Fête de la Musique – Schedule | 15- 21 June, 2015

Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is an annual music festival taking place on 21st June. This year the weeklong music festival celebrates its 5th consecutive year – beginning on the 15th of June and ending on the 21st of June – in Chennai, with the joint collaboration of The Rhapsody Music Foundation, Alliance Française of Madras, GoetheInstitut Chennai, InKo Centre, KM Music Conservatory, Musee Musicals and EarthSync.

MONDAY, JUNE 15TH, 2015

10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Alliance Française of Madras
* Children’s workshops will be conducted by trainers and experts from Rhapsody
and KMMC.

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Classi.co, Laal Batti Aur Chaos, Endless Knot.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Musee Musicals
Fête de la Musique | 15- 21 June, 2015

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Madley Blues, The Broadway Addicts, Karthick Iyer Live
and Bjorn Surrao.
Venue: Musee Musicals Auditorium

6:30pm
“Crossing The Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul”
Director: Fatih Akin | Documentary| 90 min
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city
that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He
looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock
and hip-hop.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai

7:00pm
“Les Fils Du Vent”
Director: Bruno Le Jean | Feature | 90 min
Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt are guitarists who carry on the gypsy jazz tradition of the musician Django Reinhardt. This documentary follows the four guitarists as they move from place to place, capturing vignettes of their life: how a community preserves its way of life, how they pass on their knowledge to new learners and how they approach the problems their community faces with characteristic humour and insight. Through all their travels and travails, music and the joy of playing reign supreme.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2015
10:30am – 11:30am
*Corporation School workshop at InKo Centre

11:30am – 12:00pm
Film Screening
About Korean traditional music/musical instruments.

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Demonstration by Murali Krishnan of Jus Drums
Jus Drums – School of Percussion is run by Chennai’s well known percussionist Murali
Krishnan.
Fête de la Musique | 15- 21 June, 2015

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Nikhita Gandi, Hande and the Drama and Roshan George
Thomas.
Venue: InKo Centre

7:00pm
“Le Port Des Amours, Reinette l’Oranaise”
Director: Jacqueline Gozland | Documentary | 65 min
Sultana Daoud, better known Reinette l’Oranaise, was a repository of ArabAndalus
traditional music. The Algerian-born singer, who went blind at the age of
two, was urged by her mother to take up music and went on to be hailed as the
“Queen of Judeo-Arab music”. Whether in concert – at New Morning, in Paris – or in
her interviews, she reminds us that music was her refuge and her defence against
the heartbreak of exile.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at KM Music Conservatory

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Koadaari, High Definition, Vertigo and Humphrey and the
Aglets
Venue: KM Music Conservatory

4.30 pm & 7:00pm
“Les Chansons D’amour”
Director: Benoît Jacquot, Louise Narboni | Comedy, Drama | 144 min
Ismail, Julie and Alice live happily together, an ideal state that is shattered when one
of them dies. Those left behind must deal with their loss and their feelings and, as
time goes by, must learn to open themselves up to the possibility of new loves and
new relationships. Set in Paris, a city echoing with love songs, this musical shows
that, fortunately for us, the old song which goes,”les chan-sonsd’a-mour finissent
maaaal… en gé-né-ral” (love songs don’t usually end well) need not always be true.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
Fête de la Musique | 15- 21 June, 2015

FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Goethe-Institut Chennai

6:30pm
“Werther”
Opera by Massenet | 150 min
Directed by Michel Plasson, an expert on the works of Massenet, this Operatic
production stars Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Kock who bring alive one of Opera’s
most moving love stories: Charlotte, the daughter of a bailiff, is engaged to marry
Albert. When Werther, a man whom her father dislikes her, falls in love with her and
declares his love to her, Charlotte turns him away saying she has sworn to marry
Albert. However, she cannot hide from herself that she loves Wether more and as
the months go by, each must battle their all-consuming passion.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

6:30pm
“Digital Concert Hall”
In this concert with the German National Youth Orchestra (for which the
Philharmoniker have taken over a sponsorship) with Christian Tetzlaff – acting Artist
in Residence of the Berliner Philharmoniker – Karl-Heinz Steffens will conduct Béla
Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto and Peter Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The two
compositions have the reputation of being “fateful” works by their creators. Bartók
wrote his Second Violin Concerto in 1937–38 at the urging of his compatriot violinist
Zoltán Székely, at a time when he was increasingly the target of defamatory attacks
by the right-wing national press. Tchaikovsky’s Fourth – which opens the trilogy of
the so-called “Fate Symphonies” by the Russian composer – was written at a time of
personal crisis.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai

SATURDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2015
9:30am
Children’s Choir preliminaries at Bhavan, Mylapore
Children’s amateur showcases will be conducted by Rhapsody at Bhavan in
Mylapore. Groups of children from various schools of Chennai will participate for a
singing contest.
Fête de la Musique | 15- 21 June, 2015

2:30pm – 5:30pm
Music Showcase featuring FOLKBOX, Kaber Vasuki, Ranjani Shanker and PAVO
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Jackhammer, Toddy Waters and Franks Got The Funk
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai

7:00pm
“The Fighters”
Bodhi Muzzik and the Alliance Française of Madras present ‘The Fighters’. The band
consists of three drummers: Sridhar, Elayaraja and Rakesh.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

SUNDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2015

2:00pm
Students’ Concert at Alliance Française of Madras
To celebrate the idea of “Building a Community through Music’, the students of the
Alliance Française of Madras will be performing various genre of music as a part of
the Fête de la Musique. The concerts will be held at the auditorium of the Alliance
Française of Madras where students can perform as groups or solo. A variety of
music and a lot of fun can be expected!

7:00pm
The Best of Fête de la Musique at Alliance Française of Madras