Festival de Bangor : Somewhere

Somewhere: Musical Spectacle is a second part that Blandine Jeannest devotes to exile and the difficulties of integration after the Atlantic / the crossing of SomewB It is built around music by composers who fled to America, such as Kurt Weil, Gershwin or Rachmaninov, but also music from Broadway, musicals and jazz standards expressing a desire for freedom stronger than social misery. This music is intended as a counterpoint or an echo to the realistic texts of Perec (Ellis Island), Dos Passos (Manhattan Transfert) or Cendrars (Easter in New York), up to the universality of Machado poet of exile. Three singers, two women and one man, alternately singers and narrators, a clarinet and a virtuoso piano share the stage in the images of the painter Jean Pierre Schneider. with / Sylviane Gentil, Blandine Jeannest, Matthieu, Magali Rubio, Juliette Regnaud and Jean Pierre Schneider

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