Mussorgsky - a 'Modest' proposal

[LMcD]

I've long felt that 'Pictures At An Exhibition' badly needs expanding and updating, and suggest that leading contemporary composers might be approached with a view to producing a movement inspired by one or more of the following:

Renè Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'
Roy Licthenstein's 'Whaam!'
Francis Bacon's 'Three Screaming Popes'
Bridget Riley's 'Nataraja'
Tracey Emin's 'The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don't Leave Me Here II'
Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending A Staircase'

All suggestions will be treated with the utmost seriousness and the whole project could be funded by shortening the northern extension of HS2 by 1.873 metres (or roughly 6 feet if the country reverts to Imperial measures post-Br*x*t)

[cloughie]

I've long felt that 'Pictures At An Exhibition' badly needs expanding and updating, and suggest that leading contemporary composers might be approached with a view to producing a movement inspired by one or more of the following:

Renè Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'
Roy Licthenstein's 'Whaam!'
Francis Bacon's 'Three Screaming Popes'
Bridget Riley's 'Nataraja'
Tracey Emin's 'The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don't Leave Me Here II'
Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending A Staircase'

All suggestions will be treated with the utmost seriousness and the whole project could be funded by shortening the northern extension of HS2 by 1.873 metres (or roughly 6 feet if the country reverts to Imperial measures post-Br*x*t)

Could just have a new piece - Pete Townshend could write it with ‘Pictures of Lily’ as the Promenade!

[LMcD]

Could just have a new piece - Pete Townshend could write it with ‘Pictures of Lily’ as the Promenade!

An excellent suggestion, although I suspect he'd only be in it for the monet.

[cloughie]

An excellent suggestion, although I suspect he'd only be in it for the monet.

He’d probably want Chagall to do with it!

[jayne lee wilson]

Bacon already brought home.........

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Screaming-Popes-Mark-Anthony-Turnage/dp/B0019R47JS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21ATHBPJ0UYF3&keywords=three+screaming+popes&qid=1573286887&sprefix=three+screaming+%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-1

The composer of Harrison's Clocks might well be inspired by Soft Watch or The Persistence of Memory.....

For Chagall, see McCabe....

[Pulcinella]

Bacon already brought home.........

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Screaming-Popes-Mark-Anthony-Turnage/dp/B0019R47JS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21ATHBPJ0UYF3&keywords=three+screaming+popes&qid=1573286887&sprefix=three+screaming+%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-1

The composer of Harrison's Clocks might well be inspired by Soft Watch or The Persistence of Memory.....

For Chagall, see McCabe....

I liked the cover of that single CD so much that I considered keeping it when the reissue on a full-length CD came out:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turnage-Orchestral-Works-Mark-Anthony/dp/B00000DNT8/ref=pd_sbs_15_1/258-9251725-3909434?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00000DNT8&pd_rd_r=b3a5160c-9c6b-4967-b7eb-dc80678b7ccd&pd_rd_w=kYB8F&pd_rd_wg=RwEPA&pf_rd_p=cc188cba-1892-42b3-956f-6c67d0ab7a00&pf_rd_r=XHVE5VTY7SE0QSMBN37R&psc=1&refRID=XHVE5VTY7SE0QSMBN37R

[cloughie]

For Chagall, see McCabe....

I can see through that....

[Pulcinella]

I can see through that....

Maybe Microsoft could give us the choice of which one we want as our screensaver?

[Bryn]

But all the Pictures from an Exhibition (Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане) were by the same artist, Viktor Hartmann, and not by any of those mentioned earlier in this thread.

[LMcD]

But all the Pictures from an Exhibition (Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане) were by the same artist, Viktor Hartmann, and not by any of those mentioned earlier in this thread.

I know it should be 'from' but it says 'at' on my CD cover!
My Swiftian suggestion was inspired by recent correspondence concerning some out of this world pieces composed by a man from Thaxted.

[Petrushka]

Peter Maxwell Davies: Five Klee Pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2bNciTOSJk

[MrGongGong]

I did an education project for the Philharmonia based on the Mussorgsky several years ago
it was called "The Great Chicken of Kiev" as that's what one of the youngsters involved thought we said when we played bits

The best part of all was the "Promenade" which was contained in a large wicker ball containing an MP3 player and a pair of loudspeakers that the audience could roll around the ballroom at the RFH taking the music for a walk

[teamsaint]

I did an education project for the Philharmonia based on the Mussorgsky several years ago
it was called "The Great Chicken of Kiev" as that's what one of the youngsters involved thought we said when we played bits

The best part of all was the "Promenade" which was contained in a large wicker ball containing an MP3 player and a pair of loudspeakers that the audience could roll around the ballroom at the RFH taking the music for a walk

Were Flaming Lips involved in this project at all ?

( does sound like a good one)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

it was called "The Great Chicken of Kiev" as that's what one of the youngsters involved thought we said when we played bits

Is Rinat Akhmetov the Bill Gates of Kiev?

[Serial_Apologist]

Renè Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'

The Hamlet TV ad that used Jacques Loussier's version of Bach's "Air on a G String" (Movt 2 of JSB's Orchestral Suite no 3)

Roy Licthenstein's 'Whaam!'

Birtwistle's "Panic"

Francis Bacon's 'Three Screaming Popes'

Jayne got there before me on this one.

Bridget Riley's 'Nataraja'

The piece of same title by Jonathan Harvey.

Tracey Emin's 'The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don't Leave Me Here II'

Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues"

Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending A Staircase'

Miles Davis's "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"