1 January 2008
“A “Music and Poetry” performance on 30 March took place during a conference in honour of Alain Connes's 60th birthday. A series of poems were recited in the Marilyn and James Simons Conference Centre by Nicole Barrière accompanied at the piano by Lydie Solomon.
Works by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann were the musical accompaniment to the presentation of a series of poems by René Char, Andrée Chedid, Nicole Barrière, Jules Supervielle, Saint-John Perse, Jean Tardieu and Yves Bonnefoy.”
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques – Annual report 2007, 2008-01-01 (p. 114)