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Waiting for Christmas ( En attendant Noel )
Benoit di Sabatino 's cartoon serie ( 26 x 2'30" ) 1995
Production : Antefilms, France 3, INA
Musical publisher : Antefilms (Moonscoop)
Distribution : Taffy Entertainment / Moonscoop, TV France International
( piano, chamber orchestra and percussions )
The adventures of three facetious sprites, Pistou, Fifou, Rondo and Santa Claus.
I never imagined to compose music for cartoons. I had, as everyone, enjoyed with great pleasure the Walt Disney's works of art. After our successfull first collaboration on In the picture (Au coeur des Toiles) , Benoit di Sabatino suggests me moving on to this series. From a story imagined with Didier Lejeune, characters are drawn by Alexandre Sanders. As beginners, we leave then in the crazy adventure of a cartoon creation, but we are not afraid about this. It is a famous challenge to realize during a trimester because it's necessary to deliver the diffusion masters for the first day of December, the television series being propped up on the Christmas Calendar.
Following numerous nights locked on our computers screens, the TV series has been a success and diffused on TV France 3 for Christmas 1995. It gained ground on the whole world channels and networks.
Next year, with these same characters, we created the suite of the story, The Christmas pirates.
These very short pieces have been adapted in concert version by the composer himself. Any levels orchestras can have a series of comic works which can accompany funny character scenes. All the works being of a homogeneous invoice and organizes in modules, it is very easy to worry assemblies and dismantling according to the contingencies of a spectacle.