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ustinov: everybody’s talkin’
…Peter Ustinov’s first three plays were produced while he was in military service during World War Two. House of Regents, a story of Russian exiles, reached the stage largely because James Agate, the waspish but influential critic of the Sunday … Continue reading
Mystery of the Masons: part I
A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Holden, Carlos Saura, Charles McGrath, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Jason Anderson, Joan Acocella, Jonathon Keats, Joseph Losey, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Megan Marshall, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Paj Sandhu, Peter Shaffer, Rodney Bolt, Samuel Morse, Sheila Hodges, Susan W. Bowen, Vittorio Storaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yves Klein
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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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MARCUSE: ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN= ONE DIMENSIONAL ART
Q. But what of art like that of Beckett, which can’t seem to formulate a positive vision of the future? Marcuse: I think it is precisely the total absence of all false hopes that brings out the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged art aesthetics, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert, Herbert Marcuse, Honore de Balzac, Karl Marx, Larry Hartwick, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcuse, Marcuse lyric Poetry after Auschwitz, Marxism, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Emmanuel, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Horowitz, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yoshiki Tajiri
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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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MORE THAN DANDY, RANDY and EYE CANDY
”Generous to a fault, Casanova plied his lovers with money and expensive gifts, whether or not he could afford it. And his generosity did not stop at the bedroom door. He understood the intricacies of the female orgasm, believed that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Ben Crawford, Ben Crawford The New York Times, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Count Waldstein, Denis Diderot, Fragonard, Franz Liszt, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Havelock Ellis, Haverlock Ellis, Heath Ledger, Hector Berlioz, Ian Kelly, Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Jean Laforgue, John Mallard William Turner, Judith Summers, Kitty Fisher, Lady Harrington, Laura Clifford, Lennard J. Davis, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marianne Faithfull, Niccolo Paganini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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