Parade | Erik Satie & Pablo Picasso's Avant-Garde Masterpiece

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The history of classical music is one of twisting roads, and exciting left turns. And nowhere is this more apparent than in a work like "Parade", composed by Erik Satie with art design by Pablo Picasso. Somewhere between Ballet & Performance Art, Parade was the first time "classical music" truly came down off its perch and into the gritty art scene of avant-garde Paris circa 1917. Erik Satie, who influenced everyone from Debussy, to Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud and the rest of Les Six, for the first time tried his hand at orchestration and created on the 20th centuries first orchestral masterpieces. Though it is not often thought of this way, in many ways Parade is similar to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in its revolutionary nature. Parade was a collision of absolue artist/virtuosos collaborating in a way to bring both other craft to its highest height!
SOURCES:
Orledge, Robert. Satie the Composer. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Doublier Raphaëlle. Les Aventures De Mercure, 1924: Ballet Sous Forme De "Poses Plastiques En Trois Tableaux" Pablo Picasso, Eric Satie, Léonide Massine. Harmattan, 2014.

[@DerekBrimley]

Thanks for this, I’ve been wanting to see/hear this since I read The Rest Is Noise, great video!

[@southernbiscuits1275]

Very nice video. The score is amazing. I've seen the ballet but the performers were not up to the task at hand. When I listen to the score I play it along with Darius Milhaud's La Creation du Monde and George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique.

[@silvergoose003]

Great video! I'm actually doing a presentation about the popular reception of Parade and Rite of Spring. Were there any scholarly sources that you used for this? I'm having trouble finding much.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Hey! This is the main source I used I hope you find it useful
"Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Felicia McCarren, 2003

[@silvergoose003]

@@NAETEMUSIC Awesome, thanks so much!

[@softwearings]

@@NAETEMUSIC u know an essays gonna be good when it ends with "the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

[@yxw9276]

wow didnt know picasso was so involved designing stage costumes.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

YIS!!