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| Colette Magny In 1983 Colette Magny asked me to collaborate in the recording of "Chansons pour Titine". During a previous concert at Metz I had followed 2 preludes by Chopin with "Strange Fruit." The link between Chopin and the blues seemed obvious to me. Abbey Lincoln and his musicians, who happened to be in the audience, loved it. I retained this classical-blues link for the record so as to draw a tragic parallel; when the Tzarist army enters rebel occupied Warsaw, Chopin composes "The Revolutionary Étude". Civilians are arrested and hung in retribution. In 1920s' South Carolina an uprising of black workers is bloodily put down. The following day "strange fruits" hang from the trees. Colette is a great, indeed a very great singer/poet. She is possessed by love of sound and sense and the way she conjugates them place her among the artists carrier of history full of nostalgia from our yesterdays,todays and tomorrows. What impressed and moved me so much during the period I provided her piano accompaniment was that every moment one had to find, invent-looking beyond styles, trends and genres-to capture the right resonance to suit the great depth of her vocal phrasing and help her to spontaneously realise her art; the song or rather French contemporary Lied. As a result, every concert was different from the last.. Le Figaro |
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