America!
From Duke Ellington to Samuel Barber, from Billy Joel to Steve Reich, this programme is a choral panorama full of energy, poetry and swing. The Ensemble Aedes’ renditions of great hits from West Side Story and Mary Poppins are made even greater by Jean-Michel Fournereau’s staging.
Leonard BERNSTEIN, Warm up, The Lark, West Side Story
Sherman BROTHERS, Mary Poppins (selection)
George GERSHWIN, Three preludes (piano solo)
Steve REICH, Clapping music production
Eric WHITACRE, A boy and a girl
Billy JOEL (arr. Bob Chilcott), And so it goes
Samuel BARBER, Sure on this shining night, Heaven-Haven, Under the willow tree
Duke ELLINGTON / Irving MILLS (arr. Deke Sharon), It don’t mean a thing
PROGRAMME AVAILABLE IN A CONCERT VERSION
1 hour 20 minutes with no interval
17 singers
1 pianist
1 conductor
1 lighting technician
Jean-Michel Fournereau director
Gilles Fournereau lighting design
Yoan Héreau piano
Mathieu Romano conductor
An Ensemble Aedes, Théâtre de Compiègne, Théâtre d’Auxerre co-production