PIERRE MERCURE À L’ÉCRAN
Genre
Musical
Language
VO
Duration
127
Rating
About
Pierre Mercure Festival: Centenary | Ciné-concert
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mercure made remarkable contributions to Radio-Canada television service.
The Cinéma du Musée presents an exclusive screening of two episodes of L’Heure du concert: Maurice Ravel’s lyric fantasy L’Enfant et les sortilèges and R. Murray Schafer’s opera Toi/Loving. This double feature will open with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short film La forme des choses.
A Bourgie Hall initiative, presented by the Cinéma du Musée in collaboration with Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Artists
Claudine Caron, presenter
Programme
Short film
La forme des choses (1966), 9 min
Produced by Jacques Giraldeau
Music by Pierre Mercure
National Film Board of Canada
Two episodes of L’Heure du concert
L'enfant et les sortilèges, lyric fantasy by Maurice Ravel, 58 min
Aired on December 27, 1956
Studio production by Françoys Bernier
Supervised by Pierre Mercure
Radio-Canada
Toi/Loving, opera by R. Murray Schafer, 60 min
Aired on February 3, 1966
Studio production by Pierre Mercure
Radio-Canada