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illustrate her inane chatter ("I want a hat of solid mahogany", "Mrs. Thingummy has an umbrella made of bone", "Miss Whats-her-face has married a man as dry as a cuckoo") while her exasperated spouse grumbles to the tune of "Ne parle pas, Rose, je t'en supplie" ("Rose, do not speak, I beg you") from
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Satie left extensive sketches for the text of this piece, a sign of the growing importance the verbal element was assuming in his piano suites. A lady drags her husband through a department store, wearing him down with her purchases and gossip. Dizzying
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speculated, think of Debussy as an imprisoned man after his controversial marriage to Bardac? If so this would have made the dedication painfully ironic. At any rate there are no attempts here to quote Debussy's music or mimic his style.
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is a trilogy of unrelated pieces. The melodic lines are kept simple through the borrowings from operettas and children's songs, but backed up by Satie's unique and often experimental harmonic sense.
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He carries them on his back. He smirks and looks very sure of himself. His strength amazes the little children. We see him transporting an enormous stone, a hundred times bigger than himself
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The punchline of the preface had a double meaning for Satie. One of his personal quirks was that he never washed his hands with soap, but with pumice stone.
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The cocky laborer goes about his job accompanied by another borrowed operetta melody, "Vive la Paresse" ("Long Live Laziness") from
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Ornella Volta (ed.), "A Mammal's Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie", Atlas Publishing, London, 1996 (reissued 2014), p. 21.
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In the enigmatic finale the text spans millennia to unite two prisoners yearning for their freedom: the biblical
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Satie announced the title of this suite as an upcoming project in his April 1913 advertisement in the periodical
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in 1903, would have gotten these connections, but what they meant for Satie is open to question. Did he, as
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A little narrative preface picks up where the title leaves off, offering us glimpses of the protagonist:
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Debussy quoted the children's song in four works between 1890 and 1909. See Robert Orledge,
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Fête donnée par des Chevaliers Normands en l'honneur d'une jeune demoiselle (XIe siecle)
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on January 14, 1914. In performance it lasts about 5 minutes.
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from the belly of the whale, and the 18th Century schemer
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As with most of Satie's piano suites from this time, the
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Erik Satie
Erik Satie
Ricardo Viñes
Salle Erard
Paris
Alexis Roland-Manuel

Ricardo Viñes
triplets
Aimé Maillart
Les dragons de Villars
eleventh chord
pumice stone
Robert Planquette
Rip

Épinal print
Madame Claude Debussy
Jonah
Jean Henri Latude
Bastille
Madame de Pompadour
Claude Debussy
Estampes
Emma Bardac
Robert Orledge
Jean-Joël Barbier
Aldo Ciccolini
Frank Glazer

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