The Little Tailor, a tale for eight musicians and a reciter, this Tuesday at the Bourges Conservatory

“It’s a classic of musical stories for children,” comments Jacqueline Devaux. It was written in 1939 by Tibor Harsanyi (1898-1954), Hungarian composer, based on a Grimm tale. We had already played it at the conservatory, eight or nine years ago. The teachers asked to do it again. »
To tell the story of this little tailor with a sharp mind, who begins by killing seven flies at once before tackling giants, there will be eight musicians on stage

. Two of them had already participated in the previous version.

Music inspired by Hungarian folklore and jazz
“The score is quite rhythmically rich. Tibor Harsanyi was inspired by Hungarian folklore and also jazz. » The instruments he brought together, strings, brass and percussion, make up an “improbable formation”, underlines Jacqueline Devaux.
A saxophone teacher, she will play reciters in this show, the staging and “rehabilitation” of which she is responsible for. She, for example, placed text on music, unlike Tibor Harsanyi, who alternates the two, and above all, she sought other translations of the story, more modern and pleasant than the one used by the composer, which dates back to 1939.
Finally, she tried to give some pep to the work, for example by doing “a clown act of the battle of the two giants!” » In addition to the performance this Tuesday evening, The Little Tailor

will be played at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., for schools.

Sandrine Charluet (bassoon); Serge Conte (clarinet); Jean-Claude Dudek (trumpet); Tania Faur (flute); Fabien Gitteau (percussion); Samuel Bonifait (violin); Quentin Rebuffet (cello) and Olivier Yvrard (piano). Practical.