"C'est pas juste!" , concert announcement

Radio France organises a full day of microtonal music, "C'est pas juste!"
("That's unfair!"), on Saturday 17 February, as a part of the festival
Présences 2001.

At 4.30 pm
Luigi Rossi -Toccata settima (harpsichord in meantone)
György Ligeti - Passacaglia Ungherese (idem)
Louis Couperin Chaconne in D minor (idem)
Arab classical music, performed by Julien Jala Eddine Weiss, qanoun:
Suite en Maqam Houzam
Suite en Maqam Hibaz
Pascale Criton - Entre-deux, l'éternité, for Celtic harp, guitar (two
performers) and tape
Julien Jala Eddine Weiss - Le Voyage de Sheikh Mouhyeddine Ibn'Arabi
(qanoun)
François Couperin La Visionnaire L'attendrissante (harpsichord)

At 6 pm, three string quartets:

Alain Bancquart Respiration/Silence (world performance)
Giacinto Scelsi - Stringquartet Nr. 4
Brian Ferneyhough - Stringquartet Nr. 2

At 8 pm, spectral music:

Gérard Grisey Accords perdus
Tristan Murail - La Barque mystique
François Paris - L'Empreinte du cygne

I'll participate as a live-tuner in the work by Pascale Criton. The guitar
is tuned normally in 12-tet, but as the performance progresses I'll
gradually change the tuning of several strings while the guitarist keeps on
playing. The score indicates precise moments of precise pitches.

Julien Jala Eddine Weiss deserves special attention. He has done a terrific
job creating the Al-Kindi Ensemble in Aleppo in Northern Syria. This
ensemble plays Arab classical music in it's purest form,
preserving an original intonation, with no influence at all from the western
equal temperament. The Al-Kindi double CD The Aleppian Music Room is one of
the finest examples I know of traditional microtonality. Easy to find: Le
Chant du Monde, distributed by Harmonia Mundi. I feel very honoured to be in
the same concert as he is.