Igor Stravinksy in France - in the beginning of the 1900's
from Memories and Commentaries, page 151:
The first time I heard his [Erik Satie] Socrate, at a séance where he played it for a few of his friends, he turned around at the end and said, like the proprietor of a café or a store, ‘Voilà, messieurs, dames.’ I was deeply moved by the gravitas and dignity of his music for Socrates’ death, though the piece as a whole is rhythmically monotonous. I don’t think he knew much about instruments; I prefer Socrate as he played it on the piano to the orchestra score.
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Igor Stravinksy and Robert Craft, Memories and Commentaries (Queen Square, London, 2002), p. 151. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450303273564 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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Socrate
written by Erik Satie |
performed by Erik Satie |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the beginning of the 1900's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by verafonte on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:01:13 +0000
Approved on Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:21:32 +0100