Today, I invite you to (re)discover a short film directed by the Danish filmmaker Benjamin Holmsteen, “A Piano Tale”. Two pianists (a classical one and a jazz one) confront each other. First presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 2002, I found myself particularly touched by this film.

Good news! The French Composer Philippe Manoury launches his blog (unfortunately, available in English only through a translation gateway). There you will find besides his biography, his catologue and bibliography, some videos and musical analysis (at the moment Wozzeck). This space defines itself as a place of knowledge, of learning about (savant) music in general, [...]

I would like to share with you two links in French, sorry. While having a look on the archives of INA, I discovered a series of interviews called “Musique Mémoires”. There are fascinating conversations with leading figures of contemporary music, such as Claude Ballif, François Bayle, Marius Constant, Antoine Duhamel, Michel Fano, Claude Helffer, Betsy [...]