The same is true each time I hear Satie well-played. From Wordnik.com. [Vexations – Satie and Cage] Reference
Only Erik Satie wrote music designed to be wallpaper. From Wordnik.com. [My [final] take on the iPod] Reference
Eggs Satie: break an egg into a large glass of cognac. From Wordnik.com. [To Serve Man] Reference
Let's see if he plays Satie as well as he writes about him. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
Today is the anniversary of the death in 1925 of Erik Satie. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Satie] Reference
Satie was a prankster; a merry but sad eccentric prankster, yes. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
Apparently, this would remain the only relationship Satie ever had. From Wordnik.com. [Vexations – Satie and Cage] Reference
Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. From Wordnik.com. [The Top Twenty Star Trek Episodes. Period. | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
Not my department, so I'll just say any of the Satie crossover discs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Now consider the proposition C (v, s) that Verdi and Satie are compatriots. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Apollinaire was certainly there, making notes, with Satie, making comments. From Wordnik.com. [Diaghilev: Lord of the dance] Reference
Valse Ballet (1885) -- from the album "Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music". From Wordnik.com. [A Pianist With a Flair] Reference
No wonder if he felt that he had a personal stake in any discussion of Satie. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
And in a way, to me, Satie creates a kind of timelessness in much of his music. From Wordnik.com. [Guitarists Discover Timelessness of Erik Satie] Reference
She left me a note that read: "Beacky, Satie is lymping on her rite frount pah.". From Wordnik.com. [grizmom Diary Entry] Reference
And as you say, Satie keeps coming back, over and over throughout Cage's career. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
The connection between Cage and Satie gets more interesting the more I look at it. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
Andy Cowton's score, meanwhile, fights a losing battle with the memory of the Satie. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Maliphant company] Reference
I don't know if it's a "great" piece, but Dessicated Embryos by Satie springs to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Salvati dunque e scolpati] Reference
Our ragtime was parodied lovingly, if not enviously, by Debussy, Satie, and Stravinsky. From Wordnik.com. [On Being Discovered] Reference
You can also hear some Satie in Miles Davis's late sixties work called Shhhhhhh Peaceful. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
But I would guess that, for such a stylistic experiment, Satie would prove a good subject. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
(Ideocentrism – J. Emerson Read more, this portrait of Satie by J. Emerson is hilarious.). From Wordnik.com. [Vexations – Satie and Cage] Reference
Satie was an eccentric guy who lived in a wild time: Paris in the late 1800s and early 1900s. From Wordnik.com. [Guitarists Discover Timelessness of Erik Satie] Reference
Satie, however, was considered to be not an artist of genius but simply a practical joker. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
The Satie, while an "easier" version, is definitely hovering in "advanced intermediate" territory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Satie also picked up the few sous he needed to live on by playing the piano in the Paris cabarets. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
Satie descrevia-se não como um compositor, mas como um phonometrógrafo - alguém transcreve sons. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Satie] Reference
I know what Satie means, too, in what they say was his love and hate at the same time for the piano. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
Virgil says that proves how much Milhaud and all French composers of that era were beholden to Satie. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
He brought a kitchen chair into the hallway, next to the piano, and said, 'You were gonna play a Satie for me.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Crew]
What's more, it was this association with each newer movement that finally brought Satie the stature he craved. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
Suppose that we initially accept (correctly but defeasibly) that Verdi is Italian, while Bizet and Satie are French. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
For a time, Satie contributed to a neighborhood newspaper, writing little squibs promoting local events and businesses. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
Virgil continues with, The Satie musical aesthetic is the only twentieth century musical aesthetic in the Western world. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
Virgil goes on to rank Satie up there with the Three Bs and then invents the Three Ss, Satie, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
And then there's the whole problem of means vs. ends — Satie, for example: simple means, but often highly ambiguous effects. From Wordnik.com. [Greetings from Hooverville] Reference
Poulenc said he only saw Satie play the piano about three times, accompanying a singer singing some of his newly written songs. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music?] Reference
True enough; but any assessment of Satie has to note his unusual talent for finding successive generations of enfants terrible to mentor. From Wordnik.com. [Peccadilles Importunes] Reference
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