Classical music: the ambition to get better grades

André Lavoie Special collaboration May 20, 2023 Galileo Daniel Constantineau founded the Orchester symphonique de la Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent in 2020, which has since become Galileo . This text is part of the Culture Montérégie special section There is no shortage of music lovers on the Rive- South of Montreal. While many of them never hesitate to cross bridges to applaud the Orchester symphonique de Montréal or the Orchester Métropolitain, many others encourage local talent as well as ensembles that are firmly

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Grey's Anatomy: Meredith and Nick featured in season 19 trailer

But not for good reasons unfortunately. And this is what awaits us in the first episodes of season 19 of Grey's Anatomy! The American channel ABC unveiled the trailer for this new chapter at the Gray Sloan Memorial. And it is clear that it smells scorched for Meredith and Nick. “It's been six months now…” launches the handsome doctor played by Scott Speedman, who s visibly impatient, while Mer answers her laconically: “Yes, but it was six difficult months!” She

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Guy Thouin in the open air

Photo: Adil Boukind Le Devoir Musician Guy Thouin in his studio in Montreal The Festival international de musique contemporaine de Victoriaville (FIMAV) will present on Saturday evening the world premiere of the performance of the young Ensemble Infini, founded in full pandemic. A wall of saxophones, electric guitars, harp too — it's shaping up to be a free jazz storm in the Carré 150 cultural center. And on drums, the venerable Guy Thouin, spiritual father of free jazz in Quebec,

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“Killers of The Flower Moon”, the breath of the great film

Loic Venance Agence France-Presse The team of the film “Killers of The Flower Moon” at the 76th Cannes Film Festival When Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio loom on the Croisette as a trio of aces, it inevitably creates the event. Onlookers were screaming on Saturday and moviegoers rushed to the Palace on Killers of the Flower Moon, jostling through queues under the rush of umbrellas. For the first time, the filmmaker of Gangs of New York brought

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Critical lack of journalists in the region

Jacques Nadeau Le Devoir A conference on media deserts took place today during the Carleton-sur-Mer International Journalism Festival. It has never been so difficult to recruit and retain journalists in the regions, note several French-language media across the country, including Radio-Canada. But without reporters to keep them informed of the issues that affect their daily lives, many local communities are transformed into a media desert and lose their interest and their confidence in the press. “Last year, for more than

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Steven Soderbergh Reunites Claire Danes and Zazie Beetz in Full Circle: Trailer

A portrait of New York where several destinies intersect around a story of kidnapping. While Steven Soderbergh has proven over the past 20 years to be one of the most prolific American filmmakers of our time, yet he never left television aside. He is notably behind The Knick for the Cinemax channel, with Clive Owen in the skin of a surgeon with very particular methods, but he is also the creator of Mosaic, a mini-series released in 2018 on HBO,

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“Composers”: a look at French female composers

Photo: Mel Bonis Association A music session at Mel Bonis's around 1910 The Palazzetto Bru Zane publishes an eight-CD set entitled Compositrices. The self-explanatory English subtitle speaks of a “new light” shone on female romantic composers. This is all the more true as the publication allows us to get to know unknown female composers. With this publication, the Palazzetto Bru Zane is espousing the current trend, that of fairness and diversity, but no one can claim that the French Romantic

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Fuudge: Scream Therapy

< p> Photo: Valerian Mazataud Le Devoir David Bujold, singer of the group Fuudge, who will release a new album on May 19: “…Let a nightmare become so true” You have to give that to the group Fuudge : the energy of his songs does not follow a path as slender as a guitar string – here electric. Since its formation in 2016, the rock project of lyricist and multi-instrumentalist David Bujold has oscillated between different textures, more or less

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Restoring the memory of Pierre Granche

Photo: Valérian Mazataud Le Devoir “System”, 1984, Namur station. A suspended set, like the one that occupied the Complexe Desjardins before being dismantled for no reason in 1991. The 28 aluminum polyhedrons still accompany the lighting of the mezzanine here. His truncated pyramids, his deformations of the cube (called structural topology) and his works integrated into their environment have left the memory of Pierre Granche (1948-1997) as an erudite and sensitive artist. Do we still have to remember it. As

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Too much streaming, too many series? The American public admits to being “overwhelmed”

A recent survey noted the proliferation of content on platforms. 817,000 unique programs were thus available last February in the USA… We know that more than 550 American series were broadcast across the Atlantic last year. A huge figure, which is growing at the same time as streaming platforms are multiplying, always in search of content, to attract new subscribers. The trend does not seem destined to reverse and the viewer begins to be overwhelmed. A feeling shared spontaneously by

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