From Duke Ellington to Samuel Barber, from Billy Joel to Steve Reich, this programme is a choral panorama full of energy, poetry and swing. The Ensemble Aedes’ renditions of great hits from West Side Story and Mary Poppins are made even greater by Jean-Michel Fournereau’s staging.

Leonard Bernstein, Warm up (extract from Mass)
Leonard Bernstein, The Lark
Samuel Barber, Sure on this shining night, Heaven-Haven, Under the willow tree
Morten Lauridsen, Sure on this shining night
Georges Gershwin, 3 Préludes (piano solo)
Steve Reich, Clapping music
Sherman Brothers, Mary Poppins (Chim-Chim Cher-ee / A spoonful of sugar / Feed the birds / Supercalifragilisticexplialidocious)
Moses Hogan, The Battle of Jericho
John Cage, Story
Eric Whitacre, A boy and a girl
Leonard Bernstein, Extraits de West Side Story (America / Officer Krupke / Something’s coming / Tonight)
Billy Joel (arr. Bob Chilcott), And so it goes
Jerome Kern (arr. Ward Swingle), All the things you are
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills (arr. Deke Sharon), It don’t mean a thing

Ensemble Aedes
Yoan Héreau : piano
Mathieu Romano : conductor
Jean-Michel Fournereau : staging
Gilles Fournereau : lighting