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Alan Stivell: 'I tend to reject clichés'

2022-03-27T20:11:18.660Z


INTERVIEW – Music star for fifty years, Alan Stivell speaks with the passion and erudition of a researcher. At 78, the man has lost none of his enthusiasm and is preparing to go on stage with a symphony orchestra in Rennes and Paris on April 7 and 8.


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- You are inseparable from the Celtic harp…

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ALAN STIVELL.

- At the beginning, there is indeed the project to concretize the old romantic dream of this harp of Armor, which was that of the bards.

It is part of my imagery because it has accompanied me since the age of 9.

My goal was to make this instrument a reality.

It's almost a miracle, it's something that completely swept me away.

We have rarely associated a musician so much with his instrument...

My father made the instrument that allowed me to build my house.

It was completely crazy to want to revive a more or less medieval instrument in the middle of the 20th century!

At the same time, I was passionate about science fiction, so fascinated by everything related to technology, scientific research, all the fantastic, in fact.

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