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Canapé: November 2014 (In French)

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Channel: CUNY TV · 2015 · News & Politics

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Richard Galliano 
French accordionist Richard Galliano grew up listening to Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and other figures of American Jazz. This influence is clear in his album New York Tango. He keeps finding new arenas for the sound of the accordion. Recent projects range from Vivaldi to Brazilian pop. CANAPE stops by a gig at the Jazz Standard in New York to talk about his passion for his instrument. 
 
Tribute to Marguerite Duras
Most storytellers excel at only one form. Rare is the polymath. French writer Marguerite Duras was such an exception. Her brief novel from the 1980s The Lover was an international bestseller as well as literary prize winner. Her script for the 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour directed by Alain Resnais, helped define Modernism in the movies. Her biographer Jean Vallier tells CANAPE about the woman and her art.
 
Castillo Corrales 
In April 2014 Art2 offered New Yorkers a visual arts festival. Among the participants was castillo/corrales, a collectively-run independent art space in Paris that comprises a bookshop, Section 7 Books, and a publishing house, Paraguay Press. Benjamin Thorel is a member of the collective. He talks to CANAPE about the intersections of art and activism.  (Taped:  11/19/14)

Since 1996, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and CUNY TV have produced together one of the few French programs to appear on American television: Canapé. 

Stylish and modern, Canapé is the only program entirely devoted to French cultural events in New York and the United States. This monthly half-hour show includes film releases, book translations, exhibitions, festivals, ballets, concerts and theater productions. 

Canapé is seen on the third Thursday of the month in a French-only version and repeated the fourth Thursday of the month in an English-subtitled version.

Watch more at http://www.tv.cuny.edu/show/canape

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