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The Masked-Life of a Maestro in Times of Covid-19

Posted on March 14, 2021March 14, 2021by JC Agid1 Comment

The Masked-Life of a Maestro in Times of Covid-19
Part Two of a digital conversation with Keri-Lynn Wilson presented by The American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet
Access to the full video of the webinar at the bottom of the post.

For a year now, governments—and often doctors—have redesigned how people can live to combat and survive the Covid-19 pandemic. In some regions, entire sectors have sometimes been shut down: travels, restaurants, hotels, and sport arenas, but also bookstores, museums, theaters, concert halls, and opera houses. Culture and art often don’t fall into the lines of the iconic contemporary word: ‘essential.’

Remarkably though, the Paris Opera was opened for a few weeks in the Fall of 2020. Hopes were then high in France that Covid-19 was being contained, yet it came back with a revenge. While rehearsing Carmen for her debut at the Bastille Opera, Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson experienced it first-hand. Within a minute, rehearsals were halted, and the opera shut down by the French Government. The same happened for movie theaters, museums, bars, and restaurants. 

Wilson’s dream of conducting in Paris was postponed. So, she went back to New York and resumed what she had been doing since March 2020: sharing music online and studying new scores. She created a ‘Becoming the Conductor Series,’ on Instagram, launched a YouTube Channel, built her own playlist on Spotify, and shared many videos and recordings on her website.

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fire Chat With, Marion Naufal, Paris Opera, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alexander Neef, American friends of the Paris opera and Ballet, Aurelie Dupont, Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Carmen, JC Agid, Juilliard School, Keri-Lynn Wilson, L'Opera Chez Soi, La Bayadère, Marion Naufal, marionnillustrations, Olivia Tournay Flatto, Opera de Paris, Paul Marque, Prokoviev, Tchaikovsky, The Laboratory Orchestra, Wagner

The Postponed Musical Feast of a Woman Maestro in Paris

Posted on March 7, 2021March 16, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Postponed Musical Feast of a Woman Maestro in Paris
Part One of a digital conversation with Keri-Lynn Wilson presented by The American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet
Access to the full video of the webinar at the bottom of the post.
A French version was published via Le Petit Journal

Only a handful of women conducted at the Paris Opera, and none of them ever took her baton to present Carmen, possibly one of the greatest operas of all time. The Canadian-born Keri-Lynn Wilson was supposed to do just that—and to also make her debut in Paris last December. 

With the threat of Covid19 everywhere, and the measures local and national governments have taken to contain the pandemic, Wilson’s calendar has been reduced to just a few performances. A digital tour of her website (here) lists the many changes: A Concert with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Opera Gala at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at the Bastille Opera, Rigoletto with the Bayerische Staatsoper, all canceled… With the exception of the opening streamed-concert of Mozart’s Week last January 21st, Wilson actually has not conducted for a live audience since March 2020.

Yet, had the French Government not decided to shut down all theaters in France a few days before the Christmas holidays, she would have led an exceptional performance, in times of Covid19 and in a major European city. A musical feast.

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The Colors of the Day: January 20, 2021

Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Colors of the Day: January 20, 2021
French version available via Le Petit Journal. Click Here

If changing the destiny of a country could be as simple as changing the colors and message of a drawing, then words and political actions would not be necessary. 

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Marion Naufal, Politics, Society
Tagged Alexandra Morris, Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Assouline, Barack Obama, Betsabeé Romero, Betsabee Romero, Bill Clinton, Eric Mourlot, Father Leo O'Donovan, George Bush, George W. Bush, Jacqueline Franjou, Joe biden, kamala harris, Leah Pisar, Marc Lévy, Marc Levy, Marion Naufal, Martine Assouline, Olivier Cassegrain, Tom HAnks

At Your Home Without Me: The Obstacle Race of Olivier Cassegrain

Posted on May 19, 2020June 16, 2020by JC Agid2 Comments

At Your Home Without Me: The Obstacle Race of Olivier Cassegrain

A jockey smoking a pipe on a galloping horse. In a single blue stroke of pencil, Marion Naufal’s watercolor sums up the challenges of a race, a style, a brand—Longchamp—and of the family Cassegrain whose history has been attached to America right from the start.

Comfortably seated on his New York terrace, the grandson of the Longchamp’s founder, Olivier Cassegrain, is meticulously watching over the American destiny of the family business.

While retail sales in Texas are slowly picking up again, the original Madison Avenue boutique is still closed along with all the other luxury brands in Manhattan. In Soho, the Maison Longchamp remains as empty as the Hudson Yards Vessel where, until a few weeks ago, tourists, business travelers and New Yorkers flocked. “The stairs of the Vessel are with those of the Soho boutique the most famous in New York,” says Cassegrain. They are both the work of the same English architect. “I would be quite happy to see more people on these stairs soon,” adds the Vice-President of Longchamp United States with a smile, “at least a little more on those in SoHo than on those of Hudson Yards.” Filling these stairs is just an additional challenge for the man who loves nothing more than overcoming obstacles with a cigar on his lips.

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At Your Home Without Me: Marc Levy Beyond the Walls

Posted on April 28, 2020June 16, 2020by JC Agid2 Comments

Marc Levy Beyond the Walls

There is a small bookstore on the corner of 10th Street in the West Village. In this little shop so reminiscent of the past, old and new books squeeze together on the shelves and give off that special scent of cracked ancient floors and living pages. Just a block away, if you look up, you can see through an open window that belongs to the most widely read French novelist and storyteller in the world.

A conversation with Marc Levy usually takes place over a good lunch on the terrace of Sant Ambroeus café. But Sant Ambroeus is closed now, as is the Three Lives & Company bookshop.

We could have also dined on a dish he would have cooked. But Marc Levy is currently a recluse in his haunt, sitting at his desk, among his books, computer screens and ancient typewriters. Surrounded by his characters, he gathers the letters of the alphabet and creates stories, like the one he just published in Des Mots Par La Fenêtre.

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