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"Take what you like" – A cycle of lieder and melodies from the 20th to the 21st century<div> As the century turned, we listened to languages ​​singing their melodies, emotions, rhythms, and harmonies.</div><div><br></div><div> What about the lied and the melody? The poetry of words and letters sings of their cultures and memories. In 1945, in HARAWI, it is a prefiguration of a melodic world dictated by a form of "Lettrism," onomatopoeia, and the extra-European enigmas of the Peruvian language. In Espenbaum in 2025, the trembling of Paul Celan's German carries within it the indelible memory of the dead and the survivors.</div><div><br></div><div> Program</div><div> Olivier Messiaen – Harawi, Song of Love and Death (excerpts) 1945</div><div> Michael Levinas – Espenbaum on poems by Paul Celan (2020-2025), commissioned by the Chambon sur Lignon Memorial Site and the Chaise Dieu Festival</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>