A major upcoming event is the Glass Music Festival 2005 in Paris, France.
PROGRAM:
Below is a listing of the concerts in this festival which are open to the public.
3 Feb. 2005:
8pm: concert Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica) - Clemens Hofinger
(seraphim) - Ensemble Stradivaria - Mozart, CPE Bach, Roellig,
Naumann... / amphitheatre - Cite de la Musique, Paris
4 Feb. 2005:
2pm - 5pm: concerts in "Musee de la Musique", Cite de la Musique.
5 Feb. 2005:
2pm - 4.45pm: concerts in "Musee de la Musique", Cite de la Musique
6 Feb. 2005:
3pm - 6.30pm: Bernard Baschet, cristal players and composers in the second Baschet's factory, St Michel sur Orge
22 PERFORMERS - some will give lectures during concerts (10 CONCERTS :
1 in Cite de la Musique, 6 in Museum, 3 in Baschet's factories)
Pierre-Yves Berenguer (France) - composer
Michel Bertier (France) - composer
Peter Bennett (USA) - musical glasses
Thomas Bloch (France) - glass harmonica, cristal Baschet
Catherine Brisset (Paris, France)
+ 2 musicians - cristal Baschet, strings
Jean-Claude Chapuis (France)
+ 3 musicians - MusiVerre - various glass instruments, harp...
Michel Deneuve (France) - cristal Baschet
Jacques Dupriez (Belgium) - viola, violin-baryton (duet with Thomas Bloch)
Clemens Hofinger (Germany) - musical glasses
Sascha Reckert (Germany),
+ Philipp Marguerre (Germany)
+ Friedrich Kern (Germany) - various glass instruments, piano
Etienne Rolin (France / USA) - composer, CD label director, publisher, musician
Dean Shostak (Williamsburg, USA) - glass violin, glass harmonica
Ingeborg Stein (Germany) - cristal Baschet
Cathy Tardieu (France) - cristal Baschet
MAIN LOCATION:
Cite de la Musique, Paris
221 avenue Jean Jaures
75019 PARIS
France
Metro (subway): Porte de Pantin (line 5)
When you are in avenue Jean Jaures, you are facing the "grande halle de la Villette" (a huge 19th century market in glass and metal), Cite de la Musique is the modern building on the right, with "Cafe de la Musique" at the corner. The first meeting will be there, in the main hall (see the planning for the time).
HOW TO GO TO THE CITE DE LA MUSIQUE
If you arrive by plane, you can take:
1 - A taxi: you can give the address to the driver and add that "Cite de la Musique" is located "Porte de Pantin, parc de La Villette". Without traffic jam, the trip must costs very approximatively 35 to 60 Euros (or more) according to the airport and the traffic jam. During rush hours which are from 7 am to 10 am and from 4 pm to 9 pm, it can take 2 or 3 hours to arrive rather than 20 to 30 minutes without problem.
2 - A subway: it must be about 3 times less expensive (or less by traffic jam) and it is about 1 hour. Buy a ticket for "Paris Centre" and keep it. It will be necessary for connections (don't buy another ticket) and to go out of the station. Note that in the metro or RER, the last station of the line is always indicated and gives you the direction. You can ask a free map when you buy the ticket but you'll also receive one when we'll meet. You have two airports in Paris.
a -From "Roissy Charles de Gaulle" airport, take the fast metro called RER (line B) to Paris. Stop in station "gare du nord". Then, see point c below.
b - From "Orly" airport, take the shuttle which goes to the connection with the RER (line B) in a town and station called "Antony". Stop there and take the RER (line B) to Paris. Stop in station "gare du nordÓ. Then, see point c below.
c - In "gare du nord", stay underground and use the same ticket via automatic doors to take Metro (line 5 also called M 5), direction "Bobigny". 5th stop is "Porte de Pantin" when you go out.
If you arrive by car, several possibilities but always keep in mind that you have to take "peripherique", the highway around Paris and go out at "Porte de Pantin" which is North East of Paris. The back side of "Cite de la Musique" is along the "peripherique". It is located approximatively at the same distance from the connection between "peripherique" with A 1 ("Autoroute" - highway from North of France) and "peripherique" with A 3 (highway from North east). If you see that you are in the wrong way, you can easily go out at the next "porte", go under the "peripherique" and take it again in the opposite way. Or, if you are not sure, you can continue and in any case you'll cross "Porte de Pantin", as it turns all around Paris (don't turn several times... it is a joke).
