inevitable standing ovation.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: London Drugs

Radio Sponsor: 600AM

Spectra Energy Kids��� Koncerts Series:

Something���s Fishy�Ķwith Al Simmons

Sunday, November 23, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Evan Mitchell, conductor

Al Simmons, entertainer

Al Simmons and his one-man, multi-prop, music-filled, off the wall performances have elevated audiences world-wide to collective giggles and all-out guffaws. A perennial children���s favourite, Al���s orchestral shows are some of the very best in children���s entertainment.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Spectra Energy

Premier Education Partner: TELUS

Masterworks Diamond Series:

The Genius of Corey Cerovsek

Saturday & Monday, November 29 & December 1, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

Corey Cerovsek, violin

Verdi I vespri siciliani: Overture

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

Violin wunderkind Corey Cerovsek returns home to perform the sublime Sibelius. Bart��k���s Concerto for Orchestra is a rarely performed gem, and will rock the Orpheum.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Radio Sponsor: CKNW AM980

Beltone Symphony Sundays Series:

The Genius of Corey Cerovsek

Sunday, November 30, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

Corey Cerovsek, violin

Verdi I vespri siciliani: Overture

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

Violin wunderkind Corey Cerovsek returns home to perform the sublime Sibelius. Bart��k���s Concerto for Orchestra is a rarely performed gem, and will rock the Orpheum.

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

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

Generously Supported By:

Series Sponsor: Beltone

Jack Everly Conducts the ESO in The Beat Goes On: Music of the Baby Boomers!

Robbins Pops:

The Beat Goes On with conductor Jack Everly, a stellar cast of vocalists and

the Music of the Baby Boomers!

Friday, October 31^st and Saturday, November 1^st- 8pm

Edmonton, AB�ĶThe Beat Goes On with conductor Jack Everly, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) and the Music of the Baby Boomers! Join Maestro Everly, and six incredible vocalists, as the ESO turns back the clock to the 1960s, when the "Fab Four" took the world by storm, the Beach Boys made summer "endless," and the Supremes put Motown on the map. Singers Joe Cassidy, Roy Chicas, Heath Calvert, N���Kenge, Kristine Reese, and Christian De Cicco help you reminisce with music from television and movie themes, as well as popular hits from the airwaves, including music by Burt Bacharach and Frankie Valli.

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

The next performance of the Robbins Pops takes place on December 5^th & 6^th with Edmonton favourite Robert Bernhardt conducting a Yuletide Celebration.

This series is generously supported by Bill & Mary Jo Robbins

Saturday, November 1^st is generously sponsored by Peterson Walker LLP

Media Sponsor: Magic 99 FM

Spectacle Awlad Al-Haram de Jerusalem In My Heart au MAI / concert of Jerusalem In My Heart at the MAI

Awlad Al-Haram de Jerusalem In My Heart au MAI
Musique arabe exp��rimentale psych��d��lique
english version will follow

Vendredi 24 et samedi 25 octobre 2008, 20h

Montr��al le 17 octobre 2008 - Jerusalem In My Heart pr��sente Awlad Al-Haram une performance des plus hypnotiques, les 24 et 25 octobre prochains �� 20h dans la Galerie du MAI (Montr��al, arts interculturels). Ce 3^��me spectacle pr��sent�� dans le cadre de la S��rie Musique du MAI, Circulation, est sans doute l'un des projets musicaux les plus ��clat��s et risqu��s du moment. L'artiste n'h��site pas �� piquer nos st��r��otypes et questionne les repr��sentations occidentales du Levant tout en rendant hommage �� l'apport musical du Moyen-Orient et �� sa culture politique. Un spectacle �� ne pas manquer, puisque les performances de JIMH sont uniques et ��ph��m��res !

Awlad Al-Haram concilie sonorit��s ��lectriques actuelles, ��l��ments classiques et psych��d��liques d'inspiration post-coloniale de la musique moyen-orientale. Performance conceptuelle et dynamique tant musicalement que visuellement, le spectacle regroupe sur sc��ne un fascinant c��ur de 30 voix f��minines. Comme dans la forme musicale traditionnelle moyen-orientale de type �� appel et r��ponse ��, les voix unies et le clap syncop�� des mains des 30 choristes r��pondent au chant solo, aux guitares et aux claviers. Inspir�� de pratiques rituelles et fun��raires musulmanes, JIMH nous entra��ne dans ce voyage hypnotique o�� r��gne l'apparente confusion du chao. Pr��sent�� dans la superbe galerie du MAI, le spectacle est ��galement enrichit par l'intensit�� des projections 16 mm de Karl Lemieux.

Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) est Radwan Moumneh.
Guitariste, chanteur et compositeur, Radwan Moumneh t��lescope des ��l��ments psych��d��liques et transes de la culture arabe avec des sonorit��s actuelles, dans une vision ludique, novatrice et exp��rimentale. Son pseudonyme JIMH provient du nom d'un album de la grande chanteuse libanaise Fairuz. Radwan partagera la sc��ne du MAI avec son fid��le complice le joueur de oud ��clectique Sam Shalabi. Leur derni��re collaboration sur disque remonte �� janvier 2008 pour l'album solo Eid de ce dernier, paru sur l'��tiquette Alien8 Recordings. Radwan est membre du groupe montr��alais psych pop, Pas Chic Chic et on le retrouve ��galement aux commandes de l'infatigable studio d'enregistrement, l'Hotel 2 Tango.

On peut se procurer les billets pour ces repr��sentations en se pr��sentant �� la billetterie du MAI, situ��e au 3680 rue Jeanne-Mance ou en composant le 514 982-3386.

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Awlad Al-Haram by Jerusalem In My Heart at the MAI
Psychedelic Experimental Arab music

Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25 at 8 pm

Montre��al, October 17, 2008 - Jerusalem In My Heart's hypnotic show Awlad Al-Haram will be presented in the MAI's Gallery on October 24 and 25 at 8 pm. Awlad Al-Haram - the third featured show in the MAI's musical series, Circulation - is undoubtedly one of the season's most explosively risky. With this show, JIMH underscores western (mis)representations of the Levant while paying homage to Middle Eastern musical and political cultures. Not to be missed as JIMH rarely performs live! Each concert is a unique, unrepeatable experience!

Awlad Al-Haram mixes modern electronic sounds with classical Arab elements and psychedelic Middle Eastern music from the postcolonial era. Musically and visually dynamic, this spectacular performance will feature a fascinating choir of 30 female voices. Grounded in Middle Eastern musical traditions of call-and-response, the voices and syncopated clapping of the choir will accompany solo vocals, guitars, and keyboards. Inspired by Muslim mourning rituals, this show is a hypnotic journey where confusion and chaos apparently reign. Presented in the MAI's superb gallery space, this concert will be enriched by the intensity of Karl Lemieux's 16 mm projections.

Radwan Moumneh is Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH).
Guitarist, singer, and composer, Radwan blends his playful, innovative, experimental vision with psychedelic and trance elements from Arab cultures, and modern electronic sounds. His pseudonym is borrowed from the title of an album by the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz. He will perform at the MAI with the eclectic oudist Sam Shalabi. Their last collaboration was on Shalabi's recent solo album, Eid, on the Alien8 Recordings label. He is also member of the Montreal-based pysch pop band, Pas Chic Chic, as well as the co-owner of the analog sound studio, Hotel 2 Tango.

Tickets for the shows are available at the MAI's ticket office located on 3680 Jeanne-Mance Street or by calling 514-982-3386.

Doc Soup: Award-winning documentary

AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY THE ENGLISH SURGEON LAUNCHES CALGARY'S DOC SOUP SERIES

RENOWNED BRAIN SURGEON AND FILM'S SUBJECT DR. HENRY MARSH IN ATTENDANCE

Calgary, October 15, 2008 ��� The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival are pleased to announce THE ENGLISH SURGEON (D: Geoffrey Smith, UK) will launch Calgary's monthly Doc Soup screening series. Called "funny, frightening, and deeply moving" by the New York Times and "a gorgeous and utterly moving portrait" by Indiewire, THE ENGLISH SURGEON won Best International Feature Documentary awards at both the 2008 Hot Docs and Silver Docs festivals.

THE ENGLISH SURGEON screens on Wednesday, November 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cineplex Odeon Eau Claire Market, 200 Barclay Parade, S.W. Renowned brain surgeon and the subject of the film, Dr. Henry Marsh, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

About the Film

What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?

Driven by the need to help others where he can, Dr. Henry Marsh, one of London's foremost brain surgeons, has been going out to Kiev for over 15 years to help improve upon the medieval brain surgery he witnessed there during his first visit in 1992. Today, the patients see him as the great saviour from the West, desperate parents want him to save their child, and his Ukrainian colleague sees him as a guru and a benefactor. But for all this immediate satisfaction, Henry also sees grossly misdiagnosed patients, children who he can't save, and a lack of equipment and trained supporting staff. "It's like selling your soul to the devil, but what can you do? My son had a brain tumour as a baby and I was desperate for someone to help me. I simply can't walk away from that need in others".

It is this dilemma ��� one of his own making ��� that makes Henry so interesting. It lets his troubled and compassionate humanity through and reveals the universal theme at film's centre: the struggle to do good things in a selfish and flawed world.

With an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, THE ENGLISH SURGEON openly confronts moral and ethical issues which touch every one of us. And all in a country called the Ukraine which is struggling to do the same thing�Ķ.

The Screenings

The Doc Soup monthly screening series brings the latest Canadian and international documentaries to the big screen in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. Subscription packages for Calgary's Doc Soup are currently available at www.docsoup.ca for $99 (save $45). Each subscription guarantees a ticket to every Doc Soup selection and comes with free bonus tickets to the Calgary International Film Festival. Single tickets for THE ENGLISH SURGEON are $12. Single tickets are not sold in advance and are only sold at the door, subject to availability.

Upcoming screening dates for Calgary's Doc Soup are January 7, February 4, March 4, April 1, and May 6. Doc Soup titles are announced at least one month prior to their screenings and, whenever possible, guest directors are in attendance.

Hot Docs is pleased to acknowledge Citytv as the Presenting Partner of the Doc Soup series.

Hot Docs

Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 16th annual edition from April 30 ��� May 10, 2009. An outstanding selection of 170+ documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of conference sessions and market events and services for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Toronto Documentary Forum, May 6 & 7, and The Doc Shop. For more information please visit www.hotdocs.ca.

About CIFF

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

Cellist Steven Isserlis visits U of T

British cellist Steven Isserlis to perform and teach master classes at faculty of music as 2008 Lorand Fenyves resident artist

"The music world - and music itself - is infinitely richer for the presence of Steven Isserlis." - Gramophone Magazine (UK)

TORONTO ��� Steven Isserlis is acclaimed worldwide for his musicality and technique alike. A leading cellist of his generation, he is especially renowned for his interpretation of the music of Robert Schumann, and has received the coveted Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau (Schumann���s birthplace). From November 3 -5, Mr. Isserlis will visit the University of Toronto Faculty of Music as the Lorand Fenyves Resident Artist. His residency includes a cello recital with pianist Connie Shih (including works by Schumann) and two cello master classes featuring advanced cello students of the Faculty of Music.

Details of the residency:

Monday, November 3, 2008
Cello Recital with Connie Shih on the Chamber Music Series
Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op 70
Schumann (arranged for cello by Isserlis): Violin Sonata No. 3
Britten: Sonata
Poulenc: Sonata

The concert takes place at 7:30 pm in Walter Hall in the Edward Johnson Building at 80 Queen���s Park. Tickets ($25 adults and $15 seniors/students) can be purchased at the box office in person or by calling 416-978-3744.

Tuesday & Wednesday, November 4 & 5, 2008
Cello Master Class
1 pm. Walter Hall. Free

Steven Isserlis is a cellist whose passion for music transcends conventional divisions. He is equally at home in chamber music or in recital; delving into the historical archives to emerge with a forgotten gem; or on the concert platform with some of the world's most prestigious orchestras and conductors.
This season's highlights include a residency at Frankfurt's Alte Oper, who prominently features Isserlis as its 'Auftakt' artist, incorporating a concert with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; and performances with the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Isserlis appears with the Philharmonia under Paavo J��rvi, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and tours with both the City of Birmingham Symphony and the Australian Chamber orchestras. He also participates in a Gala Concert with the Israel Philharmonic to mark the 50th anniversary of the Mann Auditorium, performing Bloch's Schelomo under Zubin Mehta's baton. With a strong interest in authentic performance, Isserlis plays with many of the foremost period instrument orchestras. He has recently performed all Beethoven's works for cello with fortepianist Robert Levin in Boston and at London���s Wigmore Hall. Last season he performed the Dvor��k Cello Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Simon Rattle.
The chamber concerts of Isserlis' devising are renowned, not only for the quality of performance, but also for his ingenuity and innovation in programming. Schumann is a particular passion for Isserlis, and last season he performed Schumann's Cello Concerto on a major tour of Germany with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under Marc Albrecht, spearheaded a Schumann project in Japan, and performed in an evening of words and music dedicated to the story of Schumann and Brahms �� with a script written by Isserlis �� in London and New York. This season, Isserlis presents a Russian series of his own devising at the Wigmore Hall, French and Russian programmes as part of his residency at Frankfurt's Alte Oper, and a series of chamber music and educational events at the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
Last season, he launched his own series at the 92nd St Y in New York; such was its success that the series continues and develops in the present season. Isserlis���s interest in musical education has another outlet in the masterclasses he gives regularly all over the world; and for the past ten years he has been Artistic Director of the masterclass and chamber music seminar IMS Prussia Cove. He has also published several editions and arrangements, principally for Faber Music.
Steven Isserlis is a keen exponent of contemporary music and works with many composers on new commissions. He recently gave the world premi��re of Wolfgang Rihm��s Cello Concerto at the Salzburg Festival, and future plans include the premi��re performances of works written for him by Mikhail Pletnev and Thomas Ad��s.
With an award-winning discography, Isserlis' recordings reflect his diverse interests in repertoire. His most recent release is of the complete Solo Cello Suites by Bach on the Hyperion label, which has been met with the highest critical acclaim and won many awards. Other recent releases include two recordings with Stephen Hough: the Brahms sonatas, coupled with works by Dvor��k and Suk, for Hyperion Records, voted Listeners' Disc of the Year on BBC Radio 3's CD review; and a highly-acclaimed disc of children's cello music for BIS Records.
Awarded a CBE in 1998 in recognition of his services to music, Steven Isserlis has received many honours, including in 2000 the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau (Schumann's birthplace); previous recipients include Gilels, Masur, Richter and Fischer-Dieskau.
Steven Isserlis plays the Feuermann Stradivarius of 1730, kindly loaned by The Nippon Music Foundation of Japan

Pianist Connie Shih, born in Canada, is considered to be one of Canada's most outstanding young artists. In 1993, she won the Sylva Gelber Award for most outstanding classical artist under age 30. At the age of nine, she made her orchestral debut with Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. At 12, she was the youngest ever prot��g�� of Gyorgy Sebok at Indiana University, and then continued her studies at the Curtis Institute with Claude Frank. Later studies were undertaken with Fou Ts'ong in Europe. As soloist, she has appeared extensively with orchestras throughout Canada, U.S. and Europe and in recitals she has made countless appearances in Canada, the U.S., Iceland, England, Germany, and China. She frequently performs chamber music with many world renowned musicians. To critical acclaim, she appears regularly in recital with Steven Isserlis. She has performed at London���s Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall, and at the prestigious Bath Music Festival and the Kronberg Festival. This past season included collaborations with Steven Isserlis, Susan Gritton and Anthony Marwood at the Aldeburgh Festival and other performances with Tabea Zimmermann and Isabelle Faust.

The Lorand Fenyves Residency program was established by the Fenyves family in 2006 to perpetuate the legacy and pedagogical vision of the late Lorand Fenyves, violin professor at the University of Toronto for over 35 years. The purpose of the Residency is to provide undergraduate and graduate string students direct access to world renowned master teachers and artists in the spirit of Mr. Fenyves. Visiting Artists��� residencies include intensive individual coaching, master classes, and public recitals.

The Faculty of Music Chamber Music Series brings to Walter Hall some of the world���s finest chamber music groups. Recent and upcoming performers include the Miro Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, cellist Steven Isserlis, and the Gryphon Trio. For more information on this and other Faculty of Music concert series, please visit our website at http://www.music.utoronto.ca or contact the Box Office at 416-978-3744.

Ticket sales and general inquiries:

Faculty of Music Box Office
Hours: 1 ��� 7 pm, Monday to Friday, with extended hours on performance nights.
Phone: 416-978-3744
Address: Lobby level, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen���s Park, Toronto ON M5S 2C5

Concert November 9: Jin Joo Cho

Jeunesses Musicales Ontario presents

JINJOO CHO, VIOLIN
LOUISE-ANDR��E BARIL, PIANO

Date: Sunday November 9th Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
Tickets: $15 Adults/ $10 Students & Seniors
For on-line ticket orders: http://jinjoo.eventbrite.com/

Jeunesses Musicales Ontario is proud to present violinist Jinjoo Cho and
pianis Louise-Andr��e Baril with their concert as part of the Desjardins
Concerts 2008-2009. This tour will bring the two musicians in many cities
throughout Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Colombia.

JINJOO CHO, VIOLIN
Violinist Jinjoo Cho won the First Grand Prize and the People's Choice Award
at the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition, and the gold medal
at the 2005 Stulberg International String Competition. She has appeared as a
soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the
Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kalamazoo
Symphony, CityMusic Cleveland, and the Aspen Concert Orchestra. She has
worked with world renowned artists such as Robert McDuffie, Peter Oundjian,
Muhai Tang, and Kent Nagano. Ms. Cho appeared on a national radio broadcast
of From the Top in a program later designated best of the year. Ms. Cho has
given recitals in Seoul, Cleveland, Montreal, and New York, and she served
as a musician-in-residence at the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts. Ms.
Cho made her European debut in the Herkulessaal in Munich last season.
During the 2007-2008 seasons, Ms. Cho had performed in subscription concerts
with the Quebec Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, I Musici de Montr��al, and
CityMusic Cleveland.

Ms. Cho, a dedicated orchestral and chamber musician, was a member of the
Wo��-M��n String Quartet. The group was coached by Peter Salaff, Donald
Weilerstein, Arnold Steinhardt and the Cavani, Pacifica, and Tak��cs String
Quartets. Her duo with cellist Joshua Roman regularly performs in Cleveland,
Seattle, and Spokane.

Ms. Cho, a native of Seoul, South Korea, attended the Yewon Art School. She
has been attending the Aspen Music Festival and School and was a member of
the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 2002
onward, in both venues as a student of Paul Kantor. She attended the Curtis
Institute of Music, studying there with Joseph Silverstein and Pamela Frank,
and is currently enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she is
working as a student of Paul Kantor.

LOUISE-ANDR��E BARIL, PIANO
A native of Cornwall, pianist Louise-Andr��e Baril is one of Canada's most
accomplished musicians. An arranger, soloist, chamber musician, vocal coach,
and rehearsal pianist, she has collaborated with major ensembles and
conductors in Canada and abroad. She is regularly invited to collaborate in
major international competitions. She appears on over forty recordings and
is regularly heard on Radio-Canada's airwaves. Passionate about opera, her
repertoire includes over one hundred operatic works. She is especially
dedicated to French vocal music.

Louise-Andr��e takes a great interest in emerging artists and has established
several opera workshops and projects for young artists, such as the
Universit�� de Montr��al's opera workshop and the Orford Arts Centre opera. A
much sought-after teacher, she works with several music institutions in
Quebec, Ontario, and the United States. Since 2007, Louise-Andr��e Baril has
been an artistic advisor at Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, for the
movement's opera productions in particular.

Since 1949, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada has had a dual mission: to bring
fine music to audiences of all ages, especially 3 to 12-year-olds, and to
foster the careers of outstanding young professional instrumentalists,
singers and composers in Canada and abroad. Thanks to the support of its
partners and the work of hundreds of volunteers, Jeunesses Musicales of
Canada has become Canada's largest classical music performance network and
produces some 800 concerts a year. In 2000, the organization opened a new
building in Montreal that includes a 100-seat chamber music hall.
JMC is affiliated with Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI), founded in
1945 in Belgium and considered today by UNESCO as the world's leading
cultural organization dedicated to youth and music. Each year, Jeunesses
Musicales International's 41 national chapters organize more than 30,000
musical events, reaching an audience of some six million people.

This tour is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Mouvement
des caisses Desjardins, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu��bec, The
Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, the Conseil des arts de
Montr��al The Ontario Arts Council, and The Toronto Arts Council.

Les M��lod��nes de la Place des Arts

LES M��LOD��NES DE LA PLACE DES ARTS

D��but attendu d'une 6^e saison prometteuse

Les jeudis de 12 h 10 �� 12 h 50 les 23 et 30 octobre prochains

Montr��al, le jeudi 16 octobre 2008 ��� Pro Musica et la Place des Arts poursuivent leur fructueuse collaboration en pr��sentant la 6^e saison des M��LOD��NES les jeudis de 12 h 10 �� 12 h 50. Une s��rie de douze concerts passionnants seront offerts aux amoureux de belle musique entre les mois d'octobre 2008 et d'avril 2009. Qu'on appr��cie les ��uvres de grands compositeurs tels Bach, Beethoven, Liszt et Schubert ou qu'on d��sire s'aventurer dans des sonorit��s plus audacieuses comme le ragtime, le big band ou le jazz, les M��LOD��NES promettent �� nouveau des divertissements de qualit�� interpr��t��s par des artistes de grand talent. Les jeudis midis, apportez votre lunch et laissez-vous griser par la musique pendant quarante minutes.

Jeudi 23 octobre de 12 h 10 �� 12 h 50 au Piano nobile de la Place des arts

Interpr��t��s au piano par Jimmy Bri��re, les extraits du recueil Harmonies po��tiques et religieuses du compositeur d'origine hongroise Franz Liszt retrouveront toute leur splendeur mystique et leur essence spirituelle. Laur��at de multiples r��compenses au Canada et �� l'��tranger, Jimmy Bri��re a jou�� avec plusieurs orchestres symphoniques majeurs du Qu��bec. Ses prestations en r��cital, en musique de chambre ou en solo avec orchestre ont ��t�� diffus��es sur les ondes de Radio-Canada et CBC. Avec le clarinettiste Guy Yehuda et l'altiste Yuval Gotlibovich, il forme le Trio di Colore, qui s'est m��rit�� une m��daille d'or au Concours de musique de chambre Fischoff aux ��tats-Unis en 2004. Tant comme soliste qu'en r��cital, sa sonorit�� ��clatante fait de Jimmy Bri��re l'un des pianistes canadiens les plus appr��ci��s de sa g��n��ration.

Jeudi 30 octobre de 12 h 10 �� 12 h 50 au Studio-th����tre de la Place des Arts

Depuis la fin de ses ��tudes aux Universit��s de Montr��al et McGill, le jeune baryton Marc-Antoine d'Aragon s'est fait remarquer dans de multiples r��citals et concerts. Il y a quelques mois, il s'est m��rit�� deux Prix prestigieux �� la comp��tition vocale d'Op��ra Lyra �� Ottawa et aux Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions pour le district de Pittsburgh. On pourra entendre sa �� constante ma��trise de la voix et de sa projection �� (Le Devoir) au Seattle Opera en avril 2009. C'est le r��put�� pianiste Francis Perron, qui poursuit une carri��re active en Am��rique du Nord et en Europe qui accompagnera d'Aragon. Lors de la saison 2007-2008 des M��LOD��NES, d'Aragon et Perron ont interpr��t�� avec panache Dichterliebe (Les amours du po��te), de Robert Schumann. Cette ann��e, nous aurons droit �� un autre cycle de lieder romantique, Die sch��ne M��llerin (La belle Meuni��re) de Franz Schubert.

Une coproduction de la Soci��t�� Pro Musica et de la Place des Arts.

Entr��e : 8 $ (taxes incluses) ��� Apportez votre lunch !

R��servations : Billetterie de la Place des Arts 514-842-2112 ou 1-866-842-2112 ou laplacedesarts.com

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LES M��LOD��NES AT PLACE DES ARTS

Eagerly awaited launch of 6th season

Thursdays, October 23 and 30 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m.

Montreal, October 16, 2008 ��� Pro Musica and Place des Arts are continuing their successful collaboration with the launch of the 6th season of LES M��LOD��NES. A series of twelve delightful concerts will be offered to music-lovers on Thursdays from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. between October 2008 and April 2009. From masterworks by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert to the bold rhythms of ragtime, big band and jazz, LES M��LOD��NES is once again offering high-calibre concerts by talented artists. Thursdays at noon, bring your lunch and let the music weave its spell for forty minutes.

Thursday, October 23 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. at the Piano nobile of Place des arts

Interpreted by pianist Jimmy Bri��re, excerpts from the Harmonies po��tiques et religieuses by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt will radiate all their mystical splendour and spirituality. A recipient of numerous awards in Canada and abroad, Jimmy Bri��re has performed with several major orchestras in Quebec. His recitals, chamber music and concerto performances have been broadcast by Radio-Canada and CBC. Together with clarinettist Guy Yehuda and violist Yuval Gotlibovich, he is a member of the Trio di Colore, which won a Gold Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in the United States in 2004. Whether in solo or group, the dazzling sonorities of Jimmy Bri��re have made him one of the most popular Canadian pianists of his generation.

Thursday, October 30 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. at the Studio-th����tre of Place des Arts

Since completing his studies at the Universit�� de Montr��al and McGill, the young baritone Marc-Antoine d'Aragon has made a name for himself in numerous recitals and concerts. He has won two prestigious awards over the past few months, one at the Opera Lyra vocal competition in Ottawa and the other at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the district of Pittsburgh. His "continual mastery of voice and projection" (Le Devoir) will be on display with the Seattle Opera in April 2009. The distinguished pianist Francis Perron, who is active in both North America and Europe, will accompany Marc-Antoine d'Aragon. During the 2007-2008 season of LES M��LOD��NES, d'Aragon and Perron gave us a spirited rendition of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe (Poet's Love). This year, they will perform another Romantic song cycle: Die sch��ne M��llerin (The Miller's Beautiful Daughter) by Franz Schubert.

A co-production of the Soci��t�� Pro Musica and Place des Arts

Admission: $8 (taxes included) ��� Bring your lunch!

Reservations: Place des Arts Box Office at 514-842-2112 / 1-866-842-2112 or laplacedesarts.com

Handel and Haydn Society appointments

Handel and Haydn Society announces three senior staff appointments

Rita McAteer joins staff as Director of Development and External Affairs, Robert Nairn is named Artistic Administrator, and Clifford H. Rust is appointed Director of Finance and Administration.

BOSTON, October 16, 2008 ��� The Handel and Haydn Society today announced the appointments of Rita McAteer as Director of Development and External Affairs, Robert Nairn as Artistic Administrator, and Clifford H. Rust as Director of Finance and Administration.

Rita McAteer joined the Society staff as Director of Development and External Affairs for the Handel and Haydn Society on September 30, 2008. In her role, Ms. McAteer directs all income generating activities, which are supported by fundraising, marketing, and communications efforts for the Society���s $3.2M budget. Since 2005, Ms. McAteer had served as Associate Director of Development for Boston Lyric Opera, during which time she doubled foundation giving for the organization while overseeing corporate and foundation giving, annual fund operations, and managing a major donor portfolio. She previously served as Director of Marketing for the Huntington Theatre Company from 1999 until 2005, during which time the number of productions and the budget doubled. As a member of the senior leadership team, she planned, supervised, and executed all aspects of building the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, the first new theatres in Boston in 75 years.

Rob Nairn, principal bass for the Handel and Haydn Society since 2003, assumed his new role as Artistic Administrator on September 26, 2008. His appointment coincides with the announcement of Harry Christophers as the Artistic Director Designate of the Society. In his role, Mr. Nairn will plan and implement artistic programming and policies set forth by the Society���s Artistic Director. Rob Nairn is a versatile performer on the double bass with a career that has spanned Europe, the U.S. and Australasia. Currently Associate Professor at Penn State University, Rob recently joined the Juilliard School���s Academy program in historical performance. Alongside a busy career that includes solo appearances, chamber and orchestral music, Mr. Nairn plans to continue his active concert schedule with the Handel and Haydn Society.

Clifford H. Rust joined the senior staff team at Handel and Haydn Society as Director of Finance and Administration in July 2008. A member of Handel and Haydn Society professional chorus for 15 years, Mr. Rust holds an MBA, cum laude, from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a bachelor���s degree in music from Dartmouth College. Mr. Rust taught music before joining the Boston Music Company in 1997, where he served as General Manager until 2003. Until joining the Society, Mr. Rust was CFO and General Manager of Business Operations for Digital Tigers, Inc. in Atlanta, GA.

Commenting on the appointments, Executive Director and /CEO Marie-H��l��ne Bernard said, ���I am delighted to welcome Rita McAteer, Rob Nairn and Cliff Rust to the Handel and Haydn Society family. Their collective experience and abilities make them ideal to direct our artistic and audience development efforts. Together as the senior management team, they will work with me, our Board, our staff and Artistic Director Harry Christophers towards planning successful bi-centennial celebrations for Handel and Haydn Society in 2015. They each bring tremendous qualifications and a genuine love of the music of that Handel and Haydn Society promotes, and I look forward to planning an exciting future for the organization with them.���

The Handel and Haydn Society is a professional period-instrument orchestra and chorus and an internationally recognize��d leader in the field of historically-informed performance. Founded in Boston in 1815, the Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, with a long history of innovation: it gave the American premieres of Handel���s Messiah (1818), Haydn���s The Creation (1819), Verdi���s Requiem (1878), Bach���s Mass in B Minor (1887), and Bach���s St. Matthew Passion (1889). The Society today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Designate Harry Christophers, Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington, Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn, and Conductor Laureate Christopher Hogwood, is committed to its mission ���to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible.��� The Massachusetts Cultural Council has lauded the organization for its ���willingness to take risks and explore new musical horizons.���

National Arts Centre Orchestra Western Canada Tour, Oct. 24-Nov. 12

Canada���s National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman embarks on Western Canada Tour, Oct. 24 to Nov. 12, 2008, including over 130 educational events

OTTAWA, CANADA ��� Canada���s National Arts Centre Orchestra, with Music Director Pinchas Zukerman as conductor and violin soloist, will head to Western Canada for its 2008 tour from October 24 to November 12. The Western Canada Tour, with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, composer Alexina Louie, and guest conductors James Judd and Boris Brott, will include 13 orchestral concerts in 10 cities ��� from Victoria to Whitehorse to Winnipeg ��� spanning four provinces plus the Orchestra���s first-ever visit to the Yukon. In addition, the Orchestra will reach thousands of young people through events ranging from masterclasses with Pinchas Zukerman and Jon Kimura Parker to student concerts with the full Orchestra. In total, there will be more than 130 education activities in 26 cities and communities during the 20-day tour.

The Western Canada Tour 2008 will see the National Arts Centre Orchestra performing concerts led by Pinchas Zukerman in Vancouver (Oct. 25 and 27 at 8 p.m.), Victoria (Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.), Calgary (Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.), Regina (Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.), Saskatoon (Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.) and Winnipeg (Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.). Guest conductor James Judd will lead concerts in Prince George (Oct 28 at 8 p.m.), Whitehorse (Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.) and Kamloops (Nov. 2 at 8 p.m.). There will be student matinees led by the NAC Orchestra���s Principal Youth and Family Conductor Boris Brott in Whitehorse (Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.); at CFB Edmonton (Nov. 4 at 1:15 p.m.) as part of an innovative day in residence both on the military base and at the Kipnes Centre for Veterans; and in Spruce Grove (Nov. 5 at 10:30 a.m.). Pinchas Zukerman and members of the NAC Orchestra will perform chamber music at the Banff Centre (Nov. 6 at 8 p.m.).

The NAC is donating the performances of the artists and the NAC Orchestra in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Victoria to help host orchestras in those cities with their fundraising, and in Regina in honour of that orchestra���s 100^th anniversary season.

The National Arts Centre Foundation gratefully acknowledges support for the Western Canada Tour from Presenting Partner EnCana, Signature Education Partner Agrium, and the NAC Friends and Trailblazers.

A distinguishing feature of any National Arts Centre Orchestra tour is educational outreach to children and youth. These outreach activities are opportunities for Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, guest artists and musicians of the Orchestra to step off the stage and into schools and classrooms to teach, encourage and inspire students, and to leave a real and lasting imprint.

The education events on the Western Canada Tour will include instrumental masterclasses for advanced students led by Pinchas Zukerman, Jon Kimura Parker and musicians of the NAC Orchestra; student open rehearsals with the NAC Orchestra; instrumental clinics in high schools; school concert-demonstrations by NAC Musician in the Schools ensembles in French immersion schools and by teaching musicians with the NAC���s Music Alive Program (formerly Music Ambassador Programme) in Alberta and Saskatchewan; sectional rehearsals with youth and community orchestras; composition lectures/masterclasses and pre- and intermission-concert chats with NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie; and pre-concert lobby performances by local youth choirs and instrumental ensembles. An additional special project is Music Connections - Winnipeg, a 9-week in-school program that integrates Aboriginal and Western cultural traditions and culminates with a live performance by up to 90 participating students with a brass octet from the NAC Orchestra on November 12 at 1 p.m. (location to be determined). Over 50 partners are engaged in helping to present these outreach activities.

In addition, the five participants in the NAC Orchestra���s 2008-09 Institute of Orchestral Studies will join the Orchestra on tour to perform in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg. These students, selected by audition, will be rehearsing and performing with the NAC Orchestra during five separate weeks throughout the season.

NAC educational resources to be distributed on the Western Canada Tour consist of the ���Vivaldi and the Four Seasons��� Teacher Resource Kit, the ���Let���s Go Mozart��� Teacher Resource Kit, and the ���Introducing Beethoven��� student newspaper guides. Schools involved in the student matinees on tour, the ���Music Connections ��� Winnipeg��� project, and the Music Alive Program will be supplied with the relevant resources.

The Western Canada Tour website to be found at NACOtour.ca will include a tour blog, audio clips, a photo gallery, and more.

Pinchas Zukerman said: ���It is wonderful to be traveling again to the West Coast with the NAC Orchestra. As Music Director, one of my favourite aspects of going on tour is the pleasure of performing for other communities and giving them a feel for what we do at home. We also look forward to our many educational activities which not only utilize the excellent players in our orchestra, but also our Artist-in-Residence Jon Kimura Parker, and NAC Award Composer, Alexina Louie. We hope the communities we meet enjoy these concerts and activities, and that we will see them again in Ottawa!���

���The National Arts Centre belongs to all Canadians... and it���s extremely important to us that we make a real contribution to communities across the country,��� said Peter Herrndorf, NAC President and CEO. ���NAC Orchestra performance and education tours provide opportunities for Canadians to hear our musicians in concert halls and in classrooms, while enriching our collaborations with Canadian artists, educators and partners on a national level.���

Christopher Deacon, Managing Director of the Orchestra added: ���We are grateful for the opportunity to assist some of our fellow Canadian orchestras with their fundraising efforts this season by donating the services of Pinchas Zukerman and the NAC Orchestra in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina and Victoria. This, and the on-going education initiatives that begin during the tour and continue into the future, are ways that we are able to leave a lasting imprint after we tour.

CONCERT REPERTOIRE

The National Arts Centre Orchestra will perform Alexina Louie���s Infinite Sky with Birds at every public concert. Vancouver-born Alexina Louie, one of Canada���s most frequently performed composers, has been one of the NAC���s three Award Composers since 2002. Infinite Sky with Birds, which had its world premiere at the NAC in 2006, is one of the NAC Orchestra commissions she has composed during this period. Programmes will alternate between the soaring melodies of Tchaikovsky���s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart���s masterful final Symphony (No. 41) known as the ���Jupiter���. Some audiences will have the opportunity to hear Pinchas Zukerman, one of the leading string players in the world, as violin soloist in Mozart���s Violin Concerto No. 3. Others will hear the internationally renowned Vancouver-born pianist Jon Kimura Parker performing either Tchaikovsky���s iconic Piano Concerto No. 1 or Beethoven���s Piano Concerto No. 4. In Calgary, the NAC Orchestra will combine forces with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky���s Symphony No. 5.

STUDENT MATINEES ��� ���BRAVO BEETHOVEN!���

The NAC Orchestra will again bring its highly successful recipe for interactive Student Matinees on tour to Whitehorse, Edmonton and Spruce Grove led by Principal Youth and Family Conductor Boris Brott. The Orchestra will present Bravo Beethoven! featuring Ottawa-based actor Peter Duschenes, the Artistic Director of Platypus Theatre, as co-host in the role of Beethoven. The matinees will also feature Victoria-born violinist Nikki Chooi, former student at the Victoria and Mount Royal College Conservatories and a participant in the NAC���s Summer Music Institute in 2004 and 2005 performing an excerpt from Beethoven���s Violin Concerto. Teachers will be given a teacher guide and class sets of student newspaper guides designed by the Ottawa Citizen to prepare for the matinees. Students will have the opportunity to sing and play along on recorders with the NAC Orchestra to Beethoven���s Ode to Joy.

MUSIC CONNECTIONS - WINNIPEG

Music Connections is a 9-week project involving up to 90 Grade 3 to 6 students from two inner-city Winnipeg schools ��� Mulvey and Dufferin Schools ��� that began on September 11, 2008 and culminates in a final ���shared��� performance with a brass octet from the NAC Orchestra on November 12 during which the children will perform and sing, and present creative responses to Vivaldi���s Four Seasons through dance, drama, music, visual arts and media. The partners involved are the NAC Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre of the University of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg School Division and Learning Through the Arts of The Royal Conservatory (Toronto).

Teaching artists working with the students include Richard Dub�� of Saskatoon who taught them how to assemble, decorate and play the Native American flute; singer/songwriter and storyteller Joseph Naytowhow, of the Woodland Cree Nation from Sturgeon Lake SK, who helped prepare the children to sing his composition ���One People��� in English and in Cree; and Lacey Eagle, a young opera singer from Flin Flon MB. Beyond the 9-week project, the three local Winnipeg partners will work together to develop a sustainability plan to continue the music programs. In addition, portions will be documented on video and shown at the final performance on November 12th. And from August through December, a research team led by Ann Patteson of Learning Through the Arts will oversee an extensive research component.

MUSIC ALIVE PROGRAM

The NAC will launch the second phase of its highly successful Music Alive Program (formerly titled Music Ambassador Programme) in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Over the next three school years, 6 professional Alberta and Saskatchewan-based teaching musicians with connections to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Edmonton, Red Deer, Regina and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestras will work with classroom teachers and students in 100 schools. The program provides opportunities for students and teachers, primarily in rural schools with limited access to live music and music education resources, to interact with orchestral music and musicians. It also assists generalist teachers in fulfilling provincial curricular objectives for the arts by providing accessible lesson plans. The 2008-09 season will be based on the music of Mozart using the NAC���s Let���s Go Mozart! Teacher Resource Kit and student newspaper guides.

RICHARD LI YOUNG ARTIST

Included in the outreach on the Saskatchewan portion of the NACO Western Tour will be up to 10 performance/presentations and teaching sessions by Saskatchewan-born trumpeter Amy Horvey in her capacity as the recipient of the Richard Li Young Artist Chair for the 2008-2009 season. This honour is awarded annually to an exceptional young Canadian musician under the age of 35 who aspires to, or is in the early stages of, an orchestral career. From Nov 9 to 17, Horvey will visit Regina, Waldeck, Cabri, Vanguard, Swift Current and the University of Saskatoon. The Richard Li Young Artist Chair was established thanks to the generosity of Hong Kong-Canadian businessman Richard Li.

CONCERT TOUR SCHEDULE

Oct. 25 and 27 at 8 p.m.: Programme 1 (two nights)

Vancouver, BC ��� Orpheum Theatre, presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 7:05 p.m. pre-concert talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

Oct. 28 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2

Prince George, BC ��� Vanier Hall, presented by the Prince George Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by District 57 Tapestry Singers and a post-concert Q & A with guest conductor James Judd and soloist Jon Kimura Parker

Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2

Whitehorse, Yukon Territories ��� Yukon Arts Centre presented by Yukon Arts Centre

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Whitehorse Suzuki Strings.

Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.: Student Matinee

Whitehorse, Yukon Territories ��� Yukon Arts Centre, presented by Whitehorse Concerts

Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.: Programme 3

Victoria, BC ��� Royal Theatre, a Gala fundraiser for the Victoria Symphony and the NAC Orchestra presented by Eric Charman

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by Viva Choirs and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

Nov. 2 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2

Kamloops, BC ��� Sagebrush Theatre, presented by Kamloops Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Kamloops Thompson Honour Choir.

Nov. 4 at 1:15 p.m.: Student Matinee

Edmonton, AB ��� Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Field House, presented by CFB Edmonton in collaboration with Guthrie School (located on the Base)

Nov. 5 at 10:30 a.m.: Student Matinee

Spruce Grove, AB ��� Horizon Stage, presented by City of Spruce Grove

Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4 (Finale combined with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra)

Calgary AB ��� Jack Singer Hall, presented by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Arioso Choir of the Mount Royal College Conservatory and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4

Regina SK ��� Conexus Arts Centre, presented by the Regina Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.: Programme 5

Saskatoon SK ��� TCU Place, presented by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 6:45 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Saskatoon Strings and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie

Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4

Winnipeg MN ��� Centennial Concert Hall, presented by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by St. James-Assiniboia Children���s Choir and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie.

REPERTOIRE

Programme 1

LOUIE: Infinite Sky With Birds

MOZART: Concerto for Violin No. 3

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Programme 2

LOUIE: Infinite Sky with Birds

MOZART: Symphony No. 41

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4

Programme 3

LOUIE : Infinite Sky with Birds

MOZART: Concerto for Violin No. 3

MOZART: Symphony No. 41

Programme 4

LOUIE: Infinite Sky with Birds

TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto for Piano No. 1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Programme 5

LOUIE : Infinite Sky with Birds

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman has for four decades been recognized internationally as one of the world���s greatest string players. His discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him 21 Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards. Since his appointment as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1998, he has taken an interest in virtually every aspect of Ottawa���s artistic community while continuing his international career. He is the driving force behind the national role the National Arts Centre plays in education and community outreach, and in the use of new technology to reach Canadians from coast to coast. This includes the creation in Ottawa of the NAC Summer Music Institute which over ten years has provided training from an international faculty to 581 instrumentalists, conductors and composers from 34 countries.

Touring is an important part of the mandate of the National Arts Centre Orchestra which has visited, in its 39-year history, 112 cities in Canada, and 122 cities internationally. The Western Canada Tour is Pinchas Zukerman���s ninth tour with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and eighth since being appointed Music Director in 1998. In 1999 he led the coast-to-coast Canada Tour, followed by Tour 2000 to Israel and Europe, the Atlantic Tour 2002, the United States and Mexico Tour 2003, the British Columbia Tour 2004, the Alberta-Saskatchewan Tour in 2005 and the Quebec Tour in 2006. As guest conductor and soloist in 1990, Zukerman led the Orchestra on a European Tour.

Jon Kimura Parker

The extraordinary career of internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker has taken him from Carnegie Hall and London���s Royal Festival Hall to Baffin Island and Zimbabwe. In recent seasons, he has performed as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the NHK Tokyo Orchestra.

Jon Kimura Parker has a long history with the National Arts Centre Orchestra including a 1998 tour in Canada and a 1996 tour in the Eastern U.S. This season, he is the NAC Orchestra���s first artist-in-residence appearing in concert and in recital, and playing an integral role in education outreach. The Vancouver-born musician is an Officer of The Order of Canada, this country���s highest civilian honour.

Alexina Louie

One of the most frequently performed Canadian classical composers, Vancouver-born Alexina Louie is a two-time Juno Award-winner of international renown. She has been widely commissioned and performed by Canada���s leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has gained both personal acclaim for her compositions and recognition for Canada���s new music abroad.

Alexina Louie is one of three recipients of the National Arts Centre Composers Awards ($75,000 each) through which she has written three compositions for the NACO and collaborated on a number of educational and outreach programs. She was Lead Composer of the NAC Summer Music Institute���s Young Composers Programme in 2005 and accompanied the Orchestra on its BC Tour in 2004.

James Judd

Considered one of the pre-eminent interpreters of English orchestral music, British-born conductor James Judd is Music Director Emeritus of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, former Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille in France and former Music Director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra where he spent 14 groundbreaking years including its first tour of the major concert halls of Europe. He has amassed an extensive collection of recordings on the Naxos label.

James Judd made his National Arts Centre Orchestra debut in May 2002 and has returned regularly since. He has led major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic; conducted in the Salzburg Mozarteum and Vienna���s Musikverein, and continues to conduct regularly with all of the major British ensembles.

Boris Brott

Boris Brott is one of the most internationally recognized Canadian conductors. He enjoys an international career as guest conductor, educator, motivational speaker and cultural ambassador. In May 2004, he was named to the newly created position of Principal Youth and Family Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, where for over 20 years he has regularly been conducting student matinees and concerts for young people. On tour, he has led the Orchestra in student matinees in the U.S. (2003), British Columbia (2004), Alberta-Saskatchewan (2005), and Quebec in 2006.

Mr. Brott is founding Conductor and Music Director of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles California. In addition he serves as Artistic Director of the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal and is Artistic Director of the Brott Music Festival, established in 1988. In Canada, Mr. Brott had developed no fewer than six Canadian Orchestras. Internationally, he has served as Assistant Conductor to the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, and as Music Director and Conductor for the Royal Ballet. In 1987, Mr. Brott became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

La Coalition canadienne des arts maintiendra les questions ayant trait aux arts et �� la culture �� l���avant-plan des pr��occupations du gouvernement f��d��ral

LA COALITION CANADIENNE DES ARTS

La Coalition canadienne des arts maintiendra les questions ayant trait aux arts et �� la culture �� l'avant-plan des pr��occupations du gouvernement f��d��ral

Le 15 octobre 2008 ��� L'importance des arts et de la culture s'est inscrite comme jamais auparavant au premier plan des 40^e ��lections f��d��rales. Dans les grandes villes comme dans les plus petites, les artistes, organismes artistiques, membres des conseils d'administration, travailleurs culturels, publics et partisans ont instamment pri�� tous les partis gouvernementaux d'augmenter le financement f��d��ral destin�� aux arts et �� la culture. Des milliers de personnes ont assist�� �� des concerts,des rassemblements, des s��ances de discussion ouvertes et des r��unions g��n��rales des candidats organis��s dans des centres de diff��rentes tailles pour d��montrer leur appui envers la culture et les arts au Canada.

La Coalition canadienne des arts remarque que tous les partis sont conscients du r��le essentiel que jouent les arts et la culture au pays : ��Les arts sont essentiels �� notre pays et �� nos collectivit��s. Ils ne devraient pas ��tre un luxe auquel seul ont droit certains privil��gi��s parmi nous ��� les arts devraient ��tre �� la port��e de tous�� de dire le gouvernement Conservateur nouvellement r����lu.

La Coalition se r��jouit �� l'id��e de collaborer avec le Premier Ministre Stephen Harper, les nouveaux Cabinet et caucus en vue de voir les arts s'��panouir au Canada. Nous comptons sur l'appui de tous les partis et des d��put��(e)s de fa��on �� ce que les arts et la culture restent bien en vue au programme du gouvernement f��d��ral �� Ottawa.

Tous les partis se sont rendu compte du r��le essentiel que jouent les arts et la culture non seulement au point de vue de la r��putation du Canada dans le monde mais aussi dans l'��conomie du pays. Un nouveau rapport du Conference Board du Canada a d��clar�� que l'apport du secteur culturel s'��tait chiffr�� par des augmentations directes de 46 milliards de dollars et indirectes de 87 milliards de dollars.

La Coalition canadienne des arts qui repr��sente le plus grand consortium appuyant les arts, la culture et le patrimoine, r��clame un financement accru au programme f��d��ral artistique et culturel. Une communaut�� des arts et de la culture florissante, soutenue par un financement ad��quat du gouvernement f��d��ral, placera le Canada dans le peloton de t��te des soci��t��s dont la strat��gie de d��veloppement marie brillamment innovation, excellence, coh��sion sociale et prosp��rit�� ��conomique.

Canadian Arts Coalition will keep arts and cultural issues on Ottawa���s agenda

Canadian Arts Coalition will keep arts and cultural issues on Ottawa's agenda

October 15, 2008 ��� The importance of arts and culture headlined Canada's 40th federal election, like never before. In towns and cities across the country, artists, arts organizations, board members, cultural workers, audience members and supporters called on all parties to increase federal investment in arts and culture. Thousands of individuals showed up at concerts, rallies, town halls and local all-candidates debates organized in centres, large and small to demonstrate their support for the important role that arts and culture hold in Canada.

The Canadian Arts Coalition notes that all parties recognized the important role of arts and culture in our country: "The arts are essential to our country and our communities. The arts should not be a luxury available only to a privileged few ��� arts should be accessible to everyone," said the re-elected Conservative government.

The Coalition looks forward to working with Prime Minister Harper, his new Cabinet and caucus to realize the full potential of the arts in Canada. Similarly, we will count on the interest and support of all parties and MPs to ensure that federal investment in arts and culture stays on the agenda in Ottawa.

All parties recognized the important contribution arts and culture makes to Canada, and the country's economy. A new report from the Conference Board of Canada found that the contribution of the cultural sector to the economy increased to $46 billion directly, $87 billion indirectly.

The Canadian Arts Coalition is Canada's largest consortium of arts, culture and heritage supporters advocating for increased federal investment in arts and culture. We believe that a thriving arts and culture sector, supported by adequate investment by the federal government, will place Canada at the forefront of a global society that values innovation, excellence, social cohesion and economic prosperity.

Michel Rivard avec I Musici de Montr��al

Michel Rivard avec I Musici de Montr��al
Le 18 novembre 2008, 20h

Montr��al, le 15 octobre 2008 - Michel Rivard, l���un des auteurs-compositeurs-interpr��tes les plus prolifiques de la sc��ne qu��b��coise, se joindra le temps d���une soir��e �� Maestro Yuli Turovsky et ses Musici, pour c��l��brer �� sa fa��on le 25^i��me anniversaire de l���orchestre.

Pour cet ��v��nement unique, Michel Rivard livrera une s��lection de ses plus grands succ��s, accompagn�� par I Musici de Montr��al. Un concert b��n��fice au profit de l���orchestre, dans l���atmosph��re intime du M��tropolis en formule Cabaret, le Mardi 18 novembre 2008, �� 20h.

Pour de plus amples renseignements, communiquez avec le 514-982-6038 ou �� info@imusici.com

Billets au co��t de 46.50$ ou 101.50$
En vente :
Chez I Musici de Montr��al : 514-982-6038 ou �� info@imusici.com
ou au M��tropolis: 514-908-9090
ou sur Ticketpro : 514 790-1111 ou au www.ticketpro.ca

Michel Rivard With I Musici de Montr��al
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Montr��al, October 15, 2008 - Michel Rivard, one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of Qu��bec will join Maestro Yuli Turovsky and I Musici de Montr��al to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the orchestra in a very special way.

In the program, a selection of Michel Rivard���s best known songs, accompanied by I Musici de Montr��al. This benefit concert for the orchestra will be held in the intimate cabaret setting of the Metropolis on Tuesday, December 18, 2008 at 8:00 pm.

For more information call 514-983-6038 or info@imusici.com

Tickets are for sale at a cost of $46.50 or $101.50
At I Musici de Montr��al: 514-982-6038 or at info@imusici.com
at Metropolis: 514-908-9090
And on Ticketpro: 514-790-1111 or www.ticketpro.ca

PSO Receives Grants from MAC and Target

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PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECEIVES GRANTS FROM MAINE ARTS COMMISSION AND TARGET

PORTLAND, Maine ��� The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) recently received two grants totaling $13,000 for support of its education programs during the 2008-2009 season.

The Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment of the Arts, has committed $10,000 in support of PSO's KinderKonzerts. These programs explore the different families of orchestral instruments while introducing children ages 3-7 to live symphonic music through fun and interactive programs with PSO musicians.

Additionally, Target has committed $3,000 for general support of PSO's music education programs.

The PSO is committed to offering a variety of education programs designed to instruct, enrich and inspire audiences of all ages. The PSO helps young people discover music as a pathway to creativity, self-discovery and self-expression, and fosters an important relationship to the traditions of live music performance.

For more information about the Portland Symphony Orchestra, its events and activities, visit portlandsymphony.com.

Le Cin��ma Ex-Centris

Le Cin��ma Ex-Centris plonge dans l'automne avec une programmation �� color��e ��

Les Affluents (Guy ��doin) ��� C'est dur d'��tre aim�� par des cons (Daniel Leconte)

All Together Now (Adrian Wills) ��� Le Tueur (C��dric Anger) - Restless (Amos Kollek) - Un Conte de No��l (Arnaud Desplechin) - Don Quichotte (Ballet)

Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci (Op��ra)

Franz et le chef d'orchestre (Uzi et Lotta Geffenblad)

La Reine soleil (Philippe Leclerc)

Montr��al, le jeudi 16 octobre 2008 ��� Cin��philes, �� vos agendas! Pendant que Le Festival du nouveau cin��ma entame son dernier droit, c'est avec grand plaisir que le Cin��ma Ex-Centris d��voile son excitante programmation automnale qui fera vibrer de nouveau les cin��philes d��s le 20 octobre! Pour plonger en force dans l'automne, l'��quipe de programmation a une fois de plus concoct�� un programme riche et diversifi�� aussi exaltant qu'original. C'est au Cin��ma Ex-Centris que se retrouveront les ��uvres attendues de la saison avec, entres autres, le documentaire aux premi��res loges, des longs m��trages de fiction et le retour en force des dimanches en famille avec Cin��-Kid. Regard d��taill�� sur la programmation :

EN OCTORE, UN BALLET ET UN OP��RA EN HAUTE D��FINITION

En octobre, dans le but d'offrir encore plus de choix �� ses fid��les cin��philes, le Cin��ma Ex-Centris continue sa collaboration avec DigiScreen et enrichit sa programmation d'un op��ra (Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci) et d'un ballet (Don Quichotte) tous deux pr��sent��s en HAUTE D��FINITION. Cavalleria Rusticana est un op��ra en un acte interpr��t�� par Mar��a Bayo, Violeta Urmana, Vincenzo La Scola et Vladimir Galouzine qui sont dirig��s par le chef d'orchestre Jes��s L��pez-Cobos. Pr��sent�� les 20 et 22 octobre seulement, �� 14h30. De son c��t��, la directrice artistique du Ballet National de Cuba, Alicia Alonso, dirige d'une main de ma��tre ses danseurs Viengsay Valdes et Romel Frometa dans Don Quichotte pr��sent�� le 21 octobre �� 14h30. Billets en vente au co��t de 20 $. �� venir en novembre : Giselle (Ballet) et Don Giovanni (Op��ra).

La programmation cin��ma�Ķ

La programmation cin��ma s'ouvrira avec Les Affluents, un triptyque de trois films du r��alisateur Guy ��doin, pr��sent�� trois fois seulement (20, 21 et 22 octobre) au co��t unique de 8 $. Les Affluents ont ��t�� c��l��br��s dans plus d'une cinquantaine de festivals nationaux et internationaux. Ce programme sera suivi de la pr��sentation de Roastbeef, un court m��trage de Fran��ois B��gin et Myriam Bouchard, qui relate l'histoire d'un boucher qui fait danser la femme dont il est secr��tement amoureux sur la musique ��trange du bruit de ses couteaux. Le 20 et 22 octobre �� 19h et le 21 octobre �� 17h30 en version originale fran��aise.

Apr��s avoir ��t�� pr��sent�� en S��lection officielle - hors comp��tition, au dernier Festival de Cannes, voici que les Qu��b��cois peuvent enfin d��couvrir le documentaire C'est dur d'��tre aim�� par des cons, de Daniel Leconte. Ce documentaire raconte le proc��s auxquels furent confront��s l'hebdomadaire Charlie Hebdo et son directeur Philippe Val peu apr��s la publication, d��but 2006, des fameuses caricatures de Mahomet, elles-m��mes publi��es plusieurs mois auparavant dans le quotidien danois Jyllands-Posten. Un proc��s exceptionnel que le r��alisateur suit en temps r��el afin de d��crypter les enjeux politiques internationaux, m��diatiques et id��ologiques. Une r��flexion sur l'Islam, sur la presse, sur l'��tat de l'opinion dans la soci��t�� fran��aise. Pr��sent�� d��s le 20 octobre en version originale fran��aise.

En documentaire toujours, vibrez au rythme de All Together Now, du r��alisateur canadien Adrian Wills, qui nous fait revivre l'histoire du partenariat des Beatles et du Cirque du Soleil autour de la cr��ation de �� LOVE ��, le spectacle toujours couru de l'h��tel The Mirage �� Las Vegas, et de l'album ��ponyme r��cipiendaire de deux Grammy. Un voyage dans lequel on suit pas �� pas le spectacle, de sa cr��ation �� la grande premi��re. Il met en vedette Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, Yoko Ono et Olivia Harrison de m��me que George et Giles Martin et les cr��ateurs du Cirque. Pr��sent�� d��s le 24 octobre en version originale anglaise avec sous-titres fran��ais.

Apr��s avoir ��t�� critique de cin��ma puis sc��nariste avec Xavier Beauvois (Selon Matthieu, Le Petit Lieutenant) et Deux de Werner Schroeter, C��dric Anger passe �� la r��alisation avec Le Tueur. Un face-��-face moderne entre un tueur et sa cible. Paris, veille de No��l. Lorsque Dimitri Kopas d��barque dans son bureau en se faisant passer pour un client ordinaire, L��o Zimmerman comprend qu'un contrat a ��t�� pass�� sur sa t��te et que le jeune homme est l�� pour l'ex��cuter. D��vor�� par l'angoisse et la parano��a, ne dormant plus, L��o d��cide de venir �� la rencontre du tueur et lui propose un ��trange march��. Le Tueur s'av��re un cocktail costaud de thriller et de drame psychologique. Avec : Gilbert Melki, Gr��goire Colin et M��lanie Laurent. Pr��sent�� d��s le 14 novembre en version originale fran��aise.

Cin��aste prolifique (Bridget, Fast Food Fast Woman), le r��alisateur isra��lien Amos Kollek nous offre son ��uvre la plus personnelle avec Restless, dans laquelle il se consacre pour la premi��re fois �� des personnages masculins. Ce film relate la r��demption d'un po��te isra��lien rat�� devenu escroc depuis qu'il s'est install�� �� New York. Alors qu'un succ��s inesp��r�� vient changer sa vie, son pass�� revient au grand galop quand resurgit un fils abandonn�� vingt ans plus t��t. Restless est un film sur un p��re et son fils, et sur leur qu��te d'une improbable r��demption. Avec : Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Somerville, Michael Moshonov. Pr��sent�� d��s le 21 novembre en version originale anglaise et h��bra��que avec sous-titre fran��ais.

D��s le 21 novembre, Arnaud Desplechin nous offre un conte humain et cruel qui nous emporte et submerge dans un maelstr��m d'��motions insoup��onn��es et inattendues : Un Conte de No��l. Amour, haine, ��go��sme, g��n��rosit�� sont au c��ur de cette trag��die familiale jamais pesante, souvent hilarante et pourtant �� combien tendue voire inqui��tante. Junon, m��re et grand-m��re d'une grande famille, apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie g��n��tique rare. La famille au complet se retrouve dans la maison familiale de Roubaix pour passer No��l ensemble... et trouver un donateur compatible parmi les membres. Cette famille pleine d'esprits et de sentiments contrast��s est compos��e e Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Chiaria Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Cosigny et Emmanuelle Devos. Pr��sent�� en version originale fran��aise.

CIN��-KID : DE RETOUR TOUS LES DIMANCHES �� 13H!

D��s le 2 novembre, c'est le d��but de la saison de Cin��-Kid, le grand ��cran des petits et grands! Une s��lection de films internationaux destin��e aux cin��philes de 3 ans �� 16 ans, pr��sent��e tous les dimanches �� 13h. Une occasion pour d��couvrir en famille le meilleur du cin��ma jeunesse sous toutes ses facettes. Pour lancer la saison, Franz et le chef d'orchestre (d��s 3 ans) ainsi que La Reine Soleil (d��s 8 ans). Une nouveaut�� cette ann��e : l'��quipe de programmation est fi��re de d��voiler la programmation compl��te de la saison, disponible sur notre site web au www.ex-centris.com et �� la billetterie du Cin��ma Ex-Centris. Des cartes-familles au co��t de 50 $ (3 s��ances au choix, 3 personnes �� la fois) seront mises en vente d��s le 31 octobre pour cette s��rie.

Bon cin��ma!

Violin Magic with Schubert and Sarasate

Violin Magic with Schubert and Sarasate

Sinfonia Toronto will present a Masterpiece Series concert on Friday, November 14 at 8 pm in the Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road). Music Director, Nurhan Arman will conduct.

The concert titled 'Violin Magic' will feature the orchestra's concertmaster Violinist Mary-Elizabeth Brown in Schubert's playful Rondo and Sarasate's virtuoso showpiece 'Gypsy Airs'.

In addition to her position as concertmaster of Sinfonia Toronto, Mary-Elizabeth is currently Associate Concertmaster of Orchestra London Canada as well as Concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and of the Britten-Pears orchestra in Aldeburgh, England. She has played under distinguished conductors such as Kryszstof Penderecki, Lorin Maazel, Benjamin Zander, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Isaac Karabtchevsky and Placido Domingo.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the University of Toronto, the City of London, DePaul University, the Hazel Crydermann-Wees Foundation, the Universit�� de Montr��al, Fonds des Amis de l'Art and the American Suzuki Foundation. She has soloed in masterclasses with Regis Pasqier, Pierre Amoyal, Sylvia Rosenberg, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman and the late Lorand Fenyves, among others. She has appeared with the London Youth Symphony, Orchestra London Canada and the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, she has been heard on CBC Radio and at major festivals across Canada including the Scotia Festival, Le Festival Internationale du Domaine Forget and the Banff Summer Arts Festival. She has worked with members of the St. Lawrence, Orford, Artur Leblanc and Brentano Quartets as well as the Gryphon Trio, William Aide and Laurence Lesser. A two-time laureate of the Canadian Music Competition National Finals, she plays on a 1737 Guidantus violin and an F.N. Voirin bow on loan from the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Other works on the program are Janacek's brilliant Suite and Dvorak's romantic Serenade.

There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, conductor and soloists.

Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 905-825-8477 or at the door.

Le nouveau Prix de composition de CBC/Radio-Canada

ESPACE MUSIQUE ET CBC RADIO 2 LANCENT UN TOUT NOUVEAU

CONCOURS DE CR��ATION MUSICALE :

��VOLUTION

Montr��al, 15 octobre 2008 Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada, et CBC Radio 2, en partenariat avec le Banff Centre, sont fiers d'annoncer la naissance du concours ��VOLUTION, le nouveau Prix national de composition de CBC/Radio-Canada.

Date limite d inscription : 15 d��cembre 2008 �� Radio-Canada.ca/evolution

Ouvert �� tous les compositeurs canadiens ou r��sidents permanents ��g��s de 19 �� 35 ans au 15 d��cembre 2008, ��VOLUTION accueille toutes les esth��tiques musicales contemporaines, une vitrine unique sur la cr��ation musicale d'aujourd hui. En plus des 55 000 $ en prix remis par CBC/Radio-Canada et ses collaborateurs, le Banff Centre offre aux cinq finalistes une r��sidence de composition unique, un s��jour de 25 jours (du 2 au 26 mars) au c��ur d'un des plus imposants parcs nationaux canadiens. Cette r��sidence intensive et obligatoire culminera avec la pr��sentation en concert des cinq ��uvres finalistes, le 26 mars 2009, un ��v��nement diffus�� en direct sur CBC Radio 2, �� l'antenne d'Espace musique et en son et en images sur Radio-Canada.ca/evolution.

�� ��VOLUTION a pour but d'identifier et d'encourager les jeunes compositeurs les plus prometteurs au pays, et de d��mystifier, par diff��rents moyens, le processus de cr��ation musicale. Nous esp��rons ainsi mettre en lumi��re l immense talent de ces artistes issus d un milieu encore trop m��connu, tout en jetant un regard attentif et tr��s personnel sur les ��tapes de composition d'une ��uvre ��, ont d��clar�� Christiane LeBlanc et Mark Steinmetz, respectivement premi��re directrice d'Espace musique et directeur de la programmation musicale de CBC Radio 2.

�� partir de toutes les candidatures re��ues au 15 d��cembre 2008, un jury national s��lectionnera cinq finalistes dont les noms seront d��voil��s publiquement le 2 f��vrier 2009. Les cinq compositeurs obtiendront alors des indications leur permettant de proc��der au travail pr��liminaire de composition de l uvre finaliste. Mais c'est �� partir du 2 mars, �� leur arriv��e au Banff Centre, que les compositeurs vivront la partie la plus intense du concours, des moments que pourront suivre dans le d��tail les internautes sur Radio-Canada.ca/evolution. Des entr��es de blogues, des vid��os, des entrevues et autres permettront au grand public de ne rien manquer de cette grande aventure.

CBC/Radio-Canada accordera une bourse de 5000 $ �� chacun des cinq finalistes. De plus, �� l'issue de la grande finale en concert le 26 mars 2009, le Grand Prix national de composition de 20 000 $ sera remis au laur��at par CBC/Radio-Canada et le Conseil des Arts du Canada. Le prix de l'Orchestre de la Francophonie canadienne, sous forme d une commande de 5000 $, sera quant �� lui remis �� l'un des cinq finalistes. Les auditeurs et les internautes seront appel��s �� faire conna��tre leur oeuvre pr��f��r��e par un vote qui d��terminera le laur��at du Prix du public d une valeur de 5000 $, offert par la Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada.

CBC/Radio-Canada est le radiodiffuseur public national du Canada et l'une des plus importantes institutions culturelles du pays. Avec ses 28 services offerts sur toutes ses plateformes radio, t��l��vision, Internet, radio par satellite, audio num��rique, sans compter un service de distribution de disques et de musique, et ses services de messagerie sans fil WAP et SMS , CBC/Radio-Canada est de plus en plus accessible �� tous les Canadiens, en tous lieux, �� tout moment et d innombrables fa��ons.

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Angela Cheng plays Beethoven's beautiful Piano Concerto No.3

Extraordinary Classical pianist Angela Cheng plays

Beethoven���s beautiful Piano Concerto No. 3

Vancouver BC ��� Angela Cheng, one of the world���s finest Classical pianists and a favourite of Vancouver audiences, performs Beethoven���s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor on November 1^st and 3^rd at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre. Guest conductor Yoav Talmi leads the orchestra in Beethoven���s Leonore Overture No.3 and Dvorak���s epic Symphony No. 9 ���From the New World.���

Vancouver audiences welcome the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra back from the 2008 Asia-Pacific Tour in these performances.

����Ķnothing short of magic�Ķa pianist one could listen to for hours�Ķ���

- The Record (Waterloo, Ontario)

Born in Hong Kong to a musical family, Angela Cheng moved to Canada at age 8 and settled in Edmonton. The first concert she attended was Gina Bachauer playing Beethoven���s 3^rd Concerto with the Edmonton Symphony. She knew by then that she wanted to be a first-rate pianist and was well on her way. Cheng studied piano at the Alberta College from age 13 to 17 and the University of Alberta from age 17 to 19. She completed her Bachelors of Music at the Juilliard School in New York and her Masters of Music from Indiana State University.

Angela Cheng is the recipient of numerous awards. The gold medal winner of the 1986 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters competition, Ms. Cheng has earned her reputation as one of Canada���s brightest stars. In 1988, Ms. Cheng became the first Canadian to win the Grand Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition and in 1991 she received the Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg for her interpretations of Mozart.

Ms. Cheng has received international acclaim for her technical skill, tonal beauty, and musicianship. She has performed as a soloist with every major Canadian symphony orchestra as well as several American orchestras and the Israel Philharmonic. Ms. Cheng is busy this season touring across North America. She will be teaching a Masterclass at Florida State University before visiting Vancouver and then she is off to Indiana to perform in recital.

Well known and celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Yoav Talmi is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Quebec Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv. In the past, he has served as Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Music Director of the San Diego Symphony, Music Director of the Arnhem Philharmonic (Netherlands), and Music Director of both - the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the New Israeli Opera.

Both concerts on November 1^st and 3^rd will feature a pre-concert talk by Assistant Conductor Evan Mitchell, free to ticket holders, at 7:05pm in the auditorium.

CONCERT INFO

Masterworks Gold Series

New World Symphony

Yoav Talmi, conductor

Angela Cheng, piano

Beethoven Leonore Overture No.3

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

Dvorak Symphony No.9 From the New World

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

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

BIOGRAPHIES

Yoav Talmi

Maestro Talmi���s long and impressive guest conducting career spans several continents. His European engagements include all the major London orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam���s Concertgebouw, the Symphony Orchestras of Vienna and Prague, the Philharmonic Orchestras of St. Petersburg, Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw and Israel, the Orchestre National de France, Zurich���s Tonhalle, Rome���s Santa Cecilia, and numerous radio orchestras in Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Sweden. He has also made several appearances with the NHK Symphony and the New Philharmonic Orchestras in Japan. In North America, he has appeared with the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Rochester and Seattle, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) and the Orchestra of St. Luke���s at Carnegie Hall.

Yoav Talmi���s summer activities includes the Aspen Music Festival, Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Bergen Festival in Norway, Chautauqua Festival (NY), Helsinki Festival, Houston���s Mostly Mozart Festival, Jerusalem Festival, Montreal���s Lanaudi��re Festival and the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey.

Also a seasoned recording artist, Yoav Talmi has collaborated with Chandos, Decca, EMI, Naxos, Teldec. CBC Records (Toronto), Atma and Analekta (Montreal). His recording of Bruckner���s Ninth Symphony with the Oslo Philharmonic won the prestigious ���Grand Prix du Disque��� in Paris. Mr. Talmi���s recording of Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky with the Israel Chamber Orchestra for Teldec was chosen ���Record of the Month��� by Germany���s Fono-Forum magazine. The London Penguin Guide gave this same recording its highest rating. His recent recording French Showpieces with the Quebec Symphony and violinist James Ehnes was chosen ���Record of the Month��� by the French media magazine Repertoire, who gave this recording a perfect rating. Talmi���s Naxos recordings with the San Diego Symphony feature an all-Berlioz cycle that includes the Symphonie fantastique, the complete overtures, Rom��o et Juliette, Harold in Italy, R��verie et Caprice, excerpts from Les Troyens, and more. He has recorded also as pianist, accompanying his wife, flutist Er���ella Talmi.

Born in Israel, Yoav Talmi is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and The Juilliard School in New York, where he earned degrees in both composition and conducting with grants from the America Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF). He was a recipient of the Koussevitzky Memorial Conducting Prize at the Tanglewood Festival [1969] and the Rupert Conductor���s Competition in London [1973].

Last July 2008, Yoav Talmi was awarded the ���Frank Pelleg��� prize of the Israeli Cultural Ministry, for his high-level artistic achievements through many years of activity and in August 2008 he received the Quebec-City Medal, honoring his special contribution to the city���s 400 anniversary celebrations. Maestro Talmi holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Laval University in Quebec, Canada.

Angela Cheng

Consistently cited for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship, Angela Cheng is one of Canada's brightest stars. She has appeared as soloist with virtually every orchestra in Canada, as well as the Birmingham Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Utah Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, among others. The frequency with which she is re-engaged is remarkable.

Angela Cheng's debut recording of two Mozart concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra received glowing reviews. Other CDs include: for Koch International, Clara Schumann's Concerto in A Minor with JoAnn Falletta and the Women's Philharmonic; for CBC Records, selected works of Clara and Robert Schumann, four Spanish concerti with Hans Graf and the Calgary Philharmonic, and both Shostakovich concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Radio Orchestra. In the fall of 2006, an all- Chopin recital CD for Universal will be released.

Ms. Cheng appears regularly on recital series throughout the U.S. and Canada and has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including the Tak��cs, Colorado and Vogler quartets. Her many festival appearances include Chautauqua, Colorado, Houston, Vancouver and the Festival International de Lanaudi��re in Quebec

Angela Cheng was the 1986 Gold Medal winner at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition as well as the first Canadian to win the prestigious Montreal International Piano Competition (1988). In the same year, the Canada Council awarded Ms. Cheng its coveted Career Development Grant. For her outstanding interpretations of Mozart, she received the Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1991.

WSO Performs Mt. Everest of Piano Works

WSO and Rising Canadian Musician Perform ���Mount Everest��� of Piano Works

OCTOBER 14 -- On October 17 and 18 at the Centennial Concert Hall, Russian-Canadian pianist Sergei Saratovsky and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will scale the world���s highest peak ��� in a musical sense ��� as they perform Sergei Rachmaninoff���s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Rachmaninoff���s third piano concerto is considered by many in the classical music world to be a pianist���s technical and emotional Mount Everest. With a reputation for being one of the most challenging concertos in the piano repertoire, the piece has often come to represent, as in the 1996 film Shine, triumph over great obstacles.

Saratovsky���s long list of triumphs ensures that, this weekend, the piece will be in good hands.

Originally from Karelia, Russia, Saratovsky moved to Canada in 2002 to complete a Masters degree in Piano Performance at Brandon University. He has won numerous International competitions and awards, including one from Russian President Vladimir Putin, recognizing his outstanding achievements in music. Most recently, Saratovsky was selected to play for Governor General Michaelle Jean, as the lone Canadian to reach the finals of the Montreal International Musical Competition. At the concert, in May 2008, Saratovsky also received the award for Best Canadian Artist.

"The sheer power and complexity of this Rachmaninoff piece is something Winnipeggers will want to hear," said WSO Music Director Alexander Mickelthwate. "And we are very lucky to have such a promising Canadian talent perform it with us."

This weekend���s concert will also include the Lemminkainen Suite, Op. 22, by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which was originally conceived as a mythological opera and evokes themes of Finnish history and nationalism, will feature Robin MacMillan on English horn.

Rachmaninoff 3 "Shines" takes place Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $26.25 to $61.00 and are available at the Centennial Concert Hall, by phone 949-3999, online at www.wso.mb.ca or at any Ticketmaster outlet.

Penta��dre : Max et les ogres

Une pr��sentation de Penta��dre

MAX ET LES OGRES

Samedi 1er novembre 2008, 14 h

Pr��sentation des instruments �� vents suivie
d'un magnifique conte pour enfants illustr�� par un th����tre de marionnettes

Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur
100, rue Sherbrooke Est
billets : gratuit pour les enfants - 10 $ adultes
T��l pour r��servations : 514-270-2558

Montr��al, 14 octobre 2008 ��� C���est �� un grand ��v��nement familial que l���ensemble Penta��dre nous convie le samedi 1er novembre prochain, 14 h, �� la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur ! Pr��tant leurs voix et leurs instruments aux protagonistes du magnifique conte Max et les ogres, Penta��dre et la talentueuse marionnettiste Karine St-Arnaud proposent un concert plein de rebondissements et de surprises, alors qu���un ogre se questionnera �� savoir si un clarinettiste a peut-��tre meilleur go��t qu���un champignon !


Programme du concert :

Marjan Mozetich Solos pour quintette �� vents
Christoph Sturzenegger Max et les ogres
sur un texte de Marc Baumgartner


SYNOPSIS
Max et ses amis musiciens sont en retard pour se rendre au concert�Ķ Thierry et Laura, qui jouent du hautbois et du basson, ont pris beaucoup trop de temps pour gratter leurs anches et ranger leurs instruments. Tentant d���arriver tout de m��me �� l���heure pour leur repr��sentation, les trois musiciens d��cident de prendre un raccourci et s���aventurent dans la sombre for��t pr��s de la ville o�� ils habitent. Or, dans cette for��t, vit une famille d���ogres un peu sp��ciale : comme personne ne passe d���ordinaire dans ce sombre bois, ces ogres sont devenus v��g��tariens ! Habitu��s �� ne manger que des champignons, l���aubaine que repr��sente pour la famille d���ogres ces trois musiciens est une occasion �� ne pas manquer!

Finissante de l'option th����tre du Coll��ge Lionel-Groulx en 1997, Karine St-Arnaud est co-fondatrice du Th����tre de la N��vrose!, dont le premier spectacle, White trash, s���est m��rit�� une nomination au Gala des masques 2001 dans la cat��gorie "d��couverte de l'ann��e". Passionn��e par toutes les facettes du jeu et de la cr��ation, Karine consacre pr��sentement ses ��nergies �� la fondation de sa propre compagnie, �� l���int��rieur de laquelle elle se produira en solo, accompagn��e de ses marionnettes qu���elle cr��e en grande partie �� partir de
mat��riaux recycl��s.

Depuis ses d��buts en 1985, Penta��dre se consacre �� la d��couverte d'un r��pertoire de musique de chambre vari��, original et souvent moins connu. Compos�� de cinq musiciens talentueux, dont la technique et la pr��cision de jeu sont unanimement reconnues, Penta��dre effectue des tourn��es au Qu��bec, au Canada, aux ��tats-Unis et en Europe. R��cipiendaire du Prix OPUS 2002 du Meilleur concert de l���ann��e, musique actuelle, contemporaine, ��lectroacoustique, Penta��dre collabore avec des artistes de renom et participe �� des cr��ations audacieuses, dont r��cemment l���op��ra comique A Chair in Love ou L���Amour est un op��ra muet avec les mimes Omnibus. Son enregistrement r��cent du Winterreise de Schubert (version de chambre de Normand Forget), avec le t��nor Christoph Pr��gardien, s���est attir�� des ��loges de la critique internationale.

Conductor Gregory Vajda Joins Pianist William Wolfram

Classic Landmarks Masters

Pianist William Wolfram joins

Conductor Gregory Vajda

For weekend performances straight from

The Russian Heart

October 17^th- 7:30pm, October 18^th- 8:00pm

Edmonton, AB �Ķ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) is pleased to welcome conductor Gregory Vajda (pronounced VOID-ah) for a program that features Russian masterpieces. Hailed as a ���young titan��� by the Montr��al Gazette after conducting the Montr��al Symphony, Maestro Vajda has fast become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene. He makes his ESO debut alongside pianist William Wolfram for Rachmaninoff���s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor. The weekend performances also include Tchaikovsky���s Symphony No. 4 in F minor and Kod��ly���s Dances of Marosszek.

Ticket prices for this performance range from $20-$69 (agency fees apply). Student and senior $20 rush tickets are on sale, subject to availability, two hours prior to performance time. Afterthoughts will feature conductor Gregory Vajda and pianist William Wolfram. Saturday evening���s 7:15 pm Symphony Prelude features conductor/pianist Michael Massey.

The next performance of The Masters takes place on November 15^th & 16^th with conductor Bill Eddins and violinist Livia Sohn.

This series is generously supported by Classic Landmarks Master Builder

Media Sponsor: CKUA Radio Network

COC's January Productions and Programs

Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven

3 performances: January 24, 27 and 30, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

145 Queen St. W. (at University Avenue)

The Canadian Opera Company kicks off its winter season with Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven���s opera of triumphant courage and love in the face of oppression. In Beethoven���s only opera, Leonore, disguised as the young man Fidelio, works at the prison where her husband is unjustly incarcerated. World-renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka makes her role debut as Leonore and American tenor Jon Villars is her great love, Florestan. Gidon Saks sings the villainous Don Pizarro, who unjustly imprisons Florestan. Mats Almgren, a remarkable Hagen in the COC���s Ring Cycle, is the jailer, Rocco and Virginia Hatfield is Marzelline, his daughter. Fidelio is a co-production with Op��ra national du Rhin (ONR) and Staatstheater N��rnberg, a COC collaboration that began last season with Eugene Onegin. German conductor Gregor B��hl makes his company debut leading the COC Orchestra.

Single tickets are $60 ��� $290 (specially priced $20 tickets for young people under the age of 30 go on sale January 17, 2009). Tickets go on sale December 1, 2008 and are available online at www.coc.ca, by calling COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231, or in person at the

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office, 145 Queen St. W., Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Rusalka by Anton��n Dvo��k

1 performance: January 31, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. (Opening performance)

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

145 Queen St. W. (at University Avenue)

The winter season continues with the COC premiere of Anton��n Dvo��k���s Rusalka. In this adult fairy tale, inspired in part by Hans Christian Anderson���s The Little Mermaid, the water nymph Rusalka falls in love with a mortal prince. To be with him, she sacrifices her immortality and her voice. Dvo��k���s dreamy and romantic music, which includes the stunning ���Song to the Moon,��� brings to aching life this beautiful, timeless story.

Julie Makerov returns to sing the title role, and famed Canadian tenor Michael Schade makes his first appearance with the COC in five years as Rusalka���s beloved Prince. Russian powerhouse Irina Mishura, sings Je��ibaba, the malevolent witch. Richard Paul Fink returns to sing the role of Rusalka���s good-natured old friend, the Water Gnome, and former Ensemble soprano Joni Henson is the Foreign Princess vying for the Prince���s heart. Helikon Opera���s artistic director Dmitri Bertman, who staged the COC���s From the House of the Dead, returns to direct this luminous production from Theater Erfurt in Germany.

Single tickets are $60 ��� $290 (specially priced $20 tickets for young people under the age of 30 go on sale January 17, 2009). Tickets go on sale December 1, 2008 and are available online at www.coc.ca, by calling COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231, or in person at the

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office, 145 Queen St. W., Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FREE CONCERT SERIES IN THE

RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

January 15 to January 29, 2009

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

145 Queen St. W. (at University Avenue)

The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre includes concerts, performances and presentations by young musicians, Canadian and international opera stars and COC staff. This is an exciting opportunity for Torontonians to experience the artistic excellence and cultural diversity of the city. All performances are free to the public.

Date	Series	Artist
January 15, 2009 12 ��� 1 p.m.	Dance Series	Founded in 1992 by George Randolph, the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts nurtures Triple Threat�Ѣ; talent from Canada and abroad. The Triple Threat Cabaret is packed with song and dance, showcasing musical theatre hits, featuring the Academy���s recent graduates as well as current students.
January 20, 2009 12 ��� 1 p.m.	Chamber Music Series	Artists of the University of Toronto���s Faculty of Music perform Sound Exploration: New Music Festival Launch. U of T���s distinguished music department perform a series of new works from various chamber ensembles.
January 22, 2009 12 ��� 1 p.m.	Chamber Music Series	Tokai String Quartet, poised to become one of Canada���s leading string quartets, presents Dvo��k���s Quartet No. 12 in F major, the ���American.��� Written during Dvo��k���s sojourn in the United States, the quartet explores themes and colours from Native American and African American music.
January 27, 2009 12 ��� 1 p.m.	Chamber Music Series	Under the direction of Kathleen Rudolph and Paul Widner, the wind and string ensembles of The Glenn Gould School perform a program of Russian chamber music featuring Rimsky-Korsakov���s charming wind quintet as well as music for strings.
January 29, 2009 12 ��� 1 p.m.	Piano Virtuoso Series	Pianist Younggun Kim performs Prokofiev���s legendary Sonata No. 7 ���War Sonata 2/Stalingrad.��� This sonata is a powerful and convincing synthesis of youthful exhibitionism and mature reflection on the most profound issues of the time. The agonizing intensity of the first two movements gives way to an exhilarating jazz-toccata in the finale.

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

After School Opera Program

The Canadian Opera Company���s popular After School Opera Program returns. The program, which introduces young people to all the exciting elements that make up an opera, is $10 for a 10-week session and is held at four convenient locations in Toronto: East York Community Centre; Barbara Frum Community Centre; St. Christopher House Music School; and the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre. Under the guidance of Canadian composer Dean Burry, young people ages 7-12 create an original operatic work based on their own ideas and improvisations. Mr. Burry has worked closely with the COC over the years, composing several children���s operas, including Isis and Seven Scorpions and The Brothers Grimm. No previous music experience is necessary.

After School Opera Program

$10 per session

LOCATION 1 EAST YORK COMMUNITY CENTRE 1081-1/2 Pape Ave. (Pape and O���Connor) Winter Session: January 12 ��� March 9, 2009 Time: Mondays, 4 ��� 6 p.m. Call 416-396-2896 to register	LOCATION 2 BARBARA FRUM COMMUNITY CENTRE 20 Covington Rd. (Lawrence and Bathurst) Winter Session: January 13 ��� March 10, 2009 Time: Tuesdays, 4 ��� 6 p.m. Call 416-395-6122 to register
LOCATION 3 ST. CHRISTOPHER HOUSE MUSIC SCHOOL 248 Ossington Ave. (Dundas and Ossington) Winter Session: January 14 ��� March 11, 2009 Time: Wednesdays, 4 ��� 6 p.m. Call 416-532-4828 to register	LOCATION 4 JOEY AND TOBY TANENBAUM OPERA CENTRE 227 Front St. E. (Front and Berkeley) Winter Session: January 15 ��� March 12, 2009 Time: Thursdays, 4 ��� 6 p.m. Call 416-306-2377 to register

For more information please contact the COC���s Education and Outreach department at 416-306-2377 or visit www.coc.ca.

The After School Opera Program is generously supported by the Imperial Oil Foundation and

Kraft Canada.

Opera 101

The Canadian Opera Company presents Opera 101, a FREE event that treats young adults to a friendly, interactive, and informal discussion. Hosted by CBC Radio���s Brent Bambury, special guests Adrianne Pieczonka and Virginia Hatfield discuss Beethoven���s only opera, Fidelio. World-renowned soprano, Adrianne Pieczonka makes her role debut as Leonore in Fidelio, and soprano Virginia Hatfield, a graduate from the COC Ensemble Studio, returns to sing Marzelline. Together they discuss their experiences in the production; Ms Hatfield as an up-and-coming artist and Ms Pieczonka as an established artist.

Opera neophytes have the chance to enjoy drinks and free munchies while getting the scoop on what opera is all about. Topics covered in the past include the design, production and directorial decisions involved in creating an opera. New this season, audience members are invited to stick around following the discussion to enjoy FREE, live musical entertainment.

Opera 101

FREE

Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St. W.)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

at 7:30 p.m.

For more information please visit www.coc.ca.

The Opera Exchange

The Canadian Opera Company, in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Munk Centre for International Studies, and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, presents

The Opera Exchange, a symposium that provides a thorough and entertaining look at the operas performed during the COC���s 2008/09 season. An extraordinary array of academic specialists present lectures, followed by panel discussions with members of the COC���s creative teams.

During the second instalment of the series, participants have the opportunity to discover new insights about Love and Liberation: Beethoven���s Fidelio, in which a panel of experts explore Beethoven���s only opera. Topics include: the revolutionary and philosophical roots of the opera, its relevance today; the music, politics, and themes of triumph, love and tenderness, highlighted by musical excerpts performed by members of the COC Ensemble Studio.

Love and Liberation: Beethoven���s Fidelio

Saturday, January 31, 2009

9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

$25 per participant ($15 for U of T Faculty and $5 for students)

Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,

The Faculty of Music;

80 Queen���s Park (at Museum subway station)

Order online at www.coc.ca

or call COC Ticket Services at 416-306-2377

Cinq concurrents se m��ritent une place �� la finale du nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada et le prix Messiaen est d��cern�� �� Andrew Dewar

Cinq concurrents se m��ritent une place �� la Finale et le prix Messiaen de 5 000 $ est d��cern��

Cinq concurrents se m��ritent une place �� la finale du nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada et le prix Messiaen est d��cern�� �� Andrew Dewar

Montr��al, le 15 octobre 2008 ��� La premi��re ��dition du Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) continue sur sa lanc��e, maintenant que le nombre de concurrents dans la deuxi��me ��preuve est pass�� de neuf �� cinq. Alors que la premi��re ��preuve rassemblait �� l'��glise Immacul��e-Conception 15 concurrents de onze pays pr��sentant des r��citals compos��s d'��uvres des 17^e et 18^e si��cles avec une place de choix au r��pertoire de Bach, la deuxi��me ��preuve regroupait neuf concurrents de sept pays. En effet, les 13 et 14 octobre sur l'orgue Casavant de l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, chaque concurrent a pr��sent�� un r��cital de 55 minutes compos�� d'��uvres des 19^e et 20^e si��cles, avec une place de choix au r��pertoire de Olivier Messiaen. Des neuf concurrents, cinq ont ��t�� retenus par le jury pour la finale.

Seul concours international d'orgue des Am��riques en 2008, le CIOC tient sa premi��re ��dition �� Montr��al du 8 au 19 octobre dans trois ��glises. Les concurrents s��lectionn��s se disputent des prix et bourses totalisant 72 000 $. �� l'exception du prix du public Richard Bradshaw, le jury international du CIOC, compos�� de neuf ��minents sp��cialistes de la musique d'orgue, attribuera tous les prix. D'ailleurs, �� l'issue du r��cital du dernier concurrent hier soir, le jury a d��lib��r�� pendant environ trente minutes avant de rendre sa d��cision sur les cinq concurrents admis �� la finale et le r��cipiendaire du prix Messiaen de 5 000 $. C'est le directeur artistique du CIOC et pr��sident du jury, John Grew, qui a d��voil�� les noms des cinq finalistes :

Els Biesemans (Belgique) Fr��d��ric Champion (France)

Andrew Dewar (Royaume-Uni) Jens Kornd��rfer (Allemagne)

Dongho Lee (Cor��e du sud)

�� Le CIOC est un concours de haut niveau, attirant 15 virtuoses de l'orgue pour sa toute premi��re ��dition. C'est un v��ritable accomplissement! Quel que soit le r��sultat, ces 15 concurrents font d��sormais partie de l'histoire et du succ��s du CIOC ��, a affirm�� John Grew.

Prix Messiaen

La deuxi��me ��preuve s'est cl��tur��e avec le d��voilement du r��cipiendaire du prix Messiaen de 5 000 $. No��l Spinelli, le pr��sident du conseil d'administration du CIOC, a annonc�� le choix du jury. Le prix est all�� au concurrent britannique, Andrew Dewar, dont l'interpr��tation des pi��ces impos��es de Messiaen, soit Le myst��re de la Sainte Trinit�� et Offrande et All��luia final, ��tait ��mouvante. �� Je ne suis pas surpris qu'Andrew ait remport�� le prix Messiaen. Il est en fait laur��at d'un grand nombre de concours, dont le Concours d'orgue international de St. Albans. J'ai h��te �� la finale. Je suis s��re que ce sera spectaculaire! ��, a d��clar�� M. Spinelli.

Une finale exceptionnelle

La finale se tiendra ce vendredi 17 octobre sur l'orgue Casavant de la basilique Notre-Dame �� compter de 14 h avec, dans l'ordre de passage, les r��citals de Els Biesemans, Jens Kornd��rfer et Andrew Dewar. L'��preuve reprendra �� 20 h avec les deux derniers finalistes, soit Dongho Lee et Fr��d��ric Champion. Les cinq finalistes pr��senteront chacun un r��cital de 60 minutes, dont ils ont choisi eux-m��mes le r��pertoire. En fin de soir��e, le jury d��voilera les laur��ats du Concours, c'est-��-dire les r��cipiendaires du premier, deuxi��me et troisi��me prix.

Quant au prix du public Richard Bradshaw de 5 000 $, le public le d��cernera �� l'un des cinq concurrents qui se produira lors de l'��preuve finale. �� Ce prix honore la m��moire de notre ami et coll��gue, le regrett�� Richard Bradshaw, qui a fortement encourag�� la tenue du Concours ��, a pr��cis�� John Grew, directeur artistique du CIOC. Le public pourra voter sur place le 17 octobre ou sur le site Internet du CIOC (www.ciocm.org) jusqu'�� midi le 19 octobre. Ce prix sera annonc�� lors de la c��r��monie de remise des prix dans le cadre du concert gala de cl��ture le dimanche 19 octobre �� 19 h 30 �� l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Mme Diana Bradshaw pr��sentera en personne le prix du public d��di�� �� la m��moire de son mari Richard Bradshaw.

�� propos du CIOC

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) accueille au pays de jeunes organistes recrut��s �� travers le monde. L'organisme effectue un travail annuel pour promouvoir l'orgue comme instrument majeur dans la culture musicale au pays en plus de contribuer au rayonnement de la musique d'orgue gr��ce au talent de jeunes organistes. Pr��sent�� sur des instruments de qualit�� dans des lieux d'une grande beaut�� architecturale, le CIOC jouera un r��le important dans la mise en valeur du patrimoine qui a fait de Montr��al une r��f��rence nord-am��ricaine dans le domaine de l'orgue. Pour tous les d��tails, visitez le site Web du CIOC au www.ciocm.org.

Les ��xil��s de la lumi��re de Lise Vaillancourt

Du 10 au 20 d��cembre 2008

Les Exil��s de la lumi��re

Pr��sent�� par Le Th����tre du Gant Rouge en codiffusion avec Espace Libre

Texte de Lise Vaillancourt

Mise en sc��ne de Geoffrey Gaqu��re

Avec Carl B��chard, ��milie Bibeau, Markita Boies, Vincent Bolduc, Beno��t Dagenais, Mathieu Gosselin, Johanne Haberlin, Roger Larue, Dominique Leduc, Jean Maheux, Isabelle Roy, Vincent-Guillaume Otis et Jennie-Anne Walker.

D��cor Jean Bard ��� Costumes Catherine Gauthier Musique Nicolas Basque ��� ��clairage Erwinn Bernard ��� Assistance �� la mise en sc��ne et r��gie St��phanie Capistran-Lalonde.

Montr��al, octobre 2008 ��� Un po��te r��ve. Dans son r��ve, il tombe amoureux d'une divinit�� et ��crit une vaste l��gende pour deux anges. Quand il se r��veille, il constate que sa feuille est rest��e blanche. Il sort et croise les personnages de son r��ve qu'il ne reconna��t pas ��videmment. Les personnages le poursuivent jusque dans un caf�� et lui r��clament leur existence jusqu'au moment o�� un ange s'incarne en mettant au monde un c��ur...

Les Exil��s de la lumi��re est un mythe invent�� ; la qu��te d'une jeune divinit�� qui veut devenir humaine. Dans ce r��cit qui rassemble plus d'une vingtaine de personnages, il y a l'Amour, devenu un vieux plaignard laid et manipulateur, le Temps qui vit sous la terre et range les morts, la R��volte de 1837 qui tra��ne derri��re elle sa fille endormie, la R��volution Tranquille, et une kyrielle d'humains, repr��sent��s par des clochards, des mineurs et un po��te qui vit une peine d'amour et n'arrive plus �� ��crire.

Chaque soir, treize acteurs vont cr��er un mythe devant public dans un espace vide.

Lors du lancement de saison d'Espace Libre, l'auteur Lise Vaillancourt, une chandelle �� la main, proclamait :

Nous serons des flambeurs qui jouerons l'histoire d'un nouveau monde qui demande �� na��tre.

Nous dirons comme Apollinaire: �� il n'y a plus rien de commun entre nous et ceux ou celles qui craignent les br��lures ��.

Ainsi, pour vous, nous ferons le th����tre.

Avec une chandelle.

Ce sera votre show de No��l.

Lise VAILLANCOURT a ��crit une quinzaine de pi��ces. Dans les ann��es 80, elle a dirig�� le Th����tre Exp��rimental des Femmes et a fond�� l'Espace Go avec Ginette Noiseux. Elle s'est fait conna��tre avec Billy Strauss, L'Affaire Dumouchon et un petit r��cit, Journal d'une obs��d��e. Trois de ses oeuvres ont ��t�� nomin��es au Prix litt��raire du Gouverneur G��n��ral du Canada. Sa compagnie, Le Th����tre du Gant Rouge, a comme mandat d'explorer la mise en univers de textes contemporains. Deux autres de ses pi��ces seront cr����es dans la saison 2008-2009 : Une Histoire pour Edouard et Tout est encore possible. Geoffrey GAQU��RE a mis en sc��ne Couche avec moi (c'est l'hiver) de Fanny Britt. Il a jou�� dans Elisabeth, roi d'Angleterre au TNM et dans le Roland de la Pire Esp��ce.

LES EXIL��S DE LA LUMI��RE

Du 10 au 20 d��cembre 08

Du mardi au samedi �� 20h / samedi 20 d��cembre 16h et 20h

SOIR��E L��VE-T��T LE JEUDI 18 D��CEMBRE �� 19H, SUIVI D'UNE DISCUSSION AVEC LES ARTISTES

BILLETTERIE: 514-521-4191

Le PC de retour au pouvoir : la FCCF en ��tat de veille

Le PC de retour au pouvoir : la FCCF en ��tat de veille

Ottawa le 15 octobre 2008 - Avec l'annonce du retour du Parti conservateur au pouvoir, la F��d��ration culturelle canadienne-fran��aise (FCCF) avoue qu'elle reste en ��tat de veille face aux nombreuses inconnues de la plate-forme ��lectorale du Parti conservateur et aux d��clarations faites lors de la campagne ��lectorale qui n'avaient rien pour rassurer les milieux artistiques et culturels de la francophonie canadienne.

La pr��sidente de la FCCF, Mme Raymonde Boulay LeBlanc estime qu'�� un gouvernement ��lu se doit de travailler en consultation et en partenariat avec les milieux concern��s par les d��cisions qu'il prend. Dans le contexte de la francophonie canadienne, pour nos organismes artistiques et culturels, un manquement de concertation dans la cr��ation et/ou l'abolition de programmes touchant le d��veloppement du milieu culturel et artistique ��quivaut �� un non respect de la Loi sur les langues officielles. La FCCF esp��re que M. Harper et son prochain gouvernement en seront conscients et vont r��aliser que le Canada, dans une perspective de mondialisation, sera plus fort lorsqu'il pourra offrir �� ses artistes et �� ses cr��ateurs les conditions optimales d'une cr��ation vivante et dynamique et �� ses communaut��s francophones et acadienne, un espace culturel fort. La FCCF attend du prochain gouvernement des politiques volontaristes et des actions appropri��es. ��

Dans ce contexte, la FCCF estime qu'�� un amenuisement de la responsabilit�� du prochain gouvernement f��d��ral en mati��re culturelle ne serait ��tre justifi��. La FCCF sera particuli��rement vigilante �� ce que le futur gouvernement poursuive des investissements en vertu des programmes existants d'agences et minist��res f��d��raux et surtout honore l'annonce faite dans la �� Feuille de route sur la dualit�� linguistique ��. La FCCF veut travailler avec le prochain gouvernement pour la consolidation d��finitive d'un espace culturel francophone ��largi et reconnu au pays et dans le monde. A cet ��gard, la nomination du prochain Ministre de Patrimoine canadien va ��tre un ��l��ment r��v��lateur de la vision que le gouvernement f��d��ral voudra se doter pour les arts et la culture, notamment ceux de la francophonie canadienne. �� d��clare Mme Boulay LeBlanc.

La FCCF est un organisme national dont la mission est de promouvoir l'expression artistique et culturelle des communaut��s francophones et acadienne. Elle r��unit des repr��sentants de sept regroupements nationaux en th����tre, en litt��rature, en chanson-musique, en arts m��diatiques et en arts visuels, ainsi que des repr��sentants de onze provinces et territoires du Canada.

Ne manquez pas la prestation enflamm��e du trio Annie Comtois

Rappel : Ne manquez pas la prestation enflamm��e du trio Annie Comtois de retour �� la magnifique Maison du jazz ce mercredi 15 octobre �� 20h!

Montr��al, le 14 octobre 2008 ��� Dans le cadre de la tourn��e du spectacle Pr��cieuses minutes, la charmante et sympathique Annie Comtois vous invite �� une pr��sentation sp��ciale qui aura lieu ce mercredi 15 octobre, �� la Maison du jazz, 2060, rue Aylmer. Entour��e de Thomas Carbou �� la guitare et de Fran��ois Brisson �� la basse, Annie vous fera vibrer sur des rythmes swing, latin et soul.

C���est un spectacle �� ne pas manquer ! Annie est une artiste dans l���me �� d��couvrir : �� sa voix suave, sa passion enivrante et sa personnalit�� p��tillante �� nous touche �� coup s��r. Cette jeune chanteuse s���inspire de la musique pop et aborde le jazz avec authenticit�� et y ajoute une touche unique de soul! Ses compositions pop-jazz d��voilent des textes d���une po��sie imag��e et empreinte des moments pr��cieux du quotidien et des m��lodies accrocheuses!

Pour ��couter la voix d���Annie en un clic de souris et conna��tre les prochaines dates de ses spectacles, nous vous invitons sur le www.myspace.com/anniecomtois.

Plaisir et ��motions seront de la f��te! En plus d���entendre plusieurs compositions originales d���Annie (dont les cinq figurant sur le mini-album), vous serez berc��s par des grands classiques du jazz et quelques chansons fran��aises reprises dans l���esprit d���improvisation. C���est un spectacle �� voir et �� revoir !

L���admission g��n��rale est de 5 $.

Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane, Productions SuperMusique

Productions SuperMusique
cr��ation, production et diffusion de musiques actuelles

Y��� A DU BRUIT DANS MA CABANE
29e saison : 2008 - 2009
www.supermusique.qc.ca

Montr��al, mardi 14 octobre 2008 ��� Productions SuperMusique, sous la direction artistique des musiciennes Joane H��tu et Danielle Palardy, propose une 29e saison audacieuse et diversifi��e dans l���univers vivifiant de la musique actuelle. Y a du bruit dans ma cabane accueillera 40 cr��ateurs et instrumentistes, artistes chevronn��s et de la rel��ve, qui se relaieront sur diff��rentes sc��nes montr��alaises. Place aux musiques acoustiques et ��lectroniques, musiques d���ensemble, musiques ��crites et improvis��es, cr��ations multim��dias et explorations bruitistes.

Vendredi 31 octobre 2008 �� 20 h 30, �� la salle du O Patro Vys
Fini les bonbons !!!
Un super Coup de c��ur pour le Quintette de l���Halloween et le Duo Zubot & Ceccarelli qui illustrent avec brio le mordant, l���intelligence et la vigueur des jeunes improvisateurs de la sc��ne de la musique actuelle. Une soir��e festive, gourmande et masqu��e.

Mercredi 10 d��cembre 2008 �� 20 h30 au Cabaret Juste pour rire
��a cogne
Un concert lancement de disques avec les duos Fred Frith - Danielle P Roger (Frith + Roger, Pas de deux) et Michel F Cot�� - Isaiah Ceccarelli (Vulgarit��s, duo). Soir��e pr��sent��e en collaboration avec la maison de disques DAME (Distribution Ambiances Magn��tiques Etc).

Mercredi 17 et jeudi 18 d��cembre 2008 �� 20 h 30 �� la Soci��t�� des arts technologiques (SAT)
Y a du bruit dans ma cabane
Le grand concert annuel de SuperMusique dans un d��cor sonore et imag��, concoct�� par les ing��nieux Jean Derome, David Fafard, Colin Gagn��, Joane H��tu, Danielle Palardy Roger et Martin T��treault. Sept musiciens de l���Ensemble SuperMusique interpr��teront des ��uvres qui r��v��leront l���univers personnalis�� de diverses pi��ces d���une maison.

Mercredi 25 mars 2009 �� 20 h30 �� la Sala Rossa
��a frappe
Un concert lancement de disques avec le duo Elliot Sharp et Antoine Berthiaume (BASE) et
un quatuor d���improvisateurs r��unis par Philippe Lauzier (Disparition de l���usine ��ph��m��re).
Soir��e pr��sent��e en collaboration avec DAME.

Mercredi 29 et jeudi 30 avril 2009 �� 20 h 30 au Studio 01 de la Galerie OBORO
Natura Sonoris
Une Carte Blanche offerte �� la bricoleuse de sons Magali Babin autour d���une ��uvre multim��dia, r��unissant autour de Magali Babin, la musicienne Myl��na Bergeron, les concepteurs du duo l����il de verre ainsi que le cin��aste Karl Lemieux.

Mardi 12 mai 2009 �� 20 h 30 �� la Sala Rossa
Soir��e b��n��fice - Coup de chapeau �� Diane Labrosse
Une activit�� de financement pour le Fonds de cr��ation cr���� par PSM pour soutenir la recherche et l���innovation musicale par l���octroi de bourses �� des artistes de la sc��ne de la musique actuelle. Une soir��e d��di��e �� la musicienne Diane Labrosse qui a ��t��, pendant 25 ans, codirectrice artistique de PSM. Au programme, performances, encan et tirage.

PRODUCTIONS SUPERMUSIQUE - SAISON 2008-2009 : des artistes chevronn��s et des artistes palpitants de la rel��ve
M��lanie Auclair, Magali Babin, Marie-Soleil B��langer, R��my B��langer de Beauport, Myl��na Bergeron, Antoine Berthiaume, Guillaume Bloch, Isaiah Ceccarelli,
Guido del Fabbro, Jean Derome, Marie Davidson, Xarah Dion, David Fafard, Bernard Falaise, Fred Frith, Colin Gagn��, Claire Gignac, Normand Guilbeault, Pierre H��bert, Joane H��tu, Diane Labrosse, Philippe Lauzier, Karl Lemieux, Germaine Liu, Elisabeth Lima, ��lodie Lombardo, S��verine Lombardo, Giorgio Magnanensi, Pierre-Yves Martel, L����il de verre, Danielle Palardy Roger, Elliot Sharp, Daniel Souli��res, Pierre Tanguay, Martin T��treault , N��mo Venba
Joshua Zubot

Cr���� en 1979, Productions SuperMusique est enti��rement d��di�� �� la musique actuelle, �� l���improvisation et �� l���exp��rimentation sonore et axe ses activit��s sur la cr��ation, la production, la programmation de concerts �� Montr��al et propose des ateliers de cr��ation sonore destin��s �� de jeunes publics. PSM assure l���organisation des tourn��es internationales de plusieurs ensembles dont le trio Les Poules, le duo Nous per��ons les oreilles /et l���Ensemble SuperMusique

SuperMusique est membre de Le Vivier, un regroupement de 22 ensembles et organismes qui ��uvre dans le secteur des musiques nouvelles et qui s���est donn�� comme objectif premier, d���tablir un lieu de diffusion, de cr��ation, d���change et de formation au c��ur de Montr��al

Cet automne au Cin��ma Parall��le!

Cet automne au Cin��ma Parall��le

La M��moire des anges (Luc Bourdon) / L'Homme sur le fil (James Marsh) Un Capitalisme sentimental (Olivier Asselin) Sous la cagoule, un voyage au bout de la torture (Patricio Henriquez) Eldorado (Bouli Lanners) / Papa �� la chasse aux lagop��des (Robert Morin) Et plusieurs autres d��couvertes et soir��e festive

Montr��al, le mardi 14 octobre 2008 ��� Pour c��l��brer l'arriv��e des couleurs de l'automne, le Cin��ma Parall��le, v��ritable moteur de la diffusion cin��matographique ind��pendante au Qu��bec, vous en mettra plein la vue avec une programmation mettant de l'avant le talent de chez nous. Sept films audacieux : cinq ��uvres qu��b��coises, une com��die belge et un documentaire anglais sur un ��tonnant personnage; voil�� la recette pour un automne ��clatant ! Le Cin��ma Parall��le vous propose un parcours cin��matographique captivant plac�� sous le th��me de l'Histoire�Ķ

Montr��al 1950-1960

Pour d��buter sa programmation d'automne, le Cin��ma Parall��le pr��sente un assemblage virtuose d'archives et d'extraits tir��s de 120 films produits par l'ONF. �� la fois documentaire, po��me et essai, La M��moire des anges de Luc Bourdon est une exp��rience unique permettant de visiter le Montr��al des ann��es 1950 et 1960 avec ses grandes figures, ses lieux embl��matiques et ses citoyens ordinaires. Le film se d��ploie telle une prodigieuse le��on d'histoire : du Red light au maire Jean Drapeau, du march�� de la place Jacques-Cartier aux grands magasins du centre-ville, de la construction de la Place Ville-Marie aux usines de textile. Un hommage �� la vitalit�� de Montr��al et une d��claration d'amour au cin��ma qui saura s��duire les spectateurs de toutes les g��n��rations. Pr��c��d�� du court m��trage Rosa Rosa de F��lix Dufour-Laperri��re, cette programmation est pr��sent��e d��s le 20 octobre en version originale fran��aise.

New York, 1974

R��cipiendaire du Prix du public et du Prix du jury du cin��ma international au Festival Sundance 2008, L'homme sur le fil (Man on wire) de James Marsh reconstitue le "crime artistique du si��cle". Ce superbe documentaire britannique dresse le portrait d'un Icare moderne, autodidacte de la cabriole �� 400 m��tres de hauteur, un acrobate qui allie habilement adresse, charisme et coordination. Le 6 ao��t 1974, Philippe Petit tend un c��ble entre les deux tours du World Trade Center, �� 1300 pieds d'altitude, alors les immeubles les plus hauts du monde, et passe presque une heure �� danser en l'air avant de se faire arr��ter par la police. Sur fond d'images d'archives et de sc��nes de reconstitution, Philippe Petit en personne raconte cette extraordinaire aventure. Pr��sent�� d��s le 20 octobre en version originale anglaise et fran��aise avec sous-titres fran��ais.

Les ann��es folles �� Paris

�� l'aube du krach d'octobre 1929, Fernande Bouvier, une jeune femme na��ve qui r��ve d'amour et de beaut��, est l'objet d'un sinistre pari entre trois hommes d'affaires. Un capitalisme sentimental d'Olivier Asselin raconte l'histoire d'un sp��culateur boursier qui pr��tend pouvoir faire augmenter la valeur de n'importe quoi, m��me celle d'une pauvre artiste rat��e sans talent et sans qualit��. �� Ce qui importe ce n'est pas l'offre mais la demande, et la demande ��a se cr��e ! �� Film d'ouverture du Festival du nouveau cin��ma 2008. Avec : Lucille Fluet, Sylvie Moreau, Paul Ahmarani. Pr��sent�� �� compter du 31 octobre en version originale anglaise et fran��aise, sous-titr��e en fran��ais.

L'apr��s 11 septembre 2001�Ķ

Avec le 11 septembre 2001 est n�� un Nouvel Ordre mondial. La guerre contre le terrorisme donne aujourd'hui lieu �� une violence institutionnalis��e qui s'exerce en toute impunit��. Le documentaire Sous la cagoule, un voyage au bout de la torture de Patricio Henr��quez retrace le parcours d'individus qui ont ��t�� tortur��s en toute ill��galit�� par des ��tats d��mocratiques s��rs de leur bon droit. Il illustre le drame m��connu des victimes de cette nouvelle barbarie et donne ainsi un vrai visage �� la souffrance. Pr��sent�� �� partir du 7 novembre en version originale fran��aise, pachtoune, arabe, anglaise & espagnole, sous-titr��e en fran��ais

Transposer sa propre histoire

Eldorado (Bouli Lanners) est une com��die belge �� destins crois��s. Yvan, dealer de voitures vintage, la quarantaine col��rique, surprend le jeune Elie en train de le cambrioler. Pourtant, il ne lui casse pas la gueule. Au contraire, il se prend d'une ��trange affection pour lui et accepte de le ramener chez ses parents au volant de sa vieille Chevrolet. Commence alors le curieux voyage de deux bras cass��s �� travers un pays magnifique, mais tout aussi d��jant��! �� L'id��e du film est inspir��e d'un fait r��el : une nuit, en rentrant chez moi, j'ai surpris deux cambrioleurs, l'un planqu�� sous mon lit, l'autre sous mon bureau ! Un moment de vie improbable ; trois types qui ont la trouille et une longue nuit de discussion. ��, Bouli Lanners au sujet de l'origine de son film. Avec : Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde. Pr��sent�� d��s le 14 novembre, en version originale fran��aise.

Le��on d'��conomie (�� la mani��re de Robert Morin)

Dans Papa, �� la chasse aux lagop��des, dernier opus du prolifique r��alisateur Robert Morin, Vincent Lemieux, un fraudeur notoire et recherch�� par la police, pr��tend partir �� la chasse aux lagop��des alors qu'il prend la fuite vers le Grand Nord en vue de s'��chapper du pays. Durant son trajet, il se confie sur bande vid��o pour s'excuser �� ses deux fillettes de leur imposer l'ignominie d'avoir un p��re criminel. Au fil de ses aveux, Vincent Lemieux s'embourbe litt��ralement dans une lutte �� finir entre le repentir v��ritable et la bonne conscience. Avec Fran��ois Papineau. Pr��sent�� �� compter du 21 novembre, en version originale fran��aise.

Voyage au Moyen-Orient

Alors que des artistes arabes comme Walid Raad se consacrent r��solument �� l'art de la repr��sentation de soi, plusieurs cr��ateurs occidentaux, d��sireux de pr��senter la crise au Moyen-Orient sous un autre jour, suscitent des d��bats autour du th��me : �� comment s'��crit l'histoire et qui s'en charge ��. I Don't Want You To Know Who I Am : Voyage Au Moyen-Orient (en passant par le Midwest) regroupe le travail de quatre artistes (Paul Chan, John Smith, David Thorne, Julia Meltzer) qui s'int��ressent �� cet enjeu. Dans toutes ces ��uvres, la po��sie pr��vaut sur le jugement de l'histoire. Cette soir��e vid��o a ��t�� pr��par��e pour le Vid��ographe par l'artiste Fr��d��ric Moffet, en collaboration avec le Video Data Bank (Chicago). Pr��sent�� le 14 novembre �� 21H en version originale multilingue sous-titr��e en anglais.

Fond�� en 1967, le Cin��ma Parall��le est un organisme �� but non lucratif qui d��fend le cin��ma ind��pendant et la vid��o du Qu��bec et du Canada, encourage la rel��ve et fait d��couvrir de nouveaux auteurs internationaux. Le Cin��ma Parall��le est le laur��at du Grand Prix 2001 du Conseil des arts de Montr��al. Le Cin��ma Parall��le remercie de leur soutien : la Soci��t�� des entreprises culturelles du Qu��bec, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, T��l��film Canada, le Conseil des Arts de Montr��al et Propri��t��s Terra Incognita.

Marquis Classics releases new Sinfonia Toronto CD

A new CD by Sinfonia Toronto has just been released by Marquis Classics. "Flanders Fields Reflections" is conducted by the orchestra's Music Director Nurhan Arman and dedicated to string compositions by Canadian composer John Burge. Works on the CD include One Sail, which features the renowned Canadian cellist Shauna Rolston.

Maestro Arman expressed delight with the release. "John's wonderful music for strings has been in our repertoire for a number of years. We had already performed the Toronto premieres of his Upper Canada Fiddle Suite and One Sail, and also the world premiere of Flanders Fields Reflections, which was a Sinfonia Toronto commission and the first orchestral work ever composed about the famous Canadian poem. Recording these works was a real labour of love for us, and we are delighted that now people across Canada will be able to listen to these remarkable compositions. We have a strong commitment to performing Canadian music and other contemporary compositions from around the world, and it's a great privilege to help pieces as beautiful as these become better known."

The Flanders Fields CD is now available online on the Sinfonia Toronto website www.sinfoniatoronto.com, and will also be available in retail stores and directly from Marquis Classics www.marquisclassics.com.

Les Violons du Roy accueillent le virtuose de la fl��te Maurice Steger

Fl��tes alors !

Bernard Labadie, chef d���orchestre
Maurice Steger, fl��te �� bec

S��rie Baroque avant tout
Mardi 4 novembre, 20 h
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

S��rie chefs-d����uvre du matin
Mardi 4 novembre, 10 h 30
Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm (Qu��bec)

G.P. Telemann Ouverture en sol majeur �� des Nations anciens et modernes ��, TWV 55 :G4
Suite en la mineur pour fl��te �� bec alto, cordes et basse continue TWV 55a
G. Sammartini Concerto en fa majeur pour fl��te �� bec soprano, cordes et basse continue
C. Avison Concerto grosso no 1 en la majeur (d���apr��s D. Scarlatti)
A. Vivaldi Concerto en do majeur pour fl��te �� bec sopranino, cordes et basse continue, RV 443

Qu��bec, le 14 octobre ��� Le mardi 4 novembre, pour d��buter la s��rie Baroque avant tout, Bernard Labadie et Les Violons du Roy proposent une soir��e surprenante et ��lectrisante avec le Suisse Maurice Steger, l���un des plus influents virtuoses de la fl��te �� bec qui, pour l���occasion, jouera brillamment sur trois diff��rents instruments. Les ��uvres avec soliste seront aussi donn��es �� 10 h 30 dans le cadre de la s��rie de concerts comment��s Chefs-d����uvre du matin.

�� L���nergie qu���il d��ploie est tr��s contagieuse ��
L���un des solistes les plus populaires de sa g��n��ration, Maurice Steger est reconnu internationalement pour ses interpr��tations virtuoses et innovatrices de musiques baroques italiennes et anglaises. Le fl��tiste joue tant avec les orchestres symphoniques modernes qu���avec les orchestres aux instruments anciens r��put��s tels que l��� Akademie f��r Alte Musik de Berlin, la Musica Antiqua K��ln, l���orchestre baroque Europa Galante, les Accademia Bizantina ou I Barocchisti. Parmi ses enregistrements prim��s r��alis��s sous ��tiquette Claves Records figure Suites & Concerto pour fl��te �� bec et orchestre de Telemann un CD qui s���est m��rit�� des distinctions dans le monde entier dont un Diapason d'or, un Choc du Monde de la Musique, et 10 / 10 du Mois du magazine Classics today.

La fl��te �� bec : L���une des �� favorites �� de l���poque baroque
L���poque allant de 1690 �� 1750 constitue sans contredit l���apog��e de la fl��te �� bec en tant qu���instrument soliste et concertant. De la plume de plusieurs compositeurs naissent alors de nombreuses ��uvres mettant en lumi��re le caract��re tour �� tour brillant, chaleureux et volubile de la fl��te �� bec soprano, alto et sopranino. Le programme du concert propose d���abord la Suite en la mineur pour fl��te �� bec alto, cordes et basse continue de Telemann, une ��uvre c��l��brissime qui devint au cours des ann��es 1960 un v��ritable �� tube �� de la musique baroque. Puis, le public pourra d��couvrir le Concerto en fa majeur pour fl��te �� bec soprano, cordes et basse continue de Sammartini, lui-m��me virtuose de la fl��te �� bec et pour qui Vivaldi composa la derni��re ��uvre au programme, le Concerto en do majeur pour fl��te �� bec sopranino, un sommet de virtuosit�� qui soul��vera assur��ment le public.

En d��but de concert, Les Violons du Roy, sous la direction de Bernard Labadie, interpr��teront l���Ouverture en sol majeur �� des Nations anciens [sic] et modernes �� dans laquelle Telemann d��peint avec humour les principaux peuples faisant commerce �� Hambourg. Le programme sera compl��t�� par le Concerto grosso en la majeur no 1 de Charles Avison, une ��uvre refl��tant l���enthousiasme du compositeur anglais pour le recueil de 42 sonates pour clavecin de Domenico Scarlatti, qui renferme une musique originale et haute en couleurs.

La saison 2008-2009 �� Qu��bec est pr��sent��e par Hydro-Qu��bec, partenaire de saison. La S��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin est une pr��sentation du Mouvement des caisses Desjardins.

S��rie Baroque avant tout
Ann��e anniversaire pour Handel, Haydn et Purcell, ces compositeurs sont au c��ur de la s��rie Baroque avant tout. Cinq concerts qui pr��sentent notamment la c��l��bre Water Music et l���ode pastorale l���Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato de Handel avec l���orchestre baroque Arion et La Chapelle de Qu��bec, le Stabat Mater de Haydn ainsi que diverses musiques instrumentales de Purcell. Le violon endiabl�� d���Elizabeth Wallfisch fera aussi partie de la f��te !

S��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin
La s��rie Chefs-d����uvre du matin est de retour, cette fois avec une offre de cinq concerts. Ces concerts comment��s par les chefs et ponctu��s de d��monstrations des musiciens permettent aux m��lomanes d���enrichir leur exp��rience du concert. D���une dur��e d���environ 70 minutes sans entracte, ces concerts ont lieu en matin��e �� 10 h 30.

L���abonnement

Abonnez-vous �� l���une des s��ries de la Saison 2008-2009 et profiter d���un rabais sur le tarif r��gulier et de nombreux privil��ges. En vous abonnant avant le 31 octobre, vous courez la chance de gagner l���un des trois prix du concours �� Trois chances plut��t qu���une ��. Tous les d��tails sont disponibles dans la brochure de saison ou sur le site : violonsduroy.com.

Nouveaut�� : la formule Trio D��couverte permet de cr��er votre s��rie de 3 concerts parmi 14 grands concerts du soir et de d��couvrir ainsi la gamme vari��e du r��pertoire des Violons du Roy. Vous pouvez choisir autant de trios que vous le d��sirez�Ķ

Le tarif 29 ans et moins de retour !
Un concert de haut niveau au m��me prix qu���un film, soit seulement 12,50 $.

Information et R��servation

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

Concerts �� venir au Palais Montcalm :
Mercredi 12 novembre, 14 h et 20 h :
Au son du cor !
Bernard Labadie, chef
S��ries Da Camera et Chefs-d����uvre du matin

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Le jury du Concours international d'orgue du Canada annonce les dix concurrents admis �� la deuxi��me ��preuve et le gagnant du prix Bach

Dix concurrents se m��ritent une place dans la deuxi��me ��preuve et le prix Bach de 5 000 $ est d��cern��!

Le jury du Concours international d'orgue du Canada annonce les dix concurrents admis �� la deuxi��me ��preuve et le gagnant du prix Bach

Montr��al, le 13 octobre 2008 ��� La premi��re ��dition du Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) s'est amorc�� sur une bonne note mercredi dernier, alors que la premi��re ��preuve a vu 15 jeunes organistes de 11 pays se produire sur l' orgue Beckerath de l'��glise Immacul��e-Conception. Entre les 8 et 10 octobre, chaque concurrent a jou�� un r��cital de 45 minutes compos�� d'��uvres des 17^e et 18^e si��cles avec une place de choix au r��pertoire de Johann Sebastian Bach. Parmi les 15, dix ont ��t�� admis �� la deuxi��me ��preuve.

Seul concours international d'orgue des Am��riques en 2008, le CIOC tient sa premi��re ��dition �� Montr��al du 8 au 19 octobre dans trois ��glises. Les 15 concurrents qui ont ��t�� s��lectionn��s pour la premi��re ��preuve du Concours se disputent des prix et bourses totalisant 72 000 $. �� l'exception du prix du public Richard Bradshaw, le jury international du CIOC, compos�� de neuf ��minents sp��cialistes de la musique d'orgue, attribuera tous les prix. D'ailleurs, �� l'issue du r��cital du dernier concurrent, le jury a d��lib��r�� pendant trente minutes avant d'annoncer les 10 concurrents s��lectionn��s pour la deuxi��me ��preuve en m��me temps que le r��cipiendaire du prix Bach de 5 000 $. C'est le directeur artistique du CIOC et pr��sident du jury, John Grew, qui a d��voil�� les dix concurrents :

Federico Andreoni (Italie) Els Biesemans (Belgique) Fr��d��ric Champion (France) Andrew Dewar (Royaume-Uni) Jens Kornd��rfer (Allemagne)

Christian Lane (��tats-Unis) Dongho Lee (Cor��e du sud) Ka Young Lee (Cor��e du sud) Jonathan Oldengarm (Canada) Sunny Son (��tats-Unis).

�� Le CIOC est un concours de haut niveau. Quelque soit le r��sultat, il reste que nos 15 concurrents ont ��t�� les premiers �� participer au nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada. Ils ont ��crit une page dans notre histoire et je les en remercie ��, a affirm�� John Grew.

La premi��re ��preuve s'est cl��tur��e avec le d��voilement du r��cipiendaire du prix Bach. No��l Spinelli, le pr��sident du conseil d'administration du CIOC, a annonc�� le choix du jury. C'est la concurrente belge, Els Biesemans, dont l'interpr��tation des pi��ces impos��es de Bach ��tait remarquable qui s'est m��rit��e le prix. �� Je dois admettre que son r��cital de Bach ��tait extraordinaire. Maintenant Je suis curieux d'entendre les dix concurrents de la deuxi��me ��preuve pour d��couvrir qui remportera le prix Messiaen ��, a d��clar�� M. Spinelli.

La deuxi��me ��preuve se tient les 13 et 14 octobre sur l'orgue Casavant de l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, o�� chacun des dix concurrents pr��sentera un r��cital de 55 minutes compos�� d'��uvres des 19^e et 20^e si��cles, avec une place de choix au r��pertoire de Olivier Messiaen. �� la fin de cette ��preuve, le jury choisira les cinq concurrents qui se produiront en finale �� la basilique Notre-Dame le 17 octobre, et annoncera le r��cipiendaire du prix Messiaen de 5 000 $. Pour l'ordre de passage des concurrents �� la deuxi��me ��preuve, visitez www.ciocm.org.

�� propos du CIOC

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) accueille au pays de jeunes organistes recrut��s �� travers le monde. L'organisme effectue un travail annuel pour promouvoir l'orgue comme instrument majeur dans la culture musicale au pays en plus de contribuer au rayonnement de la musique d'orgue gr��ce au talent de jeunes organistes. Pr��sent�� sur des instruments de qualit�� dans des lieux d'une grande beaut�� architecturale, le CIOC jouera un r��le important dans la mise en valeur du patrimoine qui a fait de Montr��al une r��f��rence nord-am��ricaine dans le domaine de l'orgue. Pour tous les d��tails, visitez le site Web du CIOC au www.ciocm.org.

Henry Du Mont

New volume in the monumental edition of French baroque composer H. Du Mont

Before his installation in Versailles in 1682, the Sun King organized his official music around three talented composers : J.-B. Lully for secular music and, for sacred music, Henry Du Mont and his colleague Pierre Robert. This period was decisive in the creation of French musical style and of the splendour of Versailles. This scholarly edition of the music of Henry Du Mont sheds light on a little-known aspect of the history of baroque music in France and offers to performers, singers and choral groups the opportunity of rediscovering a remarkable musical heritage.

This volume, edited by Laurence Decobert and based on the original publication in 1681, collects a representative sample of sacred works composed before the installation of the King in Versailles. Du Mont, who was then 70, published 37 motets and 3 instrumental pieces mostly composed for the daily mass of Louis XIV. The composer, near the end of his career as choirmaster of the Royal Chapel, choose a sumptuous selection from his huge output.

The volume contains motets for one to four voices and also includes motets which can be performed with two choirs. Most of the works are accompanied by instruments ad libitum - often 1 or 2 violins (or treble viols; the composer use the ambiguous abbreviation "viol.") ��� but some require "symphonies" (a small string orchestra). The motets are elegant, varied, and relatively easy to perform.

In a very detailed preface, the editor presents the numerous printed and manuscript sources of these motets, describing and comparing them very precisely ��� dating, corrections by the composer, the meticulous details for the performers. The circulation of these works is discussed, with particular attention given to a copy made by the English composer John Blow, which was itself copied until the early 19th century. Also discussed are the vocal and instrumental requirements, innovations in notation (links between two chords in figured bass), the ossia, time signatures, the origins and functions of the sacred texts used, and much more.

This volume contains, in addition to the preface in French and English and the scores of these 40 pieces, all the texts of the motets (in Latin with French and English translation), 13 facsimiles and, at the end, a critical apparatus. Material for performance is also available separately in set of parts for singers and for instruments.

Laurence Decobert, who has a doctorate in musicology from the Sorbonne, is a librarian in the Department of Music of the Biblioth��que nationale de France. She devotes part of her research to religious music in France in the second half of the seventeenth century and has edited several volumes of grands motets by Henry Du Mont published by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. She is currently preparing a monograph on the choirmaster of Louis XIV. She also interested in collection of early music in the department of music of the Biblioth��que nationale de France and has just published an article on the collection Philidor in the Revue de Musicologie.

Du Mont suggests alternative voices for twelve of the motets. The original version is published in the critical edition. Vocal parts, which include original and all alternative versions, are also available. For example, the full score for the motet O nomen Jesu is available for 2 sopranos in the parts for "Motets �� 2 voix, vol. 1 (voix de dessus)" and also in the alternative version suggested by Du Mont for high tenor and tenor in the parts for "Motets �� 2 voix, vol. 3 (voix d'hommes 1)".

For more information, prices and ordering information, please visit the online shop of the Editions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles: http://editions.cmbv.fr/achat/new.php?langue=en

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Henry Du Mont, Motets �� II, III et IV parties (1681), ��dition scientifique de Laurence Decobert (CMBV)

Cette edition scientifique de la musique d'Henry Du Mont ��claire une partie peu connue de la musique baroque en France et permet aux interpr��tes, chanteurs ou ch��urs, d'acc��der �� un remarquable patrimoine musical. Avant son installation �� Versailles, le Roi-Soleil organise sa musique officielle autour de 3 talentueux compositeurs. Jean-Baptiste Lully se charge (principalement) de la musique profane et Henry Du Mont et Pierre Robert se partagent la charge de sous-ma��tre de la Chapelle Royale. Tous trois orienterons de mani��re d��cisive le style musical fran��ais caract��ristique de la splendeur de Versailles.

Ce recueil, publi�� par Christophe Ballard en 1681, rassemble un ��chantillon repr��sentatif du r��pertoire ex��cut�� �� la messe de Louis XIV avant l'installation de la Cour �� Versailles. En effet, Henry Du Mont, qui a alors 70 ans, pr��sente au public 37 motets et 3 pi��ces instrumentales majoritairement compos��s pour la messe quotidienne de Louis XIV. Le compositeur organise et supervise de pr��s cette ��dition : le choix des ��uvres est somptueux, le sous-ma��tre de la Chapelle royale, en fin de carri��re, pouvant se targuer d'un catalogue important.

Le volume contient des motets pour des effectifs vocaux allant de 2 �� 4 voix, mais aussi des pi��ces �� 1 voix et 4 motets pouvant s'ex��cuter �� �� deux ch��urs ��. La plupart sont accompagn��s par des instruments ad libitum ��� souvent 1 ou 2 violons (ou violes, le compositeur laissant planer une ambigu��t�� par l'usage de l'abr��viation �� viol. ��) ��� et certains n��cessitent des �� symphonies �� (un petit orchestre �� cordes). On trouvera l�� des ��uvres ��l��gantes, de caract��res vari��s et d'une ex��cution relativement ais��e.

Dans une pr��face tr��s d��taill��e, l'��diteur scientifique pr��sente les nombreuses sources imprim��es et manuscrites de ces motets en les d��crivant et les comparant tr��s pr��cis��ment. La question de la circulation des ��uvres est abord��e ��� notamment des copies de la main du compositeur anglais John Blow qui furent elles-m��mes copi��es jusqu'au d��but du 19^e si��cle ��� la datation des ��uvres, les corrections que le compositeur a port��es sur les exemplaires imprim��s, ses pr��cisions m��ticuleuses pour les interpr��tes. Sont ��galement trait��s la question des effectifs vocaux et instrumentaux, les innovations techniques d'��criture (liaison des chiffrages de basse continue), les ossia, les chiffres de mesure, l'origine et les attributions des textes utilis��s, etc.

Ce volume contient, outre la pr��face en fran��ais et en anglais et la musique, tous les textes des motets (avec leur traduction en fran��ais et anglais), 13 fac-simil��s et, en fin de volume, un appareil critique.

Laurence Decobert est conservateur au d��partement de la Musique de la Biblioth��que nationale de France et docteur en musicologie (Paris-Sorbonne). Elle consacre une partie de ses recherches �� la musique religieuse en France dans la seconde moiti�� du XVII^e si��cle, a ��galement r��alis�� plusieurs volumes de grands motets de Henry Du Mont aux ��ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles et pr��pare actuellement une monographie sur le sous-ma��tre de Louis XIV. Elle s'int��resse par ailleurs �� la mise en valeur des collections anciennes du d��partement de la Musique et vient de publier un article sur La collection Philidor dans la Revue de musicologie.

Henry Du Mont propose des effectifs alternatifs pour 12 de ces motets. Pr��sent��s dans ce volume critique comme dans l'��dition de 1681, ils sont transpos��s pour les interpr��tes dans nos �� tir��s-��-part ��. Le motet O nomen Jesu, par exemple, se trouve dans :

• Motets �� 2 voix, vol. 1 (voix de dessus), version originale pour voix de dessus et bas-dessus ;
• Motets �� 2 voix, vol. 3 (voix d'hommes, 1), pour voix de haute-contre et taille, les voix ayant ��t��, dans ce recueil, transpos��es �� l'octave inf��rieure comme le sugg��re Du Mont.

Met Opera singers in "Fugitives"

New York Festival of Song Presents
Fugitives
Concert, Theater, and Film Music by Composers Fleeing Hitler's Europe:
Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, and Many Others

November 18 and 20 at Merkin Concert Hall

Artists: Metropolitan Opera's Joseph Kaiser and Kate Lindsey, pianist/host Steven Blier

New York Festival of Song, whose recent A Bernstein/Bolcom Celebration was performed with "Comic and dramatic flair," (The New York Times) presents Fugitives, songs by composers who fled Hitler's Europe, on November 18 and 20 at the newly restored Merkin Concert Hall. The program will feature music from Broadway, the concert stage and Berlin cabaret by Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, Alexander Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and many others.


Fugitives will be sung by two of the Metropolitan Opera's rising young stars. Tenor Joseph Kaiser currently appears as Narraboth in Salome and was last season's Rom��o opposite Anna Netrebko. Mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey will be featured in Met productions of The Magic Flute, Rusalka and The Ring Cycle, and makes her guest artist debut with the New York Philharmonic in a concert performance of L'enfant et les sortil��ges, conducted by Lorin Maazel. Once again, New York Festival Of Song Artistic Director Steven Blier, a "national treasure when it comes to the art of song," (The New York Times) will be the pianist/host for the evening.

Curtain time for both concerts is 8 PM. Tickets for Fugitives are $40 - $55. Call (212) 501-3330, or visit www.kaufman-center.org. Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center is at 129 West 67tg Street, New York, NY 10023. There are also a limited number of $15 student tickets available by calling (646) 230-8380. For more information about New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS), please visit their website at www.nyfos.org.

Program

Altdeutsches Minnelied (Old German Love Song) Alexander von Zemlinsky
Meeraugen (Eyes of the Sea) Zemlinsky
Gefasster Abschied (Calm Departure) Erich Korngold
Sommer (Summer) Korngold
Unendliche Liebe (Eternal Love) Franz Schreker
Rosentod (The Death of Roses) Schreker
The Lottery Agent's Tango (from Silbersee) Kurt Weill
Waldsonne (Sun in the Forest) Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung (Expectation) Schoenberg
Wenn der alte Motor wieder takt (When the old car starts
up again) Friedrich Hollaender
Die Ballade von Wasserad (The Song of the Water Wheel) Hanns Eisler
��ndere die Welt, sie braucht es
(The World is in Need of Change) Eisler

O sch��ne Hand, Kelch, dessen Duft Musik  (Oh lovely                                      Viktor Ullmann hand, chalice of music's scent)      

F��nf Lieder (Five Songs) Hans Kr��sa
Ihr M��dchen seid wie die G��rten (Your Girl is like a Garden)
An die Br��der (To a Brother)
Mach, dass etwas uns geschieht! (Pray that something happens to us!)
Die Liebe (Love)
Vice versa
The Sleepless Lady Kurt Tucholsky

How Can You Tell an American,
from Knickerbocker Holiday Weill
O mistress mine Korngold
Elend (Misery) Zemlinsky
Black Market Frederick Hollaender
Love Song, from Love Life Weill
Wie lange noch? (How much longer?) Weill
Arizona Marsch, from Arizona Lady Emmerich K��lm��n

(Program subject to change)


Canadian-born tenor JOSEPH KAISER starred as Tamino in the Kenneth Branagh film adaptation of The Magic Flute. This season he will make two highly anticipated debuts: at the Los Angeles Opera as Tamino under the baton of James Conlon, and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Jen fa. He returns to the Salzburg Festival as Septimius in a new Christoph Loy production of Handel's Theodora. His concert schedule includes performances of the Berlioz Requiem under Marek Janowski, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Christoph von Dohn��nyi and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Mendelssohn's Elijah with Yannick N��zet-S��guin and the Orchestre M��tropolitain du Grand Montr��al. Mr. Kaiser has appeared at the Caramoor Festival in a joint program with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, which was presented under the auspices of the New York Festival of Song (available on Bridge Records), in Chicago at the Chicago Humanities Festival, in Montreal with the Andr�� Turp Society, and on the Debut Series of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

KATE LINDSEY made her debut this summer at the Tanglewood Festival in a concert version of Les Troyens conducted by James Levine, and appeared in two other chamber music concerts at the festival. Other recent engagements have included appearances at the Metropolitan Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (opposite Bryn Terfel) and St��phano in Rom��o et Juliette (with Mr. Kaiser and Anna Netrebko); debuts with the Boston Lyric Opera as Cherubino, the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a new commission by John Harbison conducted by James Levine, the Cleveland Orchestra in performances of Haydn's Harmoniemesse conducted by Franz Welser-M��st, and the Met Chamber Ensemble in Zankel Hall. She also appeared as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and St��phano at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Wolf Trap Opera.


NYFOS Artistic Director STEVEN BLIER also enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. Among the many artists he has partnered in recital are Ren��e Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Jessye Norman and Samuel Ramey. He has performed throughout North America and Europe, including recitals at Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Milan, and a Live From Lincoln Center telecast. Mr. Blier co-founded the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festival's inception he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated over one hundred vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of song. His discography includes the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Arias and Barcarolles (Koch International), which won a Grammy Award; the NYFOS discs of Blitzstein, Gershwin, and German Lieder (Unquiet Peace); Gershwin's Lady Be Good! (Nonesuch Records); four albums of songs by Charles Ives in partnership with baritone William Sharp (Albany Records); first recordings of music by Busoni and Borodin with cellist Dorothy Lawson (Koch International); and Spanish Love Songs with Joseph Kaiser and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Bridge Records). In December, Bridge will release the original cast recording of Bastianello / Lucrezia, the acclaimed John Musto and William Bolcom operas with libretti by Mark Campbell, commissioned and premiered by NYFOS.

Cat on Hot Tin Roof, The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre- Oct. 26- Nov. 16

October 26- November 16, 2008

"You know we just got to love each other an' stay together, all of us, just as close as we can, especially now that such a black thing has come and moved into this place without invitation."- Big Mama

MONTREAL October 2008- The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre is excited to offer this anticipated production marking the third chapter of the Segal mounting the great plays of Tennessee Williams. Beginning with A Streetcar Named Desire, a historic first co-production with Soulpepper Theatre Company, it continued with Chris Abraham's award-winning production of The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Williams' iconic tale of passion and dispassion in the heat of a 1950's Southern night, where poetry, bourbon and desire hang in the air. Directed by the much-respected Greg Kramer.

In this story, Brick, the former star athlete, and his wife Maggie 'The Cat', have returned to his father's Mississippi cotton plantation to celebrate the ailing Big Daddy's birthday. Daughter-in-law Maggie fights to save her marriage to the alcoholic and despairing Brick who blames her for his best friend's suicide. Rivalry and intrigue flourish as the conflict escalates over who will finally gain control over the property. Through all the bickering and fighting, Big Mama tries desperately to hold onto whatever happiness and dignity the family still possesses. However, a storm of confrontations is brewing, and she is powerless to stop it.

Subjects such as cancer and the idea of "mendacity" reverberate through the lies told to protect and ease each other's pain. Societal rules of conduct are examined, as the old world explodes against the new. Kramer sees this mirrored today, "We are split into puritans, libertines and prudes." He also comments first-hand on how illness can take its toll, "As a cancer survivor myself, I understand only too well how the disease can affect a family. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof deals with this issue in a brutally honest way."

Beautifully placed in the arc of the season, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof fits perfectly between Dangerous Liaisons and Buried Child, following the former work as a game of smouldering sexual politics with strong women taking the lead role in the match, and preceding the later play in its examination of the breakdown of the traditional North American family. "One of the key aspects of our theatre's mandate is to produce classics that remain socially relevant today," Wasserman explained. Director Greg Kramer concurs, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a gloriously human work, celebrating both the joys and pains of love, and is probably one of the finest works for the stage ever written, as astonishingly true and powerful today as it ever was."

The established, powerhouse Canadian cast includes Todd Sandomirsky (Stratford Festival) as Brick, Severn Thompson (Stratford and Shaw) as Maggie, Sharon Bakker (the original Paper Wheat and Saskatchewan Theatre Hall of Fame) as Big Mama and Barry Flatman (The Donnellys and multi-award nominee) as Big Daddy. Completing the extended family and friends are Bill Croft, Paula Jean Hixson, Jesse Todd, Gordon Masten, Bill Corday and Lindsay Owen Pierre.

The design team, including the always-creative John C. Dinning, set; Luc Prairie, lighting; James Lavoie costumes, Troy Slocum, sound and George Allister, video design, will turn the plantation home around and expose all to the outside elements. Todd Bricker is the stage manager and Lori Allen completes the team as assistant stage manager.

"Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof. Is there? Is there, baby?"- Maggie

88.5 CBC Radio One proudly presents Sunday-@-the-Segal with Diana Leblanc

Sunday, October 26, 11am. Admission is free.

Join us for another season of intimate conversation and riveting lectures as we welcome Diana Leblanc talking about

the various approaches to directing American classics.

Monday Night Talkbacks presented by Pratt and Whitney Canada

As usual following the play, some of the actors and/or designers will remain on stage to take questions from the audience.

Run:

October 26-November 16

Previews:

October 26 1:30 pm

October 27-29 8:00 pm

October 29 1:00pm

Sunday-@-the-Segal:

October 26 11:00 am

Media Opening Night:
Thursday, October 30 8:00 pm

Performances:

Monday - Thursday, 8:00 pm

Saturday 8:30 pm

Sunday 7:00 pm

Matin��es:

Wednesdays 1:00 pm

Sundays 2:00 pm

Box Office:

(514) 739-7944

www.segalcentre.org

Segal Centre for Performing Arts at the Saidye

5170 cote St. Catherine Rd.

Admission (514) 790-1245 www.admission.com

Greg Kramer- Director

Previously for the Segal, Greg appeared in The Tempest and Amadeus as well as being the magic consultant for Houdini. An award-winning novelist, actor and director, Greg has made Montreal his home since 1999. His credits now cover twenty-five years and well over 100 productions across the country, including work at the Vancouver Playhouse, Arts Club Theatres, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Imago, Buddies-in-Bad-Times, Native Earth and the National Arts Centre. He most recently directed Have a Heart at the Centaur Theatre and The Gut Girls for Concordia University, and was seen this summer as Prospero in The Tempest in Montreal parks for Repercussion Theatre. His fourth book, Wally, is published by Riverbank Press and he is working on his latest, a medical dystopia.

Todd Sandomirsky ���Brick

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof marks Todd's Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre debut. Recent credits: Agent Kohn in XIII starring Stephen Dorff on NBC this fall, Shishkebab in Outlander with Jim Caviziel, Glaring Man in The Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page, Terry Bennett in the Golden Globe-nominated The State Within starring Jason Isaacs, and at Stratford Festival he appeared in Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Treasure Island. Todd co-founded Toronto's Shakespeare in the Rough, playing Berowne in Love's Labour Lost and Cloten in Cymbeline.

Severn Thompson- Maggie

Severn is very happy to be making her first appearance at the Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre. She has just finished her third season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where she was in the Spanish classic Fuente Ovejuna, the Greek classic Trojan Woman and a new play, Palmer Park. The season before she played Portia in Merchant of Venice. Severn has also spent several seasons at the Shaw Festival and has worked at a number of theatres across the country, such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Tarragon, the Globe, Theatre Calgary and the Piggery. Severn is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Barry Flatman- Big Daddy

Barry has worked as a professional actor, across North America, for over 40 years. He also produced, wrote, directed and taught for stage, TV, film, and radio, and was nominated for both Juno and Gemini awards. Recent credits include Guns (CBC), The Andromeda Strain for A&E, Saw III (Lion's Gate), The Company (TNT), The State Within (BBC/Shaftesbury), Fatal Error (TBS), and This is Wonderland (CBC). Barry starred in Kevin McCollum's production of White Christmas and in the Toronto premiere of David Hare's Stuff Happens.

Sharon Bakker - Big Mama

Sharon is back in Montreal where she last appeared at the Centaur in Paper Wheat. She has performed across Canada, at Native Earth Performing Arts (Dreary and Izzy); the Blythe Festival (Thirteen Hands, Yesteryear, Quiet in the Land); Alberta Theatre Projects (For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again); Persephone Theatre (Humanity and No, Waiting for the Parade, The Stone Angel); Sunshine Theatre (The Plum Tree); Rosthern Station Arts Centre (Anne of Green Gable, Dry Streak, The Tomorrow Box); and Manitoba Theatre Centre (Shakespeare's Dog). Sharon was inducted into the Saskatchewan Theatre Hall of Fame in 2003.

Tennessee Williams- Playwright

Tennessee Williams (1911 ��� 1983) is regarded as one of America's greatest playwrights. He wrote fiction and motion picture screenplays, but he is acclaimed primarily for his plays���nearly all of which are set in the South, but which rise above regionalism to approach universal themes. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play, The Rose Tattoo, received the Tony Award for best play.

Calgary Cinematheque presents High and Low

The Calgary Cinematheque presents acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa���s High and Low (1963) for October featured screening

The Screening

The Calgary Cinematheque continues it���s season-two programming with High and Low by famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

High and Low

Adapted from Evan Hunter���s pulp novel King���s Ransom, the film could arguably be called one of the best thrillers ever made. Kurosawa���s mastery of the art form is evident, and the film clearly demonstrates the director���s two cinematic fortes ��� epic samurai thrillers and tragic tales of everyday people.

Starring Kurosawa mainstay Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo - a powerful executive, who is faced with the ransom demands of a kidnapper who has supposedly taken his son - the plot twists and turns and reveals Gondo���s inner anguish, comments on police methods and procedures, and demonstrates the true cost of ambition.

Shot in black and white, and presented in newly restored 35mm, the film is a must-see for fans of Kurosawa and great films alike. The film shows why Kurosawa is considered a true master of cinema, with every shot being an experience in pure cinematic joy.

The Calgary Cinematheque presents

Akira Kurosawa���s High and Low

Thursday, October 23, 2008. 7:00 PM

Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, Alberta

Tickets: $10.00 for members/students/seniors, $12.00 for non-members.

Calgary Cinematheque Memberships available for $25.00 at the door

For information visit: www.calgarycinema.org

Idyla

IDYLA
Premier disque de l���ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTAL APPASSIONATA
Daniel Myssyk, directeur artistique

��uvres de Leo�� Jan����ek, Guillaume Lekeu,
Edvard Grieg et W.A. Mozart

Solistes : Olivier Thouin, Veronica Thomas, violons ; Yukari Cousineau alto ;
Richard Capolla, contrebasse ; Hugues Tremblay, timbales

Sous ��tiquette FIDELIO classique (FACD020)
Distribu�� par SRI Canada - En vente en magasins d��s le 4 novembre 2008
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Montr��al, le 9 octobre 2008 ��� L���Ensemble instrumental Appassionata, sous la direction artistique du chef Daniel Myssyk, ouvre sa huiti��me saison avec le lancement de son tout premier disque intitul�� Idyla, enregistr�� �� l���glise de la Nativit�� (Laprairie, Qu��bec) en d��cembre 2007.

Articul�� autour de la passion amoureuse, Idyla propose quatre ��uvres importantes du r��pertoire classique et romantique pour orchestre �� cordes, dont certaines n���ont pas ��t�� souvent enregistr��es. Ici,
la fra��cheur et l���l��gance de la jeunesse c��toient les ab��mes de la souffrance humaine.

�� L���enregistrement de ces ��uvres a ��t�� pour moi d���une rare intensit�� ��motionnelle et spirituelle. Les musiciens d���Appassionata ont su faire passer cette intensit�� en offrant une prestation qui, j���en suis s��r, saura toucher un large public. �� - Daniel Myssyk

Les ��uvres (par ordre d���apparition sur le disque) :
Idyla (1878, 26���30) du Tch��que Leo�� Jan����ek (1854-1928) est une ��uvre enlevante aux tensions harmonique et ��motionnelle, qui nous fait d��couvrir les dons exceptionnels du jeune compositeur alors ��g�� de 24 ans ;

Avec ses sonorit��s ensorcelantes, l���Adagio pour orchestre �� cordes, Op. 3 (1891, 11���17) du Belge Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), mort pr��matur��ment �� l���ge de 24 ans, est une des pages les plus intenses du r��pertoire pour cordes. Cet adagio repr��sente une sorte de testament : serait-ce le legs d���un jeune homme au talent d��mesur�� �� qui la vie ferma les portes bien trop t��t ?

Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (1881, 8,21���) du Norv��gien Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) r��v��le une ��criture somptueuse et d���une grande sensibilit�� ;

Serenata Notturna K.239 (1776, 13���93) de Mozart (1756-1791) reprend l���esprit du concerto grosso baroque dans lequel se c��toient trois mouvements aux couleurs sonores distinctes.

L���Ensemble instrumental Appassionata, fond�� en 2000 �� Montr��al par Daniel Myssyk et Fran��oise Henri, est un orchestre de chambre compos�� de 15 instruments �� cordes auxquels se greffent �� l���occasion d���autres vents et percussions (pour ce disque : 19 cordistes + 1 timbale) qui a r��ussi �� se tailler une place unique dans le milieu artistique qu��b��cois. D��sirant rendre la musique classique accessible au plus grand nombre, l���Ensemble pr��sente annuellement une s��rie de concerts autour d���une programmation tr��s diversifi��e. Ancr�� dans l���arrondissement Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, Appassionata ��labore depuis huit ans, avec le soutien du CALQ et du minist��re de la culture et des communications du Qu��bec, des projets sp��ciaux aupr��s des ��l��ves du secondaire et du public issu des communaut��s culturelles, contribuant, par la musique, au mieux-��tre de notre soci��t�� dans toute sa diversit��.

La huiti��me saison de L���Ensemble instrumental Appassionata sera sous le signe de la promenade. Ainsi, 15 concerts nous transporteront �� Venise, Vienne et Dakar, et ce d��s le 20 novembre 2008. 12 concerts seront ��galement donn��s dans le cadre d���activit��s de rapprochement communautaire.

Son directeur artistique, Daniel Myssyk, est invit�� r��guli��rement �� diriger divers orchestres en Am��rique du Nord. Au cours de la derni��re saison, il a fait ses d��buts avec les Thirteen Strings d���Ottawa, l���Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivi��res ainsi qu���au Festival international de Lanaudi��re. Il a r��cemment ��t�� nomm�� directeur des activit��s orchestrales �� la Virginia Commonwealth University de Richmond en Virginie.

Ha��ti Parle le 18 octobre au Kola Note

Ha��ti Parle : Le Retour

MONTREAL, QUEBEC ��� Vendredi 10 ocotbre 2008.

�� Ha��ti Parle : Le Retour ��, dans le cadre du Mois du Cr��ole,

Le spectacle de po��sie et musique acoustique,

Le samedi 18 octobre, �� 20h au Kola Note, 5240 avenue du Parc, (coin Fairmount).

�� Ha��ti Parle : Le Retour �� est la suite d����� Ha��ti Parle �� pr��sent�� le 27 juillet et le 11 novembre 2007. "Ha��ti parle" c'est de la musique acoustique. "Ha��ti parle" c'est de la po��sie. "Ha��ti parle" c'est un groupe de jeunes, nostalgiques de leur terre d'origine qu'ils veulent faire revivre �� travers leurs chants, leurs textes et leur amour de l'art. Avec "Ha��ti parle : le retour", le dialogue se poursuit.

L���ambiance musicale sera assur��e en grande partie par des artistes connus de la sc��ne ha��tienne de Montr��al, notamment Jude Deslouches, Olivier Dupoux, S��bastien K��nol, Jessica Valm�� accompagn��s d���autres chanteurs et chanteuses. �� Ha��ti Parle : Le Retour �� est une mise en sc��ne de textes imagin��s et ��crits par Tanguy Exum�� qui les interpr��tera avec Koralie Deetjen-Woodward.

Les billets sont disponibles au prix fixe de 15$ au Kola Note du mardi au samedi de 12:00h �� 17:00h.

Afin de respecter la capacit�� l��gale de la salle les places sont limit��es.

L���ouverture des portes se fera �� 19h.

Dame Gillian Weir donne un concert prestigieux ce dimanche �� l'��glise Saints-Anges

Organiste britannique de renomm��e mondiale en concert

Dame Gillian Weir donne un concert prestigieux ce dimanche �� l'��glise Saints-Anges

Montr��al, le 10 octobre 2008 ��� Alors que le nouveau Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) a pris son envol dimanche dernier, c'est ce soir que s'ach��ve la premi��re des trois ��preuves �� l'��glise Immacul��e-Conception. Les derniers concurrents joueront aujourd'hui et tenteront de remporter une des dix places disponibles �� la deuxi��me ��preuve, laquelle se tiendra les 13 et 14 octobre prochain �� l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Ce sera toutefois une fin de semaine excitante pour le public car Dame Gillian Weir, organiste britannique de renomm��e mondiale et membre du jury international du CIOC, donnera un r��cital �� l'��glise Saints-Anges de Lachine, ce dimanche 12 octobre �� 15 h.

�� J'attends depuis des ann��es le concert de Dame Gillian Weir dans l'��glise des Saints-Anges ��, s'est exclam�� No��l Spinelli, pr��sident du conseil d'administration du CIOC et du comit�� qui a amass�� plus d'un million de dollars pour restaurer l'orgue Casavant de cette ��glise.

N��e en Nouvelle-Z��lande, Dame Gillian Weir a donn�� ses premiers r��citals en 1965. En 1966, elle remporta le premier prix du Concours international d'orgue de St-Albans; et a re��u le titre de Dame Commander de l'empire britannique en 1996. Dame Weir a enregistr�� les ��uvres compl��tes de Olivier Messiaen; elle est surtout reconnue pour son interpr��tation du compositeur. Son CD de Messiaen sous ��tiquette MaxOpus figure parmi les grands enregistrements d'orgue du 20^e si��cle.

Le concert sera parrain�� par Anne Jarret, consul g��n��ral du Royaume-Uni �� Montr��al, et Mme David Molson. Le programme complet du concert de Dame Gillian Weir est disponible pour t��l��chargement sur le site internet du Concours www.ciocm.org. Dame Weir donnera ��galement un cours de ma��tre le 15 octobre �� 16 h �� l'��glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

�� propos du CIOC

Le Concours international d'orgue du Canada (CIOC) accueille au pays de jeunes organistes recrut��s �� travers le monde. L'organisme effectue un travail annuel pour promouvoir l'orgue comme instrument majeur dans la culture musicale au pays en plus de contribuer au rayonnement de la musique d'orgue gr��ce au talent de jeunes organistes. Pr��sent�� sur des instruments de qualit�� dans des lieux d'une grande beaut�� architecturale, le CIOC jouera un r��le important dans la mise en valeur du patrimoine qui a fait de Montr��al une r��f��rence nord-am��ricaine dans le domaine de l'orgue. Pour tous les d��tails, visitez le site Web du CIOC au www.ciocm.org.

Rumon Gamba

Rumon Gamba becomes Chief Conductor in Ume��

The British conductor Rumon Gamba will be the next Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra at NorrlandsOperan in Ume��, Sweden.

���With Rumon Gamba as Chief Conductor and Music Director we will strengthen our artistic strategy. His ability to enthuse, to work with both musical wholeness and detail will make our orchestra take at least one step further in its' artistic development, says Marco Feklistoff, Manager of the Symphony Orchestra at NorrlandsOperan.

Rumon Gamba is currently Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and guest conducts widely within Europe and abroad. Last year he made a guest appearance at NorrlandsOperan conducting English music, a concert that made such an impression that he later was asked to take on the artistic responsibility of the orchestra. An offer that he gladly accepted.

��� This is such an interesting place. The quality of the orchestra is already excellent and there is so much under one roof ��� dance, music, opera, visual arts... I look forward to doing things cross discipline, rather than just running an orchestra. People here are very forward thinking, says Rumon Gamba.

Rumon Gambas' assignment

Rumon Gambas' assignment at NorrlandsOperan starts in july 2009 and continues until June 2012. Within these three years he has the opportunity to conduct one opera per year and six concerts per year. He will also be a leading member of the artistic directorate deciding on repertoire both regarding opera and concert. He will also be in charge of the artistic development of the Symphony Orchestra.

Giorgia Fumanti on NBC

After singing at the Beijing Olympics Giorgia Fumanti will perform live on NBC on the Red Carpet in New York City and in Nanning, China

Montreal, October 9, 2008 ��� Following her triumph last August in Beijing, where she performed at the Beijing Olympics for CCTV, Italian-born soprano Giorgia Fumanti has been invited to return to China to perform, on October 22^nd, at the Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival in Nanning City, the capital of south China���s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. China���s national network, CCTV, will be broadcasting the event live for millions of television viewers.

But before heading off to China, Giorgia Fumanti will perform on Monday, October 13^th at 12h45 on the Red Carpet (5^th Avenue, between 68^th and 69^th Street) during the 2008 Columbus Day Parade in New York City, the largest celebration of Italian and Italian-American heritage and culture in the world. This event will be broadcasted live on NBC from 12h00 to 15h00 anchored by NBC Producer, anchor and financial reporter Maria Bartiromo and entertainer Joe Piscopo. This event will also be broadcasted by RAI and RAI International. Giorgia Fumanti will be among the many celebrities that will attend the Columbus Celebration Gala Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Saturday, October 11^th.

Ms Fumanti has already been performing on the world���s greatest stages and is now being regularly invited to take part in some of the most prestigious musical events this planet has to offer to promote her debut EMI CD From My Heart. Following her tour with Jos�� Carreras in Asia and London, he quoted ���with such a voice I am sure you have a great career in front of you���. Giorgia had also the privilege to perform with Lang Lang who said ���she is an amazing singer and one of the best voices in the world���. She recently also performed with Mario Frangoulis, Lucio Dalla, Zucchero, Justin Hayward (Moody Blues), Patrizio Buanne and more.

Wherever she appears around the world, Giorgia Fumanti invariably enthrals audiences with her charismatic vocal performances and heart-stopping simplicity.

www.myspace.com/giorgiafumanti www.giorgiafumanti.com

WSO Recognizes William & Shirley Loewen

October 9, 2008 - The position of Director Emeritus of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra was created to honour those who have demonstrated long-term involvement with the organization at an extraordinary level. On Saturday, September 27, 2008, WSO Board President, Dorothy Dobbie officially recognized two outstanding supporters with this honour prior to the start of the season opening concert. William and Shirley Loewen have provided leadership, expertise, direction and financial support to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 years. Shirley has been an active member of the Women's Committee and a participant and leader in many special events and programs over the years. William Loewen has served the organization on committees and as a board member and president of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. In 1998, William Loewen was the recipient of the WSO���s Golden Baton Award for his exceptional contribution to the WSO, but also to the arts community in Winnipeg and across Canada. Over the years, the WSO has benefited from his time, wisdom and significant philanthropy. Together William and Shirley Loewen, and the W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation, have also provided generous financial support to the WSO over many years. Through their foundation, numerous works were commissioned for the New Music Festival and their company TelPay was the title sponsor for the 2007 New Music Festival. The WSO recognizes and thanks Mr. and Mrs. Loewen for close to four decades of generous support and encouragement.

Talisman Theatre presents Down Dangerous Passes Road

Talisman Theatre presents

DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD

by Michel Marc Bouchard

translation by Linda Gaboriau

November 6 - 15, 2008

MONTREAL / August 1, 2008 ��� Talisman Theatre is proud to present the Montreal English premiere of the play DOWN DANGEROUS PASS ROAD by award-winning Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Governor General award-winner Linda Gaboriau. This play, written in 1998 was produced by several theatres across Canada including Theatre Jean-Duceppe in Montreal.

In an eternal moment of d��ja-vu, on Dangerous Passes Road, three brothers attempt to confront the consequences of their father���s drowning thirteen years ago. Lines from his last poem repeat over and over in their heads - the same poem that span round and round in the whirlpool that pulled him down. Struggling to break the cycle, and striving for moments of frankness and lucidity, they repeat snatches of their conversation from that fateful day, over and over.

Talisman Theatre is a group of exceptional professionals drawn together from the Montreal community and collaborating since 2005. The company is now on their second Equity production, DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD, a play that explores the complexities of the human experience through the poetry of tragedy and triumph. Talisman members share the belief that theatre can profoundly affect how we see ourselves and our world and that this story must be heard.

���The ���product��� that Michel Marc Bouchard has delivered can be qualified as work of art, on every level.��� - Raymond Bernatchez, La Presse, February 25, 1998.

Talisman Theatre���s creative team is: Emma Tibaldo (director); Marcelo Arroyo, Patrick Costello, Graham Cuthbertson (Actors); David Perreault Ninacs and Sarah Yaffe (Lighting Designers); Lyne Paquette (Set & Costume Designer); Michael Leon (Composer and Sound Designer); Mireille Couture (Video and Visual Designer); and Rasili Botz (Movement Coach).

Opening Night November 6 ��� 8:00 PM

Tues. ��� Sat. 8:00 PM

Sat. Matin��e: 2:00 PM

Adults: $25

Students/Seniors: $20

Groups (10 or more) $17

Th����tre La Chapelle

3700, rue St-Dominique

Theatre Box Office: 514-843-7738

billeterie@lachapelle.org

Talisman Theatre: www.talisman-theatre.com

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About the Play

DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD was written in 1998 and is Bouchard���s ninth play. In 2000, it was translated by Linda Gaboriau. This is the story of three brothers who come from vastly different walks of life. The play takes place in an eternal moment of deja-vu and examines three lives struggling for a final moment of lucidity. This is a frank play about guilt and death; as Ambrose says: ���Nobody���s as frank as a dying man.���

The story unwinds on a logging road in a strange limbo where there are no mosquitoes. In a state of delayed shock after an accident, they reenact the trauma of their father���s death, each from his own perspective. Carl has returned to Alma to get married���fifteen years to the day since their father, a drunk

and a poet, drowned. On the morning of the wedding Victor takes his brothers on a trip to his isolated fishing camp in the Quebec woods. On the way they have a tragic truck-wreck near where their father died. DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD traces the consequences of this event.

In his Prologue to DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD, Bouchard draws our attention to the way we hide from the realities of guilt and death, protecting ourselves behind illusions and routines. The play shows how the complicated games of lies and truth we play in our relationships can precipitate us into unforeseen situations. With simple words, and in a simple setting, Bouchard evokes a gripping, multi-layered, allegorical commentary on Quebec culture through three brothers bound together by the death of their father.

About the Playwright

Michel Marc Bouchard wrote more than 25 plays that have all been staged. His works have been translated into many languages and are regularly performed around the world, including Japan. Stagings of his works regularly receive awards, especially Les feluettes, L'histoire de l'oie and Les muses orphelines. A recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Qu��bec���s department of culture and the Fondation Beaumarchais (Paris), he has been appointed writer in residence at: Th����tre de Quat'Sous, Th����tre du Nouveau Monde (Montr��al), New Dramatist in New-York, Banff Center for the Arts (Alberta), Festival de Limoges (France), University of Ottawa and Teatro della

Limonaia (Florence). Bouchard has earned numerous awards and much praise for the adaptations of his plays as the movie (Les feluettes/Lilies) and the tele-drama (L'histoire de l'oie/The tale of Teeka).

About the Creative Team

Marcelo Arroyo (Ambrose)

Since his graduation from UQ��M and the National Theatre School of Canada, Marcelo has worked with Andr�� Brassard, Wajdi Mouawad, Alice Ronfard, Kate Bligh, Cristina Iovita and Jacques L'Heureux at the New Experimental Theatre (NTE), Marcelo played an 8 year old boy too intelligent for his years in Aphrodite 04. He was part of the joyous team of Hamlete, princesse de Danemarquia which was presented in the gardens of the sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. He recently was part of the cast of Rom��o et Juliette, adapted and directed by Daniel Paquette in April 2007 and the remount of That Woman In September last yeat at the Bain St-Michel. He also collaborated with L'Arri��re Sc��ne in Le gar��on aux sabots, directed by Denis Lavalou in 2002 and in La chanson du fou in 2006. In 2008, he will be in Salvador, the remount with Le Carousel Theater at Maison-Th����tre. Marcelo���s next project is in Jonqui��re and Toronto in a new play Une maison face au nord by Jean-Rock Gaudreault

Down Dangerous Passes Road is his second collaboration with Emma Tibaldo and Talisman Theatre.

Patrick Costello (Carl)

Patrick is a theatre show playmaker who grew up in Victoria, BC. He has lived in Montreal for almost three years now. He studied film and theatre at Queen's University and then attended Circle and the Square Theatre School. He is founding member, along with Graham, of SideMart Theatrical Grocery and has acted in all their projects, including American Buffalo, which won the award for Best Production that year. He also spent many years as an associate of SaBooge Theatre. He is in the midst of writing a trilogy of one man shows about twentieth century pop music, in fact most days he likes music more than theatre. He has acted in several TV shows and films.

Graham Cuthbertson (Victor)

Graham Cuthbertson has a BFA from Concordia University in Theatre Performance and a certificate in Performance Arts Careers from George Brown College. Recently, Mr. Cuthbertson traveled with the Internationally acclaimed SaBooge theatre company to Dublin (Project Theatre), Philadelphia (The Wilma Theatre), Montreal (Centaur Theatre) and New York (P.S. 122 and The Bric Theatre) as Pat Garrett in their adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid entitled Every Day Above Ground. In 2006 he co-founded the SideMart Theatrical Grocery and their inaugural production of American Buffalo where he played Donny was recently nominated for four Montreal Critics awards including Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best Director. SideMart's most recent production of Morris Panych's The Dishwashers was met with critical acclaim and forced an extended, sell-out run. Graham has won two previous Montreal Critics awards, the ensemble distinction for Soulfishing Theatre's production on The Crackwalker (Alan) and the Revelation of the year 2004-05 for his work as Oedipus for the New Classical Theatre festival as well as 'Til We Meet Again (Panache Theatre). Graham has performed on the stage at GCTC, and The Saidye Bronfman Centre and in 2006 worked in Whitehorse with Emma Tibaldo and the Sour Brides Theatre Company in their production of Trout Stanley, where he played the title role. Mr. Cuthbertson is a regular contributor to Playwrights Workshop Montreal and with the Playwrighting department at N.T.S. He has won a bronze medal at the National level of the Canadian Improv Games and is a qualified C.I.G. trainer and judge. In December 2007, Graham played Da in the Canadian premier of Mark Doherty's Trad for SideMart Theatrical Grocery and recently adapted The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack for SideMart.

Emma Tibaldo Director

Emma Tibaldo is a graduate of Concordia's Theatre Department and the National Theatre School's Directing program, where she continues to be a guest artist. She has recently been appointed Artistic and Executive Director at Playwrights' Workshop Montreal where she had been the dramaturg in residence for three seasons. Most recently she has directed Lifedream by Herm��n��gilde Chiasson, translated by Jo-Anne Elder for the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival in New Brunswick, The Queens by Normand Chaurette, translated by Linda Gaboriau for Concordia University, That Woman by Daniel Danis, translated by Linda Gaboriau for Talisman Theatre, Lutz by Ryan Griffith for the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey for Sour Brides Theatre in Whitehorse and Home and Beauty by Somerset Maugham for Theatre Lac Brome. She has been assistant director for Joseph Ziegler's Soulpepper production of A Winter's Tale, for Sarah Stanley's Inflagrante and directing intern at the Stratford Festival for Peter Hinton's The Swanne Part II. She has been dramaturg and director for staged readings at various festivals across the country including: Michael Redhill's Goodness at Teesri Duniya's Fireworks Festival; Martha Ross' And Up They Flew at Alberta Theatre Project's Platform Plays; Brian Drader's Crack at the NAC's On the Verge; Beatriz Pizano's Madre at Nightwood Theatre's Groundswell Festival. Down Dangerous Pass Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, translation by Linda Gaboriau is a project Emma has been burning to direct since she first read the play over four years ago.

Lyne Paquette Set and Costume Designer

Lyne is a founding partner of Talisman Theatre. She is preparing for the fall production of Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard. Last season Lyne designed Set and Costume for Talisman's production of That Woman, by Daniel Danis. A graduate of the National Theatre School, theatre design is Lyne's second career; previously she had worked as a mechanical engineer. She has supplemented her theatre training with puppetry workshops and recently completed a three-month internship at Michael Curry Design. Since 2004 Lyne has designed for theatre, dance, and operetta productions in Montreal. She worked as Props Master at the Saidye Bronfman Theatre for 2 seasons. Prior to that Lyne was an Assistant Designer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.www.lynepaquette.com

David Perreault Ninacs Lighting Designer

Since graduating from NTS a few years ago, David has designed some 50 theatre shows and done lighting for visual arts shows, corporate galas, dance and musical shows; as well as designing domestic lamps. After all of this, he still enjoys light in all its forms.

Michael Leon Sound Designer

Michael Leon is a Montr��al-based historian and composer/sound designer. Recent works have included music and sound for Talisman Theatre���s production of That Woman in Montreal, the Sour Brides production of Trout Stanley in Whitehorse, sound design for Teesri Duniya���s Montr��al production of Miss Orient(ed), music and sound for Home and Beauty at Theatre Lac Brome and composition for productions of Medea and Vita at the National Theatre School. As a founding member of Johnny 2000 Arts Collective, Michael has composed music and performed in numerous theatre, film and performance projects throughout eastern Canada.

Mireille Couture Video and Visual Designer

Mireille designed the video projections for the Talisman production of That Woman at The Bain St-Michel last year. She recently completed at the L'Institut national de l'image et du son(INIS) an intensive documentary film program. She is presently creating web capsules for ��a manque �� ma culture and code Chasteney, both broadcasted at T��l��-Qu��bec. The process that she is developping with film is a

prolongation of her photographic approach. A theatrical setting offers her a unique opportunity to unite both mediums in one same creative stream.

Rasili Botz Movement Coach

Born in the Loire Valley in France, Rasili moved to Montreal 3 years ago. She summarizes her approach to art with the words ����� Take matter in hand and tame it������. Rasili has been leading the Tyalice groupe in France where she created the department for contemporary nude. She works in partnership with many other art forms ��� Project 244,

Olivier Py, Cie Off, Katy Roulaud and many other plasticiens and sculptors. She studied Butoh for many years: a Mai Juku with Tanaka Min, long cycles of workshops Katy Roulaud���s body labs with many Butoh dancers from different countries, in Montr��al with Martine Viale. Rasili created two solos: En Chair et en Os, based on Phil Mullroy���s drawings and Valse Rouge. She was a Danceactor in films by Karim Hussain and Benjamin Gu��guenne.

She is Movement Coach for Anglophone theatre ��� That Woman by Daniel Danis directed by Emma Tibaldo and Forever yours Marilou by Michel Tremblay directed by Sarah Stanley and in the collective of artistes of Talisman Theatre ��� Body Art facilitator in different cultural, social and medical structures.

Sarah Yaffe Lighting Designer

Sarah is a graduate of McGill University and The National Theatre School of Canada's Technical Production Program. She lives in Montr��al and has worked at the Centaur Theatre, The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, the National Arts Centre, the Just for Laughs Festival, and many other theatres. She is the General Manager and Production Designer for SideMart Theatrical Grocery, an ensemble of professional artists dedicated to the production and development of innovative and thought-provoking contemporary theatre in Montr��al. SideMart's December 2006 production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" recently won the MECCA(Montreal English Critics Circle Association) award for Best Production. Some recent lighting design credits include, "Haunted Hillbilly" and "Trad" with SideMart, "A Promise is a Promise" and "Peacemaker" for Geordie Theatre, "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios" at the Factory Studio in Toronto. She was recently on tour across Canada with Anita Majumdar's one-woman

show, "The Misfit", which played to sold out houses at the PuSh Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver and the HATCH festival in Toronto.

Barbara Zsiegovics Stage Manager

After producing her first play at the age of fourteen, Barbara directed two school plays at F.A.C.E., as a student. She is the ���secret weapon��� of Q Art Theatre, and has participated in all of their productions (Lotte, The Tragedy of Man, The Party, Soap Opera, The Box Man, etc.) as stage manager and technical director. Last year she was technical director for Q Art in the productions of Mes Chers Amis and Ratamacue. She has worked with Gravy Bath Productions��� as a stage manager for their show The Portrait of Dorian Gray and has worked with Stacey Christodoulou and The Other Theatre in their productions of Crave and Expulsion.

Tanner Harvey Co-director of Talisman Theatre and show Technical Director

Tanner discovered his passion for theatre in Calgary. At University of Victoria he directed eleven plays, four of which were new productions with his 4horsemen theatre company. Since graduating Tanner worked as a technician and stage manager at The Belfry, Surrey Arts Centre, Soulpepper, Infinitheatre, and The Centaur. During the '06 Toronto Fringe he designed lights for Two-Wheeler's Living with Rick and assistant directed TheatreSKAM's The Lab. Other credits include directing Two-Wheeler's '07 production of The King of Fifteen Island, assistant directing Past Perfect (Tarragon), The Little Years (Neptune/NAC), Happy Days (NAC), and dramaturgy for John Gabriel Borkman (Soulpepper/Theatre Columbus). Tanner met Lyne Paquette on That Women and was honoured to be invited to join Talisman.

About the Translation

Linda Gaboriau

LINDA GABORIAU has translated some eighty plays, including the works of some of Qu��bec's most prominent playwrights. Her translations of plays by Michel Marc Bouchard, Ren��-Daniel Dubois, Normand Chaurette, Daniel Danis, Michel Garneau, Gratien G��linas, Jovette Marchessault and Michel Tremblay have been published and widely produced across Canada and abroad. She has won the Governor General's Award for Translation (in 1996, for her translation of Stone and Ashes by Daniel Danis), three Chalmers Awards for her translations of Normand Chaurette's Les Reines (The Queens), Michel Marc Bouchard's Les Feluettes (Lilies), and for Bouchard's Les Muses Orphelines (The Orphan Muses) for which she also won the 1999 Masque for Translation awarded by the Acad��mie qu��b��coise du th����tre. Her translation of Michel Tremblay's book of autobiographical stories, Bonbons assortis, has been shortlisted for the 2006 Governor General's Award for Translation. Ms. Gaboriau has also worked as a free-lance journalist and broadcaster; she has a longstanding association with Montreal's Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) and is the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.

About Talisman Theatre

Talisman Theatre is a group of exceptional professionals drawn together from the Montreal community and collaborating their second Equity production���DOWN DANGEROUS PASSES ROAD, by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau. When we learned that this play has not yet been presented on the English stage in Montreal, we made it our priority. This is a play that will unleash all of our creativity and demand that we expand our artistic vocabulary.

Talisman Theatre's vision questions concepts of gender, religion, history, and identification to a community. Talisman wants to make theatre that demands discussion after a performance and during the rehearsal process. It wants to engage with artists that feel as deeply about their work as it does and who are willing to put their beliefs front and center.

Talisman Theatre is interested in discovering and producing work by Quebecois playwrights in translation that have not been produced on English stages in Montreal. Many theatrical works written by Quebecois artists remain unseen by the Anglophone and allophone communities in this province. We feel it is crucial that these communities hear and share the experiences of the culture we live in and benefit from.

Hold the dates: Almost Blue, Altera Vitae, at Mainline Theatre- Nov. 5-16

Altera Vitae Productions

Presents

Almost Blue

By Keith Reddin

Directed by Carolyn Fe

Mark these dates in your autumn calendar

Wednesday, November 5 ��� Sunday, November 16, 2008

In this 'stage noir', four people are stuck in a place they desperately need to get out of.

Altera Vitae ��� theatre productions offering another hope of life

For this production, Altera Vitae is proud to support a new community organization called NEO-DEP (New Departure ��� Nouveau D��part), born out of Correctional Services Canada.

Almost Blue

Altera Vitae Productions

At Mainline Theatre

3997 Blvd. St. Laurent

Tuesday to Sunday, 8:00 pm

Matinees: Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 pm

Pay-what-you-can: Wed. Nov. 5 preview and November 8 and 9 matinees

Reservations: 514-849-3378 or www.mainlinetheatre.ca

www.alteravitae.com

The ESO Welcomes Back Finnish Vocal Sensations Rajaton for a Tribute to Queen!

The Music of Queen with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra & Rajaton

Tuesday, October 14, 2008- 7:30pm

Edmonton, AB �Ķ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) is pleased to welcome back Finnish vocal sensation Rajaton. After dazzling their audience at their Winspear Centre debut in April, 2005, the Finnish a cappella group joined the ESO on June 10^th, 2008 for an exciting salute to ABBA. Fresh off the heels of that triumph, Rajaton returns to rock the ESO stage for another salute - this time, the towering power pop of Queen on Tuesday, October 14^th.

Edmonton audiences will be dancing in the aisles at the North American premiere of this Tribute performance. Rajaton will be performing classic Queen hits such as We Will Rock You, Somebody to Love, Another One Bites the Dust and many more.

Rajaton consists of Essi Wuorela (soprano), Virpi Moskari (soprano), Soila Sariola (alto), Jussi Chydenius (bass), Hannu Lepola (tenor), and Ahti Paunu (baritone). The group struck gold with their first-ever album with accompaniment - Rajaton sings ABBA, recorded with the Lahti Symphony. The album sold platinum in Finland, and has become a worldwide cult hit. Joining Rajaton and the ESO will be conductor Jaakko Kuusisto.

Tickets for this performance range from $36 to $53 (agency fees apply). Tickets are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office.

Media Sponsor: The Bear 100.3 FM

Richard Egarr joins Handel and Haydn Society for "Mozart and Beethoven"

Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music Joins Society for a Program of Beethoven and Mozart

Richard Egarr conducts symphonies and leads a Mozart piano concerto from the fortepiano

WHEN: Friday, November 7, 2008, at 8pm

Sunday, November 9, 2008, at 3pm

WHERE: Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston

WHAT: Richard Egarr, Music Director of the UK���s Academy of Ancient Music, joins the Handel and Haydn Society in the second program of its ���Celebration 2009��� Season, which commemorates the legacies of its two namesake composers. Hailed as ���The Bernstein of Early Music��� by National Public Radio, Egarr will lead Mozart���s virtuosic Piano Concert No. 23 from the fortepiano. Egarr will also conduct the Handel and Haydn Period-Instrument Orchestra in symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven, as well as the dramatic overture to Beethoven���s only full ballet score, Creatures of Prometheus.

This repertoire highlights the historical relationship of Mozart and Beethoven to the earlier works of Handel and to their Classical contemporary Haydn: Haydn and Mozart had a close personal relationship, Beethoven studied with Haydn for a brief time, and Handel���s works were quite popular in Vienna. Beethoven and Mozart built upon the musical ideas of the Society���s namesake composers to further develop the sound of the Classical orchestra.

PROGRAM:

Mozart: Symphony No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 23

Beethoven: Overture to Creatures of Prometheus

Symphony No. 8

WHO: Richard Egarr, conductor/fortepiano

Handel and Haydn Society Period-Instrument Orchestra

HOW: Tickets range from $20-$75, and may be purchased online at www.handelandhaydn.org, by phone at 617 266 3605, or in person at the Handel and Haydn office, Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston (M-F 10am-6pm).

BIOGRAPHIES:

Richard Egarr

Richard Egarr has performed keyboard music from fifteenth-century organ intabulations to Dussek and Chopin on early pianos, to Berg and Maxwell Davies on modern piano. He is in great demand as a soloist; as orchestral soloist he has worked with the Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the 18^th Century and the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra. With violinist Andrew Manze he has toured extensively throughout Europe, North-America, Korea and Japan.

As a conductor Richard has worked with specialised ensembles and modern orchestras alike, in repertoire from Bach���s St. Matthew Passion to Taverner���s Ikon of Light. In 2006, he was appointed Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music. Richard has directed many oratorios and operas, notably from Handel. He has conducted the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Flemish Radio Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Portland Baroque and Tafelmusik. Next year Richard will conduct the Residentie Orchestra, the Brabant Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra and Choir and Collegium Vocale Ghent.

Richard Egarr records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi USA. Recent additions to his vast discography are Bach���s Goldberg Variations, his Well-Tempered Clavier and Sonatas by Mozart and Schubert with Andrew Manze. With the AAM he has recorded the Bach harpsichord concertos and an entire set of Handel discs including the Concerti grossi Op. 3, the Organ Concertos Op. 4 and 7 and his Sonatas Op. 1 and 5.

The Handel and Haydn Society is a professional chorus and period-instrument orchestra and an internationally recognize��d leader in the field of historically-informed performance. Founded in Boston in 1815, the Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, with a long history of innovation: it gave the American premieres of Handel���s Messiah (1818), Haydn���s The Creation (1819), Verdi���s Requiem (1878), Bach���s Mass in B Minor (1887), and Bach���s St. Matthew Passion (1889). The Society today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Designate Harry Christophers, Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington, Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn, and Conductor Laureate Christopher Hogwood, is committed to its mission ���to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible.��� The Massachusetts Cultural Council has lauded the organization for its ���willingness to take risks and explore new musical horizons.���

Hilarious Trio Take a Ride They'll Never Forget in HELLEVATOR!

HELLAVATOR

Going�Ķdown?

���So basically this means we have no flashlight, it���s pitch black, it���s 3 o���clock in the morning, and we���re stuck in an elevator on the 30^th floor of this second-rate hotel? Life is good.���

HELLAVATOR PRODUCTIONS presents a site-specific production of an insane new comedy by award-winning playwright Ned Cox. The site?�Ķ a 1930s freight elevator located in the old Warshaw���s building at 3861, boul. St-Laurent.

Alain Goulem directs ���Dream Team��� Alex Haber, Neil Napier, and Michel Perron as two tourists and a maintenance worker trapped in a broken-down elevator on the 30^th floor of a has-been hotel. Will they ever get it moving again? One catch: if they do, the only way they���re going is down ��� way, waaaaaaaay down! And is the janitor what he seems, or is that sulphur we smell?

���So what are we supposed to do? Any ideas?���

���We could make the best of it.���

���How do you make the best of being stuck in an elevator?���

���Oh, a little music, a little laughter�Ķ���

As for the subject matter, the play���s author, Ned Cox says, ���years ago I was stuck for 11 hours in an elevator. I guess this play is my revenge upon all elevators that possess the diabolical power to mess up our lives at any moment.��� Cox goes on to warn audiences not to expect the normal first few minutes: ���the elevator is in total blackout ��� they won���t even see the characters until they can get the power back on!���

���What, were you dabbling in physics? Did you think ���I know�Ķ we���re moving at long last ��� now���s the perfect time to see if that little red button will bring us to a screaming halt AGAIN?!������

HELLAVATOR was developed as part of the Playwrights Unit program at Playwrights Workshop Montreal. Cox explains: ���Alex Haber, a member of the Playwrights Unit, read the part of Wendy as I brought in draft after draft. She was so perfect for the part that I begged her to be in the cast! This is the funniest cast I���ve ever worked with!���

���You haven���t bought me one present in our two years together!������

���I gave you a Cuisinart!���

���You bought it in a garage sale!���

���Because it was a Classic Model! They last a lifetime!

The play will be performed with the actors actually trapped in an old-fashioned working service elevator. The audience of 25 will watch the action, seated in a small lobby, inches from the elevator doors. Set and lighting design is by the multi-talented Sarah Yaffe with sound design by director, Al Goulem, and costumes a company collaboration.

It is very important to note that the number of seats is extremely limited, with tickets being sold ONLY at the venue the night of the performance.

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MEDIA CALL

This is an opportunity for still and TV cameras to capture a scene from the play, for radio to record sound clips as well as for interviews with the playwright/actors.

Wednesday, October 29^th at 1 PM

3861, boul. St-Laurent

Please confirm your attendance with Barbara Ford

ygraine7@videotron.ca

(514) 342 ��� 7936

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NED COX is from New Jersey and spent almost 25 years in London, UK as a writer and director, winning awards in London as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He finally discovered Montreal, where his play Mimi on the Beach was staged in the 2005 Montreal Fringe Festival and where he now lives with his wife Johanne and their son Jeremy ��� one production Ned is always proud of.

ALAIN GOULEM: Alain���s directing credits include shows at Centaur Theatre, Theatre Lac Brome, Geordie Productions and Hudson Village Theatre West. Alain teamed with Clowns Gone Bad theatre company and created (directed and co-wrote) the hit comedies MocShplat and Umlout. Alain also directed The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged and Shakespeare���s Lost Play for Repercussion Theatre���s Shakespeare in the Park and the bilingual production of The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine at Hudson Village Theatre West as well as the critically acclaimed Housekeeping and Homewrecking at Theatre St-Catherine. Most recently he directed Peacemaker as a part of Geordie Production���s mainstage season.

ALEX HABER: Alexandria Haber is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced in Calgary, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as in the U.S.A. As an actor she was most recently seen in the Mecca nominated ensemble piece Housekeeping and Homewrecking (which she also wrote.) Other credits of note include roles in Romeo & Juliet and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for Centaur Theatre.

NEIL NAPIER: Neil Napier was born and raised in Montreal, a member of a highly artistic family. He studied theatre at John Abbott College and has been working regularly in both film and theatre since graduating. Nominated for a Best Actor MECCA in 2002, he snagged two consecutive MECCAs for Best Ensemble in 2006 and 2007. He had roles in Condoville, The Caretaker and The Cyclops at Centaur Theatre, was as in the hugely successful Montreal Fringe production of Alex Haber���s Housekeeping and Homewrecking, and more recently, played the unscrupulous judge in Mainline���s production of Hedda Gabler. Later this season he can be seen in the Centaur production of With Bated Breath.

MICHEL PERRON: Michel was born in Richmond, Quebec, trained at Dawson College and now lives in Chateauguay. He has been performing for 25 years and is one of Montreal���s most comprehensive actors having conquered the film, television, radio, stage (cabarets and musicals) and voice-over domains in both official languages. Michel was awarded a Masque for Best Supporting Actor in the 2007 Centaur production of Assorted Candies and the same year received an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Voice Performance for Monster Allergy.

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Run: October 29 ��� November 16

Wed. through Sat. 9 PM

Previews: October 29 & 30

Opening Night: October 31

Closing Night: November 16

Venue:

3861, boul. St-Laurent

Tickets:

Regular Admission: $20

Concessions: $15 (And both Preview shows)

CARAS Announces 2008-2009 Board of Directors

CANADIAN ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES
2008-2009 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Toronto, ON (October 8, 2008) - The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce its 2008-2009 Board of Directors, and would especially like to welcome and acknowledge the following new members to the Board:

Bruce Allen: President, Bruce Allen Management
Vivian Barclay: General Manager, Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd.
Humphrey Kadaner: President, HMV Canada
Julien Paquin: President ��� Agency Division, Paquin Entertainment
Patti Anne Tarlton: VP Live Entertainment, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.

"The Canadian music industry continues to be shaped and influenced by the degree of energy and enthusiasm invested by those who participate in it. We are privileged to have such a talented and passionate Board from all spectrums of the music industry to steer CARAS' goals in a positive and assertive direction," said Melanie Berry, President of CARAS.

CARAS gratefully acknowledges the commitment of its Board members who continue to proactively impact Canada's music industry and bring forth their expertise, insights and leadership to the CARAS organization.

The Complete List of the 2008-2009 CARAS Board of Directors and Officers:

Chair: Stephen Stohn, President/Executive Producer, Epitome Pictures
President: Melanie Berry, President, Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
1st Vice-President: Deane Cameron, President, EMI Music Canada
2nd Vice-President: Steve Kane, President, Warner Music Canada
Secretary/Treasurer: Darren Throop, President & CEO, Entertainment One

Bruce Allen: President, Bruce Allen Management
Vivian Barclay: General Manager, Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd.
Shane Carter: Co-President, SONY BMG Music (Canada) Inc.
Vinny Cinquemani: President, SL Feldman & Associates
Kim Cooke: Owner, Pheromone Recordings
Jim Cuddy: Musician
Rob Farina: Vice-President Programming, CHUM Radio
Paul Haagenson: President, Canada, West, Live Nation
Ralph James: President, The Agency Group Canada
Humphrey Kadaner: President, HMV Canada
Randy Lennox: President & CEO, Universal Music Canada
Aideen O'Brien: President, Mighty Craic
Julien Paquin: President ��� Agency Division, Paquin Entertainment
Patti Anne Tarlton: VP Live Entertainment, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
Chris Taylor: Owner & Founder, Taylor Mitsopulos Klein Oballa
Louis Thomas: President & CEO, Sonic Entertainment Group

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

Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra perform in Vancouver

The VSO Presents Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra

Vancouver BC ��� The VSO is proud to present the National Arts Centre Orchestra from Ottawa on their 2008 Western Canada Tour, with their Music Director, the legendary Pinchas Zukerman, on October 25^th and 27^th at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre. As well as an esteemed conductor and successful music director, Maestro Zukerman is of course one of the greatest violinists of our age, and will perform Mozart���s beloved Violin Concerto No. 3. Zukerman will also lead the NAC Orchestra in Tchaikovsky���s Symphony No. 5 as well as the NAC-commissioned work Infinite Sky with Birds by Vancouver-born NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie. Concertgoers are invited to come early to hear Alexina Louie give a pre-concert talk at 7:05 p.m.

���Zukerman remains an astounding virtuoso; his robust tone and flawless passage work still amaze.���

--Washington Times

���This is a spectacular orchestra, capable of the richest, roundest, most powerful sound, and led with assurance by Zukerman.���

--Star Phoenix

Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Pinchas Zukerman first began to study music with his father, a professional violinist and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. In 1962, Zukerman immigrated to America with the support of Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, and the America-Israel and Helena Rubenstein Foundations. He studied at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, and in 1967 was named first-prize winner of the 25th Leventritt Competition.

One of the finest musicians of our time, Pinchas Zukerman is well-respected not only as a violinist and violist but also a conductor, teacher and chamber musician. He has been the recipient of the King Solomon Award, the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence and the National Medal of Arts presented to him by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Having recorded over 100 works, he has been nominated for 21 Grammy Awards, winning two.

The National Arts Centre Orchestra was founded in 1969 as the resident orchestra of the Parliament���s Centennial project, the National Arts Centre. NACO has enjoyed consistent praise throughout its history. The orchestra has been under the direction of Maestro Zukerman since 1998 and continues to draw critical acclaim both abroad and at its home in Ottawa where it gives over 100 performances a year.

Visit the National Arts Centre Orchestra at: www.nac-cna.ca

CONCERT INFO

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver Series

Master Meets Master: Zukerman Plays Mozart

Saturday, October 25, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Monday, October 27, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor/violin

National Arts Centre Orchestra

Alexina Louie Infinite Sky with Birds

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K.216, Strassburg

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

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

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

Series Sponsor:

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Video Screen Sponsor:

TELUS

Video Screen Presentations Created and Produced by:

Columbia Academy

National Arts Centre Western Canada Tour 2008

Presenting Partner EnCana; Signature Education Partner Agrium, and generous support from NAC Friends including True Energy Trust and SaskTel and individual donors

BIOGRAPHIES:

Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman has been recognized as a musical phenomenon for four decades. His genius and prodigious technique have long been a marvel to critics and audiences, and his exceptional artistic standards continue to earn him the highest acclaim. He is equally respected as a violinist, violist, conductor, teacher and chamber musician.

Pinchas Zukerman���s 2007-08 season away from the National Arts Centre includes a 22-city North American Tour conducting and performing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a concert in Chicago���s Millenium Park in honour of the 60^th anniversary of Israel; a special concert at Carnegie Hall with the Manhattan School of Music; performances with the Gothenberg Orchestra led by Gustavo Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic led by Riccardo Muti, the Cincinnati Symphony led by Paavo J��rvi and the Chicago Symphony led by Leonard Slatkin; conducting and playing with orchestras in North America, Europe, Japan and China.

He also leads the Zukerman ChamberPlayers, a string ensemble of talented musicians mainly from the NAC Orchestra which has already performed more than 50 concerts at the most prestigious festivals in North America and Europe and recorded four CDs since it was founded in 2003.

Since his appointment as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1998, Mr. Zukerman has taken an interest in virtually every aspect of Ottawa���s artistic community while continuing his international career. In 1999 he initiated the NAC Young Artists Programme, which is now part of the NAC Summer Music Institute (SMI) including the Conductors Programme founded in 2001, and the Young Composers Programme founded in 2003. The 2007 SMI assembled 80 talented musicians chosen by audition and invitation from Canada and around the world to study with an international faculty headed by Zukerman. In 2007, Pinchas Zukerman launched the Institute of Orchestral Studies, a year-round institute charged with developing highly talented musicians for orchestral careers.

He has made five recordings with the Orchestra and been involved in a number of national radio and television broadcasts. He has introduced a new Acoustic Control System in Southam Hall, created the Pinchas Zukerman Musical Instruments Foundation for the NAC Orchestra and founded Parents for the Arts. A pioneer of distance learning, he champions the NAC���s broadband videoconferencing programme known as Hexagon. A recent initiative is the year-round Institute of Orchestral Studies which was launched in 2007.

Since the arrival of Pinchas Zukerman, the National Arts Centre Orchestra has regained its commitment to regular touring both nationally and internationally. These tours now include a strong educational component. He led enormously successful Canadian tours in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006, as well as critically acclaimed tours to the Middle East and Europe in 2000, and the United States and Mexico in 2003, all highlighted by unprecedented outreach activities and innovative internet activities on the NAC���s website at www.nac-cna.ca. The Orchestra���s Quebec Tour in November 2006 included over 70 educational events.

Pinchas Zukerman regularly conducts and/or performs with the world���s finest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestras.

A frequent chamber music performer, Pinchas Zukerman has appeared worldwide with friends and colleagues who are luminaries of the music world, including Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman, Ralph Kirshbaum, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Marc Neikrug and the late Jacqueline du Pr��.

Pinchas Zukerman's discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him 21 Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards. His most recent recording at the National Arts Centre was nominated for a Juno Award.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Pinchas Zukerman studied music with Ilona Feher and, in 1962, came to America with the support of Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, and the America-Israel and Helena Rubenstein Foundations. He began his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, and in 1967 was named first-prize winner of the 25th Leventritt Competition.

Maestro Zukerman was presented with the King Solomon Award by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and, in 1983, President Reagan awarded him a Medal of Arts for his leadership in the musical world. In October 2002, he became the first recipient of the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence at the National Arts Awards Gala in New York City.

National Arts Centre Orchestra

Consistent praise has followed this vibrant orchestra throughout its history of touring both nationally and internationally, recording, and commissioning Canadian works. Canada���s National Arts Centre Orchestra, now under the direction of renowned conductor/ violinist/violist Pinchas Zukerman, continues to draw accolades both abroad and at its home in Ottawa where it gives over 100 performances a year.

The NAC Orchestra was founded in 1969 as the resident orchestra of the newly opened National Arts Centre, with Jean-Marie Beaudet as Music Director and Mario Bernardi as founding conductor and (from 1971) Music Director until 1982. He was succeeded by Franco Mannino (1982 to 1987), Gabriel Chmura (1987 to 1990), and Trevor Pinnock (1991-1997). In April 1998, Pinchas Zukerman was named Music Director of the NAC Orchestra.

In addition to a full series of subscription concerts at the National Arts Centre each season, tours are undertaken to regions throughout Canada and around the world. Since the arrival of Pinchas Zukerman, education has been an extremely important component of these tours. He has led the Orchestra on tours within Canada in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006, to Europe and Israel in 2000, and the United States and Mexico in 2003, with educational activities ranging from masterclasses and question-and-answer sessions to sectional rehearsals with youth and community orchestras and student matinees. Teacher Resource Kits have been developed for distribution to elementary schools in the regions toured and across Canada, and the public has been able to follow each tour through fully interactive websites which are now archived on the NAC���s Performing Arts Website at www.artsalive.ca. The Orchestra���s tour of Quebec in November 2006 included 70 education events.

In 1999 Pinchas Zukerman initiated the NAC Young Artists Programme, which is now part of the NAC Summer Music Institute (SMI) including the Conductors Programme founded in 2001, and the Young Composers Programme founded in 2003. The 2007 SMI assembled over 80 talented musicians chosen by audition from Canada and around the world to study with an international faculty headed by Zukerman. Other Orchestra education activities at home include Musicians in the Schools, student matinees and open rehearsals, and masterclasses. Since the arrival of Pinchas Zukerman, the Orchestra is also exploring education through long-distance Broadband videoconferencing, and increased use of the Internet. In 2007, Pinchas Zukerman launched the Institute of Orchestral Studies, a year-round institute charged with developing highly talented musicians for orchestral careers.

The NAC Orchestra has 40 recordings to its name, six with Pinchas Zukerman: Haydn, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Schubert and two of Mozart (a CD of flute quartets, and a CD of orchestral music and string quintets). The commissioning of original Canadian works has always been an important part of the National Arts Centre���s mandate with over 70 works commissioned to date. The NAC Orchestra���s current New Music Programme includes $75,000 Awards to three Canadian composers ��� Denys Bouliane, Gary Kulesha and Alexina Louie ��� for which they have each been commissioned to create three works while collaborating with the NAC on the Young Composers Programme and educational activities on tour.

CIFF 2008 Award Winners

THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2008 AWARD WINNERS

Calgary, AB ��� The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is pleased to announce the award-winning films of the 2008 festival. This year's picks represent the best and the brightest of cinema from Canada and abroad, and awards were given for excellence in both short and feature-length work.

The following categories were represented, and awards were handed out to six deserving filmmakers who demonstrated outstanding achievement in their art form.

BEST OF ALBERTA SHORTS AWARD

The Real Place by Cam Christiansen

Cam Christiansen took home the Best of Alberta Shorts Award for the second year running with his sophomore effort The Real Place. Cam won this award last year with his debut short film I Have Seen the Future. This second short film was commissioned by the NFB and Cam once again used his trademark animated style to tell the story of playwright John Murrell.

MOVIEOLA BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM AWARD

Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve

Multi-award-winning Canadian director Denis Villeneuve was given the Movieola Best Live Action Short Film Award for his already lauded film Next Floor. The film was awarded the prestigious Canal+ Critic's Week Award at this year's Cannes. Based on an original idea by Phoebe Greenberg, created by Phoebe Greenberg and Carolyn Binet, with screenplay by Jacques Davidts, the film tells the story of a crew of gluttonous banquet guests who participate it what can only be called a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. The film showcases Villeneuve's unique and powerful cinematic voice.

BEST CANADIAN FEATURE

One Week by Michael McGowan

One Week, written and directed by Michael McGowan, was awarded City TV's Best Canadian Feature Award. McGowan can add this prize to his already prestigious collection, which includes: winner of the Writers Guild of Canada's Canadian Screen Writer's Award for Best Screenplay; the Directors' Guild Award for Best Director; five Genie Awards nominations; Grand Prix at the Paris Film Festival; the audience award at the London Film Festival; and the People's Choice Award for the Canadian Film Circuit. As part of the award, McGowan was awarded a $2,500 cash prize.

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Let the Right One In by Tomas Alfredson

Let the Right One In has been collecting award-after-award during its short time on the festival circuit, and the CIFF Best International Feature Award adds to a long list which includes: the Jury Prize, Best Director, Fant-Asia Film Festival; Jury Prize, Best Film, Fant-Asia Film Festival; Jury Prize, Best Photography, Fant-Asia Film Festival; Best Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival; Nordic Film Prize, Goteborg Film Festival; Nordic Vision Award, Goteborg Film Festival; and the Critic's Award, NatFilm Festival among others. The film has won over 15 International prizes, and continues to amaze critics and audiences alike. Deftly crafted by Alfredson, and powerfully adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindquist from his bestselling book of the same name, the film is unlike any vampire movie ever seen - a chilling and beautiful coming of age story.

HotDOCS BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AWARD

ANVIL! The Story of Anvil by Sacha Gervasi

Adding to her list of prizes, Sacha Gervasi was awarded the HotDOCS Best Documentary Feature Award at this year's CIFF. The film screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and has taken home Audience Awards at both the Los Angeles and Sydney International Film Festivals. It also picked up another Best Documentary Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in July of this year. Follow the band through their mundane daily routines, their disastrous European tour, and regular in-fighting, Anvil! The Story of Anvil is an uplifting, inspirational, and bittersweet look at a band still chasing the elusive dream of fame and renown long past their prime.

AMERICAN EXPRESS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

Hope for the Broken Contender, Chris Scheuerman

The American Express People's Choice Award is given to the film of the festival garnering the most audience votes. Once again, this prize has been awarded to a production with a local connection, and is the first award for director Chris Scheuerman. After directing the short film Cornered, upon which Hope for the Broken Contender was based, Scheuerman raised the funds to shoot his first feature by working in Alberta's oil patch for several months to save up the $6500 budget. Shot in Calgary with a cast including former WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad (who squared off with Robert De Niro in Raging Bull), Pat Fiacco (the Mayor of Regina, and a world class boxing official) and plenty of local Calgary talent, Scheuerman delivered his first K.O. with a film about the tough choices one must make when pursuing a dream.

About CIFF

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

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation

Evocations of a world that vanished in the devastation of the First World War

Featuring Colin Ainsworth, tenor and Jesse Clark, baritone

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 and Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Trinity St. Paul���s Centre

For Immediate Release, October 7, 2008: In the week of Remembrance Day, Toronto���s innovative Talisker Players return to Trinity St. Paul���s Centre with a program that evokes of a world that vanished in the devastation of the First World War. The Lost Generation is based on settings from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. Tenor Colin Ainsworth and baritone Jesse Clark join the Talisker Players for two evenings of chamber music: Tuesday, November 11 and Wednesday, November 12, at 8PM.

A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, a large collection of 32 poems, appeared in 1896, and was in part a response to the tragedy of the Boer War. But the longing for lost innocence and for the simple pleasures of English rural life, which Housman captured so eloquently in these lyrical poems, became even more poignant in the context of World War I, and resonated strongly with a later generation of composers and audiences.

As 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams' death, The Lost Generation features one of his loveliest works, On Wenlock Edge. This setting of six of the poems, for tenor with string quartet and piano, is certainly the most famous and most popular song-cycle from A Shropshire Lad. Talisker Players complements this work by the little-known but equally beautifully Along the Field (also by Vaughan Williams), a simple setting of eight of the poems for tenor and violin.

The evening also includes music by two British composers of the generation hardest hit by WWI. The Western Playland is a setting of five of the Housman poems, for baritone with string quartet and piano, by Ivor Gurney, a gifted poet and composer whose physical and mental health were permanently impaired by his battlefield experiences. Songs from A Shropshire Lad is a cycle for baritone and piano by C.W. Orr, whose settings of Housman are some of the most beautiful ever, but who has been unjustly neglected both in his own lifetime and since.

To complete the programme, Talisker Players have commissioned a new work from Juliet Hess, a young Toronto composer who has begun to attract a lot of attention. The Poplars is a setting of four of the poems for baritone with string trio and piano.

Talisker Players��� concerts always include words as well as music. Readings for The Lost Generation will be from letters by Vera Brittain to the four young men ��� her brother, her fianc�� and two of their close friends ��� whose experiences in World War I inspired her famous autobiography, Testament of Youth. Her letters powerfully evoke the experience of the war, with courage and humour. All four of the young men were killed in the war. Vera Brittain eventually returned to Oxford, studied international relations, and devoted her life to promoting peace and international cooperation.

Talisker Players is thrilled to welcome back tenor Colin Ainsworth, who has built an international reputation based on his lyric sound, impeccable diction and a diverse range of repertoire requiring emotional commitment and stylistic sophistication. Fresh from his debut with Lake George Opera in New York as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Ainsworth continues to garner praise on the recital stage as well as in the opera world. This season���s highlights include performances in the title role of Pygmalion with Philharmonic Baroque of San Francisco (Nicolas McGegan conducting); in Die Zauberfl��te with Opera Hamilton and Pacific Opera Victoria; and in Les P��cheurs de perles and La Fille du R��giment with Edmonton Opera.

Toronto baritone Jesse Clark is one of the rising stars of his generation, praised as "vocally gripping" and "supremely inspired". As a participant in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, he appeared as Harlekin in an acclaimed production of Ariadne auf Naxos directed by Colin Graham. He later made his professional UK debut at the Aldeburgh Festival, as Henry Cuffe in Britten's Gloriana, conducted by Richard Hickox and recorded for the BBC. He is equally in demand in oratorio and as a recitalist. Jesse Clark graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music's Opera Division. He also holds an Honours degree in English literature from Queen's University. This marks his debut with Talisker Players.

THE LOST GENERATION

Evocations of a world that vanished in the devastation of the First World War

Featuring Colin Ainsworth, tenor and Jesse Clark, baritone

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 8PM and Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 8PM

Trinity St. Paul���s Centre: 427 Bloor Street West

TICKET INFORMATION

Individual tickets: $30 / $20 (seniors) / $10 (students)

Box office: 416-504-7529

Email: words.music@taliskerplayers.ca

Information: 416-466-1800

www.taliskerplayers.ca

Life is a Dream, Scapegoat Carnival, Centaur Theatre's Brave New Looks

In Centaur Theatre Company's Brave New Looks series

Scapegoat Carnivale's

Life is a Dream (La vida es sue��o)

Written by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Translated by Edwin Honig

Directed by Alison Darcy

October 22 ��� November 1, 2008

"Each man dreams the thing he is, for all of life's a dream and dreams themselves are only part of dreaming." Segismundo

Montreal, October 2008 ��� Scapegoat Carnivale is thrilled to present this audacious look at a renaissance classic as part of Centaur Theatre's Brave New Looks initiative. Rarely performed in English, Life is a Dream is an adaptation of Spanish 17th Century Pedro Calderon de la Barca's surprisingly post-modern dramatic comedy about the conflict between fate and free will. This profound and hilarious work, sharply directed by Alison Darcy with assistant director Joseph Shragge, features some of Montreal's most exciting performers, including four live musicians. Crossed lovers, rebels and loyal servants languishing in doubt populate the landscape of this charismatic story.

Poetically written Life is a Dream follows Prince Segismundo, who has been imprisoned since birth in a mountain cavern because of a prediction that he would grow up to become a tyrant. But now the King is getting old, and having no other heir, decides to release the prince, giving him one day of royalty to disprove the prophecy. Faithful to how the play was originally produced in Spain, with a spare set, lavish costumes and live music; this production will highlight the play's multiple realms, contrasting the social world of the court with the barren mountain wilderness.

Director Alison Darcy is enthusiastic about doing this play now; "It's exciting to be tackling the issue of political succession during two major elections in North America." Addressing the parallels between this Spanish classic and today's news, she continues, "By acting out of fear and grief, the King brings about the exact outcome he dreaded. Currently, we see this archetypical theme of the self-fulfilling prophecy internationally- the fear of terrorism has created the suspension of civil liberties, war and new refugee populations." Darcy is thrilled about Calderon's work, "I love theatre that plays with the idea of different realities, because just seeing a play to begin with is an encounter with an unreal world which is at the same time familiar."

The talented cast is made up of Andreas Apergis as Prince Segismundo and Leni Parker as King Basilio, along with Peter Batakliev, Gemma James-Smith, Julie Tamiko Manning, Julian Casey, Zachary Fraser, Dusan Dukic and Donovan Reiter. Led by musical director David Oppenheim, musicians Paul Gareau, Leon Lo and Aaron Shragge enhance the drama with an original score. The design highlights the work of Sarah Yaffe, whose set and lights create separate realities through lush colours and levels; and Jenna Wright, bringing a high-fashion sensibility to the costumes. Melanie St-Jacques is the stage manager and Bonnie More the assistant stage manager.

About Scapegoat Carnivale

Scapegoat Carnivale is an emerging company dedicated to producing exciting new works based on provocative dramaturgical concepts and approaches that expand the limits of theatre and take the medium in unexpected new directions. Of special interest are plays or texts that mix popular and experimental forms, employ heightened or poetic language and are expressionistic, slightly unsettling or unreal. The company is made up of writers, actors, directors and stage managers whose mission it is to experiment with new methods and collaborate with artists and performers from diverse artistic traditions. Past productions include Last Call, written by Holly O'Brien (winner of the MECCA award for best actor 2006) and The Works, written by Joseph Shragge (first runner up for the Centaur Theatre's Best Production award, 2007 Montreal Fringe Festival). Upcoming productions include Mud by Maria Irene Fornes to be directed by Emma Tibaldo in January 2009 and an original translation/adaptation of Euripides' Medea by Andreas Apergis and Joseph Shragge. Company founders are Andreas Apergis, Alison Darcy, David Oppenheim, Joseph Shragge and Melanie St-Jacques.

Brave New Looks

Now in its fourth year, this exciting undertaking was initiated to provide audiences with the opportunity to discover the diversity, imagination and highly original work of cutting-edge companies and individual "auteurs" as they embark on a new stage in the artistic development of their project.

"There's no safe highway leading past the force of destiny." Clarion

Life is a Dream- nine shows only

At Centaur Theatre

453 St Fran��ois-Xavier, Metro Place D'Armes

Wednesday to Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Matinee: Sunday, October 26 at 1:30 pm

$15 Regular/$10 Students and seniors

Reservations: 514-288-3161

www.scapegoatcarnivaletheatre.com

��lections f��d��rales : r��ponses des partis au questionnaire de la FCCF

��lections f��d��rales : r��ponses des partis au questionnaire de la FCCF

La culture francophone : la grande oubli��e pour certains partis politiques?

Ottawa le 7 octobre 2008 - Seuls le Parti lib��ral du Canada et le Bloc qu��b��cois ont adress�� leurs r��ponses au questionnaire que la F��d��ration culturelle canadienne - fran��aise (FCCF) a envoy�� aux partis politiques.

�� Tout au long de cette campagne ��lectorale la culture s'est inscrite comme un enjeu national et aujourd'hui l'absence de r��ponses du Nouveau Parti D��mocrate, du Parti conservateur et du Parti Vert pour les milieux artistiques et culturels de la francophonie canadienne est d��cevant et r��v��lateur d'une m��connaissance de ce que nous repr��sentons au sein de la soci��t�� canadienne. Par contre, de par les engagements mis de l'avant par le Parti lib��ral du Canada et le Bloc Qu��b��cois, ces deux partis comprennent qu'un espace culturel francophone dynamique et en croissance est essentiel au succ��s du Canada �� titre d'��conomie cr��ative et innovatrice. �� d��clare la pr��sidente de la FCCF, Mme Raymonde Boulay LeBlanc.

Pour ce qui est du soutien au milieu des arts et de la culture et de l'augmentation du budget du gouvernement f��d��ral allou�� �� la culture : le Parti lib��ral annonce qu'il investira 530 millions de dollars sur quatre ans, augmentera le cr��dit d'imp��t pour la production cin��matographique ou magn��toscopique canadienne pour qu'il atteigne 30 %. Le Bloc Qu��b��cois demande que le budget des arts soit hauss�� de 500 millions de dollars pour le porter �� 1 % du budget. Il veut hausser le budget du Conseil des Arts �� 300 millions de dollars, augmenter le budget du Fonds du long m��trage de 50 millions de dollars et permettre l'��talement du revenu de l'artiste sur cinq ans et exempter d'imp��t les revenus de droit d'auteur.

�� Ces r��ponses sont encourageantes et rejoignent les positions de la FCCF. Depuis plusieurs ann��es, la FCCF exige que le budget global de la culture soit augment��, le 1 % est int��ressant mais compar�� aux autres pays industrialis��s, le Canada a du chemin �� faire et surtout il faudra s'assurer que la francophonie canadienne obtienne sa juste part. �� note la pr��sidente de la FCCF.

Au sujet d'une Politique culturelle nationale : le Parti lib��ral adh��re �� une politique nationale culturelle avec des investissements dans le Conseil des arts, le cin��ma,les mus��es, le contenu canadien, la promotion des arts �� l'��tranger et une strat��gie canadienne pour les m��dias num��riques pour cr��er un tout coh��rent et mettre en relief le d��veloppement de la francophonie canadienne. Le Bloc Qu��b��cois demande que le gouvernement f��d��ral transf��re au Qu��bec toutes les responsabilit��s en mati��re de culture et s'entende avec les provinces pour que leurs politiques culturelles soient conformes aux int��r��ts des communaut��s francophones.

�� En ce 21��me si��cle et dans l'environnement mondialis�� de commerce international et de concentration d'entreprises, le Canada en tant que pays d��mocratique doit signaler sans ��quivoque qu'il comprend l'importante d'un financement ad��quat et stable pour la culture francophone. Les propositions du Parti lib��ral sont int��ressantes. La FCCF comprend la position du Bloc qu��b��cois mais estime que l'on ne peut d��responsabiliser le gouvernement f��d��ral qui doit avoir une politique culturelle nationale pour la protection et l'��panouissement des expressions culturelles du Canada. ��

Pour ce qui est de l'abolition des programmes et la r��vision du budget allou�� �� la culture dans la �� Feuille de route sur la dualit�� linguistique �� : Le Parti lib��ral entend cr��er un nouveau plan f��d��ral/provincial de soutien aux langues officielles, particuli��rement dans le domaine de la culture. Le Bloc Qu��b��cois exige que le gouvernement r��tablisse les programmes et qu'il entame des consultations publiques avec le milieu avant d'entreprendre une r��forme de l'aide au secteur culturel. Les 14 millions de dollars allou��s dans la Feuille de route lui apparaissent d��risoires, voire insultant et il s'engage �� travailler �� ce que ces sommes soient rehauss��es.

�� La FCCF est tr��s satisfaite de ces r��ponses, ce sont des indications claires et des engagements forts pour nos milieux. �� souligne Mme Boulay LeBlanc

Enfin pour la promotion de la diversit�� et la richesse culturelles et artistiques des communaut��s francophones et acadiennes au niveau international : le Bloc Qu��b��cois demande le r��tablissement du Programme de promotion des arts, de Route Commerciale, des agents culturels dans les ambassades et du programme de diplomatie publique qu'il souhaite voir transf��r�� au Conseil des arts. Le Parti lib��ral veut renverser les coupures effectu��es �� Promart et �� Routes commerciales et il veut investir 26 millions de dollars pour de la promotion des arts canadiens �� l'��tranger. Il augmentera les investissements dans le domaine des arts de la francophonie canadienne et assurera son rayonnement sur la sc��ne internationale.

�� Ces r��ponses sont ��loquentes et d��montrent la volont�� du Parti lib��ral du Canada et du Bloc Qu��b��cois d'investir dans la culture et la cr��ativit�� et de soutenir notre pr��sence �� l'international. Pour la francophonie canadienne, de telles mesures assureraient un d��veloppement strat��gique et durable du secteur artistique et culturel au sein de collectivit��s francophones et acadiennes dynamiques, concurrentielles et durables, composantes essentielles de notre tissu social canadien. �� de conclure Mme Boulay LeBlanc.

Les r��ponses des partis sont en ligne sur www.fccf.ca - section ��lections f��d��rales

La FCCF est un organisme national dont la mission est de promouvoir l'expression artistique et culturelle des communaut��s francophones et acadienne. Elle r��unit des repr��sentants de sept regroupements nationaux en th����tre, en litt��rature, en chanson-musique, en arts m��diatiques et en arts visuels, ainsi que des repr��sentants de onze provinces et territoires du Canada.

Composers Young and Younger!

Music by three generations of American composers

works by

Elizabeth Bell, Canary Burton, Stephen Feigenbaum,Daniel Haldar & Max Lifchitz

Lisa Hansen, flute; Mioi Takeda, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola;
Bruce Wang, cello; & Max Lifchitz, piano

Sunday, October 12 at 3 PM

Christ & St Stephen���s Church

120 West 69th St (bet Bway & Columbus), NYC
Free Admission. No tickets required.

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North/South Consonance, Inc. will inaugurate its 29th consecutive season with a special event scheduled for Sunday, October 12 at 3 PM.

The concert will feature members of the acclaimed North/South Consonance Ensemble performing music by three generations of American composers. It will be held at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen���s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

Two extremely talented teen-age composers will participate in the concert: Daniel Haldar ���- the 17 year old composer from Cleveland, OH ��� and Stephen Feigenbaum ��� the 19 year old composer born in Boston and now an undergraduate at Yale University.

Mr. Haldar���s recently completed four movement Sonata for Piano will be heard in New York City for the first time. An ambitious and virtuosic work, its music is both somewhat dissonant and highly evocative. Haldar has studied piano and composition at the Preparatory Division of the Cleveland Institute of Music. A high-school senior, his other interests include mathematics, science and languages. He also serves as captain of his school���s Lincoln-Douglas debate team.

Stephen Feigenbaum will be represented on the program by his Trap for solo viola, a composition that explores ���the paradox of being trapped by a sense of freedom.��� Born in 1989, Feigenbaum was recently commissioned to write a work for the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra in California. He has won several scholarships and prizes and has also appeared on the popular NPR show ���From the Top.���

The concert will mark the 80th birthday of Elizabeth Bell (b. 1948, Cincinnatti, OH) whose River Fantasy for flute, violin, viola and cello will open the second half of the program. A graduate of Wellesley College and The Juilliard School, Ms. Bell resides in Westchester County with her husband and their Siamese cat. The American Record Guide called her ���one of our country���s leading composers.��� And Fanfare Magazine referred to her as ���a fine composer with a vivid, highly entertaining sense of instrumental color.��� Ms. Bell is one of the founders of New York Women Composers, Inc. and also served on the Board of Governors of the American Composers Alliance for several years. Her works have been performed throughout the US as well as Armenia, Brazil and Russia. River Fantasy was premiered by the North/South Consonance Ensemble as part of an all Elizabeth Bell concert presented at Merkin Hall in 1993 and eventually recorded on a CD featuring some of her vocal and instrumental works (North/South Recordings 1042).

The music of long time Cape Cod, MA resident Canary Burton (b.1943) will open the concert. Her recently completed piano piece The Broken Record will be heard for the first time. Ms. Burton found inspiration for the work in one of her old jazz tunes as well as quotes from We Shall Overcome. In a manner somewhat similar to Charles Ives��� musical collages, Burton also employs quotes from military tunes and childhood songs. Burton studied jazz at the University of Idaho. Her work has progressed through jazz, pop and sound art into post-modern classical music.

The program will also include some works by Max Lifchitz, the Mexican-born composer and conductor who founded North/South Consonance, Inc. in 1980. A New York City resident since 1966, Mr. Lifchitz studied at Juilliard and Harvard and has taught at Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music, New School University, Columbus State University and the University at Albany, SUNY. A tireless advocate of today���s composers, Lifchitz appears as conductor or pianist on more than 40 critically acclaimed albums.

Commissioned by the Organization of American States, Lifchitz���s Yellow Ribbons No. 22 (1982) for viola and piano belongs to a series of compositions being written as homage to the former American hostages in Iran. His Transformations No. 2 for solo violin was commissioned by the late Mexican virtuoso Manuel Enriquez. And his Mosaico Latinoamericano for flute and piano is built around folk-tunes from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. The work was written at the request of flutist Lisa Hansen for a concert that took place in Zurich, Switzerland.

Flutist Lisa Hansen graduated from The Juilliard School before accepting the position of principal flutist with the Mexico City Philharmonia. She has performed and recorded with North/South Consonance since her return to New York in 1988. Ms. Hansen is the featured soloist in the recording of Harold Schiffman���s Concertino for Flute and Chamber Orchestra recently released on the North/South Recordings label (N/S R 1045).

Violinist Mioi Takeda studied with Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School and Brooklyn College. Much in demand as chamber and orchestral musician throughout the tri-state area, she performs regularly with The American Symphony Orchestra and the St Luke���s Orchestra.

John Pickford Richards studied at the Eastman School and has performed throughout the US and Europe. He collaborated with Pierre Boulez on a recent performance of Luciano Berio���s Chemins for viola and chamber ensemble at the Luzerne Festival in Switzerland.

Cellist Bruce Wang is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the country, Asia, Europe and Australia. He has also recorded music for many feature films, theater and media projects.

The composers will be on hand to introduce their works and meet with the audience during intermission and after the concert. All participants in the event are available to the press for interviews and may be contacted through our office at (212) 663-7566 or by e-mail at <ns.concerts@att.net>

North/South Consonance���s 2008-09 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support comes from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University in the City of NY; the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians; and from many generous individuals.

Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch October 17

2008 Toronto Arts Council Foundation Awards To be Announced on October 17^th At Mayor���s Arts Awards Lunch

Winners of the 2008 Toronto Arts Council Foundation Awards will be announced on Friday, October 17, 2008 at the third annual Mayor���s Arts Awards Lunch at the Arcadian Court hosted by broadcaster, writer and musician Jian Ghomeshi and Mayor David Miller. The awards celebrate artists, cultural professionals and arts supporters from every creative discipline who have made significant contributions to Toronto���s artistic and cultural life. Five awards, with cash prizes totalling $35,000, will be presented at the ceremony.

���With this election we���re hearing a great deal of discussion about the role that the arts play in the life of this country ��� both in the economy and as our expression of our identity,��� said executive director Claire Hopkinson. ���Celebrating our artists and celebrating the many people who make art happen is an important political statement.���

The room will reflect the gamut of artistic activity in Toronto including filmmaker Patricia Rozema and TIFFG Executive Director Mich��le Maheux, music makers Joe Sealy, Justin Rutledge, Andrew Burashko and Patricia O���Callaghan; literary lights Alana Wilcox and Kerri Sakamoto; theatre luminaries Martha Burns, Ted Dykstra, d���bi.young.anitafrika, Albert Schultz and Franco Boni; visual arts mavens Sara Diamond, Jenn Goodwin and Peter Kingstone; arts city builders Adonis Huggins, Ruth Howard and Tim Jones; and Karen Kain, Mavis Staines and Peggy Baker from the world of dance.

The ceremony will also feature a special performance by the Regent Park School of Music choir with diva Jackie Richardson, one of Canada���s foremost singers of gospel, blues and jazz, led by choral director Wayne Strongman.

As previously announced, the 2008 Toronto Arts Council Foundation Awards finalists are:

Arts for Youth Award: Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People (LKTYP); Mammalian Diving Reflex (MDR); and SKETCH Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth.

The Globe and Mail Toronto Business for the Arts Award: BMO Financial Group; Concord Adex Developments; and Torys LLP;

RBC Emerging Artist Award: Actor, writer, producer and director Greg Atkins; pianist Glenda del Monte Escalante; and director and dramaturge Weyni Mengesha;

Roy Thomson Hall Award of Recognition: artistic director and conductor David Fallis; New Music Arts Projects (NMAP); and jazz musician and composer Richard Underhill;

William Kilbourn Award for the Celebration of Toronto���s Cultural Life: Clay and Paper Theatre founder David Anderson; Marc Glassman, community builder, arts journalist and film curator; and playwright, theatre administrator and arts activist Thomas Hendry.

For complete bios and background on the artists visit www.torontoarts.org/awards.html

Founding Event Sponsor RBC Financial Group and Media Sponsor The Globe and Mail are joined by this year���s Benefactors which include: Aeroplan, BMO Financial Group, The Dalton Company Ltd, The Daniels Corporation, Diana Bennett & Spencer Lanthier, B + H Architects, M. Joan Chalmers C.C., O.Ont, City of Toronto Cultural Services, Dancap Productions Inc., The Drake Hotel, George Fierheller, Roger and Kevin Garland, George Brown College, The George Partnership, Great-West Life Assurance Company, Donald K. Johnson, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, John D. McKellar, NOW Communications Inc., Ontario College of Art & Design, RBH Inc., Sun Life Financial, and Vector Aerospace.

Patrons include: Monica Armour, Cannon Design, Concord Adex Developments Corp., Creative Class Group, IBI Group, International Book Productions Inc., Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Sam Sniderman & Janet Mays, The Arts Advocate and TMX Group.

The 2008 individual award sponsors are Martha Burns, Business for the Arts, Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, Jim Fleck, James B. Pitblado, RBC Financial Group, and

The Globe and Mail.

Toronto Arts Council Foundation, existing to provide the creative opportunity for donors to support the arts in Toronto, believes that a great city demands great art, and by supporting, celebrating, financing and advocating for Toronto���s local artists, we���re improving the quality of life of all Torontonians. Although separate entities, the Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council Foundation benefit by being run as sister organizations, ensuring close contact with the arts sector in Toronto and the continuous awareness of needs across the community.

For more information on the awards and the work of the Toronto Arts Council Foundation, please visit www.torontoarts.org/awards.html

A Concert of Musical Reflection, a Meeting in Sacred Music

Toronto ��� A gathering of faiths, an orchestra of voices, an understanding of religions, a celebration of music, an architectural vision of beauty ��� so many reasons to make your way to St. Paul's Basilica for St. Michael's Choir School's performance of St. Matthew Passion by composer and Most Reverend Hilarion Alfeyev ��� Russian Orthodox Bishop of Vienna on Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm.

This North American premiere performance, sung in English text, will feature guest soloists Wanda Thorne, Soprano, James McLennan, Tenor, Robert Pomakov, Narrator/Bass, with the Senior Choir of St. Michael's Choir School and accompanied by a string orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jerzy Cichocki. Bishop Hilarion will also be in attendance and this performance will be recorded for broadcast by Salt & Light Television. Admission is free.

Founded in 1937 with the purpose of providing sacred music for the religious services of St. Michael's Cathedral in downtown Toronto, St. Michael's Choir School has evolved into a centre for musical and academic excellence recognized the world over. It is one of only six choir schools in the world affiliated with the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Each student admitted to the Choir School is trained in vocal, technical, and instrumental music, and performs in one of the school's choirs.

While remaining at the forefront of music education in Toronto, the Choir School has also long maintained the highest of academic standards, recognized most recently by the perfect score awarded its academic program by the Fraser Institute. St. Michael's Choir School has stayed true to Monsignor Ronan's vision of preparing young men to serve God through music and meaningful civic action. For seventy years, graduates of the Choir School have found their calling in science, education, medicine, law, business, and of course music. Included among the scholars and musicians who call St. Michael's Choir School their alma mater are the famous Crew Cuts and Four Lads of the 1950s to present-day artists such as Michael Schade, John McDermott, Stewart Goodyear, Kevin Hearn (The Barenaked Ladies), Robert Pomakov, Matt Dusk, Michael Colvin, Claude Morrison (The Nylons), and Michael Burgess.

Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, born 1966, received his initial education in music, studying violin, piano and composition, at the Moscow Gnessins School and the Moscow State Conservatory. After military service he entered the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was tonsured a monk and later ordained to the priesthood. He has taught Homiletics, Dogmatic Theology, New Testament Studies and Byzantine Greek at the Moscow Theological Schools. In 1995 he completed his doctoral studies at Oxford University and in 2001, he was elected Bishop and consecrated by His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. Bishop Hilarion is the author of more than 300 publications, including numerous books in Russian, English, French, Italian, German and Finnish. Apart from his doctoral degree in philosophy from Oxford, he also holds a doctorate in theology from St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. His music continues to be performed internationally.

St. Michael's Choir School's concert will be held at St. Paul's Basilica, 83 Power St. (Queen & Parliament) at 7:30 pm on Friday, October 24, 2008. Admission is free.

This concert is generously supported by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation & Jim and Margaret Fleck.

For more information, please visit www.smcs.on.ca or call (416) 393-5518.

Free lecture- Sunday-@-the-Segal, before Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday-@-the-Segal

A series of intimate conversation and riveting lectures at

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre

Diana LeBlanc

Don't miss the always-interesting Sunday-@-the-Segal for the upcoming production, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as we welcome acclaimed director, Diana LeBlanc. Ms LeBlanc will talk about Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the various approaches to directing American classics.

Ms Leblanc is an actor as well as a theatre and opera director with numerous awards and nominations to her credit. For the Segal Theatre, directing credits include: The Odd Couple, Fallen Angels and Rose. At the Stratford Festival of Canada, credits include: A Delicate Balance, Ghosts, The Seagull, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, Death of a Salesman, Romeo and Juliet, Sweet Bird of Youth and the renowned Long Day's Journey into Night. A founding member of Soulpepper, directing credits include: The Real Thing, Zoo Story, The Maids and A Streetcar Named Desire. Recent projects include: Assorted Candies at Thousand Island Playhouse and On ne badine pas avec l'amour for Th����tre fran��ais de Toronto. Ms. Leblanc is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, a recipient of the Prix Alliance Fran��ais and a former artistic director of Th����tre fran��ais de Toronto.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

11 AM

Coffee and refreshments will be served in the lobby afterwards

(Tickets on sale now for the first preview of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at 1:30 pm)

At the Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre, 5170 Cote Ste. Catherine Rd.

FREE ADMISSION!! No reservations necessary, general admission

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre and Ernst & Young present

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, October 26-November 16, 2008

For tickets call (514) 739-7944 or log on to www.segalcentre.org

NAC annual Gala raises $835,000 for the National Youth and Education Trust

National Arts Centre���s annual Gala raises $835,000 for the NAC���s National Youth and Education Trust

Ottawa, Canada ��� The National Arts Centre���s 2008 Gala has raised an impressive $835,000 for the National Arts Centre Foundation���s National Youth and Education Trust. The Gala, which this year featured the legendary Tony Bennett, had been sold out for months, and the crowd was on its feet repeatedly throughout the night. In the opening half of the programme Music Director Pinchas Zukerman led the National Arts Centre Orchestra supplemented by the five participants in this season���s Institute for Orchestral Studies (IOS) plus the Richard Li Young Artist. The first half highlight was a performance of the Allegro from Vivaldi���s Concerto in B-flat major for Violin and Cello by 11-year-old violinist Kerson Leong, and his 13-year-old brother, cellist Stanley Leong, both recent participants in the NAC���s Summer Music Institute (SMI). The National Youth and Education Trust provides funds to support the wide array of artistic and educational programming the NAC undertakes for young Canadians, including the SMI and the IOS and the Richard Li Young Artist Chair.

The evening included the announcement that Pinchas Zukerman���s friends from around North America have begun a ���Pinchas Zukerman 60^th birthday scholarship fund��� with a $60,000 gift to support international scholarships for the Summer Music Institute. It is the first dedicated fund for this purpose.

TELUS was once again the Presenting Sponsor of the annual Gala, reflecting its continuing support of the National Youth and Education Trust, as its founding partner. The Trust is also supported by SunLife Financial, patrons of the Gala and the National Arts Centre Foundation Donors��� Circle. The Honorary Chair of the Gala was Laureen Harper.

The Gala Committee was chaired for the third year by Janet Yale, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs of TELUS. Janet Yale said: ���Tony Bennett held the crowd in the palm of his hand. What a wonderful entertainer! It was equally thrilling to see the reaction of the audience when the NAC Orchestra and Pinchas Zukerman were joined by our two young string players, Stanley and Kerson Leong, who have already benefited from the National Youth and Education Trust through the NAC���s Young Artists Programme. When you see before your eyes the future of music in this country, it���s easy to understand the importance of fundraising events such as this. I���m grateful to all the hard work of this year���s Committee and to all those who supported the Gala.���

NAC Foundation CEO Darrell Gregersen enthusiastically added: ���Over 2,000 people left their heart at the NAC tonight! This unforgettable evening is the result of an enormous amount of passion and hard work from Janet Yale and the Gala Committee, and also to the contribution of Pinchas Zukerman and the musicians of the NAC Orchestra who donated their services for the Gala and performed so wonderfully. It was truly inspirational when we learned first thing Monday morning, that our soloists Stanley and Kerson Leong have asked to make a donation to the Trust.���

After a luxurious wine and canap�� reception and a taste of San Francisco in the NAC Foyer for everyone in attendance, the concert thrilled the crowd. The Ottawa Citizen, which featured the Gala on its front page the next morning, said ���Tony Bennett is one of the wonders of popular music��� and added: ���A special treat came in the form of a Vivaldi concerto for violin and cello, played with real pizzazz by the Leong brothers.��� Following the concert and a post-concert reception in the Foyer, 800 Gala guests dined on Southam Hall stage, which had been magically converted into a classy art deco dining emporium.

The glittering crowd included ambassadors, cabinet ministers, senators and members of Canada���s corporate elite.

Op��ra de Montr��al - Les p��cheurs de perles de Bizet

FORCE DE L'AMOUR, GRANDEUR DE L'AMITI��

Les p��cheurs de perles

de Georges Bizet

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

1 �� 5 �� 8 �� 10 �� 13 novembre 2008 �� 20 h

Karina Gauvin incarne la pr��tresse Le��la - une prise de r��le pour la soprano qu��b��coise ��� et la coqueluche britannique de la mode Zandra Rhodes signe d��cors et costumes

Montr��al, 6 octobre 2008 ��� Pour la deuxi��me production de sa 29^e saison, l'Op��ra de Montr��al pr��sente, dans une distribution id��ale et enti��rement canadienne, le premier ouvrage important de Georges Bizet, Les p��cheurs de perles. Karina Gauvin, cette perle rare du chant ici, interpr��te le r��le de la pr��tresse Le��la. Il s'agit d'une prise de r��le pour la soprano. Elle chante aux c��t��s du t��nor Antonio Figueroa, qui a r��cemment triomph�� dans le r��le de Nadir en Europe, du baryton Philip Addis en Zurga, et du baryton-basse Alexandre Sylvestre qui incarne Nourabad.

Apr��s avoir dirig�� au Metropolitan Opera de New York, le chef Fr��d��ric Chaslin* fait ses d��buts �� notre compagnie �� la t��te de l'Orchestre M��tropolitain du Grand Montr��al. Cette production color��e et s��duisante est sign��e par la c��l��bre designer britannique Zandra Rhodes* (d��cors et costumes). La mise en sc��ne est d'Andrew Sinclair*, les chor��graphies, ��vocatrices de la Polyn��sie, de John Malashock*, et les ��clairages sont de Ron Vodicka*.

Pr��sent�� sans r��citatifs, dans une succession ininterrompue d'airs de grande qualit��, et livrant ce suave m��lange de lyrisme fran��ais et d'exotisme oriental, Les p��cheurs de perles demeure encore �� ce jour une ��uvre qui s��duit. Pour les m��lomanes montr��alais, l'Op��ra de Montr��al a choisi cette production con��ue par Zandra Rhodes pour le San Diego Opera et le Michigan Opera Theatre, et tout le d��ploiement d'effectifs que commande l'��uvre de Bizet qui se situe �� Ceylan (Sri Lanka). Les p��cheurs de perles est sans conteste un op��ra des plus sensuels, fascinant et romantique qui chante l'amour, l'amiti��, la jalousie et la r��demption.

Deux extraits ont notamment consacr�� Les p��cheurs de perles et le g��nie m��lodique de Bizet : le duo Zurga-Nadir de l'acte I, Au fond du temple saint, et La Romance de Nadir, chef-d'��uvre de puret�� m��lodique requ��rant de la part du t��nor un rare sens des nuances. Moins connus mais tout aussi remarquables : le duo Le��la-Nadir de l'acte II Le jour est loin encore, et �� l'acte III, celui de Zurga-Le��la Je fr��mis, je chancelle m��ritent d'��tre red��couverts. Quant aux importantes interventions du ch��ur, soulignons celles concluant l'acte II, Voici les deux coupables et Brahma, divin Brahma, ainsi que Sombres divinit��s �� l'acte III.

* d��buts �� la compagnie.

LES P��CHEURS DE PERLES
de Georges Bizet

A R G U M E N T

Sur les lointains rivages de Ceylan s'accomplissent les rituels sacr��s des p��cheurs de perles, qui viennent de choisir leur nouveau chef, Zurga. Arrive son meilleur ami, Nadir, puis une myst��rieuse pr��tresse qui doit, par ses chants, apaiser les fureurs de la mer. Zurga et Nadir la reconnaissent : c'est Le��la, la femme que tous les deux ont aim��e autrefois. Ils choisissent de renoncer encore �� cet amour qui met en p��ril leur amiti��. Mais Nadir ne peut r��sister et revoit Le��la en secret. Zurga les surprend et, furieux, les condamne �� mort. D��chir�� entre l'amour et l'amiti��, Zurga ira-t-il au bout de sa vengeance?

Op��ra : Les p��cheurs de perles de Georges Bizet (7^e op��ra du compositeur)

Structure : en 3 actes

Livret : Eug��ne Cormon et Michel Carr��

Cr��ation : Th����tre lyrique de Paris, le 30 septembre 1863

Production : San Diego Opera & Michigan Opera Theatre

Derni��re production �� la compagnie : septembre 1996

Note : Le livret originel pr��voyait une issue tragique. Il fut remani�� pour la reprise de l'��uvre en 1893 o�� triomphe l'amiti�� de Zurga. Bien qu'il ait fait emprisonner Le��la et Nadir, il n'h��site pas �� incendier le temple du village, afin de provoquer une diversion et faciliter leur fuite. Une conclusion tout aussi dramatique o�� le tragique c��de le pas �� la noblesse !

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Pr��Op��ra - conf��rence sur l'��uvre, donn��e par le musicologue Pierre Vachon avant chaque repr��sentation, �� 18 h 30, au Piano Nobile de la PDA.

M��trOp��ra - ��v��nement urbain pr��sent�� dans le m��tro, en collaboration avec la STM, les 28, 29 et 30octobre. Stations �� confirmer.

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Le Gala ��� 13^e ��dition

��v��nement-b��n��fice annuel

pr��c��d�� de l'intronisation au Panth��on canadien de l'art lyrique

d'une personnalit�� marquante du milieu canadien de l'op��ra

Dimanche 7 d��cembre 2008 �� 14 h

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

Prochaine production

L'OBSESSION DU POUVOIR

Macbeth

de Giuseppe Verdi

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

31 janvier �� 4 �� 7 �� 9 �� 12 f��vrier 2009 �� 20 h

NOUVELLE PRODUCTION

une coproduction Op��ra de Montr��al / Opera Australia

Op��ra de Montr��al | Saison 0809

Pour ne rien perdre de l'intrigue, tous les op��ras sont pr��sent��s en langue originelle, avec surtitres bilingues projet��s au-dessus de la sc��ne.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier de la Place des Arts (PDA)

Bizet - Les p��cheurs de perles | 1, 5, 8, 10, 13 novembre 2008 �� 20 h

Le Gala | 13^e ��dition, le 7 d��cembre 2008 �� 14 h
Verdi - Macbeth | 31 janvier, 4, 7, 9, 12 f��vrier 2009 �� 20 h
Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor | 23, 27, 30 mai, 1, 4 juin 2009 �� 20 h
Plamondon/Berger - Starmania Op��ra | 14, 18, 21, 23, 26 mars �� 20h + 28 mars 2009 �� 14 h

Monument-National

Atelier lyrique de l'Op��ra de Montr��al

Mozart - Cosi fan tutte | 28, 30 mars, 1, 2, 4 avril 2009 �� 20 h

Vente de Billets

Billets �� la Pi��ce

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�� partir de 46 $.

Op��ration 18-30 : l'abonnement pour les 18-30 ans

L'Op��ra de Montr��al poursuit son offre sp��ciale d'abonnement destin��e aux 18-30 ans : 35 $ pour un premier op��ra et 25 $ pour les productions suivantes de la saison r��guli��re, 30 $ pour Starmania et 20 $ pour la production de l'Atelier lyrique. Achat minimal requis de deux op��ras de la saison r��guli��re. Abonnements offerts �� la Place des Arts.

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OSM / Tribute to musical creativity

Tribute to musical creativity

Susanna M��lkki of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris

for the first time in Canada

Chantal Juillet back with the OSM

Walter Boudreau conducts works by Reich, Vivier and Frehner

Movie projections on a giant screen

Montreal, October 6, 2008 ��� Susanna M��lkki, music director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, will be making her Canadian debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montr��al at a non-series concert presented at Th����tre Maisonneuve in Place des Arts on October 29. Founded by none other than Pierre Boulez in 1976, the Ensemble Intercontemporain is one of the most prominent ensembles of its kind in the world. A unique and bold program will bring together Madam M��lkki, Soci��t�� de musique contemporaine du Qu��bec music director Walter Boudreau, and violinist Chantal Juillet. Excerpts from the James Dormeyer film Journal d���une cr��ation (Diary of a Creation) and from J��r��me Bosc���s stylized video City Life will be projected on a giant screen during the concert, while works by Frehner, Pr��vost, Ligeti, Reich and Vivier are performed by the musicians of the OSM.

An essential part of the OSM���s 75th season, this concert is closely linked to two Qu��bec composers who cannot be ignored, marking as it does the 60th anniversary of the birth and 25th of the death of Claude Vivier, and the 10th anniversary of the premiere by Chantal Juillet and the OSM of Andr�� Pr��vost���s Violin Concerto. In addition, the Orchestra will perform Canadian Paul Frehner���s Lila, which won the Claude Vivier National Prize in 2007 as part of the OSM���s International Composition Prize.

Susanna M��lkki

Music director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2005, Susanna M��lkki has quickly obtained international recognition for her talent as an orchestra conductor. Deeply committed to the cause of contemporary music, she is one of the few women conductors enjoying an international career. She led both the world and the North American premieres of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho���s oratorio La Passion de Simone, an event that was acclaimed by the New York Times. Her collaborators have included the Klangforum Wien, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the ASKO and Avanti! ensembles, and she has conducted such prominent orchestras as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Danish National Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the North German Radio Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony.

Walter Boudreau

Walter Boudreau has been highly active, since the early 1970s, in musical creativity in Qu��bec. Artistic director and principal conductor of the Soci��t�� de musique contemporaine du Qu��bec (SMCQ) since 1988, he has collaborated on a regular basis with the OSM in large-scale projects (OSMCQ, Symphony of the Millennium, Musimarch, Montreal/New Music International Festival�Ķ). In 1968, with poet Raoul Duguay, he founded Infonie, a colourful ensemble of about 33 members located somewhere in the middle of happening, jazz, contemporary music and multimedia.

The work of the Montreal-born composer and conductor has been rewarded with the prestigious Grand Prize of the Conseil des arts de la Communaut�� urbaine de Montr��al. He is also the recipient of First Prize from the CBC National Competition for Young Canadian Composers, the Prix Jules-L��ger for New Chamber Music, the Grand Prix Paul Gilson from the Communaut�� des radios publiques de langue fran��aise, in Paris, and a number of Prix Opus from the Conseil qu��b��cois de la musique. The Canada Council for the Arts presented him with its Molson Prize, in recognition of his career as a whole. He has won a Masque, awarded by the Conseil qu��b��cois de la musique, as well as the Th����tre du Nouveau Monde���s Prix Gascon-Roux for best sound design at the Theatre. Lastly, he has received the Prix Denise-Pelletier for performing arts ��� the highest distinction offered by the Qu��bec government in the area of culture and science.

Chantal Juillet

The OSM has had a special relationship with violinist Chantal Juillet for some time. Winner of the OSM Competition in 1974, she joined the Orchestra in 1985, was appointed associate concertmaster in 1990 and has performed on a number of occasions as a soloist with the Orchestra.

Recognized as one of the country���s most brilliant musicians, she enjoys an international career that takes her to the five continents. She is a frequent guest with orchestras as pre-eminent as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France, the London Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The violinist has soloed regularly with great American orchestras like the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston and New York, and has toured frequently in Europe, North America, South America, Japan, China and Australia. Today she is artistic director of the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, which she founded in 1991.

Works on the program

Andr�� Pr��vost, Violin Concerto

Among other moments being celebrated by the concert is the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Andr�� Pr��vost���s Violin Concerto, which was commissioned by the OSM and Chantal Juillet. Fascinated by the creative act, director James Dormeyer spent two years, day after day, as a privileged witness to the creation of this work, from the first sketch to the final concert, given by Chantal Juillet and the OSM at Place des Arts. The film that resulted is called Journal d���une creation (Diary of a Creation), an excerpt of which will be shown during the performance. James Dormeyer set out to depict, with as much clarity as possible, not only the subtleties of a complex musical language but also the movements of the soul that were at the source of the work, with its author as with its performers.

Born in France, James Dormeyer settled in Canada in 1965 and joined Radio-Canada as a filmmaker in 1968. He has directed in several fields, ranging from variety to children's programs to news by way of dramatic series and music programs.

Claude Vivier, Orion

Orion, by Montrealer Claude Vivier, a composer the 60th anniversary of whose birth and 25th of whose death are being marked, was commissioned and premiered by the OSM in 1980. The work is also being presented as part of the Claude Vivier tribute series in the Montreal/New Music International Festival.

Vivier���s art is based on a melody. ���I have to feel ���close��� to my musical material,��� Vivier stated. ���I have to live it.��� Gy��rgy Ligeti considered the music of Claude Vivier among the most original of his time.

Steve Reich, City Life

Celebrated American composer Steve Reich is featured with his City Life, for instrumental ensemble and samplers, an specially dense work that presents a New World of excess and immoderation, with images supplied by J��r��me Bosc and projected on a giant screen. City Life integrates real-life noises recorded in New York into the composition: car doors slamming, air brakes, a pile driver and boat horns are some of the things that engage in a dialogue with the musicians. The work, one of the composer���s most exciting, is being performed for the first time by the OSM.

Last year at the OSM, J��r��me Bosc���s Buster, a montage based on Buster Keaton movies, was projected to John Adams���s work Fearful Symmetries. The film was a great success.

Gy��rgy Ligeti, Lontano

Lontano by Gy��rgy Ligeti, who died in 2006, is a flagship composition of the 20th century. One of the composer���s best known works, it is nonetheless rarely heard in concert. In fact, the last time the OSM played it was in 1981, under the direction of Charles Dutoit.

Director Stanley Kubrick used Gy��rgy Ligeti���s music several times in his films, in particular Atmosph��res, Requiem, Lux ��terna in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Musica ricercata in Eyes Wide Shut.

Paul Frehner, Lila

In 2007, Canadian Paul Frehner took the Claude Vivier National Prize with Lila at the OSM International Composition Prize. Lila is a Hindu creation myth in which Brahman transforms into the universe. It���s a ���rhythmic play,��� in the composer���s own description, ���which goes on in endless cycles, the One becoming the many and the many returning into the One�Ķ. In Lila, there are no obvious audible references to Eastern musical tradition. The rhythmic and metric aspects of the score, however, are governed by a personal interpretation and application of Jhumra, a 14-beat cyclical metric structure used in Indian classical-music traditions.���

Non-series Concerts

October 29 at 8 p.m.

Th����tre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Susanna M��lkki and Walter Boudreau, conductors

Chantal Juillet, violin

Gy��rgy Ligeti Lontano

Andr�� Pr��vost Violin Concerto (premiered by Chantal Juillet) (with projection of the James Dormeyer film Journal d���une creation)

Paul Frehner Lila

Steve Reich City Life (with projection of the J��rome Bosc video City Life)

Claude Vivier Orion

Tickets starting at $24.75

15-30 years old: $15

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

The Orchestre symphonique de Montr��al is presented by Hydro-Qu��bec

in association with National Bank Financial Group

RCM - ARC Concert Release

ARC - Artists of The Royal Conservatory

present

Music in Exile

��migr�� Composers of the 1930s

James Conlon is ARC's Honorary Chairman

ARC - Artists of The Royal Conservatory - and Artistic Director Simon Wynberg, have long been passionate about the repertoire they will present this November in Toronto, New York, and Washington, DC, for the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Seventy-five years after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, ARC will introduce "Music in Exile", celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich, and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime. In Toronto ARC will appear at the Royal Conservatory of Music on November 7 at 8 pm, in New York they will present a five-day series of concerts, talks, and music-theatre pieces from November 9 to 13 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and in Washington they will play the Kennedy Center on November 18.

James Conlon, one of today's preeminent conductors (Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera, the Ravinia Festival and the Cincinnati May Festival, and previously principal conductor of the Paris National Opera, music director of Cologne Opera, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic) and a vocal advocate for the performance of music by composers affected by the rise of Nazism and the events of WWII, has agreed to be ARC's Honorary Chairman. In 1999 Mr. Conlon received the Zemlinsky Prize, awarded only once before, for his efforts in bringing the composer's music to international attention, and in 2007, he received the Crystal Globe Award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his efforts in championing the works of these composers.

TORONTO
In 2008, ARC took its "Music in Exile" series to London, Budapest, Rome, Poznan and Warsaw - appearances that were all received with great attention and unanimously enthusiastic reviews. In Toronto, they will further explore music of this era with Adolph Busch's Sextet for Strings, Robert Kahn's Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 69, M��ty��s Seiber's Divertimento for Clarinet and String Quartet, and S��ndor V��ndor's Air for cello and piano - all Canadian premieres. This performance, on November 7, will also coincide with Holocaust Education Week, which will be running from November 2 - November 9.

NEW YORK
As ARC's honorary chairman, Mr. Conlon will introduce the Ensemble's five-day "Music in Exile" series of concerts and lectures in New York. The series takes place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and includes premieres by six different composers and a lecture on "Entartete" (degenerate) Music by the director and critic Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, and the founder of the Post-Holocaust Dialogue Group. Simon Wynberg, artistic director of ARC, is curator of the entire series, and Stephen Vann is the artistic producer for the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Other artists include violinist Daniel Phillips, co-founder of the Orion String Quartet and professor of violin at Queens College; Canadian bass Robert Pomakov, and the American baritone Chris Pedro Trakas. The series concludes on November 13 with Marc Neikrug conducting his music-theatre work Through Roses, featuring veteran Canadian actor Saul Rubinek.

Pre-concert talks by such authorities as Michael Beckerman, professor of music and historical musicology at New York University, and Bret Werb, musicologist of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will complement several presentations.

WASHINGTON, D.C.
ARC's concerts in New York are followed by a programme of works by Szymon Laks, Weinberg, and Prokofiev in the ensemble's debut at the Kennedy Center on November 18. ARC's 2006 recording "On the Threshold of Hope" (RCA Red Seal), of music by Miezcyslaw Weinberg, a composer who found refuge from the Nazis in the Soviet Union and became a lifelong friend of Dmitri Shostakovich, was nominated for both Juno and Grammy Awards.

"Music of this quality cries out for exemplary musicianship and the ARC Ensemble sets the skin rippling at every turn with its magical phrasing" The Strad (UK)

Established in 2002, ARTISTS OF THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY, is composed of faculty members of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. All are seasoned chamber musicians and veteran performers, either as soloists or as principals in major orchestras. They have dedicated themselves to the performance of both the traditional chamber music canon and the rediscovery of repertoire that, through political changes or shifts in musical fashion, have been ignored or marginalized.

"ARC is a standard bearer for the musical excellence of both The Royal Conservatory and Canada. Its members represent the very best this country has to offer and in their roles as mentors and performers they continue to inspire, stimulate, and delight."
Dr. Peter Simon, President, The Royal Conservatory of Music

Artists of The Royal Conservatory

MUSIC IN EXILE

��MIGR�� COMPOSERS OF THE 1930s

Marie B��rard and Erika Raum - violin

Steven Dann and Yosef Tamir - viola

Bryan Epperson and David Hetheringon - cello

Joaquin Valdepe��as - clarinet

David Louie and Dianne Werner - piano

S��ndor V��ndor: Air

Robert Kahn: Suite for violin and piano, op 69

M��ty��s Seiber: Divertimento for Clarinet and String Quartet

Adolf Busch: Sextet for Strings in G major, op. 40

Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 8pm - One Performance Only!

Mazzoleni Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor St. West, Toronto

(entrance off Philosopher's Walk)

Tickets

$30.00 Adult / $10.00 Student

On-line: www.rcmusic.ca, at the door (while quantities last), or by calling 416.408.2824 X321

PSO Youth Concert Features USM Student Soloist

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS "A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA" YOUTH CONCERT, OCTOBER 27 AND 28

PORTLAND, Maine- For the first Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Youth Concert of the 2008-09 season, Music Director Robert Moody conducts "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" on Monday and Tuesday, October 27-28 at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Street in Portland.

A Young Person's Guide is designed to teach kids about all of the parts of the orchestra, including the woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion, and allows them to hear the instruments separately and as part of the whole. The program is not only enthralling, but a fun, family-friendly introduction to the symphony. This engaging program will include flugelhorn soloist Micah Maurio, USM student and winner of the first Martha Blood Concerto Competition. The concert opens with excerpts from A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten, and will also feature Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C Major for Strings, John Williams' Nimbus 2000 for Winds (from Harry Potter) and other pieces.

Youth Concerts introduce students ages 8 to 13 to the full symphony orchestra. Students experience richly diverse styles of music while learning about the elements of orchestral music and the instruments that perform it. PSO provides participating schools with lesson plans, activities, and recordings of the music to help prepare the students. For more information about the Youth Concerts or to make reservations, visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

Youth Concerts are sponsored by Unum. Time Warner Cable is the media sponsor for PSO education programs, and IDEXX Laboratories is the 2008-2009 season sponsor.

Tickets are $5 per person (adult or child), $4 per person for groups of 25. For more information, contact the Portland Symphony Orchestra Education Office at (207) 773-6128 or education@portlandsymphony.com.

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PSO Youth Concert: "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," Full Schedule:

�� October 27, 2008 ��� 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Merrill Auditorium

�� October 28, 2008 ��� 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.* Merrill Auditorium

* Sold out.

Faites de l'air !

Innovations en concert

pr��sente

��volutions 2008 : Faites de l���air !

Une s��rie sur la fl��te du 21 au 25 octobre 2008, 20 h

Ch��teau Ramezay
280, rue Notre-Dame Est, Montr��al
M��tro Champ-de-Mars
Billets �� la porte: 15$ r��gulier / 8$ ��tudiant ��� a��n��
Informations: 514.252.8520

Montr��al, 3 octobre 2008 ��� Faites de l���air ! Voil�� ce que vous propose Innovations en concert dans le cadre de sa s��rie automnale ��volutions qui offrira cette ann��e quatre concerts autour de la fl��te. �� l���affiche, une fine s��lection de virtuoses qui interpr��teront des programmes vari��s, visitant la musique contemporaine ��crite, la musique assist��e par ordinateur et la musique improvis��e, tout cela pour un instrument privil��gi�� : la fl��te.

La s��rie ��volutions pr��sente depuis 1997 des s��ries th��matiques souvent articul��es autour d���un instrument ou d���une famille d���instruments. Cette ann��e, Michel Frigon, le directeur artistique de Innovations en concert, a choisi la fl��te, qui, de tous les bois, est certainement le plus agile et celui qui poss��de le son le plus a��rien.
La table est donc mise pour quatre concerts plus que prometteurs !

Mardi 21 octobre, 20 h ::: Robert Aitken
Pour ouvrir la s��rie, Robert Aitken nous pr��sentera entre autre, trois pi��ces de Toru Takemitsu, dont il ��tait un ami tr��s proche. C���est ��galement lors de ce concert que nous pourrons entendre les r��sultats de notre volet Direction Jeunesse dans le cadre duquel neuf ��tudiants de l���universit�� de Montr��al se joindront �� Robert Aitken pour interpr��ter Ghosts and Gargoyles de Henry Brant. Originaire de Montr��al, Brant a v��cu aux ��tats-Unis et est devenu un compositeur marquant de l���avant-garde, parmi les John Cage, Milton Babbitt et Conlon Nancarow.

Mercredi 22 octobre, 20 h ::: MariEve Lauzon / Cl��o Palacio-Quintin
Le concert de Cl��o Palacio-Quintin et de MariEve Lauzon nous fera entendre des instruments peu communs, dont l���hyper-fl��te basse, un instrument branch�� qui, gr��ce �� une multitude de senseurs, peut jouer divers effets sonores command��s par l���interpr��te au moyen d���une interface MIDI, acc��dant ainsi aux traitements ��lectroniques en direct. MariEve Lauzon cr��era Relax de Michel Frigon, ��crite pour fl��te en sol. Le point culminant de ce concert sera certainement le duo Palacio-Quintin/Lauzon qui interpr��tera Recombinant Landscape de Robert Dick, une premi��re canadienne.

Jeudi 23 octobre, 20 h ::: Jocelyne Roy / Marie-No��lle Choquette
Jocelyne Roy et Marie-No��lle Choquette sont quant �� elles deux fl��tistes de la rel��ve. Jocelyne Roy (Prix d���Europe 2005) interpr��tera entre autres Sequenza I de Luciano Berio, une des premi��res ��uvres �� laisser l���interpr��te libre de modifier la partition au moment de l���interpr��tation gr��ce �� un jeu de dur��es variables. Marie-No��lle Choquette pour sa part visitera la fl��te et le multim��dia, avec entre autre Dialogue du silence de Katia Makdissi-Warren, qui inclut une projection vid��o.

Vendredi 24 octobre, 20 h ::: Guy Pelletier / Jean Derome / Julien Gr��goire /
Nous conclurons cette excitante s��rie avec Guy Pelletier et Jean Derome, deux fl��tistes montr��alais qui n���ont plus besoin de pr��sentation. Ils seront accompagn��s pour l���occasion par le percussionniste Julien Gr��goire. Au programme, des musiques improvis��es, mais surtout, le plaisir de jouer, le bonheur de faire de la musique. Une soir��e joyeuse que nous partageons avec vous.

Telarc Announces October New Releases

UPCOMING NEW RELEASE: October 28

Yolanda Kondonassis: Air

Featuring Debussy and Takemitsu

Music for Harp, Flute, and Strings

with Joshua Smith, flute, Cynthia Phelps, viola, and Oberlin 21

Telarc (CD-80694)

A portion of the proceeds from each purchase of Air will be donated to organizations devoted to worldwide environmental causes. For more information on ways we can all help, visit www.yolandaharp.com ..

Hailed by The New York Times for her "powerful playing and musicianly energy," Yolanda Kondonassis celebrates her fourteenth recording on the Telarc label with the October 28, 2008, release of Air. One of the world's foremost harpists, Yolanda has appeared all over the world as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. On this album, she is joined by friends and colleagues, flutist Joshua Smith, violist Cynthia Phelps, and the string orchestra, Oberlin 21 led by Bridget-Michaele Reischl.

"In selecting the music to include on this album, we were drawn to the luminous color and atmosphere that is so magical in these parallel works by Debussy and Takemitsu," says Kondonassis. The repertoire on this recording highlights Debussy's genius as well as his enduring inspiration and influence on Toru Takemitsu, who once said, that while he was technically self-taught, he considered his greatest teacher to be the music of Claude Debussy. In the liner notes, Richard Rodda writes, "Takemitsu, like Debussy, sought to transmute dreams, water, gardens, sky, birds, and the quiverings of the human heart into patterns of sounds and silence that would penetrate to the quiet, inner place where the spirit dwells."

In 1904, Debussy was commissioned by the instrument-making firm of Pleyel to create a work to showcase their new chromatic harp. The commission was to serve both as a test piece for students at the Brussels Conservatory and as a demonstration of their harp's potential to prospective buyers. The result was a matched pair of dances, one "sacred" and one "profane," for chromatic harp and string orchestra called Danses sacr��e et profane for Harp and String Orchestra. It should be noted that the standard harp used today is not Pleyel's designer Lyon's chromatic harp but rather Erard's double-action pedal harp.

Takemitsu's And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind title is derived from a line of poetry by Emily Dickinson: "Like rain it sounded till it curved / And then I knew 'twas wind / It walked as wet as any wave / But swept as dry as sand." Takemitsu wrote that the work, composed in 1992, "has as its subject the signs of the wind in the natural world and of the soul, or unconscious mind (or we could even call it 'dream'), which continues to blow, like the wind, invisibly, through human consciousness."

This environmental theme continues through Takemitsu's other works on this album. Toward the Sea II is a short piece of pastoral music with three key notes taken from the word 'SEA' (E-flat [i.e., 'Es,' the conventional German designation for the pitch E-flat], E-natural, A-natural)." The titles of the work's three movements ��� The Night, Moby Dick and Cape Cod ��� imply programmatic associations, but the music, except for a slight animation in the second and third sections, is vague and equivocal, "more an expression of feeling than a painting," as Beethoven said of his "Pastoral" Symphony. If Toward the Sea is indeed an evocation of the New England shore, then it is not the New England of granite boulders and glinting sunlight and billowing sails running fast before the wind, but of first light and creeping mists and indistinct horizons, of undulant reflections in a tide pool, of distant buoy bells muffled by fog. The two solo flute pieces, one by each composer, are interspersed within the program. Takamitsu's Air is an introspective and unhurried piece. That lends its name to the title of the album. It is reminiscent of the French Impressionism heard in Debussy's Syrinx, about a nymph who was transformed into a reed to save her from the lusty pursuits of Pan, who then plucks that very reed and plays a song of longing for his loss of Syrinx.

Closing out the program is Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp is one of most uncompromisingly modern creations, about which the composer himself expressed some uncertainty regarding its emotional effect: "[The music is] so terribly melancholy," he wrote to his friend the Swiss journalist Robert Godet, "that I can't say whether one should laugh or cry. Perhaps both at the same time?" Perhaps the colon cancer that would end Debussy's life three years later was already playing its part on his compositions.

Joshua Smith, known for his "gorgeous sound, bracing virtuosity, and breathtaking lyricism," enjoys a multi-faceted career as a leading soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, teacher, and clinician as well as his role as Principal Flutist of The Cleveland Orchestra, Joshua played on Yolanda's first release for Telarc, Scintillation (CD 80361). Making her Telarc debut, violist Cynthia Phelps enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic, a position to which she was appointed in 1992. Founded in 2008, Oberlin 21 is an exceptional group of young artists from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, led by Oberlin's Director of Ensemble Programs and Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Bridget-Michaele Reischl.

UPCOMING NEW RELEASE: October 28

Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops: Vintage Cinema

Telarc (CD-80708 and SACD-60708)

Vintage Cinema, the newest release by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra on the Telarc label, chronicles the journey of classic film scores from 1933 to 1962 in sequence, highlighting the musical evolution of film scoring. Both the CD and SACD versions of the recording are due in stores on October 28, 2008.

The disc showcases developing musical styles used in films spanning nearly 30 years, beginning with Max Steiner's theme to the original King Kong (1933), a classic fantasy adventure movie that has dazzled generations of fans and spawned two re-makes. From Skull Island, where the giant gorilla Kong rules, the listener is swept to merry old England for Eric Wolfgang Korngold's theme to the spectacular 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood. As one of the most popular and influential movie directors of all time, Alfred Hitchcock understood the vital role music plays in film. Hitchcock film music appears twice on Vintage Cinema. Mikl��s R��zsa's suite from the 1945 thriller Spellbound captures the psychological suspense with the unique timbre of a theramin and R��zsa won his first Oscar for this score. Setting the stage for what is in store for Cary Grant, is legendary film composer Bernard Herrmann's overture to Hitchcock's "wrong man" thriller, North by Northwest (1959). Celebrated American composer Aaron Copland lent his considerable talents to Hollywood on several occasions, including the 1947 screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony. This Cincinnati Pops recording includes selections from the folk-like score. Two Oscar-winning scores by Franz Waxman, one from Billy Wilder's 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard, as well as A Place in the Sun the following year, deliver quintessential 50's film music. Composer Alex North captured the flavor of New Orleans in his 1951 score for A Streetcar Named Desire, the first important Hollywood score to incorporate jazz. The great Leonard Bernstein scored only one film, but On the Waterfront (1954) is widely regarded as cinematic classic. Vintage Cinema then turns to the 1960s in its three final tracks: R��zsa's Spanish-flavored overture to the lavish Charlton Heston epic, El Cid (1961), Elmer Bernstein's main title theme from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), and the rousing "Ride of the Cossacks" from Taras Bulba, a 1962 film scored again by the inimitable Franz Waxman.

Vintage Cinema is the 87th Telarc recording by Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Their previous release, Bolero (CD-80703), was declared "another sonic blockbuster" by Audiophile Audition. The 2007 release of Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Selections (CD-80674) was one of the most popular classical recordings of the Christmas season, while another 2007 release, Masters and Commanders (CD-80682), was lauded by American Record Guide as "a rousing program of nautical music, performed by a top-notch orchestra and conductor." A 2006 release, Russian Nights (CD-80657), was praised by Gramophone as "gorgeously played and sumptuously recorded."

RECENT RELEASE: September 23 (October 27 UK)

Cameron Carpenter: Revolutionary

Telarc (CD-80711/DVD / SACD-60711)

>>Sample the DVD HERE <<

The release of this CD coincides with glam organist Cameron Carpenter's 6-day Organ Expos�� (Sept 23-28) at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City (www.organexpose.com), which features the Marshall & Olgetree virtual pipe organ he designed. Revolutionary is Carpenter's Telarc debut CD/DVD release and includes Demessieux's Etude in Octaves; Dupr��'s Prelude and Fugue in B major; Bach's chorale-prelude Now Come, Savior of the Gentiles; the world premiere recording of Carpenter's Love Song No. 1 (2008); Duke Ellington's Solitude (combined with Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze); Liszt's Mephisto Waltz; Horowitz's Carmen Variations; two Chopin ��tudes; and Carpenter's Evolutionary Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

"If I had to play the organ like they teach you to play it, like they want you to play it in the conservatory and the church, I'd go mad. I'd take up the electric guitar. Or law," opined Cameron Carpenter last March during a break in recording sessions for Revolutionary. "The organ is the darkest remnant of classical music's archest tradition�Ķ you don't see organists creating, really questioning boundaries like you see in dance, hip-hop, film." Until now, that is. Cameron Carpenter has been lauded as "the Maverick organist" (The New York Times), "madly original" (TheRestisNoise.com), and "a superstar of the 21st-century organ" (Departures Magazine).

RECENT RELEASE: September 23 (August 25 UK)

Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain, Prelude to Khovanshchina

Paavo J��rvi/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Telarc (CD-80705 / SACD-60705)

The fourteenth Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Telarc recording with Music Director Paavo J��rvi is an all-Mussorgsky disc, in CD and SACD formats. The repertoire includes the Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain, and closes with Prelude to Khovanshchina. "I have always wanted to record Pictures at Exhibition," said J��rvi. "There's a good reason it has become one of the best known pieces in the world�Ķ It's such an irresistible concept ��� walking from one painting to another and describing not only what you're seeing, but the whole promenade experience of walking from frame to frame. This work is full of color."

RECENT RELEASE: September 23 (September 22 UK)

John O'Conor: Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3, and 4

Andreas Delfs/London Symphony Orchestra

Telarc (CD-80704)

In 2007, Irish pianist John O'Conor and the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andreas Delfs recorded a brilliant version of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.19 and No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor" (CD-80675). Gramophone heaped high praise on the Telarc recording: "�Ķpianist John O'Conor and conductor Andreas Delfs invest these much-recorded scores with deep feeling relaxed yet never draggy tempi. The London Symphony Orchestra provides vibrant and unfailingly alive support under Delfs' caring leadership." O'Conor and Delfs return to complete the cycle with stunning interpretations of Nos. 1, 3 and 4. O'Conor first gained critical acclaim in the United States in 1986 with the release of the initial volume of the complete Beethoven Sonata cycle. This recording was made at the famed Abbey Road Studios, and produced by GRAMMY-Award-winning producer Elaine Martone and GRAMMY-Award-winning engineer Jack Renner.

RECENT RELEASE: August 26 (September 23 UK)

Simone Dinnerstein: The Berlin Concert

Telarc (CD-80715)

>>Watch a video of the Berlin concert HERE <<

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein's second solo recording for Telarc, The Berlin Concert, was released on August 26 worldwide and earned the No. 1 spot on the US Billboard Traditional Classical Chart during its first week of sales. Last year, Ms. Dinnerstein's debut solo album, a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, also topped the chart in its first week of sales in September 2007. The Berlin Concert is a live recording of Ms. Dinnerstein's recital debut at the Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie in Berlin, which took place on November 22, 2007. The program features J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816; the world premiere recording of American composer Philip Lasser's Variations on a Bach Chorale; and Beethoven's landmark Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Grammy Award-winning engineer Adam Abeshouse is the producer for the CD. Of The Berlin Concert CD, International Piano raves, "Dinnerstein's subtly-inflected tonal purity and exquisite dynamic suppleness impart a sense of concentrated musical inevitability to the Bach French Suite rivalled only in my experience by Dinu Lipatti's incandescent reading of the B flat Partita. . . The Gigue finale is not only touch-perfect (how does she create such an exquisite, velvety staccato?) but also so mellifluously voiced and immaculately balanced that it is difficult to imagine the music being played with a more complete grasp of every parameter. . . Most remarkably of all one has the extraordinary sense of Beethoven's epic structures (particularly the theme and variations finale) not so much unravelling in time but emerging as one coexistent whole."

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Ondine October New Releases include Rautavaara 80th Birthday Two-Disc Set

Ondine Announces North American New Releases for October 2008

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Works for Male Choir

YL Male Voice Choir, Talla Ensemble

Matti Hy��kki and Pasi Hy��kki, conductors

ODE 1125-2D (2CDs)

Release date: October 14, 2008

Iconic Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara celebrates 80^th birthday on October 9, 2008!

Ondine pays tribute to its most longstanding and successful house composer, Einojuhani Rautavaara, with three major CD releases in 2008 and 2009. For the 80^th birthday of the great composer in October, Ondine will release a 2-CD recording of his complete works for male voice choir, including many premiere recordings. The new release features the YL Male Voice Choir and Talla Ensemble led by their respective conductors Matti Hy��kki and Pasi Hy��kki.

In March 2008, Ondine released a new recording of Rautavaara's Manhattan Trilogy, coupled with his Third Symphony, by Leif Segerstam and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Gramophone recommended the disc, writing, "Superbly recorded coupling of the new with the old from the Finnish master."

In 2009, Ondine will release the premiere recording of Rautavaara's latest orchestral composition, A Tapestry of Life (2007), coupled with Before the Icons (2005), performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Leif Segerstam. The new work will be given its Finnish premiere performance during a celebratory concert on October 9, 2008, with Olli Mustonen conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

Einojuhani Rautavaara (born October 9, 1928) was hailed by The New York Times as "the patriarch of contemporary Finnish composers." Ondine has had a long and fruitful association with this iconic composer, having recorded the premieres of many of his works and garnering many awards along the way, including a Cannes Classical Award 1998 for his Violin Concerto and a Grammy nomination in 1997 for Angel of Light, his seventh symphony.

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SOILE ISOKOSKI

Scene d'amore

Helsinki Philharmonic, Mikko Franck, conductor

ODE 1126-2

Release date: October 14, 2008

Audiences and critics hail the Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski as one of the finest singers today. Her recent orchestral albums on Ondine (Sibelius's Luonnotar and orchestral songs; Mozart Arias; R. Strauss's Four Last Songs and other orchestral songs) have been praised as top-choice recordings and earned the highest distinctions such as the BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Year 2007 Award, a 2007 MIDEM Classical Award, and a 2002 Gramophone Award. The Guardian has proclaimed, "Her voice is one of the greatest in the world."

This disc features popular scenes and arias from the late-19^th century Italian, French and Russian opera marking Soile Isokoski's greatest successes on stage. Included is the famous aria "S��. Mi chiamano Mim��" from Puccini's La Boh��me (the role of Mim�� marked Soile Isokoski's opera d��but in 1989), as well as the famous Letter scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin ��� Tatyana being her latest new role, which she sang in 2006 at the Finnish National Opera to international acclaim.

Soile Isokoski is accompanied by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of young star conductor Mikko Franck.

Ms. Isokoski performs a recital at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on March 31, with pianist Marita Viitasalo. She appears as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan Opera from April 13-24, 2009.

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Recent Ondine releases �Ķ

KAIJA SAARIAHO

Notes on Light, Orion Mirage

Karita Mattila, Anssi Karttunen

Orchestra de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach

ODE 1130-2

Release date: September 9, 2008

Soprano Karita Mattila and female composer Kaija Saariaho share not only popular star status in the classical musical world (with respective awards by Musical America as Musician of the Year 2005 and as Composer of the Year 2008), but also a fruitful musical collaboration and friendship. Its latest output ��� after the acclaimed song cycle Quatre Instants in 2006 ��� is Mirage, the setting of a trance-induced incantation text by the Mexican healer Mar��a Sabina (1894���1985). This recording features the work's world premi��re performance in Paris, France on March 13, 2008.

The ecstatic 15-minute piece is written for the unprecedented combination of soprano, cello and orchestra, featuring cellist Anssi Karttunen and the Orchestre de Paris under its music director Christoph Eschenbach. Mr. Eschenbach ��� who for the Ondine label also records with The Philadelphia Orchestra ��� is known as one of the top champions of contemporary music among the world's leading conductors. The disc also includes Anssi Karttunen performing Notes on Light, a cello concerto Saariaho wrote for him in 2006 and which he gave its New York premiere during the 2008 Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival; and Orion, the largest orchestral work Saariaho has written to date.

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JUHA UUSITALO

The Wagner Album

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam

ODE 1121-2

Release date: September 23, 2008

Bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo's first aria album features the outstanding Finnish newcomer performing the best-known arias for male voice from Wagner's operas, including "Song to the Evening Star" ("O du, mein holder Abendstern") from Tannh��user. Juha Uusitalo is accompanied by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of its Emeritus Chief Conductor Leif Segerstam.

The September 23 release date coincided with the opening night performance by Mr. Uusitalo, in his Metropolitan Opera debut as Jochanaan in Richard Strauss's Salome. Salome also features Ondine soprano Karita Mattila. The production runs through October 16, 2008, and the October 11, 1 pm ET performance will be broadcast in high definition at movie theaters around the world, as part of The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series.

On October 30, 31 and November 1, 2008 Juha Uusitalo will perform an all-Wagner program with the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Iv��n Fischer, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Under the direction of Franz Welser-Moest, he will star in the complete Ring cycle in May and June 2009 at the Vienna Staatsoper.

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About Ondine: Ondine was founded more than twenty years ago in Helsinki, Finland, where the company is still based and today offers an extremely eclectic catalogue of both contemporary Finnish music, as well as recordings with major Finnish and international artists.

Ondine's extensive catalogue includes more than four hundred recordings (two hundred and fifty of which are available physically) of artists and ensembles such as conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach, conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo, Leif Segerstam, John Storg��rds and Mikko Franck, orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the London Sinfonietta, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic, sopranos Karita Mattila and Soile Isokoski, pianist Olli Mustonen, violinist Pekka Kuusisto and clarinettist Kari Kriikku. The label has also had a long and fruitful association with the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, having recorded the premieres of many of his works and garnering many awards along the way.

The roots of Ondine date back to 1985 when founder Reijo Kiilunen released the very first Ondine album under the auspices of the renowned Finnish Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. The label's initial mission was to produce one live album at the Festival each season. The fourth album, however, featured Einojuhani Rautavaara's opera Thomas (ODE 704-2), raising major international attention and opening up the possibility for North American distribution. Kiilunen, who was running the Festival's concert agency and had begun the recording activity part-time, soon decided to devote himself fully to the development of this new business, producing and editing the first 50 releases himself. In 1991, Seppo Siirala joined as producer, and the Helsinki-based company has been expanding steadily since, currently numbering six full-time employees. Today, Ondine continues to uphold its reputation as one of the most respected labels in classical music, and its products have received numerous prizes at the Cannes (MIDEM) Classical Awards, the Gramophone Awards, the BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Classical Internet Awards.

Universal Music Classical and Ondine entered into a distribution agreement that began on January 1, 2008. Both physical and digital distribution in the United States and Canada are covered under the agreement. Universal Music Classical comprises the Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and ECM labels and is a division of the Universal Music Group. For more information about Ondine, visit www.ondine.net.

KoSA 13 Announces Camp Scholarship Winners

Castleton, Vermont August 7, 2008 ��� The thirteenth edition of the KoSA
International Percussion Workshops and Festivals was held July 30th to
August 3rd 2008 at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont.

For the fourth consecutive year, KoSA awarded full scholarships to
attend their annual event. This was done as an international contest
in collaboration with Modern Drummer Magazine.

The prize package included full tuition, as well as room and board.
Winning entries were chosen on the basis of the excellence of their
200-word essay describing why attending KoSA's Workshop was important
to them.

Five full-time scholarships were awarded to: David Cifelli (NJ,
USA...photo at left), Maxwill Gratzer (NC, USA), Adam Jones (MI, USA),
Tony Mortillaro (CA, USA) and Daniel Reiff (Ont.Canada). The 2008 KoSA
Scholarships are courtesy of the following companies: Evans, Hudson
Music, Mapex, ProMark, and Tama

This year's winners experienced a thrilling week of intense, hands-on
percussion training with some of the finest artists in the world,
including: Memo Acevedo, Cyro Baptista, Ignacio Berroa, Mario
DeCiutiis, Kenwood Dennard, Marc Dicciani, Dom Famularo, Gordon
Gottlieb, Arnie Lang, Marco Lienhard, Aldo Mazza, Allan Molnar,
Jonathan Mover, Emil Richards, Jim Royle, Bobby Sanabria, Rajna
Swaminathan, Chester Thompson, Glen Velez, Michael Wimberly with
Mamadou Dahou�� and Nancy Zeltsman. Winners also were able to perform
with the KoSA rhythm section: Oscar Stagnaro on bass and Rafael Alcala
on piano.

U of T Opera Division presents Il Matrimonio Segreto

TORONTO - The Faculty of Music���s Opera Division will present four performances of Domenico Cimarosa���s comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage) on October 30, 31 & November 1 at 7:30 pm and November 2 at 2:30 pm in the MacMillan Theatre. The opera marks the Toronto conducting debut of Miah Im, recently appointed to the Opera Division, and is directed by Allison Grant with production design by Fred Perruzza. Tickets ($26 adults and $16 senior/student) can be purchased at the Box Office or by calling 416-978-3744. The Box Office is located in the Edward Johnson Building and is open Monday to Friday, 1 pm to 7 pm.

Though originally set in 18th century Bologna, the Opera Division���s production of IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO has been updated to the 1920s ��� a period which echoes the madcap complications of the plot which includes a concealed marriage, a zany love triangle and a shoe factory! In the tradition of comic opera, after much scheming and amorous intrigue, the ���secret marriage��� is revealed and all ends in celebration.

The Opera Division will present two previews of the opera featuring excerpts performed by member of the cast:

Friday, October 10, 12:10 pm in Geiger Torel Room, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen���s Park. Free
Thursday, October 16, from 5:30 to 5:40 pm and 6:00 to 6:15 pm at the Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor St. West. For more information about this preview, visit the Bata Shoe Museum website or call 416-979-7799 x 242.

Part of Canada���s top university, the University of Toronto Faculty of Music has an illustrious history as one of North America���s leading centres for the scholarly and professional study of music, offering a rich array of degree and diploma programs from the undergraduate to post-graduate levels. The Faculty of Music presents an annual concert season of over 100 public events. Highlights of the 2008-09 season include cellists Steven Isserlis and Shauna Rolston, baritone Sherrill Milnes, composer Maria Schneider, conductors David Briskin and Miah Im, jazz great Phil Nimmons, the Mir��, and St. Lawrence String Quartets, the Gryphon Trio and Nexus. For more information, please visit our website at www.music.utoronto.ca or contact the Box Office at 416-978-3744.

The Faculty of Music 2008-2009 concert season is made possible by the generous support of our pillar sponsors: Manulife Financial, MBNA Canada, and TD Meloche Monnex Insurance.

For more information on this or other Faculty of Music concert series, please visit our website at www.music.utoronto.ca or contact the Box Office at 416-978-3744.

Italian Orchestra makes Canadian Debut

GALA ITALIA: NOVEMBER 3 AT ROY THOMSON HALL FEATURES

CANADIAN DEBUT OF ORCHESTRA INTERNAZIONALE D���ITALIA

WITH OPERA SINGER & CLASSICAL GUITARIST

On the occasion of the 13^th edition of the annual Italian Wine-Tasting, the Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia - Italy���s flagship ensemble ��� will perform at Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street, Toronto, as part of its Canadian debut tour, Monday, November 3 at 8 p.m. Canadian maestro Kerry Stratton will conduct the Orchestra in a concert called Gala Italia ��� featuring operatic arias and orchestral masterworks mainly celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the great Italian opera composer, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924).

Tickets, $35; $25 seniors and students; and $20 group rate, are available through the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office, 416-872-4255, or via www.roythomson.com. For more information, call 416-362-1422 or visit www.sumarts.com.

The performance is supported by the Italian Trade Office, Italian Cultural Institute, International Touring Productions, the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, and The New Classical 96.3 FM.

Joining Maestro Stratton and the Orchestra is soprano Francesca Ruospo from Italy���s Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in her Canadian debut. Award-winning Italian classical guitarist and recording artist Claudio Marcotulli also makes his Canadian debut, in the famed work for guitar and orchestra, Concierto de Aranjuez by Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo.

Among the musical highlights are Capriccio Sinfonico by Puccini and favorite arias from his operas. As well, the tour features the premieres of two new works by Italian composers, commissioned by Rai Trade, a branch of Italian Radio and Television network ��� Carlo Boccadoro���s Fasi Lunari (Lunar Phases) and Gianluca Podio���s Di Fedro il gioco nascosto (Phaedrus��� Hidden Game).

This is the fourth tour in the International Visiting Orchestra Series, designed to bring world ensembles to the Canadian public.

With Maestro Stratton directing, the Canadian debut tour of the Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia comprises performances in eight Ontario locations and a concluding concert in Montreal on November 10. Besides the November 3 Toronto concert, the Ontario dates are Port Hope (November 2), Welland (November 4), Orillia (November 5), Markham (November 6), Milton (November 7), Barrie (November 8), and Richmond Hill (November 9).

ORCHESTRA INTERNAZIONALE D���ITALIA ��� www.oidi.com

Founded in 1986, the Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia grew out of the international orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales. It has gone on to perform throughout Europe, in Central and South America and in Asia, in festivals and concert halls, giving more than 900 symphonic concerts and performing for important opera festival productions. Many of the world���s greatest conductors and soloists have appeared as guests. In 1997, it received the European Prize for Culture as Symphonic Orchestra. Home base is the ancient and beautiful city of Fermo near the Adriatic Sea in central Italy���s Marche region. Since 2003, it has been resident orchestra of the Ventidio Basso Theatre in Ascoli Piceno.

The Orchestra comes to Canada direct from Italy, where it is giving a number of concerts under Maestro Stratton, performances that include Ascoli Piceno, October 24; Pesaro, October 25; and Fermo, October 26.

FRANCESCA RUOSPO, SOPRANO

Still in her 20s, soprano FRANCESCA RUOSPO comes to Canada directly from La Scala, Milan, where she is starring at the Countess in Mozart���s Marriage of Figaro in October. Born near the southern Italian city of Bari, she switched from piano studies to voice, going on to win scholarships, and top prizes in the Mario Lanza, Tito Schipa and Leyla Gencer international competitions. Having completed the two-year training at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, she has sung operatic roles in Italy, and appeared internationally, performing in Chicago, in Strasbourg for the European Parliament, and in London, Abu Dhabi and Beijing.

CLAUDIO MARCOTULLI, GUITAR ��� www.claudiomarcotulli.it/ (Italian); www.claudiomarcotulli.it/english.html (English).

Italian guitarist Claudio Marcotulli, soloist for the Canadian tour, is considered one of the most distinguished guitarists of his generation, both for the quality of his performances and his intriguing choice of repertoire. He won the 1984 Concours Ren�� Bartoli in France and first prize in Spain���s F. Tarrega Competition. Marcotulli has enjoyed worldwide tours and recorded CDs of operatic melodies and Vivaldi concertos on the ��pera Tres label. Among his performances with the Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia were several involving the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

PING!

PING!

CREATING NEW MUSIC FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS

A celebration in support of the Norman Burgess Fund

Music, Food & Wine at Gallery 345

Sunday, October 26, 2008 (2-4PM)

TORONTO, ON, October 2, 2008: On Sunday, October 26, 2008 at Gallery 345 in Toronto, the Canadian Music Centre (Ontario Regional Office) proudly presents PING!, a celebration of new music for young musicians. In a rare Toronto appearance The St. Lawrence String Quartet ��� ���remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection" (The New Yorker) ��� performs R. Murray Schafer's notorious and sublime Quartet no. 3. From outbursts of yelling to spell-binding mysticism, the work is a landmark of the contemporary repertoire and a favourite of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Eve Egoyan ��� ���a player of incredible, often very quiet intensity��� (The Wire) and the mesmerizing Gregory Oh perform Linda Smith's entrancing piano duo Velvet. The afternoon features world premieres of the 2007 Fund commissions by Andrew Staniland and Abigail Richardson performed by Daniel Lee (guitar) and the SOCMI orchestra with conductor Michael Schulte. Two young composers going places, Andrew Staniland���s music has been described as ���beautiful and terrifying��� by New Yorker magazine while Abigail Richardson won top prize in the under-30 division of the prestigious International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.

Norman Burgess: a legacy of creativity and innovation.

Throughout his career Norman Burgess worked passionately to foster innovation, creativity and excellence in music education. As Director of the Conservatory at Mount Royal College he launched the internationally renowned Academy for Gifted Children and the Calgary Fiddlers. At the Royal Conservatory in Toronto he served as Dean and helped found the Centre for Learning Through the Arts.

Musician, educator, administrator and proud advocate of Canadian music, Norman Burgess dreamed of expanding the repertoire for young string players. The Norman Burgess Memorial Fund makes this vision possible. The Fund selects and commissions Canadian composers to work in partnership with professional string educators and their students with the goal of creating enriching new musical works for study and performance.

PING!

Sunday, October 26, 2008 ��� 2 to 4PM

Gallery 345: 345 Sorauren Avenue, Toronto

Reservations: 416.961.6601 x 207 | aayotte@musiccentre.ca

Tickets include performance, delectable local food & wine

Admission: $50 regular; $30 arts worker; $20 (20 years & under); Free for kids under 12

Cash / Visa / Mastercard accepted

Wrecking Ball, A nation-wide evening of political theatre- Oct. 6, Mainline Theatre

"LE" WRECKING BALL

A nation-wide evening of political theatre in response to the coming election

Montreal ��� On Monday, October 6, 2008, the Wrecking Ball goes national! Inspired by the coming election, live events will be held in cities across Canada. Each city (or "niche" as Harper might call them) will showcase local talent, as well as pieces simultaneously performed across the country. This unprecedented event will create a tide of political action from coast to coast! Cities include: Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Cornerbrook.

"Le" Wrecking Ball, Montreal
Le" Wrecking Ball features brief, explosive works from local Montreal writers David Fennario, Anna Fuerstenberg, Julie Tamiko Manning, Alison Louder and Julian Doucet, as well as a special contribution by two-time Governor General Award winner Judith Thompson. The playwrights have complete free rein over what they choose to write ��� the only goal of the Wrecking Ball is to challenge and provoke. All pieces created for this event are no more than a week old, so you know it's going to be fresh.

Hosted by the infamous Madame and Matante (Kiss My Cabaret), "Le" Wrecking Ball also features the Out of the Mouths of Babes women's choir, an activist fair, videos, party representatives, a special 'celebrity' phone call throughout the night...and much, much more�Ķ

"Le" Wrecking Ball
One night only: 6 October 2008
Doors open at 7 p.m. Performance starts at 8 p.m. Cash bar
MainLine Theatre, 3997 boul. St-Laurent
PWYC (pay what you can: suggested $5)
For more info: 514-560-5314 or email: montrealdepartmentofculture@gmail.com

Proceeds from the Montreal event will go to the Department of Culture, a growing community of Canadian citizens concerned with the social and cultural health of our nation in the face of a Conservative Party that is aggressively undermining the values that define Canada. www.departmentofculture.ca.

About the Wrecking Ball
The Wrecking Ball was founded in Toronto in November 2004 to address a nagging imbalance: too much theatre in our politics, not enough politics in our theatre. www.thewreckingball.ca

"Le" Wrecking Ball is presented with the support of Playwrights' Workshop Montr��al and MainLine Theatre.

Italian Soprano Francesca Ruospo Makes Canadian Debut

November 3 at Roy Thomson Hall

CANADIAN DEBUT OF ITALIAN SOPRANO FRANCESCA RUOSPO

IN PERFORMANCE WITH ORCHESTRA INTERNAZIONALE D���ITALIA

Toronto, October 3, 2008�Ķ Award-winning Italian soprano Francesca Ruospo makes her Canadian debut, direct from a starring role at La Scala. She gives her first Canadian performance at Toronto���s Gala Italia at Roy Thomson Hall, when Kerry Stratton8 p.m. conducts the Orchestra Internazionale d���Italia, Monday, November 3,

Ms. Ruospo is starring as the Countess in Mozart���s Marriage of Figaro, this month at Milan���s legendary opera house. She is appearing under the baton of noted baroque and classical specialist Giovanni Antonini in the production of famed opera director Giorgio Strehler (1921-1997).

She will join Maestro Stratton and the Orchestra in arias from four Puccini operas, celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the famous operatic composer (1828-1924). As well, the program will include will include Puccini���s Capriccio Sinfonico for orchestra.

Still in her 20s, soprano FRANCESCA RUOSPO was born in Conversano, near the southern Italian city of Bari. Beginning her studies in piano, she switched to voice, graduating in 2001 with highest honors from Bari���s N. Piccinni Conservatory. Her many awards include the 2003 Scholarship of the Maria Caniglia competition, and one from the Boris Christoff Foundation in collaboration with Rome���s Teatro dell���Opera. In 2004, she captured top prizes in two international competitions ��� first prize in the Mario Lanza and second prize in the Tito Schipa.

In 2005, she won admission to the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where she has completed the two-year training. In the 2006 Leyla Gencer International Competition, she earned second prize.

At home in Italy, Ms. Ruospo has sung the roles of Ines in Il Trovatore (Verdi) in Teatro Marchetti di Camerino (2004) and in Teatro Piccinni, Bari (2005); Corinna in Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini) in Teatro Marrucino di Chieti, Suor Angelica (Puccini) in Teatro comunale di Modena and Piacenze (2007); Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) in Teatro alla Scala (2007) and Teatro Piccolodi Milano in the Strehler production; and Mimi in La Boh��me (Puccini) at the Lyric Festival, L���Abbazia di Casamari (August 2008).

Internationally, she has performed in Chicago, in Strasbourg for the European Parliament, and in London, Abu Dhabi and Beijing.

GALA ITALIA is presented on the occasion of the 13^th edition of the annual Italian wine-tasting, and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, International Touring Productions, the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, and the New Classical 96.3 FM.

Tickets, $35; $25 seniors and students; and $20 group rate, are available through the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office, 416-872-4255, or via www.roythomson.com. For more information, call 416-362-1422 or visit www.sumarts.com/ircpa.

L'UQAM remet un doctorat honorifique �� Serge Dorny

Dans le cadre des 21^es Entretiens Jacques Cartier

L'UQAM remet un doctorat honoris causa �� Serge Dorny

Montr��al, le 2 octobre 2008 ��� Dans le cadre des Entretiens Jacques Cartier, l'Universit�� du Qu��bec �� Montr��al remettra un doctorat honoris causa �� M. Serge Dorny, directeur g��n��ral de l'Op��ra de Lyon, le dimanche 5 octobre �� 16 heures, au parquet de la Caisse de d��p��t et placement du Qu��bec, situ�� au1000, Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, �� Montr��al. L'UQAM veut ainsi honorer sa contribution remarquable au rayonnement et au renouvellement du th����tre lyrique. Elle veut aussi souligner sa carri��re de visionnaire, de pionnier du dialogue entre les cultures et d'architecte passionn�� de l'op��ra du futur.

Serge Dorny

N�� en 1962 en Belgique, Serge Dorny ��tudie en histoire de l'art, en arch��ologie, en musicologie et en sciences de la communication. Polyglotte ��pris d'aventures, il d��bute sa carri��re en dramaturgie, au Th����tre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, en 1985. Deux ans plus tard, il acc��de �� la direction artistique du Festival des Flandres qu'il �� dynamise de fa��on spectaculaire �� en neuf ans �� peine.

Vers la fin des ann��es 90, il sauve l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Londres de sa crise artistique et financi��re, le hissant au premier rang des institutions de la capitale britannique en termes de visibilit�� et de fr��quentation.

�� la barre de l'Op��ra de Lyon depuis 2003, Serge Dorny se fait le champion d'un projet artistique et culturel global, ouvert aux id��es et aux formes d'expression nouvelles. Cette entreprise r��pond �� ses convictions que l'excellence artistique doit aller de pair avec une politique d'accessibilit�� maximale. Avec ce grand esprit cosmopolite qui poursuit sa mission d'intensifier l'ouverture et le dialogue entre les cultures, le th����tre lyrique retrouve sa vocation populaire et son pouvoir rassembleur, tout en atteignant un niveau de qualit�� jusque-l�� in��gal�� sur la sc��ne internationale.

Cette politique d'ouverture de M. Dorny a profit�� �� des artistes de chez nous qui ont ��t�� invit��s �� travailler �� l'Op��ra de Lyon, �� la mise en sc��ne ou �� la direction d'orchestre : Robert Lepage, Fran��ois Girard (Le violon rouge), Kent Nagano.

Les universit��s montr��alaises remettent sept doctorats honorifiques

�� cette occasion et pour la premi��re fois de leur histoire, les sept ��tablissements universitaires montr��alais remettront chacun un doctorat honoris causa au cours d'une c��r��monie conjointe. Sept personnalit��s de premier plan de la r��gion Rh��ne-Alpes seront honor��es dans le cadre de cet ��v��nement, qui se d��roulera en pr��sence du premier ministre du Qu��bec, M. Jean Charest, et des maires de Montr��al et de Lyon, MM. G��rald Tremblay et G��rard Collomb. �� la suite de la c��r��monie, le po��te Gilles Vigneault recevra le Prix Jacques Cartier des Arts, en hommage �� l'ensemble de son ��uvre.

Les autres personnalit��s �� recevoir des doctorats honorifiques des universit��s sont D^r Alim-Louis Benabid, professeur ��m��rite de biophysique, �� l'Universit�� Joseph Fourier de Grenoble 1 (Universit�� McGill), M^me Maryse Fran��ois-Xausa, vice-pr��sidente R&D et Management Produits, chez Alstom Hydro, �� Grenoble (��cole de technologie sup��rieure), M. Thierry Fr��maux, d��l��gu�� g��n��ral du Festival de Cannes (Universit�� Concordia), M. Alain M��rieux, PDG de bioM��rieux (HEC Montr��al), M^me Anne-Sophie Pic, chef de La Maison Pic de Valence (Universit�� de Montr��al) et M. Alain Storck, directeur de l'Institut national des sciences appliqu��es de Lyon (��cole Polytechnique).

Les Entretiens Jacques Cartier

Rappelons que les 21^es Entretiens Jacques Cartier se d��roulent �� Montr��al et �� Qu��bec du 3 au 10 octobre, sous la gouverne de l'honorable Pierre-Marc Johnson, pr��sident du conseil du Centre Jacques Cartier, en pr��sence de quelque 3 500 universitaires, d��cideurs et personnalit��s politiques de haut niveau d'une vingtaine de pays d'Europe, d'Asie et d'Am��rique qui s'y donnent rendez-vous pour d��battre d'enjeux cruciaux li��s �� des th��matiques sociales, culturelles, scientifiques et ��conomiques.

L'UQAM aux Entretiens Jacques Cartier 2008

Dans le cadre des Entretiens, en plus de remettre un doctorat honoris causa �� Serge Dorny, l'UQAM organisera trois des vint-deux colloques au programme : Le sens de la libert��, Les nouvelles ��critures biographiques, Tourisme, gastronomie et m��dias.

Consultez le microsite des Entretiens du Centre Jacques-Cartier �� l'UQAM.

Banque d'instruments de la Fondation JMC

AVIS D'AUDITIONS: Nouvelle date limite d'inscription: le 31 octobre 2008

Calendrier d'auditions :

�Ģ 1er tour : 13 et 14 novembre 2008

�Ģ 2e tour (�� confirmer) : 17 novembre 2008

Envoi des dossiers :

Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada

A/s de Marie-Claude Matton

305, avenue du Mont-Royal Est

Montr��al (Qu��bec) H2T 1P8

T��l��phone : 514-845-4108, poste 245

Courriel : mcmatton@jeunessesmusicales.ca

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La Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada (FJMC) est heureuse d'annoncer la cr��ation d'une banque d'instruments �� cordes pour les jeunes musiciens qu��b��cois se destinant �� une carri��re professionnelle.

Les violonistes et violoncellistes sont invit��s �� soumettre leur candidature dans le cadre du programme de pr��t d'instrument de la FJMC avant le vendredi 31 octobre 2008. Les laur��ats seront s��lectionn��s par voie de concours lors d'une audition devant un jury 13 et 14 novembre 2008 (1er tour) et au 17 novembre 2008 (2e tour ��� �� confirmer).

Instruments et archets �� pr��ter

�� Deux violons, un de Nicolas Legault Cavallaro et l'autre d'Isabelle Wilbaux.

�� Un violoncelle sign�� Ivo Loerakker.

�� Un archet de violon ainsi qu'un autre de violoncelle d'Emmanuel B��gin.

�� Un archet de violon de Serge Sioufi.

Les instruments de la banque d'instruments seront pr��t��s pour une p��riode de deux ans.

Crit��res d'admissibilit��

Les candidats recherch��s doivent r��pondre aux crit��res suivants :

�Ģ ��tre ��tudiants en violon ou en violoncelle et ��tre inscrits �� temps plein dans un programme d'interpr��tation des 1er, 2e ou 3e cycles universitaires ou des 3e, 4e ou 5e cycles dans un conservatoire de musique ;

�Ģ ��tre citoyens canadiens et ��tre domicili��s au Qu��bec ;

�Ģ poss��der de solides comp��tences musicales (formation classique) ;

�Ģ se destiner �� une carri��re professionnelle ;

�Ģ ��tre recommand��s par le professeur d'instrument.

Par ce programme, la Fondation souhaite soutenir les ��tudiants les plus prometteurs qui d��sirent poursuivre l'apprentissage de leur instrument mais dont la situation financi��re pourrait ��tre un obstacle �� l'acquisition d'un instrument de qualit��.

Pour soumettre votre candidature, veuillez consulter tous les d��tails relatifs �� l'inscription et nous transmettre votre dossier par la poste accompagn�� du formulaire d'inscription (disponible ci-haut).

Mandat

Dans le cadre de ce projet, la FJMC a sollicit�� la participation des luthiers et archetiers r��sidant au Qu��bec afin de cr��er une banque d'instruments contemporains de grande qualit��. �� l'issue du concours de lutherie, en juin 2008 prochain, la FJMC fera l'acquisition de deux violons, d'un violoncelle et des archets correspondants, enti��rement fabriqu��s par des luthiers et archetiers qu��b��cois. Par cette banque d'instruments, la FJMC souhaite soutenir les jeunes musiciens du Qu��bec dans la poursuite de leurs ��tudes sup��rieures en leur donnant la chance d'utiliser un instrument et un archet de grande qualit��.

Fleuron de notre patrimoine culturel, les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada (JMC) ont un double mandat : celui de favoriser la diffusion de la musique classique, en particulier aupr��s des jeunes, et celui de soutenir les jeunes musiciens dans le d��veloppement de leur carri��re, tant sur les sc��nes nationale qu'internationale. Elles produisent aujourd'hui quelque 700 concerts annuellement.

��tapes d'��valuation :

�Ģ Analyse des dossiers par le comit�� de s��lection. Les candidats non retenus seront avis��s par lettre.

�Ģ Audition de 20 minutes des meilleurs candidats devant un jury ; le jury se r��serve le droit d'interrompre l'��coute des candidats �� tout moment de l'audition. Les candidats s��lectionn��s pour l'audition seront avis��s par t��l��phone.

�Ģ Selon le nombre de candidatures retenues, la Fondation se r��serve le droit d'organiser un 2e tour d'audition afin de d��terminer les finalistes du concours.

�Ģ Une entrevue d'environ 10 minutes avec les finalistes constituera l'��tape finale permettra de d��terminer les laur��ats du concours.

R��pertoire d'audition :

Le r��pertoire propos�� devra inclure des ��uvres d'��poques et de styles vari��s, mettant en valeur la musicalit�� et la virtuosit�� du candidat.

�Ģ La liste des ��uvres devra inclure :

- 1er mouvement d'un concerto

- 1er mouvement d'une sonate classique

- un mouvement d'une ��uvre de J.-S. Bach pour instrument seul

- une pi��ce de virtuosit��

�Ģ Le choix des pi��ces entendues �� chacun des tours de l'audition est �� la discr��tion du jury ; les pi��ces entendues seront s��lectionn��es dans la liste des ��uvres remise au moment de l'inscription ; aucune modification �� la liste des ��uvres ne sera accept��e apr��s le d��p��t de l'inscription.

�Ģ Les candidats sont pri��s de pr��voir, pour le jury, une copie des partitions des pi��ces qu'ils entendent pr��senter en audition. Ils devront la remettre au jury au moment de l'audition.

Accompagnateur :

�Ģ Un piano sera mis �� la disposition des candidats pendant les auditions �� la Salle de musique de chambre de la Maison des JMC.

�Ģ S'ils le souhaitent, les candidats pourront recourir aux services d'un accompagnateur, mais il leur incombe de l'embaucher et de lui faire part des d��tails de l'audition.

�Ģ Advenant des difficult��s �� trouver un accompagnateur, il sera possible de recourir aux services de l'accompagnateur d��sign�� par la Fondation.

Entrevue des finalistes (10 minutes) :

�Ģ Cette ��tape fait partie int��grante de la phase finale. Chaque finaliste doit ��tre pr��t �� discuter de son plan de carri��re et �� expliquer comment le pr��t d'un instrument de la banque d'instruments de la Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada est un outil indispensable �� la poursuite de son apprentissage instrumental.

Laur��ats :

�Ģ La Fondation communiquera directement avec les laur��ats du concours dans les jours suivant l'audition. Afin de b��n��ficier d'un pr��t d'instrument, les candidats retenus devront s'engager formellement par ��crit envers la Fondation et respecter les conditions du contrat de pr��t ��tabli par la Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada.

�Ģ Advenant l'impossibilit�� pour le candidat de se conformer au contrat de pr��t d'instrument, celui-ci ne pourra b��n��ficier de l'acc��s �� ce programme et sa candidature ne pourra ��tre retenue.

Documents �� soumettre avec l'inscription :

�Ģ Un dossier de pr��sentation incluant :

i. Des notes biographiques ou un curriculum vit�� ;

ii. Un dossier de presse (si disponible) ;

�Ģ Une liste d��taill��e du r��pertoire d'audition (compositeur, titre, minutage) ;

�Ģ Une preuve du statut d'��tudiant �� temps plein dans le cadre d'un programme d'interpr��tation en musique d'une universit�� reconnue ou d'un conservatoire de musique ;

�Ģ Une lettre de recommandation provenant du professeur d'instrument (programme d'interpr��tation en musique) ;

�Ģ Une attestation de naissance ou de citoyennet�� canadienne ou une preuve du statut de r��sident permanent ;

�Ģ Une lettre de motivation d'au plus 350 mots qui explique les raisons pour lesquelles le pr��t d'un instrument par la Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada est un outil indispensable �� la poursuite de l'apprentissage instrumental et au d��veloppement d'une carri��re professionnelle.

Date limite pour la soumission des dossiers : Vendredi le 31 octobre 2008

Calendrier d'auditions :

�Ģ 1er tour : 13 et 14 novembre 2008

�Ģ 2e tour (�� confirmer) : 17 novembre 2008

Lieu d'audition :

Salle de musique de chambre

Maison des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada

305 avenue du Mont-Royal Est, Montr��al (Qu��bec)

N.B. Les dossiers incomplets ne pourront faire l'objet d'une ��valuation et ne seront pas consid��r��s.

La FJMC se r��serve le droit de modifier le calendrier d'auditions si n��cessaire.

Envoi des dossiers :

Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada

A/s de Marie-Claude Matton

305, avenue du Mont-Royal Est

Montr��al (Qu��bec) H2T 1P8

T��l��phone : 514-845-4108, poste 245

Courriel : mcmatton@jeunessesmusicales.ca

Martin Boucher

Directeur des communications

Communications Director

Jeunesses Musicales du Canada

Concours Musical International de Montr��al

T��l.: 514.845.4108, poste 223

T��l��c.:514.845.8241

305, avenue du Mont-Royal Est

Montr��al, Qc, Canada

H2T 1P8

www.jeunessesmusicales.com

www.concoursmontreal.ca

APPEL DE CANDIDATURES JMC : SAISON 2010-2011 / CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JMC 2010-2011 SEASON

For English see below

APPEL DE CANDIDATURES JMC : SAISON 2010-2011

Jeunes musiciens canadiens, les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada (JMC) vous invitent �� proposer des projets de concerts pour la saison artistique 2010-2011.

Les concerts peuvent s'adresser au grand public (concerts de soir��e) ou au jeune public (concerts pour le pr��scolaire, le primaire ou le secondaire).

T��l��chargez d��s maintenant la fiche de renseignements et le formulaire d'inscription correspondant au type de projet que vous d��sirez soumettre (format PDF).

Grand public
Projets de concerts pour le grand public

Jeune public
Projets de concerts pour le jeune public

En tout temps ces documents sont disponibles sur le site Internet des JMC, section AUDITIONS.

La date limite de remise des dossiers est le 27 octobre 2008, le cachet de la poste faisant foi.

Calendrier d'auditions

Montr��al : 25 novembre (projets jeune public), 1er d��cembre (projets grand public)
Toronto : 2 d��cembre (tous les projets de concerts)
Vancouver : 3 d��cembre (tous les projets de concerts)

Adresse d'envoi des dossiers :
Jeunesses Musicales du Canada
A/s de Judith Pelletier
305, avenue du Mont-Royal Est
Montr��al (Qu��bec) H2T 1P8

Pour tous renseignements, contactez :
Judith Pelletier, coordonnatrice artistique
T��l��phone : 514 845-4108, poste 230
Sans frais : 1 877 377-7951, poste 230
Courriel : jpelletier@jeunessesmusicales.ca

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JMC 2010-2011 SEASON

Young Canadian musicians, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada (JMC) invites you to submit your concert project proposals for the 2010-2011 artistic season.

Concerts may be intended for a general audience (evening concerts) or for young audiences (concerts for pre-school, elementary school, or high school students).

Download our information sheet and the application form corresponding to the type of project you wish to submit (PDF format).


General Audiences
Concert Projects for General Audiences

Young Audiences
Concert Projects for Young Audiences

These documents are available at all times on the JMC website, in the AUDITIONS section.

Applications must be postmarked no later than October 27, 2008.

Audition Schedule

Montreal: November 25 (young audiences projects), December 1 (general audiences projects)
Toronto: December 2 (all concert projects)
Vancouver: December 3 (all concert projects)

Application submission
Jeunesses Musicales Canada
c/o Judith Pelletier
305 Mount Royal Avenue East
Montreal, Quebec H2T 1P8

Telephone: 514 845-4108, ext. 230
Toll free: 1 877 377-7951, ext. 230
Email: jpelletier@jeunessesmusicales.ca

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Opera Atelier presents The Abduction from the Seraglio

Mozart���s The Abduction from the Seraglio fuses comedy and exoticism to brilliant effect

Toronto, ON (October 2, 2008) �ĶOpera Atelier���s 2008/09 season begins with a new production of Mozart���s The Abduction from the Seraglio which runs at the Elgin Theatre November 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, and 15, 2008. Originally commissioned by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, the opera was an instant success upon its 1782 premiere in Vienna. Opera Atelier���s resident designer Gerard Gauci has created a spectacular new production that evokes the exoticism that enthralled 18^th-century Europe at the time of the opera���s premiere.

The Abduction from the Seraglio presents a classic commedia dell��� arte scenario in which a beautiful young person (male or female) is sequestered away from the world by a controlling guardian or spouse. In the opera, the Spanish nobleman Belmonte and his servant Pedrillo plot to rescue their girlfriends Konstanze and Blondie from the harem of Pasha Selim. Mozart���s The Abduction from the Seraglio allows this classic commedia dell��� arte plot line to be played out to brilliant effect as the Turkish and European worlds collide in hilarious contrast.

The Abduction from the Seraglio marks the company debut of Canadian tenor Fr��d��ric Antoun as Belmonte, American coloratura soprano Amanda Pabyan as his fianc��e Konstanze, and Norwegian-American bass Gustav Andreassen as Osmin, overseer for the Pasha. The production also features soprano Carla Huhtanen in the role of Blondie, Konstanze���s British maid, tenor Lawrence Wiliford as Pedrillo, bass-baritone Curtis Sullivan as Pasha Selim, and Artists of Atelier Ballet. David Fallis conducts the Tafelmusik Orchestra.

This new production is directed by Marshall Pynkoski and choreographed by Jeannette Lajeunesse-Zingg, Opera Atelier's co-artistic directors, with set designs by Gerard Gauci, costumes by Margaret Lamb, and lighting by Kevin Fraser.

Performances are at Toronto���s Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge Street) and begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the November 9^th matinee at 3 p.m., and will be sung in German with English SURTITLES^TM with the spoken text delivered in English.

CIFF announces Cash Prize

Calgary International Film Festival Announces $25,000 Cash Prize for Movie Mavericks

Calgary, AB ��� The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) and American Express confirmed today it will offer a $25,000 cash prize to the winner of its newly created competition, Movie Mavericks. Inspired by the pioneering spirit and can-do attitude of Calgarians, Movie Mavericks will become the flagship of CIFF's program, and will include a competition adjudicated by a jury of well-known maverick filmmakers, an international marketing campaign and $50,000 in scholarship funding for up-and-coming maverick filmmakers enrolled in the SAIT film studies program through the American Express Movie Mavericks Scholarship.

"Movie Mavericks will have a real and significant impact on CIFF and the City of Calgary," Jacqueline Dupuis, executive director, Calgary International Film Festival, said. "It will allow us to differentiate the festival from other film festivals around the globe, attract industry professionals from around the world to CIFF, and create international awareness and cache for Calgary. This will significantly impact tourism and spending in the downtown core during the festival."

Beginning at the 2009 festival, which will run September 18 to 27, 2009, CIFF will curate a selection of films from around the world that exemplify what it means to be a Movie Maverick: films that forge new cinematic ground and break traditional models for success. These films will be showcased for the public in the newly created Movie Mavericks section and entered into competition. The winning filmmaker will win the American Express Movie Mavericks Award, which includes a cash prize of $25,000 donated by American Express.

In mid-2009, CIFF will announce the appointment of a well-known Movie Maverick to attend the festival and serve as head juror to the Movie Mavericks competition. The public will be invited to view the work of this honorary Movie Maverick during special presentation film screenings.


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

A story of cultures: South African flavour and distinct world music sounds

A STORY OF CULTURES: LORRAINE KLAASEN'S LATEST ALBUM WEAVES SOUTH AFRICAN FLAVOUR WITH DISTINCT WORLD MUSIC SOUND

Toronto, ON ��� Montreal-based Lorraine Klaasen is set to debut her first major-label release, Africa Calling, on October 21, 2008 across English Canada (released in Quebec on September 23, 2008). Klaasen, already a known talent in the world music community, has recorded several albums independently and has toured to enthusiastic audiences internationally. Africa Calling includes both original songs and traditional South African classics. The album blends diverse cultures, languages and sounds in one uplifting and spellbinding package.

"Africa Calling is a personal reflection of my deep cultural roots in South Africa. I explore cultural diversity with my music and I hope my album will bring audiences of different musical flavours together," exclaims Klaasen.

The album is storytelling put to music. "Jabulani" opens the album as a positive, upbeat song of celebration. The title itself means happiness and the song captures the essence of an African wedding, telling the story of a mother's joy that her son has found a wonderful bride. "La Reine" inspires other African artists to continue producing and sharing their work with the world. "La Reine" is sung in French, one of five languages sung on the record.

Daughter of legendary South African singer Thandie Klaasen, Klaasen was born and raised in South Africa, but has called Montreal home since 1979. Her warmth and energy is infectious and she has thrilled audiences with her live show across North America, Europe and the Caribbean.

With the help of talented and notable South African musicians, including Bakithi Kumalo, who played bass on Paul Simon's Graceland album, Klaasen has created an album sure to enchant people of all cultures.

On October 25 Klaasen will be honoured with the prestigious 2008 Planet Africa Media and Entertainment Award at the Planet Africa Awards in Toronto.

PSO Sunday Concert Welcomes Renowned Mezzo-Soprano, October 26

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S FIRST SUNDAY CLASSICAL CONCERT OF THE SEASON FEATURES RENOWNED MEZZO-SOPRANO, OCTOBER 26

PORTLAND, Maine ��� For the first Sunday Classical performance of Robert Moody's inaugural season as Music Director, the Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presents Classical Travels with renowned American mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop on Sunday, October 26 at 2:30 PM.

Classical Travels opens with the Overture to L'Italiana in Algieri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini. Famous for his great comic operas including The Barber of Seville, Rossini wrote this piece in just one month at the age of 21. The second work on the program is Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). Mahler's intensely poignant work, for which the composer wrote the texts in addition to the music, was possibly motivated by his own unrequited love for a singer of the time. Classical Travels closes with Anton��n Dvo��k's famous Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World." Inspired by African-American spirituals and Native American rhythms, the piece brims over with melody and drama.

Elizabeth Bishop has been hailed by Opera News for her "gorgeous voice," and has performed on opera and concert stages across the country, in music ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. The San Francisco Chronicle has praised her singing as "luminous ... with utter panache." A former participant in San Francisco Opera's prestigious Adler Fellowship and Merola Opera program, this season Ms. Bishop will perform with the Los Angeles Opera and Masters Chorale, the Metropolitan Opera, the Atlanta Symphony, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She and Maestro Moody have performed together often, and are thrilled at this most recent reunion opportunity.

The Classical Travels concert begins at 2:30 PM on Sunday, October 26 at Merrill Auditorium, located at 20 Myrtle Street in Portland. A Concert Conversation with Maestro Moody and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop will be held at 1:15 PM in the Rehearsal Hall before the concert. This performance will also be broadcast on MPBN over the radio on November 12 at 8:00 PM.

Ticket prices for the October 26 concert range from $17 to $54, with special pricing available for students, seniors and groups of 10 or more. All Portland Symphony Orchestra tickets are sold through PortTix at (207) 842-0800 or www.porttix.com, and new this year, the website offers real-time online seat selection. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office at 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.

For complete season information, including artist biographies and program notes, visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

Concert OSMM/MWSO Halloween

La musique classique: un plaisir �� d��couvrir pour les enfants!

26 octobre 2008, �� 13h00, Salle Oscar Peterson

Chers amis de l'orchestre,

Vous ��tes cordialement invit��s �� vous joindre �� nous pour notre magnifique �� Concert d'Halloween Extravaganza �� qui proposera aux tout petits une s��lection de pi��ces classiques appropri��es pour la saison d'Halloween. De plus, l'orchestre sera accompagn��, pour l'occasion, d'une troupe de jeunes danseurs �� Destination Danse �� et d'un magicien ��m��rite, Blair Marshall, sur la sc��ne pour un spectacle haut en couleur. Les enfants sont encourag��s de venir costum��s.

Le concert aura lieu �� la salle Oscar Peterson, Universit�� Concordia, le 26 Octobre 2008 �� 13h00. La salle Oscar Peterson est situ��e au 7141 rue Sherbrooke Ouest.

25$ Billets adultes

10$ Enfants de 12 ans et moins

Pour plus d'information ou pour des billets, veuillez appeler au 514-484-7428 ou au 514-510-1826 ou au Admission au 514-790-1245

Nous sommes reconnaissants pour votre soutien continu pour l'orchestre et pour ce merveilleux concert. Nous esp��rons vous rencontrer tous �� notre prochain concert.

Classical music: fun for the whole family!

Dear friends of the orchestra,

You are cordially invited to our upcoming "Halloween at the Hall" concert which will offer a selection of classical music for small children based on the Disney film. In addition, the orchestra will be accompanied on stage by 'Destination Danse', a group of young dancers, and by Blair Marshall, the talented magician, for this colorful event. Children are encouraged to come in costume.

The concert will take place at the Oscar Peterson Hall, Concordia University, on October 26, 2008 at 1:00pm. The Oscar Peterson Hall is located at: 7141 Sherbrooke west.

$25 Adult tickets

$10 Children of 12 years old and under

For more information or for tickets, please call at 514-484-7428 or at 514-510-1826 or at Admissions at 514-790-1245

We are grateful for your continued support of the Orchestra and our marvelous concerts. We hope to meet you all at our upcoming concert.

Canada's National Arts Centre celebrates B.C. artists in new ad campaign

Canada���s National Arts Centre celebrates B.C. artists in new ad campaign

Magazine ads part of NAC���s extensive focus on B.C. artists this season

Vancouver, British Columbia ��� Canada���s National Arts Centre (NAC) has launched a series of ads in Vancouver Magazine and Western Living to celebrate British Columbia���s vibrant art scene and pay tribute to its outstanding artists. The first ad featuring Crystal Pite, one of Canada���s most exciting dancer-choreographers, appears in the October edition of Vancouver Magazine, now on newsstands.

A total of 11 ads, produced for the NAC by acclaimed photographer Shin Sugino and the award-winning design firm of Scott Thornley and Company, will be published between now and October 2009 in Vancouver Magazine. Six of the ads appearing in Vancouver Magazine are also slated to run monthly from October 2008 to April 2009 in the B.C. edition of Western Living.

The campaign was made possible thanks to the generous partnership of Transcontinental Media, publisher of Vancouver Magazine and Western Living.

The first ad in the series shows Crystal Pite in her Vancouver home. The image reflects a certain intimacy and captures the dynamic energy exuded by the dancer when she performs on stage. (Visit http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/allaboutthenac/canada_pite.html to see the ad)

NAC Dance Producer Cathy Levy is quoted in the ad: ���(Crystal Pite) burst onto the international scene with kinetic physicality, humour and theatricality ��� revealing a balance of the intellectual and the sensual. Simply put, Crystal moves audiences.���

Ms. Levy and the National Arts Centre were among the first to recognize the artist���s dazzling talent by co-producing three of her new works. The fourth will have its world premiere in Ottawa as part of the Dance season at the NAC���s BC Scene festival in April 2009.

Last May, Ms. Pite was chosen by legendary prima ballerina Veronica Tennant as the inaugural participant in the Governor General���s Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program. Ms. Pite���s electric performance at the Governor General���s Performing Arts Awards Gala at the NAC was the highlight of the event.

The subjects of the remaining 10 ads ��� all of them leaders in B.C.���s performing arts community ��� will be revealed as the campaign continues over the next year.

���The National Arts Centre belongs to all Canadians, including British Columbians,��� said Peter Herrndorf, President and CEO of the National Arts Centre. ���The Vancouver Magazine and Western Living initiative is one of the many ways the National Arts Centre is bridging the geographic distance between British Columbia and our stages in Ottawa.���

The campaign is part of a series of NAC initiatives this coming season that are putting the spotlight squarely on British Columbia and its outstanding art scene.

Just last month, the NAC announced the preliminary programming details of BC Scene, a dazzling multi-disciplinary arts festival that will take place in Ottawa-Gatineau from April 21 to May 3, 2009. BC Scene will be the largest gathering of British Columbia artists ever presented outside of the province. For more information about BC Scene, please visit www.bcscene.ca.

From October 24 to November 12, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, with Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, will head to British Columbia and other cities in Western Canada for its 2008 tour. The Western Canada Tour will feature pianist Jon Kimura Parker and composer Alexina Louie (both Vancouver-born) and will include 13 orchestral concerts in 10 cities, among them Vancouver, Victoria and Prince George.

The National Arts Centre opened its doors in 1969. Since then it has become a leading showcase for the performing arts, presenting Canada���s and the world���s best in classical music, English theatre, French theatre, dance, variety, and community programming.

Over the years, the NAC has welcomed many of B.C.���s most creative artists, including
Mr. Kimura Parker, Ms. Louie, Ms. Pite and countless others. The NAC has also collaborated with numerous B.C. performing arts organizations, including Ballet British Columbia, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Playhouse Theatre Company, Belfry Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre and many more.

Conductor Rei Hotoda joins Pianist Katherine Chi!

Robbins Lighter Classics:

Conductor Rei Hotoda joins pianist Katherine Chi for some Great Moments from Great Piano Concertos

Thursday, October 9^th- 8:00pm

Edmonton, AB �ĶThe Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) presents a sumptuous evening of great moments from the world���s favourite piano concertos, featuring Calgary���s Katherine Chi at the keyboard. She will be joined by conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda, one of America���s most dynamic classical musicians. Ms. Hotoda conducts the ESO in a program that includes familiar movements from Beethoven���s ���Emperor��� Piano Concerto,Piano Concerto No. 21, plus piano concertos by Chopin, Brahms, and Saint-Sa��ns. Mozart���s

Ticket prices for this performance range from $20-$69 (agency fees apply). Student and senior $20 rush tickets are on sale, subject to availability, two hours prior to curtain time. The next performance in the Robbins Lighter Classics takes place on November 20^th featuring Buster Keaton���s silent film- The General- backed up by the ESO and the Davis Concert Organ!

This series is generously sponsored by Bill and Mary Jo Robbins

Shaw Festival Artistic Director To Receive Herbert Whittaker Award

Shaw Festival Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell to Receive Herbert Whittaker Award

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, October 1, 2008 �Ķ The Shaw Festival is thrilled to acknowledge that on Monday, October 6 Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell will be awarded the 2008 Herbert Whittaker/Drama Bench Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre.

The recipient of this prestigious award is chosen annually by the members of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Since 1982 the Award has been given to some of Canada���s most respected theatre practitioners. Recent recipients include Joy Coghill, Monique Mercure, Brent Carver and Robert LePage.

On hearing that she was to receive the award, Ms. Maxwell said, ���How wonderful to receive this award which takes us away from the wear and tear of opening nights and reviews and focuses us on the long-term work we are all striving to do - making and celebrating theatre which will linger in our audience's minds and hearts long after the curtain falls. I am touched and honoured.���

Under Ms. Maxwell���s creative leadership, the work produced on the Shaw Festival���s stages has been characterized by a spirit of discovery, with classics from the period of Bernard Shaw���s lifetime reexamined with thoughtfulness and vitality and juxtaposed with contemporary explorations of the mandate.

Born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jackie Maxwell studied Drama at the University of Manchester. She acted in both Ireland and England before coming to Canada in 1978. Throughout her long and varied career in Canada, Ms. Maxwell has worked extensively as a freelance director and been instrumental in programme creation at many theatre companies, including the National Arts Centre as Associate Director, Factory Theatre as Artistic Director (1986 to 1994), and the Charlottetown Festival as Head of New Play Development.

Ms. Maxwell has been dramaturge and teacher for several Canadian theatre schools, most notably the National Theatre School in Montreal. For eight years she was Guest Artist/Lecturer at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. In October 2005 Ms. Maxwell was the recipient of the National Theatre School���s prestigious Gascon-Thomas Award, recognizing her exceptional achievements in Canadian theatre, and last year she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities from the University of Windsor.

The Herbert Whittaker Award is named for the late Critic Emeritus of The Globe and Mail, who was also the Founding Chairman of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Mr. Whittaker had a long and distinguished career in Canada as a theatre critic and author.

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

Harbourfront Centre - Music with Bite

Free family concert series kicks off with Annabelle Canto, a bilingual opera performance on Thanksgiving Weekend, Sunday, October 12, as part of HarbourKIDS!

TORONTO, Wednesday, October 1, 2008 ��� Music with Bite, Harbourfront Centre's free concert series for families returns on Sunday, October 12 with Annabelle Canto; an entertaining bilingual (English/French) opera performance. From Montreal, soprano Christina Tannous becomes Annabelle Canto, the young opera singer who loses both her voice and memory on the morning of an important concert. Annabelle and her pianist, played by Dominic Boulianne, set out on a quest for this magical voice. The performance takes place on Sunday, October 12, at

1 p.m., at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. Admission is free. For information, the public can call 416-973-4000 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com.



Annabelle Canto is a wonderful story of a young opera singer who happens to lose both her voice and her memory on the morning of an important concert. Where could her singing talent have gone? Using spontaneity, innocence and humour, Annabelle Canto and her pianist Henry set out on a quest for this magical voice. Along their musical route, they discover magical opera characters. This bilingual Music with Bite performance is part of HarbourKIDS: GEEK OUT! (October 12-13), a free family celebration of GEEKS with two jam-packed days of performances and interactive activities.



Christina Tannous is the new Annabelle Canto in a series of youth concerts to be performed all across Canada, in collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales of Canada. Born in Montreal, Tannous graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montr��al. In 1999, Tannous' talent came to national attention as the 1st prizewinner of the CBC Competition for Young Performers, where she was also awarded the Jean A. Chalmers Award, given by the Canadian Opera Women's Committee. Tannous has been a soloist with various Canadian orchestras, such as the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre M��tropolitain du Grand-Montr��al. Her velvet voice is appreciated in opera, oratorio and recital repertoire, and is often broadcasted by Radio-Canada and CBC Radio.



Dominic Boulianne studied at the Conservatoire de musique in Chicoutimi and in Montreal, and at the Conservatoire de musique de Qu��bec. Boulianne was a prizewinner at the Canadian Music Competition, the Concours de Musique de Sillery, the Concours de l'Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, and the Festival de musique du Royaume. He has appeared in concert and in recital with the Orchestre symphonique de Qu��bec and the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac St-Jean. Since 2006, he has portrayed the pianist Henri in the Jeunesses Musicales of Canada's production of Annabelle Canto for young audiences. He also teaches at the Conservatoire de musique du Coll��ge Stanislas in Montreal.



Annabelle Canto is part of Qu��bec Now!, a Toronto-wide celebration of contemporary Qu��bec arts and culture from September through December. Qu��bec Now! showcases the best of contemporary culture from Qu��bec in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film. Harbourfront Centre is very proud to partner with the Bureau du Qu��bec �� Toronto and the Ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition f��minine du Qu��bec to present Qu��bec Now!, one of the largest organized Qu��b��cois arts and cultural celebrations to take place in Toronto.



Music with Bite is a refreshing experience where children can pull up a comfy cushion and sit in front of the stage for an enjoyable, interactive music performance tailored for the youngest audience members. After the concert, children can enjoy a complimentary Natrel milk beverage and cookies. Concerts take place on select Sundays at 1 p.m. Music with Bite is a co-production with Jeunesses Musicales Ontario, which is affiliated with Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, who since 1949 has dedicated its work to musical excellence and the promotion of young artists and music for young people. Jeunesses Musicales of Canada is a member of Jeunesses Musicales International.



Music with Bite is produced with the support of the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and Desjardins.



FOCUS: Pause

Harbourfront Centre wants you. to. slow. down. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and images, what happens when someone really takes the time to reflect? From September to May, Harbourfront Centre wants you to pause and make a connection to art, technology, the world. Find time for yourself by taking one of our Courses and Workshops; reflect while you wait for the World Stage curtain to rise; indulge in a great book during the 2008 International Festival of Authors. Harbourfront Centre���time well spent.

The Flying Dutchman Sets Edmonton Opera's New Season to Sail

Wagner's

The Flying Dutchman

As the sea rages, a cursed captain scours the globe aboard his ghost ship, searching for his only salvation: a woman's love. Edmonton Opera opens its 45^th season with a haunting production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, October 25, 28 and 30 at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster, call 780-451-8000 or visit www.ticketmaster.ca. All performances begin at 7:30pm*.

"I am delighted to be bringing this important piece back to the Edmonton stage after a far too long 20-year hiatus," says Brian Deedrick, Artistic Director of Edmonton Opera. "The Flying Dutchman explores the loneliness and mystery of the outsider, and I believe we see in the Dutchman elements of Wagner as he saw himself: separate, an outsider, at odds with society."

Jason Howard and Susan Marie Pierson, the artists who sparked audiences' excitement in 2006's Bluebeard's Castle & Ewartung, reunite to bring Wagner's genius to life, joined by Marc Embree, Scott Scully, Emilia Boteva, Director Brian Deedrick and Conductor John Keenan. The Flying Dutchman runs two hours and 45 minutes, including an intermission, and is sung in German with English supertitles.

The legend of the Flying Dutchman has circulated throughout the western world for hundreds of years. To seafarers, the Dutchman is a glowing phantom ship, and, normally accompanied by a raging storm, it is usually a sign of doom to most sailors. A 17^th century Dutch sea captain, famous for making unusually fast trips between Holland and Indonesia, is widely believed to be the man at the heart of the legend. His ability as a swift sailor was attributed to a deal made with the devil. Today, the legend of the Flying Dutchman lives on, referenced in opera, books, music, theatre, as well as in television and film.

Wagner completed his adaptation of the legend in 1841; he was working on several projects at but was having difficulty getting his works to the stage. He had had multiple operas rejected by opera houses before finally breaking onto the scene with The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holl��nder), his first critical operatic success. It opened in Dresden in January of 1843, and Wagner conducted the premiere himself.

The Flying Dutchman runs at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium with all performances beginning at 7:30pm. Subscriptions and single tickets for Edmonton Opera's 2008-2009 season are on sale now. For subscription details contact the Edmonton Opera Box Office at 780-429-1000 or visit www.edmontonopera.com. For single ticket information, contact Ticketmaster at 780-451-8000 or www.ticketmaster.ca.

*Please note: Parking at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium is extremely limited due to construction. Please make the appropriate time allowances for travel to and parking at the Auditorium.