Critical Affairs by Rorem Ned;

Author:Rorem, Ned;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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Around Satie’s Socrate

“… a freakish French musician, more inventor than creator, Erik Satie …”

—PAUL LANDORMY,

A History of Music.

“God will not be fooled; He hates literature. He loved the blue eyes of Satie.”

—JACQUES MARITAIN

WHAT used to be termed “modern” becomes, as we know, digestible to laymen when superimposed on other mediums. Audiences swallow without flinching music conjoined to film or ballet, music which in concert would send them off screaming. Yet the famous riots all seem to have dealt with visual or vocal music like Salomé or Pierrot Lunaire. Are there non-programmatic pieces that have impelled real scandals, other than scandals of boredom? Is it mischievous to suggest that the notorious rumpus at the première of Le Sacre du Printemps was provoked less by Stravinsky’s score than by Nijinsky’s terrible choreography?

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