Bal des enfants – An OSM Carnival 2024-2025
Fundraising Event
Join us for a unique concert with Rafael Payare, exploring the orchestra and the captivating world of insects in a fun and fearless way!
A festive event for children aged 5 and up, featuring animations at the Maison symphonique. Don’t miss this fun and musical adventure for a good cause!
The OSM is delighted to present the world premiere of The Carnaval des insectes, a musical work by Quebec composer Maxime Goulet. Designed as a series of short movements, each one highlights an insect and a corresponding orchestra instrument, allowing it to shine as a soloist. Ants, bees, beetles, and many other insects will be brought to life through the timbres of the four orchestral families.
And to complete the festivities, other critters might just join in!
For this Children’s Ball, themed around the Carnival, there’s no need for butterfly nets or fly traps—just open your eyes and ears wide!
Artists
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Jean-Willy Kunz, OSM organist-in-residence
Laurie Gagné, actor
Louis-Olivier Mauffette, actor
Martin Gougeon, author and director
Erika Lefebvre, scenographer
Programme
Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals: XIV. Finale (Organ solo) (2 min)
Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Midsummer Night’ s Dream: Scherzo (5 min)
Maurice Ravel, Mother Goose, M. 62: II. Spinning wheel dance and scene (4 min)
Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Suite, op. 57: “Flight of the Bumblebee” (2 min)
Maxime Goulet,The Carnival of the Insects (20 min)
Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony no. 3 in C minor, op. 78, “Organ Symphony”: Maestoso (8 min)
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