la symphonie éclatée

13:11 Sep 9, 2006 

please do for poem + rest! have a fine weekend.

12:50 Sep 9, 2006 

for Juliebarba : well, for now, I can send you the poem (not translated yet either) and when I have photographed the painting, a clipart of it, if you want -
have a great week-end all - I'll be translating rather than painting ;-)

12:16 Sep 9, 2006 

well I love the idea of it being one of your paintings...I just wish we could see it...

21:50 Sep 8, 2006 

Just to point out that, if you'd told us all that to start with, several professional colleaugues would not have spent time struggling up blind alleys. as you know, "program" for a concert usually means the works played or the document sold to patrons.

17:45 Sep 8, 2006 

to answer all (most) of the questions - I do think eclatee (sorry no accent on the computer where I'm at right now) means in both the way it was interpreted - what with 200 chorus outside Place des Arts (over and above the 100 singers inside+the musicians) not to forget the dancers - and the way Nagano "blew it" in the right sense, of course - this was a 'wow' performance - and also all the hoopla they did on this being his first concert as the new chef of the MSO - very intense, very wow! also it was on TV, radio, giant outside screen and the Internet all at the same time (first time for the MSO to do that) --
the reason I want to translate it is that I'm doing a painting of that performance, and Beethoven's ninth, which will be called : la symphonie eclatee, and my paintings always have bilingual names -

16:52 Sep 8, 2006 

After reading the press release David url'ed, it's pretty clear "éclatée" refers to the way the 9th is ***being presented on the TV show*** - only one movement performed live, and that with dancers, the other movements presented in "clip" form.

16:37 Sep 8, 2006 

With David-why do you want to translate this when they didn't?

16:10 Sep 8, 2006 

The term is part of the title of a TV programme on Beethoven 9, built around a performance by Nagano/MSO but interspersed with other features: http://www.osm.ca/en/index_communiques_liste_detail.cfm?TheC... Did you consider this context irrelevant?

15:32 Sep 8, 2006 

And is the "symphonie" in question actually the 9th, or the symphony form in general (perhaps in a historical perspective), or?

15:26 Sep 8, 2006 

My dico also gives "fragmented" or "confused" as options for "éclaté". I was trying to think in what sense this symphony, considered by many to be one of Beethoven's greatest, could be "shattered". Does the text suggest either of these meanings?

15:25 Sep 8, 2006 

any idea why they used the term éclatée - doesn't seem to particularly refer to the 9th?

15:24 Sep 8, 2006 

fragmented? what's it all about? That could put you on track