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Post by luckyluc on Jun 21, 2007 7:46:27 GMT -5
Today is the Fête de la musique, an annual celebration of music and the importance it have in our life. Started in France in 1982, it has been growing and now is an international event. This evening there will be free concerts and a lot of street musicians in in hometown. The Alliance Française is also sponsoring musical events around the world. Check the program at www.fetedelamusique.culture.fr/index_flash.phpand let make music! |
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Post by Happygoin on Jun 21, 2007 8:11:05 GMT -5
Luc, your last sentence made me think of this: When I was in the fourth grade (my first year of French classes) our teacher taught us to sing Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabel (sp?) in French. I still can remember it, and sing it loud and proud (and completely off-key) each December to anyone who will listen. I have a friend who calls and requests it around the first of December. She screams laughing all the way through my lovely rendition....she's jealous, I'm sure!
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Post by luckyluc on Jun 21, 2007 8:19:19 GMT -5
Un flambeau Jeannette Isabelle is one of our all-time favorite carols. We live in a small Edwardian home dowtown Ottawa, so for entertaining we usually only do diner for eight. But once a year we have our annual-sing-a-long (about 30 fellows ) where I get to teach to the non-Francophone the beauties of French carols. We will put on the phone next time!
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Post by Happygoin on Jun 21, 2007 8:35:45 GMT -5
LOL...it's a date!
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Post by Anne on Jun 21, 2007 9:41:08 GMT -5
I already posted a thread about the Fête de la Musique a few days ago on the "Paris current events" forum  |
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Post by Happygoin on Jun 21, 2007 11:41:39 GMT -5
I saw that and wondered..  |
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Post by luckyluc on Jun 21, 2007 11:59:05 GMT -5
My mistake I did not see Anne's thread before posting this one. I moved both threads in here, but there is no way to merge them. Pardonnez la confusion.
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Post by geordy on Jun 21, 2007 17:20:21 GMT -5
I was in Paris once for the Fete and had a wonderful day!! Then a few years later I missed both the Fete and my niece and her hubby by one day...I was flying on miles and could not get a flight out of Paris. Had to go to Frankfort(sp? I know that's not right??!!) to fly home so spent the Fete de Musique there. Was quite nice...a lively street fair but I was teary watching a concert from Paris on the TV there!!!
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Post by Truffaut on Jun 21, 2007 21:45:46 GMT -5
Ah, Luc comme nous sommes jumeaux! "Un flambeau.." est mon chanson de Noel favorite. C'est occupé une place spécial de mon coeur. Je la chante tous les vielles de Noel et c'est n'est pas vraiment Noel avant l'arrivé d'Isabelle. Merci des souvenirs douces!!
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Post by Anne on Jun 22, 2007 4:51:10 GMT -5
I went to the Fête yesterday evening at the nearby town and it was just great .
There were big bands on every square and in the parks too . There were smaller bands scattered on the streets . This accounted for quite a cacophony, but then you go there for the ambiance more than true musical emotion . The weather was great and the cars had been banned from downtown, so the streets were packed with families and groups of teenagers strolling round, stumbling on and greeting eachothers because this is not such a big town, dancing, eating grilled sausages or seating at large tables which had been put on the streets to have a drink . We left at 11.00 because there were always more people coming so pushing one's way through the crowd was getting difficult .
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Post by luckyluc on Jun 22, 2007 8:42:02 GMT -5
That must have been great Anne!. I agree with you it is not the time for a attentive audition but what a ambiance it must have been, and a dowtown without car will always be a winner for me. This year we were also lucky, since the National Art Center is holding their music summer camp in our Univerisity Music Faculty they gave us a impromptu lunch concert in the park. Ah! la musique adoucit les moeurs.
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Post by Anne on Jun 21, 2008 2:35:01 GMT -5
This is tonight folks  ! I read that the Palais de l'Elysée will be opened to the public for a series of concerts in the Cour d'Honneur . It will start at 2.30pm with the orchestra of the Garde Républicaine and then the choir of the French army . They will be followed by different styles of music, until 7.30 . Then the Ministry of Defense invites the public in the Cour d'Honneur des Invalides from 8.30pm onwards for again the military orchestra+choirs, which will now play opéra accompanied by solists Béatrice Uria-Monzon and Magali Léger . Being in the Cour d'Honneur des Invalides at night while listening to opéra, that must be something ! |
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Post by geordy on Jun 21, 2008 8:56:01 GMT -5
NYC has joined the fun though it is called" Make Music NY" Lots of free music in all the boros!
Planning on hitting a few events in Central Park and by the Metropolitan Museum but most definitely will be in front of the Guggenheim Museum for "Louise Bourgeois's favorite songs" The huge retrospective of her work that just concluded in Paris is coming there next so this is a preliminary "tease" Should be interesting...I used to work for one of her sons, he is an attorney, was a judge, and also a photographer!
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Post by sandy on Jun 21, 2008 16:08:44 GMT -5
I was in Paris enjoying Fete de la Musique just 19 years ago. We spent the whole night walking around, spending some time at each of the stages were music was being played. The only bad thing was that once the Fete ended, it was too late to catch the metro, it was cold, we waited for more than an hour for a bus that never arrived, so we ended up waiting in a McDonald's (I think it was the one near Les Halles) until it was the time that the metro started running again.
Oh... being in Paris, and being 23 again!!!
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Jun 22, 2008 1:37:35 GMT -5
Wow, in 2004 we were at Ste-Chapelle for a concert on the evening of the summer solstice and as it was a very sunny day we had a spectacular show with the windows as the sun set.
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Let the riot begin! LOL - 
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