mise en oreilles

14:15 Jul 29, 2021 

Don't worry about me -- a sudden collapse in my confidence is very unlikely!

13:49 Jul 29, 2021 

One tends to vote on the actual posted suggestions. Away at the bottom of the discussion I said I had toyed with Appetiser but you are right the event is more of a learning curve. Di keep posting your ideas!

10:00 Jul 29, 2021 

I'll just stick to the facts, writeaway:

I had "attune" in the body of my first answer, as a very secondary suggestion.
For me, "Musical appetiser" was the obvious answer here (another reason why I shouldn't win the question), but the Asker didn't like that, that can happen and that's fine.

As I have already confirmed to Domini, she did nothing wrong at all.

I will also apologise to Domini, if she thinks she has been accused of anything.

The etiquette is complicated.

09:28 Jul 29, 2021 

You and I posted attune over 10 hours before Conor came in a posted a different answer. Attuned was not the answer posted. All you did was post the answer that was already in the Dbox. Don't worry about it. You did nothing wrong at all.

23:45 Jul 28, 2021 

No problem.

Yes, one of the longest discussions I've seen.

23:16 Jul 28, 2021 

Except that it was quite a long discussion! I should have read your entry too more fully and carefully too. I skimmed it I think, except that I can't remember the chronology of it all. The clock timings don't always seem consistent when I read them from here. Either way thank you for being so gracious. My interest was in the discussion and not the points, even though they are, of course, always nice to have. 'Til soon, no doubt. Take care.

23:13 Jul 28, 2021 

I didn't actually read all of the Discussion, as I technically should have, so in terms of ProZ etiquette, if I understand it correctly -- and I should do by now -- you are in the right, so no problem.

I thought the obvious answer was "Musical appetizer" (nothing in English can reproduce the pure lameness of the pun in French, and the inaccuracy of it, since the pre-event thing is a lecture, according to one of my sources).

23:01 Jul 28, 2021 

@Conor So sorry. Did I miss that and not make mention of it? Did yours pre-date my first discussion entry? I have to say I was pretty much focused on the discussion after that for most of the time as I was between things. Also, much of my thought process was on the inclusion of Pre-Concert Sessions.
@ormiston I am so very grateful for the points, but may seem to have missed this or I would not have posted a separate answer without checking with him as well. Happy to forego the points if that is correct form at this point. Either way, thank you again.

22:45 Jul 28, 2021 

...and I don't think that I subconsciously reprocessed writeaway's "Get(ting) your ears attuned", because I don't remember reading her coinage "earset".

Anyway. Let the record show and so on.

22:29 Jul 28, 2021 

At 12 hours, I posted "To tune [or attune] your ears" in my first post.

Thank you and good night.

16:43 Jul 24, 2021 

Thanks, i know what it is, so it was to help with the brainstorming, but never really thought on how to call it in English. If i had to post an answer or suggestion, i'd probably have said something like "Pre-Concert Lectures" maybe.

16:00 Jul 24, 2021 

Yes, I did wonder about whether it should be left in the original, which is why I started Googling English sites. I didn't find it this end (so far). If it is in Ambronay, then that makes quite a lot of sense.
p.s. I love brainstorming exercises. Keeps the little grey cells en forme!

15:53 Jul 24, 2021 

Thanks for all your input. This IS more of a brainstorming exercise, would be good to see what others think. The term is used as a name for other Ambronay events so perhaps it should not even be translated...

14:32 Jul 24, 2021 

kind of you. Yes, I'm a she too. Without a photo I am often assumed to be a Dominic. Well now we know each other better, hello everyone. :-)

14:30 Jul 24, 2021 

We posted at nearly the same time, it's just that my post appeared first. So you're hardly riding anyone's coat tails. And I dropped out of the pointzzzz race several years ago.
And guess what, I'm a she too....

14:25 Jul 24, 2021 

ok. I'll post. But if it comes to points don't worry, as I am riding on @writeaway's coat tails, including (his?) link

13:36 Jul 24, 2021 

I am not too concerned about posting an answer since this is more like a bit of brainstorming in order to arrive at some sort of suitable solution.
And apologies @Ormiston. All these years and I incorrectly assumed you were a guy. Oops, my bad.

13:34 Jul 24, 2021 

Like an initiation ahead of the performance. Do post a suggestion!

13:27 Jul 24, 2021 

Also, in terms of phrasing, is the context a programme? A newspaper article? An academic article (you mention an academic introduction to the work)? Or something else? That would affect the wording for me.

13:25 Jul 24, 2021 

as to an option to post, I would have posted something like "attune your ears with/at our Pre-Concert Session", but felt that I could not steal @writeaway's thunder given the previous discussion entry that overlapped with mine. @writeaway do you want to use attune...ears in a suggested answer?

13:22 Jul 24, 2021 

I worked in an empresario's office years ago and we hosted international events for the Athens Festival and elsewhere. I did something similar in Madrid for the 1992 celebrations. Among other duties, we sent out information for the programme and press releases to the papers. We also hosted French and French-speaking ballets and orchestras at times and translated their documentation for local use. Mise en oreilles was not something I had come across, but what I know from what we did send out was that if the audience / wider public knew something by a particular name, that was what we called it so it was recognisable to those who would be interested. Following that practice, if the BBC is calling it a Pre-Concert Session I think it therefore needs to stay in and that it's the rest of the sentence that would need to be adjusted.

12:56 Jul 24, 2021 

But what should we call it in English?! (Pre concert seminar is what it IS but can it be given a clever title?!)

09:49 Jul 24, 2021 

It's a bit strange, the text, because it talks about a lecture before a concert, to whet people's musical appetites.

The equivalent of talking a lot about food before before eating some...

09:14 Jul 24, 2021 

For opera evenings for example, there is rather often a preliminary session of "mise en oreille" which allows the audience to become familiar with the work, the composer, the performers, by listening to a few extracts.
There is sometimes an explanatory introduction, allowing the performers to present their programme.

06:52 Jul 24, 2021 

I considered posting 'inauguration' which is the opening or the initiation of something like the use of a new product. I think it's the introduction of an outstanding performance which can prepare the ears for an outstanding recital.

05:39 Jul 24, 2021 

Yes I'd found that, which has confirmed the second part of the title.
And yes the events involve the festival of Ambronay and they have used 'mise en oreilles' elsewhere. Do post suggestions to see what peers think...

23:37 Jul 23, 2021 

Might it be new to the ears?

23:29 Jul 23, 2021 

Have you come across these links? https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/er88gw?lang=gd https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezggwh? They seem to fit with what you mentioned earlier and it looks like "pre-concert session" is used as you said, even if it is duller than the French. It would make it recognisable as what it is to the right reader (/ears!) though.

23:26 Jul 23, 2021 

oops, sorry. Just saw you mentioned getting ears attuned. Didn't mean to cut across your suggestion. Think it might not have refreshed my end before I wrote it in.

23:22 Jul 23, 2021 

Just wondering if you could use attuning ears in some way... Will have to google to see if it runs the risk of meaning something else. Haven't had a chance yet, so just throwing it in as a thought.

23:13 Jul 23, 2021 

17th century baroque music is a special earset (as opposed to mindset)

22:39 Jul 23, 2021 

'setting the scene' . Would work with :pre concert session:;

Join us for a free pre-concert session to discover more about the orchestra and the music being performed. Members of the orchestra will give an insight into what tonight’s performance might involve.

22:34 Jul 23, 2021 

I had in mind 'pre concert session,' but felt it was a wee bit dull vs the rather nice French. 'Appetizer' is a wee bit much though, n'est ce pas ?!

22:25 Jul 23, 2021 

Setting the scene - Pre concert talk ?
https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/setting-scene-ar...
https://greyfriarskirk.com/events/edinburgh-royal-choral-uni...

A bit like mise-en-scène but for a concert.

21:54 Jul 23, 2021 

The composer is Gervais from the 17th century

21:49 Jul 23, 2021 

Context please. There are many possibilities depending on the context. Some snappy context would be handy if you want people to give you snappy suggestions.
Do you mean this:
http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/mise-en-oreilles