A frog on the roof

Musical diary of a French (classical) music geek in London

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Ariadne auf Naxos, sex, war and rock and roll

Last May, my lovely friend Gary invited me to see Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1912/1916) s...
Denis Kozhukin, le sérieux

What a serious concert! What a serious pianist! Denis Kozhukhin won the very serious Queen Elizabeth competition in 2010, over another wo...
Charles Rosen's costs/benefits analysis of modern music

Charles Rosen, a few months before dying, gave a talk on modernism organized by 21st-Century Music in Society. Although he was clearly not...
It's proms night!

Tonight, I was like a student again, suffering the stress caused by final exams! The worse is probably that I was not the one graduating, an...
Can you speak english? Style and National Identity in the 20th

The title almost looks like a PhD in comparative studies, but we will talk about music :) Last week, I got deflowered multiple times! For ...
A frog under the roof

Et bonjour tout le monde, Jean Wiéner used to start all his radio improvisation with these words ("And hello to all"), a sort of...