Erik Satie Three Piece Suite – FINANCIAL TIMES

– FINANCIAL TIMES

Erik Skyum-Nielsen skubber til vores fælles erindring

Her møder læseren en højest charmerende

I en poetisk og personlig tekst skildrer kunstneren selv livet og verdens tilstand som en rejse langs en knivsæg med håb og håbløshed som afgrunde

Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite – FINANCIAL TIMESComposer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle poque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three piece suit and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before Surrealism and a conceptual artist before Conceptual Art. Friend of Cocteau and Debussy, Picabia and Picasso, Satie was always a few steps ahead of his peers at the apex of modernism. Theres scarcely a turn in postwar music, both classical and popular, that