To reminisce the life and work of Georges Brassens, legendary French songwriter and poet, Alliance Française de Dhaka has arranged a three-week long musical exhibition which was launched on Wednesday.
Titled “Brassens ou la liberté (English: Brassens or Freedom),” the exhibition is organised with a triple focused approach combining science, learning and fun.
Brassens wrote and sang more than a hundred of his poems, as well as texts from many other famed authors such as Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine and Louis Aragon.
The exhibition’s sound content includes Brassens’ songs and interviews from radio archives, as well as audiovisual archives of himself and his unpublished texts. A selection of television archives will include one of Georges Brassens’ first time on television, his unlikely presence in an audience of soldiers for the programme Apostrophes, his conversation with Jean Ferrat about political commitment.
Brassens isn’t just the quintessential French singer – he’s the French singer who’s enjoyed the most success outside of France and whose songs have been covered most often by foreign musicians and translated into 30 languages.
The exhibition is open for all till July 22, 2015.
