French Musical Broadcasting from 1965 to 1974: a Multiplication of the Productions but a reduced Number of the Stations

Christophe Bennet (1)

1 IReMus - Institut de Recherche en Musicologie

In 1965, Henry Barraud retired. One can suggest, like historian Karine Lebail, that " this was the end of an age for broadcasting music. " Although no longer in charge of music, he was still exerting an administrative supervision on its broadcasting, but the director of the Chaîne nationale's manager fiercely opposed the project of a specialization of the various possible stations of the ORTF. In fact, he was afraid of a ghettoisation of classical music, already criticized as being elitist : culture is indivisible. He however wouldn't be able to slow down this inexorable movement of specialization of the stations. Henceforth, non specialized stations object to broadcasting classical music, since it now has its own station and listeners. The years 1960 were the time of the blossoming of the microgroove and the authorities draw the conclusions, painful as they are for the bands linked with the Radio. The steady disappearance of the links between the diverse provincial orchestras and the Radio leave only three remaining regional orchestras in 1970: in Lyon, Nice and Toulouse. The splitting up of the ORTF, in 1974, will be the occasion of a radical reorganisation: the last provincial orchestras will be part of the regionalization plan implemented by the new " Directeur de la Musique " , Marcel Landowski, as decided by a " Ministry of Cultural Affairs " led by André Malraux.

Mots clés: Marcel Landowski; André Malraux; Charles Chaynes; France-Musique; Music Broadcasting; France in the Seventies; ORTF

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Christophe Bennet. French Musical Broadcasting from 1965 to 1974: a Multiplication of the Productions but a reduced Number of the Stations. 2015. ⟨hal-01146913⟩