Composer Albert Márkos searches for reciprocal influences in music and lyrics from the 1910s, the 1920s and 1930s from Scandinavia to the Balkans, from the Iberian Peninsula to Eastern Europe, with the assistance of six actors and a band. The actors each represent a nation and begin to approach each other starting from the given culture’s coffee shop music, discovering how the world of salon music was formed in the Europe of the time. Baudelaire: The Blind Contemplate them, my soul; they a...re truly frightful! Like mannequins; vaguely ridiculous; Strange and terrible, like somnambulists; Darting, one never knows where, their tenebrous orbs. Their eyes, from which the divine spark has departed, Remain raised to the sky, as if they were looking Into space: one never sees them toward the pavement Dreamily bend their heavy heads. Thus they go across the boundless darkness, That brother of eternal silence. O city! While about us you sing, laugh, and bellow, In love with pleasure to the point of cruelty, See! I drag along also! But, more dazed than they, I say: "What do they seek in Heaven, all those blind?" William Aggeler: The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954) Presented by: Budapest Spring Festival, Palace of Arts
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