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Concert La Madalena (guest.es by Alain Weber)
Manu Théron has set to music "La Cantilène de Sancta Maria Magdalena", the score of which was lost over two centuries ago. This composition, inspired by testimonies collected since the end of the 19th century, has enabled this archaic song to reconnect with popular devotion to Madalena, a timeless figure in Provence's Phocaean city, and to free itself from the uniformity of Catholic dogma that had once proscribed it.
Dates and times
Tuesday, June 11, 7:30 to 8:30 pm
Address
Église Saint-Férreol les Augustins, 1 quai des belges, Marseille, France
Additional Information
No reservation required, subject to availability
Manu Théron discovered singing in Italy and Bulgaria, while working with traditional musicians. Determined to re-anchor Occitan singing in its Mediterranean horizon, he founded Gacha Empega, then Lo Còr de la Plana, imagining a role for polyphony in the service of a renewed Occitan culture. This is what he strives to promote in numerous projects, both on stage and in his teaching. Manu Théron is not only a singer and creator, but also a programmer for Marseille's Cité de la Musique.
Entrusted to a women's choir, formerly performed by canons of Marseille Cathedral, Madalena is an exhilarating celebration of femininity and the pleasure of singing. Inspired by Arab zajal, Madalena is part of the dynamic of Mediterranean spiritual folk music. Alternating repetition, scansion and exchanges between chorus and soli, the adaptation is an ode to life, emancipation and the reunion of earthly pleasures and divine love.
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