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2019-01-08 00:00:00
Henri Sauguet - Les Caprices de Marianne
[…] jeune musique française". Among compositions by all three local exponents of 'the young French music' were Sauguet's four-handed Danse nègre and his Pastorale pour piano.Sauguet's correspondence with Milhaud led to the composer asking to see some of his works. He wrote a piano suite called Trois Françaises (Three Frenchwomen) which so impressed Milhaud that he encouraged the young man to move to Paris. Arriving in October 1921, he found work as a secretary at the Guimet Museum. For some six years he studied composition with Charles Koechlin, whom he credits with helping him understand music within its own context and find his own voice. In 1923, together with three other admirers of Satie's music (Henri Clicquot-Pleyell, Roger Désormière, Maxime Jacob), Sauguet formed the 'School of Arcueil', named after the location of Satie's home. With his support, they had their first concert on 25 October 1923 at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. In 1924 […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-04-04 12:31:40
This Little-Known Paris Museum Doubled Attendance In Four Years
"The very day [in 2013] that Sophie Makariou took over as the director of Paris's Musée Guimet, she met a young Indian doctor on a train. 'I would love to see some Indian art while I am here,' he said. 'Go to the Guimet,' responded Makariou, to which he replied: What is that?' The fact […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-02-28 21:29:19
Musee d'Orsay Chooses New Director
"Lawrence Des Cars’s appointment comes after a lengthy process, which saw three other candidates reaching the final selection stages: Dominique de Font-Réaulx, director of Paris’ Delacroix Museum; Michel Draguet, director of the Royal Museums of Belgium; and Sylvain Amic, director of the Musée de Rouen. Le Monde reports that des Cars’s appointment is also significant in that she’s only the second woman curator to head a major Paris museum, alongside Sophie Makariou at the Musée Guimet."
2012-01-21 16:16:00
The sound is just following its own nature
[…] to a certain symphonic ringtone. It comes from Achaan Chah who was an important Buddhist teacher and founded two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition. This Tradition is worth exploring for those who are attracted by the common sense approach of Buddhism but find Zen too austere and Tibetan Buddhism too arcane. To keep the playing field level Zen provides the graphic in the form of a photo I took recently in the Musée Guimet, Paris, while Tibetan Buddhism supplies the soundtrack in the form of Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding for chamber orchestra. This is one of the works on the CD of his music by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Sympony Orchestra titled Body Mandala - more on that contemporary classic here. * Quotation is from A Still Forest Pool, the Insightful Meditation of Achaan Chah edited by Jack Kornfield and Paul Brieter. This […]
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