The head of the music of the Foreign Legion bids farewell to the institution by conducting two concerts, on June 18. In front of an audience of 500 legionnaires sent by their units, wounded, guests and amateurs, Émile Lardeux will have his troupe of sixty musicians perform many tunes around the Legion.
The idea is that the concert relates to the legionnaires' service in the First World War. The one nicknamed the "Chmuc" (conductor of music hors classe) would never have imagined ending a career begun forty-four years ago.