Weekend at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques

Alma Faverjon, a Professional Master MDC - Cultural Project Administration student, is organizing, as part of her program, an event weekend at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet.

Here is the information and program for this exceptional musical weekend!

Léo Warynski, Les Métaboles, and the Musée Guimet present

"China within earshot"!

An event weekend dedicated to discovering Chinese culture. Visitors to the MNAAG* will be able to discover or rediscover the museum’s spaces to the sound of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, take part in vocal practice workshops, and attend a concert of French and Chinese popular music.

The works of Francis Poulenc, Guy Ropartz, Chen Yi, Shiuan Chang, and Chen Yihan will form the thread of this program.

+ info:

https://www.guimet.fr/event/les-metaboles-la-chine-a-portee-de-voix/

Weekend schedule

Saturday, October 30

From 14h00 to 16h30: "Vocal quartets"

- Every half hour, meet a Métaboles quartet in one of the Museum’s spaces

At 15h and 16h: "Chinese music discovery workshops"

- 2 parent-child vocal practice workshops of 30 minutes led by the singer and choir director Isabelle Bourquin-Briard

17h00: "Concert"

- Come and hear Les Métaboles as a full ensemble in the Khmer courtyard

Sunday, October 31

From 14h00 to 16h30: "Vocal quartets"

- Every half hour, meet a Métaboles quartet in one of the Museum’s spaces

17h00: "Concert"

- Come and hear Les Métaboles as a full ensemble in the Khmer courtyard

Works on the program

- NM SANTZ (arr.), Luo shui tian

- Molihua (vol. 2, n. 6) Fengyang song (vol. 1, n.1) The flowing stream (vol.1, n.2) Riding on a Mule (vol.2, n. 7)

- Francis POULENC, Pilons l’orge, Ha, mon beau laboureur, (Eight French Songs)

- CHA Yuwen, The Rising Moon

- Guy ROPARTZ, J’m’en vas chantant, riant, (Songs of the Bourbonnais, n.3)

- LI Shutong, Spring Excursion

- CHEN Yihan, Ripples Glisten away

- CHANG Shiuan, The army wagon

- Étienne PLANEL, Autumn Crocuses in the Meadows

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