Summary
The format dreamed up by René Martin, the perfect middleman, is to take a modern building containing a number of chamber music-size concert halls, dot shops and cafés about the place and make sure there is a spacious main hall for impromptu-seeming 'happenings'. Then choose a theme with broadly populist implications, like 'Russian music', or 'Monteverdi to Vivaldi', or, this year, 'The Harmony of the Nations', and book about 250 leading musicians in the field.
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Maddays
Music festivals, like any public undertaking to do with 'art', put their planners on their mettle. As much creative thought can go into the format and the specially conceived theme of such things as into the...
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