Keyboard diplomacy: Richard Clayderman is playing Teheran

Keyboard diplomacy: Richard Clayderman is playing Teheran

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norman lebrecht

May 07, 2018

The smoochy French pianist paved the way 30 years ago for western musicians to play in China.

Now he’s opening in Iran.

Details here.

Comments

  • Molly Maudlin says:

    To be accompanied by Kenny G on sax?

  • Sue says:

    I’ve just booked my ticket. I have to rush to see this one!! Hoping “Hammerklavier” is on the program!! Very exciting.:-)

  • clarrieu says:

    How many decades haven’t we heard of him here in France?

  • Jon H says:

    The local Chinese restaurant plays Ballade pour Adeline pretty much every hour.

  • Mahan Esfahani says:

    The purveyors of public musical culture in today’s Iran are almost wholly talentless, amoral charlatans; accordingly, this comes as no surprise.

  • Alistair Hinton says:

    It might have been a good idea for him to play Sorabji’s Gulistān while there; as a piece by a half-Western, half-Parsi composer based upon the work of Sa’di, I’m sure that its Persian credentials would go down as much of a storm in present-day Iran as would Donald Trump setting up a golf course in Isfahan…

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