Melodies of the Earth
Muriel Ferraro Soprano
Anne–Cécile Cuniot Flute
Nicolas Fargeix Clarinet
Anne Ricquebourg Harp
Gianny Pizzolato, Ming-Yu Weng Percussion
Marion Plard Viola
Florian Lauridon Cello
Marc Desmons Conductor
Folks songs
To make dialogue between the elsewhere and the here, to make yesterday resonate in the present of the existences of each one: to sing the Earth in all its diversity.
Alexandros Markeas is not exactly of that world – that demonstrative one, camped on dogmas to better expel the other and his questions.
As a subtle negotiator of the class struggle between the learned and the popular, improvisation and interpretation, the amateur and the professional, he returns to TM+, a demanding accomplice of his musical wanderings, after Archipelago, Ypokosmos, Symphonie Ville and so many others, all of which have the taste of sharing. The project resembles the composer, it gathers. The apprentice voices of two hundred schoolchildren and college students and the art of TM+ musicians, in a multicultural territory nourished by Mediterranean traditions, around pieces composed of exchanges and metamorphoses between the repertoire of traditional music and contemporary creation. Dimotika – popular, in Greek – and Planète Terre – specially written for the project, within the framework of the Sacem’s Fabrique Musique Contemporaine – multiply the meanings of crossbreeding: tradition and invention, ancestral forms and projection towards the future, ourselves and others. In this program of ochre sowing and shared celebrations that work on memory and our Earth, it is up to the young choirs to bring the freshness of the rain, and to the musicians of the ensemble to make the sun rise higher to fertilize the meeting.
At the end of a whole season of listening and transmission, a space opens up that is much larger than that of folkloric evocation: somewhere where it is necessary to go and ask oneself, from childhood on, who the other is, what his world is, and how to hear him.
In the press
“Mélodies de la Terre dépasse largement le cadre du concert. ce vaste projet donne lieu à différentes initiatives pédagogiques et culturelles impliquant les parents et les adhérents du Centre social et culturel des Acacias : ateliers de découverte des musiques traditionnelles, sorties à des spectacles, visites de lieux culturels, rencontre avec des musiciens… Une approche sensible et vivante de la création artistique.”
Nanterre info, Isabelle Fruchard
Coproduction TM+, Maison de la Musique de Nanterre
With the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture, the SACEM with the Fabrique Musique Contemporaine, APAC Canopé, the DSDEN des Hauts-de-Seine, the Conseil Départemental des Hauts-de-Seine and the CAF.