Valentin Schmite, the Trenet revolution
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Valentin Schmite publishes his tribute book "The Trenet Revolution".
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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
50 min
Disappeared 20 years ago, Charles Trenet remains one of the great figures of French song.
Valentin Schmite pays homage to him in texts and images in a very complete book: “The Trenet Revolution”.
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Wide eyes, one index finger pointing skyward, a dazzling smile.
Sometimes a hat, sometimes an eyelet in the buttonhole.
A voice that has carried more than 60 years of career and eternal songs that married the France of the twentieth century.
20 years to the day after his death on February 19, 2001, Charles Trenet continues to live his songs, in France and around the world.
Few, in fact, are the singer-songwriters who have left such a mark on their time and the generations that have followed even today.
It is perhaps because this poet, child of jazz and of the French language, was a revolutionary.
It is not me who is telling you, it is our guest, who pays tribute to him in a superb book in texts and photos.
"The Trenet revolution", by
Valentin Schmite,
is available from EPA editions.
Also to be discovered, during the show,
Amélie Beaucour is
interested in the language of Charles Trenet.
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To listen on RFIMusique:
Charles Trenet would be 100 years old
.
(program broadcast in 2013)
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