The Cdmc holds a unique collection representing all aesthetics within musical creation. This collection has grown thanks to the collaboration of composers, publishers and Radio France. With a consultation area open to the public, the centre also affords access to many online resources through the Catalogue and the Gateway to Contemporary Music. A beacon of the latest music news with its website, the Cdmc organises encounters with the movers and shakers of contemporary music.
The Cdmc presents a season of encounters, seminars and day study sessions designed to counterpoint the views of specialists and professionals and to spotlight composers and performers. Focussing on topical aspects of the music scene, they are organised in collaboration with the main players of musical creation: ensembles, centres for creation, festivals, etc., as well as with those involved in research, the universities and conservatories. Dédicaces (Dedications): these are encounters featuring newly released books, discs or DVDs.
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Disorient orientalism - Encounter with Saed Haddad
Cdmc
Moderator: Jérémie Szpirglas
With Algeria a subject for Romantic painters, the attraction to the Orient continnued throughout the succeeding centuries with the Levantine years, from Napoleon III’s deam of an Arab Kingdom to the convulsions of a Union for the Mediterranean. Orientalism has not disappeared from the French scene.
Music has remained isolated in the midst of these confrontations, and yet, for several years now, one has noted the arrival on the contemporary scene of composers who champion a ‘Arabism’ of dual origin. Saed Haddad (1972), a Jordanian composer, is at the confluence of two musical cultures that irrigate the Mediterranean: one, Arabic-Persian, that daily animates the Middle East, and one that, since Monteverdi, has been feeding European passions. This encounter looks at the work of Saed Haddad and will provide a moment for listening and opening out to the art of the twenty-first century.
18h30 Saed Haddad at the Gateway to the West
Omer Corlaix, publisher, chronicler for France Musique
18h50 Musical interlude
Saed Haddad In Memoriam Escher (3) for cor anglais
Jean-Marc Liet, cor anglais
19h Between the middles
Jérémie Szpirglas, writer and journalist
19h20 Music of the Maghreb and the Middle East, orality from mouth to ear
Rachid Brahim-Djelloul, violinist and musicologist
19h40 Musical interlude
Saed Haddad Les deux visages de l’Orient for violin
Jasmine Eudeline, violin
20h Round table with all participants
Partnership Cdmc – Ensemble 2e2m