Luciano Berio / Pierre-Yves Macé / Karlheinz Stockhausen
extraits des 34 Duetti, Ambidextre, Kontakte
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Luciano Berio
excerpts from 34 Duetti for two violins
Pierre-Yves Macé
Ambidextre for children’s choir, alto and cello – work commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte for piano, percussion and tape recording
Ensemble L’Instant Donné
The Jean-Philippe Rameau Children’s Choir from Versailles
Christophe Junivart, conductor
MOTUS, Vincent Laubeuf, sound projection
Olivier Lamarche, sonorisation
Jointly produced by the Paris Opera and the Festival d’Automne à Paris (concert on November 22nd)
Jointly produced by the Théâtre Gérard Philipe, Saint-Denis Centre for Dramatic Arts and the Festival d’Automne à Paris (concert on November 26th)
With the Sacem Competition.
* At the Studio –Théâtre de Vitry: works by Johann-Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinsky, Gérard Pesson, Luciano Berio and Pierre-Yves Macé.
The program is an exploration of games and sound, placing side-by-side two key works from the 20th century and Pierre-Yves Macé’s recently composed Ambidextre, which was written for the 32-strong class of music students at the Jean-Phillipe Rameau middle-school in
Versailles. With Christophe Junivart as their conductor, rehearsals started in February and continued throughout the school year.
Pierre-Yves Macé wrote about Ambidextre, saying, “drawing on Julien d’Abrigeon’s ‘aborted novel’ Pas Billy the Kid, the myth behind the young outlaw serves as a backdrop to Ambidextre. A mish-mash of scattered pieces – jingles, snippets of stories and written
doucments – this ‘western soundscape’ rather questions than recounts Billy’s story, delving into themes of emancipation and loss of childhood”.