Friday, August 23, 2019
Sustainable Music = Durable Life
Music Will Survive You
Music Never Ends
Revisited
Music is an adventure. It can choke your
life out of touch with the world. It can build around you and in your mind a
world that is so real you may even forget to breathe. And music is at its best
when voices tell a story haunted by the music itself. I even think that ballet
is even more powerful since it offers the audience the bodies of the dancers
for this audience to admire them, dream of them, desire them within the shrine
of the dramatic story told by the voices and wrapped up in the music itself.
And a silence comes in this sound world. The voices just suspend their gliding in the air and the dancers freeze in suspended movement. In such an instant of total suspension the mind, the soul, the senses, all are thrilled into admiration and ecstasy. And the silence comes to an end. Bliss comes back. Blessed be the music that never ends and only suspends its flight for one beat or half a beat.
In the following numerous pages, whose number grows every quarter or so and will go on growing forever, or at least till death us parts, the newer pages are often at the top and open the collection. And this time it is John Adams and his operas that give the first opening salvo. More will come later. I am on Stravinsky right now. That will come later and I guess I could many older episodes. And enjoy the numerous pictures of this Musical Heaven.
I can’t resist and give the reference to the book Ivan Eve and I have published together on Handel’s Agrippina and countertenors in opera. That should be the appetizer. Just enjoy it intensely.
Olliergues August 23, 2019
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
And a silence comes in this sound world. The voices just suspend their gliding in the air and the dancers freeze in suspended movement. In such an instant of total suspension the mind, the soul, the senses, all are thrilled into admiration and ecstasy. And the silence comes to an end. Bliss comes back. Blessed be the music that never ends and only suspends its flight for one beat or half a beat.
In the following numerous pages, whose number grows every quarter or so and will go on growing forever, or at least till death us parts, the newer pages are often at the top and open the collection. And this time it is John Adams and his operas that give the first opening salvo. More will come later. I am on Stravinsky right now. That will come later and I guess I could many older episodes. And enjoy the numerous pictures of this Musical Heaven.
I can’t resist and give the reference to the book Ivan Eve and I have published together on Handel’s Agrippina and countertenors in opera. That should be the appetizer. Just enjoy it intensely.
Olliergues August 23, 2019
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
TABLE OF CONTENTS
71 pages –
15,000 words
ONE
HANDEL'S AGRIPPINA MODERN INTERPRETATIONS AND THE ROLE OF COUNTERTENORS
[Format Kindle]
TWO
Beautiful Music is Spiritual and Prophetic
You cannot chain
John Adams to his chair 6 John ADAMS and the Opera
A retrospective of all operas composed and produced by
John Adams both on stage or on screen.
1- Monday, August 25, 2014, You must be a fool to
believe you are making history
JOHN ADAMS –
ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE – DENVER, COLORADO – MARIN ALSOP – COLORADO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA – COLORADO OPERA CHORUS – 2008 – NIXON
IN CHINA – 1987
2- Friday, August 29, 2014, It's a shame Mao is
depicted as an invalid sex-obsessed old
ranter and raver
JOHN ADAMS –
ALICE GOODMAN – PETER SELLARS – THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, AND BALLET – JOHN ADAMS conducting –
FEBRUARY 12, 2011 live capture – 2012 DVD BLU-RAY DISC – NIXON IN CHINA – ISBN 075597960884
3- Saturday, September 06, 2014, Chinese Communism has
deep roots in rural class struggle
XIE JIN – THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN – 1961
4- Saturday, September 06, 2014, This ballet was quite
ahead of its time and has become a Chinese classic
Wangchun Shi – Hongwei Dai –
THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN – 1970
5- Wednesday, September 24, 2014, Neither anti-Semitic nor
pro-Palestinian
JOHN ADAMS – THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER – ORCHESTRA OF
THE OPÉRA DE LYON – 1991 – ELEKTRA NONESUCH – 1992
6- Friday, September 26, 2014, This film betrays the
opera with the benediction of the composer
JOHN ADAMS – THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER
– LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – CONDUCTED BY JOHN ADAMS – DIRECTED BY
PENNY WOOLCOCK – 2003 – DVD
7- Thursday, August 28, 2014, A video opera that tells us a quite famous story: Jesus is being reborn
JOHN ADAMS –
KENT NAGANO – PETER SELLARS– DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER BERLIN – EL NINO – THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE
PARIS-CHÂTELET – PREMIERED DECEMBER 2000 – DVD 2001
8- Friday, August 22, 2014, 9/11 will always be
subliminally engraved in our memories, as long as the video of the event can be
seen
JOHN ADAMS
– NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC – LORIN MAAZEL, CONDUCTOR – ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS – 2002
9- Thursday,
August 21, 2014, A miracle of
religious and cultural mixing
JOHN ADAMS – A FLOWERING TREE
– LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – SCHOLA CANTORUM VENEZUELA –
2006
10- Friday, September 05, 2014, Most symbolical and
pessimistic tale about war and no peace
JOHN ADAMS – DOCTOR ATOMIC – SAN
FRANCISCO – OCTOBER 1st 2005 – DE NEDERLANDSE OPERA – 2007
11- Tuesday, August 05, 2014, This Passion is talking
to us in the modern world
JOHN ADAMS – THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY
– 2012 – GUSTAVO DUDAMEL – LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC & LOS ANGELES CHORALE –
2014
THREE-A
MUSIC – MUSICA – MUSIQUE – MUSIK
A universal
language
BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S
OPERAS
THREE-B
Benjamin BRITTEN @ Théâtres du Monde n° 27 (2017)
http://www.theatresdumonde.com/mn_revue.html
THREE-C
Britten's Operas Survival Psychopomp Death
0. Introduction p.
2
1. Paul Bunyan 1941-1976 p.
5
2. Peter Grimes 1945 p.
13
3. Rape of Lucretia 1946 p.
18
4. Albert Herring 1947 p.
23
5. Saint Nicolas 1948 p.
30
6. The Little Sweep 1949 p.
33
7. Billy Budd 1951 p.
39
8. Canticle II: Abraham
and Isaac 1952 p.
43
9. Gloriana 1953 p.
45
10. Turn of the Screw 1954 p.
51
11. Prince of Pagodas 1957 p.
74
12. Noye’s Fludde 1958 p.
75
13. Midsummer Night’s
Dream 1960 p.
79
14. War Requiem 1962 p.
92
15. Curlew River 1964 p.
104
16. Burning Fiery Furnace
1966 p.
109
17. The Golden Vanity 1966 p.
119
18. Prodigal Son 1968 p.
120
19. The Children’s Crusade
1969 p.
124
20. Owen Wingrave 1970 p.
126
21. Death in Venice 1973 p.
136
FOUR
Happy the one who can leave in due
time
FIVE
Yvan, Lionel, Stéphane Belmondo
Yusef Lateef
Un jazz de souffrance dans
un écrin méditerranéen (5 critiques en français)
Suffering, Morbid, Islamic,
Mediterranean Jazz (1 critique en anglais)
Intro in
English
6 recent CDs
Belmondo's, brothers, sons and father, and Yusef Lateef
&
1- LIONEL BELMONDO – L’HYMNE AU SOLEIL – CLAIR OBSCUR – 2011
2- LIONEL BELMONDO – HYMNE AU SOLEIL – CHŒUR NATIONAL DE LETTONIE –
CLAIRIÈRES DANS LE CIEL - 2011
3- LIONEL
BELMONDO TRIO – EUROPEAN STANDARDS - 2012
4- LIONEL &
STÉPHANE BELMONDO –YUSEF LATEEF – INFLUENCE - 2005
5- STEPHANE
BELMONDO – THE SAME AS IT NEVER WAS BEFORE - 2011
6- BELMONDO
FAMILY SEXTET – MEDITERRANEAN SOUND – 2013
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:21 PM 
