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The great art of Juliette Greco knocks the Public Theatre des Champs-Elysees

A piano, an accordion and the intensity of the singer

Jouannest Gerard is piano , Jean-Louis Matinier accordion. The formula is simple and suitable for Juliette Greco, who had used the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris in 2007, when she buried her life as a young wife by blowing her eighty candles.

Three years later, at age 83, Madame Greco sings Undress Me (Robert and Gaby Nyel Verlor) with a pellet emancipated. She tries to apologize, but we laugh at the vanity, too. Black dress, pale complexion, light geometric wise hands, deep bass that's all Greco.

It feels first a long history of music hall, sixty years old Olympia, Bobino, NPT, Casino de Paris or Odeon, touring the provinces, galas abroad. Each year that passes in Greco is a little more knowledge accumulated, more technique, more data to play comedy, to describe reality without losing the ability to laugh and flirt intelligently.

June 8, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, the interpreter gives a stunning version of I arrive, our conversation with death written by Jacques Brel to the music of Gerard Jouannest, pianist, composer and here husband. Great art, a voice of a net thrown over fortuneteller accordion accompanied by piano. The room ends up, KO.

De-Jouannest Brel, Juliette Greco fills in his recital - Brussels Matilda - but also Gainsbourg - The Javanese , Accordion , La Chanson de Prévert - or Ferré - Over time , Jolie Môme . In this monumental aisle of French music, the performer made a place for Maxime Le Forestier Born somewhere , an activist theme.

THE HAND THROTTLE

Just as one will find no trace of the songs he has written Etienne Roda-Gil in 1993 or that he was offered a young generation of singers (Miossec, Biolay ...) in Love You each other or disappear ten years later, she gave up one of his classic revolutionary Time cherries, long his favorite song. But she kept as a "duty of memory" was a night train (Jean-Claude Carriere, Gerard Jouannest, 1998), reminiscent of the Holocaust and reminder that "hatred, fear, torture, blood and death "Have not been eradicated.

from his last album, I remember everything, released this spring, Juliette Greco saves four songs, all composed and written by Jouannest by young artists, Orly Chappe, Olivia Ruiz, Abd Al Malik or Marie Nimier. Arrangements scene are identical to those of the album, and like the marriage of carp and rabbit: profuse but played as a duo, designed to clothe a great voice, but often drowning.

The rabbit runs, but carp is not dumb, she is unstoppable. Geco is intense because, never in the routine, arms outstretched, hands in butterfly mimicking a breath of submission of the waitress Lovely Day (Claude Delecluse, Michele Senlis / Marguerite Monnot), its address as vous in love like a dandy The Javanese seizing Jolie Môme with authority Mother Superior.

Veronica Mortaigne
Article published in the World of 11.06.09