Société de musique contemporaine du Québec

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
Other forms of name
Ensemble of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
Ensemble de la SMCQ
Ensemble de la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
Quebecke Gesellschaft der zeitgenossischen Musik
SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec)
SMCQ Ensemble
Sociedad de musica contemporanea de Quebec
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 153527103
Wikidata: Q514652
Library of congress: n 87129628
Sources of Information
  • Mather, B. Madrigal V [SR] 1976?:label (Ensemble of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec)
  • Première [SR] p1984:labels (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec) program notes (SMCQ Ensemble; founded in 1966 by Serge Garant, music director)
  • NLC, 6/17/87(hdg.: Société de musique contemporaine du Québec)
  • Serge Garant, p1996:label (SMCQ; Société de musique contemporaine du Québec; Ensemble de la SMCQ)
  • La musique du réalisme magique, p1989- :v. 1, container (Ensemble de la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec)
  • Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. Société de musique contemporaine [SR] 1967:insert (Quebecke Gesellschaft der zeitgenossischen Musik = Sociedad de musica contemporanea de Quebec)

Wikipedia description:

The Quebec Contemporary Music Society, or Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in French (SMCQ), is a contemporary classical-music organization based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1966 by Montreal composers and musicians, including Wilfrid Pelletier, Jean Papineau-Couture, Hugh Davidson, Serge Garant, and Maryvonne Kendergian. The SMCQ presents an annual series of concerts involving its own ensemble as well as invited guests, the biennial Montreal/New Music International Festival, and a youth program called SMCQ Jeunesse (SMCQ Youth). The 2007–08 season marked the inaugural of an Homage Series, planned to be a biennial collaborative event featuring the music of an important Quebec composer, which that season was Claude Vivier. The SMCQ's artistic director since 1988 has been Walter Boudreau.

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