AS A KICK-OFF EVENT OF NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK 2006
10th-Annual Celebration of National French Week at Whittier College
at the Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Genius songwriter and performer, Jacques Brel (1929-1978), moved audiences with elegies of love, mock-epics of bourgeois doldrums, and grim derisions of death. Over a rich range of melodies and musical styles, Brel's writing mixed blue-collar lyricism with Beat poetics. Born in a traditional Flemish family living in a suburb of Brussels, Brel chose singing over working in his father's factory. Director and actor André Nerman brings to the stage Brel's life in a dramatic montage of Brel's own songs and poems. French stage star, Nelly Anne Rabas sings and acts with Nerman, over live accompaniments of pianist Laurent Clergeau.
at Whittier College, Whittier, CA.
Directed by André Nerman with Manon Conan
performed by the Paris-based
THANKS TO OUR SPECIAL SPONSORS:
The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), AATF-Southern California Chapter,
the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Whittier College
and The French Learning Website.
If you have any question or would like to become an official sponsor for future events, please contact the organizer of this annual event at Whittier College: Dr. Marie-Magdeleine Chirol (phone: 562/464-4523).
This page was first posted August, 2006. © Marie-Magdeleine Chirol, 2001-2007.
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