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JACQUES
BREL où l’impossible rêve (a musical play)
performed IN FRENCH
by Paris-Based Compagnie Caravague
Date:
Thursday October 9
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $5
Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Ats, Whittier College
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $5
Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Ats, Whittier College
To purchase tickets contact the Ruth B. Shannon Center Box Office
by phone: (562) 907-4203
online (with additional fee): http://www.shannoncenter.org/buytickets.html
in person: the Box Office is located at 6760 Painter Avenue
by phone: (562) 907-4203
online (with additional fee): http://www.shannoncenter.org/buytickets.html
in person: the Box Office is located at 6760 Painter Avenue
Jacques BREL:
Genius songwriter and performer, Jacques Brel
(1929-1978), moved audiences with elegies of love, mock-epics of bourgeois
doldrums, and grim derisions of death. Born
in a traditional Flemish family living in a suburb of Brussels, Brel chose
singing over working in his father's factory. Over a rich range of melodies and
musical styles, Brel's writing mixed blue-collar lyricism with Beat
poetics. Director and actor André Nerman brings to the stage Brel's life in a
dramatic montage of Brel's own songs and poems. French stage star, Nelly Anne
Rabas sings and acts with Nerman, over live accompaniments of pianist Laurent
Clergeau.
Chanteur-compositeur et
comédien de génie, Jacques Brel (1929-1978) a ému le public avec ses élégies de
l’amour, ses moqueries de la bourgeoisie et la façon dont il parle la mort avec
dérision. Né d’une famille traditionnelle
flamande dans la banlieue bruxelloise, Brel a préféré chanter que travailler
dans l’usine paternelle. L’artiste tourmenté mêle les genres et les styles
dans une écriture qui passe du lyrisme au baroque en passant par la satire. L’auteur-compositeur-interprète André Nerman a mis en
scène ce spectacle musical qui reprend la vie et de l’œuvre de Brel. Nerman joue et chante au côté de la comédienne
Nelly Anne Rabas. Ils sont accompagnés
au piano par Laurent Clergeau.
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