Concert

Montréal / Nouvelles Musiques 2011 → La République

Torres Maldonado · Cage · Lizée · Andriessen

Past event
Photo of the SMCQ on stage

Grand and eclectic — this concert conducted by Walter Boudreau as part of the Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques festival will take us from the totalitarian world of Louis Andriessen’s De Staat (“The Republic”) — for women’s choir and large ensemble — to the playful world of Nicole Lizée’s This Will Not Be Televised — for seven musicians and DJ.

With up to 40 musicians on stage, including the vocal ensemble Viva Voce and New York’s DJ P-Love, this promises to be a raucous evening!

Credits

  • Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)
  • Walter Boudreau conductor
  • Marie-Claude Arpin VivaVoce
  • Marie-Annick Béliveau VivaVoce
  • Bernard Cayouette VivaVoce
  • François Dubé VivaVoce
  • Alain Duguay VivaVoce
  • Michel Duval VivaVoce
  • Emilie Ellis VivaVoce
  • Christopher Hossfeld VivaVoce
  • Émilie Laforest VivaVoce
  • Alfred Lagrenade VivaVoce
  • Dayna Lamothe VivaVoce
  • Michel Léonard VivaVoce
  • Stephanie Manias VivaVoce
  • Erica McBurney VivaVoce
  • David Menzies VivaVoce
  • Lucie Roy VivaVoce
  • Peter Schubert conductor
  • DJ P-Love

Programme

Javier Torres Maldonado Figuralmusik II1996

flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass

John Cage Four21990

mixed chorus

Nicole Lizée This Will Not Be Televised2005–2007

7 musicians and turntables

Louis Andriessen De Staat1973–1976

4 female voices, 4 oboes, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 2 electric guitars, electric bass, 2 harps, 2 pianos and 4 violas

Practical information

Where is the concert held?

Salle Pierre Mercure (captation), 300, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est, Montréal