NEW MUSICAL EXPERIENCES - AND HOW !
I was mad with myself. Furious in fact. I have a subscription to the New Philharmonia which had been organized in August last year. I knew there were concerts in January but for some reason they did not show up on my iPad or iPhone. Well I found them on the computer which for some reason had not synchronized with my other « gadgets ». You can understand why I was furious for having missed two concerts which I had been looking forward to. Instead of January then, I went to my first concert lin February. Maurice Ravel « L’Enfant et Les Sortileges » and another not so well known piece.
The new music complex is centred on a 2,400-seat concert hall and includes an educational wing aimed at reaching out to a broad spectrum of the public. The project submitted by Ateliers Jean Nouvel was chosen by an international design competition in 2007. Built in a park that already has a cultural focus, in an up-and-coming district on the northeast edge of Paris, and clearly visible from the outer su