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Love and Life

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Songs of Life&Love HR (4 of 25)Anne Larlee and Simone Osborne brought their Maureen Forrester recital tour to Toronto today, courtesy of Jeunesses Musicales Canada and the COC’s free lunchtime concert series.  The programme featured works by Bellini, Schumann, Hahn and Richard Strauss plus two specially commissioned pieces from Brian Current.

I particularly enjoyed the Schumann and Strauss pieces.  Simone’s interpretation of the Frauenliebe und -Leben showed a very wide range of emotion and tone colour and exceptionally good German diction.  The three Strauss songs also displayed considerable power.  This was very classy lieder singing.

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Simone Osborne on tour

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simone_osborneThe schedule and programme for the first part of Simone Osborne and Anne Larlee’s Jeunesse Musicale tour have been released.  They will perform in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre on November 12th at noon.  The other venues are mostly smaller centres in Ontario and Quebec.  The programme includes some Richard Strauss and two works by Brian Current including a new commission.  Full details are contained in the linked PDF below.

Simone Osborne JMC Tour Release – October 2013

And in more competition news…

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simone_sThe lovely Simone Osborne has been announced as the winner of the first Maureen Forrester Award Tour.  So Simone will be appearing with Anne Larlee in forty recitals across the country which will feature, among other things, a new work by composer Brian Current, sponsored by the Canadian Art Song Project.  I guess recital tours have the advantage of there being no scenery to come crashing down on one’s head!

Maybe Gatsby should get himself a frequent flyer card and a really comfortable carrier.