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Music Lovers Daily Arts Alert ... by Cathleen Bond Wednesday, Jan. 31 My favourite Canadian online music mag is trying something new for lovers and music lovers.
La Scena has been doing a bang-up job the past few months and is creating quite an archive of Canadian music. It's also presenting what it calls the web's first classical music webcast scheduler. "The webcasts are categorized as Live schedule, on demand (available for a limited time), archive (available permanently on demand) and radio. We are still testing to iron out the bugs." There are also tons of free musical downloads, both audio and video, with a new feature every week, and contests to win free CDs.
Try out the whole shebang at the mag's bilingual site:
Music in Montreal: The Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal is offering up a couple of tasty classical treats today. Morning music lovers should get on down to the Place des Arts at 10:30 a.m. to hear Naida Cole's promising program. She'll be playing Vaughan Williams, The Wasps, La Marche des ustensiles de cuisine et ouverture Bartok, Scherzo pour piano et orchestre Poulenc, Sept pièces brèves Borodine Le Prince Igor, Danses polovtsiennes. Charles Dutoit conducts. I left the descriptive passages in French just because doesn't Marche des ustensiles de cuisine sound like something out of Walt Disney's Fantasia? Later ... Tonight at 8 p.m. the OSM is featuring the return of pianist Louis Lortie. Lortie will play an incredible, all Rachmaninov program. The composer's Symphony in D minor (The Youth Symphony) will be performed; as well as the heartbreakingly lovely Piano Concerto No2, Intermezzo from Aleko and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances. Charles Dutoit returns to conduct the evening performance.
Salle Wilfrid Pelletier - Place des Arts (514) 842-9951
The current Canadian production is directed by Glynis Leyshon and stars Seana McKenna. This is a co-production with Canadian Stage.
until Feb. 3 (604) 873-3311
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In the ramping-up period before Valentine's Day, La Scena is conducting an online poll, and is asking visitors to choose from 87
works available on the website. All you have to do is log on, listen, and
choose your favourite love songs -- you can pick up to 10 choices. The
list is broken into three categories: lieder, operatic arias and
instrumental, and results will be posted. Also in the works is a musical
e-card, so you can send a Valentine when the time comes.
And this would be a good time to pick up the magazine version, as well. The Feb. 2001 print run has been doubled to 90,000 copies and, in a partnership with The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), will contain a classical music calendar (Feb. 1 to March 7, 2001) for every region in Canada. There's also a cover story on Yegor Dyachkov: A Passion for Playing, and if you can't find the mag on the newsstands, a free PDF download is available online. What service, from Canada's top music lovers.
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