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A small monument to love: Alban Berg’s great row about an affair

Edit The Guardian 06 May 2016
How do we know Berg’s 12-tone Lyric Suite is a declaration of love? Because it spells out the initials of his mistress. Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite is the product of heart and head ... Berg had been happily married to Helene Nahowski for 14 years, but his feelings for Hanna were intoxicating ... Deciphering the jottings, Green discovered a translation of Baudelaire’s “De profundis clamavi” from Les Fleurs du Mal ... Twitter ... • Inside the Score ... ....

Milk Bar Chelsea

Edit Newsday 03 May 2016
and P-tes Fraiche du Maison, i.e ... Flushing's first craft cocktail bar opens August 12! Along with great views, the rooftop lounge features drinks like The Hellcat (jalapeno-infused Jose Cuervo Tequila, agave nectar, fresh lime, coriander and smoked red alder sea salt) and Les Fleurs du Mal (chamomile tea infused Bird Dog Bourbon, chamomile tincture, fig, basil, chamomile honey and lemon)....

The poetry and music of Henri Dutilleux in five key works

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2016
Ahead of Saturday’s BBCSO Total Immersion festival, conductor Pascal Rophé picks five pieces that reveal Dutilleux’s magical and unique soundworld ... Tout un monde lointain … (1967/70). Dutilleux’s cello concerto, written for Mstislav Rostropovich, derives its title (“A whole distant world”) from the poem La Chevelure by Baudelaire, from the collection Les Fleurs du mal ... Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest. Métaboles (1963/64) ... Facebook. Twitter ... ....

'Books show how life is a source of material for art'

Edit Khaleej Times 15 Apr 2016
What book(s) are you reading right now?. I've been reading A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James for the past couple of months ... Tough but worth it. What the books that changed your life and shaped your outlook? ... I found a beautifully bound copy of Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles in a second-hand bookshop around the same time ... Probably sounds a bit heavy but Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire makes a great gift for anyone....

'Undone' By John Colapinto

Edit Huffington Post 02 Apr 2016
New Yorker writer John Colapinto’s new novel opens with two epigraphs, one from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, and one from the biblical Book of Job. “Hast thou considered my servant Job,” God tells Satan, “that there is none like him in the Earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” ... It’s the basis for the entire stomach-churning narrative within ...   ... ....

Riot Ensemble review – adroitly realising Dutilleux's characteristic finesse

Edit The Guardian 16 Mar 2016
Fans of Dutilleux will recognise the instrumentation of Les Citations, originally conceived to honour ... In complete contrast was Jose Manuel Serrano’s Cetinas de un madrigal triste, whose reference to Baudelaire’s poem from Les Fleurs du Mal itself echoes Dutilleux’s inspiration by the French symbolist in tout un monde lointain, his cello concerto....

Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – hero worship without a hero

Edit The Guardian 15 Feb 2016
3 / 5 stars. National Gallery, London. The Romantic artist’s sinful sensuality is dulled in this worthy exhibition that overplays his influence on the French avant-garde while showing too few of Delacroix’s own masterpieces. Hero worship is a funny thing. It can inspire and liberate while often being grounded in fantasy ... Twitter ... The latter’s art is so tough, so intellectual ... Related ... Twitter ... Où sont les fleurs du mal? ... ....

Munich city guide: what to see, plus the best bars, hotels and restaurants

Edit The Guardian 07 Nov 2015
Outside Oktoberfest, the Bavarian capital is a graceful city – green in summer, atmospheric in winter, and buzzing with great museums and bars year round. Often portrayed as the strait-laced, industrious counterpart to hedonistic Berlin, Munich tends to steer clear of the limelight ... Winter, though, is an atmospheric time to visit, with pretty Christmas markets to explore and cosy beer halls to warm up in. WHAT TO SEE ... Les Fleurs du Mal ... ....

{English} A winning roll of the dice for Stéphane Mallarmé - Total : 4.5 Millions ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Oct 2015
(Source. Sotheby's Inc) . Paris Press Release. 33 (0)1 53 05 53 66 . Sophie Dufresne . sophie.dufresne@sothebys.com. 33 (0)1 53 05 52 32 . Chloé Brézet . chloe.brezet@sothebys.com ... Stéphane Mallarmé's exceptional and unique copy of Les Fleurs du Mal of 1861 by Charles Baudelaire, including the six censored poems that the poet, then aged 19, had copied into the last part of the book, was also bought by Marcel Brient for €363,000 (lot 15)....

Fall 2015: New York Restaurants with Sexy Bars

Edit About.com 14 Oct 2015
There are more than 20,000 restaurants in New York City, according to the Wall Street Journal. The pressure to choose a dinner date spot among so many dining options can make even the most in-the-know foodie catch a serious case of performance anxiety ... Try...Tasca Chino ... Bonus ... Toast your date over the Les Fleurs du Mal made with chamomile tea infused Bird Dog Bourbon, chamomile tincture, fig, basil, chamomile honey, and lemon....

This week’s new exhibitions

Edit The Guardian 25 Sep 2015
Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges . Matthew Darbyshire . Hannah Collins . Emily Jacir. Europa . Mat Collishaw . Turner Prize 2015 . Jimmie Durham. Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges ... John Hansard Gallery, Sat to 14 Nov ... RC Emily Jacir ... He is more informed by a passion for art history than academic theory, with influences ranging from 17th-century memento-mori still-lifes through to the 19th-century poetic decadence of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal....

Berg: Lyric Suite; Wellesz: Sonnets CD review - emotional directness and technical assurance

Edit The Guardian 09 Sep 2015
... annotations, detailing not only the programme behind each of the six movements, which charted the progress of Berg’s affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, the wife of a Prague industrialist, but also the hidden text of the final movement, revealed as a setting of a German translation of Baudelaire’s De Profundis Clamavi, from Les Fleurs du Mal....

Poet & his muse

Edit Deccan Herald 11 Jul 2015
Black Venus. James MacManus. Duckworth Overlook. 2015, pp 352, Rs 399 ... Both are present through Baudelaire’s wild journey, to the end ... But he is chiefly remembered for his poetry collection titled, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) — a dark, sometimes erotic, compendium that led to a court case, banning, fines, notoriety, and virtual bankruptcy for the publisher and poet during their lifetimes ... ....
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