13 Jul 2005
Aix-en-Provence
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8fe829ec-f271-11d9-8e69-00000e2511c8.html
with utopia. Add an inexhaustible supply of passion. Make a few informed suggestions. Then, and only then, talk politics.
It sounds like a recipe for artistic disaster, but when you marry it to the sun and locale of southern France, it has a habit of turning into paradise. That, at least, is the experience of most visitors to the Aix-en-Provence festival these past few summers. You have the perfect weather, the gastronomie, the suitably distressed 18th-century architecture and a bronzed landscape as fit for creativity as it is for relaxation. All that's needed on top is the vision, patience and political will to harness energy — the energy of performing artists.