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After we maintain
In his fingers
This wealth
Being twenty years outdated, tomorrows
Filled with guarantees
When love bends over us
To offer us his sleepless nights
After we see
Far forward
Giggle at life
Embroidered with hope, wealthy with pleasure
And insanity
You must drink to the purpose of intoxication
Her youth
Charles Aznavour (Might 22, 1924 – October 1, 2018)
Phrases and Music Charles Aznavour. From the album « Bravo from the music corridor to Charles Aznavour”, 1957
Here’s a model of this tune that Aznavour, it’s stated, thought of the favourite of his creations, sung virtually on the time, and which is a part of his fourth album. He sang it all through his profession. We are able to additionally hearken to it in 1994, at age 70, in New York:
Aznavour hoped to reside 100 years, had promised his sister. He talked whereas dwelling soberly in Mouriès (Bouches-du-Rhône) – the place he nonetheless produced an olive oil in his title – together with his third spouse, Ulla, to whom he remained married for 50 years. Swimming in his pool and persevering with to tour, the tune being his purpose for dwelling. It was in 2018, upon coming back from a tour in Japan, that he handed away peacefully.
Right here is one other model of the tune, of nice emotion, at 91 years outdated, in 2015, in Yerevan, Armenia:
Writer or co-author of greater than 1,000 songs, the “Most Necessary Selection Singer of the twentieth Century,” listed on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, would have been 100 years outdated on Might 22. Additionally a really proficient actor, Aznavour was capable of reap the benefits of the veiled voice that he was criticized for in his early days, to the purpose of with the ability to grasp it in outdated age, and transfigure a physique that didn’t correspond to the requirements to grow to be unforgettable.
On Might 16, 2024, a memento plaque was positioned by the city corridor of the ninth arrondissement of Paris at 22 rue Navarin, the place he grew up – and the place his stateless Armenian immigrant mother and father had discovered refuge – and hosted their resistance mates Mélinée and Missak Manouchian, entered the Pantheon on February 21, 2024.
On the Corridor of Tune, on Might 22 and 24, after already two concert events created in a jail setting, can be given as a part of the Vis à Vis Competition, carried out by 12 scholar artists from the TÉC in inventive residency in a jail setting and eight individuals below the hand of justice, who observe their educating, the spectacle AND YET-Charles Aznavour.
For the event, Common is publishing an entire field set of 100 CDs in restricted version for 51 authentic albums and singles in French and overseas languages (Aznavour recorded in 9 languages), within the studio and reside, with quite a few various and unpublished variations, noticed in recordings from all around the world and remastered as intently as doable from the unique variations. A extra inexpensive best-off can also be accessible.
On YouTube the official channel of Charles Aznavour is getting ready for Might 24 a clipped model of The mom.
The corporate Directo productions offers a symphony present on Might 25 on the Grand Rex in Paris, after Good and Montreal, sung by Jules Grison with a symphony orchestra, with preparations by Nobuyuki Nakajima.
A biopic of Mehdi Idir and Grand Corps Malade, “Mr. Aznavour”with Tahar Rahim within the title position, Bastien Bouillon and Marie-Julie Baup, targeted on the artist’s debut, is launched on October 23, 2024.
