Listening to Philip Glass?s Symphony No. 4 Heroes, re-orchestrating David Bowie?s album of the same name, gave rise to the idea of revisiting the music of the Thin White Duke.
The inspiration came after an exciting and original experiment with Frank Zappa?s repertoire with the H-ékosi Wind Band.
But this time, the ambition goes even further: this is not just a concert, but a real show dedicated to David Bowie, his multiple characters, his metamorphoses, his madness, that of his half-brother, and the excesses shared with his wild double, Iggy Pop.
In his fifty-year career, David Bowie has never stopped reinventing himself, transforming his music to suit the times, and collaborating with several generations of artists, from London to New York, from Los Angeles to Berlin.
To mark the 10th anniversary of his death, the H-ékosi Wind Band Academy, a 30-strong wind ensemble from Hérouville, revisits the albums that built his legend:
from the flamboyant glam-rock of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
to the crepuscular Blackstar,
diamond Dogs and Heroes?
Fred FOURNIER
