Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead You think you can play as well as any of those musicians on stage? As part of a celebration called “Viva l’Orchestre” you are invited by the Orchestre National de France to perform as part of an orchestra of grand amateurs on stage in Paris at the new Auditorium at Radio France, […]
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Tags: Aaron Copland, Bernard Hermann, George Gershwin, John Cage, John Williams, Orchestre National de France, Samuel Barber
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The eclectic musical life of the brief but thriving ‘Roaring twenties’ continues to inspire a nostalgia that is all the more understandable given contemporary classical music’s reorientation toward popular idioms from techno to rock. The latest album of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, sets out to recreate the […]
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Tags: Alexandre Tharaud, Bénabar, Chanel, Clément Doucet, Cole Porter, Darius Milhaud, David Chevallier, EMI, Florent Jodelet, Frank Braley, George Gershwin, Guillaume Gallienne, Jean Cocteau, Jean Delescluse, Jean Wiéner, Juliette, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Les Six, Madeleine Peyroux, Maurice Chevalier, Nathalie Dessay, Picasso, Pleyel, Rebecca Schmid, Stravinsky, Virgin Classics, William Christopher Handy
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