{"id":133798,"date":"2025-03-03T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/gig_review\/ensemble-obiora-concert-sororite-montreal-janna-sailor-anuja-panditrao-suzanne-taffot-salle-pierre-mercure\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:00:14","slug":"ensemble-obiora-concert-sororite-montreal-janna-sailor-anuja-panditrao-suzanne-taffot-salle-pierre-mercure","status":"publish","type":"gig_review","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/gig_review\/ensemble-obiora-concert-sororite-montreal-janna-sailor-anuja-panditrao-suzanne-taffot-salle-pierre-mercure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensemble Obiora: Sisterhood in music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An all-female, feminist concert and an example of cultural diversity in contemporary music, Ensemble Obiora&#8217;s <em>Sororit\u00e9 <\/em>(Sisterhood) drew a large audience to Salle Pierre-Mercure yesterday afternoon. Led by Janna Sailor, the programme featured the music of Reena Isma\u00efl, one of the most exciting voices in contemporary music, for a too rare time in Montreal. After a rather academic opening composition (Rachel McFarlane&#8217;s<em> When Enchantment Comes<\/em>, inspired by Oscar Peterson but rather unrepresentative of the pianist\u2019s music), it was the Indo-Western fusion universe of Isma\u00efl, a composer of Indian origin living in the United States, that provided the most colourful moment of the afternoon. <em>Meri Sakhi ki Avaaz (My Sister&#8217;s Voice)<\/em>, for chamber orchestra, soprano and Hindustani singer (the classical vocal style of North India), offered a spellbinding encounter between two very different vocal styles, set against a romantico-impressionist orchestral backdrop (Debussian to be precise, but with evident indian colourings) with no contemporary harmonic asperities, but expertly detailed. The work opens with a tape extract of the famous flower duet from L\u00e9o Delibes&#8217;s opera <em>Lakm\u00e9 <\/em>(set in India), followed by a more \u2018authentic\u2019 version of this melody, sung by soloist Anuja Panditrao (excellent).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyric soprano Suzanne Taffot joins in later and the two women talk about friendship and sisterhood in an echo of the more than famous opera aria (so often used in advertisements). The meeting of the two types of singing is very well balanced and skilfully constructed by Isma\u00efl. The finale even demands a great deal of virtuosity from Taffot, who imitates the virtuosic flights typical of Hindustani singing with great precision. Well done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reena Esmail: Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister&#039;s Voice)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZ13YnX-t-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concert&#8217;s finale was Amy Beach&#8217;s <em>Gaelic Symphony,<\/em> a work long neglected but almost on the way to becoming a staple of the repertoire. Sailor&#8217;s reading called for great precision, generally offered by Obiora, apart from occasional rhythmic inaccuracies. Above all, the orchestra offered a beautiful, full ensemble sound, transcending its character as a \u2018large chamber orchestra\u2019 rather than a true symphony orchestra.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Obiora ensemble is proving to be an important addition to the musical landscape of Montreal and Quebec, because if the large, diverse, family-friendly and above all attentive audience is anything to go by, it has succeeded in winning the loyalty of a new audience to whom it introduces a little-known and inspiring repertoire. An EDI success that must be celebrated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all-female, feminist concert and an example of cultural diversity in contemporary music, Ensemble Obiora&#8217;s Sororit\u00e9 (Sisterhood) drew a large audience to Salle Pierre-Mercure yesterday afternoon. 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