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Vladimir Mendelssohn, Alto Dorel Fodoreanu, Violoncelle Lidija Bizjak, Piano Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Version Pour 2 Pianos Palazzo Contarini Polignac Week-end Musical 11 - 12 novembre 2017, Venise En hommage à Winnaretta Singer Princesse Edmond de Polignac 1865 - 1943 “The Only Winnie in the World...” (Gabriel Fauré, in a letter to Winnaretta written shortly before his death.) As we enjoy this year’s splendid November program at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac, it seems appropriate to recall Winnaretta’s life here in Venice, and her personal recollections of some of the composers whose work we shall hear this weekend. I felt, though, that it might be entertaining to begin with a recollection of Winnaretta herself, by her friend Sir Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office official who was a regular guest here in Venice in the years preceding the First World War: “During a summer holiday I met for the first time Princess Edmond de Polignac. This Les Amis de Winnaretta Singer lady, daughter of the Singer who I suppose has eased the life of the seamstress and the housewife more than any other public benefactor, maintained a cottage in Surrey, a house in Chelsea, a L’association « Les Amis de Winnaretta Singer » a été créée en 2015 à Paris par Henri- hôtel in Paris, a palace in Venice; and, using her wealth with a wise and appreciative artistry, led (and continues to lead) a life resembling in many ways that of a great Renaissance princess. She François de Breteuil et Daniel Popesco, avec le concours de la famille de la Princesse painted pictures that were later sold, without her knowledge, as undoubted Manets; she played Edmond de Polignac. on her studio organ the Fugues of Bach; she took one of the pianos in a double concerto with L’association « Les Amis de Winnaretta Singer » s’inscrit dans la continuité de son héritage Arthur Rubinstein. You could say that musically she ‘fed on the advancing hour’, for she was the moral, artistique et intellectuel. L’association souhaite rappeler l’action importante liberal and evocative patroness alike of Gabriel Fauré and Igor Stravinsky. She circled the globe in her yacht and she drove a long and straight ball at golf. If her concerts were the best in Paris you de Winnaretta Singer pour la science, la littérature, les arts, la culture en général et would hear no less, hard upon your welcome to her house in Venice, an admirable Schumann la philanthropie. Son objet est de faire connaître et de faire vivre cet héritage par tous Trio or Quartet, in which she might well be taking a part.” Two further recollections by friends les moyens, spécifquement dans les domaines suivants : musique, arts graphiques, complete the feisty portrait painted by Sir Ronald. The British diplomat, Harold Nicolson, observed littérature, architecture, y compris à travers des démarches d’innovations et de recherches, how formidable Winnaretta looked even when calmly seated. There was, he said, “determination in every line of her bum”. dans l’esprit qui est celui de Winnaretta Singer. L’association organise notamment des As to her physical exertions, Winnaretta’s golfing skills were matched by her expert ability at manifestations culturelles et musicales au palais Contarini Polignac à Venise. rowing the gondola. Her friend, the French author Paul Morand, tells us this was “a highly difficult Le temps fort de ces manifestations est le week-end musical annuel au palais Contarini skill at which I have only seen a woman, Winnaretta de P., excel, for a misdirected blade, as Polignac qui a lieu en novembre. President De Brosses has pointed out, can cut someone’s head off like ‘like a turnip’; or cleave a gondolier’s in two, beneath a bridge.” It should be said that in those days it was something of a rarity to come across an expatriate who had taken the trouble to master the gondola - it is difficult Nous accueillerons les 11 et 12 novembre 2017 le quatuor Enesco et les pianistes Lidija et to imagine, say, Henry James or Lady Layard poling their way around the canals. While Baron Sanija Bizjak qui se retrouveront exceptionnellement pour interpréter le célèbre Quintette Corvo’s skills are well documented, the only other person in Winnaretta’s circle to take lessons de Franck et l’Amour Sorcier de Manuel de Falla. was, of all people, Cole Porter. Furthermore, feminists could very appropriately adopt Winnaretta as a trailblazer in this area, since while it is now commonplace to see women rowing casually or competing in gondola races in the annual regatta, it was unheard of in the Belle Époque. Je signale enfin qu’après de nombreux échanges avec l’administration fiscale, notre ténacité a porté ses fruits : notre association est désormais habilitée depuis le 1er août Turning to this weekend’s composers, there are fascinating glimpses of Stravinsky here at the palace in 1925. By this time things were looking up for him, to the extent that he had bought a 2017 à émettre des reçus fiscaux pour les dons et cotisations versés par les membres. Ces car, a Renault, in which he went tearing around the Riviera and northern Italy, at one point getting dons et cotisations peuvent être déduits de l’impôt sur le revenu à hauteur de 66% et de stranded in a thunderstorm and nearly driving off a precipice in the Alpes Maritimes. He finally l’ISF à hauteur de 75%. Je tiens à remercier tous les membres de notre association ; leur arrived in Venice in September, where he was to perform his Piano Sonata at a series of concerts soutien généreux à notre action est essentiel. organised by the International Society of Contemporary Music. He was observed holding court at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac by the Venetian composer, Gian Francesco Malipiero, who describes how the assembled company, “the flower of international snobbism”, avidly drank in Henri-François de Breteuil Stravinsky’s every word. Tea was served, and when offered a second cup Stravinsky held forth: Président de l’association « Les Amis de Winnaretta Singer » “’For a Russian, tea drinking is the focus of nostalgia’. (At this, there passed before our eyes the vision of a rapid succession of Cossacks and sleighs, followed by packs of wolves moving across an immense heard of him before, as she was not very interested in music. At one moment they seemed to be in very snow-covered plain.) ‘In the West,’ he continued, ‘in the absence of the samovar, tea-drinking is quite deep conversation, and when I asked, with some surprise, what could be the subject of their serious talk, a different matter. C’est un autre goût.’” The sonata was a success. The trip was congenial. There are Ravel turned and said ‘Oh! we are talking about death’ - an answer that surprised me, especially as they photographs of the diminutive, bespectacled hero swanning about in a gondola and posing with seemed in the highest spirits when they finished their discussion.” Winnaretta on the loggia of the palace. I must conclude with a tribute to prince Edmond de Polignac, whose death in 1901 so unjustly When Winnaretta first encountered Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes in Paris, the programming robbed him of the opportunity to enjoy this palace. There are few more acute descriptions of this had been judiciously balanced between tried-and-tested favourites like Boris Godunov or Ivan le gentle, civilised man than that by Marcel Proust, in a piece for Le Figaro written in 1903: “Nature, Terrible, and debut performances of new pieces by young composers of the avant-garde. The most which promotes continuity of blood and does not forecast individuals, had given him the slim figure celebrated of these, which Winnaretta attended and described, was the raucous première of Le Sacre and the fine energetic countenance of a military man and a courtier. Little by little the spiritual flame du Printemps at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées: “The howls of some, the applause of others, went that inhabited prince Edmond de Polignac sculpted his appearance to the shape of his mind. But his on for an hour - the orchestra reduced to silence. Here and there someone would rise and shout his physiognomy had remained that of his lineage, anterior to his own individual essence. His figure and views at the top of his voice, each party abusing and insulting the other in the most violent way. I was his face were like a disused keep that has been rebuilt as a library. I remember how, on that grievous present each time the ballet was given, and until the end of the Season the same riotous scenes took day of his funeral in the church, the great black palls carried, in proud scarlet and within an enclosed place night after night, sometimes lasting for more than an hour [...]. Still the army of admirers grew coronet, a single letter P. His individuality had been effaced, he had returned to his family. He was no stronger and stronger, and Stravinsky was overwhelmed with applause when the curtain finally went longer anything but a Polignac.” Recalling this incisive but melancholy portrait, it is easy to forget that down.” Winnaretta was very taken by the young composer: “From the first it seemed to me impossible in the same piece Proust offers a splendid offbeat account of Edmond entertaining his friends in Paris. not to recognize the importance of this new genius, and I still think he dominates all others who have Let us think of Edmond in this informal spirit too, as much as we think of his exquisite compositions appeared for more than a quarter of a century.” in the octatonic scale: the scene is an informal evening, with Edmond at the piano.
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