His project of a tour in the middle of the period of post-confinement has attracted the wrath of many musicians. At first, he had launched his musical journey to bring all the summer evenings at the squares of cities and villages, a bit of solace to the French after the test of the containment. It is true that his concerts digital had known, like those of his brother, a violinist, a certain degree of success.
Guest of France 2, the musician revealed the first common who came forward to receive it : Giverny, Thiron Gardais, Tourcoing, Préfailles, Thunder, Anglet, Nice, Cannes, Mirecourt, le Mont Saint-Michel…
The cellist had in fact announced do nothing to pay to its spectators, with a modest “participation seal”. Because,”after all the free services that the musicians were able to achieve in the containment, it is important, symbolically, to remember that a musician must also earn something if he plays for an audience.”
But it was learned by an article of the Letter from The musician to the French cellist had asked the municipalities of stamps ranging from 2800 euros for municipalities with less than 3000 inhabitants, 9800 euros for those of more than 60,000. What added expenses of accommodation for the artist and his family.
sums much higher than the average, which had forced many of the cities where the musician had to occur to abandon the host.
For professionals in the sector, these pills, are astonishing, all the more that the music system provided by Gautier Capuçon is a relatively simple one : the cellist must play with a pre-recording of a piano played by a iPad and two speakers. “Artistically, this is outrageous, especially for a musician of his level”, said Benedict Dumon, organist and counter-tenor, with the Parisian.
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“To skip this tour for a demonstration of solidarity, it was the marketing,” continues Benoit Dumon. Free to the public, but not for the commons !”
other artists have pointed out the lack of solidarity of Gautier Capuçon in this particularly difficult period for musicians. Many of them have had their concerts cancelled because of the outbreak of coronavirus, immersing them in a precarious situation.
Caught up in the controversy, the cellist Gautier Capuçon has finally agreed not to be paid during each of its summer concerts in the open air, he has to give throughout france in the framework of his tour “This summer in France”. “I understood that the small municipalities had no budget allocated to culture,” said the Parisian cellist, which indicates that it will take the whole of the tour at its expense. Before adding : “I know that one goes through a major economic crisis. And I hear the suffering of the cultural environment, devastated by the crisis”. Crisis that he should not give the impression of wanting to enjoy…
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