Tresse

It is the story of three women: Smita, an untouchable Indian woman, who wants to take her daughter out of poverty and get her into a school; Giulia, an Italian, who succeeds her late father to run the family business on the verge of bankruptcy and Sarah, a Canadian lawyer, who learns that she has cancer.

Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Une même soif de liberté.
Inde. Smita est une Intouchable. Elle rêve de voir sa fille échapper à sa condition misérable et entrer à l’école.
Sicile. Giulia travaille dans l’atelier de son père. Lorsqu’il est victime d’un accident, elle découvre que l’entreprise familiale est ruinée…

From the dawn of time, across the four corners of the world, exile has left its mark on the landscape of men… and on the songs of women. Mediaeval songs by trouveres and nuns (The women who stayed), Iberian and Sephardic songs (The women who left) are woven around Exils, a set of four pieces composed by Thierry De Mey in homage to all those women (from ancient times to our modern and highly topical times) who never reached their place of exile…

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.