Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for June 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA One of the finest operatic singers of his generation, tenor John Mac Master co-stars in the McGill Chamber Orchestra’s much-anticipated June 6 production of Carmina Burana, a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Mac Master […]
I am starting to realize that when one has been involved with food and food service as long as I have, both in catering, in the restaurant business and more recently eating out in as many restaurants as I do one can become a bit cynical and approach food with a slightly jaded eye. […]
A great ride!
“She would create a movie about outlaw women on the run, busting out of tedious, thwarted humdrum lives – lives like hers – for freedom that let them finally become their true selves. She imagined it all: a movie unlike any other she had ever seen, where women drove the story, maybe even got to […]
It’s not high art. But it’s actually entertaining.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a jumbled mess of a movie that is made with a painters eye and an adolescents brain.
When great artists unite, will it be chaos or triumph? Can talent set aside ego for the greater good of art? Million Dollar Quartet is an exciting, fun, and passionate story based on the 1956 recording session featuring Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. It is a trip to a time […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for May 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA The prolific Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presents many must-see shows at the Maison Symphonique: The OSM’s Grammy-winning music director, Maestro Kent Nagano, will conduct the orchestra in Bernstein: From West Side Story to A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein was one of Nagano’s personal […]
Can religion bring a community together or tear it apart? Is the literal meaning of the word more important than the sense of hope it can foster? The Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon is fantastic and insanely funny! It is a wildly politically incorrect story on misunderstandings, blind faith, and friendships. It is also […]
“…Letterman inspired an entire generation of comedians. He created a blueprint that was followed by almost every late-night show with an adventurous bent, and helped define a sensibility that changed the entire culture.” -Jason Zinoman (from Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night) During my college years there were few options for after primetime comedy/variety/talk […]