# Event Details

- **Event Name**: FREE: Ensemble Télémaque Sounds, Tears and Skins
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 12 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: SCHEDULE
Doors: 1:30 pm
Pre-concert talk: 2:00pm
Concert: 3:00pm

In 2018, Ensemble Télémaque created the October Lab, an international platform for musical creation that aims to produce and disseminate new works that transcend styles and trends. To this end, commissions are awarded to composers from around the world, built around continually renewed themes.

Sounds, Tears and Skins marks Ensemble Télémaque’s first collaboration with artists from the United States. Led by Raoul Lay, the ensemble is commissioning this year a new generation of American composers: David Dominique, Yu-Hui Chang, John Aylward, and Kate Soper, who are developing new musical works based on French and American texts that were written in, or left a significant imprint on, both Marseille, France and the United States.

The project also establishes a dialogue between four literary figures of the twentieth century: Claude McKay, Mary Jayne Gold, Franz Werfel, and Antonin Artaud — all of whom experienced various forms of discrimination and alienation linked to either their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or ideological and political convictions.

Through the 20th Century histories these literary figures trace, our project explores the notions of travel and migration of marginalized communities who are connected by their intersections with the U.S. and Marseille, France. Our project asks our commissioned composers to respond to the fractured moments in history that their authors experienced and the frightening similarities to our present day: comparisons that raise profound questions.

Our event will consist of four works in which spoken and sung voices will engage in dialogue with the instrumental writing, allowing the intertextuality of the diverse literary figures represented to resonate.

In spring 2026, Ensemble Télémaque will travel to the United States to perform the works of the four commissioned composers in concert, before welcoming them again in Marseille for new performances in autumn 2026.

This event is FREE

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ENSEMBLE TELEMAQUE
Charlotte Campana [flute]
Linda Amrani [clarinet]
Gérard Occello [trumpet]
Julia Sinoimeri [accordion]
Christian Bini [percussion]
Yann Le Roux-Sèdes [violin]
Jean-Florent Gabriel [cello]
Brigitte Peyré [soprano]
Agnès Audiffren [actress]
Raoul Lay [conductor]
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/florence/free-ensemble-télémaque-sounds-tears-and-skins/200029726041715
- **Event Categories**: art, music, entertainment, literary-art, concerts, sports, live-music, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://bombyx.live/events/ensemble-telemaque/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=florence-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Florence
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 130 Pine Street, Florence, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01062
- **lat**: 42.3314
- **long**: -72.67468
- **full address**: 130 Pine Street, Florence, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01062

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity (https://allevents.in/org/bombyx-center-for-arts-and-equity/18960025)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 12 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 130 Pine Street, Florence, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01062
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, music, entertainment, literary-art, concerts, sports, live-music, theatre
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about FREE: Ensemble Télémaque Sounds, Tears and Skins ?
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