Later that year, he plays at the Acropolis in Greece. The concert was called Rendez-vous in Space and the group called itself The ViZitors. Clarke and Tetsuya Komuro in the Okinawa beaches, to celebrate the "real" beginning of the new millennium. In 2001 he performed a concert in collaboration with Arthur C. It also offered a preview of the new JARRE album, "Metamorphoses". The show, called The 12 Dreams of the Sun, celebrated the new millennium and 5000 years of civilization in Egypt. In 1999 he created a spectacular music and light show in the Egyptian desert, near Giza. The Moscow State University was used as the backdrop for a spectacular display of image projections, skytrackers and fireworks, with an audience of 3.5 million, Jarre's 4th record for the biggest concert audience ever. In September 1997 JARRE played in Moscow to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the city. 2 and a half million people watched Jarre light up the business district of Paris. July 14, 1990, Jean Michel broke his own record in Guinness Book of Records again with a concert in La Defense, Paris. The Houston concert entered the Guinness Book of Records for the audience of over 1.5 million. After the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, the piece was recorded with a different saxophonist, retitled Ron's piece and the album dedicated to the seven Challenger astronauts. It was to have been the first piece of music recorded in space, for the album "Rendez-Vous". During that concert, astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of JARRE's piece "Rendez-Vous VI" while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1986 NASA and the city of Houston asked him to do a concert to celebrate NASA's 25th anniversary and the city of Houston 150th anniversary. Jean-Michel André Jarre Pejot - Born Aug(Lyon, France) During that concert, astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of JARRE's piece "Rendez-Vous VI" while in orbit on board th. In October 1981, JARRE was the first Western pop-artist who was granted to give concerts in the People's Republic of China. People recorded the album using their tape recorders while it was broadcasted on the radio, so we can listen to that album, at a very poor quality though (the radio station was an AM station). JARRE destroyed all the master records from his studio work, allowed a Luxembourg radio to broadcast the album once and auctioned it to raise money for French artists. In 1983 he created the album Musique pour supermarchés (Music for supermarkets), which had a print run of only a single copy. This concert attracted 1 million people, which was JARRE's first entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd for an outdoor concert. In 1978, his second album "Equinoxe" was released, followed by a concert in Paris on the Place de la Concorde in Paris in 1979. His album "Oxygene" launched in 1976 was a big success worldwide, the song "Oxygene Part IV" becoming one of the best-known pieces of electronic music ever. In late 1960s he started experimenting with tape loops, radios and other electronic devices, until, in 1968, he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, the "father" of the musique concrète, where he was introduced to synthesizers. During his youth he formed a band called MYSTERE IV. Jean-Michel JARRE began studying piano at the age of five, but he abandoned his classical training. He is well-known for staging spectacular outdoor concerts of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, and three of which appeared in the Guinness Book of Records for their large audiences, often of several million. Jean-Michel JARRE is regarded as one of the pioneers in the electronic music genre, along with artists and bands such as Wendy CARLOS, VANGELIS, KRAFTWERK, Isao TOMITA or TANGERINE DREAM. Jean-Michel André Jarre Pejot - Born Aug(Lyon, France)įrench composer of electronic music, he is the son of Maurice Jarre, a composer of film music, who has written the scores to such films as "Lawrence Of Arabia" and "Dr.
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