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C’est là un ouvrage de référence qui présente la recherche sur la musique, les genres et les sexualités, et plus largement la vie musicale non dominante au Québec depuis le dernier quart du XIXe siècle jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Issu des travaux réalisés en 202-2022 par le pôle universitaire DIG! Différences et inégalités de genre dans la musique au Québec (D!G), un réseau interdisciplinaire et intersectoriel qui réunit les chercheur·ses, publics, artistes et autres professionnel·les de la musique qui s’intéressent à cette thématique, l’ouvrage comprend une revue de la littérature et une bibliographie de plus de 800 ressources scientifiques.
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En 1940, deux femmes élégantes prennent le thé dans le lobby du Ritz-Carlton. Ne vous fiez pas aux apparences: leur rencontre annonce un grand chambardement dans l’univers de la musique classique. La mécène Madge Bowen et la violoniste Ethel Stark fondent à Montréal ce qui deviendra le premier orchestre symphonique canadien composé uniquement de femmes. […]
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"Claude Vivier, compositeur méconnu au Québec, est né à Montréal en 1948. Il meurt assassiné à Paris en 1983. Il a fait ses études avec Gilles Tremblay et Karlheinz Stockhausen. Son œuvre -- qui contient une quarantaine de titres -- est inclassable, s'inspirant de ou bougeant à travers des époques très différentes de l'histoire de la musique, depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu'à la musique dite « spectrale » des années 1980. C'est une œuvre d'une grande originalité, qui a choisi la fuite hors des attentes ou des formes prévues et qui a cherché à délirer les continents, les langues, les peuples."--From publisher's website
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In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play "masculine" instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra (MWSO) became the only all-women orchestra in Canadian history. Formed in 1940, the MWSO became the first orchestra to represent Canada in New York City's Carnegie Hall and one of its members also became the first Canadian black woman to play in a symphony in Carnegie Hall. While the MWSO has paved the way for contemporary female musicians, the stories of these women are largely missing from historical records. From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall illuminates these revolutionary stories, including the life of the incredible Ethel Stark, the co-founder and conductor of the MWSO. Ethel's work opened doors of equal opportunity for marginalized groups and played an important role in breaking gender stereotypes in the Canadian music world.
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Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's archives and interviews with Vivier's family, teachers, friends, and colleagues, musicologist and biographer Bob Gilmore tells here the full story of Vivier's fascinating life, from his abandonment as a child in a Montreal orphanage to his posthumous acclaim as one of the leading composers of his generation. Expelled from a religious school at seventeen for "lack of maturity," Vivier gave up his ambition to join the priesthood to study composition. Between 1978 and 1981 Vivier wrote the works on which his reputation rests, including 'Lonely Child', 'Bouchara', and the operas 'Kopernikus' and 'Marco Polo'. He went to Paris in 1982 to work on a new opera, the composition of which was interrupted by his murder. On his desk was the manuscript of his last work, uncannily entitled "Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul?" Vivier's is a tragic but life-affirming story, intimately connected to his passionate music. Bob Gilmore is a musicologist and performer and teaches at Brunel University in London. He is the author of 'Harry Partch: A Biography'.
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La présente biographie relate une carrière riche, autant à l'opéra qu'au concert et en récital. Le lecteur pénètre dans les coulisses parfois mystérieuses des maisons d'opéra. Colette Boky nous entretient de ses relations avec ses collègues, de sa conception des principaux rôles qu'elle a incarnés, de ses prestations devant maints personnages célèbres. Mais, plus encore, ces pages tracent le portrait d'une femme résolue, fonceuse, au franc parler, qui ne craint pas de mettre sa réputation au service de causes qui lui tiennent à coeur.
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Biographie concise sur la carrière d'une illustre compatriote, Emma Lajeunesse dite Albani. Elle fut la première cantatrice québécoise à connaître une renommée internationale.
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La vie de la célèbre cantatrice canadienne-française qui, au XIXe siècle, conquit l’Europe et l’Amérique et fut l’amie de la reine Victoria et de célèbres compositeurs tels Liszt et Brahms.
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Les petits et grands moments de la vie et de la carrière de l'artiste.
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Talented Emma Albani was a favourite of Queen Victoria, singing at Victoria's funeral as well as Edward VII's coronation, and for many other heads of state from Russia, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, United States and Canada. Sir Arthur Sullivan, Gounod, Von Flotow and Dvorak wrotemusic for her and she sang with Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Jean de Reszke, Francesco Tamagno among others. Emma, who married Ernest Gye, manager of Covent Garden, was celebrated as one of the leading operatic and oratorio sopranos of the century. Emma (Lajeunesse) Albani, one of Canada's first internationally known performers, began as a student singing in a Chambly, Quebec convent and an Albany, New York church. From her opera debut in April 1870 in Sicily to her farewell concert in October 1911 in London, England, she was loved for her voice as well as her kindness, which was rare in a prima donna. She was adored by fans world-wide as George Bernard Shaw recorded in 1889," ... people were standing two and three deep behind the chairs ..., consisting of prima donna worshippers who are bent on obtaining a bird's eye view of Madam Albani.