Il était une fois – March 10, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents March 4, 2019 2585 IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS... A theatrical recital on the theme of fairy tales. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Ali Baba and many other fairy tale characters stimulated the fertile imaginations of compos...
Vote for Me – March 9, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents March 3, 2019 1442 VOTE FOR ME! Louis XIV and Napoleon understood just how effective music could be as a political weapon. With its entertaining staging, this performance features a program of satirical and propaganda pieces wri...
Clair de Lune – March 8, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents March 1, 2019 1580 CLAIR DE LUNE Explore a world of tales, legends, and mysteries as you experience some of the most beautiful treasures of the French repertoire. Artists Les Violons du Roy MATHIEU LUSSIER, conductor JEA...
Chiaroscuro Quartet – March 7, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents March 1, 2019 1625 CHIAROSCURO QUARTET Beethoven’s Quartet op. 59 No. 1, the first of three quartets dedicated to Prince Razumovsky, already heralds the Romanticism of which Mendelssohn and Schumann were to become celebrated exp...
Musicians from Marlboro – March 5, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 27, 2019 1586 MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO As part of their annual tour, musicians from the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont join pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, first grand prize winner of the 2017 Concours musical international de...
Harpsichord Celebration – February 28, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 21, 2019 1406 A HARPSICHORD CELEBRATION! Christoph Graupner’s first harpsichord book remains one of the most engaging collections of 18th-century harpsichord works. This marathon concert celebrates 300 years since it first ...
Vienna and Paris 1900 – February 27, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 19, 2019 2527 VIENNA AND PARIS 1900 In 1899, the year of Ernest Chausson’s death, Arnold Schoenberg completed his Transfigured Night, an expressionist work whose instrumentation was highly innovative for its time. While Cha...
Llyr Williams – February 20, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 13, 2019 1653 LLYR WILLIAMS The inspiration for this recital is Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Wagner, which masterfully recreate the latter’s orchestral colours in the piano medium. Welsh pianist Llyr Williams has been...
Yefim Bronfman – February 10, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 4, 2019 1880 YEFIM BRONFMAN For his first recital at Bourgie Hall, Yefim Bronfman offers a program combining Romantic lyricism with Debussy’s own personal musical language. A rare opportunity to hear one of the most admire...
Da Costa at the Opera – February 9, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents February 1, 2019 2229 Da Costa at the Opera - McGill Chamber Orchestra This superb Quebec violinist joins us to share his contagious love for the Romantic opera repertoire. Fall in love, as Alexandre Da Costa did, with great works ...
