Happy Montrealers wandered stunned between concerts this weekend deranged by the unfamiliar sunshine and an excess of fine music. The Nouveau Ensemble Moderne celebrated their 25th anniversary at the Maison Symphonique, a hall whose acoustic is rarely tested, and they obliged with a program of Claude Vivier, Walter Boudreau, and John Rea-arranged Alban Berg, a solidly Montréalais evening and a reminder that we have a great history of writing music,
not only performing it.