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karl marx: the romantic idealist
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …It was to this generation that Karl Marx, born in 1818, belonged. There is no cause for surprise that he became a revolutionary; it would almost … Continue reading
A springtime massacre: hailing the god of chaos
Can pagans on a stage make pagans of the viewers? What happens when a percussive and intense style is matched with irregular rhythms and instruments pushed to the brink of their capabilities? Igor Stravinky’s revival of an ancient blood rite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Beethoven, edward green, Eli Siegel, Gertrude Stein, igor stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, Nijinsky, robert christgau, Sergei Diaghliev, Stravinsky, valentine gross hugo
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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria
In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Alma Schindler, Angela Dilkey, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bruce Beresford, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, Franz Werfel, Friederich Austerlitz, George Beard, Gustav Klimdt, Joan Arehart-Treichel, Josef Breuer, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Klimdt, Linda Simon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Nordau, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Gay, Ray Monk, Robert S. Wistrich, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Tom Lehrer, Wilhelm Fliess
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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schnitzler, Beethoven, Elfriede Jelinek, Giacomo Puccini, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Lacan, John Champagne, Jules Wellesley, Karl Lueger, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Leonard Cohen, Maria Van Dijk, Michael Haneke, Richard Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, Byron, Charles Darwin, Clemens Bretano, Coleridge, David Hockney, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, Keats, Lord Byron, Margaret Hunt, Peter Webb, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, W.H. Auden, Walt Disney, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alessandro Botticelli, Arthur Koestler, Avi Solomon, Beethoven, Brian Eno, Carl Jung, David Appelbaum, Erich Maria Rilke, Franz Liszt, Fritz Peters, G.I. Gurdjieff, Geoff Olson, George L. Beke, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Henry Miller, Ilya Kotz, Jean Toomer, John Allen Watts, Josef Danhauser, Katherine Mansfield, Kathryn Hulme, Keith Jarrett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Byron, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Orage, Otto Gonzalez, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Robert Fripp, Sandro Botticelli, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Victor Hugo, William Patrick Patterson
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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THE ROMANTIC AGONY: FATAL ATTRACTION
It was while he was still a student that Berlioz discovered Shakespeare; ”Shakespeare and Goethe! The mute witness of my torments, who have explained my whole life to me”, and he simulataneously fell in love with the blond Irish actress … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Beethoven, Children of paradise, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, Hugh MacDonald, jacques Prevert, Marcel Carne, Mario Praz, mario Praz The Romantic Agony, Marquis de Sade, Mick Jagger, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Peter Cowie, The Rolling Stones, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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MAESTRO OF LOVE & BETRAYAL
”Nothing in my artistic career hurt me more deeply than this unexpected indifference. It was a painful discovery, but it was at least salutary, in that I learnt from it, and from then on I have not gambled even twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Benvenuto Cellini, Dante Alighieri, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, George Bernard Shaw, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Wernicke, Julio de Diego, Martin Cooper, Paul Gottfried, Richard Wagner, Shostrakovich, Sylvain Cambreling, The Aenid, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, www.brusselsjournal.com, www.salomon.org.uk
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