The Music Scene (magazine)

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La Scena Musicale
(The Music Scene)
Publisher & EditorWah Keung Chan
Categories Music magazine
FrequencyBi-monthly
Circulation 25,000
First issueSeptember 1996 (1996-09)
CountryCanada
Based in Montreal
LanguageEnglish and French
Website
ISSN 1703-8189
OCLC 50928510

The Music Scene (French: La Scena Musicale) is a Canadian bilingual quarterly magazine that promotes classical music in Canada. [1] [2] The magazine was established by Wah Keung Chan in September 1996. [3] Each issue contains a comprehensive calendar of concerts, CD, DVD and book reviews, interviews with musicians as well as feature articles on the local, national and international classical music scenes.

Contents

It is a free magazine published at least six times a year. 42,000 copies are distributed in total: 18,000 in Ontario, 5,000 copies each in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary, and 9000 copies in British Columbia.

La Scène musicale/The Music Scene is their all-English version of the magazine, while their free monthly magazine is bilingual (English & French). The English version was started in 2002. [4]

The Music Scene is non-profit and has both an online and printed version which is distributed across Canada with emphasis in the Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa-Gatineau regions. Copies are also sent to music schools and record stores. An electronic version is available on their website.

In 2021, the magazine launched its new online portal, mySCENA. [5]

The Next Great Art Song

In July 2015, La Scena Musicale launched a Canadian art song competition called The Next Great Art Song to promote vocal music. [6] The competition has two phases. The first is a month-long survey of musicologists, theorists, music critics, and performers from Canada and around the world on the topic of their three favourite art songs. The second phase is an art song composition competition for Canadian composers, which will be evaluated by experts and the public.

Following the completion of the two phases, the top ten favourite art songs from the first phase and the top ten submissions from the composition competition will be featured in a gala concert of Canadian musicians, the location of which is still to be determined.


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References

  1. Sarah Church (December 15, 2013). "La Scena Musicale". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . Historica Canada . Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  2. Florence Hayes; Helmut Kallmann. "The Music Scene/La Scène musicale". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Historica Canada. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  3. "La Scena Musicale Founder Wah Keung Chan to be Honoured by Vanier College". LSM Newswire. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  4. "La Scena Musicale Introduces English Canada Special Issue – The Music Scene Magazine". LSM Newswire. Montreal. 7 September 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  5. "mySCENA". La Scena Musicale . Retrieved 8 March 2024. ABOUT: mySCENA is a new web platform published in English and French by LSM, a non-profit charity dedicated to the promotion of music and the arts since 1996. LSM also publishes the La Scena Musicale classical music and jazz magazine and La SCENA arts magazine.
  6. Wah Keung Chan. "The Next Great Art Song". scena.org. La Scena Musicale. Retrieved 3 July 2015.