A little snow tonight, so I'm back from my sprint biennial corrections. Already a first class tomorrow at the uni ... the holidays are short. Fortunately, the college began later.
The holiday season always brings a bit of traditional music, as they say now Trad. That I finally found it on You Tube something I was looking for. This is an excerpt from the TV series Man and the music that Radio Canada and CBC had produced in the mid-1970s. One of the great moments happens when the famous classical violinist and narrator of the series, Yehudi Menuhin plays a duet with one of the great Québécois viololonneux what was Jean Carignan Andre Gagnon on a piece dedicated to him . Quite moving.
The moment was even more magical was that Menuhin l'idole de Carignan. En lisant les commentaires sur You Tube on comprend aussi que ce folklore de rigodons de gigues de reels et autres quadrilles est le produit d'influences irlandaises, écossaises ou anglaises ajoutées au vieux fond français. Un métissage, bien avant que cela ne devienne la vertu de notre modernité. Allez, deux autres pièces de Jean Carignan. l'increvable Rêve du Diable:
Et, soyons chauvins, la gigue de ma ville, podorythmie comprise:
Ça doit pas être facile de taper du pied en jouant du violon....
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