The creation of Edgar Varèse’s « Ionisation » in Paris: a major piece for this first generation

Concert in Paris, on February 28th, 1968. The band plays « Ionisation » by Edgar Varèse at the Paris Law School, rue d’Assas. Among the game of shadows, we can see, from left to right: Gabriel Bouchet, Jean-Paul Finkbeiner, Jean Batigne, Georges Van Gucht, Detlef Kieffer, and finally, Claude Ricou. Photograph by © Jacques Aubert