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A Sadistic Season Opener

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Opéra de Montréal, Place des Arts

by Lev Bratishenko
07.10.2010

My double-tall opera companion mortified me by texting during Opéra de Montréal’s season opener Rigoletto. But then I looked at what she had written and it was okay. She had ordered rye delivery.

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Inspired By Post-Suburban Boredom

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Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

by Emily Dolmans
23.09.2010

Do you remember those long hours of your youth, waiting for something – anything – to happen? Those years of boredom, where the world outside felt so foreign and unreal? So do Arcade Fire – and they’re inviting you to go back.

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Marketing Operatic Fruits

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L'Opéra de Montréal, Saturday, Marché Jean-Talon

by Lev Bratishenko
16.09.2010

The young lady (Emma Parkinson) handed me my change and began to sing the Habanera from Carmen, awfully well for a produce retailer. Then a fellow in a cape (Etienne Dupuis) across the aisle gave an unnervingly professional rendition of “Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre”, completing the lyrical geometry begun by a La [...]

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Life, Death & Breaking The Cycle

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Frazey Obadiah Ford, Obadiah

by Nereida Fernandes
23.07.2010

Frazey Obadiah Ford, the vocal centerpiece of acclaimed folk band The Be Good Tanyas, is a top-notch singer-instrumentalist and an accomplished music author. So it’s not surprising that her debut solo record Obadiah has garnered heaps of attention. Critics have focused much of their praise on the rich warmth infused into Obadiah, commenting on how [...]

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Brittany Remembers To Breathe

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Brittany Kwasnik, Le Cagibi

by Julia Vyse
22.07.2010

Run of the mill pop music is sometimes fun, but most of the time the eye-rolling, over-produced sounds are only interesting because the lyrics make so little sense. But this year, unlike some of the music coming out of the pop world for the last long while, Brittany Kwasnik’s refreshingly mature voice emerged straight from [...]

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Orchestrated Back Catalogue Lacks Sting

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Sting, Symphonicities CD review

by Dru Jeffries
17.07.2010

Many years ago, The Onion ran a fake editorial by “Sting” with the title “You Know, I Used To Be Kind Of Cool Once.” Even as a longtime Sting apologist, I have a hard time presenting a convincing counter-argument to the claim that Sting is no longer relevant, despite the fact he may be at [...]

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Soundtracking Metropolis Live

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Light Made Louder, L'Inspecteur Epingle

by Julia Vyse
13.07.2010

Montreal jazz/indie project Light Made Louder comes to the Plateau with projectors, films and a lot of music. The band is led by bassist Paul Van Dyk and features a quintet of talented musicians doing something different with their sound. The music is inspired by short films that are projected live during shows. The last [...]

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Songs Of Addictive Love

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Jason Bajada, Metropolis

by Nereida Fernandes
07.07.2010

Montreal troubadour Jason Bajada, who performed Tuesday at Metropolis accompanied by the John Butler Trio, has distinguished himself by his down-to-earth, heart-on-his sleeve approach to song making. His personal narratives transport you to the time and place of their source, wrangling empathy out of you with sleights of hand so deceptively simple you never see [...]

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From Innocence To Experience

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Rufus Wainwright, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu

by Kathleen Winter
26.06.2010

With this new album, Rufus Wainwright creates a drama in which the artist is the bridegroom of mortality.  Long a master of stylized passion, Wainwright here again walks the tightrope between laying bare the self, and creating a performance all about high theatre. In this album, though, lies a new layer of life experience, informed [...]

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Rufus Wainwright in Montreal

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19.06.2010

It appears fans of Rufus Wainwright can look forward to intimacy imbued with drama on Monday June 21st, as the singer-songwriter stops in his hometown to play from his new release, All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu, 8 p. m. at Theatre St.-Denis.

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Carefree and Responsible

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Ben Henriques, Le Diable à Quatre

by Julia Vyse
04.06.2010

Anyone interested in serious jazz has to catch the Ben Henriques quartet this Saturday at Le Diable à Quatre, one of many excellent local jazz shows put on by Jazz in the Point. Ben is a regular at Jazz in the Point and his playing and compositions are featured on their debut album. Both that [...]

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Celebrating Django

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Rosenberg Trio, Gesù

by Julia Vyse
02.06.2010

It’s been over 20 years since the Rosenberg Trio came to Montreal and, over that time, the tone, style and elegance of their Manouche sounds have developed in complexity and popularity. Last night, Nonnie, Nous’che and Stochelo Rosenberg returned to Montreal to play Gesù, in an ongoing tribute to Django Reinhardt, creator of Manouche (or [...]

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I’m A Queen! Queen! Queen!

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Cendrillon, Opera de Montréal

by Lev Bratishenko
01.06.2010

I asked for it, I understand. I spent two seasons nipping at Opera de Montreal for its turgid sets and now it seems somebody must have been listening. Somebody powerful, with deep pockets and an insatiable hunger for the colour pink.

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Dear Prometheus:

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Beethoven, MSO

by Katia Grubisic
25.05.2010

What have you done for us lately? I’ve been thinking about you since I was at your hearing last week, at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Perhaps you were watching from on high? Or from on not-so-high, I guess. Still stapled to that rock, eh?

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A Music Tri-Anglophone

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Honey Martin’s, Grumpy’s, Barfly

by Adam Kelly
21.05.2010

I’m sitting in Honey Martin’s on a Monday night. It’s just after 1 a.m. and only now has the place begun to fill up. A rock trio is hammering out solid covers of Velvet Underground and Jimi Hendrix, among others. Many musicians from the local music scene are here tonight, including Graham Playford who just [...]

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