I like that mood!
Le bonjour from a Parisian mandolin lover
I like that mood!
Le bonjour from a Parisian mandolin lover
That was a lot of fun! Any idea what the event they were playing at was? This mandolin orchestra seems to be part of a bigger festival of some sort. I got a kick out of the gentleman with the beard off to the right of our screen at a couple of points in the video. Doesn't he look like Charles Darwin?
Purr more, hiss less. Barn Cat Mandolins Photo Album
Wow! Very enthusiastic audience response.
Playing that would have been quite a statement in 1968 following on from the events of May and June.
Facinating insight
Here’s another appearance in March 1974
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
I just can’t figure out what the two three guys in the back with the red scarfs we’re doing. Were they percussionists or vocalists at rest?
Jim
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For what it's worth, the "Mandoline Club de Paris" was an orchestra founded, run and conducted by Jeanne Ricarda-Mathorez (1887-1980). This would be the lady seen to conduct the orchestra in the video -- she was 81 years in 1968!
The Mandoline Club recorded extensively on the Festival label. A quick look on Ebay gave at least seven albums on sale second hand, including "A travers la Russie" which contains this tune.
The Club's line-up was:
"14 mandolines (solo, a,b,c)
5 Mandoles
6 guitares
1 luth
1 violoncelle
1 flûte
1 contrebasse
1 piano
1 batterie et accessoires
En certaines occasions il a su s'adjoindre la harpe et la guitare hawaïenne."
Martin
Last edited by Martin Jonas; Jul-12-2018 at 10:39am.
The melody is definitly Russian, as well as the (backstage?) dancing. "World music" of the sixties in Paris? I like it!
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