On the program: ( 1h35 with intermission)
From 14 to 23 May 2025 - 20h
in Lille metropolis

Wednesday 14 May – 8pm
La Chapelle d’Armentières, Espace Culturel Nelson Mandela

Friday 16 May – 8pm
Lompret, la Lomprethèque

Saturday 17 May – 8pm
Escobecques - Ennetières-en-Weppes (in intercommunality), Foyer Rural d’Ennetières-en-Weppes

Tuesday 20 May – 8pm
Hantay, Salle La Gallicante

Wednesday 21 May – 8pm
Haubourdin, Centre Culturel Paul André Lequimme

Thursday 22 May – 8pm
Roncq, La Source - salle de l’Atrium

Friday 23 May – 8pm
Wattignies, Centre Culturel Robert Delefosse

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FARRENC
Symphony No. 3

DESSNER
Aheym (Homeward)

MOZART
Symphony No. 40

Bar Avni, Conductor
Orchestre National de Lille

Three different musical worlds are honored by the orchestra, led by Bar Avni, winner of the 3rd edition of the La Maestra competition. First of all, a tribute to the French composer Louise Farrenc, whose Symphony No. 3 in G minor was acclaimed by critics and the Parisian public from its premiere in 1849. Farrenc handles it with great expressiveness and restraint, where the colors of the orchestra echo the great masters such as Mozart or Beethoven. The dramatic intensity comes with the contemporary composer Bryce Dessner and the power of his Aheym «back home» in Yiddish, a work he dedicates to his grandparents, Jews from Western Europe who immigrated to the United States. Finally, it is Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 40 that will close this program in apotheosis. Considered the most tragic of his symphonies, the composer signs an ambiguous work, full of anxieties, which resonates like a catharsis of his own demons.