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Live Music

Artist: Chorus And Orchestra Gradus Ad Musicam Title: Symphopop! Venue: L'Autre Canal City:   Nancy, Lorraine, France Date: Sunday, 28 Jan 2018 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:  1 Wishlist

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Notes

"Symphonic pop" show with 50 artists on stage paying tribute to the great orchestral arrangements that have marked the history of popular music.
Featuring 50 musicians on stage. Instrumentalists and singers with the GAM orchestra, Laura Cahen, Manuel Etienne, Vincent Mougel (Kidsaredead), Jerome Didelot (Orwell), Renaldo Greco, Mathieu Ambroziak, Benjamin Cahen, Charlie Davot and students from the Pop Academy (MAI). With special guest James Warren (The Korgis).

The repertoire included songs from Bowie, Sinatra, The Beatles and The Beach Boys, from Bashung, Gainsbourg and many more ...

Through a selection of songs that focus on classical instruments, Symphopop paid tribute to the great orchestral arrangements that have marked the history of popular music, from George Martin (Beatles) to Jean-Claude Vannier (Gainsbourg).

Based on an original idea by Jérôme Didelot
Artistic direction: Renaldo Greco
Direction of orchestra: François Legée

Sold out gig: approx 350
Ticket prices: 6 to 24 euros

Comments and Reviews

chrisb 24th Aug 2021		God Only Knows from the show, sung by James Warren (Stackridge/The Korgis)
chrisb 4th Jul 2019		Sampler video from YouTube. Very nice too! And this review puts the audience at a sell out 700, not the 350 reported by James below.
chrisb 3rd Jul 2019		From James Warren’s website:- 'Symphopop' in Nancy, France Just returned from a terrific 6 day sojourn in France - two nights in Paris followed by four nights in Nancy, 90 minutes by TGV train from the capital. I’d been invited by a dear friend of mine, Jerôme Didelot of French band Orwell, to participate in an amazing concert he’d organised featuring a local orchestra + 6 vocalists, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums celebrating the collaboration of classical players and pop musicians since the 1960s. It was a really interesting and varied programme featuring songs by The Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, ELO, Bjork - and it was a sell-out, about 350 people, and I’m told they had a further couple of hundred enquires for tickets! I got to sing Eleanor Rigby, She’s Leaving Home, God Only Knows and Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime. It was especially enjoyable because unlike the usual rock gig it wasn’t loud and the monitoring was very good so you could hear yourself singing really clearly on stage. Luxury! Also, everyone involved in the project was an absolute delight to work with: the other singers, the orchestral players, back-stage crew - all so positive, enthusiastic and refreshingly devoid of ‘attitude’. My friend Jerôme is really keen to put the show on at other places now that we’ve seen how well it works - can’t wait!

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