Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is an annual music festival taking place on 21st June. This year the weeklong music festival celebrates its 5th consecutive year – beginning on the 15th of June and ending on the 21st of June – in Chennai, with the joint collaboration of The Rhapsody Music Foundation, Alliance Fran çaise of Madras, Goethe¬Institut Chennai, InKo Centre, KM Music Conservatory, Musee Musicals and EarthSync.
MONDAY, JUNE 15TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Alliance Française of Madras
* Children’s workshops will be conducted by trainers and experts from Rhapsody and KMMC.
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Classi.co, Laal Batti Aur Chaos, Endless Knot. Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Musee Musicals

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Madley Blues, The Broadway Addicts, Karthick Iyer Live and Bjorn Surrao.
Venue: Musee Musicals Auditorium
6:30pm
“Crossing The Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul” Director: Fatih Akin | Documentary | 90 min
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai
7:00pm
“Les Fils Du Vent”
Director: Bruno Le Jean | Feature | 90 min
Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt are guitarists who carry on the gypsy jazz tradition of the musician Django Reinhardt. This documentary follows the four guitarists as they move from place to place, capturing vignettes of their life: how a community preserves its way of life, how they pass on their knowledge to new learners and how they approach the problems their community faces with characteristic humour and insight. Through all their travels and travails, music and the joy of playing reign supreme.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2015
10:30am – 11:30am
*Corporation School workshop at InKo Centre
11:30am – 12:00pm
Film Screening
About Korean traditional music/musical instruments.
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Demonstration by Murali Krishnan of Jus Drums
Jus Drums – School of Percussion is run by Chennai’s well known percussionist Murali Krishnan.

7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Nikhita Gandi, Hande and the Drama and Roshan George Thomas.
Venue: InKo Centre
7:00pm
“Le Port Des Amours, Reinette l’Oranaise”
Director: Jacqueline Gozland | Documentary | 65 min
Sultana Daoud, better known Reinette l’Oranaise, was a repository of Arab¬Andalus traditional music. The Algerian-born singer, who went blind at the age of two, was urged by her mother to take up music and went on to be hailed as the “Queen of Judeo-Arab music”. Whether in concert – at New Morning, in Paris – or in her interviews, she reminds us that music was her refuge and her defence against the heartbreak of exile.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at KM Music Conservatory
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Koadaari, High Definition, Vertigo and Humphrey and the Aglets
Venue: KM Music Conservatory
4.30 pm & 7:00pm
“Les Chansons D’amour”
Director: Benoît Jacquot, Louise Narboni | Comedy, Drama | 144 min
Ismail, Julie and Alice live happily together, an ideal state that is shattered when one of them dies. Those left behind must deal with their loss and their feelings and, as time goes by, must learn to open themselves up to the possibility of new loves and new relationships. Set in Paris, a city echoing with love songs, this musical shows that, fortunately for us, the old song which goes,”les chan-sonsd’a-mour finissent maaaal… en gé-né-ral” (love songs don’t usually end well) need not always be true. Venue: Alliance Française of Madras

FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
*Corporation School workshop at Goethe-Institut Chennai
6:30pm
“Werther”
Opera by Massenet | 150 min
Directed by Michel Plasson, an expert on the works of Massenet, this Operatic production stars Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Kock who bring alive one of Opera’s most moving love stories: Charlotte, the daughter of a bailiff, is engaged to marry Albert. When Werther, a man whom her father dislikes her, falls in love with her and declares his love to her, Charlotte turns him away saying she has sworn to marry Albert. However, she cannot hide from herself that she loves Wether more and as the months go by, each must battle their all-consuming passion.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
6:30pm
“Digital Concert Hall”
In this concert with the German National Youth Orchestra (for which the Philharmoniker have taken over a sponsorship) with Christian Tetzlaff – acting Artist in Residence of the Berliner Philharmoniker – Karl-Heinz Steffens will conduct Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto and Peter Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The two compositions have the reputation of being “fateful” works by their creators. Bartók wrote his Second Violin Concerto in 1937–38 at the urging of his compatriot violinist Zoltán Székely, at a time when he was increasingly the target of defamatory attacks by the right-wing national press. Tchaikovsky’s Fourth – which opens the trilogy of the so-called “Fate Symphonies” by the Russian composer – was written at a time of personal crisis.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai
SATURDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2015
9:30am
Children’s Choir preliminaries at Bhavan, Mylapore
Children’s amateur showcases will be conducted by Rhapsody at Bhavan in Mylapore. Groups of children from various schools of Chennai will participate for a singing contest.

2:30pm – 5:30pm
Music Showcase featuring FOLKBOX, Kaber Vasuki, Ranjani Shanker and PAVO Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Music Showcase featuring Jackhammer, Toddy Waters and Franks Got The Funk Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai
7:00pm
“The Fighters”
Bodhi Muzzik and the Alliance Française of Madras present ‘The Fighters’. The band consists of three drummers: Sridhar, Elayaraja and Rakesh.
Venue: Alliance Française of Madras
SUNDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2015
2:00pm
Students’ Concert at Alliance Française of Madras
To celebrate the idea of “Building a Community through Music’, the students of the Alliance Française of Madras will be performing various genre of music as a part of the Fête de la Musique. The concerts will be held at the auditorium of the Alliance Française of Madras where students can perform as groups or solo. A variety of music and a lot of fun can be expected!
7:00pm
The Best of Fête de la Musique at Alliance Française of Madras
ALL ARE WELCOME
Seating on first-come, first-served basis
For more information contact:
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 4 Rutland Gate 5th Street
Chennai 600 006
Tel.: +91 44 2833 1314, 2343
Fax: +91 44 2833 2565
Mail: [email protected]
Web: www.goethe.de/chennai
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The Partners Alliance Fran çaise of Madras
As a French language training institution and a cultural centre, Alliance Française of Madras is proud to promote cultural relations between India and France in Tamil Nadu. Present in Madras for more than 60 years, Alliance aims to embody a spirit of friendship without constraints, an international movement to the service of promoting French language and culture as well as an intercultural dialogue.

EarthSync
EarthSync is a record label and award-winning producer of high quality visual content, live shows and online platforms. EarthSync’s initiative IndiEarth Project builds a multi-country network for professional, cultural, and educational collaborations, and development of the independent arts industries in India. IndiEarth XChange Chennai is the only annual trade event for India’s independent music, film and media on India, Europe, Asia and the Indian Ocean region.

Goethe-Institut Chennai
Goethe-Institut Chennai/Max Mueller Bhavan is the contact point for anyone interested in German culture and for those who want to study or teach German. For over 50 years, the institution has been promoting an ongoing dialogue and exchange between Indian and German artists and experts, presenting German culture abroad and help shape a current understanding of Germany. The cultural department organizes a broad range of events, and supports projects in the fields of film and new media, arts, theatre and dance, music, literature, architecture and more.
InKo Centre
InKo Centre aims to promote an intercultural dialogue by facilitating a consistent programme which draws on the rich traditions of both India and Korea. With a focus on language, culture and information, through performances, exhibitions, conversations, collaborations and research, the Centre looks at the global dimension of such a dialogue even while showcasing the local and national characteristics that underpin such exchange.

Fête de la Musique | 15- 21 June, 2015
InKo Centre has, since inception in 2006, worked consistently with key organizations in Korea and in India, with an aim to build long-term sustainable intercultural partnerships between the two countries.
KM – Music Conservatory
One of India’s first, KM Music Conservatory (KMMC) is a higher education institution established in 2008 by the A.R. Rahman Foundation. With faculty from around the world specializing in musical performance, musical theory and analysis, music history and music technology, the institution offers a range of part-time and full-time courses in Hindustani and Western classical music, and music technology to all ages and abilities. The KM College of Music and Technology campus also houses commercial recording studios and The Sunshine Orchestra for underprivileged children.
Musee Musical
Musee Musical, founded in 1842 by French national Mr. Prodome, British nationalist Ms. Amy Rozario and Mr. Giridhar Das, has been serving the music community worldwide for the past 170 years. In addition to manufacturing, selling and servicing a variety of musical instruments and music books, and organising music events, the institution has also been a school of music for the past 60 years, with alumni of the likes of Illayaraja and A.R Rahman. Musee Musical is also the single largest examination centre for Trinity College London.
Rhapsody Music Foundation
Rhapsody is an initiative to take music to children through an integrated approach, within as well as outside of the school curricula. The foundation utilizes specialized trainers and instructors, a critically acclaimed syllabus and a methodology that takes the best from western classical and Indian classical music. With a focus on music being a natural aid and facilitator of communication, expression and creativity in children, Rhapsody Music Foundation has now reached nearly 80,000 children across South India.