On October 4th, the Talea Ensemble will present their first big concert of the season featuring Pierre Boulez’s classic Le marteau sans maître and Georges Aperghis’ wild, Triangle Carré.
Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master, 1955) is the work that established the composer’s reputation as a leading figure of the European postwar avant-garde.
René Char’s surrealist poetry, like that of Mallarmé’s that Boulez went on to set in future years, serves as the bridge between the worlds of Boulez’s arcane, severe harmonic vocabulary and the cool sensuality of his instrumental writing.
Georges Aperghis’ Triangle Carré (1989), written three decades later, takes an entirely different approach to exoticism. The friction of culture and timbre are primary areas of explorati ... Go to event
The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (October21-30) is one of the largest festival of films for children in North America, welcoming 25,000 Chicago-area children, adults, and educators each year, and featuring over 250 films from 40 countries.
The festival screens a wide range of projects, from live-action and animated feature films to shorts, TV series, documentaries, and child-produced works. This year, the Festival will pay homage to French animation by presenting 3 feature films on October 23nd : A Story telling Show (Allez raconte) by Jean-Christophe Roger, A cat in Paris (Un chat à Paris) by Jean loup Felicioti & Alain Gagnol and Tales of the night (Les Contes de la Nuit) by Michel Ocelot. Supported by the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chica ... 
Tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt will work with young singers in New York City in a Master Classes. The class is free and open to the public to observe:
Date:Friday, October 28, 2011
Time: 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Place: East Gallery, Buell Hall
Columbia University.
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Tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt and Soprano Gaële Le Roi, two of Opera Lafayette’s favorite French artists, return to New York City with a concert program of works from 17th- century France and Italy. The program includes works by Lully, Lambert, Vittori, Melani, Cavalli, and Monteverdi.
Music will be performed by Ryan Brown and Elizabeth Field (violins),Loretta O’Sullivan (violoncello), Andrew Appel (harpsichord) and Scott Pauley (theorbo).
Date:Sunday, October 30, 2011
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue (at 57th Street) New York, NY 10019
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