The composer Betsy Jolas, 95, has been appointed Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur. by the President of France in the New Year’s list.
The soprano Patricia Petibon, 51, is made a Chevalier of the same order.
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Here is Jolas’ recent, 8th string quartet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc3SuQH2Tv0
Postwebernesque music at the edge of silence, but – in contrast to Webern – with octaves here & there, which were taboo among the Viennese Trinity.
A lot of angst and despair, but in a musical way.
Here is an orchestral piece (mind the colours):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRsFnpOVpkI
Beautifully scored. But very fragmentary, this is how it feels when walking along the empty streets of La Défense during a lockdown – anxious and alienated between the endless glass and steel buildings, a living, isolated speck among blind, dehumanizing forces, with flashes of hope to find a place to sit.
In other words, totally unmusical nonsense.
No, it’s very human, and FULL of how we all feel today, being modern!
Sally
For what this means when a fugitive Buzyn gets it too…