The Ministry of Culture offers, in the Gardens of the Palais-Royal, for the 38th edition of the Fête de la Musique, an artistic program that will bring together on June 21, from 4pm to 11pm, amateur and professional practices with major artists and musical formations of the French and international scene. Franck Riester, Minister of Culture, also proposed to his European counterparts that the Ode to joy is performed at 8 pm across Europe.
Thus, the band of the ENS Ulm - Ecole normale supérieure, the choir Envie de Chanter and a Harmonie of the Confédération Musicale de France will take over the garden. In the departmental salons, the Hall de la Chanson will make the public sing. In the evening, the Opéra-Comique People’s Master, the Orchestre National de Jazz and Keren Ann will succeed each other on the Palais-Royal stage.
At 20h sharp (UTC+2), all Europeans are invited to interpret the European anthem the Ode to joy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the verses of Schiller’s poem to create a moment of sharing and joy that will illustrate in music the motto of Europe: «United in diversity».
The Fête de la Musique reaffirms each year that music is par excellence, the artistic domain where difference unites. It mobilizes all actors, public and private, in the music sector and demonstrates the strength of amateur music practice, the will to share in all territories.
Since its creation in 1982, the Fête de la Musique, a largely spontaneous and free event, has also become a major international event, organized in more than 120 countries around the world. Emblematic of a desire to share and listen, its founding principles place it naturally in the stakes of a cultural policy that aims to address everyone.
For Franck Riester, Minister of Culture, "The Fête de la Musique is a great popular festival, a unique moment of gathering and sharing for the public and for all musicians, both amateur and professional."
All the programming, all over France and the world is available on the official website of the Fête de la Musique: https://fetedelamusique.culture.gouv.fr/
Artistic Programming:
16h-18h/ The Hall of Song takes over the salons of the Ministry of Culture
- Beef improvised as a musical quiz with a trio of improvisers who play famous songs in purely instrumental version and in unexpected arrangements: Claude Barthélémy (guitar and oud), Mathias Levy (violin), Georges Sayah (percussion, didjeridoo, drums);
- TEC (Théâtre-école du Hall de la chanson) and Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique student singing tours with Axel Nouveau on piano (and arrangements);
- Olivier Hussenet, artist of the Hall de la chanson, has the audience sing on Padam Padam, (Edith Piaf), The song of Prévert, (Serge Gainsbourg) and Take me away (Charles Aznavour) and the Ode to joy.
16h30-19h20/ Amateur practice around the pool of the Jardin du Palais-Royal
- Fanfare of the Ecole nationale supérieure – ENS Ulm to discover the brassband;
- Choir «Envie de chanter», directed by Marco Avallone on a pop-rock repertoire;
- Harmony of the Confédération Musicale de France for a festive concert.
19h20/ Popular mastery of the Opéra-Comique on the grand stage of the Palais-Royal
Human and artistic adventure created in September 2016, the Popular Mastery of the Opéra-Comique is a school for all those who attract music without knowing its grammar. A school whose doors are crossed by motivation and talent and where you learn the foundation of what music is, able to gather in a common language. A harmony created from all ethnic, social and cultural origins.
8pm/ The Ode to Joy place the Festival of Music under the sign of Europe
The Popular Mastery of the Comic Opera and the musicians of the ONJ perform The Ode to Joy, European anthem, with the audience.
8:10 pm/ National Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Ornette Coleman
The National Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Frédéric Maurin, pays tribute to Ornette Coleman. Dancing in your head(s), with arrangements by Fred Pallem, revisits the various creative periods of the composer, but also other artists of the galaxy that he created—Julius Hemphill, Eric Dolphy and Tim Berne.
9.50 pm/ Keren Ann’s concert on the main stage of the Palais-Royal
Keren Ann will play her eighth and final album Blue, released in March 2019 and sung entirely in French.