Django Reinhardt "Swing of Paris" in La Cité de la Musique

Last week-end opened the temporary exhibition to 23 January 2013 to devoted Django Reinhardt, one of the most important representatives of the French popular culture. The Selmer guitar, in center of exhibition, is the only one to be authenticated to him, because she was left by his widow and the most of possessions were burned in his dead, by the tsigane tradition. The chronological installation is structured around seven periods of life to Django Reinhardt, who is dead in 1953 at the age of 43 years, like nomadism, discs in label “Swing” or the “paradoxal years”… His scores, posters, discs, letters were arranged in open windows like "to give the feeling that comes from unpacking boxes and remain faithful to the spirit gypsy," says Commissioner Vincent Bessières. Others were pushed in pillars like they had been placed here or they evocated billiards, a passion of musician. “Benches with sound”, evoking the Gypsy caravans, are scattered all along the route for visitors or yet an intimate room to see videos with sound. For the promotion, there were many concerts dedicate to the guitarist-musician like Band of Gypsies, Thomas Dutronc or David Reinhardt, his grandson. Moreover, other concerts will take place all of Friday or Saturday until the end of exhibition in its enclosure.

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Week 2, by Maïwenn B., 212 words