“You want? To name the world
with me Fill each
thing with the sweet adventure
of naming – You want – To
smother them Bathe them in sunlight
In the tick-tocking of the worlds
Blind them with carnal intensity
Phonetic And so when death comes
Not a single one of your words forget me
You want? Make and unmake flesh
In the sweet bite of language
You want? (...)”
In Lettre à José Pivin, 3 mai 1975, in SLT, L'Atelier de Sony Labou Tansi, Vol. I, Correspondance, Revue noire, pp. 61-62
Musique sacrée et Orgue en Avignon, in partnership with the Festival d'Avignon, offer a cycle of concerts/readings to showcase the historic organs in Avignon and its area. For the 71st edition of the Festival, the spotlight will be on poems by Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi, alternating with improvisations for organ and accordion and works for organ and flute by Claude Debussy, Jehan Alain, and André Jolivet, and a creation for organ by Nigerian composer Charles Uzor.
Distribution
July 11 at 11.30 AM
Reciter Céline Chéenne
Accordion Pascal Contet
Organ Luc Antonini
July 12 at 11.30 AM
Reciter Moustafa Benaïbout
Accordion Pascal Contet
Organ Luc Antonini
July 20 at 11.30 AM
Reciter Grégoire Monsaingeon
Flute Michel Barruol
Organ Luc Antonini
Production
Co-production Musique Sacrée et Orgue en Avignon, Festival d'Avignon
In partnership with Mairie de Roquemaure, association des Amis de l'Orgue de Roquemaure, Mairie de Malaucène, association des Amis de l'Orgue de Malaucène, Festival des Choeurs Lauréats de Vaison-la-Romaine
