Space of Freedom
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Space of Freedom was a concert performed by French musician Jean-Michel Jarre in Gdańsk Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland on August 26, 2005 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity trade union's founding. There was an audience of more than 100,000 people who bought tickets, as well as many others who observed the event from outside the shipyard, eg. from the high buildings as Zieleniak and the hills as Góra Gradowa.
Some celebrities as Lech Wałęsa -- the famous union leader who lead the strikes from 1980, as well as the current president of The City of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz were invited and present. Lech Wałęsa gave a speech about the meaning of Solidarity and the non-violent change of the political system, and congratulated Jean-Michel Jarre.
The concert has also been broadcasted by the Polish Television and Polish Radio, as well as the satellite television, gathering millions of audience.
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Track Listing
- Waiting for Cousteau (played before the concert)
- Shipyard Overture (Industrial Revolution)
- Oxygene 2 (with flute intro)
- Chopin Memories (L'orchestre Sous La Pluie)
- Aero
- Oxygene 4
- Souvenir of China
- Geometry of Love
- Equinoxe 4
- Space of Freedom (23rd March from Sessions 2000)
- Aerology
- Chronology 2 (with Theremin intro))
- Speech by Lech Wałęsa
- Jacek Kaczmarski "Mury" (Walls)
- Chronology 6
- Oxygene 8
- Light My Sky
- Acropolis (dedicated to Pope John Paul II)
- Rendez-Vous 2 (dedicated to Pope John Paul II)
- Vivaldi "Summer-Presto"
- The Emigrant (dedicated to Polonia)
- Oxygene 12
- Rendez-Vous 4
- Solidarność (Oxygene 13) (Dedicated to the workers at the shipyard)
- Aerology Remix (encore)
Musicians
- Jean-Michel Jarre (keyboards, mixing desk, computers, laser harp, vocals)
- Francis Rimbert (keyboards, electronic percussions)
- Claude Samard (keyboards, guitars, musical coordinator)
- Patrick Rondat (guitars)
- Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra
- Gdansk University Choir
