Gérard Pesson Maurice Ravel Alexandre Scriabine Brice Pauset

Gérard Pesson/Maurice Ravel/Alexandre Scriabine/Brice Pauset

Accentus/Laurence Equilbey

Archive 2008
Music

Maurice Ravel / Gérard Pesson,  transcription for a chorus from Sheherazade (La Flûte enchantée, L’Indifférent), et de Ronsard à son âme
Alexandre Scriabine / Gérard Pesson, Preuve par la neige,  transcription of a chorus of pieces for piano
Gérard Pesson, for horn and bagpipes
Philippe Manoury, Inharmonies
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus
Brice Pauset, Zwei Studien über Dornröschen (Two studies on Sleeping Beauty)
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus
Maurice Ravel, Tree Songs
Gérard Pesson, Chants populaires with  Poems of Philippe Beck
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus and the Festival d'Automne à Paris
Nicolas Chedmail, horns
François Lazarevitch, bagpipes
Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, musical direction

Co-realized with Instant Pluriel
Thanks to the support of the Mécenat Musical Société Générale, and the Sacem
As well as the Ernst Von Seimens Foundation for Music
A concert presented during the European Cultural Season in France (1st of July- 31st of December)

The final concert in the Gerard Pesson cycle explores an essential aspect of his work and the relationship with classical tradition and repertoire.  With Ravel and Skryabin providing a source of inspiration, he has composed restrained, abstract and striking pieces, such as Chants Populaires (to a text by Philippe Beck) commissioned by the Festival and Accentus Ensemble.

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Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
novembernov 11

Joséphine Markovits, l’art d’écouter

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On 11 November at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Festival d'Automne is dedicating a concert to Joséphine Markovits. In her memory, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble L'Instant Donné will perform works by Claude Vivier, Olga Neuwirth, Gérard Pesson, Pierre-Yves Macé and Arnold Schoenberg. All proceeds from the ticket sales are donated to the Association for ALS Research.

 

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
novembernov 20 - december – dec 20

Dorothée Munyaneza, Kae Tempest
Inconditionnelles

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For this new performance, titled Inconditionnelles singer, author, and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza stages her French translation of Kae Tempest’s fervent play, Hopelessly Devoted (2015). Inconditionnelles explores the interstices where love and connection abound. 

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
decemberdec 3 – 4

Pascal Rambert
Je te réponds

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Six voices ring out, bringing with them the captivating stories of six men and women, aged between 30 and 60 years old, and who are currently serving prison sentences. Usually confined to within prison walls, their words find a stage on which to be heard at the Bouffes du Nord theatre.

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
decemberdec 10 – 11

Dorcy Rugamba
Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents

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Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, Dorcy Rugamba, actor, author and director, brings to life an extract from this work Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents, published by JC Lattès.