Festival d’Art Pyrotechnique 2006

The Fireworks Festival in Cannes runs from July 14^th to August 24^th, where each week a different country competes with a show of 30-minutes of fireworks choreographed to recorded music.  The fireworks and the music are set off from three barges strategically placed out in the water in the Bay of Cannes, and our favorite place to view the fireworks is from any number of the beaches along the Croisette.  Dinner on the beach is paced to the Fireworks Show, so that each table is at the coffee or digestif course when the spectacle begins around 10:15pm.  Each beach restaurant has a special Feu d’Artifice Menu at a fixed price, where the timing of each course is very important.  Tonight we had dinner at Plage Gray Albion, where we were expected to arrive promptly at 8:00pm.  Tonight’s competition was brought to us by Italy, and their program was as follows:

   Pirotecnica Scarpato (Italie)

"Les musiques Méditérranéennes"

         Thèmes musicaux

Extraits	Auteurs
Comme un Souffle (A Filetta)	Bruno Coulais
La Mer	Charles Trenet
Méditerranée	Tino Rossi
Granada	Paco de Lucia
Espana cani (Paso Doble)	Pascual Marquina
Kantemir’s Drag	Ensemble Fisfuz
Instrumental	Folklore Maroc
Chibolet Basade	Kol Aviv
Sirtaki	Zorba
Funiculi Funicula	Carreras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pavarotti
La Danza (Tarentella)	Rossini
Nessun Dorma	Pavarotti

Comments

[Anne]

Dave looks pretty cool sitting there with that absolutely beautiful light on those white table cloths...what a great photo op...he looks like someone famous. Sounds like ya'll had a good time. Formidable!