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The Symphonie Fantastique… on the Organ! JEU. 31 JAN 20H SÉRIE ORGUE LA SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE… À L’ORGUE! THE SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE… ON THE ORGAN! ISABELLE DEMERS, orgue / organ JOSEPH BONNET (1884-1944) Variations de concert, op. 1 (9 min) CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR (1844-1937) Symphonie pour orgue, no 9, op. 70, « Gothique » : « Andante sostenuto » (6 min) JOSEPH BONNET Douze pièces pour grand orgue, op. 7, no 11 : « Elfes » (3 min) LOUIS VIERNE (1870-1937) Symphonie no 4, op. 32 : « Romance » (7 min) AUGUSTIN BARIÉ (1883-1915) Symphonie pour orgue, op. 5 : « Intermezzo » et « Finale » (13 min) ENTRACTE / INTERMISSION HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869) Symphonie fantastique, op. 14, transc. Isabelle Demers (40 min) I. Rêveries – Passions (Largo – Allegro agitato e appassionato assai – Religiosamente) II. Un bal – Valse (Allegro non troppo) IV. Marche au supplice (Allegretto non troppo) V. Songe d’une nuit de sabbat (Larghetto – Allegro) Le carré coloré de la couverture a été créé à partir d’une perception synesthésique de la 4e Symphonie de Gustav Mahler. The coloured square depicted on the cover originates in a synesthetic perception of Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony. 7 L' ARTISTE ISABELLE DEMERS ORGUE / ORGAN Grâce à son jeu « éblouissant » (Claude Gingras, Isabelle Demers’ playing has been qualified as La Presse), à sa « virtuosité vivifiante » (Chicago “dazzling” (Claude Gingras, La Presse), possessing Classical Review) et à son caractère « intrépide » “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review), and (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers captive as “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe les critiques et les auditoires des quatre coins du News), captivating critics and audiences around the globe. Née au Québec, elle a fait des études en globe. A native of Québec, she pursued piano and piano et en orgue au Conservatoire de musique organ studies at the Conservatoire de musique de de Montréal, couronnées de deux prix avec grande Montréal, graduating with great distinction in both distinction. Poursuivant ses études à la Juilliard disciplines. She went on to obtain her master’s and School de New York, elle a obtenu des diplômes doctoral degrees under Paul Jacobs at the Juilliard de maîtrise et de doctorat sous la direction de School, where her analysis of Bach’s St John Passion Paul Jacobs : son analyse de la Passion selon saint was awarded the Richard French Prize for best Jean de Bach lui a valu le prix Richard-French, doctoral dissertation. Dr. Demers is Organ Professor remis à la meilleure thèse de doctorat. Elle est and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University actuellement professeure associée d’orgue et chef in Texas. de département à l’Université Baylor, au Texas. Isabelle Demers has appeared as a guest soloist Isabelle Demers a été invitée comme soliste in numerous important events, including the dans de nombreux événements d’importance, joint convention of the International Society dont le congrès conjoint 2010 de l’International of Organbuilders and American Institute of Society of Organbuilders et de l’American Institute Organbuilders in 2010. On that occasion, her of Organbuilders, où l’ensemble des participants performance “left the entire congress in an a été emporté par la « fièvre Demers ». La même atmosphere of ‘Demers fever’”. That same year, année, au congrès national de l’American Guild her performance at the Washington, D.C. national of Organists (AGO) tenu à Washington, D.C., sa convention of the American Guild of Organists prestation devant une salle comble a enflammé caused the standing-room-only audience to call her l’auditoire qui l’a rappelée cinq fois au terme de son back to the stage five times. She has been featured programme. Elle a d’ailleurs joué dans le cadre de in five AGO national conventions in addition to the cinq congrès de l’AGO, en plus d’avoir été sollicitée Royal Canadian College of Organists (2009 and 2015) par le Collège royal canadien des organistes (2009 and the Organ Historical Society (2013 and 2017). et 2015) et l’Organ Historical Society (2013 et 2017). In addition, she has given concerts in a great En outre, elle a donné des concerts dans un grand number of venues around the world, in Germany, nombre de pays, dont l’Allemagne, l’Angleterre, England, Australia, China, Italy, Denmark, New l’Australie, la Chine, l’Italie, le Danemark, la Zealand, Oman, Singapore, and Sweden, and from Nouvelle-Zélande, Oman, Singapour et la Suède, coast to coast in the USA and Canada. In the current puis d’un bout à l’autre des États-Unis et du Canada. season, she performs at the Elbphilharmonie in Durant la présente saison, elle se produit à Hamburg, Stockholm’s City Hall, Beijing’s Forbidden l’Elbphilharmonie de Hambourg, à l’Hôtel de City, Reykjavik’s Hallgrímskirkja, and Westminster INSCRIVEZ-VOUS SUBSCRIBE Ville de Stockholm, à la Cité interdite de Pékin, Abbey in London. à to the à l’Hallgrímskirkja de Reykjavik et à l’Abbaye L’INFOLETTRE ! NEWSLETTER! de Westminster de Londres. Pour tout savoir sur les activités de votre To find out all about your Orchestra’s Orchestre, rendez-vous à OSM.CA/infolettre. activities, go to OSM.CA/infolettre. Nous vous promettons We promise you’ll make some de belles découvertes ! wonderful discoveries! Partenaire de saison 8 Isabelle Demers a enregistré un premier disque Isabelle Demers’ first recording on the Acis label, sur étiquette Acis, The Old and the New, lequel The Old and the New, met with resounding critical a remporté un vif succès critique. Le Fanfare acclaim; Fanfare Magazine praised it as “superbly Magazine a fait les commentaires suivants : produced”, a “clear, tightly focused recording”, and « superbe production », « enregistrement clair a “brilliantly played program”. Her second album, et d’une grande précision », « programme featuring the organ works of Rachel Laurin, was brillamment interprété ». Le deuxième CD de released in June 2011, and her recording of Max l’artiste, présentant les œuvres pour orgue de Reger’s Seven Chorale-Fantasias, in November 2012. Rachel Laurin, a été lancé en juin 2011. Les Sept Bach, Bull, and Bombardes (Pro Organo), was released fantaisies de choral de Max Reger ont suivi en in May 2013. In 2018, she performed the imposing novembre 2012, puis Bach, Bull, and Bombardes organ accompaniment to Maurice Duruflé’s (sur Pro Organo) est sorti en mai 2013. En 2018, Requiem with the Baylor University Choir, in a Mme Demers exécutait l’importante partition recording made at Duruflé’s own church in Paris, qui accompagne le Requiem de Maurice Duruflé also for Acis. (sur Acis) avec le chœur de l’Université Baylor, Isabelle Demers is exclusively represented in dans l’église parisienne où Duruflé avait été titulaire. North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert. Isabelle Demers est représentée en Amérique du Nord exclusivement par Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. LES ARRANGEMENTS FLORAUX ONT ÉTÉ PRÉPARÉS PAR : THE FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS ARE PREPARED BY: INSCRIVEZ-VOUS SUBSCRIBE à to the L’INFOLETTRE ! NEWSLETTER! Pour tout savoir sur les activités de votre To find out all about your Orchestra’s Orchestre, rendez-vous à OSM.CA/infolettre. activities, go to OSM.CA/infolettre. Nous vous promettons We promise you’ll make some de belles découvertes ! wonderful discoveries! Partenaire de saison 9 10 LES OEUVRES Le récital que nous offre Isabelle Demers est constitué Isabelle Demers’ recital consists of music entirely by d’œuvres de compositeurs français nés au XIXe siècle French composers born in the nineteenth century, all et qui tous, sauf Berlioz, ont vécu au XXe. De plus but one of whom (Berlioz) lived into the twentieth. – et ici encore à l’exception de Berlioz – toutes les Again excepting Berlioz, all the music is originally for œuvres sont destinées à l’orgue. Nous associons organ. We normally think of a symphony as a work for habituellement une symphonie à un vaste effectif large orchestral forces, such as those by Beethoven, orchestral, comme c’est le cas chez Beethoven, Brahms, or Mahler, but Isabelle Demers has included Brahms ou Mahler, mais Isabelle Demers a inscrit à on her program “symphonies” for solo organ by no son programme des symphonies pour orgue seul de fewer than three different composers, each of whom trois compositeurs différents. Chacun voyait en l’orgue saw the organ as an instrument capable of reproducing un instrument capable de reproduire la diversité de the variety of sounds, colors, textures, and dynamic sonorités, de couleurs et de textures ainsi que le range of a full orchestra. Complementing this notion, registre dynamique d’un orchestre complet. Dans the program concludes with four movements from a cette même veine, le programme se termine par symphony that really was originally conceived for full quatre mouvements d’une symphonie vraiment orchestra, Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, whose conçue pour orchestre, la Symphonie fantastique myriad orchestral effects and tonal colors have de Berlioz, dont la myriade d’effets orchestraux et rendered it a virtual textbook of orchestration. de couleurs tonales en a fait ce qu’on pourrait désigner comme un manuel d’orchestration. JOSEPH BONNET Né à Bordeaux, le 17 mars 1884 – Mort à Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer (près de Rimouski), le 2 août 1944 Variations de concert, op. 1 Douze pièces pour grand orgue, op. 7, no 11 : « Elfes » Joseph Bonnet, l’un des élèves les plus exceptionnels Joseph Bonnet was one of Alexandre Guilmant’s most et les plus précoces d’Alexandre Guilmant, s’installe notable and precocious students. In 1917 he moved to aux États-Unis en 1917. Il y enseigne, donne plus d’une the United States, where he taught, gave more than centaine de concerts et fonde le département d’orgue one hundred concerts, and founded the organ de l’Eastman School of Music de Rochester (NY) en department at the Eastman School of Music in 1921.
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