Bastille Day celebrated with sound from Lawo

France - On 14 July, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, more than 400,000 spectators celebrated Bastille Day, the National Holiday in France, marking the beginning of the modern French nation. And to Lawo, it was a further chance to demonstrate the power of their latest live and broadcast technologies.

Having mixed classical music and show tunes in 2015, this year's Bastille Day celebration programme opened and closed with the same pieces - The Damnation of Faust by French composer Hector Berlioz and the French National Anthem - but was a more conventional performance for the 250 musicians of the National Orchestra of France and the Radio France Choir, featuring French composers Bizet, Ravel and Saint-Sa

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