Post by davidhr on Jun 30, 2020 6:42:32 GMT -5
The lead item for this week was obviously Lara’s live version of Humana at the ‘Fête Nationale’ of Quebec on June 23rd, in the show “Tout le Quebec à l’Unisson”, available at:
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/2983325295099068/
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwbsI1k3lI
It was broadcast on all the TV networks in Quebec, and, as one can see, it was a really big production (with social distancing and a Zoom children’s chorus). Lara always performs Humana wonderfully, and this time was no exception.
Lara also participated in a group performance of “Quand on ne saura plus chanter”, available at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/2558626947734337/
Another very well done production. Lara commented on the wonderful night on ‘Salut Bonjour”, and talked again about her love for Canada, video available at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/979112289257229/
An article about the event appeared at globalnews.ca/news/7102254/fete-nationale-quebec-2020-indigenous-contributions-to-history/; here’s the translation:
-----------------------
Televised Fête nationale celebrations highlight Indigenous contributions to Quebec history
A celebration of Quebec culture at the Cogeco Amphiteatre in Trois-Rivières, Que., on Tuesday night ahead of Fête nationale,
There were no cheering crowds, no spectators waving flags and no one sporting blue-and-white fleur-de-lis face paint during Fête nationale festivities that were presented amid the coronavirus pandemic on all major television networks on Tuesday evening.
Instead, artists gathered on stage to celebrate Quebec culture at the Cogeco Amphitheatre in Trois-Rivières, performing not only great Québécois classics but also emphasizing the contributions of First Nations and Inuit to the history of Quebec.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin kicked off the celebration with an extract from the Overture Maslenitsa, opus 36 by the composer Airat Ichmouratov.
The conductor directed musicians who respected physical distancing to launch the show, which was broadcast on Télé-Québec, Radio-Canada, TVA and V.
The event was hosted by Ariane Moffatt and Pierre Lapointe, who pre-recorded their performances on Monday.
Roch Voisine, Gregory Charles and Luce Dufault interpreted Bobépine by Plume Latraverse, accompanied by dozens of singers who sang directly from their home.
Marie-Mai took over Je danse dans ma tête, popularized by Céline Dion, during a medley in which Moffat and Lapointe interpreted Les Larmes de métal from the group Soupir.
A statement from Premier François Legault was presented in the first half of the show.
Legault stressed that Quebec was built with the help of Indigenous Peoples while also taking care to emphasize that people from all over the world “had come to join us.”
“In 2020, the Quebec nation will rise, more united, stronger, more proud,” Legault said, referring to the health crisis and its consequences.
Michel Rivard and Marie-Michèle Desrosiers offered a few songs from the Beau Dommage repertoire. They notably sang the hit Amène pas ta gang, translated as “Don’t bring your gang,” whose lyrics seemed to be a nod to physical-distancing rules.
Corneille in a Montreal lane, Mara Tremblay on a balcony and Martha Wainwright on the roof of a building then accompanied them to deliver the Le blues d’la métropole.
In the second part of the show, Lapointe pointed out that the Cogeco Amphitheatre, where the show was recorded, was located on unceded Indigenous territory, saying: “We recognize the Attikameks as the guardians of the lands and waters on which we gather together tonight” while Rivard interpreted the song Rivière.
Actor Christine Beaulieu then gave a tribute to the rivers of Quebec, “which are our energy and our greatest wealth” by taking the time to say “thank you to the rivers” in several Indigenous languages.
The artist Elisapie, born to an Inuk mother, gave one of the patriotic speeches, calling for living in a united world “which never again lets anyone down along the way, the most visible, the new, the fragile, the different, the less young, the less wealthy, the distant, the skinned, those who can no longer breathe or those who have not yet disappeared.”
“It is from our multitude that our wealth is born” said the Inuk singer before performing Moi, Elsie, a song written by Richard Desjardins, whose music was composed by Lapointe.
Those watching were also treated to performances by Fred Pellerin, David Goudreault, Patrice Michaud, Lara Fabian, Louis-Jean Cormier, Isabelle Boulay, Émile Bilodeau, Coeur de pirate, Vincent Vallières, Alexandra Stréliski, Hubert Lenoir, Les Soeurs Boulay, Étienne Dupuis-Cloutier, Fouki, Les Trois Accords, Paul Piché, Diane Dufresne, Marie-Pierre Arthur and Jim Corcoran.
Festivities continue on Wednesday with all Quebecers invited to sing along to Gilles Vigneault’s Gens du Pays at 7 p.m.
“Whether from their balcony, from their window or from their yard, Quebecers are invited to come out and sing with pride,” a statement on the Fête nationale committee website reads.
The song was composed for the Fête nationale in 1975 and has been part of the Québécois repertoire since.
----------------------------------------
And another tack on the show from the Journal de Montreal (https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/06/24/fete-nationale-la-reussite-du-spectacle-tout-le-quebec-a-lunisson-saluee):
--------------------------------
National holiday: the success of the show "All of Quebec in unison" hailed
The show Tout le Québec au unison celebrating the national holiday was a "real success", say the organizers.
• Also read: Guy Nantel denounces the absence of the flag during the show
• Also read: Isabelle Boulay pays a touching tribute in music to Renée Claude
Intervened in a particular pandemic context, the show without audience was broadcast by all networks, including TVA Nouvelles.
“It reminds us that it is by being united that a people nourishes their pride and because it must be said, all these artists and all the solidarity felt, which brought together all the actors in the complex organization of this show , have something to make us very proud, "said Martine Desjardins, director general of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois, on Wednesday.
Under the artistic direction of Jean-François Blais, the show brought together forty artists, including Pierre Lapointe, Corneille, Fouki, Coeur de Pirate, Gregory Charles and the flamboyant Fred Pellerin, in a festive, contagious atmosphere even through a TV screen.
The virtual show initially took on a retro aspect with an immersion in the archives recounting the highlights of Saint-Jean-Baptiste since the 1980s.
The show, which was a “real success”, brought together Quebecers, it was added.
"The 18 th edition takes place in a very special context and we all share the hope of being elbow to elbow, next year, at Parc Jean-Drapeau and in every metropolis of the neighborhoods," says Louise Harel, president of the National Day Committee in Montreal.
----------------------------------------
For those really interested in the details, a more extensive article can be found at ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1714737/fete-nationale-saint-jean-baptiste-spectacle-pandemie; it mentions Lara and Humana as being “almost a technical feat in itself”.
In other news, Lara posted a beautiful picture from her wedding
with her comment, “7 years already…I share my joy with you”
Happy Anniversary to her and Gabriel!
There is a wonderful set of 6 pictures of Lara and Gabriel that can be found at:
vedettequebec.com/2019/07/03/decouvrez-les-plus-belles-photos-de-lara-fabian-et-son-amoureux/
They also include what Lara has said about him:
------------------------------------
FOR ME, THE LOVE THAT I LIVE GOES FAR BEYOND AN “ACCOMPLISHMENT”. IT IS DIFFICULT TO CHOOSE THE WORDS TO QUALIFY IT. I PREFER TO GIVE HIM GRATITUDE RATHER THAN TO GIVE HIM ANY DESCRIPTION. BECAUSE TO DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS, HONESTLY, I WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH TALENT. THIS LOVE IS A GIFT. I HAVE NEVER MET A BEING LIKE GABRIEL.
ALL LITTLE GIRLS DREAM OF GETTING MARRIED ONE DAY, BUT I HAD GIVEN UP ON THE IDEA. AND THEN, LIFE BEFORE THIS NEW DECISION DRIVEN BY MY DISAPPOINTMENTS MADE THE ARRIVAL OF THIS MAGNIFICENT BEING RESONATE! WHAT I REALLY BELIEVE IS THAT EVEN IF I HAD “ABANDONED” THE IDEA OF MARRIAGE, AND I INSIST ON THE QUOTES, I BELIEVE THAT I HAD NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING THAT THE RIGHT PERSON WOULD ARRIVE ONE DAY. AND IT'S THE SILENT THOUGHT THAT THE UNIVERSE HEARS, NOT THE REST.
-------------------------------------------
Very true….
Concerning the new album, she left the following video on her Instagram site
with the comment, “Hello everyone ... thank you for the wonderful welcome you gave to the reissue of "Papillon (s)" ... What if you tell me what is your favorite track in this album? 💕💋”
The winners seem to be ‘Par amour’ and ‘En chemin’, perhaps for their lyrics as well as the music.
Lara was responding to the surprising performance on the charts for this re-release. As to how it was doing this past week, in Belgium it dropped from 22 to 62; in France it dropped from 12 to 85 (which represented the biggest fall on the chart, after being the highest new entry); and in Quebec it dropped down to #10. Regardless of anything else, a re-issue does not normally have much staying power, and the fall was also hastened in Europe by the end of The Voice, so Lara was no longer appearing on TV.
On RTL (radio) in France, Lara was interviewed on the 20th anniversary of her appearance on the Frequenstar, on the radio version of the show, with Laurent Boyer. This was a very long program covering her career and many other topics, and can be heard (thanks to the Lara Fabian Coeur de Lumiere FB site for the link) at:
www.rtl.fr/culture/medias-people/frequenstar-lara-fabian-invitee-de-laurent-boyer-7800616018?fbclid=IwAR2KkuL9ihAZLiTKNvJ0CrzytM3vrJQccHhQlbqjkYE99FU_QLhzqkzKg54
Here’s their brief description:
--------------------------------
Fréquenstar: Lara Fabian guest of Laurent Boyer
Lara Fabian is the guest of Laurent Boyer, in the radio version of his historic show, "Fréquenstar".
20 years after a memorable "Fréquenstar" with Laurent Boyer, Lara Fabian answers the same questions. It will be the first surprise to often find "word for word" the same answers.
You will be able to discover a great moment of emotion when she listens to her father's testimony about her beginnings. She also evokes Céline Dion with passion by sweeping away any rivalry between them and admits even dreaming of singing in duet with the interpreter of the tube "Pour que tu m'aimes encore".
She also remembers unforgettable moments like the one alongside Johnny Hallyday at the Stade de France, performing with him on stage "Requiem pour un fou".
------------------------------
Lara’s consistency is because she takes each question seriously, and tries to answer it honestly…and she has a strong moral compass that doesn’t change with time.
Interesting photo of the week: Lara at the Fete Nationale,
www.envedette.ca/image/policy:1.12788026:1593001770/Lara-Fabian.jpg?$p=3f86ee2
And a short video, on Lara’s Instagram site at
with her comment, “A moment of poetry and of accomplice love, a suspended moment .... that I share with you ... my little Kayla and my husband ... 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 “.
Truly poetry in motion…
Nothing obvious on Lara’s calendar, which is normally light during what is now summertime, and will obviously be lighter still given the pandemic. One imagines she will not be heading to Sicily this year for summer vacation to see her family, but who knows how the rest of the summer will really go. One also imagines she will continue keeping up with her public, either directly vis her social media sites or through interviews from her home. Stay safe everybody…
David
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/2983325295099068/
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwbsI1k3lI
It was broadcast on all the TV networks in Quebec, and, as one can see, it was a really big production (with social distancing and a Zoom children’s chorus). Lara always performs Humana wonderfully, and this time was no exception.
Lara also participated in a group performance of “Quand on ne saura plus chanter”, available at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/2558626947734337/
Another very well done production. Lara commented on the wonderful night on ‘Salut Bonjour”, and talked again about her love for Canada, video available at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianVideos/videos/979112289257229/
An article about the event appeared at globalnews.ca/news/7102254/fete-nationale-quebec-2020-indigenous-contributions-to-history/; here’s the translation:
-----------------------
Televised Fête nationale celebrations highlight Indigenous contributions to Quebec history
A celebration of Quebec culture at the Cogeco Amphiteatre in Trois-Rivières, Que., on Tuesday night ahead of Fête nationale,
There were no cheering crowds, no spectators waving flags and no one sporting blue-and-white fleur-de-lis face paint during Fête nationale festivities that were presented amid the coronavirus pandemic on all major television networks on Tuesday evening.
Instead, artists gathered on stage to celebrate Quebec culture at the Cogeco Amphitheatre in Trois-Rivières, performing not only great Québécois classics but also emphasizing the contributions of First Nations and Inuit to the history of Quebec.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin kicked off the celebration with an extract from the Overture Maslenitsa, opus 36 by the composer Airat Ichmouratov.
The conductor directed musicians who respected physical distancing to launch the show, which was broadcast on Télé-Québec, Radio-Canada, TVA and V.
The event was hosted by Ariane Moffatt and Pierre Lapointe, who pre-recorded their performances on Monday.
Roch Voisine, Gregory Charles and Luce Dufault interpreted Bobépine by Plume Latraverse, accompanied by dozens of singers who sang directly from their home.
Marie-Mai took over Je danse dans ma tête, popularized by Céline Dion, during a medley in which Moffat and Lapointe interpreted Les Larmes de métal from the group Soupir.
A statement from Premier François Legault was presented in the first half of the show.
Legault stressed that Quebec was built with the help of Indigenous Peoples while also taking care to emphasize that people from all over the world “had come to join us.”
“In 2020, the Quebec nation will rise, more united, stronger, more proud,” Legault said, referring to the health crisis and its consequences.
Michel Rivard and Marie-Michèle Desrosiers offered a few songs from the Beau Dommage repertoire. They notably sang the hit Amène pas ta gang, translated as “Don’t bring your gang,” whose lyrics seemed to be a nod to physical-distancing rules.
Corneille in a Montreal lane, Mara Tremblay on a balcony and Martha Wainwright on the roof of a building then accompanied them to deliver the Le blues d’la métropole.
In the second part of the show, Lapointe pointed out that the Cogeco Amphitheatre, where the show was recorded, was located on unceded Indigenous territory, saying: “We recognize the Attikameks as the guardians of the lands and waters on which we gather together tonight” while Rivard interpreted the song Rivière.
Actor Christine Beaulieu then gave a tribute to the rivers of Quebec, “which are our energy and our greatest wealth” by taking the time to say “thank you to the rivers” in several Indigenous languages.
The artist Elisapie, born to an Inuk mother, gave one of the patriotic speeches, calling for living in a united world “which never again lets anyone down along the way, the most visible, the new, the fragile, the different, the less young, the less wealthy, the distant, the skinned, those who can no longer breathe or those who have not yet disappeared.”
“It is from our multitude that our wealth is born” said the Inuk singer before performing Moi, Elsie, a song written by Richard Desjardins, whose music was composed by Lapointe.
Those watching were also treated to performances by Fred Pellerin, David Goudreault, Patrice Michaud, Lara Fabian, Louis-Jean Cormier, Isabelle Boulay, Émile Bilodeau, Coeur de pirate, Vincent Vallières, Alexandra Stréliski, Hubert Lenoir, Les Soeurs Boulay, Étienne Dupuis-Cloutier, Fouki, Les Trois Accords, Paul Piché, Diane Dufresne, Marie-Pierre Arthur and Jim Corcoran.
Festivities continue on Wednesday with all Quebecers invited to sing along to Gilles Vigneault’s Gens du Pays at 7 p.m.
“Whether from their balcony, from their window or from their yard, Quebecers are invited to come out and sing with pride,” a statement on the Fête nationale committee website reads.
The song was composed for the Fête nationale in 1975 and has been part of the Québécois repertoire since.
----------------------------------------
And another tack on the show from the Journal de Montreal (https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/06/24/fete-nationale-la-reussite-du-spectacle-tout-le-quebec-a-lunisson-saluee):
--------------------------------
National holiday: the success of the show "All of Quebec in unison" hailed
The show Tout le Québec au unison celebrating the national holiday was a "real success", say the organizers.
• Also read: Guy Nantel denounces the absence of the flag during the show
• Also read: Isabelle Boulay pays a touching tribute in music to Renée Claude
Intervened in a particular pandemic context, the show without audience was broadcast by all networks, including TVA Nouvelles.
“It reminds us that it is by being united that a people nourishes their pride and because it must be said, all these artists and all the solidarity felt, which brought together all the actors in the complex organization of this show , have something to make us very proud, "said Martine Desjardins, director general of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois, on Wednesday.
Under the artistic direction of Jean-François Blais, the show brought together forty artists, including Pierre Lapointe, Corneille, Fouki, Coeur de Pirate, Gregory Charles and the flamboyant Fred Pellerin, in a festive, contagious atmosphere even through a TV screen.
The virtual show initially took on a retro aspect with an immersion in the archives recounting the highlights of Saint-Jean-Baptiste since the 1980s.
The show, which was a “real success”, brought together Quebecers, it was added.
"The 18 th edition takes place in a very special context and we all share the hope of being elbow to elbow, next year, at Parc Jean-Drapeau and in every metropolis of the neighborhoods," says Louise Harel, president of the National Day Committee in Montreal.
----------------------------------------
For those really interested in the details, a more extensive article can be found at ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1714737/fete-nationale-saint-jean-baptiste-spectacle-pandemie; it mentions Lara and Humana as being “almost a technical feat in itself”.
In other news, Lara posted a beautiful picture from her wedding
http://instagram.com/p/CB8ZBvTCiPM
with her comment, “7 years already…I share my joy with you”
Happy Anniversary to her and Gabriel!
There is a wonderful set of 6 pictures of Lara and Gabriel that can be found at:
vedettequebec.com/2019/07/03/decouvrez-les-plus-belles-photos-de-lara-fabian-et-son-amoureux/
They also include what Lara has said about him:
------------------------------------
FOR ME, THE LOVE THAT I LIVE GOES FAR BEYOND AN “ACCOMPLISHMENT”. IT IS DIFFICULT TO CHOOSE THE WORDS TO QUALIFY IT. I PREFER TO GIVE HIM GRATITUDE RATHER THAN TO GIVE HIM ANY DESCRIPTION. BECAUSE TO DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS, HONESTLY, I WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH TALENT. THIS LOVE IS A GIFT. I HAVE NEVER MET A BEING LIKE GABRIEL.
ALL LITTLE GIRLS DREAM OF GETTING MARRIED ONE DAY, BUT I HAD GIVEN UP ON THE IDEA. AND THEN, LIFE BEFORE THIS NEW DECISION DRIVEN BY MY DISAPPOINTMENTS MADE THE ARRIVAL OF THIS MAGNIFICENT BEING RESONATE! WHAT I REALLY BELIEVE IS THAT EVEN IF I HAD “ABANDONED” THE IDEA OF MARRIAGE, AND I INSIST ON THE QUOTES, I BELIEVE THAT I HAD NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING THAT THE RIGHT PERSON WOULD ARRIVE ONE DAY. AND IT'S THE SILENT THOUGHT THAT THE UNIVERSE HEARS, NOT THE REST.
-------------------------------------------
Very true….
Concerning the new album, she left the following video on her Instagram site
http://instagram.com/p/CByGJeeiim3
with the comment, “Hello everyone ... thank you for the wonderful welcome you gave to the reissue of "Papillon (s)" ... What if you tell me what is your favorite track in this album? 💕💋”
The winners seem to be ‘Par amour’ and ‘En chemin’, perhaps for their lyrics as well as the music.
Lara was responding to the surprising performance on the charts for this re-release. As to how it was doing this past week, in Belgium it dropped from 22 to 62; in France it dropped from 12 to 85 (which represented the biggest fall on the chart, after being the highest new entry); and in Quebec it dropped down to #10. Regardless of anything else, a re-issue does not normally have much staying power, and the fall was also hastened in Europe by the end of The Voice, so Lara was no longer appearing on TV.
On RTL (radio) in France, Lara was interviewed on the 20th anniversary of her appearance on the Frequenstar, on the radio version of the show, with Laurent Boyer. This was a very long program covering her career and many other topics, and can be heard (thanks to the Lara Fabian Coeur de Lumiere FB site for the link) at:
www.rtl.fr/culture/medias-people/frequenstar-lara-fabian-invitee-de-laurent-boyer-7800616018?fbclid=IwAR2KkuL9ihAZLiTKNvJ0CrzytM3vrJQccHhQlbqjkYE99FU_QLhzqkzKg54
Here’s their brief description:
--------------------------------
Fréquenstar: Lara Fabian guest of Laurent Boyer
Lara Fabian is the guest of Laurent Boyer, in the radio version of his historic show, "Fréquenstar".
20 years after a memorable "Fréquenstar" with Laurent Boyer, Lara Fabian answers the same questions. It will be the first surprise to often find "word for word" the same answers.
You will be able to discover a great moment of emotion when she listens to her father's testimony about her beginnings. She also evokes Céline Dion with passion by sweeping away any rivalry between them and admits even dreaming of singing in duet with the interpreter of the tube "Pour que tu m'aimes encore".
She also remembers unforgettable moments like the one alongside Johnny Hallyday at the Stade de France, performing with him on stage "Requiem pour un fou".
------------------------------
Lara’s consistency is because she takes each question seriously, and tries to answer it honestly…and she has a strong moral compass that doesn’t change with time.
Interesting photo of the week: Lara at the Fete Nationale,
www.envedette.ca/image/policy:1.12788026:1593001770/Lara-Fabian.jpg?$p=3f86ee2
And a short video, on Lara’s Instagram site at
http://instagram.com/p/CBvjsHeiHaI
with her comment, “A moment of poetry and of accomplice love, a suspended moment .... that I share with you ... my little Kayla and my husband ... 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 “.
Truly poetry in motion…
Nothing obvious on Lara’s calendar, which is normally light during what is now summertime, and will obviously be lighter still given the pandemic. One imagines she will not be heading to Sicily this year for summer vacation to see her family, but who knows how the rest of the summer will really go. One also imagines she will continue keeping up with her public, either directly vis her social media sites or through interviews from her home. Stay safe everybody…
David