Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Messe un jour ordinaire (Mass an ordinary day) revolves mainly around two texts: the ritual of Mass and the insignificant words of Laurence, a young woman adrift, an ordinary addict, who has now passed away, from a filmed document by Jean-Michel Carré, « Galère de femmes ». The two are confronted: the emphatic, dramatic, self-assured collective speech and the individual, modest, minimal, human and insignificant speech.

Music : Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Morton Feldman, Phil Glass, Clément Janequin, Oliver Knussen, Vytautas Miskinis, Zad Moultaka, Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Saunders, Murray Schafer, Eric Whitacre…
Performances, participatory choir

Coordination and staging : Antoine Gindt, assist by d'Élodie Brémaud

With :
Les Métaboles, direction Léo Warynski
Les Ballets confidentiels (Richard Dubelski, Johanne Saunier, Eléonore Lemaire)
Eric Houzelot, actor
Students of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs

coproduction : T&M-Paris, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Métaboles, ENSA

Program

C. Saint Saens: Calme des Nuits, Des pas dans l’allée
Maurice Ravel/Machuel:  Le Jardin Féérique
M. Shaffer : Magic songs 1, 3 et 

Les Métaboles
Marc Coppey, cello
Choir  of Collège Victor Hugo à Colmar

Festival les Musicales de Colmar

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.

Olfactory concert

The program of the record Mysterious Nativity was born from the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with the composer Dimitri Tchesnokov. Released in 2014 with Brilliant Classics it’s at the origin of this concert.

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.