Les Idées heureuses - Passiontide Concert : Around Marguerite d'Youville - Online
Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music
Les Idées heureuses pursues its practice of historically reconstructed works through research into musical documentary heritage housed at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal and in several of Quebec’s conventual archives. Special emphasis will be given to the two co-founders of Montreal: Jeanne Mance and Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve.
DATES : April 2 at 3 p.m., on-demand until April 5 BILLET : 20$ - To buy a ticket, click here
A Bourgie Hall presentation in collaboration with Les idées heureuses
April 2 – April 5, 2021
ARTISTS
Les Idées heureuses Geneviève Soly, chamber organ
Invitées : Angèle Trudeau, soprano
Ensemble Scholastica Rebecca Bain, direction
PROGRAMME
Messe bordelaise, reference book in New France Vespers for the Discovery of the Holy Cross—community feast, in plainchant Magnificat by Jean Girard (excerpts from the Livre contenant les messes, Vêpres et saluts solennels en plain-chant à l’usage de l’Hôpital général de Montréal, stencil manuscript from 1770) French Passiontide hymns (from the Opuscules sacrés… de Saint-Sulpice, 1772) Duos in Latin for soprano and organ by Samuel Webbe Motets for the Blessed Sacrament by Niolas Lebègue and excerpts from the Livre d’orgue de Montréal, brought to Ville-Marie in 1724 by Sulpician cleric Jean Girard, organist for the Notre-Dame parish, who was close to Marguerite d’Youville
Bourgie Hall
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1339 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 2C6