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Premiere by Michel Gonneville:
Chansons du Bonhomme de chemin, for soprano, baritone and orchestra
Works by Erik Satie:
Pièces froides (Airs à faire fuir — original version for piano — and Danses de travers — arrangement by Michel Gonneville for piano and orchestra)
Sports et Divertissements (excerpts)
Sonatine bureaucratique (1st movement - Allegro)
Nocturnes #4
PERFORMERS
Magali Simard-Galdès, soprano
Dion Mazerolle, baritone
Louise Bessette, piano
Véronique Lacroix, conductor
ECM+, 12 musicians
COLLABORATORS
Pierre Morency, texts and drawings
Marie-Josée Chartier, staging
Serge Maheu, video design
In collaboration with Arte Musica
A new instrumental and vocal work by Michel Gonneville based on poems by Pierre Morency, inspired by childhood and seasons. Words and music comment by turns on the lightness of youth and the torment of the adult in a show marked by nature. Short, lively piano pieces by Erik Satie are gracefully interlaced with the songs of Chansons du Bonhomme, performed by soloists and orchestra, revealing contrasts and unexpectedly related themes. Accompanying the musical performance will be projections of Satie’s humorous, handwritten texts alternating with Morency’s drawings.
Bourgie Hall, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1339 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal
514 285-2000 #4
