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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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FESTIVAL CITY

The Beauty Of Difference

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Sonny Rollins, Chet Doxas, Montreal Jazz Fest

by Julia Vyse
29.06.2010

It’s almost impossible to accurately critique a sax player – even a local legend like Chet Doxas – when you’ve seen Sonny Rollins perform the night before. The style is different, the tone is different and the overall vibe is completely new. There’s no real way to compare either of them except to say they [...]

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MUSIC

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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FESTIVAL CITY

Party City Kicks Into High Gear

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, June 25-July 5

by Julia Vyse
25.06.2010

It is well known that Montreal sees itself – and rightly so – as a much more convivial, laid-back, party city than other major centres in Canada. And it is in that spirit that today we launched the 31st annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal.

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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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DANIEL WEINSTOCK

Why Not to Like WAT

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26.05.2010

One of the most worrying popular music trends in recent years has been what I will heretofore call the Whole Album Tour (or WAT, for short). A WAT occurs when a band or artist, usually well past their prime, announces in advance of a tour that rather than doing what rock musicians have done in [...]

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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

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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MUSIC

A Sound To See

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Light Made Louder, L’Escalier

by Julia Vyse
19.05.2010

What first comes to mind when you think of a multi-media show? The crap-shoot of live performances, these productions range from the sublime to the ridiculous: The Wall, lame presentations and everything in-between. If that’s your experience with multi-media, then you’re in for a treat tonight, as local musicians take you on a journey into [...]

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