Adler Bordeline

La biographe de Marguerite Duras signe, loin de tout mysticisme, un beau portrait de la philosophe Simone Weil…
Laure Adler rappelle avec pertinence qu'elle n'a pas toujours été une mystique avide de martyre, qu'elle fut une jeune fille mordue de musique, de théâtre, de poésie : «On a fait de Simone Weil une icône de la pensée dans un être asexué», mais «elle aimait se mettre au soleil, se baigner, aller dans les boîtes de nuit, danser». Cette intellectuelle veut toujours comprendre de l'intérieur. …

Under Director Richard K. Pugsley, the US-based choir Gloriæ Dei Cantores has gained a reputation for its impeccable vocal blend as well as bold programming, including its recent championing of the music of Jewish composer Samuel Adler. Adler and his family escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, settling in the United States, where he went on to compose more than 400 works. European and American influences unite in his choral music, most notably in Choral Trilogy, an ambitious work for choir and organ that nods to both Herbert Howells and Adler’s teacher Aaron Copland. In “Psalm 23”, Adler sets Hebrew and English texts, acknowledging both his heritage and adopted home in music of mesmerising beauty. To Speak to Our Time, commissioned for the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, brings the plight of refugees across the world into powerful focus.