Special Envoy to Verbier (Switzerland)
His forced landing on French soil, at the beginning of July, would he have made him a philosopher?
Still, on this Friday, July 15, in the preamble to the opening concert of the 29th Verbier Festival (in the Swiss canton of Valais), Federal Councilor Alain Berset did not hesitate to call one of the subjects of our philosophy baccalaureate:
“Do artistic practices transform the world?
At 29, it was time for the Verbier Festival to give back its copy
,” he said mischievously.
Before strongly emphasizing his conviction that music could play the role of the official language of rapprochement between peoples.
This was indeed the first message of the concert which opened the event this Friday evening, under the Combins tent.
A “concert for peace”.
With in the first part, the
Second Piano Concerto
by the contemporary Russian composer Rodion Chtchedrine - a great familiar of Verbier, and whose 90th anniversary is being celebrated this year - by the Ukrainian pianist…
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