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THE HOPE PRINCIPLE
The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Charles Darwin, Chaumariex Medusa, De Musset, Ernst Bloch, Frederic Chopin, French Romantic Art, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Robin Spencer, Romanticism Painting, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman
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ADRIFT ON THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA: APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
“The Raft of the Medusa,” while maintaining the symmetry of Poussin, changes painting once and for all. It is sculptural and architectural, but depicts no architecture. Two great overlapping triangles, suggesting both a ship’s sails and the ocean’s waves, define … Continue reading
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Tagged Adad Hannah, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Eugene Delacroix, French Romantic Painting, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Hu Jieming art, Lorenz Eitner, Robin Spencer, Romanticism, Victor Hugo, Willard Spiegelman
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Bach, Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, Byron Childe Harolde, Camille Moke, Courbet, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, J.H. Eliot, John William Waterhouse, Lord Byron, Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Pleyel Pianos, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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BE AWARE OF THOSE AUDITO-VISCERAL TYPES
“To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.” All his life Hector Berlioz tried to set the musical world straight and win acceptance … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Grevin, Berlioz, Classical Music France, Classical Music Romantic, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Etienne Carjat, Franz Liszt, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Grandville, Gustave Dore, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, Katherine Kolb, Kyle Gann, Louis Reybaud, Philip Gengembre Hubert, Richard Wagner, Virgil Thomson, Weber and Gluck, www.artsjournal.com
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