One of these days we’ll get around to making a real video for “On a Train from Paris to Rome” — music by Jordan Zell, lyrics by Gary Lee Kraut — but in the meantime you can watch and listen to a practice performance of the song by Jordan Zell and Yuri Stolov at the Putin Bar in Jerusalem in November 2009.

To those with memories of Hollywood’s Golden Age, watching Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951) opposite Gene Kelly was enough to turn anyone into Francophile. That oh-la-la Francophilia was reinforced when she played [...]

Techno isn’t a style of music I associate with France, beyond the general europop arena. Thus I was somewhat surprised to hear that there was a Techno Parade in Paris and that it coincided with Heritage Days.

October is Paris’s most culture-minded month. September may represent the official rentrée, France’s back to school, back to work, back to politics, back to books, back to the courthouse, back to the museum time of year, [...]

A blogload of thanks to the readers who wrote to say me how much they loved France Revisited’s number one musical hit of the season “She Walked Along the River, a.k.a. The T-Shirt Song”! Includes music video.

Gospel’s got a special place in the soul of Europeans, who, generally speaking, hear it not as a call to praise the Lord but as the exotic voice of religion in America, a foreign, typically [...]

What follows is a review of Swinging Life, a musical review that was onstage at the Alhambra in July 2009. The show returns to the same theater from Oct.-Dec. 10, 2011. Paris, July 3, 2009—Last [...]

France Revisited is thrilled to announce the release of our first travel music video, She Walked Along the River (The T-Shirt Song). The song (Rated-R) was inspired by a ride along the Seine and a part [...]

Laurent Cantet’s film The Class (Entre les murs) won the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, earning high praise for its lively portrayal of adolescents in a Parisian high school, and is [...]