“Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, ‘The Dream Painter’, was one of the leading painters of the Symbolist ideal at the turn of the century…La bourrasque, which translates as ‘The squall’, formed part of a strikingly ethereal series of portraits based upon the theme of the four seasons. The present work illustrates autumn and became the subject matter of…
Category: Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
Debussy’s Clair de Lune III
Well-versed in Rodenbach’s Symbolist ideas, Lévy-Dhurmer has similarly captured the mood of a late evening in Venice in the present work, contrasting a symphony of the blue and silver tones of moonlight playing across the water and the gondolas with the dazzling, brilliant yellow and orange tones of glowing orbs of man-made light. In some…
Hauser: Meditation from Thais (Massenet)
“Méditation” is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra. The opera premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on March 16, 1894. The Méditation is an instrumental entr’acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs. In the…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 