Recital: "Côte à côte" by Michael Kelly and Bénédicte Jourdois

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PHILO PIANO: THE FRENCH TOUCH FESTIVAL

Tribute to the piano at La Maison Française

Côte à côte, recital by Michael Kelly (tenor), Bénédicte Jourdois

Tel Jour, Telle Nuit

by Francis Poulenc and Paul Èluard

-Bonne journée

-Une ruine coquille vide

-Le front comme un drapeau perdu

-Une roulotte couverte en tuiles

-À toutes brides

-Une herbe pauvre

-Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer

-Figure de force brûlante et farouche

-Nous avons fait la nuit

~ Brief pause ~

-Joan Miró (from Travail du Peintre by Poulenc and Èluard)

-I remember (from Evening Primrose by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman)

-Vers le sud (from Calligrammes by Poulenc and Guillaume Apollinaire)

-Green Finch and Linnet Bird (from Sweeney Todd by Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler)

-Montparnasse (by Poulenc and Apollinaire)

-No One Is Alone (from Into the Woods by Sondheim and James Lapine)

-Aussi bien que les cigales (from Calligrammes by Poulenc and Apollinaire)

-Another Hundred People (from Company by Sondheim and George Furth)

-Pablo Picasso (from Travail du Peintre by Poulenc and Éluard)

-Finishing the Hat (from Sunday in the Park With George by Sondheim and Lapine)

-Hôtel (by Poulenc and Apollinaire)

-What More Do I Need? (from Saturday Night by Sondheim, Julius and Philip Epstein)

-Juan Gris (from Travail du Peintre by Poulenc and Èluard)

-Lesson #8 (from Sunday in the Park With George by Sondheim and Lapine)

-Hyde Park (by Poulenc and Apollinaire)

-The Ladies Who Lunch (from Company by Sondheim and Furth)

-Voyage à Paris (by Poulenc and Èluard)

-Ah Paree! (from Follies! By Sondheim and James Goldman)

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Michael Kelly

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Bénédicte Jourdois

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Benedicte Jourdois was born in Paris, France. She has worked at Marlena Malas’s voice program at the Chautauqua Institution since 2007, at the Castleton Festival since 2011, and Spoleto Festival USA from 2011-13. Jourdois has performed in numerous venues in Europe and in the U.S., including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and has worked in major North American opera houses such as the Pittsburgh Opera, Philadelphia Opera, and the Houston Grand Opera. She is a faculty member at the Curtis Institute and the Manhattan School of Music. She has worked as a guest coach at the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. Jourdois holds degrees from Juilliard, the Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, and Mannes College. She is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She has been a Juilliard faculty member since 2014.