Thérèse Brenet's "Des Graines de Sable d'or aux Mains", Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra in Paris tomorrow

For anyone in Paris, there is a performance of Thérèse Brenet's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Townhall annex of the 14th arrondissement: The guitar soloist is Gérard ABITON, with the Stringendo ensemble under the direction of Jean Thorel.

Thérèse Brenet's work is inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's poem "A Dream within a Dream" and its more "cosmic" significations :

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?

Me 15 X 2008 / 20h30 / Doors open at 20H00 precisely

Annexe of the Townhall of the XIV° Arr (5 minutes from metro/RER : Denfert-Rochereau or Mouton Duvernet)

Rue Durouchoux / 75014

VIVALDI: C° Guitare en ré

VIVALDI : Motet « Invicti Bellate »

NEVIN : La Guitare (1896), 1° audition française

BRENET : C° Guitare (1988-2005), Création mondiale, dans la version définitive

LANGLAIS : Suite Bretonne

DJORDEVIC : « Upstream from Sorrow »

FRANCK: Psaume 150

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : Fantasia on Christmas Carols



Soloists : Gérard ABITON, guitar / Sophie de TILLESSE, mezzo

Ensemble Vocal du Chesnay / Silvio SEGANTINI

Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo / violon solo : Christophe Pïerre

Jean Thorel



Tickets : 18 et 13 euros