FESTIVAL LECTURES

11am - Salle Einstein/ Le Corum

Free Admission

Mardi 15
King Arthur
by Hervé Niquet

Jeudi 17
Antonio Stradivari, a domestic tyrant by Frédéric ChaudiÈre
Violin maker in Montpellier, scientific curator of the exhibition Stradivarius Montpellier 2008.

By working until age 93, Stradivarius managed to build one thousand instruments. The quality of his creations left an unforgettable sound imprint on the music world.
Today, when you listen to Maxim Vengerov or Anne-Sophie Mutter, it is a stradivarius you are hearing.
You prefer Grapelli? Well guess what, it is another stradivarius that sings to your ears.To obtain such results, Antonio Stradivari imposed a quest for perfection at all times from his household. By examining closely the rare information that came through to us about this uncommon man, Frédéric Chaudière tries to close in on the character of the most famous violin maker, of all time.

Samedi 19
The trends of the Russian music at the beginning of XX° century by André LISCHKE
Years preceding the Revolution of October observe in Russia a profusion of aesthetic trends which gets all the forms of art and is spread out of the most preservative in the most “avant-gardistes”. It is their reflection in the music which this conference fetches to light by reviewing their most striking representatives, such as Glazounov, Rachmaninov, Scriabine, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and others, and by proposing a sampling of musical illustrations.

Mercredi 23
Esmeralda by Arnaud Laster
The story of Esmeralda deserves to be told: opera consisted by a woman in a period when all the composers of operas are men; a Victor Hugo's notebook which the theater arouses battle and censorship; transcription of the score for song and piano by Liszt; first resurrections under this shape. It will have been necessary more than 170 years and some firm curiosities among which those of the author of this conference and the manager of this festival so that is restored its chance in a score suppressed by prejudices of all kinds.


Vendredi 25
World music by Patrick Derlon
Musical programmer and presenter since 1991 for Fip, one of the channels of the group Radio France, programmer «world " since 2004 for the Festival Radio France and Montpelier, Patrick Derlon is not a specialist of the Musics of the World but a hard to please listener of the living music under all its forms. He invites you to come speaking with him about the place made for the musics said "of the world " whether it is in radio or in the programming of festival..

Samedi 26
Salustia
by Jean-Paul Scarpitta

MAGAZINE - FRANCE CULTURE "TOUT ARRIVE"
Arnaud Laporte

12 noon - Cour Soulages/ Musée Fabre - Terrasse de l'Insensé

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