Jean Cocteau developed a passion for Manouche and Gypsy musical culture following his meeting with Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. More than twenty years later, inspired by Lucien Clergue’s photographs that Picasso introduced to him in 1955, the setting for The Testament of Orpheus is set in a Gypsy camp, at the heart of the Val d’Enfer in Les Baux-de-Provence.
On the occasion of the Night of Museums, the Djalamichto Quartet, a Manouche jazz group from the French Riviera, invites visitors of the Jean Cocteau Museum Séverin Wunderman collection to discover this universe through a traveling concert in the exhibition rooms.
Awarded the Young Talents prize at the Nice Jazz Festival in 2009, the Djalamichto Quartet has since been invited to perform alongside international artists (Chick Corea, Melody Gardot, Youssou n’Dour, Raphael Saadiq, Caravan Palace…) and perform in various festivals and concert halls in the PACA region.
Program at Palais Carnolès
• Guitar Recital – Roxane and Roland Radoux. Solos and Duo.
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM and 10:30 PM – 11:15 PM
“Musical journeys in the Music Room of the Palais Carnolès with Roland Radoux, Gold Medalist of the Lille Conservatory, a concert performer based in Nice since 1988 where he founded a guitar school, and Roxane Radoux, a student from the Nice Conservatory in Laurent Blanquart’s class, admitted to the third cycle in 2010 unanimously by the jury, currently preparing her Music Studies Diploma. Both will perform, in solos and duo, works by Villa-Lobos, Regondi, Myers, Tarrega, …”.
• “Painted Works, Spoken Works”. Poetry and painting at the museum, by the students of Lucien Rosso, from the Conservatory.
Starting at 9:00 PM: “Correspondences between painting and poetry, each painting corresponds to an ambience. The performers will offer poetic interpretations of well-known texts around certain paintings in the museum: invitation to travel, sunsets, portraits of women, …”.
• Every hour, starting at 8:00 PM:
Guided tours of the Garden and/or the Palace by Michel Imbert, lecturer at the Heritage Service, Françoise Léonelli, Curator of the Museum, and Elsa Puharré, conservation assistant.
