{"product_id":"cecile-brochoire_le-petit-garcon-qui-avait-envie-despace_2020","title":"Le petit garçon qui avait envie d'espace","description":"Commanded by a Swiss chocolate manufacturer, The Little Boy Who Wanted Space was published in 1949, five years before Giono was elected to the Académie Goncourt. In the prolific work of the writer from Manosque, it is the only text composed for children. Writing for them, he did not hold back any resources of his immense talent, did not simplify his language, nor renounce the richness of his writing. His voice is intact, recognizable among all. Like him, the composer Benoît Menut has given free rein to his inspiration. He did not confine his writing to a limited palette of expression, nor adopt another language than his own, and we find in this piece the same musical requirement as in his most important works. By agreeing to set the words of Jean Giono to music - \"I did a work of illumination,\" he confides - he encourages the imagination of the reader, this power that is at the heart of the story. In doing so, he offers a place to the listener and allows them to hear what Giono's writing suggests, the landscapes, the emotions of the characters, the complicity of a father and son, the tenderness of a mother. Not through a literal musical translation, a simple sound commentary that would double the unfolding of the story, but through an authentic gesture of invention that opens the ear, makes one feel the space around oneself and within oneself. \u003cbr\u003eBenoît Menut (1977-) is the winner of the Grand Prix SACEM 2016 for symphonic music - young composer category, from the Banque Populaire Foundation (2008) and has received awards from the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation (2014) and Charles Oulmont (2019). Fando and Lis, his first opera based on the play by Fernando Arrabal, was created in May 2018 at the Opéra de Saint Étienne under the baton of Daniel Kawka. This work earned him the Nouveau Talent award from the SACD. At the award ceremony, he defined his work as \"energy in sound carried by meaning.\" His works are performed in various festivals and seasons: the Philharmonie de Paris, La Scala Paris, the Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Musée d’Orsay, La Chaise-Dieu, the operas of Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Nancy, the Contemporary Festival of Vienna, the Choral Festival of Arezzo, Novara, Kobe, Montreal, and Munich... \u003cbr\u003eJean Giono (1895-1970) received the Prince Rainier of Monaco Prize in 1953 for his entire body of work and entered the Académie Française. Giono, with his immense, universal culture, is an author who painted nature, in a simple language, a stripped-down writing. He who called himself \"the immobile traveler\" died and was buried in Manosque in 1970.","brand":"Cécile Brochoire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58276268474712,"sku":null,"price":20200201.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3341348162782.jpg?v=1787697641","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/cecile-brochoire_le-petit-garcon-qui-avait-envie-despace_2020","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}