Passiontide Concert – April 7, 2023 LiveEvents March 31, 2023 749 Bourgie Hall presents Les Idées heureuses – Passiontide Concert The first of six concerts, which over the years will present Christoph Graupner’s complete cycle of nineteen cantatas composed for Good Friday. Artists Geneviève Soly, organ and conductor A key figure in baroque music in Quebec, Geneviève Soly is known for her talents as a musician – as a musical performer on the organ and harpsichord; as a musicologist, associated with the rediscovery of the music of Christoph Graupner; as a pedagogue and sought-after speaker and lecturer; as an arts administrator sitting on various advisory committees; and director of Les Idées heureuses for nearly 30 years. Born into the Lagacé family, a large family of renowned Québécois musicians, Geneviève knew she would be a performer from the age of 9, when she listened to a Sviatoslav Richter recording of Robert Schumann’s Fantasie Stücke. Schumann remains to this day one of the composers dearest to her heart. Odéi Bilodeau, soprano William Duffy, countertenor Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, tenor Dion Mazerolle, baritone Program Christoph GRAUPNER Three cantatas for Good Friday O Schmerz, o Leid, o Traurigkeit [O anguish, O sorrow, O sadness], GWV 1127/14 Christus hat uns erlöset [Christ has delivered us], GWV 1127/18 O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben [O world, behold your life here], GWV 1127/19 Friday, April 7, 2023 at 3:00pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/
