Off Centre Music | When Paris Sizzled: The Fabulous 1920s!

Come meet us at Le boeuf sur le toit for an effervescent, bubbly-fueled, bohemian night (or afternoon!) out… C’est les années folles à Paris, friends – the crazy years in Paris – and we’ll be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Milhaud and his Les Six pals, Picasso, Diaghilev, Satie, Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter and Josephine Baker, just to name a few of the regulars who once played, sang, danced and reveled into the wee hours at this celebrated cabaret-bar.

Peek around the corner, and you just might catch a glimpse of our beloved Ravel, lamenting his 5-time-losing-streak at the Prix de Rome competition… Our visit to this deliciously dizzying world will feature his loss-defying-brilliance as heard in the Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, the Ma mère l’Oye suite for four hands, the brilliant Jeux d’eau, and his Histoires naturelles song-cycle.

Featuring:
Marie Bérard, violin; Elina Kelebeev, piano; Andrea Ludwig, mezzo soprano (OCMS Artist-in-Residence); Maeve Palmer, soprano; Inna Perkis, piano; Boris Zarankin, piano

Highlights:
Selected mélodies by Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, Satie, and Ravel Sonata for violin and piano

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