Last Saturday Marie and I attended an evening concert in Piopolis at the village church where last summer we had seen Oliver Jones, the renowned jazz pianist. This time was a very special night because we had tickets for Andre Lefévre, the famous French Canadian pianist and composer who is renowned the world over. Monsieur Lefevre performs to prestigious venues with international orchestras and has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the National Symphony in Washington and many more. On Saturday he chose to honour the small Festival Saint-Zenon-de-Piopolis and 200 or so rapt people who crowded into the small church. His program included Bach, Haydn, Rachmaninov, Chopin, André Mathieu (another French Canadian prodigy) and an utterly brilliant piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel. That performance left the player and the audience drained! Bravo! gws
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| Saint Zenon de Piopolis |
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| Lac Mégantic from Piopolis |
