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CONTENTS DECEMBER 2011 — JANUARY 2012 8 NOTES » News in brief 10 DISCOVERY CD Antoine Bareil & Sébastien Lépine 12 Alexandre Da Costa 13 BEHIND THE SCENES J.P. Desrosiers, Personnalité Arts-Affaires 14 DIY » Muhly, Mazzoli & Crossover Composition 16 Maryvonne Kendergi: in memoriam 17 Steve Reich at 75 18 Yannick Nézet-Séguin A Musical Journey 20 Opera: Il Trovatore 21 CALENDAR COVER » Lan Tung 23 REGIONAL CALENDAR 24 CONCERT PREVIEWS 28 PULLOUT CALENDAR 31 MUSICAL DIVERSIONS 36 Attila Glatz and Salute to Vienna 37 Concerts Against Cancer 38 JAZZ SECTION » Frank Lozano 42 REVIEWS » CDs, DVDs, Books 46 VARIATIONS ON A THEME Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique 48 CIOC Winner Christopher Lane 49 Raymond Cloutier » Heading the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal 50 Arts this Winter Theatre, dance, visual arts 4 Ana SOKOLOVIĆ The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec is putting the spotlight on composer Ana Sokolovi this year for the third season of their Série Hommage, previously devoted to Claude Vivier and Gilles Tremblay. PHOTO Alain Lefort ILLUSTRATION Adam Norris FOUNDING EDITORS Wah Keung Chan, Philip Anson La Scena Musicale VOL. 17.4 DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 PUBLISHER La Scène Musicale EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Wah Keung Chan BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wah Keung Chan (pres.), Iwan Edwards, Holly Higgins-Jonas, Sandro Scola, CN MANAGING EDITORS Laura Bates, Crystal Chan CONTENT EDITOR Caroline Rodgers JAZZ EDITOR Marc Chénard PROOFREADERS Miriam Clouthier, Annie Prothin, Jef Wyns ART DIRECTOR Adam Norris GRAPHICS Rebecca Anne Clark, Bruno Dubois COVER PHOTO Alain Lefort OFFICE MANAGER Julie Berardino SUBSCRIPTIONS & DISTRIBUTION COORDINATOR Conor O’Neil TRANSLATION INTERN Lynn Travers REGIONAL CALENDAR Eric Legault, Etienne Michel WEBSITE Normand Vandray, Michael Vincent, Yong Yan Wu BOOKKEEPERS Kamal Ait Mouhoub, Mourad Ben Achour ADVERTISING Smail Berraoui, Marc Chénard, Amina Douiri, Aly Drissi 514-948-0509 / ads.scena.org CONTRIBUTORS Lorena Jiménez Alonso, René François Auclair, Normand Babin, Louise Bail, Renée Banville, Francine Bélanger, Julie Beaulieu, Milan Bernard, René Bricault, Hélène Boucher, Frédéric Cardin, Éric Champagne, Mark Chodan, Marie-Astrid Colin, James Gartler, Tao Fei, Marie Labrecque, Annie Landreville, Alexandre Lazaridès, Philippe Michaud, Roxana Pasca, Hannah Rahimi, Lucie Renaud, Paul E. Robinson, Joseph K. So, Jacqueline Vanasse TRANSLATORS Rebecca Anne Clark, Miriam Cloutier, Natalie Gagnon, Luke Kumar, Dayna Lamothe, Ariadne Lih, Rona Nadler, Hélène Panneton, Karine Poznanski, Lynn Travers VOLUNTEERS Wah Wing Chan, Marie-Astrid Colin, Lilian I. Liganor, Michel Zambrano, Christine Lee ADDRESSES 5409, rue Waverly, Montréal (Québec) Canada H2T 2X8 Tel.: (514) 948-2520 Fax: (514) 274-9456 info@lascena.org www.scena.org Production: graf@lascena.org Ver: 2011-11-29 © La Scène Musicale SUBSCRIPTIONS Surface mail subscriptions (Canada) cost $42 / yr (taxes included) to cover postage and handling costs. Please mail, fax or email your name, address, telephone no., fax no., and email address. Donations are always welcome and are tax-deductible. (no 14199 6579 RR0001). LA SCENA MUSICALE, published 10 times per year, is dedicated to the promotion of classical and jazz music. Each edition contains articles and reviews as well as calendars. LSM is published by La Scène Musicale, a non-profit organization. La Scena Musicale is the Italian translation of The Music Scene. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro duced without the written permission of LSM. ISSN 1927-3878 Print English version (La Scena Musicale) ISSN 1927-3886 Online English version Canada Post Publication Mail Sales Agreement No.40025257 2 DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012
editorial 38 10 14 20 by the NUMBERS 5 The number of CDs released in the last few months featuring the playing of jazz saxophonist Frank Lozano. Lozano is our jazz cover story. Lozano is our jazz cover story. Read it on page 38. 50 There are over 50 variations of related folk instruments to the erhu from China. Read our profile of Lan Tung, one of Canada’s premier erhu players, on page 21. 120 30.5 The number of performances that violinist Antoine Bareil and cellist Sébastien Lépine performed in their famous 2008 Soaring Strings tour in Quebec-and Italy. Bareil and Lépine are this month’s Discovery CD artists. Find out more about them on page 10. The average age of Missy Mazzoli and Nico Muhly. These two composers are rising stars identified with the ‘indie classical’ movement, which features the genre-crossing music of young musicians. Read more about Mazzoli, Muhly, and indie classical music on page 14. 29 Learn about Verdi’s Il Trovatore on page 20. The number of operas composed by Verdi, the most frequently performed opera composer today. in mid-November, the El Sistema social arts education movement touched down in Quebec with an all-day conference at McGill University organized by the Quebec Music Educators Association. It was the culmination of three years of behind-thescenes work by Venezuelan-Canadian Avelino Rubilar, founder of El Sistema Quebec. Dr. Jonathan Govias (who penned a 10-part series on the subject for LSM last year) showed how the three-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week Venezuelan after-school program raised musical culture, improved group practicing, and most importantly kept kids off the street. In 37 years, it has grown from one group to 300,000 kids, and has branches around the world. University of Western Ontario’s Dr. Ruth Wright explored how the socialist program could be successfully adapted in Canada, voicing some words of caution. It was motivating to see how music and the arts can make a fundamental change in a society. What struck me was the principle: shared experiences change lives. That very idea is in fact the motivation behind our Bring a Teen program, which helps youth discover culture. Why teens? First, the teenage years (12 to 18) are the most impressionable. Secondly, when we started the program, I found it strange that although there were lots of elementary school programs exposing children to the arts, arts groups were struggling to attract young adults. Teens were left out. Ten years later, that is still true. Our big idea is to expose teens to music and culture, and to turn adults, who constitute 95% of concert-going audiences, into mentors by sharing their passion. Parents, grandparents, siblings and teachers all have a role to play. In re-launching Bring a Teen at its 10 th anniversary, we plan a push-pull approach. Thanks to the FAMEQ (Fédération des associations de musiciens éducateurs du Québec) and posters printed by Payette & Simms, the program will be introduced to 72,000 Quebec music students through their music teachers. Our media partners include The Senior Times, The Montrealer, Radio Ville-Marie and Mountain Lake PBS. Furthermore, we will tap into the power of social media through our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ado-teen In La Scena Musicale, each BAT concert will be highlighted in a regular ad, plus spotlighted with the BAT logo in the regional calendar. All concerts are also listed in the BAT webpage http://teen-ado.scena.org, where we also plan to include links to program notes. Beginning in February, LSM will introduce a new parents’ column with advice on how to prepare teens for concerts. So far, over 30 arts groups have signed on to offer over a thousand free tickets. To participate, call the BAT phone number for each event. An adult purchases the first ticket to get the second ticket free for the teen. Join the movement: share your passion, like the Facebook page, and blog your experience. Bring a Teen! WAH KEUNG CHAN, Founding Editor NEXT ISSUE » FEBRUARY 2012 THEME: STRING MANIA ADVERTISING DEADLINE: 2012-1-23 ON THE COVER: Antoine Tamestit PLUS: The Hagen Quartet, Ray Chen, Nikolaj Znaider, Mélisande McNabney DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012 3
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CONTENTS<br />
DECEMBER 2011 — JANUARY 2012<br />
8 NOTES » News in brief<br />
10 DISCOVERY CD<br />
Antoine Bareil & Sébastien Lépine<br />
12 Alexandre Da Costa<br />
13 BEHIND THE SCENES<br />
J.P. Desrosiers, Personnalité Arts-Affaires<br />
14 DIY » Muhly, Mazzoli & Crossover Composition<br />
16 Maryvonne Kendergi: in memoriam<br />
17 Steve Reich at 75<br />
18 Yannick Nézet-Séguin<br />
A Musical Journey<br />
20 Opera: Il Trovatore<br />
21 CALENDAR COVER » <strong>La</strong>n Tung<br />
23 REGIONAL CALENDAR<br />
24 CONCERT PREVIEWS<br />
28 PULLOUT CALENDAR<br />
31 MUSICAL DIVERSIONS<br />
36 Attila Glatz and Salute to Vienna<br />
37 Concerts Against Cancer<br />
38 JAZZ SECTION » Frank Lozano<br />
42 REVIEWS » CDs, DVDs, Books<br />
46 VARIATIONS ON A THEME<br />
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique<br />
48 CIOC Winner Christopher <strong>La</strong>ne<br />
49 Raymond Cloutier » Heading the<br />
Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal<br />
50 Arts this Winter<br />
Theatre, dance, visual arts<br />
4<br />
Ana<br />
SOKOLOVIĆ<br />
The Société de musique contemporaine<br />
du Québec is putting the spotlight<br />
on composer Ana Sokolovi this<br />
year for the third season of their<br />
Série Hommage, previously devoted<br />
to Claude Vivier and Gilles Tremblay.<br />
PHOTO Alain Lefort ILLUSTRATION Adam Norris<br />
FOUNDING EDITORS<br />
Wah Keung Chan, Philip Anson<br />
<strong>La</strong> <strong>Scena</strong> <strong>Musicale</strong> VOL. 17.4<br />
DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
<strong>La</strong> Scène <strong>Musicale</strong><br />
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF<br />
Wah Keung Chan<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Wah Keung Chan (pres.), Iwan<br />
Edwards, Holly Higgins-Jonas,<br />
Sandro Scola, CN<br />
MANAGING EDITORS<br />
<strong>La</strong>ura Bates, Crystal Chan<br />
CONTENT EDITOR<br />
Caroline Rodgers<br />
JAZZ EDITOR<br />
Marc Chénard<br />
PROOFREADERS<br />
Miriam Clouthier, Annie<br />
Prothin, Jef Wyns<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Adam Norris<br />
GRAPHICS<br />
Rebecca Anne Clark, Bruno Dubois<br />
COVER PHOTO<br />
Alain Lefort<br />
OFFICE MANAGER<br />
Julie Berardino<br />
SUBSCRIPTIONS & DISTRIBUTION<br />
COORDINATOR<br />
Conor O’Neil<br />
TRANSLATION INTERN<br />
Lynn Travers<br />
REGIONAL CALENDAR<br />
Eric Legault, Etienne Michel<br />
WEBSITE<br />
Normand Vandray, Michael Vincent,<br />
Yong Yan Wu<br />
BOOKKEEPERS<br />
Kamal Ait Mouhoub,<br />
Mourad Ben Achour<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
Smail Berraoui, Marc Chénard,<br />
Amina Douiri, Aly Drissi<br />
514-948-0509 / ads.scena.org<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
Lorena Jiménez Alonso, René François<br />
Auclair, Normand Babin, Louise<br />
Bail, Renée Banville, Francine Bélanger,<br />
Julie Beaulieu, Milan Bernard,<br />
René Bricault, Hélène Boucher, Frédéric<br />
Cardin, Éric Champagne, Mark<br />
Chodan, Marie-Astrid Colin, James<br />
Gartler, Tao Fei, Marie <strong>La</strong>brecque,<br />
Annie <strong>La</strong>ndreville, Alexandre <strong>La</strong>zaridès,<br />
Philippe Michaud, Roxana<br />
Pasca, Hannah Rahimi, Lucie Renaud,<br />
Paul E. Robinson, Joseph K. So,<br />
Jacqueline Vanasse<br />
TRANSLATORS<br />
Rebecca Anne Clark, Miriam Cloutier,<br />
Natalie Gagnon, Luke Kumar,<br />
Dayna <strong>La</strong>mothe, Ariadne Lih, Rona<br />
Nadler, Hélène Panneton, Karine<br />
Poznanski, Lynn Travers<br />
VOLUNTEERS<br />
Wah Wing Chan, Marie-Astrid Colin,<br />
Lilian I. Liganor, Michel Zambrano,<br />
Christine Lee<br />
ADDRESSES<br />
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Tel.: (514) 948-2520<br />
Fax: (514) 274-9456<br />
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Ver: 2011-11-29<br />
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication<br />
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