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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Ian Penman's Erik Satie portrait is daring and inventive; an environmental anthology defends Walshaw Moor peatlands while classic novels satirize mountaineering and portray urban loneliness.
Music
fromOpen Culture
7 months ago

How Erik Satie Invented Modern Music: A Visual Explanation

Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1 uses simple iambic rhythm and ambiguous major-seventh harmonies to produce a circular, haunting melody that concludes in profound melancholy.
fromOpen Culture
10 months ago

Listen to Never-Before-Heard Works by Erik Satie, Performed 100 Years After His Death

These twenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, have been painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

Remarking on how unusual it was to find a single previously unknown Satie work, let alone 27, Nye said: 'Most of us assumed that after all this time pretty much anything of any interest had already been published.'
NYC music
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 year ago

It is trance-like': pianist Igor Levit performs Erik Satie's Vexations 840 times

Igor Levit performed Satie's Vexations for 16 hours straight, showcasing an unprecedented live marathon concert experience in the UK.
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