Daft Punk used to be in a group called Darlin’ where they would expose their human faces.She was 147 cm tall, which is the maximum height a pony can be before it is technically a horse.Edith Piaf’s funeral is the only occasion since WW2 to have completely stopped traffic in Paris.Jean Michel Jarre is the artist with the biggest-ever audience: 3.5 million people came to see him perform in Moscow in 1997, many – presumably – of their own volition.It is tied in third place with the UK and Luxembourg. France is the third most-successful Eurovision country in history with five victories under its belt so far.“My Way” may be Frank Sinatra’s biggest hit but it was adapted from a French song, “Comme d’habitude”, which was composed, written and sung entirely by French people.Accordions aren’t even French, they were invented in Germany.Johnny Hallyday is France’s biggest-selling musician with an estimated 80 million record sales to date, 5 million more than Kenny G.French people play bagpipes! There are even French varieties of bagpipes which sound just as bad as the Scottish ones.To celebrate this annual noise-fest, let’s take a look at some lesser-known facts about French music.
#Modern french cafe music free
The urban and social context of 19th century Paris will provide the background for our visual analysis of these first, fascinating depictions of the popular entertainments of a modern metropolis.Today is La Fête de la Musique, that wonderful French festival where (often) free music events take place across France. These artists reacted with both fascination and ambivalence to the attractions of the modern city in which cheap alcohol, entertainment, and women were perpetually on sale. Renoir, van Gogh, Forain, Béraud, and Boldini are the other major painters whose paintings of late 19th century Paris dance halls and cafés will be presented. We will be connecting Manet’s Walters masterpiece with key predecessors like Degas’ “Absinthe” from 1876 and later depictions of Paris nightlife like Georges Seurat’s “Chahut” (1889-90) and Toulouse-Lautrec’s “At the Moulin Rouge” (1890). Our lecture will trace the evolution of the depiction of the “café concert” (the distinctive Parisian version of the 19th century music hall, the café and the dance hall) in the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Beginning with the generation that included Manet and Edgar Degas in the 1860s and continuing with the Impressionist group founded in the 1870s, the depiction of modern Paris – its boulevards, railway stations, theaters, apartment buildings and its popular venues of entertainment - cafés, brasseries, music halls, dance halls, circuses, and fairgrounds - become legitimate themes for the new painting, in direct competition with the historical subjects favored by the conservative art world. In a famous essay published in 1862 the great poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire introduced the concept of “modern life” as the crucial subject that artists of the 19th century should be focusing on. The Paris-based art historian Chris Boïcos will be using this work as the basis for a presentation of the theme of the café and the music hall in French painting during the Impressionist era. The Walters Art Museum owns a remarkable oil painting by Édouard Manet entitled “The Café-Concert” painted in 1878-79. Chris Boïcos, professor of art history for the University of Southern California Paris program and founder (2007) and main lecturer for Paris Art Studies
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