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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

LEGENDS OF THE FALL

Legends Of The Fall





"Legends of the Fall" is a 1994 drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. Stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn. The film won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, The theme music was composed by James Roy Horner, 
James Horner

an American composer, orchestrator, and conductor of orchestral and film music.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Fall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horner
http://www.runmovies.eu/index.php?view=article&catid=35%3Ainterviews&id=306%3Ajames-horner-interview&option=com_content&Itemid=55



You can find sheet music here:


http://encyclopedia.mitrasites.com/legends-of-the-fall-sheet-music.html
Violin Sheet Music: 
http://myviolinsite.com/index.php/James-Horner-Legends-of-the-Fall-Violin-Sheet-Download-e-Chrom-547701022
Piano Sheet Music: 
http://www.take-a-piano-sheet-music-break.com/support-files/james_horner_legends_of_the_fall.pdf



Sunday, May 13, 2012

GYMNOPEDIE #1 ERIK SATIE


In his own words...

A true musician "grows in wisdom...
He is brilliant...
He learns to do without and is prepared to make great sacrifices...
enormous sacrifices... 
if I may say...
His energy is tremendous... 
In other words he is prepared for the struggle...
and with honesty he shall fight it... 
The performance of an Art demands complete self-denial... 
...It was not meant as a joke what I just said...
about sacrifices... 
The Music makes heavy demands upon those who want to devote themselves in it...
This is what I have wanted you to call your attention to... 
A true musician must subordinate himself to his Art; 
...he must place himself above human suffering; 
..he must draw courage from within
...and only from within." 

Erik Satie




Satie is pronounced: “sah-tee” 


“ GYMNOPEDIE” 
is a composed word which Satie derivated 
from two ancient Greek words:

"gymnasion"= school for gymnastics and, by extension, school for boys and girls

"paidos"= child, boy





SATIE QUOTE:  
"I have never written a note I didn't mean." 


SATIE QUOTE:  
"I was tired of being reproached with an ignorance of which I thought I must be guilty, since competent people pointed it out in my works."


SATIE QUOTE:  
“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”



SATIE QUOTE:  
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”


SATIE QUOTE:  
"My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera."


Noted for his early 20th century Parisian avant-garde, experimental style; 
eccentric and economical.

Satie was lauded as a forerunner of modern music; 
a precursor to later artistic movements 
such as minimalism, repetitive music, 
and the Theatre of the Absurd.
VIDEO OF GYMNOPEDIE #1 WITH THE ART OF RENE MAGRITTE


Erik Satie by Johanna Goodman
Drawing of Satie by Pablo Picasso


Self portrait by Satie









He was a French composer and pianist.


His mostly short piano works are

spare and unconventional.










He was the quintessential "artist's artist,"

a man who, as one critic wrote,

"had the no-doubt gratifying sensation of seeing

the times catch up with him."

This is the background music to the melody.
SATIE LINKS