LIED ME! | EXPERIMENT

LIED ME! | Unpack - Reflect - Vibrate
9 short films, presenting new angles of what Lied can mean
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Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) | La Grenouillère FP 96
Text: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

FANNY SOYER | Soprano & Idea
JUSTINE ECKHAUT | Piano

What does a song trigger in people? The soprano Fanny Soyer is looking for people at random in a busy pedestrian zone to whom she may sing a song. Torn from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, they experience something through this unusual invitation that they had not expected. The two-minute art song "La Grenouillère" by Francis Poulenc surprises the audience and takes them into an unusual world of sound and fantasy. "Experiment" shows how music can suddenly reach us and change us. "I wanted to show people how simple it is to experience classical music. We only have to listen to it. Then we hear a lot in ourselves all by ourselves," says Fanny. Song is as diverse as the people it meets.

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Au bord de l'île on voit
Les canots vides qui s'entre-cognent,
Et maintenant
Ni le dimanche, ni les jours de la semaine,
Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent
Bras nus sur leurs canots avec des femmes à grosses poitrines
Et bêtes comme chou.
Petits bateaux vous me faites bien de la peine
Au bord de l'île.

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Along the banks of the islet one sees
The empty rowing boats which bump together,
And now
Neither on Sundays nor on weekdays,
Neither the painters nor Maupassant wander by
Arms bare in their boats with women with large bosoms
And stupid as cabbage.
Little boats you make me so very sad
Along the banks of the islet.

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Produced by BOOMTOWN MEDIA | https://boomtownmedia.de
A project by INTERNATIONAL SONG CENTRE HEIDELBERG | https://liedzentrum.de

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We thank: Klaus Tschira Stiftung | https://www.klaus-tschira-stiftung.de
Supported by: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg | https://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/...