Paris Muse

To mark the 100th anniversary of the American composer, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève will pay homage through unique interpretations of four of his works, including:

Telephones and birds (with an iPhone and three musicians)
4'33'' (really, there is only one way to interpret this!)
Living room music (four musicians and various vegetables)
Riyoanji (double bass and soundtrack)

When: May 4 at 21:00
Where: La Gaîté lyrique
Price: €20 / €16

Official site: gaite-lyrique.net/evenement/hommage-a-john-cage

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Hint: use your shoe!

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Montmartre after midnight

Reshared post from +Trey Ratcliff

Do you like to walk around after dark and listen to music too?

This photo below was taken in a little street after midnight in France…

Walking the Streets of France After Dark

This perfect little European medieval street was in Lyon, if I am not mistaken. Sometimes I forget here in my old age. There's a 10% chance it is in Paris. There's a long path from click to final image and my memory fades betwixt.

from the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

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An excerpt from the 1994 documentary Crumb.

The underground comic book artist's exhibition at the MAM is sure to be interesting.

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The revered underground comic book artist Robert Crumb, famous for Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural and most recently his interpretation of Genesis, is having a retrospective at the MAM (Musee d'Art Modern de la Ville Paris) dedicated to him.

The exhibition is conceived around Crumb's obsessions: love, hate and fear of women; music, and this thoughts on the modern world. It brings together works and rare documents: more than 700 drawings, sketchbooks, more than 200 journals and other media make up the exhibition.

Practical info (map, price, etc): http://ow.ly/afHtv

Official site: http://ow.ly/afHva

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Here's a video tour of the Cluny 1120 exhibition at the Musée Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge (French with German subtitles).

Masterpiece of Romanesque art, the abbey church of Cluny III marked the culmination of the Cluniac order. This exhibition highlights a major architectural feature of this building: its large gate. A partial reconstruction shows the public the outsized proportions, the richness of the composition, iconography and the original colors of this set.

Where: Musée Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge
When: Until July 2, 2012
Practical info here: http://ow.ly/ae6Lr

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