Oh, I just loved this..
Erik Satie dance
Few composers deserve the phrase "ahead of his time" more than the French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925). Ideologically committed to a life of poverty, the composer removed his art from the unconscious confinements of class and the corruptible influences of popular acceptance. Though he did study briefly at the Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation, Satie was primarily self-taught, a luxury that freed him to explore ideas as he found them. As a result, he broke with convention to such an extent as to become the conceptual godfather of the twentieth century's Avant-Garde movement. In an environment where Impressionism and Wagnerism ruled, Satie injected his work with dry, ironic wit and deceptively simplistic progressions. Yet underneath his seemingly casual whimsy lie crisp conceptual models explored with such discipline as to become vaguely spiritual. "Trois Gymnopedies," one of his most well-known works, depicts ancient Greek gymnastic exercises. "Vexations," made famous by a John Cage performance, consists of 152 notes and is to be played 840 times -- a process which lasts over eighteen hours. Godfather of the Avant-Garde, indeed. ...http://www.rhapsody.com/eriksatie/more.html
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QUOTE (ras @ Nov 3 2007, 02:08 AM)
Oh, I just loved this..
Erik Satie dance
Few composers deserve the phrase "ahead of his time" more than the French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925). Ideologically committed to a life of poverty, the composer removed his art from the unconscious confinements of class and the corruptible influences of popular acceptance. Though he did study briefly at the Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation, Satie was primarily self-taught, a luxury that freed him to explore ideas as he found them. As a result, he broke with convention to such an extent as to become the conceptual godfather of the twentieth century's Avant-Garde movement. In an environment where Impressionism and Wagnerism ruled, Satie injected his work with dry, ironic wit and deceptively simplistic progressions. Yet underneath his seemingly casual whimsy lie crisp conceptual models explored with such discipline as to become vaguely spiritual. "Trois Gymnopedies," one of his most well-known works, depicts ancient Greek gymnastic exercises. "Vexations," made famous by a John Cage performance, consists of 152 notes and is to be played 840 times -- a process which lasts over eighteen hours. Godfather of the Avant-Garde, indeed. ...http://www.rhapsody.com/eriksatie/more.html
Erik Satie dance
Few composers deserve the phrase "ahead of his time" more than the French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925). Ideologically committed to a life of poverty, the composer removed his art from the unconscious confinements of class and the corruptible influences of popular acceptance. Though he did study briefly at the Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation, Satie was primarily self-taught, a luxury that freed him to explore ideas as he found them. As a result, he broke with convention to such an extent as to become the conceptual godfather of the twentieth century's Avant-Garde movement. In an environment where Impressionism and Wagnerism ruled, Satie injected his work with dry, ironic wit and deceptively simplistic progressions. Yet underneath his seemingly casual whimsy lie crisp conceptual models explored with such discipline as to become vaguely spiritual. "Trois Gymnopedies," one of his most well-known works, depicts ancient Greek gymnastic exercises. "Vexations," made famous by a John Cage performance, consists of 152 notes and is to be played 840 times -- a process which lasts over eighteen hours. Godfather of the Avant-Garde, indeed. ...http://www.rhapsody.com/eriksatie/more.html
Hi Ras,
if you can manage to get your hands on a copy of THIS, then you may find it to be most rewarding - replete with anecdotes, sketches, and writings on music, Religion, and other topics...great stuff.
QUOTE (Aran @ Nov 3 2007, 10:59 AM)
Hi Ras,
if you can manage to get your hands on a copy of THIS, then you may find it to be most rewarding - replete with anecdotes, sketches, and writings on music, Religion, and other topics...great stuff.
if you can manage to get your hands on a copy of THIS, then you may find it to be most rewarding - replete with anecdotes, sketches, and writings on music, Religion, and other topics...great stuff.
That sounds worth a look for true!
To my knowledge Gymnopedie #1 gets played quite a bit. But perhaps not often set to a Hindu folk type dance.
Though it seems a like fit, given the serenity of the piece.
(seated below l-r, ras -"cafe spiritualist" and Leo - "pointin' at some good booty")
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