We are setting up a Divertissement all on Lully with Ricardo Barros
(Mercury Dance Company) in Brazil in September,
complete with masterclasses on music, dance, gestures and all aspects
of such an event at USP - University Sao Paulo.
Anyone interested contact me at [email protected] .
Em 16/03/2011, às 15:02, Jean-Marie Poirier escreveu:
Not a bad film altogether, but not really a documentary either... ;-)
More than a "symbol", the painful end of Giovanni Battista looks more
like some sort of bad joke to me, ironical more than symbolic...
Best,
Jean-Marie
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== En réponse au message du 16-03-2011, 18:20:11 ==
Here's the first scene of the film "Le Roi danse" where Lully hurts
his
foot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTY9iIXO4R4
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Peter Danner
Enviado el: miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2011 09:00
Para: A. J. Ness
CC: Jean-Marie Poirier; Lute List
Asunto: [LUTE] Re: Beating time for Lully
The "symbolism" can be found in Olivier Bernier's biography of Louis
XIV. At the time he struck his foot, Lully was conducting a Te Deum
written to celebrate Louis' recovery from a serious illness. The
doctors had so botched the job on the king, which involved surgery
(without anesthetic of course), that Lully wanted them no where near
him. Even when gangrene set in.
Peter Danner
On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:07 AM, A. J. Ness wrote:
I was referring to that tale told in U.S. music appreciation
classes
about Lully's death. But perhaps it is true. I decided to check
with
Nicolas Slonimsky (Baker's Biographical Dictionary):
[Lully's] death resulted from a symbolic accident: while
conducting, he
vehemently struck his foot with a sharp-pointed cane used to pound
out the beat; gangrene set in and he died of blood poisoning.
What is a "symbolic accident"?
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