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 JAZZ-WALTER BOUDREAU +3 =4 ORIGINAL 1968 CANADIAN PRESS ON PHONODISC PHS 5007 STEREO 1968
WITH PIERRE LEDUC ON PIANO, RICHARD PROVENCAL ON DRUMS AND JACQUES VALOIS ON BASS THIS LP
PREDATES HIS WORK IN L'INFONIE WITH RAOUL DUGUAY.READ BIO BELOW.RECORD IS VG++ WITH SOME LIGHT SURFACE MARKS& STICKER RESIDUE ON 1  LABEL, THE SLEEVE IS A STRONG VG DUE TO GOOD CONDITION OF SPINES(ONLY SMALL WEAR AT TOP CORNER) BUT IS WAVY AT THE MOUTH AND SOME RING WEAR, BACK COVER HAS ONLY A SMALL STICKER RESIDUEAND IS VERY CLEAN.SEE PHOTOS & LISTEN TO CLIP. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET THIS RARE GEM.

Walter Boudreau. Composer, saxophonist, conductor, b Montreal 15 Oct 1947. He studied piano for several years in Sorel, Que, and later saxophone with Doug Michaud in Montreal, but was initially self-taught as a composer. At 15 he became a member of a jazz band conducted by Arthur Romano. He settled in Montreal in 1966, where he directed his own jazz group. He also led various other jazz groups at the Youth Pavilion of Expo 67, where he met Raoul Duguay. With the latter, as well as with members of the Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec and other musicians, he founded Infonie in 1968, a multi-media ensemble whose repertoire was a mixture of classical, pop, contemporary and avant-garde music. The group, which numbered as many as 22 musicians, performed throughout Quebec, at the University of Toronto, and at the NAC. Boudreau appeared in the films La Nuit de la poésie (1970) and L'Infonie inachevée (1972), and published Le Manifeste de l'Infonie: le ToutArtBel (Montreal 1970), which was edited by Duguay. Selections from the latter inspired Boudreau's work Ysengouronnie.
While working with Infonie, Boudreau studied analysis 1968-70 with Bruce Mather at McGill University and analysis and composition 1969-73 with Gilles Tremblay at the CMM and with Serge Garant at the University of Montreal. From the Canada Council he received several grants which enabled him to attend summer courses given by Boulez in Cleveland in 1971 and by Kagel, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Xenakis in Darmstadt in 1972. In 1972 Infonie became an octet, and following studies in France with Xenakis 1973-4, Boudreau transformed it into the Quatuor de saxophones de l'Infonie, which in 1982 became the Montreal Saxophone Quartet with Simon Stone (soprano), René Masino (alto), David Clark (ténor) and Boudreau (baritone). The ensemble, which presents a varied, though mainly contemporary repertoire, toured 1977-8 in the Maritimes and in 1981 in British Columbia, sponsored by the JMC (YMC) and the Festival Concert Society. It also performed at the World Saxophone Congress in Chicago (1979), and in Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto, as well as on CBC radio and TV.

Boudreau participated 1973-6 in the activities of the research team Informatique-musique at the University of Montreal. After winning a first prize in the 1973 CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers (CBC radio competitions), Variations I was presented in a second version on a CBC broadcast in 1974. A final, hour-long version (called Variations) was conducted by Boudreau at an SMCQ concert in 1976. Gilles Potvin (Montreal Le Devoir, 22 Mar 1976) described it as 'a sound labyrinth populated by phantasms,' and emphasized the composer's 'inexhaustible imagination'. The majority of Boudreau's works have been commissioned, notably by the McGill Percussion Ensemble (1977), the Vancouver New Music Society (1978), the Ensemble d'ondes de Montréal (1980), the Ensemble de cuivres d'Aquitaine, France (1982), and I Musici de Montréal (1985). In 1982, the Canadian Music Council awarded him the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his L'Odyssée du soleil. As a member of the Groupe des sisses with Michel-Georges Brégent, Michel Gonneville, Denis Gougeon, Alain Lalonde and John Rea, he participated in the composition and the creation of collective works such as La Folia (1984) and Musique des jardins sans complexe (1987). This last work was used to make the short film Fanfares (Rhombus Media 1988) which traces a portrait of these composers. His composition Golgot(h)a, to a text by Raoul Duguay was awarded the 1991 Grand Prix Paul Gilso.

As a conductor, Boudreau has appeared with, among others, the NACO, the Orchestre métropolitain, the SMCQ Ensemble and the ensemble of the Événements du neuf, and has also conducted for CBC radio recordings. He was named artistic director and conductor of the SMCQ in 1988 and was appointed to a two-year term as composer-in-residence of the TS beginning in September 1990. He is an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

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