Belgian singer, songwriter, and actor Jacques Brel was one of the most important representatives of the classical French Chanson movement of the 1950s.
Although Brel endowed each original French word in this ballad with a poetry and sensualness that can hardly be conveyed in another language, other singers have covered the intense love song and musical plea numerous times, rendering it in more than 20 languages. It found its English-language version in the song by Rod McKuen, “If You Go Away,” while Marlene Dietrich recorded one of its German adaptations in 1963 as “Bitte geh nicht fort.”
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Stunning. Thank you.
Maurice Béjart created in Lausanne a beautiful choreography, honoring Jacques Brel. I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do, everytime I nurish my heart with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3LoYTiSW0
My contribution
https://youtu.be/gudJgbvBnmo
Hi Catherine and team,
Yes my country fellowman was and is a master of the core of human poetry but at the same a feroucious critic of hypocrisy and institutionalized lies.
For me the song “Jaures” is , for the time we are living in, of the utmost importance. It is a unique wake up song whilst being enormously poetic and razorsharp in its analysis of the forces that create war.