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A modern concert hall in Prague?

09/28/2007Thoughts, 0 comment(s).

A question raises in Prague: Is it necessary to build a large concert hall in Prague? The musicians want it, the directors of Prague spring too. But is this useful? Is this "reasonable" as say the politicians?

Overview of the halls

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Noise in concert halls

08/10/2007Thoughts, 0 comment(s).

Today let's speak about what occurs in the public during a concert. If certain halls are extraordinary quiet, others are absolutely not. The main problem of a concert hall: it is built to diffuse the sound, ALL sounds, so the noises too.

Among sound pollution of our concert halls, you... Read

The musique concrète

07/25/2007Musical movements, 0 comment(s).

Closely related to radio first studios at the beginning of the Fifties and to an emblematic figure of the electronic music Pierre Schaeffer,this music is too often forgotten as a major influence in the history of the music by introducing electronics into the contemporary classical... Read

Teaching music

06/10/2007Piano, 0 comment(s).

This is a dangerous subject. I don't intend to discus generaly about musical training and teaching but I'll focus on the particular case of contemporary music, because it takes less place in the education than it deserves, when it's not completely "forgotten".

In conservatoires and... Read