Suzie Morgenstein

ATMA Classique presents the debut recording of Le Nouvel Opéra, a Montreal-based company under the artistic leadership of soprano Suzie LeBlanc, with music director Alexander Weimann and stage director Marie Nathalie Lacoursiere. Their inaugural recording features Antonio Caldara’s oratorio La Conversione di Clodoveo, Rè di Francia — a work the company first performed in Potsdam in 2005, celebrating the the milennial anniversary of Christianity in Germany.

Proud Like a God is the debut album of the alternative rock band Guano Apes. The album was released on 6 October 1997 on BMG and GUN/Supersonic Records. It includes the singles "Open Your Eyes", "Rain" and "Lords of the Boards". The album was certified platinum in Germany, for shipping 200,000 copies, and also in Switzerland.

Son grand rêve? Jouer dans la Ligue nationale. À onze ans, presque douze, Pierre Lambert est capitaine de l'équipe de hockey pee-wee AA de Trois-Rivières, les Dragons. Sa soeur Suzie, dix ans, voltige en cheerleading, vivrait dans les airs si elle le pouvait tellement elle aime les acrobaties! Entourés de leurs nombreux amis, Pierre et Suzie vivent les hauts et les bas d'un quotidien débordant de victoires, de défis et d'action. Malheur! …

None of the Band's previous work gave much of a clue about how they would sound when they released their first album in July 1968. As it was, Music from Big Pink came as a surprise. At first blush, the group seemed to affect the sound of a loose jam session, alternating emphasis on different instruments, while the lead and harmony vocals passed back and forth as if the singers were making up their blend on the spot. In retrospect, especially as the lyrics sank in, the arrangements seemed far more considered and crafted to support a group of songs that took family, faith, and rural life as their subjects and proceeded to imbue their values with uncertainty. Some songs took on the theme of declining institutions less clearly than others, but the points were made musically as much as lyrically…