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Siri Vik: "la Môme: Piaf 100" at John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts

Courtesy of Saleah | Posted on January 14, 2015

Where

John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts
868 High Street
Eugene, OR
Map
541-687-6526

When

Sat, March 7, 2015
7:30 pm

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About

In 2010 we premiered our first French chanson show at The Shedd, simply called, La Vie en rose. This evening showcased songs we Americans love dearly, songs that are heavy with nostalgia, emotion, victory, and romance. As I’ve continued to perform these heart-anthems the past four years, time and again, I’ve been struck by how powerfully listeners of our day and age respond to the music--in particular how ardently they love the voice and the memory, the idea, of Edith Piaf.
Like a splash of red paint against a clean white wall, Edith Piaf’s voice leaves a singularly vivid impression--it is the impression the world holds of all of France and its music. Her voice is not only a sound, but a vessel which carries in its strain the echoes of loves, losses, the quiet desperations, the boundless passions, the stories of a people. Her voice has reached through the last century into the 21st with a reverberation and a power to haunt and grip. Like many great artists, Piaf paid a price for her bright star; she carried a burden of sorts, the burden of possessing the voice who sang--who spoke--for every human heart: “It’s not only my voice which sings, it is a crowd of voices...”...

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