INTERVIEW
In his show The Song of the Perineum , André Manoukian gives a personal history of music, between surprising anecdotes ("Do you know that the performance of Robespierre gave birth to jazz?") And heart-throbs. The opportunity, also, to confide on his way of seeing the fourth art, as he reminds the microphone of Europe 1 in L'Equipée sauvage .
"In Mozart's time, music was much more natural"
"I'm a little insulted against the forbidding teaching of music theory," says André Manoukian, for whom music has always been linked to a certain idea of freedom. "It just disgusts kids with music," he says, adding, "It's like telling your newly born baby that he does not have the right to speak while he's he will not be able to read and write ".
Although the teaching of music theory as a method of musical learning dates back to the Middle Ages, it has been called "musical training" since a reform of 1977 and it represents a large number of hours in the cycles of musicology. Sometimes to the point of irritating specialists ... "In Mozart's time, the music was much more natural," says André Manoukian. "Music is both spirituality and sex," sums up the musician.