Louis-José Houde : Le show caché 2

In the census of the legendary Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, the barber is at the top of the list... The barber, Méo. He who held up shop on the main street for many years and who marked history with his curling iron. In the village, Méo watched over the general capillarity for a long time. To mess up your hair just right, it knew how to take head on all the proponents of the straight and monotonous parting. Genius bordered on madness. Or the opposite. I guess it doesn't matter. It held together. Show recorded at the Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne on February 15, 2015.

Fred Pellerin and Kent Nagano revive the great tradition of the OSM and offer a new symphonic Christmas tale! They take you to Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, where the first post office in history was run by Madame Alice Lavergne. For a long time the only reliable channel through which we could send and receive, this trunk service constituted the privileged link to maintain between us everywhere. Letters, cards, invoices, packages, forms, catalogs: everything went there.

Corteo, which means "cortege" in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.

The musical tales of Fred Pellerin with the OSM and Maestro Kent Nagano are pure moments of magic. This revolves around Léo Bellemare “hairdresser” in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, who maintains beards, mustaches and hair. Through his privileged and regular access to the villagers' capillarity, he is aware of all their secrets. What use will he make of it, he who wants to be the savior of the world?

A collection of recollections and opinions of and about Glenn Gould, interspersed with excerpts of archive footage of the great Canadian pianist speaking and playing.

The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as it surprises. He tells Christmas in his own way, through his stories featuring the protagonists of the small village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. An unprecedented encounter of the symphonic world and the universe of this artist of words. Concert recorded on December 16 and 17, 2011 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.