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Démos 2024

Orchestres Démos Lyon Métropole Vivo et Lyon Métropole Presto
Recorded the June 23, 2024 (Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique)

Program

1.
Présentation
06:37
2.
Isaac Albéniz
Suite espagnole : Séguedille (Castilla)
03:57
3.
Présentation et entretien avec les référents Jean-Baptiste Lacou, Annick Vincent et une parente d'enfant
10:10
4.
Isaac Albéniz
Suite espagnole : Asturias : chants d'Espagne
01:17
Excerpt
5.
Üskudar'a Gideriken
06:39
6.
Nihavend Longa
05:33
7.
Üskudar'a Gideriken
05:59
8.
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János : Intermezzo
07:36
9.
Laura Hawley
Alhamdoulillah
07:46

Founded in 2010, Démos promotes cultural democratisation through the performance of orchestra music. It trains the future citizens of the 21st century by putting music at the heart of their personal development, and by giving a central place to social work.

As part of an overall educational and artistic program, Démos teaches classical music to children who, for economic, social or geographical reasons, would normally not have access to this genre. The project is aimed at children aged 7 to 12 living in designated urban (“QPV”) or rural (“ZRR”) areas. Every child is given a musical instrument for three years. The different groups of children who make up an orchestra take weekly classes (lasting three and a half hours on average) divided by instrument families and given by music professionals and staff working in the social sector. They regularly come together for an orchestral rehearsal (tutti). 

The success of the program is, in no small part, attributable to the customised educational framework, cooperation between cultural and social players, the development of a specific collective teaching approach and the ongoing training of all parties involved.

Since 2010, over 11,000 children, from all over France, have taken part in Démos. The project, initially focused on the greater Paris area, was rolled out nationally from 2015 and now has around 50 orchestras across France, including overseas territories.

Run by the Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris, Démos is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion (via the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion), the Ministry of National Education and Youth, the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas France, the Social Welfare boards (“CNAF” and “CAF”), more than 300 local authorities participating in the initiative, and numerous patrons - companies, foundations, individual donors. It is sponsored by Lilian Thuram and his Education Against Racism Foundation, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

Distribution

Orchestre Démos Lyon Métropole Vivo
Orchestre Démos Lyon Métropole Presto
Maxime Tortelier, conducting
Ourania Lampropoulou, santouri

Composers - Authors

Isaac Albéniz
Dominique Billaud
Zoltán Kodály
Ourania Lampropoulou
Laura Hawley
Maxime Tortelier