L'empire Islamique: Viie Xie Siècles

Savez-vous que Louis XIII a interdit le port des dentelles et Louis XIV, celui des toiles imprimées en coton ? Sous la Révolution, les citoyens, hommes ou femmes, devaient porter une cocarde tricolore sous peine d’emprisonnement. Une ordonnance de 1800 exigeait, à Paris, une autorisation pour les femmes qui voulaient s’habiller en homme ; elle n’a été abrogée qu’en 2013…

Paris, early Twentieth Century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamised the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard-of places.

The dance permeated every layer of Romantic society. From popular dance halls to courtly salons, people showed their public face, enjoyed themselves and met one another in waltz time or to the rhythms of the quadrille or the polka. At the same time, ballet gained unprecedented fame on the stage of the Paris Opéra. The music that accompanied this frantic round in France has long been neglected, whereas the Viennese have never ceased to celebrate their waltzes. Under the expert baton of François-Xavier Roth, the orchestra Les Siècles has set out to rediscover this French repertory using historical instruments. Their album explores the output of both established composers – Camille Saint-Saëns, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet – and their colleagues who specialised in Terpsichorean entertainment, including Philippe Musard, Isaac Strauss, Émile Waldteufel and Hervé.

Saint-Saëns's first opera, Le Timbre d'argent initially composed in 1864 need not fear comparison with some of the most celebrated works in the nineteenth-century French repertory. It depicts the nightmare of a man whose hallucinations anticipate by twenty years the fantastical apparitions of Offenbach's Les Contes d Hoffmann.

La religion joue un rôle crucial dans le façonnement de l'environnement socio-culturel, lui-même essentiel pour les stratégies marketing au niveau national et international. L'Islam représente un défi pour les marketeurs pour différentes raisons …