Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Berlin crooner Max Raabe is a dandy throwback to Noel Coward and Cole Porter. His 12-piece orchestra Max Raabe & Palast Orchester found fame performing songs popular during the Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933). Founded in 1986 by Raabe and a group of fellow music students, Palast Orchester first climbed the German charts with their hit […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2018: MUSIC Rod Stewart is my favourite rock star, now more-than-ever after my all-out media campaign to get Rod to perform my all-time favourite song, Sailing, at the Bell Centre back in December 2013. “While I know the song is not on your setlist, you have never sung Sailing in […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2018: MUSIC The live music scene kicks into high gear as Montrealers’ wallets have gotten fatter since the holiday season. Some of the bigger names headed to town this month are British rock legends Uriah Heep (Corona Theatre on February 10), legendary Genesis guitarist Steve […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2018: MUSIC The live music scene kicks off the year a little quietly as Montrealers avoid the deep freeze and try to save a few bucks after the holiday season. Some of the bigger names headed to town are The Killers (Place Bell on January […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for December 2017: ART AND MUSEUMS The new exhibition Passion: Hockey is an entertaining look at the fascinating world of our national winter sport, and also marks the centenary of the National Hockey League and the 125th anniversary of the Stanley Cup. It was in Montreal, in November 1917, […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for November 2017: MUSIC In Montreal this month, everything begins and ends with Leonard Cohen, the global icon who adored his hometown of Montreal. The many local celebrations of Cohen’s life begin with the blockbuster concert Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen on November 6, […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for October 2017: MUSIC Rock icon Roger Waters is back in town. Following his Montreal appearance on the red-carpet at the world premiere of the Opéra de Montréal’s Spring 2017 adaptation of Pink Floyd’s iconic album The Wall, called Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for September 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA In his 12th year at the helm of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Maestro Kent Nagano launches the 2017-2018 season with Mahler’s sweeping Symphony of a Thousand. With more than 350 people on stage – including the OSM Chorus, mezzo-sopranos […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for July and August 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA This summer the OSM will continue Montreal’s 375th anniversary party when it joins forces with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the McGill Symphony Orchestra to present the free outdoor concert Montréal Symphonique on August 19. Presented at the foot of […]
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 […]