Press Release

Fall Festival (9th edition)

Orgue et couleurs presents in Montréal the 9th Fall Festival
Friday, September 21, to Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saint-Nom-de-Jésus Church, Très-Saint-Rédempteur Church, Immaculée-Conception Church, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Visitation de la Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie Church, Musée du Château Dufresne, Redpath Hall of McGill University

The King At Play!

The organ takes centre stage at this annual musical event, accompanied by other instruments across a range of repertoires and eras.

The 9th festival takes a resolutely celebratory approach in offering unusual and entertaining encounters between the magnificent instrument and other worlds: those of the circus, storytelling, folklore, contemporary music, recital and the great symphonic repertory. The king of instruments shows off its talents at improvisation over Gregorian melodies and sways to the beat of the waltz, rumba, tango and bolero. Twenty concerts and events, eight of which are free, will take place in the evening and during the day. Let the fun begin!

Twelve ticketed concerts

Seven Grand Concerts preceded by the Fanfare of the 9th Fall Festival
Five Happy-hour Concerts

Five free daytime concerts and three special events

Five Noon-hour Concerts
Two Talks at the Château
Organ Open Houses in more than 30 Quebec churches

More than 60 artists, organists and other instrumentalists as well as acrobats and a storyteller

The festival welcomes two organists from Europe: Olivier Vernet of France and Silvius von Kessel of Germany.

Eight ensembles from the national scene

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Les Chantres-Musiciens, Les Voix d’Elles, Buzz Brass Quintet, the Choir of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, the Ensemble of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Molinari Quartet and the Sanctuary Trio.

Composers from various countries

Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Frescobaldi, Zipoli, Corelli (Italy); Dubois, Schmitt, Rameau, Duruflé, Franck, Fauré, Widor, Du Caurroy, Titelouze, Couperin, Clérambault, De Grigny, Couperin, Pierre Cholley, Julien Bret (France); Bovet (Switzerland); Bach, Handel, Bruckner, Krebs, Schütz, Wagner, Andreas Willscher (Germany); Mozart (Austria); Purcell, Greene, Blow, James (England); Roger Matton, Jean Lesage, Michel Gonneville, Gilles Tremblay, Claude Vivier, Walter Boudreau (Quebec); Piazzolla (Argentina); Chostakovitch (Russia); Górecki (Poland); Barber, Robert Elmore, Andrès Laprida (United States)

Festival info-line & Ticket sales: 514-899-0938
Online tickets and info: www.orgueetcouleurs.com

High resolution photos available on the web site

In detail

Media relations: Marie Marais, press officer / 514-845-2821 / marais@cooptel.qc.ca

[7225] News posted Monday, August 27, 2007.