Posts Tagged ‘Orchestre National de France’
Thursday, June 15th, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead June 15, 2017. An article in Tuesday’s Le Figaro newspaper gives some positive news about the future of the two radio orchestras in France, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. As we reported in 2015 in Musical America, there was panic when proposals were floated to […]
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Tags: Emmanuel Krivine, Erick Denut, Jean-Marc Bador, Luc Besson, Mathieu Gallet, mikko franck, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead Two concerts, Thursday and Friday, January 12 and 13, 2017, give a view to the future of the Paris music scene. The Thursday concert, with the first appearance of the new music director of the Orchestre National de France in his new role, gives a positive impression. Emmanuel Krivine, 69, is not […]
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Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti, Edward Elgar, Elbphilharmonie, Emmanuel Krivine, Modest Mussorgsky, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmoniqe de Radio France, Paul Hindemith, Philharmonie de Paris, Riccardo Muti, Yasuhisa Toyota
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
By: Frank Cadenhead Where is Stephen Colbert when you need him? He certainly could do a comedy routine about the train wreck that is the opening of the musical season in Paris this year. The goofiness of multiple openings of world-class events on the same day would get lots of laughs. In his absence I […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Annick Boccon-Gibod, bryn terfel, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Edouard Foure Caul-Futy, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Emmanuel Krivine, Marcelo Alvarez, mikko franck, Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Renaud Capuçon, Richard Strauss, Stéphane Denève
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Saturday, June 18th, 2016
by: Frank Cadenhead On Wednesday, during a morning interview on France Musique, Emmanuel Krivine was blunt. “I’m trying to go to the end by being a little less of an ass than at the beginning” His selection as the new music director of the Orchestre National de France, starting with the coming season, was much […]
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Tags: Daniele Gatti, Emmanuel Krivine, Jean Martinon, Kurt Masur, Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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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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