Miles Mykkanen - Musicians from Marlboro

Musicians from Marlboro – March 30, 2022

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...ph Richter, cello Lydia Brown, piano Program BRITTEN Canticle III: “Still Falls the Rain”, Op. 55 String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94 SCHUBERT String Quartet in E-flat major, D. 87 Auf dem Strom, D. 943 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 7:30pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/...
Gordon Bintner

An evening of Romantic Lieder with Gordon Bintner – November 10, 2023

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...and first prize and People’s Choice Award recipient of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition (2012), Gordon Bintner’s discography to date includes Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place recorded with Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano (Decca Classics, 2018) and the Count in Schreker’s Der ferne Klang (OehmsClassics, 2021). An avid recitalist, Bintner made his debut at London’s historic Wigmore Hall last season with acclaime...
Maître Fauré: French Art Songs of the Belle Époque

French Art Songs of the Belle Époque – March 15, 2024

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...received warm critical acclaim. He subsequently entered the instrumental accompaniment class of Jean Koerner, then the vocal accompaniment class of Anne Le Bozec, wherein he obtained the prix by unanimous decision in 2007 and 2009. A few months later he obtained the First Prize in piano at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger international Voice-Piano Competition in Paris. In 2013, he was the winner of the international chamber music competition in Lyon,...
Rafael Payare - Bizet’s Spain

Bizet’s Spain – August 17, 2024

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...erton (Madama Butterfly), and Annina (La Traviata). In the 2022/23 season, Sierra completed her second year of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper, performing roles through the year including Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Second Maid (Elektra), Un musico (Manon Lescaut), Soeur Mathilde (Dialogues des Carmelites), and Chambermaid of the Bolkonskis (Best New Production 2023 War and Peace). Program Gioacchino ROSSINI, L’italiana in Algeri: Ov...
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio - Solomon's Knot

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio from Wigmore Hall

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...between December 25, 1734 and January 6, 1735. As such, it is rarely heard complete. In this program the first four cantatas are performed. Determined to communicate the full power of 17th- and 18th-century music as directly as possible, the collective Solomon’s Knot was founded in London in 2008. Led by artistic director Jonathan Sells, the group performs without a conductor, the singers by heart. What began a decade ago as a promise never to los...
L'Harmonie des Saisons

L’Harmonie des Saisons – December 4, 2021

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...nn Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) Magnificat, BWV 243 William Kraushaar Wachet auf! (Sleepers, awake!) December 4, 2021 at 7:30pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.festivalbachmontreal.com Saint-Viateur Church 1175 Av. Laurier West Outremont, QC H2V 3R5...

Looking back at cover story highlights

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...ontreal Alouettes had been our first cover personality. Larry went on to become the Commissioner of The Canadian Football League, and his expansion into the US is credited for saving the league. While the stateside teams eventually failed, the $3 million per team franchise fees provided financial stability for the CFL. In all Larry brought in $13 million, most of which was dispersed to the Canadian team owners. The CFL was able get it’s financial...

Bernard St-Laurent, broadcaster and journalist extraordinaire

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...grant to start a weekly paper called SPEC (Social, Political, Economy and Community news.) The paper still exists. At the same time, Bernie was a founding co-chair of CASA (Committee for Anglophone Social Action) which is also still functioning. The paper was on solid footing by the late summer of 1975, and Bernie decided that it would be useful to have a law degree for their growing business and advocacy group. “I applied as a mature student to...