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Maison de la Radio et de la Musique. Coordinates: 48.8526°N 2.2782°E. Maison de la Radio seen from the air in 2009. Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, nicknamed “maison ronde” (“the round house”) is the headquarters of Radio France. It is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris near the Eiffel Tower. Built in the shape of huge ...
Maîtrise de Radio France. Maîtrise de Radio France (known as Maîtrise de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française prior to 1975) is the choir school of Radio France. The school and its choir were founded in 1946 by the composer Henry Barraud and the pedagogue Maurice David. Its first Director was Marcel Couraud.
The Studio d'Essai, later Club d'Essai, was founded in 1942 by Pierre Schaeffer, played a role in the activities of the French resistance during World War II, and later became a center of musical activity. In 1942 the French composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer, began his exploration of radiophony when he joined Jacques Copeau and his ...
Schola Cantorum de Paris. Coordinates: 48°50′30″N 02°20′29″E. Schola Cantorum. The Schola Cantorum de Paris ( schola cantorum being Latin for 'singers' school') is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire 's emphasis ...
The first radio broadcast in Paris aimed at the general public took place on 24 December 1921. The next year, the French government allowed the establishment of the first private radio station in Paris: Radiola . After the Second World War, Parisian radio was nationalized, and it was not until 1981, following the election of François ...
Ariana Brockington. August 2, 2024 at 2:20 AM. A French radio commentator is being called out after making “sexist” remarks during a recent tennis match at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On July 30 ...
Radio Campus Paris is a student radio station in Paris. Created in 1998 as an internet radio station, it established a half-frequency on 93.9 FM in the Paris region in 2004 that it shares with Vivre FM, [1] maintaining their online broadcast 24 hours a day. A member of the Radio Campus France network, the station prides itself on youth culture ...
Classical music—Ravel, Satie and Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky. Many prominent composers worked in Paris during between the wars, including Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky. Ravel was born in 1875; one of his last works, Boléro, written in 1928, became his most famous and most-often performed work.