Humorous Writing by Erik Satie (Vanity Fair, 1922)
This article is another among the several tongue and cheek essays that the French composer Eric Satie (Alfred Éric Leslie Satie 1866 – 1925) contributed for the amusement of the fun-loving readers of Vanity Fair Magazine. Published just three years prior to his death, it is a beautifully illustrated, one page piece of silliness in which Satie considered the place of art in the animal kingdom, and concludes that of all the arts, architecture and music are the only two creative endeavors that the creatures of the field ever seem able to embrace:"I know of no literary work written by an animal - and that is very sad."
| Eric Satie Goes After the Critics (Vanity Fair, 1921)
Composer Eric Satie takes music critics out to the woodshed:
"The mind of a critic is a store - a department store. One finds in it a little of everything - science; - bedding; - the arts; - traveling rugs; - writing paper -foreign and domestic; - history; - smokers outfits; -languages; -umbrellas; - belles-letters; - humour; - eyeglasses; - perfumery, - etc. The Critic knows everything".
*Early Twentieth Century Paris Slide Show Set to the Music of Satie*
| Understanding Erik Satie (Vanity Fair, 1918)
"...But Satie's music is not difficult to play. Almost all the notes in many of his compositions are all the same or a related value. Appogiatura, syncopation, bravura, he is not friendly with. The pieces are written in facile keys for pianists..."
| Erik Satie and Les Six (Vanity Fair, 1921)
This article was written by Erik Satie as a salute to six unique French composers who had been working in Montparnasse during the previous years. "To me, the New Spirit seems a return to classic form with an admixture of modern sensibility. This modern sensibility you will discover in certain ones of the "Six" -George Autic (1899-1983), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)..."
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