Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2010/01
From: "Christophe Astier" <christophe.astier@-----.fr> Subj: Re: [kl] In Paris with clarinet and suitcase ... Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:16:10 -0500
Hi to all,
Being in Paris, you may want to visit the Selmer Showroom, located 18 rue de
la Fontaine au Roi (18° Arrondissement),
where they also organize concerts and masterclasses. More details on their
website here : http://www.selmer.fr/
Not very far from there, the Museum of Musical Instruments is worth a visit
: http://www.citedelamusique.fr/francais/musee/presentation_coll.aspx,
This museum is part of "La cité de la musique", comprising of the new
conservatory, concert hall, and they organize all sort of events, from
masterclasses
and musical workshops, to concerts naturally. (more details here :
http://www.citedelamusique.fr/francais/agenda.aspx?activite=1 )
I if you are still in Paris on January 20th, this concert at the "Cité de la
Musique" might be of interest for you :
Camille Saint-Saëns Sonate op. 167
Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie pour clarinette et piano
Leonard Bernstein Sonate pour clarinette et piano
Francis Poulenc Sonate pour clarinette et piano
Emmy Lindström Magnolia
Johannes Brahms Sonate n° 1 pour clarinette et piano
Emil Jonason clarinette
Peter Friis Johansson piano
...with best regards,
Christophe ASTIER
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From: "Oliver Seely" <oseely@-----.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:47 PM
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] In Paris with clarinet and suitcase ...
>
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Even with the cold, I envy you. To be there and to get out from under a
> nasty personnel problem I have to face next week would be paradise. Put
> on a warm coat and poke around to your heart's content.
>
> I stayed in Paris in January for one month about 15 years ago. It was
> cold, but not like the cold you have right now.
>
> There are a couple of weekly booklet/magazines containing schedules of
> concerts, recitals and everything else.
>
> "L'officiel des spectacles" comes out on Wednesday.
>
> "Pariscope" is weekly but I can't remember the day of publication.
>
> Rue de Rome had most of the clarinet shops at that time. The Selmer shop
> is somewhere else, can't remember where.
>
> What great memories you give me! Have a great time.
>
> Oliver
>
> At 04:43 AM 1/9/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Due to a lovely quirk of the life that is academia, I find myself in
>>Paris for 2 months. A slightly worrying situation given that it's damn
>>cold here and my central heating doesn't work properly (... it's a good
>>thing by Bb at least is Greenline ...) but nevertheless a happy turn of
>>circumstances.
>>
>>Anyway, there's clearly a lot to do here in 2 months -- lots of museums,
>>galleries, concerts by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, ... But I
>>realised that though Paris is theoretically the home of French
>>clarinetting, I don't know a lot about what's available here.
>>
>>So, what *clarinetty* things are there in the city that list members
>>would recommend to me ... ?
>>
>>Pour les membres du liste qui sont francophones, je répète ce que j'ai
>>déjà dit en anglais ... à cause d'une belle piece de fortune de la vie
>>académique, je me trouve à Paris pour deux mois. Peut-être une
>>problème
>>Ã cause de la froid (heureusement mon clarinette Sib est Greenline) mais
>>néanmoins une situation très heureux.
>>
>>Naturellement il y a beaucoup des choses à faire -- des musées, des
>>exhibitions d'art, les concerts de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain ...
>>mais, même qu'on connaît Paris comme le centre de clarinette français,
>>je trouve que je ne connais pas bien Paris du point de vue de la
>>clarinette.
>>
>>Donc, est-ce que vous pouvez me faire connaissance un peu des
>>possibilités clarinettistique de la ville? :-)
>>
>>Thanks and Merci bien to all (Ã tous),
>>
>> -- Joe
>>
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