Fascinatin'Gershwin, Sylvie KAY - France
Show for 4 interpreters. With: Philippe KHOURY (piano and arrangements) Frederique BRUN (singing), PIERRE DREVET (trumpet player), Sylvie KAY (tap dance)
George Gershwin, self-educated person and hired musician, drew inspiration from actuality during Prohibition and depression in the United States: it caricatured and reported the American institutions, the servicemen, the journalists across its comedies.
He becomes the specialist of the mixture of types and uses the jazz as a « rhythmic change of scenery » enriched with musical spaces. It continues fascinating the amateurs of classic, jazz, musicals and songs.
The artists take over her work and illustrate her by blending the piano with singing and with tap dance.
Show is alive and overflowing a conversational good mood. There is a real participation no dénuée play humour the singer and the dancer; they sound erroneously, earn and repel each other in the bet in the space of Jean-Philippe Amy.
The piano is the instrument of the master, played by Philippe Khoury, who also signs all arrangements.
The serious or hired, light texts often written by Ira Gershwin, Gershwin’s brother, are sung by Frederique Brun, rewarded by price Ella Fitzgerald.
The trumpet, subtle and bright of Pierre Drevet supplements training.
Finally, the originality of this show rests on choreographic rhythmics, by Sylvie Kay, celebrate tap dancer formed in New York.
It brings this « rhythmic change of scenery » so dear to Gershwin.
Seen again "Spectacle.com" - VALÉRIE CLAISSE - 9 march 2007
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