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And appropriate, given the French expression 'le violon d'Ingres', meaning a secondary gift practised for the love of it rather than as a profession.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
The Ingres of Paganini is lovely.Originally posted by french frank View Post
If you visit the (well worth it, most interesting) Ingres museum in Montauban you can see the actual 'violon d' Ingres' - because it is more than just a French expression - Ingres was indeed a committed and talented violinist...Comment
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Well he did kind of start off as a sort of a musician - but the great John Byrne's portrait of his friend Billy Connolly remains a stunning representation of the time in my opinion.
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Thanks for interesting comments re Ingres & Paganini; there must be a good musical quiz question somewhere in there!Comment
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I love this.
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The American trio Ensemble Chaconne recently started a short series of concerts in England with a lunchtime programme at St Mary-le-Tower in Ipswich (which I attended). They featured works by Carl Friedrich Abel, Rudolf Straube, Thomas Linley Sr., Ignatius Sancho, Anne Ford, Johann Christian Bach, Felice de Giardini and Johann Christian Fischer. All of these were asssociated with/painted by Gainsborough. The featured instruments were baroque flute, viola da gamba, baroque lute and English guitar. Gainsborough's house in Sudbury also features on their itinerary.Comment
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Not a portrait but a photograh.
Composers Union in 1946 Russia. I can't upload the thing here.
You have Prokofiev (who looks like a school teacher) laughing in the back row like someone's told him a joke. You have Katachurian with his arm round some other geezer composer and giving someone else a knowing look.
And you have Shostakovich sitting in the front row looking like an office junior in a bank ,and looking pxxxxd off.
It's really quite funny. But I've only got a photocopy of it.
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Plenty to choose from by the wonderful R Crumb, but I never tire of his portrait of Mississippi John Hurt.
Really like his Memphis Minnie too!
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Always loved this caricature of Poulenc by Jean Cocteau:
There's a great photo of Satie and Debussy, taken by Stravinsky, to be found on a Russian website, which unfortunately I am unable to link to, as it's written in Russian! If anyone has the knowhow I'd be most grateful. Otherwise Google "Debussy and Satie photo by Stravinsky".Comment
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oh that's interesting, by the looks cocteau's drawing style may have influenced humph's cartoons in his portraits of jazz greats, illustrations featured in humph's excellent 70s autobiography 'take it from the top' serial apologist!
here's your stravinsky snap:
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it's been a great thread salymap ...!
i can't find her actually at the piano on wiki, but here's the dame (and suffragette's) face and shoulders.
(if it's the portrait you're thinking of)?Comment
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Oh great! Thanks handsome. I think I'll copy that and stick it up on me wall.Originally posted by handsomefortune View Postoh that's interesting, by the looks cocteau's drawing style may have influenced humph's cartoons in his portraits of jazz greats, illustrations featured in humph's excellent 70s autobiography 'take it from the top' serial apologist!
here's your stravinsky snap:
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