Program
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Maxime Goulet
Citius, altius, fortius!
Duration: approx. 3 minutes
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Georges BIZET
Carmen’s Suite No 1
Duration: approx. 12 minutes
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Claude CHAMPAGNE
Danse villageoise
Duration: approx. 5 minutes
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Leonard BERNSTEIN
Three Dance Variations from “Fancy Free”
Duration: approx. 7 minutes
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Florence Price
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, III. Juba: Allegro
Duration: approx. 5 minutes
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Amy Beach
Gaelic Symphony
Duration: approx. 41 minutes
Media
One of the summer’s most-anticipated concerts in Montréal—the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the foot of Mount Royal—is back this year after hosting a record-breaking audience in 2023. On August 6 at 7:30 p.m., all of Montréal is invited to join Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the OM for this event—a unique opportunity to take in the music with tens of thousands of people at this iconic Montréal landmark. Everyone should experience it at least once!
The event, presented by CN, will start off with some of the most well-known melodies in symphonic music, Suite No. 1 from Bizet’s Carmen. This will be followed by a true Québécois tune, Claude Champagne’s Danse villageoise. Then we’ll hear excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s ballet Fancy Free (as Yannick Nézet-Séguin was a consultant on Maestro, our conductor naturally had to lead one of this great composer’s works) and Dances in the Canebrakes by African American composer Florence Price. And for the pièce de résistance, the Orchestre Métropolitain will perform Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony, the first symphony composed and published by an American woman.
Host Pierre-Yves Lord will doubtless bring his infectious energy to this unforgettable event. There will be a couple of surprises for the audience too, but you’ll have to be at the foot of Mount Royal on August 6 to find out what they are!
The OM warmly thanks its partners: the Government of Quebec, the City of Montreal, the Ville-Marie borough, Tourisme Montreal, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, La Presse, and Le Devoir, media co-partners.
This concert is presented as part of CAM en tournée (Touring Program).
Hydro-Québec is the principal partner of the Orchestre Métropolitain.
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