which has six book presentations of 20 minutes realized in the event of 2022 that it was not enough: “That’s why we made the presentation of the writer Joanes Etxeberri from Ciboure outside the day of the fair That’s why I wanted people like that too.” In 2023 they continued testing and organized two more events: Presentation of the book Ahairera de Palabras by Rafa Rueda and Obispo Barandiarán And this led them to organize the Fair in 2024: "The fair moved its boundaries in terms of scope and time we're in Baltsan for kisses and it would've been too heavy for us We are Basque speakers on the Lapurdi coast so we have to create moments where we can unite Basques strengthen the community and enjoy the Basque language.” For this reason they planned to open the fair to the surrounding villages and in last year’s edition they held four events in Urrugne “They come from those towns that we have before to the Ciboure Fair and we also had to return something to them thus confirming that people are interested since about 30 to 40 citizens have gathered at the events.” These events are organized by the Basque Life Committee of Urruñan Ikastola with the readers of Azkain and the AEK of Saint-Jean-de-Luz: “We share the same concerns.” “This year the Basque Country has advanced to May and as a result we saw that it could be confusing with the Fair That’s where the name change comes from.” And there are other changes if last year the fair of Ciboure was extended to the neighboring towns this year it has been extended to the neighboring country and an event has been organized in Navarre’s Baja Orcaz: The writer Uxue Alberdi presents the book Hetero in the bookstore Menta Arrosagarai specifies that the fair of Ciboure “We are organized by Baltsán and LUZ and publishers and people come from all over the Basque Country Irún and/or Hondarribia: we will not break the border with it which is important in order to eradicate the border that separates us in the heads of the Guineas” he says that two media outlets have been placed around an event so Basque Radio and LARA have organized a round table with Amagoia Gurrutxaga and Ximun Fuch “We would also like to keep these to work on the reflections and meaningful discussions that can take place in the environment of the Basque language and/or culture It is Basque that makes us a people and culture that makes us a living people (More about the fair:Fair time: six cultural activities at the gates of the 6th Fair of Ciboure) by André Pavlovsky in Ciboure and Saint Jean de Luz in the French Basque Country For high resolution versions of these photographs, visit davewalshphoto.com’s gallery: Les phares jumeaux de Ciboure et Saint Jean de Luz – The Twin Lighthouses, Basque Country PARIS (AP) — A train hit and killed three people and seriously injured another person in southwestern France on Tuesday morning The regional prosecutor said the victims appeared to be Algerian migrants who had been expelled from nearby Spain and had been sleeping on the tracks The train was on a line that links the seaside resort town of Hendaye The collision occurred at around 5:30 a.m. striking four people who were on the tracks Only one victim has been definitively identified: a 21-year-old man who had recently received an expulsion order from Spanish authorities according to Bayonne Prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier Two others had documents suggesting they were in the same situation but authorities are still working to verify their identities He said it appeared that the group had been sleeping on the tracks and were hit by the first train of the morning While he said migrants walk on the tracks in the area “what’s more surprising here is that the people were lying down The injured person's life is not in danger Follow AP’s global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration rewritten or redistributed without permission The final orchestral concert of the 2021 Grand Teton Music Festival with the gifted violin soloist Leila Josefowicz was a very well chosen program in terms of juxtaposing music from various centuries which have in common far more than one might at first imagine as presented by Runnicles in a brief introduction before the Stravinsky concerto was that of composers who left us quite a remarkable body of ballet music another subtle reason for presenting the three masters Ravel Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky together in a concert so that every line is a real feast for an orchestra to play and for the public to hear Maurice Ravel wrote the Alborada del gracioso (“Morning Song of the Jester”) as a piano piece the fourth in a set called Mirroirs in 1907-08 and transcribed into its orchestral version 14 years later Nothing in the quite traditional choice of instruments tries to underline the very characteristic Spanish sound of the music maybe with the exception of crotales and castanets Despite this the resulting music is a very lively “segudilla,” where Ravel with only two harps and some pizzicato strings recreates a perfect illusion of Spanish guitars If someone should ever ask why Ravel has written so much music inspired by Spain it would be advisable to look at the house where he was born in Ciboure overlooking the Atlantic Oceran and a few miles from the Spanish border in a land where on both sides of the frontier the Basque minority still lives but given to their use just for the birth of the child And so it happened that the boy inhaled the perfume of the ocean and the Spanish sounds right from the beginning Runnicles has chosen a very traditional approach to tempo which maybe due also to the specific acoustic of the hall with the double basses behind the first violins Maybe this sounded great when listening directly where every instrument was reinforced as needed by the microphones The brief spoken introduction of Stravinsky’s Concerto for Violin in D Major by the conductor and the soloist Leila Josefowicz was very spontaneous and tried very hard to explain this not so easy music to the public France during 1931 and is divided into: “Toccata,” “Aria I,” “Aria II” and “Capriccio.” The neoclassical concerto written for young Polish violinist Samuel Dushkin after a lot of hesitation has a signature well present in all four movements The story of Stravinsky asking Dushkin ifa particular chord is playable on a violin is well known and probably a legend only as it is hardly believable that the composer of Petrushka or Sacre de Printemps would have doubts like that as the composer himself explained: “not because I did not care about exploiting violin virtuosity but because the violin in combination was my real interest But virtuosity for its own sake has only a small role in my Concerto and the technical demands of the piece are relatively tame.” Leila Josefowicz performs Stravinsky’s “Violin concerto in D major” at the Grand Teton Music Festival It is usually not in so high esteem among the violinists but I have to admit I completely changed my opinion about this score after listening to the splendid scintillating and muscular perfomance by Ms to let the people live with her interpretation the words are not apt to describe the pure joy which she radiated while playing All that she tried to say with words before She played a short solo violin solo piece as an encore The last and longest piece on the program followed The composer was slowly getting out of an extremely negative period following his disastrous marriage and just entered in the orbit of his new muse who supported him for the next thirteen years Clearly this new symphony was dedicated to her a fact which in these times had far more significance than today It de facto put the author and the dedicatee on the same level of importance that when the first presentation in public Nadeshda von Meck didn’t mention this at all in her letters to Tchaikovsky Sur Donald Runnicles leads the GTMF Orchestra in Tchakovsky’s “Symphony No The fate of this work was far from being a favorable one for a long time This was due in part to the fact that Tchaikovsky almost completely abandoned the original German-born idea of a strict formal structure in favor of more romantic and free expression of his own sentiments But not much time passed before this composition entered the standard orchestral repertoire to stay forever Sir Donald Runiccles’ rendering was of a very energic He is clearly in command of this music and has the fortune to haver at his disposal a very responsive is impressive as only American players can be Surely a great way to end a concert and a season Giorgio Koukl is a Czech-born pianist/harpsichordist and composer who resides in Lugano Among his many recordings are the complete solo piano works and complete piano concertos of Bohuslav Martinů on the Naxos label He has also recorded the piano music of Tansman You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed This extraordinary region in southwest France oozes laid-back cool Hemmed between the Bay of Biscay and the Pyrenees it offers a more authentic Basque experience than its Spanish counterpart This article was published more than 7 years ago but who am I to refuse a taste of frothy rosé on a sun-soaked terrace overlooking the Bay of Biscay a new Pays Basque winery would make a lush out of you with its fruity-fresh fizz and après-surf setting on the beach at Ciboure A converted warehouse dotted with sandy footprints developed by former Moet executive Emmanuel Poirmeur when he discovered Ciboure's protected inlet provided the perfect conditions for a light I'm told by his suntanned assistant Francine as she tours me around the dark cellars in a hollow of a cliff face Poirmeur settled on his unique process: press white and red Basque grapes pour 10 per cent of the liquid into polyethylene tanks and bury them 45 feet under the bay The gentle sloshing of the liquid during the tides combined with the oxygen and carbon dioxide that seeps into the tanks creates a chemical synergy too complex to detail here But the upshot is a fine sparkle and pleasant acidity that "means 'the truth is in the wine' in Basque." Neither version rolls off the tongue Though I could not resist Francine's taster of rosé (nor red nor the diaphanously sliced jambon de Bayonne) Pays Basque creeps up on you that way: extraordinary stuff under the guise of laid-back cool less populous and less developed by industry and tourism than its Spanish counterpart its culture is less diluted than other regions Basque is still the official language – priests hired to work at Bayonne Cathedral Eglise d'Ainhoa or anywhere in between must learn to speak it fluently before the first sermon Even the tiniest hilltop villages have a gabled wall reserved for pelota the local handball that men in whites play (and speculate on) fiercely and competitively The French see it as quelque chose d'exotique; the English as quelque chose d'authentique where the half-timbered oxblood fisherman's cottages were once painted with the actual blood of oxen It's the sort of place where the fishmonger's stucco hut stays open late a few nights a week to present diners with heaping platters of briny Its population of 14,000 is roughly the same as it was as right after the French Revolution And yet the same town hosted the plush 1660 wedding of King Louis XIV to the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa which you can read about at Maison Louis XIV museum in the small market square where the groom spent his last night as a bachelor Adam provided guests with the first macarons – simple almond-powder biscuits denser than the Ladurée meringues we now know Maison Adam still sells them at its richly stocked épicerie across Place Louis XIV I instead ordered a half-dozen in Adam's parchment-lined white paper box then turned into Gambetta anyway to try on espadrilles at Sandales Bayona a fifth-generation family business that stacks hundreds of pairs behind the counter like old-fashioned dry goods last season Gucci did them for $675.) for drinks at Le Clipper at the Grand Hotel Grand Tour inns on the Atlantic get short-shrift these days with everyone jetting to boutique hotels on the Med but this one's had a rock-solid refurbishment in marble and jewel-toned velvets Le Clipper's new west-facing terrace hits the sea wall to take advantage of those 2,000 hours of sunshine a year It's slick as a deck on the Regent Seven Seas though you can get a Patxaran cocktail flavoured with local Espelette pepper for less than $20 a Michelin-star joint helmed by the affable Christophe Grosjean I'm presented with the marquee dish on the $158 dinner tasting menu: a "deconstructed" squid etched with zebra stripes stuffed with potato risotto and referred to as chipron a la Gaultier The designer and L'Océan fan Jean-Paul Gaultier is the sociable poster child for the town French Basque Country bleeds 150 kilometres inland and south to La Rhune a mountain on the French-Spanish border with a population of squat You can board a cog-wheel train for the 35-minute ascent Or hike the grassy medieval pilgrimage route outside the languid village of Sare a timber-beamed Michelin-star family bistro with pastel-painted guest rooms in winsome Ainhoa The serpentine roads between them swing around small chili pepper holdings and three-million-year-old caves in the limestone massif and slate bergeries gently leaning into the earth The absence of any major industry means an absence of industrial blight; the ugliest building you'll pass is an Intermarché superstore you can walk 30 kilometres of coastal path from Biarritz to Hendaye avoiding big spends and the regrettable designation of a driver From the train station in the surf town Guéthary where commuters watch the tracks while noshing on Basque tapas I follow the arc of the sun as the path inclines gently past food vans in marooned open-topped buses and vast nets collecting algae for face cream Overlooking the ramshackle cabanas at Acotz I watch the sea bash the earthy sand punishingly while surfers stuff themselves into neoprene I slowly get smashed on the route approaching Saint-Jean-de-Luz named for the Belle Epoque taverns painted by the Impressionists stubby sausages to stab with toothpicks and the local dry wine with a 25-per-cent alcohol content A sling-lounger by a low table at the sea wall is good for the soul bad for the hair if you get anything close to average winds It's 40 minutes back to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and I've rounded Pointe Sainte-Barbe to the hotel strip I am soon slipping into a steamy saltwater cove with views out to sea flapping clumsily against a too-strong current I'm faintly allergic to cold Atlantic water and terrified of jellyfish but this is ocean "lite," a thalassotherapy circuit pool siphoned from the sea and pimped up for elderly and arthritic tourists who began coming here to avail themselves of the healing saltwater in the 1950s but this is the most-fun-least-cool activity I've done in years tumbling in the wrong direction like an unfit salmon When the aquabics class around the sinuous bend empties out I drift in to avail myself of the massage jets you should do it like nobody's watching The world capital of thalassotherapy is France's Atlantic coast You're not even allowed to call yourself "thalasso" if you're more than a few metres from shore so the spas that cluster near the Spanish border are so close to the bay the windows get spray No one has determined the therapeutic benefits of thalasso I'm the young whippersnapper here and who can deny the energizing effects of being the youngest in the room But nor has anybody calculated the benefits of a cold glass of rosé or a sea-wall hike and a macaron Maison Tamarin: This eight-bedroom farmhouse bed and breakfast in Acotz on the coastal road between Guéthary and Saint-Jean-de-Luz faces an outdoor pool, two hectares of gardens and one of the quietest beaches on the Côte Basque. Perfectly placed for families, surfers and daytrippers. Doubles from $195. maisontamarin.com Hotel Hélianthal: On the strip in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, this B&B has the most popular thalasso circuit and a prime location near the shops and bars of the town. Doubles from $229. helianthal.fr La Boëte (Saint-Jean-de-Luz): Local brothers serve fresh-from-the-sea shellfish platters, grilled vegetables drizzled with oil and thick fish soups – to be washed down with local white wine or cold Basque beer. laboete-restaurant-poissonnerie-64.com Kaiku (Saint-Jean-de-Luz): Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is a neighbour and frequenter of this 16th-century stone cellar run by Nicolas Borombo. He deals with local farms and designs exquisite dishes not only with the local fish but veal, pigeon and a 36-hour lamb confit. kaiku.fr The writer was a guest of the Tourist Office of the Pays de Saint-Jean-de-Luz – Terre and Côte Basques It did not review or approve this article hosted the plush 1660 wedding of King Louis XIV to Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa.\n a pioneering winemaker invented a technique in which Basque grape liquid is poured into vats and buried 45 feet under the bay where the tides slosh the liquid and infuse it with oxygen and carbon dioxide.\n \nYou can read about King Louis XIV’s wedding at the Maison Louis XIV museum in Saint-Jean-de-Luz’s small market square.\n you can board a cog-wheel train for the 35-minute ascent.\n you can nosh on Basque tapas on the patio at Le Poinçon.\n France’s Macron: I hope tensions with Algeria will soon ease France ready to question bilateral agreements with UK over fishing rights row: PM Castex Biathlon - Coupe du monde - Equipes de France Alors que les biathlètes de l'équipe de France A masculine terminent leur premier stage dans le Pays Basque à Ciboure on se pence sur la suite de leur programme en commun Les prochains rassemblements collectifs sont prévus à Corrençon en Vercors du 15 au 22 juin Les féminines du groupe A se retrouvent dès aujourd'hui à Aix les Bains pour six jours de travail La suite se déroulera à Prémanon du 10 au 16 juin puis à Vassieux en Vercors du 29 juin au 6 juillet Ensuite les deux équipes s'envoleront en direction de la Norvège pour 12 jours de stage qui se terminera avec les traditionnelles compétitions du Blink Festival Les hommes de Simon Fourcade se rendront ensuite du 20 au 30 août à Bessans avant de participer pour certains, au Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival à Annecy là où se dérouleront les prochains mondiaux du 11 au 22 septembre les biathlètes de Cyril Burdet devraient ensuite se rendre sur le glacier de Ramsau pendant que leurs homologues masculins seront réunis dans le Jura les hommes prendront encore une fois la direction de la Norvège et le site de Sjusjoen Justine Braisaz Bouchet et les autres peaufineront leur préparation à Bessans