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2016-01-14 19:17:02
At Pierre Boulez’s funeral service: ‘Beauty will save the world’
photo (c) Marion Kalter/Lebrecht Music&Arts The memorial service for Pierre Boulez in Paris was attended this afternoon by the French prime minister Manuel Valls, the culture minister Fleur Pellerin and others from across the political spectrum. The musician Daniel Barenboim spoke of Boulez’s legacy as a man of the future interested in many things beyond music. photo: Suzanne Giroud Laurent Bayle, president of the Philharmonie de Paris, recalled Boulez’ creative achievements including Boulez’s lifelong disdain for “Les Invalides de la nostalgie”. The most moving and evocative homage was delivered ex tempore by the architect Renzo Piano, recalling Boulez’s lifelong search for beauty: “Beauty will save the world.”
2015-01-25 06:01:12
Today’s piece comes from an album that my friend Thom or I discovered in 1976, before I went to Paris. It appeared in a bin of a cut-out records in a store in our college town of Bloomington, Indiana. The album was entitled, “Antique Provencal Instruments-Trouvers and Troubadors.” The troubadours and trouveres were secular poets who arose in the south and north of France respectively starting in the 11th century. They were the first artists to write in the vernacular, that is the spoken language of the people instead of the official language of the educated, i.e., Latin. Their language eventually evolved into modern French, which is kind of interesting. You wonder if people were as upset about the “dumbing-down” of the Latin back then as people are today of things like Ebonics. Gautier, who lived from 1177-1236, was a monk who and wrote “Las, las…” which is a […]
2013-03-09 19:43:43
Colombian harpsichordist at the heart of the instrument's revivalFrom his debut recital at New York Town Hall in 1957 onwards, the Colombian harpsichordist Rafael Puyana, who has died aged 81, established himself as one of the most compelling musical personalities of his generation. His virtuosity, taut sense of rhythm and flair for instrumental colour marked him out as the heir of his teacher Wanda Landowska, the prime mover in the revival of the harpsichord at the start of the 20th century.She had commissioned an instrument to her own specification from the Paris piano-making firm of Pleyel, with a metal frame. It was equipped with pedals for rapid changes of registration, the type and number of strings plucked each time a key is depressed. Those strings ranged from 16-foot pitch – an octave below normal, 8-foot, pitch – to 4-foot pitch, an octave above. The Pleyel's resulting variety of tone-colours was […]
2013-01-17 06:01:39
Today’s piece comes from an album that my friend Thom or I discovered in 1976, before I went to Paris. It appeared in a bin of a cut-out records in a store in our college town of Bloomington, Indiana. The album was entitled, “Antique Provencal Instruments-Trouvers and Troubadors.” The troubadours and trouveres were secular poets who arose in the south and north of France respectively starting in the 11th century. They were the first artists to write in the vernacular, that is the spoken language of the people instead of the official language of the educated, i.e., Latin. Their language eventually evolved into modern French, which is kind of interesting. You wonder if people were as upset about the “dumbing-down” of the Latin back then as people are today of things like Ebonics. Gautier, who lived from 1177-1236, was a monk who and wrote “Las, las…” which is […]
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