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George Benjamin: "Instrumental transparency is in me"

2020-02-05T16:58:55.655Z


INTERVIEW - The British composer, trained partly in Paris, is the guest of honor at the Présences festival. He explains his particular art and how he makes scholarly music accessible.


When we find him at his hotel opposite the Maison de la radio, a magnificent orchid awaits him at the reception: gift for his sixtieth birthday, from the daughter of the family who welcomed him in Paris when, young English student, he came to study at the Conservatory. It was in 1976, three years after the United Kingdom joined the European Community. He was 16 years old. And here is this delicious, modest and delicate man, sincerely touched by these memories that go back, as he prepares to be the guest of honor at the Présences festival of Radio France, from February 7. The occasion for a major retrospective of the work of a major figure in today's music, including the opera Written on Skin , created triumphantly in Aix-en-Provence in 2012 and repeated everywhere since, is a flagrant denial of the reputation of inaccessibility of learned music.

I am unable to look back on my works because I always carry them with me

George Benjamin

LE FIGARO. - What is Aix for you?

George BENJAMIN . - This festival is a gift for which I am infinitely

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