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Jarre Weekend: Bells at the Pyramids (Video)
YouTube ^ | January 1, 2000 | Jean Michel Jarre

Posted on 08/08/2014 8:59:25 PM PDT by Squawk 8888

This is the first post of the Modern Music Jarre weekend. This piece, Bells, is the opening number at The 12 Dreams of the Sun, a concert staged at Giza, Egypt, on the night of December 31, 1999. The show featured stunning visuals against a backdrop of desert and pyramids.


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1 posted on 08/08/2014 8:59:25 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Norm Lenhart; Salamander; spyone; To Hell With Poverty; locountry1dr; AAABEST; ...
The Jarre Weekend will continue on Saturday afternoon.

This is the Modern Music Ping List. Our topic is music from the 20th and 21st century, from Ravel and Shostokovich through to the Synth Pioneers and beyond.

Topic suggestions are always welcome, and pings to music-related threads are appreciated.

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2 posted on 08/08/2014 9:05:03 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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I don’t care how great the musical sound, or how “stunning” the visuals are, it’s the worship of anubis in that concert that totally turned me off.

I love music and was drawn to watch this video because of that love of music. The drums, and bells have such a lovely effect, and the backdrop of the pyramids all add to the magnificent timeless grandeur, I remember how I felt when I stood in Cairo and first saw the pyramids standing right on the edge of the city, it was like passing through a “time rift” from modern to ancient. So, I was loving this video right up until the visual effect of anubis strutting in the background while the crowd swayed almost hypnotically to the music. That’s when I turned it off.


3 posted on 08/09/2014 5:57:43 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
I can understand your sentiment to some extent, however I have not seen the rest of the concert yet to see where he takes the theme in this particular case. Much of his work since 1979 has been a musical exploration of human progress; some examples of his past work in this vein include Industrial Revolutions which opens with a musical painting of the stark brutality of pre-industrial and early industrial times and transitions to an ending that expresses the unrestrained joy that industrialization has made available to the masses by liberating them from the desperate struggle to meet their basic needs. The progressions expressed in most of his post-1980 works mirror the progression of his own worldview from the largely pessimistic and borderline misanthropic Oxygène, through the wonders of space travel in Rendez-Vous, and the re-purposing of two of his pieces to commemorate the Solidarity movement and subsequent end of the Cold War.

I will be expanding on this theme in a couple of days after viewing the entire 12 Days show to see whether my own theory applies in this case and ping you to it from this thread, so you are free to reconsider your position if you so desire. In the meantime, I will leave you with a link to his tribute to Pope John Paul II at his 2005 Gdansk show, which opens with him discussing his own meeting with His Holiness in Lyon.

Solidarność Live - Tribute to Pope John-Paul II

4 posted on 08/09/2014 7:18:29 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: Squawk 8888

Wow, what an experience that must have been. And to think of what Egypt has descended into since.


5 posted on 08/11/2014 9:14:28 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Epesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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