On April 15th, Jeremy Eichler had a wonderful article in the classical music section of The Boston Globe, wondering who Proust really had in mind when he talked about Vinteuil's Septet. Pretty heady stuff for the Sunday Globe. I had always assumed Proust had Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 1, Opus 75 in his head. I thought I had even identified the "petite phrase."
Maybe not. Eichler makes a good case for three late Beethoven quartets, 130, 131, and 132. He heard them performed in the new concert hall at our Isabella Stewart Museum and thought of Vinteuil's Sonata. As I write I'm listening to Saint-Saens and I think I hear it now.
Nonetheless, I'm going to play those Beethoven Quartets and try to determine if they contain the little phrase. Eichler has written a wonderful synopsis of the Proust/ Vinteiul conundrum and plays musical detective to give us greater insight into music in Proust.
Here is the link: Is Vinteiui's Music Beethoven's Late Quartets?
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Proust on Crystal Meth
Now there's an image! From neurasthenic to. . . . crazed socialite! The mind boggles.
I found this expression in: http://www.wood-tang.com/2007/08/restless-mind-syndrome/
Look down as far as the 5th paragraph. I liked this blogger's voice. Getting organized! How do you think Proust organized so much material? Did he have charts and notes? He had no "stickies," no computerized lists of characters. The man was a genius.
It is a little difficult for me to get a fix on the grandmother. She's a little intellectual, very motherly, an anti-snob snob, not exactly petit-bourgeouise, but what else, then? Of course the early descriptions of the Baron de Charlus are amazing. I had fogotten St. Loup was his nephew. Everything and everyone is related. Mon Dieu! How to keep this vast detailed structure in one's head? Probably I have read how he did it and forgotten, being too young in college to worry about trying to keep huge structures in my head. Ah youth, she said.
Boston is the bloggiest town according to today's Globe and here we are blogging and reading Proust in Foxborough. How cool is that?
Odette
I found this expression in: http://www.wood-tang.com/2007/08/restless-mind-syndrome/
Look down as far as the 5th paragraph. I liked this blogger's voice. Getting organized! How do you think Proust organized so much material? Did he have charts and notes? He had no "stickies," no computerized lists of characters. The man was a genius.
It is a little difficult for me to get a fix on the grandmother. She's a little intellectual, very motherly, an anti-snob snob, not exactly petit-bourgeouise, but what else, then? Of course the early descriptions of the Baron de Charlus are amazing. I had fogotten St. Loup was his nephew. Everything and everyone is related. Mon Dieu! How to keep this vast detailed structure in one's head? Probably I have read how he did it and forgotten, being too young in college to worry about trying to keep huge structures in my head. Ah youth, she said.
Boston is the bloggiest town according to today's Globe and here we are blogging and reading Proust in Foxborough. How cool is that?
Odette
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