Saturday, February 21, 2009

Does The Sun Have A Solid Core?

Leonidad Kavakos interpreter Concerto Sibelius Violin recital

promise, after I quit the violin!

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Madness

There are people who have such a presence that whatever they say, one is obliged to listen.

It's the same with music ...

Imagine a violinist , alone on stage, without partition. Little man in the middle of a plateau of 20 feet high and thirty meters wide. Only then, facing (I fear for him), the silence that is at the lights of the room. Now, 700 pairs of eyes are turned towards him.

He still half past one. Yes, only half past one on stage, or more exactly alone with his violin.

It focuses for a moment, waiting for people to have finished coughing, put their coats behind their head, closed their purse, and he begins.

From Bach, nothing but Bach for an hour and a half.

is the incredible challenge that David Grimal has made this week by playing in two nights, the complete Sonatas and Partitas for an audience incroyableemnt silent, just fascinated ...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

How Can I Shrink My Woolen Jumper

Music before anything ...

Two weeks ago I'm at the Opera of Dijon and already my trial period ends. Two short weeks to settle into a studio where I'm actually very little, so far remains almost empty, especially without the internet, hence my silence.



There would be many things to say about the discovery of the French musical world!
passionate people I met, the moaners, musicians union, program managers for projects incredible people committed to their work and others who have never liked the music. And yes, you meet people of all kinds in an opera house, all kinds of professions also: artists, people from the administration, but also technicians, assemblers decor, manufacturers of suits, and even ... Baby! (Referring to the last show that featured children 18 laws to 3 years!)
In two weeks I must have seen very little, but in any case I understand why we speak of a house opera rather than an opera house: we're working on the day, spends his evenings at the theater, in short, they live there!