“We the Orchestra” made the Family Cinema vibrate

A concert film linked the documentary by Philippe Béziat and the great Lyre orchestra.

Director Philippe Béziat filmed the musicians of the Orchester de Paris for a year. His documentary succeeds in showing how a collective in the service of music is formed. The Grand Lyre Orchestra demonstrated this, once again, on Saturday June 6 at the Family Cinema in Chalindrey.

Trumpeters, oboists, violinists or double bassists: so many different personalities, lives that intersect, divergent opinions on the ideal tempo or the right volume of fortissimo. How to play together? How do so many musicians coalesce into a single entity? This is what the documentary “Nous l’Orchestre†, by Philippe Béziat, wants to capture, in theaters since April 22.

Solène Chambellant, production manager at Chien à plumes (CAP) introduced this concert film in front of around fifty people. At his side, Camille Voulana, communications manager for Le Chien, and Sylvie Liegey, president of both the CAP and the Family Cinema.

“Our idea is to link a film that has to do with music and that fits perfectly with what is being offered this afternoon,” judged those responsible. They shared this concert film with their usual partners, the musicians of La Lyre and their conductor, Marie-Christine Remongin.

“We the Orchestra† immerses its spectators not only in the pit, but in the place of one or the other of the musicians. A work of art: 90 microphones, to allow the entire orchestra to be heard when the camera moves away, and only a few musicians when it approaches them.

This magic, which the film succeeds in capturing, is an unshakeable “desire to play together”, according to the president of Lyre, Michel Gérard.

Make an orchestra, make a society, to serve the music! A motto amply taken up by the partner trio of this concert film with, after the screening, seven pieces (most of the music from the films Pocahontas, Believe, The Doors of the Penitentiary) in a cozy and somewhat deaf cinema room. “You don’t necessarily hear all the music stands and you have to follow your score and the conductor carefully,” confirmed Michel Gérard, also a performer.

Five people from the audience then came and sat among the musicians to listen. A few others, including Romane, a 14-year-old percussionist, conducted the orchestra.

Two medals were awarded

To close the meeting, Michel Gérard and Marie-Christine Remongin offered the musicians a drink of friendship. Michel Gérard received, in April at the sub-prefecture, the bronze medal for associative commitment. A distinction which rewards 34 years within Lyre, including 16 as president. At her side, Marie-Christine Remongin is the recipient of the work medal at the City of Chalindrey for 35 years spent at the management of Lyre.