Slippedisc daily comfort zone (80): And so say all of us

Slippedisc daily comfort zone (80): And so say all of us

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

July 19, 2021

The third of Erik Satie’s Vieux sequins et vielles cuirasses turns out to be a variation on For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.

 

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  • John Borstlap says:
    July 20, 2021 at 12:22 am

    He was such an original, with his cubist music. His humour inspired many other young composers to take irreverent distance from the recent top achievements of Debussy, Ravel and the early Stravinsky, achievements so great that they blocked any other aspiring talents. But Satie showed they could simply begin as from scratch, and so they did (Les Six).

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  • P R Terry says:
    July 20, 2021 at 1:20 pm

    Actually the old French folk tune “Marlbrouck va t’en guerre”. Beethoven used it in “Wellington’s Victory” to represent Napoleon’s army.

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  • Joel Kemelhor says:
    July 20, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    That “French folk tune” also sounds a lot like an American children’s song called “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.”

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