At this morning’s memorial ceremony.
The great @YoYo_Ma playing a soulful dirge at the eternal flame beneath Arc de Triomphe for Armistice. pic.twitter.com/HznXPoqsXq
— Patrick Gaspard (@patrickgaspard) November 11, 2018
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Thank you Yo Yo Ma, this is great.
…and, as Ma and Capuçon play the 2nd mvt of Ravel’s Violin & Cello Sonata, TV subtitles say “Ravel, Sonate pour violon et piano”, repeated by the journalist afterwards… Now playing the Bolero, and, oh wait… everybody in the orchestra is standing up at the E major modulation.
…Oops, they played actually the 3rd mvt of this wonderful sonata.
I switched over and heard Bolero, and thought I must have the wrong channel. I soon went back to the Cenotaph. Did they really play the whole of Bolero? Why?
Yes, they did play the whole of Bolero (Trump seemed slightly bored though).
Maybe they chose it because Ravel is a symbol of courage: in 1914 he tried to join the French Air Force, but was rejected because of his slight constitution. After several tries, he joined a regiment as a lorry driver.
A more apt choice might have been the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, being written for WWI veteran Paul Wittgenstein. But it has none of the same familiarity, of course (and there you’d really see Trump looking bored).
Or Tombeau de Couperin; Ravel dedicated each movement to one of his friends that was killed in the war.
That may well be, but this choice of piece seemed rather inappropriate. It had the effect of an ironic comment to the ritualistic proceedings.
Trump looked as if it was torture.
And here is Angelique Kidjo at the same service. Such grace from both of them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDeKc5PV0k&feature=share