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Faces of classical music
2018-11-12 02:28:00
Claude Debussy: Les Trois Sonates (The Late Works) – Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Javier Perianes, Xavier de Maistre, Antoine Tamestit, Magali Mosnier, Tanguy de Williencourt (Audio video)
[…] we renounce like ungrateful children..." Despite his creative block, Debussy had contributed to the "war effort" since the beginning of hostilities by composing, in November 1914, a Berceuse héroïque (Heroic lullaby) for piano at the request of the English novelist Hall Caine. This was intended for a volume in tribute to the King of the Belgians Albert I, King Albert's Book, published by the Daily Telegraph, which assembled occasional works by writers such as Henri Bergson, Anatole France, John Galsworthy and Maurice Maeterlinck and composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns, André Messager, Ignaz Paderewski, Pietro Mascagni and Edward Elgar. As Debussy underlined in one of his letters, "This Berceuse is melancholic, discreet; the Brabançonne [the Belgian national anthem] is not bellowed out in the piece. It is a simple calling card, with no other pretensions than to pay tribute to so much patient suffering".He repeated the experience in December 1915 with […]
2018-03-18 17:36:43
Tradition and innovation: I chat to Hugo Ticciati
[…] sees all art and culture as connected and so referencing philosophy is very relevant, and music can be a way of teaching us how to be and how to live. He comments that for the Greeks, a musician was a someone who was a cultured, responsible member of society. So for musicians today the task is to be more than just entertainment, to develop both themselves and the audience. And he mentions the philosopher Henri Bergson whose work is quoted in the CD booklet, using melody as an exemplar of how to live.Having spent hours talking about different philosophies, Hugo hopes some of these ideas are reflected in the music on the CD. One strand is the sense duality, the way we experience the now, derived from Indian philosophy. And Hugo refers to the Beatles' song Within you, without you which is included on the disc, and which explores this […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-03-03 23:38:59
Why (Almost) All Of Us Laugh
"Over a century ago, Henri Bergson, one of the first modern philosophers to think deeply on the subject, pointed out that laughter is an “inherently social” activity, and in recent decades, academics have found data to support this theory."
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-02-17 20:00:00
Where Physics Crossed Into Metaphysics (Was Einstein Wrong?)
Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at a famous debate between Albert Einstein and philosopher Henri Bergson in which Einstein declared, “The time of the philosophers does not exist.”
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