On Monday, the “world” culture service offers readers to “the morning” its choices in terms of music.
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This week, a selection of concerts and festivals that will take place or start in the next fifteen days. A wide choice that goes from a great work of Stockhausen to the many proposals of Africolor, who likes to question the history of Africa and its areas of musical influences, goes through the jazz of Henri Texier, the news Rock trends put forward by the Parisian version of the Pitchfork Festival, or many rap meetings.
The “Friday of Light” by Karlheinz Stockhausen: the promise of a cosmic trip
When Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) announced, in 1977, that he was going to undertake an opera, Licht (“light”), each party of which would attach to A day of the week, everyone shouted crazy. But twenty -five years later the challenge – to be worthy of its creator by doing the work of Demiurge – was taken up. Or twenty-nine hours of music where everything was meticulously recorded in a river partition: gestures of singers with the effects of electronics associated with an instrumental set. On November 14, 2018, at the Opéra-Comique, in Paris, a new generation of performers took hold of the Magnum opus of this Beethoven of the XX e century. Directed by Benjamin Lazar and directed by Maxime Pascal, the French creation of Donterstag (“Thursday”) was a date. Four years later, with the experience of the experience acquired with Samstag (“Saturday”, in 2019) and Dienstag (“Tuesday”, in 2020) the young chef and his set of sound magicians, the balcony, today approach Freitag (“Friday”), with Silvia Costa at the staging. The promise of a three -hour cosmic trip. Pierre Gervasoni
Henri Texier and the Natural Feelings: a trio and his guests
The recent trio of the double bass player Henri Texier – including the album Heteroklite Lockdown (Blue Label/The other distribution) was published in late January – has Natural Feelings, which can be translated as natural sensations. Those, perhaps, who find themselves, with attention to the melody, an expressive projection of sound, in the music of Texier. This trio with the saxophonist and clarinetist Sébastien Texier (son of Henri), and drummer Gautier Gartier, will be joined in the auditorium of the Seine Musicale, on Seguin Island, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) November 8, then in the great hall of the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (Somme), on the 9th, by Paolo Fresu, Trumpet and Bugle, Michel Portal and Sylvain Rifflet both in saxophones and clarinettes. To listen to putting yourself. Sylvain Siclier
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