Forty-three musicians from the Paris chamber orchestra perform a work composed by Bechara El-Khoury in homage to the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015, Friday evening, on the website of the Philharmonie de Paris.

A symphony commissioned by the mother of one of the victims of the Bataclan.

On the stage of the Philharmonie, forty-three musicians from the chamber orchestra of Paris stand proudly.

The voice of mezzo-soprano soloist Isabelle Druet softens the dissonant and disturbing notes played by the strings.

They perform together an original work by composer Bechara El-Khoury which will be broadcast on Friday evening on the Internet.

Five years after the attacks of November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan, the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra pays tribute to the victims in music.

At the origin of this tribute is Louise Albertini, the mother of Stéphane, who lost her life at the Bataclan.

"It's November in my soul"

Even if the edgy rock of the Eagles of Death Metal who played that night is far away, Louise Albertini wanted to pay tribute.

“It's contemporary music, which is projected into the future and at the same time it can be heard by everyone,” she explains. 

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The work of Bechara El-Khoury is also voiceless.

A will of the composer, underlines Bruno Messina, mediator of the Fondation de France which oversaw the project.

"We cannot say this drama, there is something unspeakable. This is why the music comes to replace it, that the voice does not carry a text, so that each one finally puts his words to it. self, ”he explains.

This thirty-five minute symphony with an equivocal name, 

Il fait novembre en mon soul, 

is broadcast on Friday at 8:30 p.m. on the site of the Paris Philharmonic.