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Classical concert & fireworks in Paris - Bastille Day


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A firework display under the colors of Olympism

 

Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, gives an appointment to Parisians, tourists and visitors to watch the fireworks, on the evening of July 14th, realized by the company Ruggieri.

This show was built around the great values that Paris defends for its bid for the Olympic Games of 2024. Through a dozen frescoes, the Iron Lady will invite us to discover its city and will share with us the values of France, Paris and Olympism.

 

Discover the musical program

1 - Introduction: Star Wars – The Force Awakens, Trailer Theme (1’40)

2 - Tableau 14 Juillet: TIBZ – Nation (1’55)

3- Voyage dans Paris: Caravan Palace – Dramophone (1’25) // Parov Stelar – Catgroove (40’’) // The Chainsmokers – Paris (1’) // Jacques Brel – La Chanson des vieux amants (1’05)

4 - Écologie : Deep Forest – Sweet Lullaby (1’45)

5 - JO et Sport : John Williams – Olympic Fanfare and theme (2’) // Tonight (Instrumental Version) (40”) // I Love You – Woodkid (55’’)

6 - L’héritage et l’évolution: Indila – Dernière Danse (1’50) // Two Steps From Hell – All Is Hell Thats Ends Well (1’50)

7 - Les Parisiens: Willy William ft. Cris Cab – Paris (1’10) // Frank Sinatra – I love Paris (55’’)

8 - Final: partage et célébration: Ibrahim Maalouf – Red & Black Lights (2’30) // Two Steps From Hell – Starchild (3’)

 

I look forward to hear Williams music with great light and firework show ! 

Also, there is a 2H classical music concert that takes place before the fireworks (maybe another opportunity to ear some williams music) :) 

 

 

Here's what last year show looked like

 

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Are you sure the "trailer theme" they will do is actually by Williams?

 

Cool that they're doing trailer music, though. Unusual! :)

 

As a side note, Kathleen Kennedy needs to call them up demand that the ceremony not use American music to promote the French Olympic bid. We want the games to come to LA! :P

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Well I edited my post as the copy past did not work :lol: There is more than the trailer music :) 

 

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3 minutes ago, Will said:

We want the games to come to LA! :P

 

Not a chance :angry: :lol:

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Another reason to want the Games to come to LA is that maybe JW would write a piece for it. ;)

 

It's his hometown, after all. 

 

This all assumes that he's alive in 2024. Think positively! 

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I'll give you that ;)

 

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EDIT : Just to clarify : The music during the fireworks and light show is not played live obviously but the concert before well yes as it's a concert :P

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In fact, the "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" was premiered at the 1984 LA Opening Ceremony. 

 

11 minutes ago, toothless said:

 

Not a chance :angry: :lol:

 

Actually, I just did a Google search and it looks like both might get an Olympics -- they might award 2024 and 2028 at the same time!

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-ioc-bach-20170707-story.html

 

Here's hoping they do LA first, so there's a chance of a new JW piece. The chance of him still being alive in 2028 will be smaller (yes, I know this is a really dark sentence :(). 

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In fact, the "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" was premiered at the 1984 LA Opening Ceremony. 

 

So there's no reasons to rehash this piece once again in LA, is there ? :P

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2 hours ago, toothless said:

 Sorry @Will but it'll be Paris :P

 

Yep, noted my disappointment in another thread:

 

 

I should note, as I'm sure you've read, that Los Angeles didn't lose. :P They were simply willing to negotiate, and they got financial concessions for waiting. Unfortunately, none of those concessions will make John Williams live longer. :(

 

Of course, since I don't actually live in LA, I don't care that much. I'm not sure if you live in Paris or not, but if so I'm happy for you (well, assuming there aren't cost overruns!)

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I did not even know this thread existed :P

 

Indeed it's a win-win situation where Paris can FINALLY host the olympics again and LA will have financial compensation. It's great news :) Of course it lessens the possibility of a John Williams piece…

 

PS : I do live in Paris and look very forward to the olympics :)

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This year on the 2h classical music concert (before the fireworks) the orchestra will play Schindler's list and some Leonard Berstein :)

 

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Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust : Marche Hongroise 

Giuseppe Verdi 
La Traviata « Brindisi »

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Don Giovanni « La ci darem la mano » 

Alexandre Borodine
Le Prince Igor  - Danse Polovtsienne n° 17 

Giacomo Puccini
Turandot « Nessun Dorma »

Serge Rachmaninov 
Concerto pour piano n°2 – 3ème mouvement (extrait)

Nicola Porpora 
Polifemo « Alto giove »

Claude Debussy 
Salut printemps 

Camille Saint-Saëns 
Samson et Dallila « Bacchanale »

Richard Wagner
Tannhaüser « Lied an den Abendstern »

Charles Gounod 
Faust  « Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux »

Camille Saint-Saëns 
Samson et Dallila « Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix » (arrangement D. Lockwood)

John Williams 
La liste de Schindler 

Georg Friedrich Haendel 
Rinaldo « Lascia ch’io pianga » 

Jules Massenet
Le Cid / Ballets « Navarraise » 

Dimitri Chostakovitch
« Valse » et « Polka » pour 2 violons et piano (orchestrées par Lucas Henri)

Vincenzo Bellini 
Norma « Casta Diva » 

Leonard Bernstein 
West side story - Mambo

Jacques Offenbach 
Les contes d’Hoffmann – Barcarolle

Hector Berlioz / Rouget de L'Isle
La Marseillaise 

Aïda Garifullina soprano
Patricia Petibon soprano
Joyce di Donato mezzo-soprano
Philippe Jaroussky contre-ténor
Matthias Goerne baryton
Sarah et Deborah Nemtanu violons
Renaud Capuçon violon
Khatia Buniatishvili piano

Chœur de Radio France
Martina Batič
chef de choeur
Maîtrise de Radio France
Marie-Noëlle Maerten 
chef de choeur
Orchestre National de France
François-Xavier Roth
direction
 

 

http://www.maisondelaradio.fr/evenement/concert-symphonique/concert-de-paris

 

 

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2 minutes ago, toothless said:

They just played Schindler's list. I still can't believe how beautiful this piece is.

So true.  Transports the listener from the first note.  Quite amazing.  Violinist did a very good job, too.

 

The orchestra was gave Bernstein's Mambo a thrilling go, too! 

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This year concert started :)

 

https://mobile.france.tv/spectacles-et-culture/opera-et-musique-classique/1025301-le-concert-de-paris-2019.html

 

No Williams, it appears, for the concert! But who knows for the

 

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Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust « Marche Hongroise »

Georges Bizet
Carmen : prélude et « Habenera »
Gaëlle Arquez

Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette «  Je veux vivre »
Aleksandra Kurzak

Charles Gounod
Faust « Le Veau d’or »
René Pape

Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco «  Va pensiero »

Charles Aznavour / Gall
La Mamma
(orchestration de Didier Benetti)
Roberto Alagna, Xuefei Yang

Aram Khachaturian
Gayaneh « Danse du Sabre »

Antonio Vivaldi
Giustino « Vedro con mio diletto »
Jakub Józef Orliński

Joaquin Rodrigo
Concerto d’Aranjuez : Adagio
Xuefei Yang

Jacques Offenbach
La Gaîté Parisienne : Ouverture et Vivo

Jacques Offenbach
La Périchole « Le muletier et la jeune personne »
Gaëlle Arquez, Roberto Alagna

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto n°23 pour piano et orchestre : 2eme mouvement
Khatia Buniatishvili

Fromental Halévy
La Juive « Rachel, quand du Seigneur »
Roberto Alagna

Anton Dvořák
Rusalka « Ode à la lune »
Gautier Capuçon

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story : « Tonight » (Scène du Balcon)
Christian Elsner, Chen Reiss

Johannes Brahms
Danse Hongroise n°5

Franz Lehar
La Veuve joyeuse « L’heure exquise »
Aleksandra Kurzak, Roberto Alagna

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphonie n°9 « Ode à la joie »

Claude Rouget de Lisle / Hector Berlioz
La Marseillaise

 

Maîtrise de Radio France

Sofi Jeannin, chef de chœur

Chœur de Radio France

Alessandro Di Stefano, chef de chœur

Orchestre National de France

Alain Altinoglu, direction

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And no Williams for the Fireworks either this year :) Only a bit of Zimmer !

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@Jay maybe this thread can be moved to the general category, as there is no Williams music every year :) 

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This year concert is ongoing :) : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/14-juillet/direct-festivites-du-14-juillet-regardez-le-grand-concert-de-paris-et-le-feu-d-artifice-depuis-la-tour-eiffel_4044843.html

 

As last year, no Williams music for the concert but who knows for the fireworks :) 

 

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- Hector Berlioz – La Damnation de Faust : Marche Hongroise
- Edith Piaf – L’Hymne à l’amour (Sonya Yoncheva, soprano) 
- Georges Bizet – Les Pêcheurs de perles : Au fond du Temple Saint…  (Ludovic - Tézier, baryton et Benjamin Bernheim, ténor) 
- Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski – Concerto pour piano n°1 (extrait) (Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
- Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco : Va Pensiero 
- Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story : Tonight, I feel pretty (Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trompette) 
- Léo Delibes – Les Filles de Cadix (Fatma Said, soprano) 
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Egmont : Ouverture  
- Charles Gounod – Roméo et Juliette : L’Amour… Ah lève-toi soleil(Benjamin Bernheim, ténor) 
- Charlie Chaplin – City Memories (Lisa Batiashvili, violon) 
- Édouard Lalo – Concerto pour violoncelle n°2 III. Andante-Allegro vivace (Sol Gabetta, violoncelle)
- Alfredo Catalani – La Wally : Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (Sonya Yoncheva, soprano)
- Georges Bizet – Carmen : Entracte du IIIe acte 
- Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata : Chœurs des bohémiennes 
- Charles Aznavour – La Bohème (Ludovic Tézier, baryton)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto pour piano n°23 II. Andante (Ballet Preljocaj, Khatia Buniatishvili, piano) 
- José Serrano – La Canción del olvido : Marinela (Fatma Said, soprano) 
- Maurice Ravel – Boléro (arrangement Didier Benetti)
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle / Hector Berlioz – La Marseillaise Couplets 1 et 7 (Angélique Kidjo, chanteuse et Tutti)

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, toothless said:

no Williams music for the concert but who knows for the fireworks :)

 

Watching. It's just songs with 0 synchronisation or relation to the fireworks. Utterly lame. 

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Yes this year was complete trash I don’t understand given it was so much better other year. This year the music had no relations with each other and was not synchronized with the firework. I guess it was a rush job due to COVID...

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And by the way, earlier on that day, during the traditional July 14th military parade (smaller scale this year, due to covid concerns), a military band played the second half of Summon the Heroes, followed by Olympic Fanfare and Theme.

 

 

Can't say that I'm overly impressed by the performance... But cool anyway.

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