tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post5809243562857877968..comments2024-03-18T14:05:44.909-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Music to Drive Us InsaneBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-79348529094372932772016-08-18T09:08:49.220-05:002016-08-18T09:08:49.220-05:00Thanks, Jives, for providing a valuable perspectiv...Thanks, Jives, for providing a valuable perspective as always! Yes, I think that Satie and Oscar Wilde can both be related to the Aestheticism movement in the late 19th century. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism<br /><br />There was a French playwright whose name I cannot recall (this might have been discussed in the Roger Shattuck book The Banquet Years) who wrote a famous absurdist play around this time. Found it! The writer is Alfred Jarry, particularly known for his play Ubu Roi from 1896.<br /><br />One wonders if some of this cannot be chalked up to excessive consumption of "the green goddess" --absinthe!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-38904275800740382432016-08-18T02:09:40.394-05:002016-08-18T02:09:40.394-05:00I sense a whiff of Oscar Wilde in the air. Satie....I sense a whiff of Oscar Wilde in the air. Satie...Vexations <br />just picked up The Picture of Dorian Gray and am learning about this turn-of-the-20th century attitude of decadence and ennui, and excessive, grand, rather preposterous philosophizing, which would birth the absurdly provocative instruction "to be repeated 840 times." This sort of gesture defines the boundaries of the art, the outer limits, the fences of reason. Makes for a nice artistic construct, but not for nice listening, but its nice to know it's there.Jiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02430049896063808671noreply@blogger.com