Classical / Contemporary / Jazz

Instruments of Happiness

by Michel Rondeau

“Slow, quiet music in search of electric happiness.” That’s a remarkable program! The wording’s less surprising when you consider that it’s about Montrealer Tim Brady’s Instruments of Happiness electric guitar quartet. The wonderful acoustics and rich natural reverberation of the Gesù church will be put to good use during this resolutely meditative concert. Presented back to back, four pieces for digitally treated electric guitars, created by Canadian composers Louise Campbell, Rose Bolton, Andrew Noseworthy and Andrew Staniland. To add a little movement to the show – and to our happiness – dancers Roger Sinha and Marie-Ève Lafontaine, from Sinha Danse, will also be on the stage.

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Acid-Techno / Electronic / Techno / trance

HUMIDEX at Dômesicle #6

by Alain Brunet

Lined up for the sixth Dômesicle party, the pseudonymous Softcoresoft, Absurde, Simon Chioni, Félix Félix Gourd Gourd, Render.Tex make up the Humidex collective. Music director at Never Apart, Montrealer Leticia Trandafir is also a DJ, producer and composer under the Softcoresoft pseudonym. Her art links acid techno, hypnotic techno, trance and breakbeat. Her first EP was released in October 2019 on Lobster Theremin Black Label. Outside the city, she’s performed in Paris, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Detroit, Norway, Düsseldorf, etc. Softcoresoft shares the stage with the timelessly technoid Absurde, and also with Simon Chioni, who leaps between the 1990s and 2000s. In addition, Absurde changes hats and becomes Félix Félix Gourd Gourd, whose approach involves light installation, 3D animation, sculpture and video scenography. And then there are the audiovisual experiments c/o Render.Tex, another alias linked to video-game consoles.

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Garage Punk / Garage Rock / Grunge / Rock

Black Lips • Warish • Hood Rats

by Patrick Baillargeon

Atlanta’s enfants terribles have never made a secret of their penchant for country music, and on their new album Sing in a World that’s Falling Apart, released at the end of January, the Black Lips bring the southern twang with a vengeance, a bit like the Sadies, without strictly adhering to the genre. If the shadows of the Byrds, the Stones or Gram Parsons hover over several of the twelve tracks that make up this ninth album, the sense of urgency and the lo-fi garage rock that characterizes the majority of the Lips’ records remains. The Californian grungy trio Warish and the Montreal trash-punk combo Hood Rats will knock you out as curtain-raisers.

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Amazigh / Maghrebi / Synthwave

Flèche Love

by Alain Brunet

Flèche Love is of Amazigh (Berber) origin, lives in Switzerland and presents herself as a citizen of the world, striving to transcend her cultural heritage through superb, multilingual auteur pop. She’s eloquent, imposing on stage, haughty despite her delicate physique. Amina Cadelli’s (real name) powerful voice and excellent delivery are propelled by a globalized strain of synthwave, adorned with touches with hip hop, Berber, Mediterranean, Iberian and more. Without a doubt, Flèche Love is a unique figure with multiple identities, and whose story is just beginning.

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Classical / Contemporary / Modern Classical

McGill Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Pastorale

by Alain Brunet

Symphony No. 6 in F major, known as the Pastoral, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1805 and 1808. Evoking nostalgia for the rustic life at a time of dramatic shift to urbanization, Beethoven imagined pastoral settings where people were in harmony with their natural environment. Beethoven’s Pastoral coincided with the decline of instrumental works, the essential purpose of which was to evoke the sounds of nature. However, this work also depicted the psychological state of humans in a context of pre-industrial change. An essential part of learning to play orchestral music, the Pastorale is conducted here by Maestro Alexis Hauser, at the helm of the McGill Symphony Orchestra, composed of course of students. The Orchestra will also perform the Cello Concerto in E minor by Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian, with soloist Braden McConnell, winner of the 2018-2019 McGill Concertos Competition. Also on the program is a premiering  work by Kit Soden, winner of the 2017-2018 Andrew Svoboda Composition Prize.

PROGR
McGill Symphony Orchestra
Alexis Hauser: artistic director and conductor
Kit Soden: composer
Braden McConnell: cello
Works:
Kit Soden: new work
Aram Khachaturian: Cello concerto in E minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 en F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral Symphony)

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Orchestre symphonique de McGill

by Alain Brunet
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