concert - Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

13 avril 2015

Versailles and Vienna

You might vaguely remember these posters. The music school organized a concert at the beginning of February whose theme was "the Royal Celebrations of Versailles". It was such a success - the first classical concert of the year, so 250 people came - that...

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Tags: school, guitar, music, recorder, concert, play, violin, church, piano, cello, viola, university, valse, versailles, video, vienna, waltz

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9 février 2015

Still playing.

On January 24th, we had our Annual Fest-Noz. With capital letters. It's a huge and terrifyingly-organized evening centred around Breton music and dancing, it needs so much work put into it that there is only one per year (compared to several per week...

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Tags: mayotte, accordion, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, concert, sing, violin, church, rehearsal, clarinet, organ, piano, cello, viola, charlie, hebdo, fest-noz, saxophone

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16 juin 2014

Music

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. On May 31st, I was roped in to play "film music", which was a new one for me. Mostly cartoon themes such as Some Day My Prince Will Come, Popeye or The Bare Necessities, but the odd tune from films such...

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Tags: food, school, blue, bretons, music, mango, concert, dance, folk, pancakes, film

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24 mars 2014

Two Classical Concerts Went To Market...

This week-end and last week-end, there were two concerts. Not the same one repeated but two different ones. The common denominator was the music school director's sister, Odile, who plays first flute in the Avignon orchestra and who sings too. She was...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, flute, music, concert, sing, violin, church, classical, fatima, notre dame, cello, avignon, odile, romantic

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17 février 2014

Playing the violin on stage.

On the first day of February, the music school in Mamoudzou held its second classical concert. We'd managed to bring together quite the orchestra, with different - complementary - instruments, and different nationalities. One of the violinists was French,...

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9 décembre 2013

Notre Dame de Fatima

The last big classical concert we had in Mayotte was with the Nomad Baroque group who had come for a few days to play. They had invited the music school classical orchestra as well as several other musicians to play with them, including me. This time,...

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22 avril 2013

Musical Boats

It's name is the M'zouazia. Its construction started in 2006, and it was put into water for the first time in November 2011. Built by a man called Nicolas Hilly and his family, the construction took place in the village of M'zouazia in the south of Mayotte....

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Tags: mayotte, teacher, boat, music, concert, bao, mzouazia

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4 mars 2013

Aria Sopra la Bergamasca

That was fun. I hadn't played in a "real" concert for ages. The sort of concert where you're in a church, everybody on stage is dressed in black and the atmosphere is very serious. You're not supposed to laugh, cough, say anything or even look anywhere...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, guitar, music, recorder, concert, violin, group, baroque, ensemble, singer, church, classical, fatima, nomad, notre dame

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7 mai 2012

Music in Mayotte

We've been to a few concerts recently, to find out what the local music is like. First of all came Rossy, whose poster attracted P because of the accordion. Arrived at the concert a quarter of an hour before it was supposed to start, which seemed reasonable...

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Tags: mayotte, music, mahorais, friend, instruments, concert, cordes avides, del, diho, jazz, maalesh, rossy, traditional

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