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Fauré & Ravel : Nostalgia

05 Sunday Nov 2017

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6abriel Fauré, Élégie in C Minor for Cello & Piano Op. 24 (1880 – 1883)

Peter Schlosser - Dívka s pávem

Girl with Peacock by Peter Schlosser, 1896 (Photo credit: fleurdulys)

Peter Schlosser was an Austrian artist, in the days of Art Nouveau, Jugendstil and the Wiener Secession (the Vienna Secession). I found a post about him, but no entry. This above painting is dated 1896.

Gustav Klimt and other artists founded the Wiener Secession in April 1897. Klimt’s  Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer is dear to me because I was a friend of relatives, members in fact, of the Bloch-Bauer family. My friends were Hélène and Francis Gutmann. Francis, whose mother was a Bloch-Bauer, finished a PhD in physics, at the University of British Columbia, where I also completed a PhD. However, we had met in Victoria. I also met Mr. Bloch-Bauer, an uncle (I believe). He was an older gentleman at the time, the very late 60s. If my memory serves me well, he spoke French. Francis met his wife, my friend Hélène, in Montreal. He enjoyed playing the piano. The Nazis pillaged the family home. His brother-in-law, a prince, taught me the Viennese Waltz. Francis was born in Vienna and died in Montreal, in 2014.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/plundered-klimts-now-in-canada/article4143277/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

Love to everyone ♥

Gabriel Fauré, Élégie in C Minor for Cello & Piano Op. 24

Paul Tortelier, violoncelle
Jean Hubeau, piano

Peter Schlosser - Dívka s pávem

Maurice Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Orchestre national de France

Lake George by John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1 by Gustav Klimt, 1907

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Le Margoton s’en va-t-à l’eau: a folksong

11 Saturday Feb 2012

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Tom Tomson, Group of Seven

Le Margoton s’en va-t-à l’eau
 
1. Le Margoton s’en va-t-à l’eau
La fontaine était creuse, elle est tombée au fond.
Aie, aie, aie, aie ! se dit Margoton.
 
2. La fontaine était creuse, elle est tombée au fond.
Par là passèrent trois jeunes et si jolis garçons.
Aie,  aie, aie, aie ! se dit Margoton.
 
3. Par là passèrent trois jeunes et si jolis garçons.
Que donnerez-vous, la belle, si nous vous en tirerons.
Aie,  aie, aie, aie ! se dit Margoton. 
 
4. Que donnerez-vous, la belle, si nous vous en tirerons.
Un doux baiser, dit-elle, en guise de doublon.
Aie, aie, aie, aie ! se dirent les garçons.
 
5. Un doux baiser, dit-elle, en guise de doublon.
Et quand elle fut dehors elle tourna les talons.
Aie, aie, aie, aie ! se dirent les garçons.
 
6. Et quand elle fut dehors elle tourna les talons.
C’est ainsi que les filles attrapent les garçons.
Aie, aie, aie, se dit Margoton.
Aie, aie, aie, finit la chanson.
 
05 Margoton va-t-à l’eau (click on the title to hear the music)
 
1. Margoton is going to the well with her pitcher.
The fountain is deep, she falls to the bottom.
Aie…
 
2. The fountain is deep, she falls to the bottom.
Three fine looking lads happen to pass by.
Aie…
 
3. Three fine looking lads happen to pass by.
What will you give, my pretty one, if we pull you out?
Aie…
 
4. What will you give, my pretty one, if we pull you out?
A tender kiss, I’ll give in return.
Aie…
 
5. A tender kiss, I’ll give in return.
But once she was out, the girl showed her heels.
Aie…
 
6. But once she was out, the girl showed her heels.
And that is how, she says, a girl catches a lad.
Aie (4)     said Margoton
Aie (4)     the song is over.
 
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Theodore C. Blegen, Songs of the Voyageurs (St Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1998[1966]).
Université de Moncton: 30-voice Male Choir