The Concert At Saint Roch Church In Paris Is Crowded And Refuses 15,000 People : The Concert Of Jazz And Sacred Music Given By Jean-Christian Michel And Kenny Clarke Was Such A Event, That The Public Had To Sit By Land ; The First Name Jean-Christian Fit a Bond For 15 Years ! Jazz at the Church.
REVOLUTION IN CHURCH CONCERTS
FIRST JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL's CHURCH CONCERT IN MARSEILLE ST VICTOR ABBEY Jean-Christian Michel has just ended his studies of medicine and surgery. But the passion for Music holds him and the clarinetist records his first three albums "Requiem", "Aranjuez" and "Sacred Music". His own compositions, his arrangement of Aranjuez's concerto and his transcriptions of Johann-Sebastian BACH's works to the clarinet immediately enjoy a brilliant success. A real craze grows which is quickly reflected in the sales of his discs and his concerts of "Jazz and sacred Music" - given at the time exclusively in churches : In Marseille St Victor's abbey is a full house. So much so thata second concert must be organized some days later... practically without any publicity ! JAZZ AT THE CHURCH : JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL JAZZ AND SACRED MUSIC
Gold Medal for Jean-Christian Michel at the Grenoble Winter Olympic Games (France) Two month later, Jean-Christian Michel triumphs in a concert at the church of St Louis in Grenoble, during the Winter Olympic Games (the famous Killy year !) - where the press awards him a gold medal Then it is the very first concert in Paris in the church of St Pierre de Chaillot . It becomes necessary to accept the evidence that on every occasion the same thing happens : Jean-Christian Michel always achieves a "full church". The crowds are there, en masse, in an indescribable bustle in the packed sanctuary. Then an intense flow of clarinet shakes the ancestral vaults of the sacred place and plunges the audience into a deep reverence. The audience is not that which is normally enjoyed by the church, but a multitude of teenagers, students and other people of any ages, any circles... This youth which launches in the street, its rebellious message and its appeal to life, invades churches once night has fallen to listen to the mysterious clarinetist. Beyond claims and refusals of accepted and compulsory values, a spiritual quest is outlined... SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON A real sociological phenomenon very quickly comes into being : The press entitles it : "Revolution in Sacred Music" and even, as in Amsterdam: "God in the Charts" ! "The clarinet of cathedrals" , "Jean-Christian Michel in the top three places the best disc sales" and also, The young clarinetist has just propelled Sacred music to the front page of current events ! It is henceforth the advent of a situation which is going to mark generations. In spite of debates of a rearguard of traditional "musicophiles", millions of people discover and admire this new sacred music, with the feeling of participating in a real revolution.. JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL'S CONCERT IN CHURCH ST ROCH WITH THE BLACK DRUMMER KENNY CLARKE
In November of the same year, Jean-Christian Michel gives a church concert at Saint Roch in Paris. Kenny Clarke, the brilliant drummer of MODERN JAZZ QUARTET, joins the group. The basilica is literally taken by assault.
With head between hands and eyes closed, the audience listens in an attitude of meditation to the Music of this man of whom they see only a shadow thrown onto the stained glass from the gallery. Because there is nothing to see - no spectacle - only silence and meditation. A young and living music has just hatched, a new type of spectacle has been born The media then becomes aware of the phenomenon. Seduced, they seize and echo him in the confusion of their presses and screens. PARIS MATCH : SAINT ROCH CHURCH IS FULL HOUSE
...Because there is nothing to see - no spectacle - only silence and meditation: a young and living spiritual music has just blossomed, a new concept of church music concert was born. To read the article ( In French) .
JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL BEFORE THEV BEATLES !
Jean-Christian Michel has been at the top of the charts in France for more than a year, notably with a sale of 33 rpm records, higher in France than that of the Beatles ! THE JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON During years, Jean-Christian Michel will pulverize the records of LP sales. For four years with an run which will even overtake, for a while, that of The Beatles, and will bring crowds of more than 50,000 people.
JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL MARKS GENERATIONS : EXPLOSION OF THE CURVE OF BIRTHS OF JEAN-CHRISTIAN FIRST NAMES
Birth curve first name "Jean-Christian". Note the considerable peak of the 1970s from 1968 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs and more than 5,000,000 albums sold will affirm "Phenomenon" Jean-Christian Michel.
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