Closed since March 9, how does the large concert hall, which is celebrating its 5 year anniversary this season, approach the present and the future? Its director, who had carried the Philharmonie project against all odds, delivers a questioning combining practical spirit and fundamental reflection.
LE FIGARO. - Are we going to witness a demondialization of musical life?
Laurent BAYLE. - It is too early to have visibility into the aftermath. The environmental question will arise more acutely, we have already seen tribunes of musicians going in this direction. It is not excluded that, in music too, we see the theme of short circuits reappear. Why not, but watch out for the risk of identity withdrawal. We must remember that globalization existed in music long before the one we live in. Apart from the end of the 19th century, when we witnessed the awakening of national demands, music has always been a place of exchange and circulation, it is the very essence of Europe. The question is not
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