Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival 2010 Update

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Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival 2010

I've updated my post on Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival 2010 with some performer and venue photos and added the full program to the end of the post. The updated post is here. Monday 19 July Kuhmo Church 9.15pm: Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992): Fête des belles eaux for Six Ondes Martenots  Hartmann-Claverie, Forget, Grangey, Ogawa, Perrault, Viard The ondes Martenot (IPA: [ɔ̃d maʀtəno]; French for "Martenot waves"), also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument that Maurice Martenot invented in 1928. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin. The sonic capabilities of the instrument were later expanded by the addition of timbral controls and switchable loudspeakers. The instrument's eerie wavering notes are produced by varying the frequency of oscillation in vacuum tubes. The production of the instrument stopped in 1988, but several conservatories in France still teach it. Since 2008, Jean-Loup Dierstein, with the support of Maurice Martenot's son, has been building ondes Martenot instruments based on the model used when production stopped in 1988. In 1997, the Ondéa project began designing an instrument based on the ondes Martenot. Since the Martenot name is still protected, the new instrument is called Ondéa, but has the playing and operational characteristics of the original ondes Martenot. In 2001, a completed prototype was first used in concerts. These instruments have been in regular use since 2005.