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  • Workshop pour enfants
    « Musique et Médias »
    École Jean Jaurès
    Esch-sur-Alzette
    16 décembre 2011
    Ma chère Rani,
    à t’entendre chanter
    « Throw it away »
    d’Abbey Lincoln
    avec les enfants
    m’a fondu le cœur.
    Merci Rani,
    Nico et Philippe !
    Merci les enfants !
    ◊ UN COEUR EN OR ◊
    Photos: Noah Fohl © 2011
  • Concert de bienfaisance
    Brasserie Neumünster
    Luxembourg
    16 décembre 2011
    Sans se connaître avant,
    le trio Blue Mantra
    et André Mergenthaler
    ont réussi à séduire
    un public non averti.
    Quelle voix sublime !
    Quel jeu envoûtant
    de trois musiciens
    hors pair
    qui vous plongent tout droit
    dans l'univers du jazz !
    Un coup de cœur
    à savourer longtemps !
    ◊ BLUE MANTRA LIVE ◊
    Photos: Noah Fohl © 2011
  • Soirée privée
    Brasserie Neumünster
    Luxembourg
    18 décembre 2011
    Un deuxième concert
    et une redécouverte
    pleine d’émotions
    avec ce trio magique.
    Merci Rani, Nico et Philippe d’avoir fait ce long trajet
    depuis Pékin
    pour venir au Luxembourg
    fêter avec nous.
    Merci Daliah, Lara et Meena d’avoir contribué
    au succès d’une belle soirée
    en famille et entre amis.

    « Music is life
    … and ...
    We are living »
    Rani
    ◊ BLUE MANTRA LIVE ◊
    Photos: Isabella Finzi © 2011
  • Poetry Reading
    Act One
    Abbaye de Neumünster
    Luxembourg
    May 1, 2016
    My coming out as a poet
    with a last kiss
    was quite a weird thing.
    Thanks to Camus,
    who was backing me
    with his ghostly presence,
    I never felt quite alone
    dealing with the absurd
    and all these strangers
    on the way. The Last Kiss
    was my first step going public. Anyway, it was a real pleasure to feel André nearby,
    he gave me goosebumps
    with his strings
    and magic loops.
    This guy is just great!
    I’m looking forward
    to our next gig:
    Act Two is waiting for us
    in Bettembourg.
    ◊ THE LAST KISS ◊
    Photos: Noah Fohl © 2016
  • Poetry Reading
    Act Two
    Atelier Paradiso
    Bettembourg
    May 27, 2016
    Welcome to Paradise !
    This beautiful venue
    turned out to be
    a house full of ghosts
    and fading memories.
    Ed Webster couldn’t come
    and present his new book
    « The Taming Shroud »
    to the audience.
    So I had to stand in for him
    and do the job.
    Fortunately, André was there to carry me away to a world
    full of music and poetry.
    Judith and Mathieu
    who are running Paradise
    are just wonderful.
    I cherish this location,
    I love these people.
    Thank you !
    ◊ HOUSE OF GHOSTS ◊
    Photos: Léa Giordano / Ed Webster © 2016
  • Poetry Reading
    Act Three
    Al Kierch
    Diekirch
    June 10, 2016
    The Old Church was
    our next venue,
    a beautiful location,
    a deserted place,
    like a lost world:
    No Father, no Son,
    no Holy Spirit !
    Just rebel souls
    chasing shadows
    in a medieval setting
    listening to the poet’s lament sealed in black ink:
    “Being gone and free
    to reach out for the stars,
    spreading sweet perfume
    for the beloved ones,
    spoiling their dreams
    with liquid scenes,
    all dressed in black
    to open their hearts
    for their darkest nights.”
    ◊ BLACK INK ◊
    Photos: Noah Fohl © 2016
  • Atelier sur la poésie
    et la liberté d'expression
    dans le cadre du projet pédagogique "Meenungsfräiheet, wat ass dat?" initié par l'institutrice Delia Pifarotti
    et réalisé en collaboration
    avec les élèves de sa classe
    à l'école fondamentale du Brill
    Esch-sur-Alzette
    16 janvier 2017
    Merci Delia
    d'avoir eu la gentillesse
    de m'inviter à participer
    à ce beau projet
    pédagogique international
    sur la liberté d'expression,
    un sujet tellement important
    par les temps qui courent,
    un sujet d'actualité qui,
    en tant qu'homme des lettres,
    me tient très à coeur.
    Tu as le grand mérite
    de faire de ton beau métier
    une vocation.
    Tes élèves en profitent énormément, à tel point
    qu'ils te seront reconnaissants
    à tout jamais, j'en suis convaincu.
    Félicitations
    pour cette belle réussite!
    Et surtout, ne change pas!
    ◊ LA LIBERTÉ D'EXPRESSION ◊
    Photos: Delia Pifarotti / Alex Fohl © 2017
  • Art Workshop for students
    Miami University
    MUDEC
    Differdange
    February - May, 2017
    I would like to thank MUDEC
    for inviting me to the Chateau.
    ON THE WAY …
    from the Art of CREATION
    to the Creation of ART
    is about ancient and
    modern myths, featuring
    heroes and strangers
    on their way to the other side.
    They are to leave home
    and achieve
    what they are looking for:
    fame, fortune and success,
    a bit of love and happiness …
    But in the end, they turn out
    to be rebels of a lost cause,
    longing for the thin line
    between the sky and the sea,
    unreachable and yet
    ... so tempting.
    ◊ ON THE WAY ◊
    Photos: Maria Dos Santos / Alex Fohl / Emma Wott / Maddie Mitchell © 2017
  • Thank you Judith
    for joining me with your cello
    on St Paddy’s Book
    and Poetry Night.
    The pleasure was all mine !




    All English Bookstore
    Luxembourg
    March 17, 2017
    Special thanks to
    Laure Schreiner,
    the president of ALEA,
    the English Teachers’
    Network in Luxembourg,
    who, most kindly, invited me
    to St Paddy’s Book
    and Poetry Night.
    A kiss for you on Paddy’s Day
    is a proper way to let you know, what I would like to say:
    The House of Books is a tribute to great novels and authors
    who have inspired my work.
    We met them at some stage
    in the course of the night,
    which was about
    the power of words and
    the importance of books,
    which, at times, get lost
    and suffer disaster.
    ◊ THE HOUSE OF BOOKS ◊
    Photos: Daniel Barbosa / Alex Fohl © 2017
  • Cello Day
    Aalt Stadhaus
    Differdange
    25 mai 2017
    Cello Day, quelle belle réussite !
    Ce fut l'occasion de savourer
    une merveilleuse rencontre et
    de partager une réflexion qui pose une question fondamentale:
    qu’est-ce qui reste
    quand nous serons partis?
    Eh bien, il reste les souvenirs,
    les choses, les rêves ... le deuil.
    Mais, il reste aussi ciel et mer,
    et, l’horizon qui les sépare,
    - l’espoir... les vagues et
    les nuages, le soleil et la lune,
    nuit et jour, jusqu’à la fin
    des temps. Et il reste, bien sûr,
    la musique et la poésie,
    les sons et les mots
    qui s’entrecroisent pour défier
    le néant, une plume solitaire
    qui embrasse les cordes pour raconter une histoire d’amour.
    ◊ UNE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR ◊
    Photos: Mathieu Lebrun / Ed Webster © 2017
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
    daydreamers.
    nighthinkers.
    hardworkers.
    Open House Presentation
    1535° Creative Hub
    Differdange
    September 24, 2017
    Thank you Kumiyo
    for inviting me to this venue
    and sharing my work
    and ambition in your studio.
    Now, it is my turn
    to welcome you
    at TheStage of
    mystery and imagination,
    the Thread of Dreams,
    following the spider’s path
    and joining the ancients,
    (three in one):
    Odysseus, Sisyphus
    and Prometheus,
    fighting, struggling
    and lighting the fire,
    the passion to create …
    ◊ THE THREAD OF DREAMS ◊
    Photos: Isabella Finzi / Alex Fohl © 2017
  • WORLD BOOK DAY
    Multilingual Art Event
    featuring Alex Fohl (voice) and
    André Mergenthaler (cello).
    Kultursall Steinsel
    April 23, 2019
    Welcome to the Stage
    of Mystery and Imagination
    … sending sparks of genius
    out of nowhere
    lighting the fire of desire
    to fill our hearts
    and feed our dreams
    a wistful gathering of letters
    spreading into words
    wayfarers of a lost cause
    confined in a universe of books
    holding onto hope
    but suffering disaster
    time and time again
    piles of books
    turning into fireflies
    speaking to those
    who can listen and seize
    the essence of silence
    the hidden beauty
    of the written word.
    ◊ WORLD BOOK DAY ◊
    Photos: Paul and Alex Fohl © 2019

 

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