Next Wednesday 21st at 8:00 pm, in the Tívoli Auditorium (Pau Casals Municipal Music School), the Associació Musical Pau Casals del Vendrell (Pau Casals Musical Association of del Vendrell) will offer a new concert with "Forum Voix Étouffées".
This time with David Moreau (violin), Frank Russo (clarinet) and Thomas Tacquet (piano).
The past year the Associació Musical Pau Casals of El Vendrell incorporated European cooperation into its musical program with a performance by the Voix Étouffes, the concert was held on Europe Day.
Forum Voix Étouffées works to remember music composers silenced for political reasons.
Amaury du Closel created this entity. He was a composer and conductor. The original idea was to recover the memory of the composers silenced by the Third Reich. But after Russia attacked Ukraine, the entity included musicians who were silenced by other totalitarian regimes. For this reason, they created the musical cycle “Music, War and Peace, 1922 to 2022”
2024 Concert program in El Vendrell
Pablo Casals (1876 – 1973) Prelude for piano
Hanns Eisler (1898 – 1962) Septuor 2 “The Circus”
Pablo Casals (1876 – 1973) Poem for cello and piano
Pablo Casals (1876 – 1973) Shepherds Choir for solo piano
Arnold Schöenberg (1874 – 1951) Chamber Symphony No 1
The interpreters
Michael Serra (Violin I)
Eva Gris (Violin II)
Maxence Grimbert-Barré (Viola)
Pierre Verneyre (Clarint)
Hyowon Chi (Flute)
Víctor Dutot (Bassoon)
Thomas Tacquet (Piano)
"Les Métamorphoses" Orchestra
The performers of the concert were young people who were part of the Les Métamorphoses Orchestra. This orchestra was created in 2018 and has a high and multifaceted musical style and a wide repertoire, from the Baroque to composers of the 20th century. The members are young musicians, and the director was Amaury du Closel.
Amaury du Closel (1956 - 2024)
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| Amaury du Closel Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons - cc-by-sa-3.0 |
In addition to being the director of Les Métamorphoses and the driving force behind Voix Étoufées, he has been the director of Opera Nomade since 2000.
He authored the book "Les voix étoufées du Troisième Reich," an essay on the policy of eradicating music that Nazism considered degenerate.
Data expansion:
After the 2024 concert, I started looking for information to complement the report. Over the past year, I've read so many important and interesting facts about music, Nazism, the perception that this and other ideologies had of music, and how it affected people and society, that it's impossible to publish it all in a single post.
I'll be publishing this information gradually, but writing the texts in three languagesalso makes the work a little slower.
The English version is not complete currently; I'll upload it when it is. As soon as possible.
The Catalan and Spanish versions are now available.
The first extension is dedicated to Wanda Landowska. Her story is one of thousands of stories about music, people, and the exercise of Nazi power.
