The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces ... the world record holder for the longest duration of any piece of music, his Vexations, played in New York in 1963, a 180-note piano piece with ...

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For a post-workout application, the music needs to be calming and revitalising in order to expedite the body’s return to a resting state. An archetypal piece for this is Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1, ...

As its title implies, the Coldplay of Moon Music aren't coming back ... resolves into a searching, spare piano melody that sounds like Elton John doing Erik Satie. "I'm trying to trust in the ...

Bertrand Chamayou won the Concept Album Award for Letter(s) to Erik Satie, while the Chamber category was topped by a recording of Schumann's Piano Quartet & Quintet by Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina ...

And yet, at the same time, they both seemed to treasure a sort of Whitmanesque belief in the pure native spirit of America, in the possibility of an American art and music and literature.” ...

Those lockdown records sound entirely like a different era, yet feel inseparable from the shape of music right now. From rap getting brasher and noisier, to online scenes blossoming during ...

videoHandel, the pianoforte and oratorio In this short film Howard Goodall explores 18th century music, the invention of the piano and the ... Includes a focus on Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré.

Invented by Bartolomeu Christofori, the piano gave composers more ... Includes a focus on Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré. Debussy, world music and impressionism. videoDebussy, world music and ...

The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

Erik Kain is a writer and critic covering TV shows, movies, video games and books primarily in the "genre" category including fantasy, science-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, post-apocalytpic ...

To create this performance, he assembled a team consisting of Frenchmen Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie (responsible for the music), Spaniard Pablo Picasso (who designed the sets and costumes), and ...