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		<title>Free concert and light show at the Place de la Concorde on 9th November 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, why not come and see a free 25-minute classical music concert in a most unusual and beautiful setting?! Annouced just a week before the event, Monday 9th November will see a most unusual event happening at the Place de la Concorde in Paris: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall" target="_blank">Berlin Wall</a>, why not come and see a free 25-minute classical music concert in a most unusual and beautiful setting?!</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img title="Place de la Concorde Paris" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4071898068_46978e77ea_o.jpg" alt="photo : JasonW" width="500" height="351" /><p class="wp-caption-text">photo : JasonW</p></div>
<p><span id="more-5397"></span>Annouced just a week before the event, Monday 9th November will see a most unusual event happening at the Place de la Concorde in Paris:</p>
<p>- 27 European cellists will play works by Fauré, Bach and Alfred Schnittke, standing on giant stones meant to symbolise fragments of the Berlin Wall,</p>
<p>- They will be accompanied by the French Army choir,</p>
<p>- Images will be projected onto the walls surrounding the <em>Place</em>, in order to make them look a little more like the graffiti-covered remnants of the Wall(!),</p>
<p>- The concert will symbolise &laquo;&nbsp;the wind of freedom that blew across Europe in 1989&#8243;,</p>
<p>And the event will be shown on both French and German TV.</p>
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<p>Th concert is a reference to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_Rostropovitch" target="_blank">Mstislav Rostropovitch</a> (who died in 2007), a Russian musician who defected to come and live in Paris in 1974. Images of his spontaneous performance with a Stradivarius in front of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_charlie" target="_blank">Checkpoint Charlie</a> two days after the fall of the Wall were shown around the world.</p>
<p>The show is costing <strong>795,000 € before tax ($1,173,000/£719,000)</strong> to set up, but the French government assures us that nothing will be paid by the taxpayer. Instead, 11 French companies are footing the bill (Total, Areva, Air France, EDF, Generali, LVMH, Orange, PSA, Sanofi Aventis and EADS, as well as the Foundation for French-German relations). For this extraordinary gesture, they can flash their logos at the end of the show and all over the VIP area!</p>
<p><big>The free concert and light show is at the Place de la Concorde (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=fr&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Place+de+la+Concorde,+75008+Paris,+France&amp;sll=48.873099,2.36319&amp;sspn=0.006958,0.01929&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Place+de+la+Concorde,+75008+Paris,+Ile-de-France,+France&amp;z=16" target="_blank">here</a>) on 9th November 2009 at 7pm.</big></p>
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		<title>Son et lumière gratuit à la place de la Concorde le 9 novembre 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pour fêter les 20 ans de la chute du mur de Berlin, venez voir un spectacle gratuit avec 25 minutes de musique classique dans un cadre magnifique ! Annoncé à la dernière minute, lundi 9 novembre verra une événement hors du commun à la place de la Concorde à Paris ; - 27 violoncellistes européens [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Pour fêter les 20 ans de la chute du <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur_de_Berlin" target="_blank">mur de Berlin</a>, venez voir un spectacle gratuit avec 25 minutes de musique classique dans un cadre magnifique !</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img title="Place de la Concorde Paris" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4071130009_91bff59421_o.jpg" alt="photo : JasonW" width="500" height="666" /><p class="wp-caption-text">photo : JasonW</p></div>
<p><span id="more-5394"></span>Annoncé à la dernière minute, lundi 9 novembre verra une événement hors du commun à la place de la Concorde à Paris ;</p>
<p>- 27 violoncellistes européens joueront des œuvres de Gabriel Fauré, Jean-Sébastien Bach et Alfred Schnittke sur de grandes pierres symbolisant des fragments du Mur de Berlin,</p>
<p>- Ils seront accompagnés par des chœurs de l&#8217;armée française,</p>
<p>- Des images seront projetées sur les façades autour de la place, afin de leur donner l&#8217;aspect taggé du Mur (!),</p>
<p>- Le concert symbolisera &laquo;&nbsp;le vent de liberté qui a soufflé à travers l&#8217;Europe en 1989&#8243;,</p>
<p>Et l&#8217;événement seront transmis à la télévision française et allemande.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img title="Place de la Concorde Paris" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4071898068_46978e77ea_o.jpg" alt="photo : JasonW" width="500" height="351" /><p class="wp-caption-text">photo : JasonW</p></div>
<p>Le concert fait référence à <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_Rostropovitch" target="_blank">Mstislav Rostropovitch</a> (décédé en 2007), un musicien installé à Paris après sa défection d&#8217;URSS en 1974, qui avait fait une performance spontanée avec son Stradivarius devant <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie" target="_blank">Checkpoint Charlie</a> deux jours après la chute du mur.</p>
<p>Le spectacle, d&#8217;un coût de <strong>795.000 € HT</strong>, est annoncée comme étant entièrement financé par des 11 sociétés françaises : Total, Areva, Air France, EDF, Generali, LVMH, Orange, PSA, Sanofi Aventis et EADS, ainsi que la Fondation pour l&#8217;entente franco-allemande. Ces sociétés gagnent le droit d&#8217;avoir leurs logos projeté sur le générique de fin du spectacle et sur le carré VIP !</p>
<p><big>Le son et lumière gratuit à la place de la Concorde (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=fr&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Place+de+la+Concorde,+75008+Paris,+France&amp;sll=48.873099,2.36319&amp;sspn=0.006958,0.01929&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Place+de+la+Concorde,+75008+Paris,+Ile-de-France,+France&amp;z=16" target="_blank">ici</a>) a lieu le 9 novembre 2009 à 19h.<big></big></big></p>
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