The Montrealer

Into the light with Cité Mémoire, a film by Janice Zolf available on CBC and Club Illico in November You’ve probably seen the ‘movies’ being projected on the buildings in Old Monreal. Here’s a chance to have a look behind the scenes, to see how they’re made. Janice Zolf Productions, Les Films du Rapide-Blanc et Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc will release [ 519 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com/?p=38458

Maison symphonique de Montréal presents Angela Hewitt and Ravel’s Stunning Piano Concerto in G Angela Hewitt is unique among today’s leading pianists. Renowned for her wide-ranging repertoire, frequent appearances as a soloist or with orchestras, and award-winning recordings, she has established herself as one of the foremost interpreters of Bach. After her performances of the composer’s complete Well-Tempered Clavier at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival, the critic of the London Times wrote, [] the freshness of Hewitt’s playing made it sound as though no one had played this music before. [ 585 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//angela-hewitt-november-1/

Canadian Online Jazz Festival From November 8 to 15, 2020, be a part of history as Jazz Festivals across the country join forces to present top jazz talent performing online. Join a National presentation of Canada’s top jazz talent for a unique collaboration between over a dozen Festivals from Coast to Coast. This virtual festival will highlight the strength of musicians from each market in the country and feature them in a digital format for local, national and international audiences and buyers to enjoy. [ 791 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//canadian-online-jazz-fes/

The MCMF is pleased to present its new weekly video series, A Day in the Life. Each video shines a light on the life of a brilliant young Canadian violinist or cellist, all winners of the Musical Instrument Bank Competition of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank Competition, as they find innovative ways to adapt their profession to the new measures imposed by the pandemic. [ 227 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//a-day-in-the-life-a-new-/

Niall Horan: Live at the Royal Albert Hall Saturday, November 7th at 8:00-9:00pm EST Niall Horan performs a very special, exclusive worldwide livestream show from the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London. Featuring songs from Niall’s two smash hit albums Flicker and Heartbreak Weather, this multi-camera event will see the former member of One Direction and his full band perform for fans around the world thanks to time-zoned live streams. [ 268 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//niall-horan-november-7-2/

Come Together for the Ultimate John Lennon Tribute Concert! Streaming from October 9 at 7pm ET to October 12 at Midnight ET Featuring previously unseen and newly recorded performances by: Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Natalie Merchant, Taj Mahal, Jorma Kaukonen, Rosanne Cash, Joan Osborne, Bettye LaVette and more! The 40th Annual John Lennon Tribute will be seen exclusively on the [ 219 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//40th-annual-john-lennon-/

Fauré’s Requiem Tenderness is invincible, as the saying goes. Fauré’s Requiem, arguably his most masterful work, comforts the bereaved and pays tribute to the victims of the pandemic. The Chariot Jubilee, written by African American Nathaniel Dett, celebrates Black lives through music. Fauré considered death a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than a painful experience, a conviction embodied in his peaceful [ 445 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//faures-requiem-november-/

Just For Laughs Presenting the festival's first-ever 100% Free online Comedy Fest The star-filled roster includes comedy heavyweights Howie Mandel, Kevin Hart and Judd Apatow sitting down for a special 1:1 conversation, Chelsea Handler, The Opening Act (with Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Byrne, Jimmy O Yang, Anjelah Johnson, Roy Wood Jr.), Amber Ruffin, Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding, Ronny Chieng, Tig Notaro, Wanda Sykes, Gina Yashere, Tituss Burgess, Bobby Lee, Sabrina Jalees, Ms. [ 2,920 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//just-for-laughs-october-/

49th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) LET'S CELEBRATE CINEMA ONLINE! The Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma will take place exceptionally and exclusively online, from October 7 to 31, while also being available to everyone across Canada. Faithful to its mandate, with a lineup that is both strong and daring, composed of nearly 200 works from all sections, including more than 50 feature films, and over 88 short films from 30 countries, the Festival will allow the public to discover anticipated flagship titles as well as new auteur filmmakers from the current cinema as well as virtual reality works. [ 1,009 more word ] https://themontrealeronline.com//festival-du-nouveau-cine/

Nightly Met Opera Streams presents a week of Wagner Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 pm EDT until 6:30 pm the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers. [ 805 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//wagner-week-at-the-met-o/

Infinithéâtre presents two special live-streamed performances of King of Canada Written by Paul Van Dyck Directed by Zach Fraser Starring Ellen David and Brian Dooley Canada’s longest-serving PM also its strangest King of Canada playfully yet intelligently examines Canada’s 10th and longest-serving prime minister, still seen on the fifty-dollar bill. Through vaudevillian charm, the play reveals how Canadian politics have often been (and still are) a balancing act between what should be done for the good of all and what is done to maintain power. [ 648 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//king-of-canada-november-/

In the Footsteps of the Bourgeois Gentleman Theatricality is showcased in this concert, beginning with Mozart’s famous Concerto for clarinet, undoubtedly one of the Viennese composer’s most expressive instruments. With his Bourgeois Gentleman, Richard Strauss beckons us several centuries back with an immersion in the French style of Molière and Lully and depicting, through playful and often surprising music, the attempts of a middle-class man to gain the acceptance of the aristocracy. [ 130 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//susanna-malkki-conducts-/

Opéra de Montréal presents La voix humaine & L'hiver attend beaucoup de moi An intimate evening with a focus on female artists awaits you. To start, soprano France Bellemare, fresh off her Met debut, will take on the role of the distressed and broken woman in Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine. Then, a Quebec ‘‘road opera’’, L’hiver attend beaucoup de moi [ 186 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//la-voix-humaine-november/

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Live from Dizzy’s Club Wynton Marsalis and Young Stars of Jazz Supporting the next generation of jazz stars is one of our most exciting and important missions at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Dizzy’s Club. For this performance, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will join some young friends of Dizzy’s Club as they perform some of your favorite jazz compositions. [ 145 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//wynton-marsalis-and-youn/

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Anthony McGill Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music’s most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures. He serves as the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, that orchestra’s first African-American principal player. Hailed for his trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character (New York Times), he also serves as an ardent advocate for helping music education reach underserved communities. [ 294 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//anthony-mcgill-october-8/

The Canadian International Organ Competition presents the 2020 Festival des Couleurs de l'Orgue Français Discover the magnificent chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal with free organ recitals each Sunday in October (freewill donations encouraged). Presented as part of Les Journées de la culture. Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 3:00pm Yves-G. Préfontaine Yves G. Préfontaine studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with Mireille and Bernard Lagacé and with Scott Ross. [ 783 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//celebrate-organ-music-ev/

CINEMANIA Francophone Film Festival With a 26th edition adapted to our current circumstances, CINEMANIA is re-centering its selection on the very best Francophone productions available. With its programming, the festival reminds us of the importance of cultural pluralism, and how crucial it is for major Francophone communities to engage in dialogue with one another. With forays into the three major poles of production that are Europe, Africa, and North America, and thanks to a strong Quebec presence, now more than ever, CINEMANIA’s programming will help enhance the influence of Francophone culture as a whole. [ 341 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//cinemania-november-4-22-/

The New Yorker Festival This fall, The New Yorker Festival is coming to you, wherever in the world you may be. Tune in for the very first virtual Festival, an eclectic mix of conversations, performances, and experiences, featuring some of the most talented and influential figures of our time. Virtual Ticketed Events Monday, October 5, from 6-7pm EDT Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Michael Specter [ 895 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//the-new-yorker-festival-/

Geneviève Cadieux 1700 La Poste is pleased to invite you to an exhibition devoted to Montreal artist Geneviève Cadieux. In her photographic installations of imposing dimensions, the artist approaches the human body as a landscape and addresses large spaces under the perspective of a portrait. A selection of works executed between 1993 and 2020 brings together these two bodies of works in which Geneviève Cadieux was able to capture the passage of time with a play of scale and light. [ 651 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//genevieve-cadieux-until-/

Festival Bach Montréal Despite the uncertain times in which we are living, Festival Bach Montréal has nevertheless made the decision to announce its 14th annual festival edition. Alongside this season announcement, Festival Bach Montréal has also announced the launch of a new specialist digital platform, Québec Baroque. Festival Bach Montréal will take place from November 19 to December 6, with a prelude on November 7. [ 671 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//festival-bach-montreal-l/

Six solos for violin without accompaniment - Les Idées Heureuses Les Idées heureuses presents two works of capital importance - as characterized by Bach's first biographer Forkel: Six solos for the violin (c. 1722) and Six solos for the cello (c. 1720). These two major collections were composed while Bach was director of chamber music for Prince Anhalt-Coethen. Bach was particularly happy during this period of his life, and he wrote some of his greatest instrumental works during this time. [ 561 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//bachs-solos-for-violin-o/

The Little Prince Concert Webcast In co-production with the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde Presented in French Familiar, otherworldly and timeless: the sounds of the wind quintet magnify the dreamlike, surreal universe of the Little Prince, the boy-monarch who fell from the stars to speak of love, friendship, innocence and humanity to a pilot stranded in the desert. Come revel in the sonorous and the poetic atmospheres with the talents of Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, Sophie Desmarais and Benoît Brière. [ 71 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//the-little-prince-octobe/

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Das Lied von der Erde From the intimate to the universal, Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Vivian Fung’s Prayer transcend suffering and struggle to give a voice to humanity. These emotive pieces evoke feelings of grief, fear, hope and wonder. Mahler’s life was marked by a string of tragedies as he began to compose his ninth Symphony. [ 180 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//mahlers-das-lied-von-der/

Wave 21 to release new single All Over & Over The release of "All Over & Over" featuring Sam Roberts, the new single from Wave 21, along with an official music video, is scheduled for release on September 30th, 2020. After releasing their last single "The Last Thing On My Mind", a Tom Paxton cover in March, Wave 21 is back in full force with "All Over & Over", recorded over the last few months here in Montreal and mastered in Nashville at the Georgestown Masters. [ 197 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//wave-21-to-release-new-s/

Bourgie Hall presents Quartom Vocal Music In these times of isolation, restrictions and face masks, the Montreal-based ensemble invites you to an intimate and unifying musical rendez-vous featuring classical melodies by HANDEL, MOZART, POULENC and CERTON, popular songs by Jacques BREL and the BEATLES, and of course, a few surprises! Four charming and charismatic singers founded the Quartom vocal quartet in 2008. [ 189 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//quartom-september-30-202/

Martin Presents Jam in Place Keeping Connected Through Music Martin is proud to present our Jam in Place series featuring artists, performing live from their own spaces. Now more than ever, music can bring us together. Follow Martin Guitar on Facebook for performance updates. George Ducas Four albums (and countless songs written for other artists) into one of country music’s more esteemed careers, country recording artist/songwriter George Ducas continues to evolve. [ 535 more words ] https://themontrealeronline.com//george-ducas-september-2/