Mémoires

A few of our varied memories of the 1998 festival, showing the wealth and depth of the music on offer: the colourful, spicy evening with Manu Dibango and the Orchestre National de Barbès, the forerunners for the French football team that was to win the World Cup a few days later; the restaging of Escalator over the Hill by Carla Bley, a landmark musical event; and finally, the memory of a young woman, Maria Schneider, conducting an extraordinary orchestra with conviction and emotion.