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Tag Archives: Paris
The Ecstasy of Wifi
If an alien life form were to land unannounced backstage at a concert in 2012, they would make some basic assumptions about human behaviour which I once would have thought unfounded. Now I’m not so sure. One of the many … Continue reading
Posted in Gareth Davies, Paris & Brussels May 2012
Tagged classical music, concert, flute, france, Gareth Davies, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, symphony, tour, travel, twitter, wifi
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Ladies and Gentlemen…please welcome the Chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra
I couldn’t help noticing the sign on our bus as we left Germany for Paris at the weekend. Just in case you are reading this on a smartphone and it is too small, the sign says ‘Comedy Tour’! As I … Continue reading
Waiting for Christine…
I am at the moment sitting in a café opposite the Gare du Nord in Paris with an obligatory croissant and coffee, for which I am being charged a small fortune. I guess, to channel the ghostly words of Hemingway … Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham & Paris Mahler March 2011, Gareth Davies
Tagged Birmingham, Christine Pendrill, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, classical music, concert, Cor Anglais, culture, flute, Gareth Davies, instruments, london symphony orchestra, Paris, symphony, Symphony No. 7 (Mahler), travel, Valery Gergiev
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The train rain refrain
As an encore at the recital the other night, we played a little melancholy Welsh folk song. Simple but effective in its main aim of bringing a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye. A member of … Continue reading
Posted in Gareth Davies, Luxembourg/Paris November 2010
Tagged Alexandre Desplat, arts, Brussels, classical music, concert, culture, Elgar, flute, france, Gareth Davies, instruments, japan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, london symphony orchestra, LSO, Luxembourg, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, Rain, Salle Pleyel, Sir Colin Davis, symphony, tour, travel, violin
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Mission Aix – a PM’s perspective
Project Manager Craig Thorne gives us a progress update… I certainly can’t take all the credit for Plan C – I must mention everyone in the Discovery team who pulled together to make it happen: Paul, Elie, Becca and Laura … Continue reading
Posted in Aix en Provence education April 2010, Craig Thorne
Tagged aix, classical music, education, france, london symphony orchestra, LSO, musicians, Paris, travel
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Cutting the mustard in Dijon
I don’t know what the French for joie de vivre is, but I left mine somewhere on the Barbican stage on Thursday night after Daphnis and Chloe. Well, really it was after a week which began 2 weeks earlier which … Continue reading
Posted in Dijon/Paris September 2009, Gareth Davies
Tagged arts, classical music, concert, france, Gareth Davies, instruments, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, symphony, tour, travel, Valery Gergiev
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And now, the end is near…
So what better way to finish off a world tour than two nights in Paris. The embers of the tour began with a train journey from Cologne which was beautiful – well the bits I saw when I wasn’t asleep … Continue reading
Posted in Eastern Europe May 2009, Gareth Davies
Tagged arts, classical music, cologne, concert, culture, flute, france, Gareth Davies, instruments, lang lang, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, Prokofiev, symphony, tour, travel, Valery Gergiev
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Chez mon ou?
After C.S. lewis decorated my back garden last week, Paris seems rather drab. We arrived yesterday to a grey and miserable city, cloaked in a wet blanket of cloud; despite the travel nightmare which was last week in London, I … Continue reading
Posted in France/Germany February 2009, Gareth Davies
Tagged arts, beethoven, C S Lewis, cello, classical music, concert, culture, essen, france, instruments, john eliot gardiner, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, snow, symphony, tour, travel, vibrato, violin
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Back on the blog
Although I am in Basingstoke today, I shall not be filling you in on backstage gossip as it isn’t really a tour. However we travel to Paris on Monday with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Visit the site for regular blogs. … Continue reading
Posted in France/Germany February 2009, Gareth Davies
Tagged arts, basingstoke, cello, classical music, concert, culture, france, germany, instruments, john eliot gardiner, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paris, snow, symphony, tour, travel, twitter, violin
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Dusseldorf, Cologne and Chocolate
Since we last spoke, the LSO has been busy with Gergiev doing Mahler, Strauss and Mozart with Haitink, and Mozart and Brahms with Previn. It has been non stop, with a whistlestop trip to Paris that was so brief, I … Continue reading
Posted in Dusseldorf/Cologne June 2008, Gareth Davies
Tagged Andre Previn, Bernard Haitink, Brahms, Bruckner, chocolate, cologne, concert, conductors, Dijon, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Gordon Ramsey, Guildford, LSO, Mahler, Mozart, Paris, Planetarium, Prokofiev, Schubert, Sir Colin Davis, Strauss, Valery Gergiev
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