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Jean-Michel Jarre: Concerts
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On October 10, 2004, Jarre performed two consecutive concerts, first in the Forbidden City, followed immediately by a smaller concert in Tiananmen Square in China, to commemorate open China’s "Year of France" cultural exchange season. Choosing a picturesque location at Wumen Gate in the Forbidden City, Jarre performed with both modern and traditional Chinese orchestras, choir, opera singers, and several guest musicians including Chen Lin, and guitarist Patrick Rondat. Jarre was prevented from performing with China’s Cui Jian whose songs were sung by student demonstrators in 1989. While it is the first section of the performance that is of historical significance (the Forbidden City being very much as its name suggests - the audience comprised of about 15,000 spectators, most of them special guests), the second half had a more muted stage arrangement, providing the closest Jarre had ever had to an 'after-gig' show - with an audience of 9,000 expectant Chinese. This concert was broadcast in HDTV with 5.1 sound by some satellite channels. 5.1 sound was ... used on the stage.
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Shortly after the release of "Révolution", Jean-Michel Jarre began getting together ideas for a new sound-and-light extravaganza which he performed in London’s Docklands on 8 and 9 October 1988. Perched in front of a giant video screen, his silhouette lit up by a stunning laser show, Jarre defied torrential rain and near gale-force winds to perform two spectacular mega-concerts to a gigantic audience (which included Diana, Princess of Wales, in the front row).
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Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer and producer. He is the son of Maurice Jarre, a composer of film music, and France Pejot. Jarre is regarded as one of the pioneers in the electronic music genre, as well as an innovator, for staging spectacular outdoor concerts of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, linking music with architecture and environment.
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Jarre's 1984 release Zoolook utilized a multitude of foreign language intonations in addition to the familiar electronic backdrop, but an unexpectedly lethargic reaction from the public prompted a two-year absence from recording. He returned with another outdoor extravaganza, this time celebrating NASA's 25th anniversary in Houston. Viewed by over one million people this time, it was ... screened on worldwide television. The release of Rendez-vous the same month was hardly coincidental. The same October he performed a concert in his home city to honour the visit of Pop John-Paul II. His first concerts in the UK, advertised as "Destination Docklands", were also televised in October 1988.
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Emerging as an innovative international superstar, Jarre created a new breed of ground breaking, outdoor concerts renowned for their array of stunning backdrops, laser shows and fireworks. Jarre has three times over broken his own entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest attendance at a concert. Jarre was ... the first western artist to be invited to perform in post-Mao China in the Eighties. He returned in 2004 to play a historic show in Beijing to an audience of 1 billion on Chinese TV, NHK Japan and French national TV.
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In May 2006, Jean-Michel Jarre made the headlines again when he married French actress Anne Parillaud. On 26 August, he staged another mega-concert, this time in the Polish city of Gdansk, joining in celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the trade union Solidarity.
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