PHILHARMONIE

Yoga and music

«Il y a deux moyens d’oublier les tracas de la vie: la musique et les chats.»
Albert Schweitzer, médecin, organiste, philosophe, théologien, auteur de textes sur Bach et prix Nobel de la paix influencé par les penseurs indiens, n’oubliait-il pas le yoga? Nouveau cycle de trois concerts atypiques, «Yoga & Music», organisé en coopération avec le «Radialsystem V» de Berlin, propose More

Musica Surfica

Musicians and surfers at the top of their art; performing at the edge of the world

Musica Surfica is a documentary that follows one man’s creative journey. Richard Tognetti, the Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, is a world-renowned violinist and a life-long surfer. He teams up with surfing virtuoso Derek Hynd to bring together More

applause

In a blogpost I wrote a few weeks ago, I talked about the applause in a concert. What are the rules? Well there are no written ones, but tradition made it inappropriate to show your pleasure by applauding whenever you feel it! But things may change… In a recent article published on the blog of Tom Service (Guardian), a change of the tradition may be announced: “… it seems as if the fatuous snobbery of not clapping after any movement as proof of holier-than-thou cognoscenti-dom may be becoming a thing of the past. There was no hushing of the applauders from the rest of the hall, there was (…) More