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A NAME FOR THE MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S NEW HALL

By Anthony Tommasini September 7, 2011 2:33 pm September 7, 2011 2:33 pm 5
Yannick Grandmont for The New York TimesLa Maison Symphonique de Montreal, the
new home of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, scheduled to open on Wednesday, had
been unofficially known as L’Adresse Symphonique.

MONTREAL — Just in time for the inaugural concert on Wednesday night for the new
home of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the place has an official name. Until
now there had been only a tentative name, L’Adresse Symphonique, for this hall,
which sits on a corner of Place des Arts, this lively city’s equivalent of
Lincoln Center. But the government of the Province of Quebec announced Wednesday
morning that the hall will be called La Maison Symphonique de Montréal.

During a tour of the hall  the same day, representatives of the orchestra and
the architectural and design teams could not agree about what the official
English translation will be. Does La Maison mean the place? The home? The hall?
When pressed about it after the announcement, the government office issued word
that there will be no official English translation.

If the name, in French or in English, is not exactly catchy, the construction of
the hall, which began in the spring of 2009, is all but complete. Only some
external features and facades need more work.

Other timely good news for the orchestra came on Tuesday with the announcement
that after a week of mediated labor talks, the administration of the Montreal
Symphony and the Quebec Musicians’ Guild, which represents the players in the
orchestra, have agreed to a new contract through 2014. The musicians will
receive a 10.5 percent pay raise over four years, as well as enhanced pension
benefits and a profit-sharing arrangement in the orchestra’s burgeoning
broadcasts on digital platforms. In 2005, the orchestra endured a five-month
work stoppage when negotiations with the players broke down.

Under the conductor Kent Nagano, who has been the orchestra’s music director
since 2006, the Montreal Symphony has been winning international acclaim and
energizing audiences here. Before his Montreal appointment, Mr. Nagano, born in
California, had most of his success in Europe, where he is the music director of
the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and was the artistic director and chief
conductor of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 2000 to 2006, among
other positions.

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra had been playing at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier,
a multipurpose hall with nearly 3,000 seats where the Opéra de Montreal
performs. But the Pelletier was considered too big for the mission of the
orchestra and not acoustically rewarding. The new hall, which is adjacent to the
Pelletier, is a handsome, inviting place with 2,100 seats, including some 200 in
rows behind the stage, which will be used by singers during works involving a
chorus, like Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the major work on the opening-night
program. The auditorium has wood walls and floors, mostly of Canadian beachwood,
which gives it a warm, soothing look. It sits on some 180 rubber isolators to
impede structure-borne vibrations from entering the hall.

The Montreal Symphony had talked of building a new hall for decades. Tentative
plans and a commitment from the Quebec government were in place before Mr.
Nagano’s arrival. But the project came together under his dynamic leadership. It
involved an elaborate public-private partnership between the government and the
orchestra working through SNC-Lavalin, an engineering and construction group,
which oversaw the design and construction of the hall and has signed on to
manage the building until 2038. The roughly $269 million price tag includes
estimated operating expenses for this 27-year period, the project managers said
during the tour. (The cost of building the hall was roughly half that amount.)

The lead architect was Jack Diamond, founder of Diamond and Schmitt Architects.
The project involved the collaborative efforts of a team of acousticians from
Artec Consultants, led by Tateo Nakajima, retained by the government, and
another group, from Sound Space Design, under Robert Essert, brought in by Mr.
Diamond.

With so many creative people involved, some “working compromises” had to be
reached, as Mr. Diamond put it during the tour on Wednesday morning. What
matters, of course, is how music will sound in the hall. Quebec residents and
visitors will find out in the inaugural concert, when Mr. Nagano conducts the
Beethoven Ninth, after performances of a choral work by Claude Vivier, a piece
for solo flute by Gilles Tremblay, and a new commissioned orchestra work by the
young composer Julien Bilodeau, a Quebec City native.

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JESSIEKITTY

Evanston, IL September 11, 2011

Bravo! Brava! A city - a country - that invests in the arts points to true
civilization, far more than a monstrous military-industrial complex. Montréal,
Québec, and Canada have a lot to be proud of here, and lovers of fine music have
a lot to anticipate and enjoy.

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New York, NY September 8, 2011

Amazing that there's $ anywhere for the construction of a symphony hall! Finally
some heartening news regarding a professional orchestra.

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MO September 8, 2011

Perhaps people will start referring to the hall as "LMS Montreal" in shorthand.

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LARRY

The Fifth Circle September 8, 2011

Why not simply 'Symphony House (of Montreal)?' Sounds good, is descriptive, and
carries that Anglo habit of appending 'house' to various other buildings.

And is that 'beachwood' or beechwood?

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TECHNIC ALLY

Toronto September 8, 2011

How lovely that it is not named for a beer or cell-phone company.

Félicitations.

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