Paris (AFP)
No orders, no concerts, no income: France Musique wants to help musical creation, that is to say the composers of today, to get out of this deadly equation caused by the Covid health crisis -19.
Public radio, which already devotes part of its schedule to contemporary music, alongside classical music or jazz, has scheduled a Creation Week on its antenna.
From March 20 to 26, it will honor creators, echo their work and provide concrete support to composers and musicians who will perform their works.
"It is in our identity to defend all music" and "the composers are among the cultural professionals most weakened" by the pandemic, due to the closure of theaters, while they live only orders and the exploitation of their works, told AFP Marc Voinchet, the director of the station.
With this program, "we will make our support for composers a little more visible, whatever their aesthetics", he argues.
A way for the public to (re) discover the evolutions of contemporary music, since Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez.
This week, coordinated by producer and music critic Laurent Vilarem, who notably presents the "creation journal" on France Musique, will open on March 20 with Zad Moultaka's new opera "Hémon", a world creation performed live of the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.
It will culminate in a big "live" evening on the 26th at the Maison de la radio et de la musique, with works by Caroline Shaw, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, György Kurtag and Bastien David, among others.
All of this is accompanied by new digital products, including a collection of podcasts on the history of contemporary music, and original jingles ordered from IRCAM, the beating heart of musical creation in France.
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