On Thursday September 19th evening at 8pm, as part of the NCFS programming, Pascal Quignard and Aline Piboule will perform "Fauré's Last Love", an interdisciplinary performance intertwining music by Fauré and words by Quignard. The show, which was created at the Philharmonie de Paris last January, is doing its U.S premiere at Duke.
Aline Piboule has received a flurry of awards for her recordings of Fauré (Gramophone, Télérama, France Musique...). Pascal Quignard, who is also a cellist, is internationally known for his collaboration with Jordi Savall and work on the Baroque era. As for the performance, it has just been beautifully reviewed in Le Monde.
This original performance is part of the Fauré Initiative, a transatlantic project dedicated to the afterlives of Gabriel Fauré’s work in the 21st century, spearheaded by Gabriel Richard and in collaboration with the Maison Française at NYU, Princeton's Department of French & Italian, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and the Ecole Normale de Musique.
Proposed on the hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death, it brings together musicologists, philosophers, performers, composers, and writers to explore Fauré’s legacy and, more generally, the legacies of the long nineteenth-century in our contemporary modernity, as well as the capacity of music to produce epistemological forms (philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch wrote an essay on Fauré, Fauré ou l'inexprimable).
"Fauré's Last Love" is a free event. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis right before the performance, but seats will be reserved for NCFS registrants. We will close the doors when Nelson Music Room is full.