This week ini Paris

[sloan]

I've got Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights free in Paris, this week.

Where do I find the best music in town (preferably including a tuba)?

Within easy striking distance of the Lutétia Hotel would be a bonus.

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during the day are also pretty unstructured at the moment.

[hubert]

Suggestion: look, if there is a concert of the Orchestra/Musique de la Garde Republicaine. They maintain one of the very best wind orchestras in the world. Perhaps you even could jump in at a rehearsal. Look at their website.
Good luck,
Hubert

[TubaRay]

The only suggestion I have: Enjoy yourself!

[sloan]

Suggestion: look, if there is a concert of the Orchestra/Musique de la Garde Republicaine. They maintain one of the very best wind orchestras in the world. Perhaps you even could jump in at a rehearsal. Look at their website.
Good luck,
Hubert

Google can't find their website - any clues?

[sloan]

Do anything non-life-threatening that you cannot do in Birmingham. (ie: Perhaps skip the classical music venues.)

Perhaps this...?? http://www.worldsbiggestfishfry.com

(It is my understanding that le Champs-Élysées has become a rat hole.)

naah - they've cleaned it up, just like Times Square. It even has a McDonalds.

Whatever made you connect *classical* music to "music in Paris including a tuba"?

If I want "life-threatening" things that I can't do in BHM, I'll come to Memphis!

One more class to teach...and I'm off. Metro Pass, check. Museum Pass, check. Warm clothes, check. Empty suitcase, check. (there's this wonderful custom of the January Sales...) Dinner with 40 of the world's top Ophthalmologists...aye, there's the rub. The good news is that it won't be Post Bowling Alley cuisine. The bad news is that I'm starting to recognize some of these people.

I don't imagine there'll be much street music in the snow - which was why I was looking for hot tips on indoor venues. Most of what I find online is breathless advertising of visiting AMERICAN musicians. That and a seemingly endless stream of string quartets. There must be a Monty Python sketch in here somewhere.

[UDELBR]

Do anything non-life-threatening that you cannot do in Birmingham. (ie: Perhaps skip the classical music venues.)

Perhaps this...?? http://www.worldsbiggestfishfry.com

(It is my understanding that le Champs-Élysées has become a rat hole.)

naah - they've cleaned it up, just like Times Square. It even has a McDonalds.

Be sure and try the "Royal with Cheese".

[David Richoux]

You need to connect with the "American Tubist in France" Gary Kiser, of the Sac a Pulse Jazz Band. I can send you his e-mail off-line.
There are several interesting street-jazz-action bands in Paris, but the links to their websites are a bit funky right now.

[hubert]

For Garde Republicaine go to: Acceuil Garde Republicaine; then: decouverte; then: formations musicales etc. etc.
Hubert

[tubalou]

Hi from Paris!

Sorry but this week, there's no more rehearsal of the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, otherwise, it would have been a pleasure to invite you...
We have two concerts this week but not in Paris.

However, this week you can listen:

http://www.orchestredeparis.com/index.p ... cheid=2125" target="_blank" target="_blank
The tuba solo of the orchestra is Stéphane Labeyrie

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/orc ... =295070217" target="_blank" target="_blank
Tuba Solo: Bernard Neuranter

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/orc ... =295070219" target="_blank" target="_blank
Tuba Solo Victor Letter

There's also a Jazz concert, but it's on Friday:
"Ultraïa Octet" Studio de L'archipel, with one tuba and one Euphonium
That's a very good contemporary jazz ensemble!

You're quite unlucky, because this week is quite calm for the tuba here in Paris...

Otherwise, it would be a pleasure to meet you on Thursday afternoon. I'm giving classes in the Conservatoire de Paris, and if you are interested in meeting the french tuba class, you're welcome!

Keep in touch

Jérémie DUFORT
Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine
Professeur assistant au CNSM de Paris

[Alex C]

What a nice bunch of guys responded from France. It's like they don't really hate Americans after all.