Saturday, November 23, the Jacobins convent, for once, will serve as a launch pad for a musical takeoff to the red planet. “Objective Mars” is indeed the theme chosen by the Harmonie du Cap de Gascogne, for its traditional Sainte-Cécile concert. The two takeoffs scheduled for 4 p.m., then at 8:30 p.m., will take listening passengers on an interstellar journey, mixing classical, rock and Latin pieces or even from film scores, original pieces for concert band, arranged by hand masterful by chef Julien Garcia.
To ease the start, music by John Williams with, as hero, Tintin, the Belgian globe-trotting reporter, will set the tone of the evening. Watch out for takeoff with a medley of British groups Queen and Genesis. Then, during a jump into space, an “Alegro festivo”, followed by a medley from Miami Sound Machine, will offer spectators an evocation of the infinity of the universe. After the performance of an extract from the work “The Planets”, composed between 1914 and 1917 by Gustave Holts, a final piece taken from the film “Interstellar” will close this first part of the journey.
Because this show, designed in two parts, like the two volumes of the comic strip Tintin, written by Hergé, “Objectif Lune” and “On a marche sur la Lune”, will find its outcome next spring, with a new appointment you musical entitled: “We walked on Mars! » Note that the day after this musical epic at the edge of the mystery of the infinity of the world, the musicians of the Cap de Gascogne harmony, as usual, will settle gently on the pews of the church abbey church, to liven up the religious service of the day.
