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Simon Basinger | |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Musicologist, essayist, producer, author |
Simon Basinger (born 1957) is a French musicologist and essayist.
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Simon Basinger | |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Musicologist, essayist, producer, author |
Simon Basinger (born 1957) is a French musicologist and essayist.
Simon Basinger was born in Oujda, Morocco in 1957, in a family that has had musicians over three generations.
He began his music studies at the Conservatory of Nanterre, Versailles, and then attended the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he studied musicology and composition. Meanwhile, he found employment in the theater, as an assistant to Pierre Debauche in the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (1974).
After studying literature and philosophy, he obtained a professorship but decided instead to pursue a career in the world of art. He wrote a thesis on Kabuki and Noh theater, an essay on Reynaldo Hahn with Paul Dube (Montreal), and a biography of Antônio Carlos Jobim. In 1975, he met Roland Petit, Erté, Yves Saint-Laurent, Michel Colombier the Casino de Paris and was artistically inspired.
In 1975, he became the youngest assistant (staging) of the company Renaud-Barrault alongside Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault in the théâtre d'Orsay-gare d'Orsay in Paris. He worked with Simone Benmussa on the latest editions of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, and met Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Marie-Helene Dasté, Catherine Eckerle, and Madeleine Milhaud.
He participated alongside Jean-Louis Barrault in the production of Christopher Columbus by Claudel and Milhaud, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche.
In 2000, he worked with the Arte TV network on the documentary Jean Genet...l'Autre (France Television), produced by Richard Trank in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles).
In 2002, in collaboration with the National Foundation for Gerontology, he produced a documentary on music and gerontology, entitled Le Jardin d'hiver ("The Winter Garden") for France 3 TV Aquitaine and NGF.
In 2003, wrote the libretto of the Kippur Oratorio for narrator, soprano, tenor, children's choir and string orchestra, set to music by C. Max Jehuda Ewert of Germany for the Avant-garde Festival of Munich.
In 2004, he published La French, a look at art in Europe for Francophone audiences in Florida.
In 2005, he worked at the Música Popular Brasileira (popular music of Brazil) exhibit at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and published an essay on Antonio Carlos Jobim and his influence on music in Brazil. He wrote a series of poems for in English the American series Nexus about philosophy and raison d'être.
In 2006–2007, he worked with Issa Nyaphaga and Dezza Nguembock to promote the shows Bigna and Esthetique & Handicap for Afrik'DEZ'Arts, an international art association, in collaboration with the Cameroon Embassy in Paris.
In September 2007, he took the Cahiers Renaud-Barrault created by Simone Benmussa and re-infused it with a modern adaptation. In September 2008, the creation of Je Me Souviens de Toi ("I Remember You") was commissioned by Radio France, with text by Mathieu Carrière and music of Henryk Gorecki. A short version aired on the show Contes du Jour et de la Nuit in France with Véronique Sauger as producer.
Since 1990, Basinger has been passionate about the composer Francis Poulenc. He has written a series of books called Cahiers de Francis Poulenc which look at the life and work of the composer. The work is supported by the Association of Friends of Francis Poulenc and supervised by Georges Prêtre, and by many artists.
Basinger is a contributor to the publications of the Barcelona Opera, and writes a column called "Arts & Spectacles" for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. In 2010 he published a poetry collection called À la manière de... ("How To..."), a collection of poems written between the years 1980 and 2000, in the manner of Cocteau, Eluard, and Prévert, prefaced by Véronique Sauger, and a children's book titled Un Morceau de Ciel ("A Piece of Heaven") (éditions Eastern-Press).
"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name, inspired by Mily Balakirev's The Five, originates in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia. Their music is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.
Gilbert Amy is a French composer and conductor.
Roger Bourdin was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory. His career was largely based in France. His daughter is Françoise Bourdin.
Le Voyageur sans bagage is a 1937 play in five scenes by Jean Anouilh. Incidental music for the original production was written by Darius Milhaud and for the play's first Paris revivals by Francis Poulenc.
Jean Desailly was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, and later participated in about 90 movies.
Les mariés de la tour Eiffel is a ballet to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, choreography by Jean Börlin, set by Irène Lagut, costumes by Jean Hugo, and music by five members of Les Six: Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre. The score calls for two narrators. The ballet was first performed in Paris in 1921.
Studie I is an electronic music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen from the year 1953. It lasts 9 minutes 42 seconds and, together with his Studie II, comprises his work number ("opus") 3.
Ainsi parla Zarathoustra is an incidental music composed by Pierre Boulez in October 1974 for the theatre Renaud-Barrault. Boulez scored the work for a solo voice and an instrumental ensemble. It was first performed at the Théâtre d'Orsay in Paris on 6 November 1974. Sketches and scores are kept by the Foundation Paul Sacher in Basel, while images and films of the production are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Jean-Pierre Granval, stage name of Jean-Pierre Charles Gribouval, was a 20th-century French stage and film actor as well as a theatre director.
The Sonate pour clarinette et basson, FP 32a, is a piece of chamber music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1922.
The Sonate pour violon et piano, FP 119, by Francis Poulenc was composed in 1942–1943 in memory of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. The score, dedicated to Poulenc's niece Brigitte Manceaux, was published by Max Eschig. The work was premiered by the violinist Ginette Neveu with the composer at the piano on 21 June 1943 in Paris, Salle Gaveau.
Figure humaine, FP 120, by Francis Poulenc is a cantata for double mixed choir of 12 voices composed in 1943 on texts by Paul Éluard including "'Liberté". Written during the Nazi occupation of France, it was premiered in London in English by the BBC in 1945. It was first performed in French in 1946 in Brussels, then in Paris on 22 May 1947. The work was published by Éditions Salabert. Cherished as the summit of the composer's work and a masterpiece by musical critics, the cantata is a hymn to Liberté, victorious over tyranny.
The Sonate pour cor, trompette et trombone, FP 33a, by Francis Poulenc is a piece of chamber music composed in 1922 and dedicated to Raymonde Linossier (1897–1930). Poulenc revised it in 1945. Its total performance time is about eight minutes.
Renaud Machart is a French journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer.
Jean Roy was a French music critic and musicologist, born in Paris.
Yvonne Gouverné, née Yvonne Marcelle Gouverné, was a 20th-century French pianist by training, who went on to become an accompanist and choir conductor.
Jean-François Gardeil is a French baritone and theatre director. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Chants de Garonne.
Simone Benmussa was an Algerian born writer and theatre director in France. One of her best known plays was The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
Suzanne Peignot, néeSuzanne Rivière (1895–1993), was a French soprano, privileged interpreter of The Six. Her friends nicknamed her la Reine des mouettes, an allusion to one of the melodies she successfully sang. As for him, Erik Satie had nicknamed her ma très petite da-dame.
