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Interlude

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886)

An interlude is a brief rest, a time of calming or reflection. Take a breath: a new year is just around the corner.

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True Narratives

Technical and Analytical Readings

Photographs

Documentary and Educational Films

Imaginary

Fictional Narratives

Poetry

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Frederick Delius:

  •   Caprice and Elegy (1930) (approx. 8’)
  •   A Song Before Sunrise (1918) (approx. 6’)
  •   Idyll (1932) (approx. 24’)
  •   Cynara (1907) (approx. 10’)
  •   A Song of Summer (1930) (approx. 11’)

Maurice Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales (Noble and Sentimental Waltzes) (1911) (approx. 14’)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, early and mid-life Divertimenti

  •   K. 136 in D Major (1772) (approx. 8’)
  •   K. 137 in B Major (1772) (approx. 9’)
  •   K. 138 in F Major (1772) (approx. 11-12’)
  •   K. 205 in D Major (1773) (approx. 19-20’)
  •   K. 251 in D Major (1776) (approx. 24-27’)
  •   K. 287 in B-flat Major (1777) (approx. 42’)
  •   K. 334 in D Major (No. 17) (1780) (approx. 36-47’)

Guy Ropartz, piano music:

  • Dans l’ombre de la montagne (1913) (approx. 34’)
  • Un Prélude Dominical et Six Pièces à danser pour chaque jour de la semaine (1928-29) (approx. 28’) 

Other works:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49/1 (1798) (approx. 16-17’)
  • Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49/2 (1798) (approx. 10-16’)
  • Lars-Erik Larsson, 12 Concertinos, Op. 45 (1953-1957) (approx. 13’)
  • Franz Tunder, Organ works (approx. 91’)
  • Arnold Bax, Summer Music (1921, rev. 1932) (approx. 9’)
  • Erik Satie, Trois gymnopédies (1888) (approx. 10’) [“The word gymnopédies was derived from a festival of ancient Sparta at which young men danced and competed against each other unencumbered by clothing, and the name was a (presumably) droll reference to Satie’s gentle, dreamy, and far-from-strenuous piano exercises. (Satie is known to have introduced himself as a gymnopédiste.)”]
  • Nick Peros, 24 Nocturnes for Solo Guitar (approx. 63’)
  • César Franck, Grand Trio pour violin, violincelle et piano in C minor, Op. 6, CFF 108 (1834) (approx. 15-17’)
  • Gerald Finzi, Interlude, Op. 21 (1932-1936) (approx. 12-13’)

Music: songs and other short pieces

  • Franz Schubert (composer), Winterlied (Winter Song), D. 401 (1816) (lyrics)

Visual Arts

  • René Magritte, Intermission (1927/28)
  • Paul Klee, Tropical Twilight (1921)
  • Claude Monet, Twilight, Venice (1908)
  • Mikalojus Ciurlionas, Winter Motif (1907)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Landscape at Dusk (1885)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Village at Sunset (1884)
  • Arkhip Kuindzhi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper (1880)
  • Ivan Shishkin, Twilight. After Sunset (1874)
  • Konstantin Korovin, Winter Twilight
  • Maxime Maufra, Evening Twilight on the Seine
  • Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)

Film and Stage

August 26, 2010

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