Chanson du Jour 12/14/2016: Francis Cabrel à Forest National “Rosie”
My wife and I were fortunate to see the legendary Francis Cabrel perform this song at Arènes de Nîmes last July – an unforgettable evening of music.
Category: Music
Chanson Du Jour: All of Me
Chanson Du Jour 12/12/16 – “All of Me”
Birelli Legrene, at age 14, already a master of the jazz manouche style originated by Django Reinhardt
The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending
The celebrated French-Lebanese film composer was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.
Gabriel Yared begins every day the same way. He gets up, and reaches for a Bach score, burying his head in the baroque master’s music.
“Why do I do this? I put a ceiling of perfection and beauty over my day, and every day is the same to me – trying to reach beauty,” says the celebrated French-Lebanese film composer, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.
The idea that Yared – a 67-year-old Academy Award-winner with more than 100 movie credits, who has scored films for directors as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard and Continue reading “The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending”
Chanson Du Jour: Lonely
Chanson Du Jour 12/11/2016 Yael Naim – “Lonely”
Chanson Du Jour: Hushaby
Chanson Du Jour 12/10/2016 Lou Doillon and. Keren Ann – “Hushaby” – Live at La Flèche d’Or
Echoes of the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith … sublime et merveilleux
The centenary of Léo Ferré: the exclusive interview
Born August 24, 1916, Léo Ferré would have been 100 years old this year.In November 1990, before a recital at Déjazet theater, libertarian theater in Paris, the artist gave an interview to two journalists from France 3 Paris, Rouzane Avanissian and Ambroise Perrin. It is this document, remained largely unpublished part to date, that Culturebox exclusively offers.
Paris, November 1990. Once again Leo Ferre is on show at the TLP Déjazet. TLP as Libertarian Theatre in Paris. In this place committed to the Paris scene, it really feels at home. Ferré has published its penultimate album, “The old boys.”
In 1990, let us remember, is the war of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein is the enemy of George Bush before eleven years later that of his son. 1990, in South Africa, the end of apartheid. In France, President Mitterrand began two years before his second term, 100,000 students demonstrate in Paris and Léo Ferré 74 years.
In this first part of the interview he gave on November 9 journalists FR3 Rouzane Avanissian and Ambroise Perrin, he speaks of rebellion, anger, the couple or the great mystery of our existence.
Listen to interview en français : The centenary of Léo Ferré: the exclusive interview
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