Parade by Erik Satie (Audio + Sheet Music)

Something a little different today... pf: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra cond/Antal Doráti Year/Date of Composition: 1917 First Performance: 1917-05-18 in Paris. Théâtre du Châtelet Satie was born in 1866 at Honfleur, on the coast of Normandy. His father was at the time a shipping broker, while his mother was of Scottish origin. Something of his later eccentricity seems to have been derived from his paternal uncle, Adrien Satie, known in Honfleur as a character. The family moved to Paris but on the death of Satie’s mother in 1872 he was sent back to Honfleur to the house of his grandparents. Six years later he returned to Paris, where, in 1879, he entered the Conservatoire. There he proved an unsatisfactory pupil, lingering on, as a friend alleged, to avoid the obligatory five years of military service, reduced for students to one year, which, in his case, was reduced still further by illness deliberately courted. After his discharge from the infantry, Satie had his first pieces published by his father