Tag Archives: 1923
RIP Marcel Zanini (1923 – 2023)
Marcel Zanini was een in Turkije geboren Franse muzikant best gekend voor zijn song “Tu veux ou tu veux pas” (1969).
Enfin, ik zeg zijn song, maar het was helemaal zijn song niet. Hij vertaalde of hij zong een vertaalde versie van “Nem Vem Que não Tem” (1967) van Carlos Imperial, een lied eerst op de Braziliaanse markt gebracht door Wilson Simonal voor Odeon.
Jullie kennen het nummer van de versie die Bardot uitbracht in 1970.
RIP Ned Rorem (1923 – 2022)
En in New York overleed de Amerikaanse componist Ned Rorem.
Op diens Violin Concerto (1985, supra) zie je schilderijen van Thomas Hart Benton. Ik vind dat prachtig werk.
RIP Giuseppe Rotunno (1923 – 2021)
Giuseppe Rotunno was an Italian cinematographer with a long career, working with many great directors, check your regular sources.
One of these films is The Stendhal Syndrome , the last feature film he worked on.
There is a full version of The Stendhal Syndrome on YouTube, a film I had not seen before which turned out to be very enjoyable.
I especially liked the opening scene at the Uffizi in Florence with The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, Caravaggio’s Medusa, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Paolo Uccello’s The Battle of San Romano and The Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca.
When Asia is walking towards the Uffizi, you can already see the distinctive style of Rotunno’s cinematography, already invoking the fainting of Asia once she stands before the Bruegel painting.
After that, when she falls into the Icarus painting, she kisses a grouper fish. Beautiful!
The film is full of these little details, in her hotel room hangs a copy of The Night Watch by Rembrandt. She walks into this and finds herself on the streets, blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
RIP Jan Boerman (1923 – 2020)
Jan Boerman was a Dutch composer active in electronic music when it was still an affair of room-filling electronic machines.
Much of that music is also called ‘acousmatic’ and I suspect that this “Alchemie” (1961) composition by Boerman also falls under that label.
If you like “Alchemie”, be sure to check out Bernard Parmegiani’s masterpiece “De Natura Sonorum” (1975).
RIP Edmond Kiraz (1923 – 2020)
Edmond Kiraz was a French-Armenian cartoonist and illustrator.
He is best known for his Parisiennes, his post-war Parisian wafer-thin model girls which first appeared in print in 1966.