Over the years, this event has established itself as a meeting place of the world's star performers: violinists, ‘cello players and pianists internationally acclaimed. This year's “Printemps musical des Alizés” will see the partication of artists from Austria, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Spain, Russia and elsewhere in an extraordinarily rich programme.A list of all the musical masterpieces to be presented in this festival is too long to be given, but among the works to be offered to the public are Schubert's Trout Quintet, a Schumann quintet, a Dvorak quintet, an unusual quintet for guitar, castanets and strings (“Fandango”) by Boccherini and one of Beethoven's well-known string quartets.
Lyric art will see a representation of Cavalli's baroque opera “La Calisto”, in period costumes and instruments.
Essaouira, a meeting-place of all cultures, offers as the climax of these musical crossroads the concert by the “Choeur des Trois Cultures” (Choir of the Three Cultures). This group, created in Seville thanks to the determination and involvement of the Fondation des Trois Cultures (Foundation of the Three Cultures), is made up of voices of different nationalities and religions. It will sing works in Arabic, Hebrew and Latin.
Young people are not forgotten in this festival. In a “Festival of Young Talents” (“Festival jeunes talents”), young Moroccans and foreigners, after music classes in Rabat, will also be singing. In addition, master classes are being organized every day for the young people present in the town on the occasion of the festival.
This music and these songs reveal the face of a Morocco ready to show its difference in the face of exclusion, a peaceful Morocco, meeting place of cultures and rich with a diversity that has fashioned its conviviality.
The picture (above)of Essaouira is from the collection: Moroccan photos from Junior Bonner photography.
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