Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo

CALMEL Olivier
Musique Symphonique, Children's Choir, Voice
979-0-56025-688-7
25’10’’
orchestral parts (symphony orchestra version)
Artchipel

24

Oct

2023

l’Orchestre National d’Île-de-France

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The theme of childhood is omnipresent in Victor Hugo’s work. The witness to miserable childhood, the admiring and tender father, the stubborn defender of universal education, all express themselves in courageous works of remarkable moral and spiritual elevation. These texts, whether prose or verse, are peppered with striking formulas whose sonic magic lingers in all memories. This cantata evokes three aspects of childhood dear to Victor Hugo. The Parisian boy of Les Misérables is embodied in the person of Gavroche, a mischievous, ironic child who dies singing, while in the second part, it’s the happy childhood of his two daughters that the author evokes with tenderness. The third part expresses the desire for universal education, a remedy for all social ills and obscurantism, prophetically summed up by the final line: “Every child we teach is a man we win. Olivier Calmel

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Weight1,6 kg
Dimensions42 × 29,7 × 2 cm
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