Culture: "La Javanaise" sung by 640 singers

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"La Javanaise" by Serge Gainsbourg was recorded in 1963. The author originally wrote the text for Juliette Gréco. Phillips records

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How to take advantage of confinement to create a new form of artistic representation? Parisian musical groups show great inventiveness.

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After the Orchester national de Paris, which proposed to amateur musicians to record, at their home, their instrumental version of a Chostakovitch waltz and then to associate all these videos with those of the members of the orchestra, here is the Radio France choir which called on Sunday singers.

These anonymous singers had to record their interpretation of "La Javanaise" by Serge Gainsbourg. The result of this virtual choir of 640 participants will be online this Saturday, May 9, at 6 p.m. (Paris time) on the websites and social networks of France Musique and the Théâtre du Châtelet .

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