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Music, politics, and the Parisian public Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: Music, politics, and the Parisian public [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: 1998.

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1 videodisc (NTSC) (94 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program begins with a recital of Francis Poulenc and Jean Anouilh's Les chemins de l'amour by Dawn Upshaw, lasting several minutes. The bulk of the program comprises a lecture by Opéra national de Paris director Gerard Mortier about the history of opera and music in Paris since the 17th century. Mortier discusses King Louis XIV's founding of Académie royale de musique de Paris under director Jean-Baptiste Lully, and goes on to talk about the intersection of political climate, artistic activity,and audience reception at various points in time, from the ancien régime through the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the French Restoration, and up to the latter part of the 19th century, when Palais Garnier was constructed. He discusses the evolution of opera house architecture, the rise of the bourgeois audience, the role of official censorship, and the increasing split between public taste and musical innovation. Recordings of music by Lully, Rameau, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Berlioz, Meyerbeer and Offenbach are played to reflect Mortier's talk, which is also illustrated by French paintings.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 111.

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Music.

Event (note)

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 15, 1998.

Funding (note)

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1112

OCLC

191684492

Title

Music, politics, and the Parisian public [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1998.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 111.

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Musical selection sung by Dawn Upshaw. Commentator: Gerard Mortier.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 15, 1998.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Léocadia. Chemins de l'amour.

Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Lyricist

Upshaw, Dawn. voc

Mortier, Gerard. Commentator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Opéra national de Paris.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1112

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