- Simon Basinger
Simon Basinger (born 1957) is a French musicologist and essayist.
Biography
Simon Basinger was born in
Oujda ,Morocco in 1957, in a family of musicians over three generations.He continued his music studies at the Conservatory of Nanterre, Versailles, then at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Musicology) & writing. Meanwhile, he engages in the theater, being one of the assistants Pierre Debauche the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre (1974).
After studying literature and philosophy, he obtained a professorship of letters abandon it to bind the world of art. There devoted to writing a thesis (published [1] ) on the Kabuki and Noh theater (((guil |), an essay on
Reynaldo Hahn (new presses Canadian) with Paul Dube (Montreal), a biography ofAntônio Carlos Jobim . In 1975, he metRoland Petit , Erté,Yves Saint-Laurent ,Michel Colombier the Casino de Paris to be its reference in the artistic field.In 1975, he became the youngest assistant (staging) of the company
Renaud-Barrault alongsideMadeleine Renaud andJean-Louis Barrault in the Theatre d'Orsay-Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Works with Simone Benmussa on the latest editions of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault [2] , and meetsMarguerite Duras ,Samuel Beckett , Marie-Helene Dasté, Catherine Eckerle, Madeleine Milhaud. Madeleine Renaud tell him he is "son Harold" after the play "Harold and Maude" byColin Higgins , where he demonstrated an enthusiasm unparalleled. He (re) work writing (Anglo-Saxon) of the play withColin Higgins andPeter Schaeffer in parallel.He is writing with Pierre Deniau (College de France) who becomes his' mentor 'before embarking on literary translation.
He participates in the work of staging alongside Jean Louis Barrault in "Christopher Columbus" Claudel / Milhaud, "Thus Parlait Zarathustra" Nietsche.
In 2000, he worked with Arte on the documentary "Jean Genet ... the Other" (France Television). Richard Trank and with the Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles)
In 2002, in collaboration with the National Foundation for Gerontology, "he produced a documentary on music and gerontology, entitled The winter garden (collective FR3 Aquitaine / NGF).
In 2005, he collaborated with exposure to the MPB Cite de la Musique, publishing an essay on Antonio Carlos Jobim and the influence of music in Brazil.
Since 1990, he turned to the world of composer
Francis Poulenc , for which he is passionate, managingpress relations and concerts Papers Poulenc. Since 2007, he leads the "Cahiers de Francis Poulenc," a look at and around the composer, a work of quality supported by the Association of Friends of Francis Poulenc and supervised byGeorges Prêtre , and by many artists.In September 2007, he took the 'Cahiers Renaud-Barrault' created by Simone Benmussa (Editions Gallimard) by re-infusing the spirit of Theatre and the French company, réadaptant heritage it to our time.
News
Associate the French Magazine's it manages the heading "Arts & Entertainment" in Europe. It will publish early 2009, a book of poetry entitled "how to…", a collection of poems written between the years 1980 and 2000, in the manner of Cocteau, Eluard, Prévert prefaced by Véronique Sauger (France Musique), and that a book for children entitled "A piece of heaven" (editions Eastern-Press).
Notes and references
* On the Japanese theatre - editionNonspecific|date=October 2008
* Editions GallimardNonspecific|date=October 2008
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