Organized every June 21, this day, which could have been without tomorrow, has become an institution around the world.
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The subject occupied almost a full page of the world of Tuesday, June 22, 1982, dated Wednesday 23, with the exception of two short brief information inserts. No photography, no drawing, it was not the use at the time, and six articles in small characters related the first music festival, organized on the evening of Monday, June 21. “Enthusiasm and Silences”, summarized the title of a global report, Tour de France of the big cities who responded to the invitation to French women and French to take to the streets to present their musical know-how.
The operation had been thought of a few weeks earlier at a meeting between the then Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, the director of music at the Maurice Fleuret Ministry and the architect Christian Dupavillon, who had been In charge of the ceremony of May 21, 1981, at the Pantheon, marking the coming to power of the socialist president François Mitterrand. “We wanted it to be the feast of all music and make the public the creator of his own event,” recalls Jack Lang.
This first “Party (Make) music!”, As printed on posters posted two weeks before June 21, 1982, must start at 8:30 p.m. for half an hour, it is asked that all Those who know how to play an instrument, singing, from the amateur to the virtuoso, are heard. Then, spontaneity can flourish later in the evening.
“a Parisian idea”
On our page, there are some choirs in Lyon, only one concert in a museum in Agen, but that in Montpellier or Laval people were “very numerous in their windows or in the street”, and that Strasbourg had well participated unlike Nice.
Aix-en-Provence, where the party was followed by Paul Chovelon, Bordeaux, entrusted to Pierre Cherruau and Cherves, at the “Limit of Vienne and Deux-Sèvres”, indicates Bernard Hilbert, are entitled to Detailed items. With mentions that this event is indeed “a Parisian idea” and that we had not expected the ministerial injunction so that amateur practices flourish here and there for ages.
In Paris, Jean-Michel Durand-Souffland goes from one neighborhood to another. The music of the peacekeepers is at Park Montsouris, a classic amateur set at Austerlitz station, Boulevard Beaumarchais is deserted when Place de la Bastille A large scene welcomes rock groups and that the site is full, like place of the Republic. Around 11:30 p.m., Saint-Germain-des-Prés is “black from the world”, but Montparnasse “more than calm”. In his analysis, titled “virtues and limits of the organization”, started in “a”, the critic and specialist in classical music Jacques Lonchampt, rather favorable to the initiative, however regrets that “individual attempts were generally drowned in the mass of events organized by professionals “.
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