{"id":5711,"date":"2022-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2022-07-14T00:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:19:11","slug":"vive-la-musique-francaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/2022\/07\/14\/vive-la-musique-francaise\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive La Musique Fran\u00e7aise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, in honor of the French holiday Bastille Day, July 14, 1789, I wanted to share music by a couple of the lesser-known French composers, Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Joseph Bologne (1745-1799). Thank you again to all my French listeners! After living in France, your country will forever hold a special place in my heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2 Pieces for Violin and Piano - Lili Boulanger\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQhunSzoO6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/id\/87619051#\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"138px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rescot-creative wp-block-embed-rescot-creative\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5zzHjTEizo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/2020\/01\/30\/lili-boulanger\/\">The Other French Sister<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Other French Sister&#8221; &#8212; Rescot Creative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/2020\/01\/30\/lili-boulanger\/embed\/#?secret=mhtyAOyDUJ#?secret=5zzHjTEizo\" data-secret=\"5zzHjTEizo\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the immigrant composer, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classicfm.com\/discover-music\/chevalier-de-saint-georges-joseph-boulogne-black-mozart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Chevalier de Saint-George<\/a>, who immigrated to France and even fought in the French Revolution! I reference his violin music in my novel <em>A Change in Tune, <\/em>as well as my short story <em>&#8220;Brass at the Beach.&#8221; <\/em>Bologne&#8217;s story reminds me somewhat of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, both immigrants who fought for freedom in their new countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmiuh_OL2Zg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you get a chance to listen to these musical gems, and maybe even enjoy some fabulous French food! I&#8217;ll be eating at one of my favorite French restaurants to celebrate!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fmusic_book_club%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fmusic_book_club%2FLesser-Known_Female_French_Composer_Lili_Boulanger.m4a&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rescotcreative.com%2Ffr%2F2022%2F07%2F14%2Fvive-la-musique-francaise%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4a\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/music_book_club\/content.blubrry.com\/music_book_club\/Lesser-Known_Female_French_Composer_Lili_Boulanger.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/?powerpress_pinw=5711-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/music_book_club\/content.blubrry.com\/music_book_club\/Lesser-Known_Female_French_Composer_Lili_Boulanger.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Lesser-Known_Female_French_Composer_Lili_Boulanger.m4a\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in honor of the French holiday Bastille Day, July 14, 1789, , I wanted to share music by a couple of the lesser-known French composers, Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Joseph Bologne<br \/>\n(1745-1799).<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, I had the opportunity to perform a faculty recital entitled \u201cAn American Taste of Paris\u201d at both the university where I taught and at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France. The pianist, a Franco-American colleague of mine, introduced me to two short, relatively obscure French pieces\u2014\u201cNocturne\u201d (1911) and \u201cCort\u00e8ge\u201d (1914), which captured my fancy. <\/p>\n<p>You can also check out the immigrant composer, Le Chevalier de Saint-George, who immigrated to France and even fought in the French Revolution! I reference his violin music in my novel A Change in Tune, as well as my short story &#8220;Brass at the Beach.&#8221; Bologne&#8217;s story reminds me somewhat of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, both immigrants who fought for freedom in their new countries.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be eating at one of my favorite French restaurants to celebrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-music-and-the-arts","category-music-travel"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["en","es","fr","de","it","br"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"br":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}