French-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas plays at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is closed to visitors during the lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Paris, France, November 26, 2020. Picture taken November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Christian HartmannPARIS: It's an ideal pairing for the COVID-19 era - a musician who cannot play for a live audience and sumptuous museums that cannot welcome visitors.
During the pandemic, she has performed at the Palace of Versailles, the Institute of the Arab World and is scheduled next week to perform at the Grand Palais, a vast exhibition space next to the Champs Elysees. All the venues are shut because of France's COVID-19 lockdown. "I wanted to symbolise with these images the loneliness of musicians without the public, of museums without visitors," said Thomas.She was speaking in a room of the Museum of Decorative Arts this week where she played the Kaddish, a piece written by 20th century French composer Maurice Ravel.
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