Marie Flore Tout Dit

Violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay presents Preludes et solitudes, a very personal album of pieces for solo unaccompanied violin by Baroque composers such as Telemann, Purcell, Torelli, Baltzar and Biber. The booklet for Preludes et solitudes includes Nadeau-Tremblay's poems inspired by each piece she selected for the program, and the album cover is a self-portrait by the violinist, who is also an accomplished visual artist.

For thousands of years, mankind has been concerned with the interpretation of dreams, seeking medical and philosophical explanations of all that happens to us during sleep. At the same time, the images of dreams – be they beauti-ful or terrible, like a "théatre imaginaire" – offer a rich playground for all branches of art.
Hypnos, son of night and darkness, is the god of sleep. As Ovid reports, his sons are the Oneiroi, the dream gods: Morpheus is able to take on human form, Phobetor, the horror, slips into the skin of wild animals, Phantasos appears in the form of inanimate nature. Hypnos’ realm is guarded by Hesychia (calm), Aergia (indolence) and Lethe (oblivi-on). While Hypnos is also called the “generous one,” his twin brother is Thanatos, the gentle death; often the two often appear together.

In the sunken lands of Arkansas along I-55, there’s a road sign that directs you to a pair of tiny, hardscrabble towns in the Delta. It reads: Marie/Lepanto.

England's Anne-Marie stormed the ‘10s charts with a slick but relatable package that blends rave-ready club bangers, searing vocal talent, and synth-heavy electro-pop. She revels in witty storytelling on “Boy,” its staccato hip-hop beats buffing up against her honeyed melodies, and Sean Paul/Clean Bandit collab “Rockabye” is a slamming summer anthem, all Caribbean beats and seamless pop production.

After the international success of “Vocation,” Marie-Luise Hinrichs again composed puristic impressions on songs by Hildgard of Bingen (1098–1179). She spans an arc to the present day and entrusts the flowing expanses of this music to her instrument, the piano. As if Hildegard of Bingen’s music was created for it, Marie-Luise Hinrichs improvises her own harmonies and melodies, devises new techniques – the plucking of the strings or tremolos on a single tone – and in this way lets her “piano songs” emerge. In addition, she performs compositions of the charismatic G. I. Gurdjieff, the founder of a spiritual system for the “inner evolution” of humankind. The award-winning pianist Marie-Luise Hinrichs has herself experienced the spiritual and healing effect of Hildegard of Bingen’s music. She conveys to today’s audience the especially intensive atmosphere of a mystical world of sound. Her playing is distinguished by an extraordinary sensitivity and an intimate, luminous sound. A subtle work of art that touches the soul!

Marie Nicole Lemieux performs beloved arias by Gluck, Haydn and Mozart. Lemieux brings her velvety tone and considerable talents to bear in performances of arias ranging from well-known pieces such as Voi, che sapete to lesser known gems. She is accompanied by the acclaimed Canadian ensemble Les Violons du Roy.

"Jean-Marie Machado has brought together an orchestra composed solely of percussion on stage. All that strikes, rubs, collides, pinches, scratches itself, is scraped on the stage. We are in the paradise of percussion. There are: marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiel, vibraphone, cymbals (each percussionist has one or more), bells (bamboo or shellfish, or other) Tibetan bowls, and multiple drums. These percussions bring together skin, wood, metal, which gives a mix of sounds, timbres and textures.

In the sunken lands of Arkansas along I-55, there’s a road sign that directs you to a pair of tiny, hardscrabble towns in the Delta. It reads: Marie/Lepanto.