Volume 21 Issue 9 - Summer 2016
It's combined June/July/August summer issue time with, we hope, enough between the covers to keep you dipping into it all through the coming lazy, hazy days. From Jazz Vans racing round "The Island" delivering pop-up brass breakouts at the roadside, to Bach flute ambushes strolling "The Grove, " to dozens of reasons to stay in the city. May yours be a summer where you find undiscovered musical treasures, and, better still, when, unexpectedly, the music finds you.
It's combined June/July/August summer issue time with, we hope, enough between the covers to keep you dipping into it all through the coming lazy, hazy days. From Jazz Vans racing round "The Island" delivering pop-up brass breakouts at the roadside, to Bach flute ambushes strolling "The Grove, " to dozens of reasons to stay in the city. May yours be a summer where you find undiscovered musical treasures, and, better still, when, unexpectedly, the music finds you.
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Festival de Lanaudière<br />
The 39th season of the Festival de Lanaudière is a tribute to<br />
its founder, Father Fernand Lindsay who was especially fond of<br />
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky, so the festival has<br />
taken special care to invite music lovers to discover the many works<br />
of those composers to be featured this summer. About an hour’s drive<br />
northeast of Montreal, the festival is well-suited for a holiday excursion.<br />
Since many of the festival’s artists don’t normally make the trip<br />
to Toronto, it’s all the more reason to travel to Joliette, Quebec.<br />
JUNO Award-winner, pianist Alain Lefèvre opens the festival<br />
with Tchaikovsky’s uber-romantic Piano Concerto No.1 on July 9.<br />
The Jupiter String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the University<br />
of Illinois and a tightly knit family unit (the cellist is married to the<br />
second violinist who is the sister of the violist), are undertaking a<br />
cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets at the festival, beginning<br />
this summer with concerts July 11 (Nos.6, 11, 15), 12 (Nos.4, 5, 13)<br />
and 14 (3, 16, 8). Angèle Dubeau leads her all-female string ensemble,<br />
La Pietà, in “The Mark of Minimalism,” a July 10 concert comprised of<br />
music by Glass, Einaudi, Mozetich, Nyman, Goulet and Pärt.<br />
The eminent English violinist, Anthony Marwood, is the soloist<br />
in Beethoven’s ageless Violin Concerto Op.61, with Les Violons du<br />
Roy conducted by Bernard Labadie, July 15. “Child Prodigy” Tony<br />
Yike Yang gets a chance to perfect the program he will be playing<br />
in Stratford, August 3, when he performs it in Lanaudière on<br />
July 19. Silver medal winner in the 2015 Tchaikovsky International<br />
Competition, American George Li’s recital includes sonatas by Haydn<br />
and Chopin (No.2), Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli<br />
and two crowdpleasers by Liszt. Armenian-born pianist Nareh<br />
Arghamanyan, the winner of the 2008 Montreal International Musical<br />
Competition, performs an unusual program on July 26 – Bach’s<br />
Goldberg Variations, Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Liszt’s Totentanz<br />
and three of his transcriptions of songs by Schubert and Mozart. The<br />
innovative ensemble, collectif9, plays Golijov, Brahms, Piazzolla and<br />
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