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Marie Vermeersch
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Nov. 27 2024 at 8:16 p.m
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It is the event exhibition not to be missed! From December 3, 2024 to June 15, 2025, the year commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice-Ravel, the Philharmonie de Paris is organizing the Ravel Boléro exhibition.
The birth of the Bolero
The route will offer a striking audiovisual experience while bringing together heritage objects from the most prestigious French collections, notably from the Ravel house museum, in Montfort l’Amaury (Yvelines). House where the Boléro was composed! Here, we are looking forward to this upcoming event.
“We have been working with the Philharmonie on this project for a year. We are the first partner of this beautiful exhibition along with the Musée d’Orsay, the BNF and the Pompidou Center. »
“It is a source of pride for the city which is responsible for maintaining, enlivening and above all preserving the soul of Maurice Ravel’s house museum. This will be a great event for all ages. Visitors will be able to discover how the Boléro, universal masterpiececame out of his head. It was an order and he had very little time to complete it. »
“Thanks to this exhibition, we discover the different influences that led him to create this work: Ravel the Spaniard, but also Ravel, the son of an engineer who loved chiseled scores with subtle mechanisms. Moreover, he himself described his Boléro as a machine. »
70 objects from the house museum loaned for the exhibition
Next to 70 objects of the house museum were loaned for the occasion, and this, for the first time since its opening in 1973: its composition office, his record playerhis radio, family portraits, one of his traveling trunks, his games and puzzlehis father’s engineering drawings and many others treasures encore.
But visitors to the museum can rest assured, this does not mean that Ravel’s house finds itself destitute.
“We took other objects out of the museum’s reserves that the public had never before seen the possibility of seeing! »
Drawingstoys, autographs, bottles, travel trunksvests… so many pieces that will be presented to visitors for the very first time.
Besides the guided toursby reservation only to preserve the house museum, the Town of Montfort l’Amaury wanted to promote Ravel in other ways.
Since this year, she now has a cultural program entitled The Seasons of Belvedere. Concerts, spectaclesmusical workshops, meetings with great composers contemporaries always linked to the work and personality of Maurice-Ravel in order to disseminate and understand his musical heritage.
A program open to as many people as possible, with the highlight this year being the opening concert of Maurice-Ravel’s 150th anniversary.
“Our desire is really to bring Ravel to life, to play his musiquetalk about his legacy », confides Anne Million, who has already announced that the cultural season will be busy in 2025, for 150 years since birthby Maurice Ravel.
Christmas concert, with Alexandre Tharaud and actor Raphaël Personnaz
Internationally renowned pianist, Alexandre Tharaud will inaugurate Maurice-Ravel’s birthday celebrations in Montfort l’Amaury with carte blanche full of promises.
The icing on the cake, Raphaël Personnaz, the actor who starred in Anne Fontaine’s film Boléro, will be present. He will read letters from Maurice-Ravel. The film dedicated to the maestro this year had an influence on the number of visitors to the house museum. Especially since it was the only natural setting for the film.
→ Thursday December 19, at 8 p.m., at the Montfort l’Amaury municipal leisure center, place Nickenich. → Prices: 20 euros (free for under 18s). Online reservations at helloasso.com (Montfort l’Amaury tourist office section) Information from the Maison du tourisme et du patrimoine, 3, rue Amaury. Tel: 01 34 86 87 96. Email: [email protected]
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