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Orchestrating the Nude Descending compiled
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Henri René
Passion
in Paint
"Passion in paint,
passion in music…how differently they are expressed, and yet how closely
akin are they! Music has color and paintings have rhythm, and both convey
to us beauty and emotion. Here, as far as I know, is the first attempt to link popular paintings with what is usually called "popular" music. I am not sure I know precisely what popular music is: I am certain that these original rhapsodies by Henri René are music which everybody can enjoy, which everybody can understand and from which everybody can experience an emotional lift. Henri René has, of
course, not attempted any literal description of the paintings. That
would be impossible in music. Ha has given us impressions. These very
sensuous mood of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus to the famous
and still controversial Duchamp Nude Descending the Stairs, a
painting which no longer "describes" or"tells a story" but is all impression
and emotion. What you have here, therefore, is a mood music albumwithmany
moods. Many of the paintings treated musically by René are familiar favorites. Several of them can be seen in our country. To see others you will have to travel as far as Florence, Madrid and Paris. To enjoy René's music you don't have to travel at all: you can "see" the paintings from your armchair. This latest work
of Henri René follows a series of highly successful albums composed,
arranged and conducted by him in his own individual style. That style
is Continental, which is quite natural considering that René has spent
much of his life abroad. Among the albums which have become best sellers
are Listen to Henri René and Music for Romance… Here, then, is passion
in paint translated into passion in music. Whatever you play the album
one "painting" at a time or whatever you play the whole album together
I think you are in for a new kind of enjoyment."
George R. Marek
Click
for the Music
Henri René and His Orchestra
Side 1 Side 2
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