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The Mysterious Kiss in the Eye: the French Avant-Garde in Music and Film

When
Saturday August 25, 2012 at 19:30
Where
High Cross House, Totnes
Tickets
£15, to include a glass of wine and cheese nibbles
Phone for tickets: 01803 842382
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  1. La Valse, transcribed for Piano - Maurice Ravel
  2. Entr'acte - Erik Satie
  3. La Belle excentrique - Erik Satie
  4. Sonata for Four Hands - Francis Poulenc
  5. 6 Épigraphes Antiques - Claude Debussy
  6. Le Boeuf sur le Toit Op 58 - Darius Milhaud

From Erik Satie’s four-hands piano suite, La belle excentrique, comes the Waltz of the Mysterious Kiss in the Eye. The title is typical of early 20th century French modernism. It revels in contradiction, in the absurd, in the irrational. This programme of music and film from the period brings alive the gently anti-establishment, politely iconoclastic tone of the Parisian avant-garde.

Paris in the early 20th century was one of the seminal sites of modernism. Artists, musicians, thinkers and the rest gathered in the neighbourhoods of Montmartre, the Left Bank and Montparnasse to explore and create the new world and debate its meanings. From this Bohemian milieu came some of the great names of 20th century modernism. Many (notably Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev and Buñuel) were not originally French, but all took to the typically French love of discussion, humour and anti-bourgeois provocation.

Elie Fruchter and Lona Kozik combine their pianism and their love of the piano, as well as their unashamed Francophilia, to create a compelling programme of French piano music including works by Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud and Maurice Ravel. This music will be played alongside a selection of well-known films from the period, including the work of René Clair, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Luis Buñuel.

Optional dress code - dress for Paris 1924!

Call 01803 842382 for details


Venue
High Cross House
Dartington Hall
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 6ED
England


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