Concerto for Peace: Is Le Canard enchaîné, a thorn in the side of the press, turning into a simple nitpicker for the orchestra's musicians?

For a few days, the 'Concerto for Peace', which will be given this Wednesday by the pianist and composer Omar Harfouch at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, is causing a lot of talk. More than a thousand people are expected, including many personalities from the world of culture, politics and the media. A concert during which Omar Harfouch, who will be accompanied by a symphony orchestra, intends, through his compositions, to send a message of peace, a cause that is close to his heart and that he defends tirelessly after a childhood spent in Lebanon under the bombs.

A noble fight which also earned Omar Harfouch to receive the encouragements de Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron.

However, it would strangely seem that the Peace is not unanimous among some media. While the symphony orchestra that will accompany Omar Harfouch has been working tirelessly for months on this concerto, a journalist from Chained duck, Emmanuel Savoye, suddenly seems to be taking a keen interest in the behind-the-scenes of this event, to the point of wanting to talk to the musicians late at night, and not necessarily in a friendly way...

This week, several musicians received a strange text message from this journalist from Duck, asking to exchange, sometimes after 22pm. In this seemingly very polite SMS, Emmanuel Savoye asks if the musicians have been hired for a tour or just the rehearsals of the 'Concerto pour la paix', before asking them about the dates of the other concerts. Questions whose interest for readers of a title like Chained Duck, but we quickly guess that they are only there to build confidence.

Finally, the journalist from Duck asks the musicians if the city of Béziers is financing this 'concerto', which is not the case, Omar Harfouch financing everything and not having asked for any public subsidy, but which strangely no one will acknowledge. Emmanuel Savoye then makes an allusion full of innuendos, indicating that he has read an article in the Monde on Omar Harfouch and specifying that he did not know "what to think of the character". The mask falls!

Obviously, The chained Duck does not care about the message of peace of this Concerto and tries, as Le Monde, to find a way at all costs to tarnish its image, even if it means destabilizing the musicians on a weekday evening of rehearsals.

Not very fair play on the part of this journalist, himself a pianist and composer, who seems, like Le Monde, wondering about the financing of this concert but boasting on his Linkedin profile, the height of the story, of “playing for luxury cruises”…

Le Chained Duck boasts of being a 'pain in the neck' of the press. Too bad he turns into a bad lice-catcher...