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Excerpt from John Cage's Third Construction recorded live in concert	You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Excerpt from Xenakis's Pléïades recorded live in concert.	You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Second song - Chanson à midi - from Aikea - Cinq chansons pour percussion by composer Claude Vivier, orchestrated by Pierre Béluse.	You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Excerpt from the third song - Chanson au Soleil - from Aikea - Cinq chansons pour percussion by Claude Vivier, orchestrated by Pierre Béluse.	You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.

The place of Sixtrum in the career of Robert Leroux

Friday, March 2, 2012 - 10:12pm

In my previous post, the first of a series on the place of Sixtrum in the career of its performers, I asked the question: "What does Sixtrum represent in your career?" to Fabrice Marandola. For my second post of this series, the same question was asked to Robert Leroux during an interview on December 13^th. Here is an overview of that interview:

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The place of Sixtrum in the career of Fabrice Marandola

Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 10:13pm

Whether it is through concerts of the Sixtrum Series, or of the Youth Series, or concerts on tour, Percussion Ensemble Sixtrum shines and makes contemporary music for percussion shine as well. To understand the impact of Sixtrum in the careers of its performers, I propose a series of blogs based on interviews with the musicians of the group.

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«Histoires de gestes» : a concert for both ears and eyes

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 8:26pm

Last Monday, November 7^th, percussion ensemble Sixtrum presented the concert Histoires de gestes at the Society for Arts and Technologies (SAT). The concert was based on pieces which exploited in different ways, the concept of gesture in music.

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