2011–2012
Season 13
VivaVoce’s 2011-2012 Season: “New Friends, New Music”
Montreal’s most entertaining chamber choir proudly announces its 13th season: four unusual and diverse concerts including exciting collaborations with Sixtrum and BradyWorks and Montreal’s newest early wind ensemble (yet to be named!).
“Most of our seasons have been primarily a capella,” says the group’s artistic director Peter Schubert. “I’m really looking forward to making music with these terrific groups – early winds, percussion, electric guitar, and orchestra will add exciting colors and personalities.”
Three of the concerts are on the ensemble’s subscription series; the fourth—an interactive concert—is part of a conference hosted by the Schulich School of Music, and will be open to the public free of charge.
Dinner with the Dukes of Bavaria
October 1, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Redpath Hall
McGill University
3461 McTavish Street, Montreal
At the Munich court the dukes heard motets and madrigals by Lassus, Striggio, de Monte, and Andrea Gabrieli while at table. VivaVoce will recreate this entertainment with cornets, pommers and sackbuts.
Birthday Cage Happy John!
May 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Redpath Hall, McGill University
3461 McTavish Street, Montreal
Celebrated percussion ensemble Sixtrum joins forces with VivaVoce to celebrate the 100th birthday of iconoclastic American composer John Cage. The program features premieres by Chris Paul Harman, Stacey Brown and Brian Cherney, as well as works by Cage and Vivier.
The Lost Generation
FREE CONCERT and LECTURES
May 19, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Redpath Hall, McGill University
3461 McTavish Street, Montreal
Gombert, Jachet, Willaert, de Manchicourt and Michael of Verona were the first composers to use musical gestures to depict dramatic scenes from the Gospels, yet their work remains largely unknown, eclipsed by the generations before and after. This concert, part of a musicological conference, will feature interventions by scholars of international renown, and the public will be welcome to attend lectures on the repertoire earlier in the day.
Atacama
June 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
4750 Henri-Julien Avenue, Montreal
A programme of music based on Spanish poetry. Tim Brady’s expansive new work Atacama: Symphony #3 is based on a series of poems by Chilean-Canadian poet Elias Letelier Ruz; Pierre Labbé’s jazzy new piece Fenêtres, on texts by Eduardo Galeano; and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s sensuous Romancero Gitano, on poems by García Lorca. A collaboration with the Bradyworks ensemble.
Individual tickets:
Regular $30 / Seniors $25 / Students $10
Tickets for May 4:
Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, 514-398-4547 (between noon and 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday) or ADMISSION: 1.855.361.4595; www.admission.com
Tickets for June 12:
ADMISSION: 1.855.361.4595 or www.admission.com or at the box office of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 4750 avenue Henri-Julien, Montreal (in person only, Tuesday to Friday between 1:30 and 5:30 pm. and one hour before the concert.
Tickets are not required for the free concert on May 19.
Information: vivavoce AT videotron DOT ca • 514.489.3739