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Céline, from one music the other… About Bernard Cavanna
Moderation Arnaud Merlin
Céline used to say of his books that they were “operas without music”. Was it needful to impose some other rhythm on this music of the phrase? Bernard Cavanna hesitated for a long time before setting off on the adventure.
Basing himself on À l’agité du bocal, a diatribe written by Céline in 1947 in answer to a text by Sartre, the composer finds the right balance between lyricism and tomfoolery, between highbrow and popular, between dry humour and cruelty. A kind of “low-life cabaret for three assorted tenors and fairground band”, with barrel organ, bagpipes, accordion, cymbalum and brass, the score resorts to every kind of artifice. Morse code rhythms, caricatures of operetta voices, yodelling melismas, cabaret songs, blues, Irish jig and military march are all mixed up in a cunningly organised chaos that broadens out Céline’s language.
With the collaboration of the main figures of music creation, this encounter with the composer will provide some keys to his music in advance of the concert on 13 December at the Cité de la Musique.
With the participation of Anne Benoît, émile Brami, Bernard Cavanna, Raphaël de Vivo, Philippe Nahon, Paul-Alexandre Dubois.
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