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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014

QUOTE:
“Music is meaningless noise, until it touches a receiving mind.”
AUTHOR: Paul Hindemith
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art only has meaning for those who bother to spend the time to really think 
  about what the artist is trying to convey.”










COMPOSER
DEBUSSY

LA MER
Discovering the Masterpieces
of Classical Music
Eugène Delacroix: The Sea at Dieppe

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Claude Monet: Rock Arch West of Etretat
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LA MER
Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
In Three Movements
1. "De l'aube à midi sur la mer"
(from dawn to midday on the sea)
2. "Jeux de vagues"
(Play of the Waves)
3. "Dialogue du vent et de la mer"
(Dialogue of the wind and the sea)
Claude Monet: Shadows On The Sea At Pourville
DISCUSSION
ABOUT THE PIECE
Andris Nelsons discusses La Mer
With David Gregory, Violinist
Eugene Boudin: The Sea at Douarnenez, 1897
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CONNECTION WITH ART
Debussy's Wave:
Debussy, Hokusai and La Mer
By Dr Mary Breatnach
Katsushika Hokusai: Great Wave Off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai: Ocean Waves
LA MER ANALYSIS

Seurat: Le Bec du Hoc à Grandcamp
J.M.W. Turner: Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor
LA MER ANALYSIS
Color-Coded

Thomas Moran: Sunset in Mid-Ocean
Thomas Moran: Much Resounding Sea, 1884
ROCK ARRANGEMENT
An experimental Arrangement
Created by Ed Chang
Vincent Van Gogh: Seascape at Saintes-Maries 2
Vincent Van Gogh: Seascape Near Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, 1888
LA MER
With Art by Paul Signac
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Cleveland Orchestra
Paul Signac
Paul Signac, 1923

painted a series of five paintings
in Concarneau, titling them with musical
terms. He saw artists as composers.
Pure sounds heard in a symphony are
comparable to the pure colors in a painting.
Signac wrote:
"the painter has played on his keyboard of
colors in the same way that a composer
handles the diverse instruments to
orchestrate a symphony."
Signac likened each color to an individual
musical note. Each of the five paintings
could be considered a movement within
the symphony he called La Mer.

LA MER
Art by Paul Signac
Concarneau: Sardine Boat and the Old City, Opus 218 (Scherzo)

Concarneau: Morning Calm, Opus 219 (Larghetto)
Concarneau: Evening Calm, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso)
Concarneau, Opus 221 (Adagio)
Regatta in Concarneau - Paul Signac
Regatta in Concarneau, Opus 222 (Presto Finale)
LA MER
Autograph Score
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
Montreal Symphony Orchestra


POEMS

BY OSCAR WILDE
A white mist drifts across the shrouds (1),
A wild moon in the wintry sky
Gleams like an angry lion’s eye
Out of a mane of tawny clouds.

The muffled steersman at the wheel
Is but a shadow in the gloom;—
And in the throbbing engine-room
Leap the long rods of polished steel,

The shattered storm has left its trace
Upon this huge and heaving dome,
For the thin threads of yellow foam
Float on the waves like ravelled lace.
Oscar Wilde, 1887


TSUNAMI POEM