The Corporation George-Étienne-Cartier, named in honour of George-Étienne Cartier, a Father of Confederation and opera lover, was set up to build it, and the first part of the complex (including the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) was inaugurated on September 21, 1963.
Bachelor of Arts | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Melrose Place | Des Moines, Iowa | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Der Ring des Nibelungen | hamlet (place) | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | Des Moines | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Beaux-Arts architecture | Mixed martial arts | Museum of Fine Arts | Arts and Crafts movement |
He has performed in North America (including acclaimed venues such as NYC's Lincoln Center and MetLife Stadium, Montreal's Place des Arts, and San Francisco's Palace Of Fine Arts), Mexico, Europe, and Argentina.
The album was recorded during sold out concert at the Place des Arts in Montreal, on May 31, 1985, which was a part of the C'est pour toi tournée.
A patron of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, in the early 1960s when the Orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, McConnell purchased a 1727 Stradivarius violin for concertmaster and violinist Calvin Sieb.
The Montreal Symphony House is located at the corner of de Maisonneuve Boulevard West and Saint Urbain Street, on the northeastern esplanade of Place des Arts in the Quartier des Spectacles.