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"Chante la Vie, Chante," the Golden Age of French Song
A trio of distinguished French musicians will perform beloved chansons
from 1950 to 1990, a period that represents an incomparable wealth of
authors/composers/performers known throughout the world. “From the
Left Bank cabarets to the rebel generation of the 1970s, la chanson tells
the story of our country,” says director André Nerman, who also
performs in the show. “In some cases, artists of genius with dramatic
destinies have left a universal imprint on the entire world.” Audiences of
all ages will enjoy this scintillating program representing France’s
Golden Age of Song. Sponsored by Alliance Française de Buffalo and
the UB Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Performers' Bios
Since 2001, André Nerman and the Caravague Company have
organized tours of French presentations on the entire North American
continent, including, most recently, his production of “Mad Men! Chez
Molière” Oct. 13 at UB. These varied programs have encompassed the
great classical and contemporary authors along with poetic or musical
presentations such as “Jacques Brel or the Impossible Dream,” which
played in Paris and around the world. As a musician, Nerman has
worked with such renowned artists as Annie Cordy, Serge Gainsbourg,
Gilbert Laffaille, Manon Landowski and Fugu Mango. He is well known
to Paris audiences as an auteur/compositeur/interprète, and in 2021, he
received the Gold Medal for Cultural Outreach from La Renaissance
Française.
Singer and vocal coach Daphné Rabas received her artistic training at
the Conservatoire de Meudon and at Studio des variétés, where she
studied jazz singing with Christiane Legrand (sister of Michel Legrand).
She also studied musical comedy in New York. Rabas has appeared in
the musical comedies “Barbe Bleue” in Paris and in “La belle et la bête”
with Philippe Candeloro in an international tour. She has been a lead or
back-up singer for many musical groups, and she was lead singer in her
own show entitled “Starlight.” Rabas is also a composer, cabaret singer
and dancer (both modern and hip-hop).
For the past 30 years, Thierry Boulanger has been a pianist, composer,
arranger and musical director based in Paris. He is currently musical
director of Mel Brooks’ “Les Producteurs” (“The Producers”), a show
that in 2022 received two “Molière Awards,” France’s national award for
live theater. Recipient of the Prix Maurice Yvain in 2006, he has worked
with such renowned artists as Natalie Dessay, Charles Aznavour, Michel
Legrand, Roberto Alagna, Sylvie Joy, Kad Merad, Alex Lutz, Laurent
Lafitte, Alexis Michalik and many other prominent figures in French
theater and cinema.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/1598805-0
