In premiere, the French jazz band OZMA is approaching the Great War by screening 400 images that retrace the events on the French and Balkan fronts, presenting them to the viewers in a present-day language.
Based on 11 musical sequences, combined with the simultaneous screening of époque photos each representing a different theme related to the period 1914-1918, the photo-concert conveys to the audience an exigent artistic attempt, perfectly mixing music and history.
The event is hosted by Green Hours jazz-café, on Thursday, 15 September, 2016, at 21.00, admission being free of charge.
This performance offers a unique opportunity, within an artistic frame, to screen images from the Balkan front, stretching from Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania to Moldova, and to rediscover the less known facets of a war that irreversibly marked the European continent destiny.
The photo-concert “Tracing the Balkan Frontline” was made by the French Embassy in Romania and by the
French Institute in Romania, due to the sponsorship granted by the programme
Mission du Centenaire and with the support of Romanian National History Museum, Compagnie Tangram, Spedidam and RFI România.
