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dave eberhardt
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« on: August 17, 2010, 04:26:20 PM »

Homage to  some favorite  painting  and literature , to  Joaquin Sorolla- Spanish artist late 19th century- also- Thomas Mann  novella entitled "Death in Venice" , to Korngold and the chords at the beginning of his Venetian opera "Violanta", to Stravinski, his "Requiem Canticles"- the last movement played at his funeral in Venice- the one with the vibraphone chords :
 
.... a musical  score  that  sink and sinks-  Mahler 's 5th symphony "Adagietta"- my compositions booed in  Vienna . I would be  an artist  like Von Aschenbach at the end of my life . It's  1911- I'm staying at the Hotel de Bains on the Lido in  Venice-  soon to be  carried by gondola  to that isle  cemetery  w the cedars  as was Stravinski; for now my wife - the gibson girl w a hat  w the feathers on the beach w her friend both  in  flowing, long white  linen - with white  parasols-  the cobalt blue sea  behind them as in Sorolla....the  sheer white dresses, the sand  Florida white- the sea  blue  as the calenques near Marseille and Cassis  - the way  Mahler draws from  Wagner and  Wagner  also  in  Venice- the silhouette of  a young girl on the beach- "you must come out of the sea there is lightning"  or, "the plague  has reached Venice from the east....the silhouette of the young boy...all is not lost-  all this set to M's  "Adagietta"... 
 
 
 
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 05:32:18 PM »

have you seen visconti's version - his film - death in venice. excellent.
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2010, 09:28:05 PM »

good looking out- it's what inspired me to write this- best, dave
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