01What pupils experience
The school performance is a condensed, playful version of the concert-show, made for pupils. Four musicians play live, narration tells the stories of the great swing-era trumpeters, and video projections bring those stories to the screen behind them.
It is a lively, accessible artistic encounter rather than a lesson in jazz history: music, humour and image doing the explaining together.
The workshop goes the other way — from watching to doing. Pupils discover the trumpet by trying it: breath, vibration, and how a sound is actually produced.
02What they watch, hear and do
- WatchVideo projections made for the show, telling the story of the trumpeters on a screen beside the band.
- HearA live quartet — trumpet, piano, double bass and drums — playing the music of the swing-era trumpeters.
- Follow the storyNarration: humour and stories that connect the players, their instrument and their time.
- TryIn the workshop, breath and lips: how a vibration becomes a note, learning by doing.
03How pupils take part
The workshop is fully participatory and needs no previous musical knowledge: pupils explore the trumpet through breath, vibration and sound production, step by step.
The offer is framed within artistic and cultural education — meeting a work, meeting an artist, and practising — so a class can experience the performance and then make a sound themselves.
04The artists
- Michel BonnetTrumpet, narration, artistic direction — conceived the show
- Philippe CarmentPiano
- Laurent VanhéeDouble bass
- Stéphane RogerDrums
- Francesca MusettiVideo creation and projections
- Franck GervaisStaging
Credits as published for the concert-show.
05Watch
06Age and audience
- Pupils
- The school version was designed for pupils; the age range is agreed with the teacher.
- No prior knowledge
- The workshop requires no previous musical knowledge.
- Framing
- Fits an artistic-and-cultural-education (EAC) project: meet a work, meet an artist, practise.
- Together or apart
- A class can have the performance, the workshop, or both.
07Formats, adapted to your group
School performance
45 minutes to 1 hour. A condensed, playful version with the four musicians and the video projections.
Trumpet workshop
45 minutes to 1 hour. A participatory exploration of the trumpet, breath and sound production, learning by doing.
08Practical
- Uses video projection alongside four live musicians.
- The performance and the workshop can be booked together or separately, and are shaped with the school.
- The concert-show is conceived by Michel Bonnet; Longplay presents the Education offer.
- When a public performance is booked, the school offer can often be scheduled the day before or after, subject to routing, timetable and local conditions.
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