Le Vent D’Ouest – May 13, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents May 6, 2018 2071 CE QU’A VU LE VENT D’OUEST Debussy was fascinated by the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe, whose fantastic tales perfectly accord with his own finely nuanced, expressive music. In this musical-literary performance, pianist Hélène Tysman and actor Damien Luce engage with the two art forms to render a famous excerpt from Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, to the music of the great French composer’s enigmatic Préludes. A production by the Oreille à Plumes Company with the support of the DRAC (Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate) Centre-Val de Loire Artists Hélène Tysman, piano Damien Luce, reciter (in French) Sonia Jacob, staging Program DEBUSSY Préludes from Books I and II Story by Edgar Allan POE (trad. Baudelaire) La cathédrale engloutie, Book I Des Pas sur la neige, BookI Voiles, BookI Ondine, Livre II La Fille aux cheveux de lin, BookI Canopes, BookII La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune, BookII Deux d’artifices, BookII Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest Sunday, May 13th 2018 at 2:00pm Duration: 1 Hrs For tickets and information: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/concerts 514-285-2000 Subscribe to the series by phone: 514-285-2000, option 4, or 1-800-899-6873 or Every day from 9am to 5pm or in person at the ticket booth of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
