Kyiv Symphony goes to Paris
NewsIt’s the second leg of their European tour to raise funds and awareness for embattled Ukraine.
Slava!
Today we have a big French debut at the amazing @philharmonie. Here's a photo from today's rehearsal. Read more below.
In the first part of the concert we’ll perform masterpieces by Berezovsky, Bortnyansky and Mozart. Here we show Ukrainian classics placed in a European context. pic.twitter.com/kUq8X23Dmu
— Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (@KyivSymphony) October 5, 2022
What’s that wall behind the orchestra covering up the stage-rear seats?
Is that part of a set or is that the new configuration of the hall?
Oh, it’d be more meaningful if European orchestras toured Kyiv.
This is not the Pierre Boulez Great Hall in the 2010s new building, this is the Concert Hall of the Cité de la musique, the 1990s original building.
https://decouvrir.philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/cite-de-la-musique
The photo shows what is called : Philharmonie 2.
It is also at La Villette. It was built before the Philharmonie.
Seats 800-1000
This is not the Pierre Boulez Great Hall in the 2010s new building, this is the Concert Hall of the Cité de la musique, the 1990s original building.
https://decouvrir.philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/cite-de-la-musique
Very fine concert. Great to hear the recently-rediscovered “Symphony in C” (1770–1772) by Maxim Berezovsky, which the programme made a point to call the first Ukrainian symphony rather than the first Russian one.
There was a first part in the atrium, with five Ukrainian singers performing traditional songs. Good music, but we were all crammed together, standing up except for the officials who had been granted seats, few people would see anything, and you could hear some phones ring or the security teams using their walkie-talkies. The joke was that the music was Ukrainian, but the organization was Russian.
And where do you propose the Berlin Phil performs there without becoming the target for a missile attack or some such other catastrophe waiting to happen?