Photographs

	« Real time is the moment at which the picture is taken » (les communiqués) Of course with speeding, pictures everywhere and excesses in everything, modern times have become pretentious times. However one isn’t going to put on a cloak and go against the tide just because there is a taste for…. excess. This is why I need to justify the inclusion of a few photos on this site, and for a reason that no one will dare to challenge: that they brighten up the severity of a computer screen with the feeling I have for these people – myself excepted - . These photos are as much a tribute to these people as I am conscious of the unfortunate restrictions that are imposed on me by the situation vis-à-vis all those that I love & admire.
		Louis Saguer will have been, with André Jouve my great inspiration. If I have a few pointers which have opened the way to composition, I have acquired them from him.
		This photo, taken at home in Marseille, in front of my Erard piano of the time (1960s) is a small tribute to him.
		Geneviève Teulières from Bordeaux will have been my greatest friend (yes, of course! a friendship between a man and a woman can exist and we have proved it) and one of my magnificent interpreters. I hope not to overstep my duty of discretion towards Henri Dutilleux by saying that he admired her and, in fact she had been one of the very first interpreters of his famous Strophes sur le nom de Sacher.
		To embrace a woman like Madeleine de Valmalète is a rare occasion. She was, and we still know that to this day, a very great pianist whom I had the pleasure of hearing when she was 85 or so in a florid programme of Liszt & Chopin, wrapped up in some Fauré & Debussy. An unforgettably strong and tender woman. Photograph by Alain Serra
		With the dazzling Isabel Garcisanz, whom I had known thanks to Louis Saguer. A voice, an artist and a woman. The Devil of Ramuz used to say: “with two, it is no longer happiness, but with three it is”.
		Roland Hayrabedian, whose career I accompanied during the last ten years of my life in Marseille. The man whose self control I have always admired, he worked in great depth with an impressive clear-sightedness and with a success of which I am particularly pleased.
		Alain Goudard, another companion in my musical life. The man who managed to get handicapped people to play in a ‘cheerful group’ called Les Percussions de Treffort and who continues with this deeply moving adventure. And as Alain Goudard can sing as well as make others sing, he really is an ‘homme de choeur’ (homme de coeur=man of the heart), which is his real portrait.
		This dear Maurice Ohana whom I met very late but with what an exchange. Photograph by Guy Vivien
		I even dare to include a photo of myself as soloist. But do not be mistaken. I am not pretending to read one of my scores for the gallery, no, I am really looking at a score by Annette Schlunz, who was accompanying Musicatreize on a trip to Dresden in the 80s. And Dresden also is very dear to me. Photograph by Matthias Creutziger
		Régis Campo in a dream. He passed his exam at the end of Georges Boeuf ‘s composition class at the CNR of Marseille whilst I was one of the judges. I cannot say that we don’t leave each other particularly when one knows the journey he has made since. Photograph by Claude Lorin
		Epidaurus! Where Andonis Vouyoucas who, with his wife, the actress Françoise Chatot, pursues with no let-up an extremely brave and intelligent project at the Gyptis theatre, gives the accolade just before a performance of Antigone in 1997.
		The poet of Nantes Roland Halbert (center) and the composer Jean-René Combes-Damiens (right), dear friends, the first shortly after the death of Maurice Ohana whose he was also a friend, the second met in Guéret where has been a composition concourse for piano, so at the beginning of 90. I like both alike for their works, of aristocratic personality, and I hope for them the echo that deserve.
		Barbizet Pierre. The man who knew everything! Even how to play the piano…..
		Pierre Ancelin, another gentleman and high calibre musician. An unforgettable meeting. One can recognise without difficulty Madeleine Milhaud & France Clidat.
		Sharing a happy moment with Bernard Tétu full of trust and friendship.
		Teresa Ida Blotta conducts the Artedie Ensemble founded by Patrice Fouillaud around his School of Music in Villeneuve-le-Roi. They are dear to myself because they symbolize, to my opinion, this sensible sharing among human beings in a society I dream since a long time.
		Thierry Bouchet, professor of music writing in the conservatory of Mâcon. He introduced me to the accordion! Great meeting, of a man and a musician able to measure everything and giving his friendship, with absolute sincerity!
		My wife and son, towards the end of the 1960s.
		1952, with my piano teacher, Yvonne Studer, who dared to make me play with her, Rachmaninoff’s 2^nd piano concerto, which is well known to be an insurmountable work (except by the great), which is untrue! In her memory.

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