Archived Event
2017 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition
François Le Roux on French Song
- Date
- Sun 03 Sep 2017, 4.30pm
- Duration
- This event will be approximately 45 minutes in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Overview
French Art Song is said to bethe perfect marriage betweenmusic and French poetry. Buthow does this work, if an expertsuch as philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said thatFrench language is non-musical?What kind of French languageis it that works for composers?
To try to understand François Le Roux will explore thecharacteristics of both sung andspoken French to try to understand.
Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation