Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Family and Formation
- 2 Langlais, and a Beginning
- 3 Messaien, and Friendships
- 4 Sonata
- 5 A Nietzsche Sequence
- 6 Musique Concrète
- 7 Foucault
- 8 The Death of Virgil
- 9 You
- 10 Time Regiven
- 11 … Beyond Chance
- 12 Since Debussy
- 13 Silence
- 14 Debussy
- 14a Citation: Hommage à Claude Debussy
- 15 Song After Song
- 16 Concerto
- 17 The Man Lying Down
- Notes
- Chronology
- Catalogue
- Writings
- Bibliography
- Index
- The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraqué
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Family and Formation
- 2 Langlais, and a Beginning
- 3 Messaien, and Friendships
- 4 Sonata
- 5 A Nietzsche Sequence
- 6 Musique Concrète
- 7 Foucault
- 8 The Death of Virgil
- 9 You
- 10 Time Regiven
- 11 … Beyond Chance
- 12 Since Debussy
- 13 Silence
- 14 Debussy
- 14a Citation: Hommage à Claude Debussy
- 15 Song After Song
- 16 Concerto
- 17 The Man Lying Down
- Notes
- Chronology
- Catalogue
- Writings
- Bibliography
- Index
- The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraqué
Summary
Later in June 1967, in further letters to Jeanne, you talked about the première of the Sonata two months before in Copenhagen—‘I'm sorry I wasn't there with you’—and about the dangerous world situation, of ‘the recent declaration (an hour ago) from the left (for once pessimistic) speaking of the danger of world war. That's all there is on the radio. Conflict seems near. … What will we become then, our love, the future, the work. … I believe, as always, in man, in germination, in love, in the work (that for certain).’
This was 21 June. The next day Bruzzichelli wrote to you agreeing with what must have been your suggestion, ‘that you should put aside Lysanias for the moment and devote yourself entirely to the Concerto and the score of Le temps restitué’, two works that were much more advanced. Since he went on to mention Royan and the Domaine Musical, duly responsible ten months later for the first performances of the latter work, negotiations must already have been in hand, no doubt thanks to your new friend Amy, now directing the Domaine.
On 28 June you flew to England, for Chant après chant at the Playhouse in Oxford two days later. You returned to Paris the day after that.
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- The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraqué , pp. 164 - 174Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003