Exiles

Description

Country of freedom open to the world, democracy concerned with human rights, young nation in full economic expansion, the United States attracts immigrants from all backgrounds throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. They personify, rightly or wrongly, a land of redemption for the composers evoked by Ophélie Gaillard. After Alvorada, her traveling cello leads us in the footsteps of Bloch, Korngold, Prokofiev, Chava Alberstein, and Giora Feidmann, singing of their exile, often deliberately chosen, and makes us vibrate to the sound of a film music (Korngold's Concerto), a prayer (From Jewish Life), a Hebrew narrative (Schelomo), a lullaby, a wedding dance... The spirit of celebration, tenderness, religious contemplation, all facets of the daily life and culture of several generations of Jewish migrants told by the humanistic bow of Ophélie Gaillard.