CLAIRE DE LUNE
IN ART, LITERATURE, AND MUSIC
CLAIR DE LUNE ET FLOTILLE PECHE
(Moonlight and Fishing Boats)
Maximilien Luce Camaret, Artist
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| An example of impressionistic art. |
PIANIST VAN CLIBURN
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (1934-2013),
was an American pianist who achieved world-
wide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he
won the first quadrennial International
Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow,
at the height of our Cold War with the Soviet
Union (Russia).
Van Cliburn was a concert pianist. Here is a
video on how to prepare for this career.
CLAIR DE LUNE
From: Suite Bergamasque
3rd Movement
Van Cliburn, Piano
CLAIRE DE LUNE
A Famous Poem by Paul Verlaine
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| Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) |
Claire de Lune
Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masked and costumed figures go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of all-conquering love and careless fortune
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight.
The still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which gives the birds to dream in the trees
And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy,
The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.
http://classicpoetryaloud.wordpress.com/
Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masked and costumed figures go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of all-conquering love and careless fortune
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight.
The still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which gives the birds to dream in the trees
And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy,
The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.
http://classicpoetryaloud.wordpress.com/