Pierre-Mercure Festival: Centenary, Pierre Mercure on the Screen
Pierre-Mercure Festival
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mercure made remarkable contributions to Radio-Canada television service. The Cinéma du Musée presents an exclusive screening of two episodes of L’Heure du concert: Maurice Ravel’s lyric fantasy L’Enfant et les sortilèges and R. Murray Schafer’s opera Toi/Loving. This double feature will open with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short film La forme des choses.
La forme des choses (1965), 9 min Produced by Jacques Giraldeau Music by Pierre Mercure National Film Board of Canada
Two episodes of L’Heure du concert L'enfant et les sortilèges, lyric fantasy by Maurice Ravel, 58 min Aired on December 27, 1956 Studio production by Françoys Bernier Supervised by Pierre Mercure Radio-Canada
Toi/Loving, opera by R. Murray Schafer, 60 min Aired on February 3, 1966 Studio production by Pierre Mercure Radio-Canada