Erik Satie Jack in the Box Video
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Erik Satie Darius Milhaud Latour 1900
Here's what Darius Milhaud said about the score, after the death of Satie: « Behind the piano, we found a notebook containing" Jack in the Box" and "Genevieve de Brabant", which Satie believed to have lost in the bus. » This is again the loyal Contamine de Latour who provides the libretto of this operetta published posthumously, relating the story of a heroin from the Middle Ages, married at 18 year-old to Siegfried de Trèves, sentenced to death for marital infidelity following a treacherous gossip. To deal with this topic, Satie decides to alternate small acts, in which the mystical, serious and sublimated style on one hand, and the light and choppy operetta style on the other hand succeed to each other. The opening chorus says with humour: « Nous sommes la foule compacte, qu'on met toujours au premier acte » (« We are the compact crowd, which is always in the first act », while Geneviève sings: « Innocente d'un crime que je n'ai pas commis, je succombe victime de mes vils ennemis » (« Innocente of a crime I did not commit, I succumb, victime, to my vile enemies ».
Erik Satie Latour Mady Mesplé Benoit Bertin Laforge Pierre Dervaux Bonnaud Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Orchestre Paris 1899 1900 1902 1920
Geneviève de Brabant, marionette opera in 3 acts for voices, chorus & piano (ca. 1900) Libretto: J.P. Contamine de Latour Orchestration: Roger Desormière Acte I: Choeur / Entrée des soldats Acte II: Entracte / Air de Geneviève / Sonnerie de cor / Entrée des soldats Acte III: Entracte / Choeur / Air de Golo / Entrée des soldats / Petit air de Geneviève / Choeur final Mady Mesplé / Geneviève Jean-Christophe Benoit / Golo Pierre Bertin / Récitant Choeur du Théâtre National de l'Opera de Paris Jean Laforge & Orchestre de Paris Pierre Dervaux From 1899 on Satie started making money as a cabaret pianist (mostly accompanying Vincent Hyspa, later also Paulette Darty), adapting over a hundred compositions of popular music for piano (or piano and voice), adding some of his own. The most popular of these were Je te veux (text by Henry Pacory), Tendrement (text by Vincent Hyspa), Poudre d'or (a waltz), La Diva de l'"Empire" (text by Dominique Bonnaud/Numa Blès), Le Picadilly (A March), Légende Californienne (text by Contamine de Latour lost, but the music later reappears in La Belle Excentrique), and many more (probably even more have been lost). In his later years Satie would reject all his cabaret music as vile and against his nature (although he revived some of the fun of it in his 1920 Belle excentrique), but for the time being, it was an income. Only a few compositions that Satie himself took seriously remain from this period: Jack-in-the-box, music to a pantomime by Jules Dépaquit (called a "clownerie" by Satie), Geneviève de Brabant, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others (mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time). Both Geneviève de Brabant and The Dreamy Fish have been analysed (e.g. by Ornella Volta) as containing elements of competition with Claude Debussy, of which Debussy was probably not aware (Satie not making this music public). Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, leading a few years later to 'who-was-precursor-to-whom' debates between the two composers (in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved). [classicalm.com] Art by Walter Goldfarb
Erik Satie Michel Legrand Comédie Italienne 1993
Available from Amazon: (http•••) ... and iTunes: (http•••) Excerpts from Michel Legrand playing Erik Satie's Piano Works, including "Gymnopédie", "Jack in the box - entr' acte", "Préludes Flasques", "Sports et Divertissements - La Comédie Italienne" and "Chapitres Tournés en Tous Sens". Recorded for Erato France, 1993.
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