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Association pour le Festival Musiques Interdites

MUSIQUES INTERDITES – FORBIDDEN MUSICS

 “Entartete Musik” – Degenerate Music : the name given by the Nazi party's cultural officers in 1933to their banned list of major composers from the beginning of the century. These composers, who were deported (or who simply vanished into anonymous exile),were never restored to their rightful place amongst the major contributors to the music of our times.
Robbed of their identity, Stalin's post-war dictatorship in turn condemned to oblivion those composers from the East who had survived the Nazi genocide.

The Festival of Musiques Interdites is one of the cultural actions implemented by the Association for the Festival of Musiques Interdites - through a special partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Paris. Since 2004, this action has revived some of the major musical works banned during the Nazi and Stalin dictatorships. By sourcing new or vanished collections, the scope of the Festival’s cultural role has expanded to include an educational and civic mission.

 

The Objectives:

- To reinstate composers and works banned by totalitarian systems

- To return these artists to their rightful place – thus restoring an essential heritage to the public, by declaring victory for creativity over dictatorship

- To establish a programme of contemporary works in synergy with the revival of banned works from the beginning of the 20th century.

 

Musiques Interdites and Europe

Musiques Interdites 2009-2010 was chosen as a European Cultural Project as one of the Cooperation Measures.

Musiques Interdites 2010 was again selected by the European Commission under the heading of ‘A Living European Memory' for the 'French-German-Poland project:The New Weimar Triangle’.

Musiques Interdites 2011-2012 was presented as a European Cultural Project for the ‘Marseille-Terezin-Prague-Trieste-Milan-Bologna’ programme.

In partnership with Euroculture Equinoxe (Hungary, Czech Republic and Mexico) the premiere of ‘Equinoxe’ is part of the European cultural programme with Mexico 2012-2013.

 

The 8th Festival of Musique Interdites 2013 bears the label of Marseille, European Capital of Culture. It was one of 8 selected European programmes with third country South Africa, for cross-disciplinary research based around the premiere of Meyerowitz's opera 'The Barrier vs the Bastard'. This project “Hopes & Memories” is in partnership with Euroculture (FR), Musique en Sorbonne (FR), Mamapapa (CZ), Zero Ballet (HU), Trakt (SK), Keep the dream (SA)The 8th Festival of Musiques Interdites 2013 is part of the French Institute’s 2013 South African cultural season.

As part of the Marseille Provence Capital 2013, the 8thFestival of Musiques Interdites  is staging two new creations that explore the frontiers between annihilation and creation, oblivion and remembrance.

Against the historic backdrop of the Bouches-du-Rhone's Prefecture courtyard - under the patronage of the Regional Prefect – Marseille, the exile capital during World War II, will become a symbol of reconciliation through the lyrical power of works once lost to the world.

Musiques Interdites was awarded a ‘Choc Classica’ by the French magazine Classica in 2012 for its CD recording of Simon Laks’s opera  L'hirondelle Inattendue.

  • Michel Pastore, artistic director CV

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