The Carnaval of the OSM – School Matinee 2024-2025
The OSM presents the world premiere of Maxime Goulet’s The Carnaval of the Insects with staging by director Martin Gougeon.
Recommended for all elementary cycles
In this one-of-a-kind concert, let’s learn about the orchestra and insects without fear! Discover The Carnival of the Insects, a new work by Quebec composer Maxime Goulet.
Designed as a series of short movements, each one will highlight an insect and an orchestra instrument that will have the chance to be heard as a soloist. Ants, bees, beetles, and many other insects will be evoked by the timbres of the four families of the orchestra. To complete the celebration, other bugs might just join in!
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Julien Proulx, conductor
Jean-Willy Kunz, OSM organist-in-residence
Laurie Gagné, actor
Louis-Olivier Mauffette, actor
Martin Gougeon, author and stage 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)
Language: French
Duration: 60 min
Audience: ages 6-12
Concert without intermission
Together, let's shape our musical future!
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