Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for that information Guy. (Did not know any history behind it all). And I can spot the soundtrack anywhere anytime - it certainly stuck in my mind. (it's replaying in my head as I write - very tranquil) Karina - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Bennett" <gbennett@lainet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: David Hamilton > >Is David Hamilton still working? Gosh, his photographs take me back to me > >teenage years - I admired them then. > >(Also remember seeing Bilitis). > > > >Karina > > > I saw "Bilitis" too, which sent me to the book ("Les Chansons de Bilitis" > by Pierre Lou˙s), which is a wonderful collection of pseudo-Sapphic prose > poems by a supposed contemporary of that most famous of Lesbian lyric > poets. Lou˙s claimed to have unearthed the poems during an archeological > dig in a 6th c. BC tomb in Greece, later translating them and publishing > them in France. He fooled scholars, who believed his tale, later > embarrassing them when he admited that he was the real author of the poems > in question. > > Debussy set some of them to music, twice: three of them for soprano and > solo piano, then thirteen of them to be read by an actress accompanied by a > small ensemble of two flutes, two harps + celeste. (Actually, the latter > piece was completed by Boulez; Debussy died before finishing it.) > > Ah, never underestimate the inspirational might of long dead Lesbian poets! > > Guy > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html