{"id":27822,"date":"2014-04-23T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazzkaar.ee\/review-listening-to-portraits\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T03:00:08","slug":"review-listening-to-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzkaar.ee\/en\/review-listening-to-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Listening to portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"image":false,"author":"Monika Erdman","content":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Theatre NO99 opened its doors on a warm spring night for piano jazz lovers. Stephan Oliva is French pianist and composer. That night he presented extremely refined musical portrait of Jean-Luc Godard and also his own compositions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The concert started with Michel Legrand\u2019s soundtrack for \u201cMy life to live\u201d (Vivre sa vie). Quiet and melancholic in the beginning, it started to flow with delicate blues notes and deep low bass lines. The melody was smoothly strengthening in pianist\u2019s hands and eventually blew up with saturated passages and dissonance intervals. Over and over again the sentimental melody tried to break through the wall of loud terrifying sound, but always unsuccessfully. Like in the song, \u201c<em><span style=\"font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">love that can live yet never dies<\/span><\/em><span class=\"st\">\u201d. The piece finished unexpectedly and Oliva smiled shyly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"st\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"st\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAlphaville\u201d is quite strange and controversial movie, and so was the piece \u201cAlphaville suite\u201d by Paul Misraki. Avant-garde coloured piece, disquieting and fussy; it subtly grew into beautiful waltz. Oliva played it gently and emotionally. The rich palette of feelings<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> was hard to comprehend &#8211; to cry and to dance at the same time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s wife\u2019s elegant portrait unfolded in Michel Legrand\u2019s pieces \u201cA woman is a woman\u201d (Une femme est une femme) and \u201cBand of outsiders\u201d (Bande \u00e0 part). It was equally easy and sophisticated. You could imagine a fully lived life, see a gorgeous woman smiling and observing her inner world, not only bright and happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">An exciting piece \u201cBreathless\u201d (\u00c0 bout de souffle) sounded like a struggle between light and dark, love and hate or other opposites. At first interrupting and then becoming one. Dark, messy and disharmonic lines fought fragile tender melody. We\u2019d already heard something like that at the beginning of the concert. It was what Oliva probably tried to tell about Godard and his art. About the infinite, endless fight of opposites that cannot exist without each other and are nothing but parts of indivisible whole. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Like a good book that you don\u2019t want to know how many pages are left, a good concert seems to last only few minutes. After performing his own compositions, Oliva finished. The audience had no words, just a tsunami of emotions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Stephan Oliva <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">April 21 at Theatre NO99<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Stephan Oliva (piano)<\/span><\/p>\n"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Listening to portraits - Festival Jazzkaar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzkaar.ee\/en\/review-listening-to-portraits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review: Listening to portraits - 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