New Year’s Eve at the Frivol’s Club

So as not to end up angry with 2020, we are making a table-rase: the Frivolités Parisiennes and their guests have taken over the stage of the Châtelet theater to invite you to what will be the last musical party of the year, a festive concert, a concert of light music from the 20s to 30s, with friends, without an audience. Yes, without an audience. But this evening will be a moment of sharing.

Song is a learned art. Writing a verse, writing a chorus, drawing a melody requires science, know-how, as well as inspiration. These notes – and these words – that must be engraved in the minds of their listeners, then go down to the street, run on all lips and tell, l’air de rien, precisely, a whole “air of time”. And our “airs du temps” are signed by the most beautiful songwriters in the history of popular song. They combine melodic grace and rhythm, fantasy and tenderness, dance and dashing harmony; the spirit of Paris marries elegance, sweetness and naughty provocation. Surrounded by Marie Perbost, Léaovanie Raud, Romain Dayez, and Sinan Bertrand, Les Frivolités take up – and sometimes even reinvent – those tunes from times we haven’t lived through, to make them blossom again with charm, energy, fun and delightful inventiveness. A musical gallery of colourful snapshots, these melodies, these songs from the cinema, musicals and magazines, tell a beautiful story. Ours.

Christophe Mirambeau and Pascal Neyron

Program :

Antoine Lefort Ouverture
Mihaly Eisemann Ça
Grace Leboy Ev’rybody Rag With Me
Vincent Scotto J’ai deux Amours
Vincent Youmans Tea For Two
Paul Misraki Laissez-vous faire
Robert Katscher/Jean Lenoir Chanson du nudisme / Les Femmes nues
Georges Van Parys Un petit quelque chose
Cole Porter Si vous aimez les poitrines
Raoul Moretti C’est bon
Paul Misraki Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux
Jean Lenoir Chaque étoile a son mystère
Marguerite Monnot Avec les anges
Loulou Gasté Elle fait ci, elle fait ça
Maurice Yvain Je chante la nuit
Popoff La Ballade du fumeur dans Paris
Moises Simons Adieu Paris
Offenbach / Michard Barcarolle – Beguine
Roland Seihes Rolli’s Rag