It's been a long time since your hosts have travelled to France! This week we cover LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (1960) aka EYES WITHOUT A FACE from director Georges Franju!

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ok. so out of all Gluck's work, i think the very best start is Orfeo ed Euridice, which was his first reform opera. The thing with Gluck is he was trying to reform from the Baroque era to the Classical era, so you can really see how the opera struggles to emerge from itself, i guess? As a result the music is Clsssical but serves Baroque sensibilities, and the characters are halfway between real people and representative of humanity or ideals as a whole.

Anyway, I always point to the Irish National Opera's production as THE BEST Orfeo ed Euridice I've seen so far (see the video below, lmk if you want a copy)

Almost all productions today are a mix of the Paris (french, Orfeo as a tenor) and Vienna (italian, Orfeo as contralto/countertenor) versions. Orfeo ed Euridice's story is at its core this overarching theme of love and it's able to bypass a lot of conventional gender roles because of how it's been changed and adapted throughout the opera's creation.

Other good productions (not necessarily fave takes) include the ROH/La Scala production with Florez, the Theatre des Champs Elysees with John Eliot Gardiner (both Paris versions), and the one with Jaroussky and Diego Fasolis (Vienna). I have a more extensive list here.

Once you're done with Orfeo ed Euridice, I'd recommend Alceste (Vienna version ONLY). It's also a reform opera and you start seeing how Gluck's getting the hang of the Classical era style of opera with focus on the story and characters over embellishments. It's dreary and dragging but it's worth it. Also you can hear how some orchestration influences Mozart later on. The only production with the Vienna version is the one by Teatro La Fenice.

Another great one is Iphigénie en Tauride/Iphigenie auf Tauris (though i'm not sure if it was still considered reform) and Echo et Narcisse.

Ultimately, I love Gluck's reform opera because of how much love is in them (i mean. Orfeo ed Euridice has this chorus called trionfi amore. literally love wins.). His music has its cracks and I've heard the criticism that he gives lazy happy endings but I think its very human and really shows how we got to Mozart from Gluck's reforms.

28 May 2023

On Parade

Anzac Parade 28 May 2023

If there’s one thing every capital city needs, it’s a big ceremonial thoroughfare. Washington has the National Mall, London has the Mall, Paris has the Champs Elysees, and even humble Canberra has Anzac Parade. In times of less construction, one could stand on the steps of the War Memorial and have an unobstructed view of the long avenue, and then, across Lake Burley Griffin, to both the Old and New Parliament Houses.

It’s perhaps odd to consider that nearly none of this was intentional. Anzac Parade was part of Walter Burley Griffin’s plan for Canberra, which I’ll link to here - Griffin, it seemed, really liked his big avenues, and you can see most of the modern Canberra roads there. Looking at drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin, which are in Nicholas Brown’s History of Canberra, there doesn’t really seem to be anything in the spot where the memorial is, and a bizarre domed building that looks like a cross between the US Capitol and the Angkor Wat stands on Capital Hill. Even Old Parliament House was only intended to be temporary. Of course, the First World War intervened, and thus the War Memorial came to sit where it does now at the base of Mount Ainslie, while the permanent parliament house was not constructed until the 1980s, and certainly looks like the product of its decade.

Just as Anzac came to exist, so did Anzac Parade. Like much of Burley Griffin’s plan, it took until later to come into fruition - it was opened in 1965. Over time, it came to be lined with individual war memorials to specific services, battles or wars. They run the gauntlet from the traditional statuary of the Army Memorial to the modern, cubical Peacekeepers Memorial; from the traditional heroic imagery of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial to the sombre, ambiguous concrete monoliths that form the Vietnam War Memorial.

My uncle has been in town recently, so I took him up and down Anzac Parade to look at the array of memorials. It was a good opportunity to reorientate myself with them - and it’s a fairly good walk besides.

We started on the left side of the road (facing towards Mount Ainslie.) At the start of Anzac Parade there are two giant basket handles on either side of the road, forming the Australia-New Zealand Memorial. It’s perhaps fitting that we start with the oft-forgotten ‘NZ’ part of ANZAC; a healthy reminder that Gallipoli and the Western Front are just as important in Wellington as they are here. Moving along, one passes the Boer War Memorial. This is a very recent addition indeed - it was well into the 21st century before the South African War had its memorial in the national capital. Past that is the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial.

I’m going to go a little deeper into this one, as there’s not much scope for the discussion of the Palestine campaign anywhere else. The Desert Mounted Corps, initially the Desert Column, operated in the Sinai Desert, Palestine and Syria between December 1916 and the end of the war, fighting against the Ottoman Empire. Initially the force was commanded by General Chetwode, but in mid-1917 General Harry Chauvel took command, the first Australian to command a corps. (Lawrence of Arabia, apparently, was not a big fan of him.) The Corps consisted of three divisions - two ANZAC and one British. An additional British division and an Indian brigade were added in mid-1918, and I believe there were detachments of French Colonial troops, although I can’t seem to confirm this right now. I tell you this because you would not know from looking at the memorial, which is entirely an Australian and New Zealand affair. Grumbling about the omitting of nationalities aside, a big reason the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial is of particular interest is because it’s actually a replica. The original was erected at Port Said in Egypt after the war, but during the Suez Crisis, it was targeted and destroyed by Egyptian nationalists as a symbol of the British Empire. The destruction of statutory, despite what some might say, is by no means a 21st century phenomenon.

Moving along, one passes the grey, funereal Vietnam Memorial, which asks visitors to walk inside it, and in which the names of the dead are gathered on a ring above. Then you pass the Korean War Memorial, with its army, navy and air force figures surrounded by tall steel poles that look like rain, and after that the comparatively conventional memorial to the army. At the end of Anzac Parade, nestled into the corner, is the Hellenic Memorial, which commemorates the battles of Greece and Crete during the Second World War. It’s built to resemble an amphitheatre, with a pillar marked with the Greek Orthodox cross and pair of steel beams in the middle. A map of the Aegean, almost stained glass in appearance, is made from tiles on the floor.

Perhaps entertainingly if one knows the history of Greco-Turkish relations, it’s positioned directly across the road from the Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Memorial. There probably aren’t many western democracies, with the obvious exception of Germany, that have memorials to the enemy in their capital - still less to an autocratic dictator. Yet Ataturk holds a key position in Anzac mythology. As a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ottoman Army, he played a role in the defence of Gallipoli against the British and Anzac forces. After the war, he became a key figure in the Turkish nationalist movement, and eventually the President. I have to be very careful what I say here, as I have to load and edit this in Turkey where it is illegal to defame Ataturk, so I’ll focus my discussion on the inscription on the memorial.

It’s a long one, and it’s a little hard to see on my photograph, so I’ll just type it out.

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours … you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway counties, wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom, and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land, they have become our sons as well.

Beautiful sentiment, right? The only problem is that Ataturk almost certainly didn’t say them. I’ll link to an excellent article on the subject at Honest History (and honestly, I’d recommend that website for a lot of things) but the basic gist of the problem is that knows when he said it, or if he dictated it to someone else, or if it was a letter, or really anything else about the providence of the quote, and it really seems to have started being kicked around in the 1980s. There is no evidence prior to 1953 of the speech (or letter, or dictation, or lavatory graffiti) existing.

So why, when we know he probably say it, is it still there? I think it’s because it’s comforting. It’s a little bit of myth making that serves to make the past a little more bearable. To imagine your father or grandfather lying in the bosom of a friendly nation is palatable. To imagine him buried in an enemy country, whose soldiers killed him, is less so.

Traveling back down Anzac Parade, one next passes the memorial to the Royal Australian Navy Memorial, a mishmash of flesh and steel shapes which includes a fountain. Beyond that is the ‘shower curtain’ - the derogatory name a veteran nurse gave to the Nurse’s Memorial. This is the most vertical of the memorials on Anzac Parade - a blue glass structure that visitors can walk into, listing the names of conflicts and postings of the nursing service and displaying images of nurses throughout Australian military history. It is worth pointing out that this is a memorial specifically to nurses in the Australian service, not Australian nurses - nurses who died in the British service are not commemorated either here or on the Roll of Honour. I know you’re getting sick of links by now, but here’s one to a video on that subject.

We then pass the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, which I’ve never been a particular fan of - it just seems a bit dull to me, if I’m completely honest. Past that is the great tan monument to the Rats of Tobruk - the men of the 9th (and one brigade of the 7th) Division who defended Tobruk from the Nazi Afrika Korps in 1941. (I am going to get into so much trouble for calling Rommel’s Afrika Korps ‘Nazi,’ which is of course precisely why I did so.) Finally, one passes the impenetrably abstract Peacekeepers Memorial, before reaching the other side of the New Zealand Memorial.

This walk took us about an hour, and on the way home, we decided to try to find the Air Crash Memorial in the Pialligo Forest. The key word was ‘try,’ because it turns out there’s no road access and it’s a 3.2km walk to reach it. As we’d already been walking, we decided to call it a day. The air crash in question was the Canberra Air Disaster - a Lockheed Hudson crashed on approach to Canberra airport on the 13th of August 1940, killing three members of the cabinet and Chief of the General Staff General Sir Brudenell White. This is another name we’ll probably come back to. Suffice it to say, it was a major body blow to Robert Menzies’ first government and probably contributed to its fall the following year (although Menzies buggering off to London for several months to pester Churchill probably didn’t help either.)

All in all, it was a good day. I don’t know when I’ll write again, though I’m hoping soon - otherwise I shall see you in two weeks, as there’s a few thoughts I might want to get onto paper while I’m in Sydney.

OTD in Music History: Composer and conductor Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1889) conducts the world premiere of his first full-length operetta, and the biggest hit of his career, “Orphee aux enfers” (“Orpheus in the Underworld”) – featuring the (in)famous “Can-Can” dance – at his little "Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens" in Paris in 1858. Today, Offenbach is best remembered for his pioneering work as the creator of a type of light burlesque French comic opera popularly known as “operetta,” which became one of the most characteristic "pop" musical products of the latter half of the 19th Century. Offenbach combined a remarkably fluent and elegant musical style with a highly developed sense of both characterization and satire – indeed, no less an expert on matters of the theater than legendary "opera buffa" composer Giacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868) dubbed him “our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees.” In many ways, both directly and indirectly, Offenbach can fairly be said to be the great-grandfather of the theatrical genre now commonly referred to as the “musical.” PICTURED: A c. 1900 real photo postcard showing the middle aged Offenbach at the height of his career, dressed to the nines and looking every bit the showman.

C'EST DANS LA PRESSE | KAZUKI YAMADA

Kazuki Yamada était sur la scène du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, les 25 et 26 janvier, avec l’Orchestre national de France et le Chœur de Radio France, dans un Carmina Burana aux « puissants effets qui ne manque pas d’impressionner le public du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ». 

« Les musiciens font déjà preuve d’une effervescence contrôlée, sous la direction dansante et élégante de Kazuki Yamada. Sa gestuelle active et souple parvient à impulser et à calmer dans le même temps les légères tentations de précipitation. Il se montre également particulièrement attentif au chœur pour Carl Orff. »

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Michel Petrucciani - Stella By Starlight (jazz Standard sheet music Transcription

Michel Petrucciani - Stella By Starlight (jazz Standard sheet music Transcription

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favorite/recommended productions of orfeo ed euridice?!

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the supreme production for me is the irish national opera's, which tells the story in a very plain lovely anachronistic style. it fills me with so many emotions, this is THE orfeo ed euridice. the downside is that its ambiguous to serve storytelling and if you want gluck as he is then....

the theatre des champs elysees 2018 production has the countertenor, the full and complete story, the lighting aesthetics, the desperation!!

the production with mehta, liebau, and mühlemann is also great but im not so keen on the ending. again, each production gives a special something that adds to the story so it depends on taste, the music is always great!

i also like the one with janet baker but too much ornamentation for me i guess? the opera is about simplicity and emotion so adding ornamentation distracts people from gluck's philosophy imo.

the met opera one is cute! i love the casting choices always and the costumes are inteteresting!

for french versions opera comique's production is the One With The Butches (it changes the ending though and is more based on Berlioz's edited version)

another french version i can recommend is the one with florez and karg because lighting is great xoxo and its just very beautiful singing because they were at their peak here

the last french version is the one conducted by gardiner and is meant to follow greek theater dynamics and an entirely baroque orchestra so if thats in your alley, this is the one for you!

theres also a ballet version choreographed by pina bausch which follows similarly to the opera comique's version. it also has bigender orfeo my beloved.

thats all i can think of for now, thanks for the ask!!!!

OTD in Music History: Jakob “Jacques” Offenbach (1819 – 1880) dies in Paris. Offenbach is best remembered for two artistic achievements: First, for his pioneering work as the creator of a type of light burlesque French comic opera popularly known as “operetta,” which became one of the most characteristic "pop" musical products of the latter half of the 19th Century. Second, perhaps ironically, for his own masterpiece -- and one of only two operas he ever wrote that *wasn’t* an operetta -- “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (“The Tales of Hoffmann”), a “grand opera” which remained unfinished at his death. (It was subsequently orchestrated and provided with recitatives and produced at the Opera-Comique in early 1881, where it proved to be a smash hit. It remains a part of the international operatic repertoire to this day.) Offenbach combined a remarkably fluent and elegant musical style with a highly developed sense of both characterization and satire – indeed, no less an expert on matters of the theater than legendary "opera buffa" composer Giacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868) dubbed him “our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees.” Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, “Orphee aux enfers” (“Orpheus in the Underworld”) -- which features the (in)famous “Can-Can” dance -- in 1858, and it was perhaps the biggest hit of his career; it is certainly the most frequently performed of his many operettas today. In many ways, both directly and indirectly, Offenbach can fairly be said to be the great-grandfather of the theatrical genre now commonly referred to as the “musical.” PICTURED: One of the many sheets of musical sketches written out by Offenbach over the years in connection with various projects (both realized and unrealized), which were then dispersed as "souvenirs" after his death. The completed work to which this particular sketch sheet is connected -- if any -- has not yet been identified.

Colors - Michel Petrucciani (piano transcription with sheet music)

Colors - Michel Petrucciani (piano transcription with sheet music)

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One of the most exquisite jazz pianists, that rare music of the soul. Michel Petrucciani was an exceptional musician and a man who knew how to preserve the most transcendent meaning of life, even in the face of the physical obstacle of illness. Passion and art as a sacred mission in search of beauty are also ways of minimizing the barriers imposed by biology. His wonderful music is the intangible legacy he leaves us, and his existential example is what warms the hearts of those who remember him. Afflicted by a very serious bone disease , -he barely reached one meter in height- the French pianist Michel Petrucciani devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of the piano from childhood and ended up becoming one of the most renowned European jazz musicians of all the times. Endowed with extreme virtuosity, his intimate and romantic style, which stemmed from the school of Bill Evans - of whom he was a fervent admirer - intelligently combined lyricism and subtlety with a powerful and percussive attack. He was born in Orange on December 28, 1962. He studied classical piano and at the age of 12 he performed accompanied by his father on guitar and his brother Louis on double bass. His enormous talent makes him stand out from a very young age and at the age of 17 he records his first album. The following year he starts with an exceptional trio with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano , a series of splendid recordings for the French OWL label. In 1982 he moved to California and became the pianist in the group of saxophonist Charles Lloyd , when he returned to the scene after a long retirement. He also performs in a duet with Lee Konitz . Although he continues recording in France, his stays in New York lead to his first American albums, until in 1985 he began his period on the "Blue Note" label with "Pianism" , a trio recording with Palle Danielson and Elliot Zigmund . The following year he performs in Montreux in a trio with Wayne Shorter and Jim Hall , a meeting that is published under the title of "Power of Three" , one of his great albums. In later works - "Music", "Playground" -, approaches the formulas of electric fusion with productions in which their best virtues are diluted. His last album for Blue Note is a solo in homage to Duke Ellington , one of his favorite composers, and a clear influence on any pianist. In 1994, he recorded again for a French company, Dreyfus , with "Marvellous" , in a trio with the superb support of Dave Holland and Tony Williams and the surprising addition of a string quartet. His absorbing personality made him prefer small ensembles, and in recent years one of the most fruitful was his unusual and exceptional duet meeting with organist Eddy Louiss , recorded in the two volumes of "Conference de Presse". But above all he turns to the solo, of which he was a true master. The double CD collected from his performances in Paris, "Au Teathre Des Champs-Elysees" is probably the peak of his recording career. In 1997, he took a new turn, forming a larger group, a sextet that included two young Italian revelations of the neo-bop trend: Stefano Di Battista and Flavio Boltro , with whom he recorded "Both Worlds". The vital and professional career of this great musician is nothing short of moving. Michel Petrucciani, French by birth and of Italian descent, was educated from a very young age around the classical piano. As an adult, he affirmed that a classical and orthodox musical educational base is necessary to acquire the necessary fluency to express what one wishes through music. His premature death: His death, on January 5, 1999, due to a lung condition, left a gap that was very difficult to cover in European jazz and in French jazz in particular. At 36, he was considered one of the great European pianists. The serious bone disease that he suffered from was not an obstacle to his interest in music, and despite not reaching one meter in height, sitting in front of the piano he became a giant . Posthumously, the "Solo Live" recorded at the "Alte Oper" in Frankfurt was published. A true gift where he recreates some of his songs and pays homage, he had already done on his album "Promenade with Duke" , to his admired Duke Ellington with an indescribable recreation of the Caravan theme with an impressive beginning. He was born with a serious disease in his skeletal system that impeded his normal body development and motor skills. Within the misfortune, fortunately for him and for those of us who admire his work, his hands did not suffer the disease and he was able to play the piano, with a series of adaptations for the pedals. Style: has been defined His style in various ways: follower of Bill Evans, romantic and dynamic in style, etc. In any case, it is best to listen in its entirety to the work that he bequeathed to us. His music can be defined as sentimental, although spirited at the same time, with the right balance between a sophisticated and academic style, although at the same time free and loose, easy to listen to for the layman and delightful for the demanding ear. Some testimonials: So for Christmas his parents gave him a small toy piano that he was in charge of breaking to pieces while claiming: "I want a real one." Impressed by his determination, his father, Tony Petrucciani , jazz guitarist, bought him an old piano to which he adapted some extensions so that little Michel could get to the pedals. During the next 8 years he carried out strict classical studies, thus discovering the universe of Bach, Chopin or Debussy . "It's the way I learned discipline and developed my technique." At the age of 12 he is already part of a trio accompanied by his father on guitar and his brother Paul on double bass. At the age of 13, he gave his first professional recital at the Clionsclat Festival. At that same festival, the American "jazzman" Clark Terry was performing. He needed a pianist for that day. Michel offered his services and the trumpet player looked at him thinking it was a joke. I said, "Let's play the blues," I started to play, and not a minute had passed when Clark came to hug me. Read the full article

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