If the white band in
Barcarolle is a creamily painted positive against the negative space of the bare canvas, Cremona, 2014--another painting in which a single line comes in and out of the canvas at left and right and fills the space between--features a narrow black line instead of a wide white one, and sets it against a white ground whose broad, richly painted expanses attract the eye, making figure and ground, positive and negative, tend to flip and reverse.
I married a man who plays the
Barcarolle. Hearing that music long
The word 'tact' had been removed and there was no mention of the '
Barcarolle' or the 'Skye Boat Song.' Paths to learning and understanding, paths to music, had all been removed.
Faryl is pushing her musical experience by tackling classics such as Dvorak's lovely Hymn To The Moon and Offenbach's
Barcarolle which showcase the colour and range of her voice far better than crossover pieces such as Night Of Silence.
ONE of Kay's works was less elusive than the others: Etude, a dreamy five-minute quartet set to Tchaikovsky's "June:
Barcarolle" from The Seasons.
During a visit to Eufaula Boarding School, clubwomen were greeted with a welcome in Creek and English, as well as entertained with orchestra performances as varied as "Stars and Stripes Forever," an Indian march, and "
Barcarolle" from the opera Tales of Hoffman (Ohoyohoma Collection, outsize box 1).
Musical numbers: "Life Is Happiness Indeed," "The Best of All Possible Worlds," "Oh, Happy We," "It Must Be So," "Fanfare, Chorale and Battle," "Glitter and Be Gay," "Auto da Fe," "Candide's Lament," "You Were Dead, You Know," "I Am Easily Assimilated." "My Love," "The Old Lady's Tale (
Barcarolle)," "Alleluia," "Sheep Song," "Governor's Waltz," "Bon Voyage," "Quiet," "The Best of All Possible Worlds" (reprise), "What's the Use," "You Were Dead, You Know" (reprise), "Make Our Garden Grow."
The moment of supreme romantic escape comes with the lovers' shared experience, from vastly different positions in the theatre, of The Tales of Hoffmann, from which we viewers hear the
barcarolle. The primary effect seems to be vindication of the power of fantasy--in its ultimate genre, nineteenth-century opera--with a work based on a master teller of romantic fairytales.
In addition to the popular songs of Tosti, there is a vocal rendition of the second movement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Offenbach's "
Barcarolle" from Le Contes d'Hofmann, Liszt's Liebestraum No.
And there is another ironic reference to a German great in the film: the composer Jacques Offenbach, whose
Barcarolle we hear twice, and who was, yes, Jewish .