HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2005

April 3rd 2005, JM Jarre performed at a live TV concert in Copenhagen to mark the bicentennial of the birth of writer Hans Christian Andersen.


The opening show took place in Parken , a huge stadium, in front of 40 000 people. It was the biggest TV show in danish history, produced by Inital, considered one of the world's leading television production companies (responsible for producing e.g. The Brit Awards, The Three Tenors in Los Angeles and a wide variety of large-scale international television events). John Bishop produced the show.

It was the beginning of eight months of international festivities celebrating the birth of H.C. Andersen, the author of the "Little Mermaid" and other famous fairy tales .

For his Musical & Visual Interpretation of the Hans Christian Andersen tale 'THE SHADOW', we performed a 9 minute version of 'RENDEZ-VOUS 2', accompanied by the Choir Camerata (managed by Rasmus Thaarup and conducted by Michael Bojesen) and the Danish Radio Sinfonietta orchestra (managed by Nicholas Koch and conducted by David Firman from England), 2 Lasers and a Computer Generated Video on a Giant 312 Metres Squared Video Screen.
Francis Rimbert and me were heretoo, to backJM.


Other artists performing at the 'ONCE UPON A TIME' Concert included Daniel Bedingfield, Safri Duo, Renee Fleming, Morten Harket from A-HA, Olivia Newton-John, Ennio Marchetto, Tina Turner and Hayley Westenra.