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CONCERT

FRIDAY 15 JUL 2011, 20H
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)

Impressions of Africa

Quartet Béla: Frédéric Aurier and Julien Dieudegard (violins), Julian Boutin (viola), Luc Dedreuil (cello)
& Moriba Koïta (n’goni)

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Le Quatuor à corde Béla en compagnie de Moriba Koïta. © DR

Recurrent forms, figures in 5/4 time, trance music, polyphonies, and polyrhythms are among the elements borrowed from traditional African music which has inspired Western “art” music since the 1960s. The string quartet Béla interweaves traditions in a musical encounter with Moriba Koïta, a renowned Mali griot.
They will perform White Man Sleeps (1982), a work by the South-African composer Kevin Volans who, during the apartheid regime, sought to reconcile African and European esthetic. Let this lively, stimulating, and intoxicating musical blend carry you away…

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