Symposium Internationale, 28-30 April 2023 Announced
Each year since 1981, Ellingtonian experts from around the world meet for sharing their knowledge about the work and the legacy of Duke Ellington. The symposium will be organized for the first time in Paris by La Maison du Duke, with a non exclusive focus around the connection between Duke and France. In the program : conferences, round tables, cinema, visits, concerts, etc. Save the date !
The Symposium will be centred around la Médiatheque Musicale de Paris.
Symposium Internationale now has its own page on Facebook which may be found here.
"Few American musicians have had as much connection with France, and Paris in particular, as Duke Ellington. He was very appreciative of the respect and enthusiasm of an audience that he had discovered in 1933 and that he regularly met again, when he came for two or three concerts. A tireless inventor of beauty, Duke loved the beautiful, the charms of the City of Lights, good food and great French music, from Ravel to Django Reinhardt. His "alter ego", Billy Strayhorn, who also adored Paris, could make frequent visits there. The fascination that France and Paris had on them, more than any other place in the world, was frequently manifested in their musical production." - Claude Carrière
Thursday, April 27 House of Boris Vian
6:30pm Welcome Visit to Boris Vian’s Place (happy few) and aperitif
8:30pm DINNER (offered to the speakers)
Friday, April 28 Médiathèque Musicale de Paris
9:15am Welcoming Coffee
10:00am 1933, Ellington's first steps in Paris Jean-François Pitet
10:45am Duke Ellington in Paris John Edward Hasse
11.30am Coffee Break
11:45am Roundtable Discussion Duke and the Lights chaired by Leila Olivesi
Mercedes Ellington, Chairman of Duke Ellington Center For The Arts
John Edward Hasse, author, pianist, Smithsonian Institution curator
Marylin Lester, Duke Ellington Society New York
Daniel Maximin, novelist, poet and essayist
Leila Olivesi, pianist, composer, musicologist
Laurent Mignard, conductor
12:30pm Lunch
2:15pm Programmes of Duke’s concerts in Paris Leila Olivesi
3:15pm Dance in Duke Ellington’s work Mercedes Ellington
3:45pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Turcaret Anne Legrand
4:45pm Midriff: A Musical Palindrome Loren Schoenberg
5:30pm Live Show Case Leila Olivesi Octet Tribute to Claude Carrière
Friday, April 28 Cinéma Le Louxor
8:30 pm Paris Blues with Laurent Cugny.
Guests, Michele Corcella and Jack Chambers.
Saturday, April 29 Médiathèque Musicale de Paris
9:15am Welcoming Coffee
10:00am Duke and Django Philippe Baudoin and Loren Schoenberg
11:15am Coffee Break
11: 30am Live Show Case André Villéger and Philippe Milanta For Duke and Paul
11: 55am Ellington in Goutelas Laurent Lukic and Laurent Mignard
1:00pm Lunch
2:45pm Duke’s trombones Ken Steiner
Guests, Art Baron, Julian Priester (video)
3:30pm Fred Guy Nick Rossi
4:00pm Coffee Break
4:15pm Ellington at Juilliard Loren Schoenberg
4:50pm Ellington Researchers' Panel Steven Lasker, David Palmquist, Ken Steiner
and Michael Kilpatrick
Saturday, April 29 - Le Bal Blomet
8:00 pm Concert Laurent Mignard Duke Orchestra 20th anniversary including unreleased scores of the unfinished opera Boola (commentary by Michael Kilpatrick) and Ellington French Touch programme. Tickets here
Sunday, April 30 Pigalle Quarter
10:00 am Guided Tour A Promenade through Pigalle’s Jazz Scene during the period between the two World Wars Philippe Baudoin
12:30 pm Lunch
Sunday, April 30 Sunset Jazz Club
3:00pm Educational Concert Duke Ellington for kids Leila Olivesi
5:00pm Educational Concert Duke Ellington for kids Leila Olivesi
Conclusion of the Symposium Live Show
New release Duke and Billy’s New Colors, Saury/Rousselet /Couderc Quintet
Jam Session feat. Art Baron
Fee : 20 € (15 € with the discount code : 5SE3004) Tickets here
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