Isadora Duncan, when music becomes dance, the concert at Musée d’Orsay in Paris

The Musée d'Orsay offers a most singular musical experience, part-concert, part-reading, around Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance and music lover, on February 10, 2018. A concert conceived by Ensemble Calliopée, with a reading by Clotilde Courau.

When music serves the arts... A priesthood for theEnsemble Calliopée, a " chamber music ensemble with variable geometry ", which is offering a concert on February 10, 2018, halfway between music, dance and reading in theauditorium of the Musée d'Orsay. An artistic moment under the direction of Karine Lethiec, entitled Isadora Duncan: Quand la musique se fait danse, around the dancer and her relationship to her art and to music, with actress Clotilde Courau for a reading.

An artist's life evoked during this concert in the form of a themed diary, and a reading illustrated by a video creation by Christian Boustani, based on photographs and other drawings of the dancer by Antoine Bourdelle, José Clara and Jules Grandjouan, as well as musical compositions that the artist was particularly fond of: Chopin, Scriabine, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Fauré... All composers featured here by Ensemble Calliopée (in piano quintet formation) to accompany the whole.

A musical experience for all ages (13 and up), lasting 1h30, which links up with the Degas Danse Dessin exhibition, based on Paul Valéry's book of the same name and the friendship between the writer and the painter.

Concert program:

Reversing the wheel of time

Christoph Willibald GLUCK (1714-1787) Orphée et Eurydice, Danse des ombres heureuses (arr. for violin and piano)

San Francisco: my childhood

Frédéric CHOPIN (1810-1849) Waltz for piano op. 70 no. 1

New York and London: my beginnings

Antonin DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, III. Scherzo (Furiant)

Paris: salons and artists

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) Images pour piano Livre I, Reflets dans l'eau
Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) Piano quartet n°1 in C minor, IV. Finale
Frédéric CHOPIN (1810-1849) Piano Concerto No. 2, I. Maestoso (arr. for piano and strings by Paul Waldersee)

Tours and Travels

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Symphony No. 3 "Eroica", I. Allegro con brio (arr. for piano quartet Ferdinand Ries)
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Tristan and Isolde, Liebestod (Death of Love) (arr. for piano trio Alfred Pringsheim)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) Epigraphes antiques for piano, Pour invoquer Pan, Dieu du vent d'été (To invoke Pan, God of the summer wind)

Transmettre mon art

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Waltz for piano four hands Op. 39 No. 15 in A major

My loves, my freedom

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Sonata "Frei, aber einsam" (Free, but alone), III. Scherzo
Mel BONIS (1858-1937) Piano Quartet n°1 in B flat major, III. Andante
Betsy JOLAS (1926) Frauenliebe (A Woman's Love) for viola and piano

Souffrances

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) String Quartet no. 14 "Death and the Maiden", II. Andante con moto
César FRANCK (1822-1890) Quintet for piano and strings, II. Lento con molto sentimento