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Levon Minassian SAMSON AND DELILAH

TRIBUTE TO Levon Minassian

Painful sweetness of duduk

Marseille, Theatre Toursky,

November 26, 2010

Warm evening in the heart of a winter advanced. Chaired by Jean-Claude Petit , composer, Toursky offered a friendly and warm tribute to Levon Minassian , duduk player , traditional Armenian musical instrument to which his talent has given a hearing, an indolence, I would say universal because this strange sort of flute or clarinet or oboe rustic, seems born to sing, cry more, the human suffering beyond cultural and geographical boundaries.

Tire does the apricot tree which is the form its fruity sweetness and warm amber color, size of the reed which is the double reed murmur its source, the nine holes that pierce the breath of wind in the leaves? Still, this archaic instrument to earth tree roots, wood, material, water and wind sounds elementary, that is to say, born of the four elements, which perhaps lend the full sound as moving old and still a voice newly touching whispering deep within us.

Born in Marseille, Levon Minassian is unearthed by Jean-Claude Petit , author of tubes already musical, often award-winning film scores, went looking This kind of magic flute on the advice of director Henri Verneuil , who gave him the music of his autobiographical film Mayrig , with Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif, intimate epic of an Armenian family fled to Marseille after the genocidal massacres of 1915. The composer met the musician, drinks at the source of these Armenian melodies, and there they met both on stage, Little piano, duduk Levon with his we replaying the nostalgic film credits during that terrible images Exile scrolls on the screen at the far end of the scene.

fruitful meeting: Levon, then takes off. He lends his talent to the instrument and music Peter Gabriel, Sting Charles Aznavour, Manu Kachté etc. . Doomed from the outset cinema since Mayrig he worked in the credits of major films , The Passion of the Christ of Mel Gibson , The Last Temptation of Christ of Martin Scorsese , Amen of Costa-Gavras , and this poetic and ecological Home of Yann Arthus-Bertrand . It is also Job creation or just wandering the with Michael Lonsdale and Richard Martin . In the absence of the first, held in Rome for a shoot, he said texts, poems, and found his passion flowing back, all the fervor of this artist vibrant output of humanity, love beasts than men and their great history and hate (the red sign of twenty-three young Armenians shot by the Nazis), men whose little romance withers or strengthens "over time" as he whispers in memory of his friend Ferré, start doing we in the fibers of the inevitable. An actor (not even mentioned by the producer ...) an actress, Kelly Martins say moving poems evoke memories of Armenia while the screen comes alive with its landscape (pictures Martin Mohr of and Jean-Luc Picowsky ) of the imposing and legendary Mount Ararat, where Noah's ark would have arisen after the flood, but more importantly, excerpts of movies where terrible Levon participation, and these long marches claims convoys deportations after the Armenians, Jews. As if the duduk , was doomed him to tell the human pain.

A group of musicians accompanies Levon: Pedro Aledo , English, guitar; Nicolas Mazmanian on piano (who has created the world premiere of a commissioned work by Opera de Marseille), Jean-Pierre Nergarian , Kamatchi , another Armenian folk instrument, kind of small rebec, fiddle long bow. On large sheets of horizontal synth Serge Arribas , perhaps too much for these synthetic natural ancestral instruments, the duduk winds like a brook, traces a long line, a plain, a complaint of endless steppes that would, after the mountains, undulations, waves of sobs of a wide vibrato. This is the long winding river of a timeless longing for the source nestled in secret or patent of personal history or collective, who will lose slowly in a slow migration to the sea hemorrhage distant exile.

Bis final finally changing rhythm and color, like a cheerful goodbye after the dive into nostalgia and pain.

Toursky Theatre, November 27, 2010:

The murmur of the wind or variations of the soul

Tribute to Levon Minassian

Director: Serge Sarkisian; light: Fabien Massard; sound: Jean Denis Robert; Pictures: Martin Mohr, Jean-Luc Picowsky; Levon Minassian: duduk ; Pedro Aledo, guitar; Nicolas Mazmanian, piano; Serge Arribas, keyboard, Jean-Pierre Nergarian, Kamatchi ;

Richard Martin Kelly Martins, actors .