Goethe-Institut Montreal: Coming events

The German storytelling hour aims to be a meeting for children aged 3 to 5. Starting at 11 am, reading is the guest of honor: stories and fairy tales from our library will amaze your little loved ones. Arts & crafts will follow the reading.

Jens, a German thief arrives at a Luxembourg village. Working as a farmhand, he slowly starts to integrate into village life, including starting a relationship with Lucy and joining the village orchestra. Beneath the seeming normality, Jens discovers a darker side to the village, but shows a remarkable adeptness at adapting to his new situation.

Co-founder of Institut für Raumexperimente and coming from the Berlin experimental scene, Robert Lippok presents his new performance Varieties of Impact at the opening night of Mois Multi. 

Katharina Copony, Autriche, 2016, 61 minutes (plusieurs langues) Film projeté en présence de la réalisatrice, Katharina Copony; avec le soutien du Consulat général d’Autriche

Université de Montréal Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx Salle C-3061
 
Moghen paris – und alle ziehen mit est la version cinématographique d’une parade de carnaval dans un petit village de Sardaigne. Le spectacle est unique : à l’écran se succèdent les rituels les plus surprenants – un homme tient un fauteuil en laisse, tandis qu’un autre tape en rythme avec un pied de cochon – et le plus grand désordre règne dans les rues. Des gens, des plantes, des objets, des animaux forment un ensemble accidentel et spontané qui évolue vers une sorte de mythologie. Par l’absence de narration, c’est le sens filmique qui s’impose. Moghen paris – und alle ziehen mit de Katharina Copony est l’extase produite par la rencontre du carnaval et du cinéma.

11 musicians
Pierre-Antoine Tremblay and Louis-Pierre Bergeron, natural horns Olivier Brault, viola d’amore Geneviève Soly, grand organ
 
SPOTLIGHTS ON MOZART: This season, the Arte Musica Foundation, responsible for the program of the Bourgie Concert Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is honouring Mozart, without doubt the only composer of the eighteenth century whose popularity wasn’t eclipsed after his death. Les Idées heureuses participates in one of the 13 concerts of this event and chose to illustrate Mozart’s links with Baroque music: compositions for concert organ and harpsichord including one of his very first compositions, a sonata for harpsichord and violin composed at the age of 7 when he was invited at the Court of Versailles and which he dedicated to Princess Victoria of France. An absolute masterpiece crowns this concert: the Quintet for horn and strings, known to be the most difficult work for natural horn, played by a brilliant and sensitive Quebec musician living in Europe, Pierre-Antoine Tremblay. From Graupner, we chose the exceptional and enchanting Sonata a sei for 2 horns and strings, composed just about 10 years before Mozart’s Sonata K 6.
 
Program 90 minutes long with intermission
- C. GRAUPNER: Sinfonia for 2 horns and tympani in D major (GWV 534); Overture for viola d’amore in D minor (GWV 426) and Sonata a sei for 2 horns and strings (GWV 206)
- W.A. MOZART: Three Church Sonatas for concert organ, 2 horns and tympani (K 328, 329 and 336); Sonata for harpsichord obligato and violin Opus 1, no. 2 in D major (K 6); Allemande for harpsichord (K 385i) and Quintet for horn and strings (K 407)