Stuart Broomer, Musicworks, May 20, 2019
Freedman and Derome also appeared in Les Lucioles, another arresting large-scale creation from the Montréal community. Joane Hétu’s Joker, a twenty-two-member choir, created a kind of folk-art circus that enlisted numerous instrumentalists as singers, while a few got to play instruments as well. Hétu, Derome, and Danielle Palardy Roger acted as composers and conductors in a work that combined rustic costumes, high-spirited vocals, and large theatrical gestures.