LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes

Join us on Saturday 1 September at 7.30pm for the first ever classical music concert to take place in the Royal Academy's historic courtyard. The programme of French music complements the RA's current exhibition, From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism. Programme notes by Richard BratbyIn 1850, the composer Charles Gounod offered the 9-year-old Pierre-Auguste Renoir a place in the choir of the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris. It's impossible to imagine how the history of art might have been diff...

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