What party! Three weeks after the announcement of his appointment as musical director of the Paris Orchestra, already a very nice move, Klaus Mäkelä, 24, was at the Philharmonie in the flesh. Two weeks after the Maison de la radio, the auditorium at Porte de Pantin reopened to the public. Generously: in the great Pierre-Boulez room, occupying one seat out of two still represents 1,200 listeners! So hungry and thirsty for live music that their bubbling enthusiasm transmitted to the musicians a form of drunkenness. This is reassuring on the question of whether the public will respond in the fall! It was also the first time that we heard a complete symphony orchestra, with strings, winds and percussion, where Radio France had opted for strings only. The vastness of the stage makes it possible to distribute the 63 musicians required by theBeethoven's seventh , respecting the distances (and one desk per string player instead of one for two).
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