{"product_id":"24073-jazz-in-france-french-resistance-delaunay-charles-contraste-du-classique-au-jazz-rare-1945-deluxe-souvenir-concert-program","title":"[Jazz in France] [French Resistance] [Delaunay, Charles. (1911–1988)] \"Contraste du Classique au Jazz\" - Rare 1945 Deluxe Souvenir Concert Program","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLes Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE \"du Classique au Jazz.\" \u003c\/em\u003eTheatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red\/white\/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111 from a total edition of 1000 copies printed. Wrappers somewhat foxed, else fine. From the collection of Parisian art dealer and collector Michel de Bry (1890-1970), who with the legendary jazz impresario Hugues Panassié, organized the historic 1948 \u003cem\u003eFestival International du Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e in Nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFascinating souvenir program from a June 15, 1945 Paris festival concert organized by the Mouvement de Libération Nationale and presided over by General Pierre Dejussieu-Poncarral, leader of the French Resistance, \"upon return from the Nazi Concentration Camps Buchenwald, Dora and Belsen,\" just a few weeks after the signing of the Armistice and less than a year after the liberation of Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery rare. One of one thousand copies, but given that this was evidently a significant undertaking with the involvement of many important figures, we are surprised to find no mentions of this concert anywhere in standard jazz or post-war French critical literature. No copies of the program are recorded by WorldCat, and we have found no record of any other example having appeared at auction or in the trade. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concert concept was \"Contrast 'from Classical to Jazz' -  Two Expressions Characterized by One Same Thought: MUSIC\" and the central heavy-stock central program sheet features, on the left, the musical offerings in the section \"Du Classique,\" and on the facing right page, \"Du Jazz.\" Classical works by Rimsky-Korsakow, Berlioz, Moussorgsky, Saint-Saens, Lalo, Mozart, Rossini, Gounod and Tchaikovsky were performed by the\u003cem\u003e Orchestre des Concerts Colonne\u003c\/em\u003e under the direction of Georges Tzipine; opera singers Paul Cabanel, Jean Babilée, and Odette Turba-Rabier; violinist Roland Charmy; and ballerina Solange Schwartz. The Jazz section consisted of performances by the \u003cem\u003eHot Club de France \u003c\/em\u003ewith Jerry Mengo, Hubert Rostaing and Arthur Briggs; singer Georges Ulmer; pianist Léo Chauliac; duo singers \u003cem\u003eLes Soeurs Étienne\u003c\/em\u003e, and a swing dance couple. Finally, the program concluded with a performance of Gershwin's \"Rhapsody in Blue,\" (presumably to show the fusing of \"contrasting\" idioms), and a recitation by Robert Vidalin of the \u003cem\u003eComédie Françai\u003c\/em\u003ese (\"returned from London\"), of a selection of \"Poems of the Resistance.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe included texts are by Pierre Duvauchelle (Birth of Chamber Music), Charles Delaunay (Jazz), Darius Milhaud (French Music since 1918), André Joucla-Rua (Measures), William Dod (George Gershwin) and Guy Dumazert (Erik Satie). The program also features numerous illustrations (\"Some Gods of Classical Music,\" \"Music across the Ages,\" \"Harlem, Capital of Swing,\" \"Contrast\" in art, positioning an Ingres nude beside one by Picasso, \"Contrast\" in poetry, with Racine vs. Tzara, etc.), full-page images of all of the performers, and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003etipped-in reproductions of Beethoven's \u003cem\u003eHeiligenstadt Testament \u003c\/em\u003eand letters and documents from Hector Berlioz.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003ePerhaps the most notable contribution to the program's texts, is by Charles Delaunay. Son of painters \u003c\/span\u003eRobert Delaunay\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eSonia Delaunay\u003cspan\u003e, he was one of the founders of the \u003cem\u003eHot Club de France\u003c\/em\u003e, which performed at this concert. Together with \u003c\/span\u003eHugues Panassié\u003cspan\u003e he initiated the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuintette du Hot Club de France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with \u003c\/span\u003eDjango Reinhardt\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eStephane Grappelli\u003cspan\u003e.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring World War II Delaunay continued leading the \u003cem\u003eHot Club, \u003c\/em\u003ebut was a member of the \u003c\/span\u003eResistance\u003cspan\u003e. In 1948 Delaunay founded the record label \u003c\/span\u003eDisques Vogue and was the\u003cspan\u003e author of the famous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot Discography, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe first jazz discography. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62011810250911,"sku":"24073","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/JazzinFrance_Delaunay_ContrasteduClassiqueSouvenirConcertProgram24073a.jpg?v=1742847107","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/24073-jazz-in-france-french-resistance-delaunay-charles-contraste-du-classique-au-jazz-rare-1945-deluxe-souvenir-concert-program","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}