Flaubert and Baudelaire: 
Flaubert
(1821-1880), Madame Bovary (1857) –
from Part Two, Chapter 8: text...
What Emma hears in
Pt. Two, Ch. 15: Donizetti’s
“Lucia di Lammermore” Act 1 Finale “Ah!
Verrano a te sull'aure”:
LUCIA On the breeze
will come to you my ardent sighs…
When you think of me
living on tears and grief,
then shed a bitter tear
on this ring, ah, on this ring, etc.
ah, on this ring, etc.
EDGARDO and LUCIA On the breeze will come to you, etc. EDGARDO Remember, Heaven has joined us!
EDGARDO and LUCIA Farewell! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToxhv_Y9nc Sutherland, Pavarotti.
will come to you my ardent sighs…
When you think of me
living on tears and grief,
then shed a bitter tear
on this ring, ah, on this ring, etc.
ah, on this ring, etc.
EDGARDO and LUCIA On the breeze will come to you, etc. EDGARDO Remember, Heaven has joined us!
EDGARDO and LUCIA Farewell! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToxhv_Y9nc Sutherland, Pavarotti.
Text for Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (0-3:00)
– and recreation of Diagalev/Nijinsky ballet:
Debussy – from his libretto based on
Maeterlinck’s play Pélleas et Mélisande:
Mélisande: [I love you.] Forever. Ever since I first saw
you.
Pelléas: It is as if your voice had come over the sea in
the spring! I have never heard it until today. It’s as though it had rained on
my heart. You say those words so openly, like an angel answering questions. I
can scarcely believe it, Mélisande. Why should you love me? Why do you love me?
Is it true what you say? Were you making it up? Were you lying to me just to
make me feel happy?
Mélisande: No, I never tell lies. I only lie to your
brother.
Pelléas: Oh, the way you say that! Your voice, your
voice! It is as fresh and as clear as water! It is like pure spring water on my
lips. It is like pure spring water on my hands. Give me your hands, let me take
your hands. Oh, your hands are so tiny! I never knew you were so beautiful. I
had never set eyes on anything as beautiful before. I could not rest, I kept
searching everywhere in the house, I kept searching everywhere in the country,
but never found the beauty I sought. And now at last I have found you. I have
found you. I don’t believe there is anywhere on earth a woman more beautiful.
Where are you? I don’t hear your breathing any more.
Debussy, Pelleas and Mellisande – 1902 (7:30 to 9)
Mallarmé – from “Literature and Music” – Oxford
speech, 1894: > text...
Pater (1839-1894) – from “Giorgione” (1877) in Studies
in the Renaissance, Conclusion to
Studies in the Renaissance (cancelled in 2nd ed., then restored in 3rd): texts...
Ravel, La Valse (Argerich and Freire) 9:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwBuhTZtDT0&list=RDmwBuhTZtDT0&start_radio=1
Stravinsky,
The Rite of Spring – 1913 – Beginning (Orch. de Paris, Boulez) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOUYtDpKCc
Ending (L.A.Phil, Salonen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSyOfJRmbLY -From“Poetics of Music” ’38: text...
Image of Debussy and Stravinsky.
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