So basically 'this is yet another performance of VW Lark Ascending and Fantasia but surrounded by concrete' 🤔

One week until this fantastic piano programme by @ianpace.bsky.social - Gaspard de la nuit, new Japanese works and Boulez's stonking 2nd Sonata (which I last heard him play at my book launch in May 2024): www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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French music Proms highlights include Betsy Jolas, Berlioz Damnation of Faust, Nadia Boulanger's Fantaisie variée (with Alexandra Dariescu, yay!) and Edith Canat de Chizy - an underrated composer www.bbc.co.uk/events/rpgwr...

A massive 60% off most hardbacks @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social until 5 May! Includes my #Boulez Organised Delirium for a ridiculous £11.91. No code needed: boydellandbrewer.com/book/pierre-...

#Boulez Répons manuscript page, from new-to-me book Pensieri per Pierre Boulez, signed by the composer

So - here is my *second* post on Tracey Thorn/Everything But the Girl Fascination. Now a re-reading of it from the perspective of the beloved and the former lover, revealing a pattern of possessiveness and control approaching the coercive.

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His CD is fantastic, track one down if you can.

Pastorale in C Major YouTube video by Antonio Oyarzabal - Topic

Germaine #Tailleferre, born 19 April 1892. Let's celebrate with Antonio Oyarzabal playing her Pastorale in C - one of her pieces he very kindly played at my Tailleferre book launch in February 🥰 @aoyarzabal.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2E...

Six snails in garlic and herb butter. Love it

Final lunch in #Paris starts with escargots 😋

…and by this imposing woman (also like the cat in the bottom right corner)

Henri #Rousseau exhibition at the Orangerie, Paris: of course I’m struck by his vicious cuddly toy animals in jungle settings…

'Fascination' and the non-metabolisation of jealousy There is a whole spectrum of what I might call ‘negative emotions’ – viewed as such because of their potential for harmful consequences.

First proper Substack post - an essay on the song 'Fascination' by @tracey_thorn /Everything But the Girl, a mixture of musical analysis and wider contextualisation through authors who have dealt with jealousy. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social

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Gabriel #Fauré lived here, 154 boulevard Malesherbes #Paris. The city has provided a mini-bio

Really enjoying the Calder exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton - his links with other artists (e.g. Miro) are clearly shown too

Yup, it’s the Eiffel Tower

It’s still here #Paris

Passage des Panoramas #Paris

My favourite in a screamingly funny thread ⬇️

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Beyond excited to learn that #Ravel Daphnis et Chloé will be performed in full by the Royal Ballet in January 2027! www.rbo.org.uk/production/d...

The Institut de France, venue of the premiere of Faust et Hélène, Prix de Rome winning cantata by Lili #Boulanger

Music From The Ether (1934) YouTube video by British Pathé

Maurice Martenot demonstrates the ondes Martenot in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ph...

I love Georgian 🇬🇪 food & am delighted to find a restaurant (Qvevri) near my temporary Paris home. Delicious chicken in garlic sauce, excellent bread & an agreeably punchy red wine

Théâtre Darius Milhaud, Paris 19e @erinkmaher.bsky.social
(Yes, ought to be Madeleine…)

Perky neoclassical #Tailleferre with weird bits I enjoyed and an ondes Martenot. Also the orchestral cellos are visibly enjoying themselves 🥰

At the Salle Gaveau for Orchestre Pasdeloup concert featuring a #Tailleferre premiere

Lili and Nadia #Boulanger lived here, 36 rue Ballu #Paris. Now Place Lili et Nadia Boulanger

Three ondes Martenot players at the climax of the fascinating Mady Sauvageot presentation at the Conservatoire de Paris - a real discovery 👏

Really fascinating study day at Conservatoire de Paris on 3 pioneers in ethnomusicology and contemporary music: Mady Sauvageot, Yvette Grimaud, Eliane Barat

We were going to this restaurant- La Tour d’Argent - and Dutilleux said he hoped wearing the rosette would get us a good table. It worked - we sat in the corner with a splendid view of Notre-Dame. Still can’t believe how fortunate I was to know him 🥰 2/2

Where #Dutilleux lived, on Île Saint-Louis. I saw him wear his Légion d’Honneur rosette only once and was impudent enough to ask him why 1/2

Interior of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Tolbiac site). This impressive corridor leads to the loos