Etiket: Critique
Critique – Pragmatic and enlightened Handel
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants have not missed their rendezvous with the Festival de Lanaudière 2023, exporting from Europe an enchanting concerto production of Händel’s comic opera Partenope. Presenting…
Critique – “So what is your torment? » : Sigrid Nunez’ lesson in empathy
“We spend our time ranting about finding the right word, but about the most important things, those words, we never find. » Perhaps because language, continues Sigrid Nunez, itself ends…
Critique – “Of the responsibility of intellectuals”: the first victim of a war is always the truth
As the Vietnam War rages, an MIT linguist by the name of Noam Chomsky throws a stone into the pond with the publication of a short titled essay The responsibility…
Critique of Chung Shui II, by Chung | Surgical rap, varied atmospheres
For the second time, Chung’s rhymes land on the beats of Cotola. This collaboration from the Montreal duo is even better than the first. Posted at 2:00 p.m. Since 2021,…
Critique of Nothing… | Making money out of chaos
Things are happening in this novel, which is nevertheless called Nothing… It has over 500 pages. There are so many characters that it was necessary to list them and briefly…
Critique of Christophe Huss – Fashion Effects at the Opera
The Metropolitan Opera ended its 2022-2023 broadcast season Live in HDSaturday, with The Magic Flute, of Mozart. The subject was of interest in Quebec, since the production of Simon McBurney…
[Critique] Our youth selection of the month of June
Necessary need for solitude In a forest like there are so many, three friends share their daily lives and do everything together. At least that’s what they claim. Until the…
Critique of Folkocracy, by Rufus Wainwright | princely folk
As he approaches fifty, Rufus Wainwright reconnects with the music that nurtured his childhood: folk. With the awareness of being born into a musically privileged environment and guests found on…
[Critique] Our thriller selection for the month of May
The unthinkable… New figurehead of the Swedish thriller, Camilla Grebe specializes in the description of cantilevered atmospheres. In all her novels, she stages hushed environments that explode before our eyes;…
[Critique] “Here and only here”: teenage choirs
“I’m looking at four years of serving sentences I didn’t think I had committed, stripping myself of my dead skin, losing my illusions about myself, about the world, and finally…
[Critique] “Seigniorial persistences”: the seigniorial Quebec of the little ax
The word “seigneurie” is a dream in Quebec. It evokes a mythical New France. However, historical demography, this ungrateful, teaches us that native Quebecers descend, sometimes through men, but especially…
[Critique] “Let’s not be afraid of the sky”: Blood ties
In her third novel, Emma Hooper (Etta and Otto (and Russell and James)), Stopovers, 2015; Songs from the seaAlto, 2018) transports us to IIe century AD, on the borders of…
[Critique] Torma-Zsako family: artistic kinship
The Torma-Zsako family of artists is honored in three locations in Montreal. This project is much more than a friendly nod to a family of creators. In this event, organized…
[Critique] “Could Have Done Anything”, Charlotte Cornfield
Charlotte Cornfield could have done anything for her last album, her fifth. The one that the magazine RollingStone billed as “Canada’s best-kept secret” instead returns with a singular, engaging and…
[Critique] “The perfect dance. Dance Music 1300-1500”, Into the Winds
It is difficult to judge the public’s receptivity to CDs of medieval music. This specialized repertoire arouses phenomena of fascination in waves. The secret is perhaps not necessarily to unfold…
[Critique] “Mission Kandahar”: When the secret agent loses his cover
The action takes place in 2013, in Afghanistan. Tom Harris, an American secret agent, carries out a perilous operation under a false identity. His intervention is crowned with success and…
[Critique] Identity crises | The duty
Camped in Rome, in the 1970s, The immensityaccording to the title of a song by Don Backy, depicts a family on the verge of exploding whose dazzling central figure, Clara,…
[Critique] “Yesterday for nothing”, Alain Raimbault
“What a strange situation to know what is going to happen, to know in advance the tenor of the conversations. I feel like a thief. Very uncomfortable. At fault. Holder…
[Critique] “Towards the mother”, Lorena Salazar
A former neighbor came into her house crying and put her newborn baby in her arms. The child has black skin, she has white skin. Five years later, this woman…
[Critique] “You are an animal”, Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard
Premiered at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous last January, Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s most recent play imagines the shock wave that the publication of The origin of species (1859), by Darwin. Driven…