Erik Satie ~1916~ Parade (orchestra)

Music by Satie, decorations by Picasso, booklet by Cocteau, choreography by Massine: Parade is a musical scenes montage which is a unique event in the history of music. There will be a “before“ and “after“ Parade. In the middle of the First World War, the work causes a scandal by its character of anarchy (thanks to unusual instruments: siren, lottery wheel, revolver, etc.), surrealism and neoclassicism in its musical language. Parade is killing Art for the better revival. After the first performance, on 18 May 1917 at the Theâtre du Chatelet in Paris (while the Big Bertha threatens the French capital), the critic Jean Poueigh writes: “Nonsense, banality and ineptitude,“ to which Satie answers with his famous phrase “You are an ass, but an ass without music.“ Satie will go to jail after this altercation and will come out of it only thanks to the repeated interventions of his friends. orch: Jérôme Kaltenbach, Orchestre Symphonique et Ly