ITL #11: The Vertigo Effect
Chris and Sridhar discuss Keith Jarrett’s retirement, the blurry line between composition and improvisation, late Romantic/early Modern music by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, and the San Francisco Ballet’s new video with music from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”.
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Keith Jarrett - American pianist
Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano - The New York Times
Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri play Bach Flute Sonatas
Keith Jarrett & Kim Kashkashian play Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Claude Debussy, musicien français
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
L'après-midi d'un faune (poem by Stéphane Mallarmé)
Debussy himself plays the Faune flute solo
Leonard Bernstein - Norton Lecture on Debussy & Wagner
Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Richard Wagner - German composer
Wagner's Ring Cycle - wikipedia
Alice Sara Ott plays Satie's "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes"
Jessye Norman sings Satie's "Je te veux"
Furniture music (musique d'ameublement)
Clip from "Parade" (ballet by Satie, Picasso, Cocteau, and Diaghilev)
San Francisco Ballet - Dance of Dreams (music video w/Herrmann's "Scène d'amour")
Benjamin Millepied - choreographer/Natalie Portman's husband
"Vertigo" - music by Bernard Herrmann
Scène d'amour - scene from "Vertigo" (SPOILERS!)
Scène d'amour - score analysis
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod